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iza  ·  2841 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Future doesn't exist
iza  ·  2847 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Google just launched My Activity

The same data was already available but it's nice to have it all in one place.

iza  ·  2853 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Tesla driver killed in crash with Autopilot active, NHTSA investigating

iza  ·  2854 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Discovery of Huge Stash of Helium is a 'Game-Changer' for Industry

Probably not worth the cost, but it is always an option in the event that we do exhaust the natural supply.

iza  ·  2858 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Comodo is trying to trademark "Let's Encrypt" months after the EFF began using it

    Update, June 24 2016

    We have confirmed that Comodo submitted Requests for Express Abandonment for all three trademark registration applications in question. We’re happy to see this positive step towards resolution, and will continue to monitor the requests as they make their way through the system.

    We’d like to thank our community for their support.

iza  ·  2858 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Sleep apnea tried and failed to kill me...

My dad uses a CPAP machine but it seems pretty uncomfortable. The inclination thing makes sense, there is a technique called "Inclined Bed Therapy" where the head end of the bed is raised, so I would think having your feet raised is not a good thing.

iza  ·  2862 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Youtube changes in terms of service to combat harassment and cyberbullying

The only new addition is the last one: "Incitement to harass other users or creators"

The rest has been the same for about a year. Not sure why this is blowing up all of a sudden.

iza  ·  2863 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Have Software Developers Given Up?

Given the quality of most code out there it's amazing anything works at all.

iza  ·  2884 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Devski Update: password hashes in SQL

Aren't the old passwords vulnerable as long as the Sha1 value is still around? Does it get deleted when converted to 512?

Also, any reason you didn't switch to something like bcrypt, scrypt, or PBKDF2? Modern best practices generally recommend one of those, although for a site like Hubski Sha512 is probably good enough with proper salting.

iza  ·  2908 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Verbatim text overflows comments column on user pages

  pre { overflow: auto; }
to add scrollbar, or

  pre { white-space: pre-wrap; }
to force wrapping.
iza  ·  2918 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Siobhan Roberts: The Dice You Never Knew You Needed

    “No one would notice unless they rolled it thousands of times,” Hart said. (He mentioned a study, captured on YouTube, in which an artisanal die-rolling machine, with an empty ice-cream carton for the rolling container, was used to cast a d20 eight thousand times.)

The linked article is very much worth reading.

iza  ·  2923 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why We Sleep Badly on Our First Night in a New Place - The Atlantic

I heard someone talking about this on the radio earlier. She explained an experiment they did with birds where they had them all sleep in a line. The ones in the middle slept with both sides of the brain but the ones on the ends only slept with half (the side facing the other birds), presumably to stay alert for predators.

iza  ·  2926 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Lets Encrypt SSL

The main downsides of Let's Encrypt are:

- Certs expire after only 90 days, so you pretty much have to automate the process

- No wildcard certs

- No "extended validation"

iza  ·  2928 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Lets Encrypt SSL

It's explained here. They are cross-signed with IdenTrust for compatibility with older browsers.

iza  ·  2929 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Lets Encrypt SSL
iza  ·  2938 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Who do you support in 2016 (STRAWPOLL)

I think they are mostly real Trump supporters but it isn't intended to be a place for serious discussion. It's mostly memes and circlejerking.

iza  ·  2938 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Who do you support in 2016 (STRAWPOLL)

Wow, the Sanders dream is dead apparently. All aboard the Trump train.

Oh wait, this poll only got upvotes in /r/The_Donald, that explains it.

iza  ·  2947 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: TNG Edit 38 - "Riker" Episode 1

I love these.

    I'd like to play a Myst-like game in VR most, I think.

Relevant video, makes a pretty good case for adventure games as the perfect fit for VR.

iza  ·  2947 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are your favorite youtube channels?

Primitive Technology - Australian dude making fire, huts, tools, etc, in the wilderness from scratch

The School of Life - Philosophy, history

engineerguy - How stuff works

The 8-Bit Guy - Retro computer stuff

SmarterEveryDay - Science, educational

iza  ·  2948 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski, what are your side projects?

Yeah I'm pretty much just passively maintaining it when things break at this point. I mainly built it for myself anyway. I do have a few ideas for new projects in the pipeline but with a full-time job and chronic depression it's hard to stay motivated about anything,

iza  ·  2948 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski, what are your side projects?

My main project at the moment is a Chrome extension: Humble New Tab Page. I'm super lazy about updating it though and don't have any plans to monetize it. I wish I could but the only real options are ads or sleazy stuff. I don't want to piss off my loyal users and I doubt donations would bring in much income.

iza  ·  2953 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Apple has lost its way

I'm just hoping other manufacturers follow suit and release some decent 4" phones. I'm not a fan of the phablet trend.

iza  ·  2958 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I don't have a cellphone. You probably don't need one, either.

I agree it's not a necessity but it's certainly convenient (maps, gps, looking something up on google). It doesn't have to be one extreme or another. I certainly don't spend 4.7 hours per day on my phone (I don't believe that could possibly be an accurate stat), or spend $1000 on it. Buy a cheap phone and plan, turn off all notifications except calls and you get the best of both worlds.

iza  ·  2960 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Remember the "migration" from reddit?

No reddit changed their API, which RES used to display the counts. Reddit only natively introduced the %upvoted on submissions. RES used to provide individual upvote/downvote counts on comments as well which is no longer possible.

iza  ·  2960 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Remember the "migration" from reddit?

They changed the API. It now only provides total points (upvotes minus downvotes) whereas they used to be separate.

iza  ·  2971 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Bigger than the Higgs, bigger even than gravitational waves...

It worked yesterday, doesn't seem to be anymore.

iza  ·  2972 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Evidence grows for giant planet on fringes of Solar System - Planet Nine
iza  ·  2972 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Bigger than the Higgs, bigger even than gravitational waves...

I can't read the whole article (paywall) but I think this one in Nature is about the same thing.

edit: sci-hub.io works for bypassing paywall.