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devwinportableon Edward Snowden: Facebook is a surveillance company rebranded as 'social media'

because... not many people use Google+?

sorry.

devwinportableon Synode: understanding and automatically preventing injection attacks on Node.js

why not add an android-style permission flags on nodeJS?

eg) nodejs profile with:

- exec disabled

- file write access limited to ./tmp, ./docs, ./tests

- file read access limited to ./tmp, ./docs

- network listening: port 1000~11000 allowed

And why not have a 'sesame points' system for dependencies?

eg)

- ownership-change within 3 weeks: -20 points,

- static analysis finds something wrong: -20 points

- badges: 'file-read badge', 'exec-badge', etc.

devwinportableon China's Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nobody wants

+1 especially with China backing North Korean regime publicly/privately

devwinportableon China's Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nobody wants

China's quite notorious for sending back North Korean defectors (and cooperating with NK spy agencies for this)

this isn't going well...

devwinportableon Poland’s Central Bank Secretly Paid YouTubers to Slander Cryptos

there's always a limit to "morally right" "education". the other side is using their own 'shady' media channels ('youtube influencers') to advertise their shady product.

how would you counter that?

devwinportableon Poland’s Central Bank Secretly Paid YouTubers to Slander Cryptos

> Visa introduced changes to charge more for purchasing cryptos with their cards.

well visa recently realized its mistake & rolled back

devwinportableon Poland’s Central Bank Secretly Paid YouTubers to Slander Cryptos

that's not how "media war" is played... the other side is already spending zillions to sell their ponzi-schemes... by secretly paying influencers

devwinportableon Poland’s Central Bank Secretly Paid YouTubers to Slander Cryptos

lol you have no idea about most recent ICOs and "ponzi schemes"

devwinportableon Poland’s Central Bank Secretly Paid YouTubers to Slander Cryptos

> It is absolutely grotesque that public institutions engage in any kind of propaganda

no it's not... then how would you stop malicious foreign/external media influence? let people get scammed?

devwinportableon Poland’s Central Bank Secretly Paid YouTubers to Slander Cryptos

> "usually, within a democracy, it is illegal for state actors or contractors to engage in propaganda directed at their own citizens."

the real issue with this is "then how should some gov. agency stop malicious external/foreign media influence?"

devwinportableon Poland’s Central Bank Secretly Paid YouTubers to Slander Cryptos

well that's still an uneven balance between ICO fraudsters spending zillions on "get rich quick" scheme videos...

devwinportableon The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

but why not just put a female-end of lightning port? (not on top but somewhere near middle - I agree with your eraser function)

having a cap to protect its manliness is so... stupid

devwinportableon The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

from my experience, "apple pencil" is a piece of crap (too slippary, too heavy, requires charging thru the ipad's port ...wtf?)

Surface Pro / Galaxy Notebooks(wacom-based) with "a layer of finely textured acrylic glass" will be a much better comparison.

> but it comes at the cost of not being able to flip through documents using finger swipes or taps

so no multi-finger zoom gestures

devwinportableon Visual Studio Live Share Preview

have to agree on this... exposing local dev env to some outsider requires a lot of trust on some stranger

devwinportableon Visual Studio Live Share Preview

how about tmux? screen? or do you need more than those?