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maqr

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    Comment #13671394

    Look, my time is valuable. I decide what media to play based on my preferences. If I don't want to see ads, why would I instruct my browser to play them? If giving out free videos …

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    Comment #13325511

    What country and how? I'm just asking for a friend...

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    Comment #13179026

    Yes, let's all keep believing that. If companies realized that all programmers can actually work decentralized, we might not be able to command a decent salary as it becomes a glob…

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    Comment #12792975

    I agree with the entirety of your post, but I'm unsure what can be done practically. Can you recommend an organization that is pushing for your positions? It may take a long time, …

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    Comment #12436570

    If more startups allowed remote workers, would the salaries of developers fall in the bay area?

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    Comment #12116192

    The post is tagged "sexual assault" by the publisher, so I assume there was some sort of lewd messages. That would make it not ok. It is really hard to tell from the article if the…

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    Comment #11981388

    I've tried fiddler, charles, mitmproxy, burp suite, etc, but the best one I've found is ZAProxy: https://github.com/zaproxy/zaproxy The point and click scripting it does is pretty …

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    Comment #11465481

    Useful little tool: https://github.com/iSECPartners/ios-ssl-kill-switch

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    Comment #11443695

    Can you elaborate on the femtocell vector and mitigation strategies?

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    Comment #11443225

    You can tell your browser to not download images: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/981640 This would disable all images, but that's what you want, because you can never …

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    Comment #11439797

    You may be right, but I only ever hear my fellow working class people espousing that view...

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    Comment #11176014

    > Apple seems to be worthy of that trust. Oh no... it's working...

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    Comment #10867134

    As long as we're ignoring the coming inferno... The TL;DR for this post is really this: https://i.imgur.com/3vN06Zz.png

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    Comment #10856256

    > Throw away for obvs reasons. Not super obvious to me, unless you work at Facebook. Is it really that much of a social taboo to delete your Facebook account? I've been refusing to…

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    Comment #10852546

    > I never understood the "game of skill" argument, though. I'm not sure if this is really on-topic, but I think you'll find this interesting if you're not aware of it: https://en.w…

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    Comment #10561034

    We (the people) should probably be at least one of the governments. I don't know how these decisions are actually made, but I would think there'd be at least one government with on…

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    Comment #10534929

    Eventually, somebody would notice the car there and remove it by tow truck. Most garages need parking passes or have assigned numbers or something. When someone complains is usuall…

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    Comment #10261615

    I don't think you should be downvoted for this. The server chooses what to send me, and I choose if and how to display it. Is it also considered unethical not to install that bundl…

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    Comment #10184167

    I just made the switch from Charles to mitmproxy. The only issue I've found with it so far is that it seems really slow in returning responses. I'm not doing anything crazy with it…

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    Comment #10184157

    Yeah, as long as you have control of the device. That hack only works if you have root, which means you have to be jailbroken, and Apple is always trying to stop that. I keep a jai…

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    Comment #10184059

    For if that happens, or just for general convenience: https://github.com/iSECPartners/ios-ssl-kill-switch

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    Comment #9668129

    What's the best way to make this more prominent for Mozilla to see? I made a bugzilla account and added my name to the CC list, but is there anything else I can do to help this get…

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    Comment #9650636

    > For years we’ve offered encryption services like iMessage and FaceTime because we believe the contents of your text messages and your video chats is none of our business. Sounds …