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Re:NFTs Are a Pyramid Scheme and People Are Already Losing Money
on Sunday March 21, 2021 @12:58PM (#26531838)
https://amycastor.com/2021/03/14/metakovan-the-mystery-beepl...
Particularly the "Number Go Up" section, which shows that the buyer also runs (and owns a majority of) a crypto token called "B20", which curiously enough, Beeple also has a 2% stake in.
Re:Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage
on Thursday May 09, 2019 @09:36PM (#19874308)
In this day and age you're living on borrowed time using an old version of a web browser. This state of affairs has its good and bad, but your modern-day browser vendors don't typically maintain branches of old versions to make security and bug fixes (especially when they change things for security reasons, as with this case of old-style addons being removed). If you're going to insist on using an old unsupported version you have to accept the risk of things eventually breaking and the inconvenience of workarounds like the one you described.
Re:Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage
on Thursday May 09, 2019 @09:07PM (#19874162)
You realize, I hope, that 56.0.2 is riddled with security holes at this point? I get the attachment to old addons, but 129 CVEs (including multiple severe memory corruption bugs) affect that version now. It's not really reasonable to expect Mozilla to keep maintaining it.
Re:Firefox 61.0 Released
on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @02:45PM (#17403064)
I've been using Hangouts on Firefox a fair bit recently. Video chats work fine, though I've noticed occasional glitches with the UI if I leave it open after the laptop goes to sleep. A reload fixes it, though.
Re:Amazon recalls eclipse glasses
on Monday August 14, 2017 @08:05AM (#15008061)
Not anymore, you can't. Just about every supplier on the Internet is sold out at this point.
Re:European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing dominance
on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @01:24PM (#14647334)
It's a good way to preemptively color the reader's perception of your comment. Makes you seem more reasonable and knowledgeable when you seemingly recognize the controversial nature of what you're saying, even if it isn't actually that controversial at all. It's a commonly-seen tactic on reddit.
Re:Upgrade your SSH keys
on Friday September 23, 2016 @09:44PM (#12569061)
Just tried it out; works fine.
Re:Ask HN: Is GoDaddy violating ACPA with new .family TLD?
on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @06:13PM (#10942177)
It's not GoDaddy. My SO tried to register our family name earlier (after pre-registering for it, even!) and got a similar price.
Querying the WHOIS server for the domain says the following:
"This premium domain is available for purchase. If you would like to make an offer, please contact [email protected]."
Rightside.co is the owner of the TLD. It looks like they've set aside a bunch of common family names so they can charge "premium" prices for them. So helpful of them!
Re:SkySafe – tech to take over badly behaved drones
on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @05:00PM (#10461089)
Who is the target customer here? Seems like it's probably aimed at operators of parks, venues, etc., but I'm not sure.
Re:Let's talk content. AMA
on Thursday July 16, 2015 @10:33PM (#9901042)
The US, since that is where reddit is based.
Re:Chemicals in plastics alter the brains of baby boys, making them “m...
on Saturday May 09, 2015 @07:12PM (#9518034)
Should probably be marked in the headline that this is from 2009.
Re:TextCraft, Slack as old-school MUD client
on Monday April 20, 2015 @06:13PM (#9411175)
Would also like to give some props to Discworld MUD, which served as both my introduction to MUDs and to the Discworld book series. Still hanging in there, and being actively developed, almost 25 years after it was founded. It sports one of the smartest command parsers I've encountered in any MUD.
Re:Instant Cloud – SSD Bare Metal Servers
on Friday April 10, 2015 @02:03PM (#9356029)
My password is illegible. It has a 0, I think, and the letter after it could be an I, L, or maybe a 1, but nothing I've tried so far works.
Definitely not ideal if I've wasted 5 minutes of my server's runtime just guessing the password.
Edit: Got it finally, 7 minutes in - a line right under the mystery letter made it look like an 'L' when it was actually an 'I'.
Re:Premera has been the target of a cyberattack
on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @05:15PM (#9221537)
This follows a recent breach at Anthem, another Blue Cross health insurance company: https://www.anthemfacts.com/
Edit: Actually, based on that site and this article (http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/premera-blue-cros...) the breaches were both discovered on Jan 29.
Re:Replace TrueCrypt – Candidate alternatives
on Thursday May 29, 2014 @05:51PM (#7818830)
We can, as long as you believe these new warnings shouldn't be taken at face value. It adds a layer of doubt to the situation that wasn't there before.
Re:Replace TrueCrypt – Candidate alternatives
on Thursday May 29, 2014 @05:40PM (#7818754)
The most obvious difference is that the TrueCrypt code has had at least the first stage of a formal security audit done, which uncovered no evidence of backdoors. With BitLocker being closed source and no public audits being done, you don't have the same guarantees. BitLocker may be perfectly secure, but I feel I'm justified in saying that its status is much more uncertain.
Re:Replace TrueCrypt – Candidate alternatives
on Thursday May 29, 2014 @02:58PM (#7817939)
A lot of discussions of TrueCrypt replacements I've read today miss a major point, which is that users of the Windows version are now left with no reliable, up-to-date software with an equivalent feature set and security guarantees. I know we tend to be *nix-heavy here, but some of us used TrueCrypt because it was the best solution for Windows, not because it was cross-platform.
Re:Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles
on Thursday November 28, 2013 @12:44PM (#6815594)
Funniest thing I've seen in a few days. Markov algorithms are underrated as sources of hilarity.
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