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Odius miscreant and detestable fool
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balibebas··on Federal Court Rules Case in Favor of Crypto ICO Against SEC
FYI for anyone who hasn't read the time tested definition of what is a security look it up in the letter of the US law and you will see a ‘security’ is something traded in a federally controlled exchange. Methinks this is why the oligarchs are attaching DEXes now. That poor EtherDelta guy...
balibebas··on Federal Court Rules Case in Favor of Crypto ICO Against SEC
And by cruft they mean spyware.
balibebas··on Show HN: Dark Reader extension – Dark mode for every website
With dark sites coming back en vogue with and even entire blogging platforms like After Dark[0] now available is the 90's all over again. Hopefully these new sites eschew the mistakes we've made harvesting data in the past.

[0] https://after-dark.habd.as

balibebas··on Show HN: Dark Reader extension – Dark mode for every website
That's a valid concern. Certainly an easy way to Target an audience to get at a rich set of data. But who's to say Chromium isn't doing this already anyway?
balibebas··on The World's Most Efficient Languages (2016)
Try using that thing against Bahasa Indonesia, the fastest language I'm aware of, and let's see how intelligent it really is.
balibebas··on Podcast Advertising: What We Learned
> From July to October 2018, we’ve seen 126 paid trial signups from “podcast.”

We all know surveys lie (even if they're required) so the conversion numbers aren't telling the whole story. If my company were burning tall coin like this and not somehow tracking micro-conversions I'd probably have to tell the marketing lead sorry no holiday bonus for the next 38 years.

Honestly they could've probably hired a temp-worker with a good voice and a lot of Podcasting buddies and gained more traction for the cost of feeding a homeless man. What a colossal waste of resources.

balibebas··on The EU Copyright Directive: What Redditors in Europe Need to Know
IRC, like social networks, is slways tough to rank due to lack of structured data. I don't believe Usenet suffered this proform.

Re: Facebook I agree it has hurt, nay scourged, the Web—that's undeniable—but that has also created room to innovate how we share content on the surface web.

I enjoyed YouTube until I tested the effectiveness of ContentID and was banned under their ToS. May they burn in hell under the new EU regs.

balibebas··on Maximizing password manager attack surface
Depends on the length of your password, really, and how and where you enter it. All it takes is a keystroke logger to get your master password, and this can be done even with copy/paste.
balibebas··on Google accused of GDPR privacy violations by seven countries
If you're on Android it's possible to completely block the GPS daemon from phoning home, usually to 1e100.net based on my observation. To do this you can install an app called NetGuard from F-Droid and enable service blocking. This app is non-root, and it uses a local VPN to provide an almost impenetrable firewall. Google's GPS daemon hides itself under a process called "1021" block that and enable notifications and see the connection attempts every few minutes to 1e100.net getting blocked—you don't even need to have any Google services enabled to see the connection attempts occurring.
balibebas··on U.S. Life Expectancy Falls Further
It's not just healthcare, and it's not just the US. Dig deeper, look at the ex-Nazi bank called B.I.S. See how much Tether they printed in 2009.
balibebas··on Facebook Considered Charging for Access to User Data
Yes, but that's just enough obfuscation for them to deny any claim they do charge. But from the free content I was able to see on this WSJ article (not a subscriber) they considered charging businesses in addition to users. Perhaps in the same way they charge for access to user data in France. Where some Facebook users can only see, for example, the first friend photo. The rest of the friend photos then appear behind a paywall. I saw this just last week actually in Indonesia from a tourist trying to show me some photos of his girlfriend back home—only he couldn't because the mobile app his the images of his friends behind a content upgrade.
balibebas··on Statement on NPM Package Vulnerability in v5.0.2-5.1.0 of Copay Bitcoin Wallets
If something looks innocuous a diligent engineer will review it twice as hard. I used to fail reviews on one-liners during my professional years with people around me asking me what's taking so long—it's just one line of code.
balibebas··on Googlers are openly asking bosses to cancel the censored search engine for China
The best part about an 'at will' relationship is you are free to leave at anytime
balibebas··on We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly
Let's find out, shall we?
balibebas··on We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly
Argumentum ad populum. Are you really going to generalize as well?
balibebas··on We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly
Why choose Medium and not Blogger for this post?
balibebas··on Questions to Ask Before Joining a Startup
Here's some advice. Don't feign passion. If you could give to shits about the product wait for a better opportunity. Next. Your coworkers are competition. Treat them as such. Next. Ask for at least 20% more than you'd settle for but only after you receive an offer. Last. Don't become a JAP. You're welcome.
balibebas··on Google PageRank Is Not Dead
The brutal rebuff reminds me of the argument against using keywords, which I still add to my websites as, when used appropriately, adds value. PR is similar in that, while it may no longer matter to Google, it still matters (and you don't have to pay $7/mo. to figure that out) because there are other search engines crawling the surface Web that aren't Google.
balibebas··on LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members
It may be more complex than that. If both of you were tied into the Social Graph it's possible software on your devices simply knew the two of you were in proximity and for how long. This could be done via Bluetooth by an app like WhatsApp or Facebook, which is known to have sensors installed in urban businesses. But who's to say they didn't just turn your device into a beacon itself using the Physical Web?
balibebas··on U.S. Supreme Court to hear Apple App Store antitrust dispute
I'm looking forward to the day I don't have to charge a non-profit doing good in this world $99 a year just to keep their app on the app store. Apple devices should have the equivalent of F-Droid for FLOSS goodies, and that's exactly the conclusion the courts should decide on IMO. This of course will make Apple devices less secure. But then again the current state of affairs is arguably worse given the lack of competition.
balibebas··on German federal office publishes Windows 10 telemetry analysis
Someone should def send up a pull to patch that on githup.com
balibebas··on Dive – A tool for exploring each layer in a Docker image
Beyond Compare for Docker/Moby seems like an ideal use case for an inspection tool such as this. While space is cheap finding dbs which could be consolidated could have some tangible benefits for just about everyone.
balibebas··on For Decades, Southern States Saw Thanksgiving as an Act of Northern Aggression
Take the money and run.
balibebas··on Show HN: Monetized Hugo Theme Documentation
What buzz words are you picking up on? Privacy? Not sure how I could reword that.
balibebas··on How to Talk to People, According to Terry Gross
No doubt this will be the trending topic here in 3 hours. Digital communications are to communication as the trpewriter was to calligraphy.
balibebas··on Palm Oil Was Supposed to Help Save the Planet
You want to see evil look at Malasian deforestation due to production of this crap. It's not even a tasty in cooking. Coconut is.
balibebas··on Palm Oil Was Supposed to Help Save the Planet
Two wings, same bird.
balibebas··on U.S. Federal Railroad Administration Legalizes Lightweight Train Cars
Making that determination would require differentiation.
balibebas··on An elevator in a Chicago skyscraper fell 84 floors, requiring a dramatic rescue
You're wrong. Sorry, but The advice is not good anywhere. Any good system will be designed for flight or flight because, despite all else, humans are humans and this was not a situation anyone is trained to handle. Anyone.
balibebas··on US asks allies to drop Huawei
To wit, getting stuff done doesn't entail signing executive orders in a true democracy.
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