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EpiphanyMachine··on 9th Circuit holds that scraping a public website does not violate the CFAA [pdf]
Look at WCAG 2 (web content accessiblity guidelines) they specify tags and elements common screen readers will understand to help make you site accessible.

This is a really good resource: https://accessibility.18f.gov/

A lot of frameworks now have some accessiblity built in if you add the correct attributes.

EpiphanyMachine··on AdGuard DNS: A Privacy-Oriented DNS Server
update: They say they do not log anything, and pass no information upstream to the authoritative DNS server.

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I didn't see anything in the announcement about logging or other privacy related questions. The FAQ also didn't list this information.

The only thing they mention about privacy is how a dns request to them is protected, but not what they do with the data.

Did I miss something?

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Reading their privacy policy:

>We do not collect anything for tracking purposes and take all necessary technical, administrative and physical measures to protect the information we get.

>When AdGuard DNS user tries to visit a page, our server receives following information: User’s IP-address; DNS request which contains domain name.

>The DNS request will be forwarded to a root or authoritative DNS server, but for the upstream server it looks as if this request is originated from AdGuard DNS server, there is absolutely no way for them to identify the original user. We, in our turn, do not log or save any of this information.

https://adguard.com/en/privacy/dns.html

EpiphanyMachine··on Billionaires, Not Voters, Are Deciding Elections
The only reason they spend that on advertising is because of their ROI. The people funding the super pacs aren't just giving their money away without some kind of return.

The difference between the two is one I can choose to avoid, the other is affecting who chooses my rights and laws with less focus on the people affected by those decisions and more on the affect to those funding their campaigns.

EpiphanyMachine··on Slack confirms it has raised $427M at a post-money valuation of over $7B
I wish they never bought screenhero and effectively killed it. The version of it in the slack app is less featured and significantly less preformant.
EpiphanyMachine··on Twenty-two states ask appeals court to bring back net neutrality
> Also, why do the state dem AG's always suing to enforce new laws instead of the legislation process, it seems like the new way to pass laws is to get a judge to give it to you. We have legal weed from legislation now.

I agree with your position, but it's not just Dems. This is the main point of my comment also, this should be done with legislation.

EpiphanyMachine··on Twenty-two states ask appeals court to bring back net neutrality
You are totally right, updating my comment! It was removed by the FCC but should be added back by Congress.
EpiphanyMachine··on Twenty-two states ask appeals court to bring back net neutrality
Yes, and it's interesting some of those states have an AG sueing for a policy the House Representatives won't support.
EpiphanyMachine··on Twenty-two states ask appeals court to bring back net neutrality
I think the FCC is trying to remove that ability from States now because federal law overrules state law.

> The Attorneys General are hardly alone on this one. As Reuters notes, Mozilla, Vimeo and Etsy also joined forces today to file a legal challenge, while governors in six states have signed executive orders and three states have passed their own net neutrality laws.

EpiphanyMachine··on Twenty-two states ask appeals court to bring back net neutrality
The system seems broken when states representing more than 50% of the population have to sue in court to try to change something like this. Instead with that much backing it should be done through the legislative branch. I'm concerned about the growing use of courts to try to decide policies because our legislative bodies can't work together and instead just try to force one sided issues through or block each other.

> Together, the AGs represent states totaling 165 million people — more than half of the U.S. population.

EpiphanyMachine··on [dead]
A referral code is required to sign up. Agreed with other commenters this doesn't seem above board and likely violates the publications terms.

I would love to see a service like this. I used Google contributor for a while and have look into others. Blendle is one that sells articles vs full access I occasionally use now.

EpiphanyMachine··on Amazon Charges Couple More Than $1,000 to Ship Paper Plates
I can confirm this. It is an item for $0.01 with free shipping. Once you add it to your cart and go to checkout it adds $10 in shipping fees.

I got a generic response from support about sellers setting their own prices. I do not know if the "concern team" will actually look into this or get back to me but my question is being sent to them.

I will no longer be using 1-click ordering until I know this issue is resolved.

This seems at best a very bad bug / loophole for sellers to exploit or at worst a deceptive scam to steal from people. I hope Amazon takes this seriously and fixes it.

