Yep, Feedly here as well. I'll try to click through to some of my more favorite sites to make sure they see the traffic, but for me it still feels like the most efficient way of reading through the sites I want to look at without being at the mercy of an overall algorithm.
This is the first I'd ever heard of him as well. I'm glad he was well recognized by his peers, maybe that's better than celebrity for some people. I appreciate the unsung heroes that laid down a solid foundation for the rest of us.
Wow, I totally got caught up reading that story back in the day, and every now and then I think about it and wonder if anything ever became of it. It's funny, in my memory it was titled "My Boot: She Hates My Futon", but I guess that was the name of the site it was on. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, and a working link to it!
His articles were well written and you could feel his personality in the stories he wrote. It didn't feel like he was just turning in an article on X by deadline Y, his writing had a lot of heart and soul (and humor). From the story, it seems like he was well liked and respected by his colleagues as well. I'll miss him.
Folks, this is like the one problem we can actually use regex to solve, and we're not jumping on it? I honestly expected better.
I haven't posted in years, but wow. Thanks for all the fish, rob.
He'll be missed, I'm glad he was a part of
I installed an ad-blocker because a couple sites that I visit were serving up auto-playing videos with sound, and it was driving me crazy, so I broke down and installed an extension. That totally took care of my problem. However, it had the undesired side-effect of removing ads for sites that I would like to support. It's likely that I could find the extension I installed, go through the options, and add some sites to the whitelist. However, I'm far too lazy to actually do that.
If I went to a website I wanted to support and they displayed a message saying "We've notice you're using an ad-blocker. If you'd like to support us, click here to add us to your whitelist", I'd do that in a heartbeat.
From TFA: "When the Wi-Fi is on, the gun’s network has a default password that allows anyone within Wi-Fi range to connect to it. From there, a hacker can treat the gun as a server and access APIs to alter key variables in its targeting application. (The hacker pair were only able to find those changeable variables by dissecting one of their two rifles and using an eMMC reader to copy data from the computer’s flash storage with wires they clipped onto its circuit board pins.)"
So, it's a remote exploit in that you can do it if you're within Wi-Fi range (and the gun has it's Wi-Fi turned on), and they had to do some work to find what settings they could change via the API. Seems like a cromulent hack to me.
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga (similar form factor) and after some tweaking I'm pretty happy with Ubuntu 14.10 on it, but you're going to have to get comfy with the command line. Some immediately useful tips: Chromium has much better touch support than chrome or firefox. If you're a chrome user, chromium is the open source core of it. The OnBoard screen keyboard is a lifesaver. There are a ton of scripts you can find to help with screen rotation, which you can then map to any custom keys you have. Good luck!
1000 times this. I have a general problem with centralized, for-profit services based in countries with known surveillance offering "anonymous" services to begin with, but for the love of all things sane in this world, if you're gonna try that, at least be hyper-aware of every shred of data you incidentally collect or cause to go across the wire.
I actually find that Ghostery is quite nice.
As a geek, working in a technical job, with a liberal arts degree, I (and my various employers over the years), have found great value in the breadth of my experience, flexibility, and less specific-tool-oriented approach. I'm sure a CS degree will get you an immediate job hacking on code, but adding a second degree, or having a vibrant life outside the digital world adds value to not only your life, but your long-term career prospects.
Also, don't sweat your undergrad degree specifics. It's an amazing chance to learn a ton of disparate, crazy stuff that will enrich your life. Read Ulysses! Learn philosophy! Study physics! I think the only undergrad courses I've never really drawn on were the most quotidian "requirements" courses, and I've never felt "held back" due to a lack of "focus" in my undergrad. Grab a MA/MS or even a Ph.D. (or, you know, life experience) if you want to focus.
Then you have yet to unlock the full hilarity potential of the internet...
IBM Advanced Systems Group -- a bunch of mindless jerks, who'll be first against the wall when the revolution comes... -- with regrets to D. Adams
