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tldr; the article you cite asserts that men encode w/ distances and directions more than women, not that they encode w/ distances and directions more than with landmarks and instru…

Another pro tip for managing distractions: use uBlock Origin to block distracting elements on web pages. Ever since I removed the comments section, the recommended videos, and the …

Not "front end" (I assume you mean stuff like React) but many of these are candidates for coding tests in interviews: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Programming_Tasks Though …

Some privacy advocates want to see a society as you describe, a society in which all tracking itself is totally impossible because no one can/should be trusted ever. While to other…

IMO the fundamental problem we have today isn't that the particular techniques are bad, it's that the system is easily gamed and incentive structures lead to law enforcement simply…

You can open up two web pages side by side, search the same term in both Bing and DuckDuckGo, and see many of the results are the same in similar order (at least they were the last…

Yes, it gets the majority of its results from Bing. But it's not _just_ a proxy, it's an anonymizing proxy, at least if we believe their pinky swear.

Replying to my own comment cuz, well, I wrote this long post at 3 AM and one is apt to write some incoherent stuff at 3 AM. So, forgive me for any parts that don't make much sense …

I've been using visuospatial techniques like the method of loci (i.e. memory palaces, but I don't call them that) to enhance my memory for about 10 years - here are a few reasons w…

I think the problem with personal VPNs is correlating incoming with outgoing traffic is trivial for a global adversary (NSA, ISPs). When you use a service provider where a bunch of…

Very interesting article. One thought I had. At the beginning where you talk about about reasons for VPN virtual locations I was reminded of an article I read like two years ago th…

Here are some HN discussions on commit messages: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18663032 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19704486 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21…

This is pretty cool. I have been considering collating a bunch of notes I've been collecting on Linux security into a free book which would be aimed at security researchers and sys…

Replying to myself because I thought I should add that in no way do I think it would be ethical to use or building such a surveillance system. Especially one that employs Van Eck p…

First, sorry for the late reply. I don't log in often. I didn't consider malware using UPnP. But it seems to me that the probability of malware using it to make a residential IP lo…

Well, you can sniff wifi with any network card and driver that support promiscuous mode for the wireless standard you're interested in. For bluetooth, I have used the Ubertooth One…

Tutorial showing how easy setting up a personal vpn is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSXpfd1JLw

Do an nmap scan on the IP and check for open ports. If there are open ports it's very likely not actually a residence but a business.

They may be "residential IPs" but you can do an nmap scan on the IPs to see if there are any open ports. If there are no open ports then it's likely a residential IP because statef…