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"Why would I want an Alexa app installed to potentially repurpose my phone?" You wouldn't. However if you were ambivalent and did not care one way or the other, or unaware of the c…

1. They have betrayed user trust in the past and continue to do so. 2. They have been sued by the FTC, paid millions in settlements, and failed to prove that they did not break the…

Do the parents understand that spying on people is how the industry makes money? Surely, "the industry" would not spy on people without a "business" reason. There seeems to be a be…

Not sure. However theres various endpoints offering "dns looking glass" service that allow pipelined HTTP/1.1 queries.1 With this "DNS over HTTPS", given a page of HTML containing …

"... a MITM can simply reset the connection until the client retries with SNI." That doesnt happen when I fetch https://example.com without sending a servername in ClientHello. For…

"They don't reply "hostname not found", or "nope, no such host", or anything similar..." "hostname not found" was meant to be a general term for failure due to not sending the corr…

"There is no way to detect the ability to avoid SNI..." Assuming one is using an SNI-enabled browser. I dont use an SNI-enabled browser to make the first encrypted HTTP request. In…

Not all TLS-enabled websites require SNI. I customised an https client so I dont use SNI unless a website requires it. With all due respect, 100% adoption of SNI seems like some so…

Stupid question: With -1, how would I suppress the return value? Use a function? k)a:{-1@?0:`:input;};a[]

Anecdote: I frequently use kdb+ for small tasks. For me, its in the "all-purpose" category. The limitations are only in the ability I have to use it. For example, removing nonconse…

I have always wanted to make a set of reusable, "erasable" index cards, perhaps constructed out of "whiteboard" material.

"... the skill most in demand among physicists, biologists , chemists, geologists, even anthropologists and research psychologists, is facility with programming languages and "data…

"patch will attempt to determine the type of the diff listing, unless over-ruled by a -c, -e, -n, or -u option.Context diffs (old-style, new- style, and unified) and normal diffs a…

/I wonder/s/HTTPS/TLS/

"A strategy devised by Myhrvold the salesman was just as significant. He laid it out in a memo to Gates in 1992: "Regular upgrades are important for both revenue and loyalty...A fe…

"It's their privacy being deprived." I wonder if anyone will be surprised when they learn how HTTPS and HTTP/2 will be used to push more advertising to users and exfiltrate more us…

The ECMAScript standard actually has a section on "Context- Free Grammars". In that section and subsequent sections there is discussion of tokens, terminals, nonterminals and produ…

"One binary to rule them all." But if one is using a shell to launch that binary, then IMO there are two userland binaries: the shell and the binary being launched. In that case, t…

Thanks for the answer. That page acknowledges the issue, which is all I was curious about: "Getting back to the online search, being conscious of not wanting to send the wrong mess…

Remove Javascript and links to Javascript files that load ads, etc. Preserve only the desired content: text describing the boards, links to manufacturers websites, links to images.…

Maybe try something like this, if adblocker is failing 1. curl -o 1.htm http://www.electronicdesign.com/embedded-revolution/ryzen-boards-reign-embedded-world-2018 2. sed -i '/ /,/ …

What about the logs from queries submitted via the HIBP website form? "Another idea I'm toying with is to use the Cloudflare Workers John mentioned earlier to plug directly into Bl…