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ryanmcdonough

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ryanmcdonough··on Show HN: Mohsen the Doorman – Half Slack, Half RaspberryPi
It'd be great if you could alert people who might have a meeting with that person (at the gate) or who are working with that person on a project that they have arrived. Awesome project.
ryanmcdonough··on Ask HN: How do I know if my home router is secure?
You don't.

Lock it down as best you can: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/home-router-security,news-19245....

But as for the software being immune to vulnerabilities - no chance. Read http://www.devttys0.com/2015/04/hacking-the-d-link-dir-890l/ which lists huge security issues and then D-LINK putting out a patch which doesn't even fix what they said it did.

ryanmcdonough··on Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web
Ah yes, I'll just develop my own photos at home - seems like a good idea for everyone in the world to do.
ryanmcdonough··on Ask HN: Why would I want to pay with my phone?
2) Uber to an extent but that's just storing your card information.
ryanmcdonough··on UBlock defaults to blocking Google Analytics tracking
There isn't always enough entropy to uniquely identify a user - you can't rely on that to provide accurate tracking. If people are coming from a corporate environment using terminal servers then every single browser will identify as one user by that method.

Most browsers are now taking steps to stop the CSS custom styles hack working - for example this doesn't work in Chrome anymore. The website can show you which websites you've visited with the change in colour for the link state however it can no lonqer query it.

ryanmcdonough··on SpaceX is hiring a Farmer in Texas
Requirements:

*Understand the implications of the weather and make contingency plans

ryanmcdonough··on Will Microsoft Open Source Internet Explorer?
Other than the recent open sourcing of .NET?
ryanmcdonough··on Mac Menu Bars
Latest tunnelblick beta comes with monochrome icons.
ryanmcdonough··on Gamma FinFisher hacked: 40 GB of internal documents and source code published
They only have to release that particular source code and any changes they have made. They aren't obligated to release anything related to or using that code. Essentially it just means they need to provide links to download either the original code if they haven't changed it or provide the source if they have altered it.
ryanmcdonough··on Hotel fines $500 for every bad review posted online
Yes on: http://www.unionstreetguesthouse.com/events_weddings.shtml
ryanmcdonough··on Google deleted a number of free Google Apps email accounts last month or so
No I don't think we can worry about that. The warning that the accounts would be deleted were repeated and well in advance.
ryanmcdonough··on Append "_nomap" to your AP's SSID to opt out of Google Location Services (2011)
Why should I have to ruin my naming standard for them? Personally I don't mind them mapping my SSID.
ryanmcdonough··on Ask HN: You want Atom invites/you have invites to give?
I'd quite like one me at ryanmcdonough .co.uk
ryanmcdonough··on Introducing Neo900
I like the phone, curious though, were there no new phones they could have taken the photo of? That one looks so scuffed, as though it has been in someones pocket for months.
ryanmcdonough··on Rainyday.js
Beautiful.
ryanmcdonough··on How to get Gogo in-flight wireless internet for free
& in a few days patched.
ryanmcdonough··on Windows Phone 8 earns key government security certification
*insert NSA related quip here.
ryanmcdonough··on [dead]
It had 5 signatures, there's no verification that the responder is Linus Torvalds. Seems like BS.
ryanmcdonough··on Let's Buy Hackaday
Just so we're clear, I'm putting money towards it so someone else can buy it & make profit? Not sure what I'm getting out of this deal that I'd get it some private company bought it on their own.
ryanmcdonough··on Ask HN: Why is Dropbox still so horrible at support?
Worst case I had with them was when I migrated my personal account to a company account with an employer.

When I left my employer they removed my account from the company account, which in turn DELETED my previously personal dropbox account, took 4 days to get it recovered.

Used google drive ever since.

ryanmcdonough··on Flatstrap - Bootstrap with no rounded corners, gradients or drop shadows
Does seem to be a rounded corner on nav nav-list bs-docs-sidenav affix-top
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