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>This person is very misguided if they think that most security research originates from Anons.

A fair amount of personal information dissemination certainly happens on 4chan and similar places. I guess this is what he is referring to rather than high quality security research.

I tried standing up to work for a few weeks once and found I just got a different kink in my back. I would still tend to slouch sideways when standing, keeping most of my weight on one leg (almost like sitting on a stool) and using the other as balance. I'm not sure what the solution is, except maybe a treadmill desk, but that seems a little crazy.

Why can't it just be a "dumb" fantasy? Why does it have to be a dumb libertarian fantasy? I don't see anything particularly libertarian about it. If anything, the existing infrastructure there is a vaguely libertarian thing, the product of their own self determination, and the Google-ish meddling is merely run of the mill capitalistic scheming.

A great article otherwise though.

This terrifies me. This is the first revelation that has actually shocked me. It goes even beyond what I considered conspiracy theory. And what terrifies me even more, is my absolutely certainly, as a British citizen, that nothing will change.

Square Enix a few days ago did a similar thing, with access to a few (old) IPs. I wonder if this is a trend?

So, I'm doing 7 engineers worth of work. It feels about accurate.

My only point was that these filters can be difficult to turn off. Please feel free to despair at the large number of average Joes who also won't put in the effort. That's quite the problem.

(fwiw, I rarely use my phone for web browsing anyway, and have a nice uncensored VPN connection for my home system)

My nearest provider (Vodafone) store is over an hours drive away. I've never particularly considered going there; but even if that is a possibility I'd still class it as "difficult to opt out".

I personally would also feel quite embarrassed going into a shop and having to effectively tell staff I want to look at porn. I don't think I would do it.

If you like really hard puzzle games, give "Puzzle Moppet" a shot sometime... I recently got an email from a hardcore puzzle fan who has been playing it on and off for a year, but still was unable to complete it.

The gameplay isn't particularly innovative though, and it didn't sell well.

There is a "UK Porn Filter". You can, however, opt out, and existing customers may currently not yet be affected. There is a fear that people will blindly choose the default "opt in" because of taboo and other social pressures. Also, in some cases it's very difficult to opt out (for example, I cannot opt out of my mobile content filter because I don't own a credit card).

I love incompetent filtering like this, it irritates those who might not otherwise care. It would be nice to see it commonplace and socially acceptable to disable the filters purely because of how rubbish they are.

You don't have the porn filter enabled. This guy does.

You omitted the "I develop games primarily for visually/auditorily impaired users" part...

Simple turn based type games can be made with PHP/HTML. Unity, while vastly overpowered, might still be a reasonable choice from the ease of use perspective.

> not actually Unity developers

well, I'm not a Unity developer, but if they added Linux editor support, I might become one. I've longed to try it in the past, but I just can't go back to Windows.

Funnily enough, I didn't feel any empathy at all. Does this make me a psychopath too? ;)

Instead, reading it gave me the impression of somebody obsessed with themselves - somebody with a superiority complex. Nothing more, nothing less, and I've met plenty of people who have that in different amounts. But maybe that is what psychopathy is?

"because the people on trial said so" does not really constitute evidence.

(not that they are in any real way on trial mind, they got to vet and prepare for every question before hand.)

I have one.

> "4chan Pass users may bypass ISP, IP range, and country blocks" > "Pass users cannot bypass individual (regular) IP bans."

So, if some random spammer uses the same VPN server, it gets blocked by an individual ban. This rapidly happens to all popular shared VPNs.

Hey moot, why don't you let pass users bypass individual IP blocks?

I refuse to disable my VPN, so it means I can't post any more. A shame 4chan has no way for privacy conscious users to post, especially given your support of StopWatching.us and such.

Your website also doesn't work when using an anonymous proxy/VPN, the geoip request fails (with 404) and I'm just left with a blank page.

Interesting, I'm in the market for a new chair. However, I've read even standing for long periods can give similar back pain (I've experienced this myself), with regular movement being the optimal thing to do all day. So what's the truth? Will this chair really solve my back pain?

I'm so tempted, but that's a lotta money for this starving coder.

I've never used one, so why exactly do these websites suck? (and is this any different from dating in general sucking?)

I'm going to sell when I can retire on it. Which won't be for a couple orders of magnitude yet. Some of us are holding for the longest time...

I apply this same logic to my startup attempts. If anyone offers me enough to retire, I'll sell with no doubts.

1) Mostly self taught, but a lot of credit goes to helpful people on various game development forums; people who were almost personal tutors, answering any stupid question I had and fixing my code for me. I did do a comp sci degree, but consider it a total waste of time/money (apart from gaining a little appreciation for testing and design patterns).

2) About aged 14, after getting my first PC. In the year 2K!

3) Couple years ago I started earning from it, aged ~24.

That his VPN provider "ratted him out", actually gives me a little more faith in such services vs the current NSA revelations. (i.e. they couldn't simply do some kind of timing analysis to find him).

Or maybe they just don't waste - or admit to - their resources for such low profile targets?

> discussed illegal gender discrimination in tech

Can't we just call it "bullying"? Illegal bullying.

I experienced an awful lot of similar things when at school, in 50-50 gender split English classes and others. Sure, the wording was different, not mentioning my gender, but the effect was the same. I remember a particular group of girls picking on me consistently because I was so quiet and shy. Physical as well as verbal harassment. The bullies will choose anything that is different about a person: be the lone female, and they obviously choose gender.

I really see the problem in all "discrimination" type cases, whether gender, race, sexuality, being: unpleasant people. Cure these people of gender discrimination, and they'll just be bullying the quiet kid instead. Or the poor kid with the cheap clothes.

We need to be teaching kids to simply be nice and to accept everyone else for who they are. But like that's gonna work.

> That's 650 people you need to find, who can appear credible to the media

They don't need this; I think the idea is purely protest, with no intention of the person actually getting voted in.

How exactly does a hardware based router help? Is the idea that TOR is running on separate hardware, and despite the local system being compromised, the attacker can't "phone out" to find the real IP address?

Yay, now I have a label for what I am. A passive income hacker. I don't make a lot (maybe $3K / month), but I work only ~half hour a day on my main money spinner, answering support emails. (Plus, maybe a few months solid every year or so on updating the tech.) I designed it so it doesn't have a DB or user account system, to reduce the complexity and make it easier to scale by one person with only certain skills. Users regularly ask for an account system. I don't add it; I have competitors who do have an account system, and there's no way I could compete with them by myself. A certain subset of users appreciate the simplicity of my service.

When users email me support questions, they get a personal response from the guy who made the thing. They probably don't realise either, since most contacts start with "hey X team" or "hey X guys".

Having said that, I do work a full day, on attempting to start other passive incomes, and on more fun things that have less chance of earning. So I'm not quite living a pure passive income dream yet.

That makes it sound to me like the light was not stopped, merely the light's energy was stored. Which is quite a different thing?

I would posit that aggression is generally unwarranted. I would consider aggression to be the non healthy alternative to, say, being matter of fact, blunt, terse, and other such ways of giving negative feedback without directly attacking the person.

I'm sure there's no perfect dividing line between non-aggressive/aggressive. But it's generally clear when something is nearer the extremes.

"Alice, that's completely wrong because X, this code needs to be rewritten from scratch following principle Y." "Bob, what is this retarded shit? You stupid fool, go RTFM and do it again."