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dberhaneon Commento: Open-Source Disqus Alternative

Coral Talk commenting system is a good alternative: https://coralproject.net/talk/

dberhaneon The Tragedy of Saudi Arabia’s War

If there is EU resolution to suspend arms sales why is Macron still refusing to abide and continuing to sell weapons to the Saudi regime: https://www.france24.com/en/20181026-macron-france-halt-saud...

dberhaneon Drupal Remote Code Execution vulnerability exploited widely

There are various things you could do with the headless Drupal: you could put it behind a Firewall or enable access control where only your front-end Gatsby.js app can have access to.

dberhaneon Drupal Remote Code Execution vulnerability exploited widely

I recommend gatsbyjs (react.js based static generator) and it has plugin for Drupal and Wordpress.

Here is the location of the Drupal plugin: https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/tree/master/packages/gats...

And the headless Drupal GatbyJS demo: https://using-drupal.gatsbyjs.org/

dberhaneon One cigarette a day 'increases heart disease and stroke risk'

The research article behind this headline:

Low cigarette consumption and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke: meta-analysis of 141 cohort studies in 55 study reports: http://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.j5855

dberhaneon Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression, study finds

Here is another research published recently by BMJ about benefits of curcumin for cancer (myeloma) patients:

Long-term stabilisation of myeloma with curcumin http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2017/bcr-2016-218148.long

dberhaneon Show HN: HardyPress – Use WordPress as a static site generator

Gatsbyjs (reactjs based static site generator) is a very good free alternative. It has a plugin which allows you to use WordPress as a headless CMS to create/update content and another plugin which allows to push your the WordPress content to Github Pages (Gitlab or other static site hosting services):

https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/tree/master/examples/usin...

dberhaneon Verizon Up offers rewards in exchange for customers’ personal information

This is already happening with the free services we are getting from Google and Facebook.

dberhaneon Javascript Arrays and Functional Programming

Reading your blog allowed me to better understand the reduce function for the first time and I want to thank you for that.

dberhaneon Gangnam Style is no longer the most-played video on YouTube

"The surreal video became so popular that it "broke" YouTube's play counter, exceeding the maximum possible number of views (2,147,483,647), and forcing the company to rewrite its code."

dberhaneon Found at the Scene in Manchester: A Detonator, Shrapnel and a Battery

I am surprised that the US media got all these details so early in the investigation and I could not any references to this in the British Media about it yet. There is a concern in the UK that US officials are leaking more detailed information as reported in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/24/us-officials...

dberhaneon Microsoft held back free patch that could have slowed WannaCry

To get around the paywall use Google Search: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Microsoft+held+back+free+p...

dberhaneon Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked N.S.A. Hacking Tool

Maybe it is now the time for a major review of the NHS Microsoft software dependency and should seriously consider switching to Linux based software.

Here is the BBC news update about the NHS Cyber attack:

"NHS trusts 'ran outdated software'

Some who have followed the issue of NHS cyber security are sharing a report from the IT news site Silicon, which reported last December that NHS trusts had been running outdated Windows XP software.

The website says that Microsoft officially ended support for Windows XP back in April 2014, meaning it was no longer fixing vulnerabilities in the system - except for clients that paid for an extended support deal.

The UK government initially paid Microsoft £5.5 million to keep providing security support - but the website adds that this deal ended in May 2015."

dberhaneon Hospitals across England hit by large-scale cyber-attack

The BMJ published an article recently about hackers targeting hospitals, "The hackers holding hospitals to ransom": http://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j2214

dberhaneon Why is React is taking over front-end development?

Another perspective from Stack Overflow Trends: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=vue.js%2Creac...

dberhaneon Microsoft Edge is safer than Mozilla Firefox

Just noticed a pop-up appearing on my Windows 10 desktop when I clicked on Firefox icon to open it with the following message "Use Microsoft Edge as it is safer than Mozilla Firefox". I have found out that Microsoft is using evidence from the US National Vulnerability Database (https://nvd.nist.gov/) to promote Edge. I am surprised that Edge is more secure than Firefox and Chrome and I will consider using it more in the future.

dberhaneon Ex-MI6 officer Christopher Steele in hiding after Trump memo

"Founded in 2009 by former British intelligence professionals, the firm - based in Grosvenor Gardens, central London - has a "global network" of experts and "prominent business figures",, according to its website: https://orbisbi.com "

dberhaneon Why we lost Uber as a user

It is like saying I would not invest in Facebook as it is using PHP.