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hyperknot

1,249 karma · joined August 14, 2015

founder of MapHub: https://maphub.net/

personal website: https://hyperknot.com/

email: zsolt@maphub.net

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hyperknot··on Dropbox ignores user's complaints of poor performance for almost a year
About using the selective sync dialog: it takes me about 5 minutes to just load the folder list in the GUI, and it's on a quad-core Macbook Pro with 120 Mbps internet.

I believe a perfect solution for power-users would be a support for '.nodropbox' files, which would disable selective sync for a given directory and it's subfolders.

An even better idea would be '.dropboxignore' files, using the same syntax as '.gitignore'.

hyperknot··on Popular Google Chrome extensions are constantly tracking you by default
Does anyone have any knowledge about Wappalyzer? I cannot find it on this list, but it requests an inject.js on every webpage, even if the anonymous data sending is switched off in options.

It's quite a popular and valuable extension for web developers, I hope someone can explain how it works.

hyperknot··on List of the Most Popular MOOCs
I believe that Coursera courses are popular exactly because they only allow watching archives if you have signed up before. What I mean is people sign up to a large number of courses, just for being able to view the course any time in the future.

This also means that Coursera courses have naturally the highest "total enrollment" numbers, even though probably only a few percent of the students are actually taking the class.

hyperknot··on FreeBSD 10.2
I haven't yet upgraded, just trying to understand it first. I've made a thread in the official forum, hopefully it'll get clarified. https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/default-repository-change...
hyperknot··on FreeBSD 10.2
Thanks for this information! It's strangely missing from the release and the comment in the /etc file.

Do you know how are the security updates propagated to quarterly branch? Are they backported till the latest Q release and shipped immediately?

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