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andrewnicolalde··on Google made it nearly impossible for users to keep their location private
Have you had a look at AdGuard Pro? I use it on iOS and I don’t notice any ads on the web, and it’s not really different from using UBlock Origin on Firefox in my experience.
andrewnicolalde··on Half-Double: New hammering technique for DRAM Rowhammer bug
I’m guessing this is something that can be done online, hopefully for free?
andrewnicolalde··on Charlie Bit My Finger video to be taken off YouTube after selling for £500k
Nothing, yes.
andrewnicolalde··on Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely
That requires opening a port if you intend to perform a transfer over the internet :)
andrewnicolalde··on Switching from Mailchimp to open-source Mailtrain and AWS SES
I don’t think GDPR is applicable to private individuals running a newsletter..
andrewnicolalde··on How to Tell a Job Offer from an ID Theft Trap
Alternatively to the GPG route, maybe just post the domains which approved recruiters would ever be messaging candidates from. This would go a long way in countering scammers that don't have access to a compromised recruiter account, for example.
andrewnicolalde··on Poor in Tech
TIL, thank you!
andrewnicolalde··on Security keys are now supported for SSH Git operations
I believe this adds support for the new -sk key types, in which the ssh server checks the presence of a U2F token on the client, rather than using something like gpg-agent to effectively store your SSH keys on the Yubikey.
andrewnicolalde··on Irish health service hit by cyber attack
Christ..
andrewnicolalde··on China lands rover on Mars
I had no idea they did that!
andrewnicolalde··on Irish health service hit by cyber attack
What specifically do you mean by the crypto-revolution?
andrewnicolalde··on Evidence from leaked account data on how elites use offshore banking [pdf]
Just bought the book, thanks for the suggestion!
andrewnicolalde··on GitHub blocks FLoC across all of GitHub Pages
Same, I'd like a way to disable this on my GHPages site as well.
andrewnicolalde··on Dan Kaminsky has died
Wow... I remember recreating his DNS cache poisoning attack in one of the courseworks I did in my second year of university. I always thought it was incredibly clever...
andrewnicolalde··on The Curious Case of Port 0 (2019) [pdf]
Anyone else getting certificate issues?
andrewnicolalde··on Higher quality audio makes people sound smarter
How are you doing that?
andrewnicolalde··on Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf]
It was, but SCOTUS declined to rule on it.
andrewnicolalde··on Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf]
> Or prevent them from eradicating competing or even original projects by doing hostile rewrites or forks?

Wouldn't this directly contravene the findings in this case?

andrewnicolalde··on MS Azure down: An emerging issue is being investigated
Thought Machine’s Vault targets the big 3 IIRC.
andrewnicolalde··on Amazon security staff reported its own tweets as “suspicious,” fearing hack
I'll never understand why companies think directly involving themselves in the political discourse is a good idea.

It would honestly even be different if Jeff Bezos himself tweeted these things, but to see the Amazon corporate news account try to one-up Elizabeth Warren is so bizarre..

andrewnicolalde··on Silicon Valley firms in no hurry to open up offices despite easing of virus ban
What kinds of anecdotes did your business professors offer?
andrewnicolalde··on TLS 1.0, 1.1 officially deprecated
I’m routinely amazed by this too. Honestly when I see that this is the sole privacy or security disclaimer in anything but the most trivial of websites’ FAQ, I run the other way. Nothing on privacy, nothing about storage at rest, nothing about access controls and what customer data staff can access. It just comes across as indicative of a security-through-checkboxing view on security and a “heh, yeah sure buddy” approach to privacy.
andrewnicolalde··on TLS 1.0, 1.1 officially deprecated
This is one of my greatest pet peeves, hearing people ask for "SSL certificates" and seeing "your payment card information is secured with SSL" at the bottom of websites everywhere.

I know it really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, but man does it make my eye twitch lol.

andrewnicolalde··on Intruders install security updates (1998)
50 available addresses... that's not a whole lot of clients at all! Hopefully those leases had short expiry times!
andrewnicolalde··on Refund of pre-installed Windows: Lenovo must pay 20k euros in damages
> You must comply with that policy, which might require you to return the software with the entire device on which the software is installed for a refund or credit, if any.

I wonder what they mean by "device." Device as in the hard drive or device as in the entire computer? Surely having to return the entire computer defeats the point of Windows' refund policy?

andrewnicolalde··on YouTube will start deducting US taxes from creators who don’t live in the US
This is insanity. It's not just the money taken in taxes, it's the fact that you additionally have to deal with the additional administrative overhead of filling out US tax paperwork, praying you don't get it wrong or paying a US-focused advisor to do it for you.
andrewnicolalde··on Write libraries instead of services, where possible
Is that such a bad thing?
andrewnicolalde··on How Tim Cook transformed Apple after Steve Jobs
> Funny thing is Apple internally use Anker cables as they're much more resistent than their own.

Source? Sound interesting!

andrewnicolalde··on The unusual way I'm funding my open source work
Might have just missed it on the website, but will early access buyers get access to the finished version on completion?
andrewnicolalde··on Show HN: Clerk – all of user management as-a-service, not just authentication
Any JavaScript on the same origin can read localstorage IIRC.
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