fyrefoxboy12 | 5 years ago | on: Remote Employees Shouldn’t Be Paid Less Based on Geography
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fyrefoxboy12 | 6 years ago | on: New York City bans Zoom in schools, citing security concerns
Ah, sorry, didn't see it'd been submitted before
fyrefoxboy12 | 6 years ago | on: Coronavirus has conspiracy theorists and anti-5G campaigners working overtime
touche
fyrefoxboy12 | 6 years ago | on: Coronavirus has conspiracy theorists and anti-5G campaigners working overtime
With conspiracy theorists, it's always: if something big and bad happens, OBVIOUSLY someone is behind it.
they don't accept that real life isn't about good/bad dichotomy, that there sometimes isn't a villain. bad things happen, and sometimes there isn't really anyone to blame.
not an interesting story, so they retcon it
fyrefoxboy12 | 6 years ago | on: Top VPNs recording users, potentially leaking data when visiting their websites
Well, I meant the full title when you click through to the page:
"Top VPNs are recording users and potentially leaking their data when they visit their website"
I had to truncate it here to fit
fyrefoxboy12 | 6 years ago | on: Top VPNs recording users, potentially leaking data when visiting their websites
on the other hand, i'm surprised that PIA and Tunnelbear have so few trackers
fyrefoxboy12 | 6 years ago | on: Top VPNs recording users, potentially leaking data when visiting their websites
that's great. i didn't even notice that. automatic upvote
fyrefoxboy12 | 6 years ago | on: Top VPNs recording users, potentially leaking data when visiting their websites
I see what you mean. A little bit of "reasonable ignorance" but full understanding on the author's side that people don't read full sentences (or long titles).
nonetheless, the research is still valuable. not very surprising that those antivirus companies with vpns have such huge numbers of trackers
fyrefoxboy12 | 6 years ago | on: Top VPNs recording users, potentially leaking data when visiting their websites
I don't know what you can see, but the full title shows that it's about websites
and their info section shows that they only analyzed websites. "In order to analyze these websites..."
i get what you mean, but i think that's a bit more about reading comprehension than what they've been doing.
fyrefoxboy12 | 6 years ago | on: Top VPNs recording users, potentially leaking data when visiting their websites
Thanks for the link. let me quickly check it out
fyrefoxboy12 | 6 years ago | on: Top VPNs recording users, potentially leaking data when visiting their websites
i don't know if that's particularly practical to build up your own VPN if that's your implication?
fyrefoxboy12 | 6 years ago | on: Top VPNs recording users, potentially leaking data when visiting their websites
I'm sure they really care about your "privacy" -- as long as they can track you and up their profits
so, in total: a regular business
fyrefoxboy12 | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends
As far as i know (form my college days in mid-2000s), we had this issue for setting up movie nights. Some people claimed that rented videos had an agreed-upon audience of (i think) 8 people. So to accommodate, let's say 100 people, we had to rent about 12 of the same videos.
Of course, we were in college and laughed and said screw it and just rented the one DVD.
But I never went back to check up on this.
fyrefoxboy12 | 6 years ago | on: 800Gb of possible Census Bureau data (tax records,etc) leaked. Check your data
don't think it's a scam. forbes covered it (https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/03/20/stunning-...) although more neutrally than this title
fyrefoxboy12 | 6 years ago | on: 800Gb of possible Census Bureau data (tax records,etc) leaked. Check your data
i guess he means -- either use an Android (google) phone, or use an Apple iOS phone. but is apple better than google in this sense (data collection)?
fyrefoxboy12 | 6 years ago | on: 800Gb of possible Census Bureau data (tax records,etc) leaked. Check your data
isn't the census about to start this year? this is some "same shit, different toilet" scenario. all these so-called secure government institutions or private companies or wherever this database came from. always promising a lot, and delivering little.
that's what happens when non-cybersec people are in charge of cybersec things
fyrefoxboy12 | 6 years ago | on: Traffic and Pollution Plummet as U.S. Cities Shut Down
unintended good news consequence. earth is gonna have a great few months now. maybe a year. less consumption, less traveling, less pollution. nature rejoices
fyrefoxboy12 | 6 years ago | on: Coronavirus: Elon Musk 'child immunity' tweet will stay online
this guy went from...having almost religious love of the people, to...just a lot of facepalming. I feel like dr. fauci now.
you're smart, mr. musk, but in SOME thing, not all things. his entitled ass needs to learn that sometimes you need to just stay in your lane, man. stay in your lane
fyrefoxboy12 | 6 years ago | on: Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormalize full-time jobs
WFH is a great option, but - having worked in that kind of environment for a few years - I much prefer working in an office. It's definitely true that I'm more productive when I WFH, but honestly, losing that human touch and spur-of-the-moment creativity, which for me requires human interaction (bouncing ideas off each other), is a bigger negative than the positives of getting my work done
fyrefoxboy12 | 6 years ago | on: Popular dating app OkCupid leak puts millions of women at risk
happy women's day i guess? another app, another leak. color me surprised...
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So the same probably goes for remote work.