EpiphanyMachine··on Testimony of Mark Zuckerberg – Hearing Before US House of Representatives [pdf]
I wanted to do this, but 7.5% is taken out before the money gets to the charity. That is more than credit card processing fees! I no longer use that option and donate directly. Doing that does increase the amount of work to do your taxes if you itemize deductions though.

This is not going to gusto, but it taken out as part of the services provided by FirstGiving their partner to handle the donations: https://support.gusto.com/hc/en-us/articles/220929687-Charit....

EpiphanyMachine··on JPMorgan, BofA Ban Cryptocurrency Transactions on Credit Cards
They are not blocking purchasing of these from all accounts, just credit accounts. You can still purchase via ACH and debit. What they are doing is not allowing you to use their money to buy:

>The move doesn’t affect debit cards, according to Betty Riess, a spokeswoman for the Charlotte, North Carolina-based lender.

>Allowing purchases of cryptocurrencies can create big headaches for card lenders, which can be left on the hook if a borrower bets wrong and can’t repay. There’s also the risk that thieves will abuse cards that were purloined or based on stolen identities, turning them into crypto hoards. Banks also are required by regulators to monitor customer transactions for signs of money laundering -- which isn’t as easy once dollars are converted into digital coins.

EpiphanyMachine··on DOJ Demands Files on Anti-Trump Activists, and DreamHost Resists
Yes they are helping.

Is the government really asking for all those visitor logs?

"Yes, they definitely are," says Electronic Frontier Foundation senior staff attorney Mark Rumold. EFF advocates for Internet privacy and free speech, and has advised DreamHost in its case.

Rumold tells NPR that when DreamHost first approached EFF about responding to the warrant, he guessed "that DOJ would realize how broad the warrant was, and say, oh you know, in fact we're not actually looking for IP logs for everyone who's ever visited the site" and would narrow its request accordingly.

But instead, the government insisted on DreamHost's compliance with the warrant as written.

EpiphanyMachine··on An Ohio Town Made Millions from Speed Cameras but Now Has to Pay It Back
That seems like a broad generalization, especially seeing as how this article was about a small town.
EpiphanyMachine··on Ask HN: How do you organize and share information within your company?
It is used all the time or a backup for when you don't have someone to ask? I am specifically trying to find something with a barrier so low it is the first thing people turn to when they have a question.
EpiphanyMachine··on Ask HN: How do you organize and share information within your company?
Have you gotten feedback good or bad from users of this? My concern is people won't start to use it if there is friction or annoyance with the setup.

Thanks!

EpiphanyMachine··on Ask HN: What non-technical blogs do you read?
Mark Manson's Articles: https://markmanson.net/
EpiphanyMachine··on Ask HN: What non-technical blogs do you read?
Tim Ferriss' Blog: http://fourhourworkweek.com/blog/
EpiphanyMachine··on Grubhub CEO's email to employees
That would be statistically inaccurate seeing as how Trump lost the popular vote.
EpiphanyMachine··on Ask HN: Do you use a Chromebook for dev? What is your toolchain?
I use one daily, I replaced my macbook pro with the pixel 2. I also use a Toshiba Chromebook 2.

I use node, ruby, postgres, redis, rvm, nvm, terminator, atom, and smartgit.

I have tried sublime and visual studio code also and both work, I just prefer atom.

All programs I have open in their own window or tab and use chromeos native browser for web browsing and dev tools. One exception is smartgit. It spins up multiple processes and I haven't figured out how to run it without running a full Ubuntu desktop.

If you plan to try it out install crouton with xiwi,extension targets and use xiwi to open the programs.

EpiphanyMachine··on Medical Membership Billing: There Is a Better Way
works for me in incognito in chrome, no paywall

also works if I clear all setting in firefox

EpiphanyMachine··on Seed Repo: Angular, Coffee-Script, Grunt, Karma, Stylus + more
Yeah that is a great idea, I am also working on making some basic improvements to spec files and maybe a tutorial about it. There seems to be a lot of tutorials (including Angular's Phonecat) that use global variables for the controllers, but not many that that don't. I have found the testing of the scope variables harder to find examples for