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Grangar

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Information security professional located in the Netherlands
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Grangar··on Startups Flock to Turn Young Blood into an Elixir of Youth
Barad-Dûr sounds more like Thiel's thing.
Grangar··on Sheryl Sandberg’s New Job Is to Fix Facebook’s Reputation and Her Own
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Grangar··on So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica?
11/20 as well here
Grangar··on WhatsApp warns that Google Drive backups are not encrypted
What would their case be for not encrypting it?
Grangar··on Bitcoin, Ether Sink as ‘Sense of Panic’ Grips Crypto Investors
Insane compared to what? The cost of traditional methods to consumers, or to society as a whole?
Grangar··on Most Millennials are not on track when it comes to saving for retirement
Realize that you're one of the lucky few.
Grangar··on The daunting aftermath of releasing your dream game
Genuine question. What keeps you going?
Grangar··on Ask HN: What is the most unethical thing you've done as a programmer?
Even in the internet era. In high school I often just renamed some random file to a .doc extension and sent that in. No teacher ever had any idea. I'd just play dumb that I had a bad computer.
Grangar··on Facebook stock drops more than 20% after revenue forecast misses
At least messages are still E2E encrypted. If you avoid all other facebook systems and restrict the apps permissions I think the damage can be contained to a decent level.
Grangar··on People in these countries work the longest hours according to OECD
I don't think these statistics are correct. People in the Netherlands supposedly work 27 hours/week according to this data, whereas 36-40 hours is the common standard here. Even accounting for vacations et cetera that is terribly low.

Also from the data source: "The data are intended for comparisons of trends over time; they are unsuitable for comparisons of the level of average annual hours of work for a given year, because of differences in their sources and method of calculation." The data is unsuitable for this article.

Grangar··on Riot Games Approach to Anti-Cheat
What's so evil about that?
Grangar··on Sperm quality improved by adding nuts to diet, study says
The jokes practically write themselves here.
Grangar··on Former Tesla employee claims he is a whistleblower
Prefix the URL with outline.com/ ;)
Grangar··on The web apps that will eat mobile
The average user downloads 1.5-3 apps per month[1]. That's not a very high number to build a native app for if you ask me.

[1] https://www.tune.com/blog/no-the-average-american-does-not-d...

Grangar··on Facebook photo-scanning lawsuit could cost it billions
A photo itself is not a violation. An identifying photo on the other hand could be.
Grangar··on Loot boxes are obviously gambling
I think the easy-to-kill-walking-lootbox-boss isn't as as much gambling as the current lootbox system. An important element is that the game shows you all these possible rewards much like a slot machine. I'd be surprised if they'd include that as a gameplay element.
Grangar··on New study quantifies Bitcoin’s ludicrous energy consumption
kWh I'd wager, it's used interchangeably here.
Grangar··on The spectacular power of Big Lens
And yet Ace and Tate can sell specs for €99.
Grangar··on Make front end shit again
“The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”

- Socrates

Grangar··on A Plane That Accidentally Circumnavigated the World (2014)
That's what I was thinking after the first post. This is a movie I'd watch.
Grangar··on Twitter urges users to change passwords after computer 'glitch'
If anything I'd vouch for leaking to a data protection watchdog if nothing gets done about it.
Grangar··on Credit Card Signatures Are About to Become Extinct in the U.S
Can anyone explain why credit cards are preferred in the US? In the Netherlands they're basically an obscurity, and I couldn't even pay for my groceries with one. We all have debit cards that charge directly from your bank here.

Just what does the CC system offer over debit?

Grangar··on Credit Card Signatures Are About to Become Extinct in the U.S
This is how it works in the Netherlands as well, but below €25.
Grangar··on How to keep your ISP’s nose out of your browser history with encrypted DNS
With the new legislation that's coming I absolutely wouldn't trust the Netherlands anymore... Something like Denmark seems like a better alternative.
Grangar··on Blocklist Facebook domains
Didn't Snowden have intentions to leak NSA documents right from the start..?
Grangar··on Russia orders Telegram to hand over users’ encryption keys
Does Telegram even have access to these?
Grangar··on Stephen Hawking has died
Agree. Hawking had a big impact on my general outlook on life.
Grangar··on Playing Video Games with My Son Isn’t What I Thought It Would Be
Yes! Helping my dad with point and click games is a very fond memory of mine. Especially Rama (game based on the books by Arthur C. Clarke)

I should try getting it to run again sometime.

Grangar··on Blockchain technology is on a collision course with EU privacy law
That would be completely your own fault. Drinking and banking is risky too, or drinking and driving. Make it a best practice to only interact with blockchain systems when sober. Not a very strange idea IMO.
Grangar··on Coinbase Index Fund
He bought in the heat of the biggest alt boom ever, no shit that it's a loss.
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