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Thanks for taking 1 tiny part of my point and trying to destroy it. I chose the passphrase "The Brown cow jumps over the m00n!" as an example not "The brown cow jumps over the moon…

If you can't remember 1 password over 20 characters that you will use a lot with a password manager you probably need to change what kind of passwords you make. Instead of "E=E Set…

I'm guessing this is either because of chrome's sandboxed tabs or the amount of RAM you have on your computer (or a combination of both). Firefox is lighter on the RAM usage these …

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079

You really should be specific about technologies and everyone will have their favourites but heroku is a good starting point and has a free tier.

Since no one explained it, it is whois spam. You can find more info through searching, they are not hacked they are just popular sites so they attract the spam. And if you don't wa…

> Bit by a dog? Eh, make it let go, and then walk away, no need to check for a rabies vaccination tag. After all, what are the odds? LOL I don't know where you live but it is prett…

The github way is pretty good because most businesses use some sort of virtualization (usually vmware) once they become a certain size. But really it depends on who you are selling…

This is something of a major problem to solve with one of two major outcomes that aren't mutually exclusive: 1. The blocking comes up with many false positives blocking many things…

I use tarsnap and like it but it really isn't a dropbox alternative. If you want client side encryption with close to dropbox functionality use spideroak, if you want snapshot/dedu…

My understanding is that people went to fastmail to get away from google's tracking not the NSA.