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Equifax is a private company.

I have tried switching to fastmail and it was incredibly painful. In a nutshell, Microsoft/Hotmail and possibly other providers started to throw my emails to people to spam. I've m…

For me, it sure beats dying!

You wouldn't download a car, you wouldn't block an ad! :)

You are required to get a new prescription because your original prescription expired.

How about simply visiting Australia without your corporate laptop? Or take the laptop but without the means to connect to the corporate network/accounts?

Sure but QLDB isn't a blockchain. Blockchain is just one of many things that can be implemented on top of it. You could implement the same thing with an SQL database and signed his…

That doesn't give you the ability to cryptographically verify integrity of the database. Think git repository with pgp signature on every commit.

I regularly buy Darigold milk (a local PNW brand) at Safeway.

Because the browser (or the user) has no way of knowing if the certificate changed for a good reason. Certificate pinning tries to tackle this at the CA level but it's not perfect …

That's exactly why I like Spotify - it doesn't shove the social nonsense down my throat like everybody else. Don't take it the bad way but I don't care what you, or anybody else wi…

What should be used for I/O throughput tests instead?

That's why AWS also started offering Key Management Service: https://aws.amazon.com/kms/ You don't get your own HSM but it's MUCH cheaper ($1/key/month) and more scalable and avail…

This. I tried buying a pair of flight tickets from a German airline Condor with a US credit card. What a hassle, in the end I had to call the bank, get redirected and verified 4 ti…

I'm also happy to see EFF now accepts Bitcoin.

It doesn't, this is a separate coding platform. If your coding platform is Rails, you don't integrate Django into it.

I think it's simply self-preservation. If they don't get reelected, they lose their job. Few people want that. Would you lose your job over your views on issues like gun control? M…

Well, at the very least, it's a smaller piece of code :). (Don't get me wrong, I'm very strongly opposed to DRM and HTML5 DRM in particular.)

I haven't been able to find any good repo (recent, maintained, reputable maintainer) unfortunately. I usually end up compiling them myself. I was actually surprised how easy it is,…

Well, at least she is pretending - US politicians aren't even prentending to be outraged :-D

His argument is that we can't be sure whether we're talking to the real SSH running or some rogue SSH run by an unprivileged user. That's why SSH servers have their server host key…

The point here isn't that ANY government can't listen on. That's a noble goal but so not achievable in a short period of time for everyone. The goal here is that German citizen isn…

Ah, I didn't notice that one :)

Once I read the first line I immediatelly remembered that sign on Valley Mills and thought: "could this be a fellow sufferer from Waco?" :-D This reminds me how much I look forward…

"... two out of three of people like to listen to music while they work, study or read but it’s difficult to find and manage music that consistently works well for this purpose." P…