awayand's comments

awayand | 5 years ago | on: How does the Gmail unsubscribe button work?

you can set things up much, much easier, fastmail calls it subdomain aliasing or something like that.

Basically, it allows you to create email aliases without having to whitelist.

Setup [email protected] and reject everything else arriving there.

Accept anything at @i.yourdomain.com

I have an inbox, everything [email protected] arrives there.

Then I have an "other" mailbox where all the @i.yourdomain.com emails arrive.

If there is a really annoying website that doesn't respect my wishes I create a filter for the offending email to ban any mail to my spam folder.

awayand | 11 years ago | on: Fraud possible in Brazil's e-voting system

voting should never be computerized. the risk for exploits to go unnoticed is too high. paper and pen seems to me the only safe implementation.

awayand | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Pastor generates and stores passwords without storing any passwords

or, you know, you could use what has been around for 10 years instead of reinventing the wheel http://www.passwordmaker.org/PasswordMaker:About

awayand | 12 years ago | on: When You Fall in Love, This Is What Facebook Sees

an increasing number of posts leading to a relationship and then a drop in messages as the couple is spending time together - OMG GENIUS I WOULD HAVE NEVER GUESSED!!!!

awayand | 12 years ago | on: VPN Encryption

or, you could just use https://airvpn.org/

awayand | 12 years ago | on: How Tumblr uses \0 in the output of meta tags

a different "view" would be the 80/20 rule: it takes 80% effort to make the last 20% right.

awayand | 12 years ago | on: Mac or Thinkpad?

I got the x220 less than a year ago because of all the recommendations out there and I regret it. Should have gotten a Macbook. The trackpad is horrible, the usb connections get cut off after putting the laptop to sleep, which means any mounted external drives are disconnected hard after resuming. Oh and the microphone doesn't work.

awayand | 12 years ago | on: One VM to Rule Them All [pdf]

so are you saying that running Oracle in a VM will kill its performance? By what factor would you expect?

awayand | 12 years ago | on: Git commit allegedly from Satoshi embedded inside a Bitcoin transaction

I dont get it

awayand | 12 years ago | on: Your iPhone works for the secret police

GREAT idea! I ordered 5 of these with my credit card...

awayand | 13 years ago | on: Tarsnap – Online backups for the truly paranoid

try crashplan with boxcryptor

awayand | 13 years ago | on: Instacart: We're Sorry

"we charged your credit card without your permission so we will keep the money and continue charging you unless you tell us to stop" - lol WUT?

awayand | 13 years ago | on: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

can I filter out all articles with aaron schwartz in them please?

awayand | 13 years ago | on: Looking for an ebook about money

thanks for that, really appreciate your help! No, unfortunately it wasn't. I think it was a book that went out of print, so the publisher put it up on the web for free, but I could be wrong. Either way, it was definitely a book with more than a hundred pages... Nice find!

awayand | 13 years ago | on: A Pickpocket's Tale

a whole article on one page to scroll down instead of clicking next next next next next next next? WOW

awayand | 13 years ago | on: Germany orders changes to Facebook real name policy

|If you don't like services that require your full name, don't use them.

Similarly, if you don't like to provide pseudonyms, don't do business in Germany. Power always does what it wants, this time it is the German government with the upper hand.

awayand | 13 years ago | on: How to Detect a Toxic Customer (2010)

"can we hit the reset button on this please?" I like this expression

awayand | 13 years ago | on: Submittable (YC S12) raises $750K to replace email

whatever

awayand | 13 years ago | on: Reddit user captures video of 2012 voting machines altering votes

voting cannot be computerized ever without risk of manipulation. voting will always have to be on paper in the interest of democracy.

awayand | 13 years ago | on: Product fitness

you don't. they clean themselves. little hairs bring out the stuff far enough for you to be able to wash without the need for tools. and you might want to to clean your ears out every few years by a pro.