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Tanath

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  1. comment
    Comment #48784833

    Hypotheses are made for a reason though. Science is still about finding what's true, and ruling out what's not is part of the process/method for doing so. Sometimes all the alterna…

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    Comment #45964393

    DDoS prevention may be essential, but not CloudFlare.

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    Comment #43329160

    Smaller is less efficient. They don't get to benefit from economy of scale as much as larger.

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    Comment #39158204

    It's foolish to trust Brave. https://www.spacebar.news/p/stop-using-brave-browser

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    Comment #33634079

    I was hoping someone would know why it was blocked as malware, thinking it might be compromised and that people should be warned. VT says it's safe though so it's likely a mistake.…

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    Comment #33619492

    Blocked in uBO by The Block List Project - Malware List.

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    Comment #26706298

    I don't think that would break it because you have a limited amount of time. You base it on 1/e of the number of people you expect to date not the number of potential options.

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    Comment #26448124

    Such bans are rare, and usually get reversed if it was only triggered due to Linux.

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    Comment #26440062

    > several hundred thousands Several thousand, coming from Trump's rally which only had about 20k total.

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    Comment #26354175

    But you know that's the next step and it's going to happen.

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    Comment #25739820

    I can't edit my comment, so here's a citation in reply: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/07/tr...

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    Comment #25736683

    If you want to avoid fingerprinting you should use tor-browser. And using a chromium-based browser over tor makes you more fingerprintable, not less.

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    Comment #25736545

    Neither was omitting Putin's admission that he wanted Trump to win from the Whitehouse transcripts.

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    Comment #25415063

    It's not a big deal. You can just hit K on any you're not sure about to see the help. Might need to set keywordprg=:help.

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    Comment #25307759

    Not nearly as good.

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    Comment #25307659

    Are you just clinging to the last dev version of uMatrix, or did you find an active fork or something?

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    Comment #25170245

    I'm still sore about Reader too. Fortunately Inoreader is about as good. I'm surprised thumbing things down isn't helping you - it was the thing that fixed YTM for me. I wasn't thu…

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    Comment #25131910

    Felinks is an actively maintained fork.

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    Comment #25131898

    Browsh does some js, and felinks is an actively maintained fork of elinks with some js support as well.

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    Comment #24938438

    Snowden's revelation that the NSA was in Google's network had their engineers pissed, and they immediately changed their architecture to make it more secure, encrypting internal co…

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    Comment #24938285

    > What does the VPN log? > In order to provide peace of mind for our users that their activity is private from the VPN operator and from potential attackers, VPN by Google One does…

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    Comment #24906329

    `youtube-dl --list-extractors|wc -l` 1163

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    Comment #24549923

    And I think that's the issue. It was a foreign lock they weren't familiar with so didn't have one to practice on. It was apparently easier to copy the key.

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    Comment #24531576

    > it is very likely that Russia was also behind the DNC hack. Actually it's an established fact. They were being watched live on their computers and security cameras as they were d…

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    Comment #24478376

    Yep. Extreme-right questionable source: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-national-pulse/