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binaryatrocityon Elon Musk's and X's Role in 2024 Election Interference

This is just a X employee who really wants more people to see the nice documentation pages they worked so hard on :P

binaryatrocityon Milwaukee reporter investigates cousin's 1978 car bombing death

There are many of us, it seems! Milwaukee born-and-raised here, still living in the city!

Well written blog post, thanks for sharing!

binaryatrocityon When Mozilla's Fanatics Make Us All Look Bad

First of all, Mozilla is talking about slowly shutting down -features- in their browser to non-https sites, especially those that could pose a security risk to the user or their computer. I see nothing wrong with that.

Second, Mozilla is partnering with the EFF to launch Let's Encrypt! which will be a Certificate Authority providing free and automated SSL certs - so that should remove the 'resource barrier' the OP is so concerned about.

Mozilla is taking steps in the right direction to provide a safer internet for all of us, but more importantly, those of us that don't know any better, don't know how to protect themselves.

Keep it up Mozilla Team!

binaryatrocityon Engineering chat improvements at Twitch

My chat-bots keep breaking, I know they are working to make the service better overall but it's a tad frustrating :D

binaryatrocityon Ask HN: Dilemma of a Gamer and Programmer

My advice: Quit LoL, install Dota2, limit your gaming time per week. :D

Fanboyism aside, I find myself in a very similar situation. I've been playing DotA2 for years (and LoL before that, a littel DotA before that) and now run a Dota-community that has a fair amount of users.

Every day I need to decide between playing a handful of matches with my users or working on coding projects, and it's a hard decision to make.

What has been working most effectively for me is "code-weeks", I have at least a week a month where I limit myself to two (2) games a day, and make sure I'm spending some hours every day working on projects.

It's not perfect, but at least consciously trying to follow this pattern has pushed me to be more productive than I was in 2013, and quitting DotA cold-turkey is just not something I think I could stick with.

binaryatrocityon Full-disclosure – Administrivia: The End

First thing I saw in my inbox when I got to work this morning. Sad really, the list has certainly had it's moments.

Can't help but be a little optimistic, at least the "Google Vulnerability with PoC" youtube-upload trollfest chain of emails is done flooding my inbox this month :D

binaryatrocityon Soulseek is still alive

I have the fondest memories of SoulSeek. I used to spend hours a day searching for rare tracks/albums (was really into obscure metal back then) and tirelessly organizing my library :D

binaryatrocityon Ask HN: Are you addicted to video games?

Much as I love computers and programming and learning.... I gotta play some Dota2 tonight... because reasons.

binaryatrocityon Xmonad — the tiling window manager that rocks

http://dwm.suckless.org/

DWM - the suckless window manager that's smaller

binaryatrocityon Ask HN:What are your thoughts on Dogecoin?

Mark my words. 2-5 years from now this post will be linked all over the internet as they tie "cantbecool" (the OP) to the Dread Doge Shiberts and arrest him.

binaryatrocityon SteamOS: It's here

The 1TB requirement is for the default install, if you use the custom Debian-based installer that isn't an issue.

binaryatrocityon IRCCloud

http://quassel-irc.org/

I've been running Quassel-core on a linux-server and the client on all my endpoints and it works fantastically. Plus I am in control of everything. Replaced irssi+tmux for me instantly.

From their website: "Quassel IRC is a modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client, meaning that one (or multiple) client(s) can attach to and detach from a central core -- much like the popular combination of screen and a text-based IRC client such as WeeChat, but graphical."

binaryatrocityon Android for all and the new Nexus 5

If your not using Firefox on Android, your browser woes are your own fault :D <3 Mozilla

binaryatrocityon Mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps?

A well respected security researcher who runs multiple conferences and Pwn2Own is hardly a "guy who knows nothing about computers"

hard to summarize when you don't read the article.

binaryatrocityon Firefox 25 is released

This.... is so not true I don't even know what to say.

binaryatrocityon After Silk Road

Tracking bitcoin transactions THROUGH THE TUMBLER was pretty difficult. Any regular bitcoin transaction can be clearly followed on the blockchain.

binaryatrocityon Valve releasing Dota2 for Linux

We started with Mumble server but moved to TeamSpeak because it is more feature-rich. I have the website now able to link your TeamSpeak/Steam/Forum accounts and am working on an interface where we can create "events" (in-houses, all mid days, other games, whatever) and you will earn "points" for attending those events.

TeamSpeak's serverquery let me do a lot of cool things easier than Mumble/ice. There is a TeamSpeak client for linux (http://www.teamspeak.com/?page=downloads)!

binaryatrocityon Valve releasing Dota2 for Linux

Glad to have you! While real-life might keep me away from my precious DotA this evening, hopefully I'll catch you soon! Feel free to add me on steam, name is the same as HN username.

binaryatrocityon Valve releasing Dota2 for Linux

I'd like to introduce you to www.dotanoobs.com - a personal project to create a rage-free environment for both new and experienced players to have fun together.

Just moved from Wordpress to Flask, got the Valve Dota2 replay-parser running on Linux and am preparing some cool stuff with that on the back end.

tl;dr: get on teamspeak (voice.dotanoobs.com) and play with people who aren't mean.

binaryatrocityon Don't Talk to Police (video, 2008)

Ran across this video a few months back, great watch and super informative. Could have used this lessons a few times in my younger years.

binaryatrocityon HTC One and the harsh reality of the Android ecosystem

I am a proud owner of the HTC One and absolutely love the device. I've owned a few HTC devices in my life (Apache 6700, Hero, Touch Pro, Evo 3D, and now the One) and have never been disappointed. Excellent build quality and a sleek look.

binaryatrocityon Builders bulldoze Mayan Pyramid

My heritage and history destroyed, and for what? It's stuff like this that makes me not want to wake up in the morning, much less procreate.

binaryatrocityon Bitcoin-Central.net was hacked

That was a pretty great read. With the crap-storm that has been hitting Bitcoin services lately as well as things like the Linode hack, it's great to see Bitcoin-Central being completely open and transparent with what happened and what their plans are for the future. Bravo.

binaryatrocityon Ask HN: Which web interface are you using for your (self hosted) mail server?

I just setup a mail server on my new slice yesterday and after a few hours of research I settled on RoundCube as well.

binaryatrocityon Ask HN: Why is HN so obsessed with Bitcoin?

Because posts like this continually keep it on our minds? Plus, it's a hell of an experiment and fun to keep track of.

binaryatrocityon Dota 2 E-Sports Tournament Disrupted by Player DDOS

Why must they ruin the fun? Now games for today are cancelled and my half-day from work is pointless, I'll actually have to code or something.

binaryatrocityon The Pirate Bay is now hosted in North Korea

And the entire western hemisphere is an imperialist hell hole where there has been an ongoing holocaust of (native/indigenous) citizens for 6 centuries.

binaryatrocityon Show HN: A Site Integration API for LaTeX Code Examples.

I met the guys behind this project the other weekend and they were extremely cool. This is an awesome project and everyone I've shown it too has been extremely impressed.

Keep up the good work gentlemen.

binaryatrocityon Quick Reference: Linux Commands

Is not viewable by anyone without a paid Tech Republic account... thanks.