siegecraft

It's a nice marketing stunt -- not meant to be perjorative, I hope it inspires more innovation in this space. But I find it ironic that a plugin that purports to make it harder to track you has google analytics.

it smells very much like a coordinated hit but it's hard to have sympathy.

Wow, it's almost like people never had ways of communicating before facebook...

The thing always got mentioned whenever Ghostery is brought up is that they were owned by an advertising company that sold user data. I wonder how Cliqz plans to make this a profitable venture (besides being another Mozilla charity case)?

Are products really free speech, though? That seems to be the core of their argument.

Does anyone have suggestions or best practices for using facebook securely (ie to maintain an account but not let it be linked w/ all of your other browsing activities)? I was thinking something like hosting a hardened/non-fingerprintable browser from a VPS/cloud provider somewhere and only using that to interact with the site.

I like this idea (a sort of adnauseum for facebook) but I wonder how trivial it would be for facebook to filter out obviously random/fake/noisy data given the mammoth set of real data they already have. Maybe introduce some more subtle off-by-one errors into their data or just make it a tiny bit fuzzier? Hopefully one wouldn't need a detailed knowledge of their data structures to do something impactful, although the action itself might be a useful symbolic gesture even if it doesn't have an actual impact on their data collection.

Yes, it seems very cowardly and very much passing the buck and doesn't acknowledge that what she did was justified at all, just that mercy was granted.

Were there really enough people using this to cause such an impact?

This is from February, which is ancient in Docker years, but the container history and references are quite useful.

I feel like this would be better if it didn't click every ad, but had some sort of method (even if it was random) to pick ads.

The great thing about anonymous comments is you can use them to justify any behaviour you want.

Oh, now suddenly they have a conscience? Where was this when they were building the machines of surveillance capital?

I like the idea but sadly I'm sure it's more of a marketing effort than an actual platform. I've been saddened to not be able to find social media marketplaces that provide an actual twitter platform (ie programmable). All you can buy is x thousands of account blasting an identical message. Or maybe I haven't been looking hard enough?

This is the same rule change that says if you use a VPN or TOR you can legally be hacked by the FBI, yes? I wonder if people who use work VPNs will be exempted since afaik the wording is about services that obscure your location, and most business VPNs aren't concerned with that (especially if they have split routing configured properly).

Ha, docker wishes that they had the staff to create all the things this article claims they create.

This link (https://krypt3ia.wordpress.com/2016/10/08/gdd53-a-russian-ho...) actually has links to the data.

Diversity and inclusion, but only for those people whose politics we agree with? (A rhetorical question, it's always been that way).

I'm pretty sure that you can now get jury duty without being registered to vote.

The comments are civil, but lack a certain diversity of thought, to put it politely.

Doesn't Eataly have various vendors so there's no guarantee that you're getting espresso from the right one? I'm going to be vacationing in the area soon and getting good espresso is on my list.

How does the search / indexing compare to sphinx or lucene?

I thought about doing the same thing, found http://boardreader.com/ and then moved on. No idea how useful it is.

Don't chrome extensions automatically update themselves? Assuming no permissions are changed I think they do. It would be nice if there was some sort of version pinning.

After some investigating, this extension doesn't have an update_url in the manifest.json, so I think that means it won't/can't auto-update.

To be fair, I don't think they built Swarm from scratch, I think it is/was a rebranding of an acquired product. That being said, Docker and swarm in particular move too fast for their docs to keep up (let's change the syntax for some important commands between the final RC and the release?) and it feels like the only way to be well informed is to scour the github issues, which seems wrong for something that's touted as a stable, commercially-supported product.

Well it does make it extra easy to deploy a scrape node to any type of machine you might encounter (and having a diverse set of source IPs is extra important for scraping; that means you might need to deploy to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, rackspace, digitalocean, random vps provider X and so on). So instead of having to have custom provisioning profiles for every hosting provider/image combination, you just need to get docker running on a host and you're good to go.

I'm sure there'd be a ton of people that would love to pay to use your platform (who cares if the source is available, I don't want to run my own because once the code is written, it's ops thats hard). But then I suppose it would be hard to stay unnoticed.

I think the lessons learned from those lawsuits was to always have some sort of 3rd-party intermediary scraping consultancy firm you engage that is totally not just your business under another name.

How do you reconcile "ops is hard" with "just run some vms, CM, etc."? Is it because ops only becomes hard when you force yourself to use k8 when it's not really needed?

Also do people really think k8 is a drop-in/trivial solution? I just got done evaluating it and the overriding sentiment seemed to be "it's super flexible but super complex and badly documented and you'd better hope you're using the happiest of happy paths."

I see this cites the 'Turkish women were exposed' meme, rebuttal here (https://glomardisclosure.com/2016/08/08/what-a-hit-piece-aga...) but really all you had to do was see Conde Nast at the top and you could predict the tenor of the piece..