Comment Hey, Google! Know what else improves security? (Score 5, Informative) 58
Adblocking! It totally stops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... in its tracks!
How about you commit to that in Chrome? Huh?
Comment Wrote my own RSS Reader and Feed Software (Score 1) 438
In short, yes.
In long, I follow practically no website that doesn't have a feed. If I'm really desperate to follow a site without a feed, I have written a small set of scripts to quickly generate feeds for the website that I then add to my RSS reader. Which I also wrote myself because tt-rss wasn't around back then and I wanted a server-side solution that didn't depend on a client running all the time.
So, yes, for me, RSS is alive and kicking. Oh, and I also wrote a RSS-to-Mastodon service. Yay for RSS!
Comment Need to get around IT (Score 2) 267
I work as an IT consultant / implementer.
I tend to work in Big Corporations doing infrastructural software projects. This includes introducing new procedures of how IT staff is going to administer their servers in the future (e.g.: how to use SSH in the future) both by technical as well as organisational means.
This also means that the IT staff and I are not often on good terms which in turn again means I don't get cut any slack wrt. accessing the internet or getting software installed on my assigned corporate workstation. I can't download any files bigger than a certain threshold, can't download files ending in
USB is disabled on the workstations and they don't have an optical drive or a floppy drive.
Yes, IT is on lockdown.
When I have to use un-approved software (for example: wireshark for network debugging, vim for efficient file-editing) I usually upload the data I need to a private or corporate cloud instance, download it back onto my laptop via mobile phone network, do my work and transfer it back the same way.
Comment My own, self-rolled RSS reader (Score 1) 287
Honestly? Yes, it's a shameless plug, but my favorite RSS reader is the one I wrote myself, unspectacularly named 'blindRSS' (google it, I'm not yet THAT shameless). Okay, I am: https://github.com/blind-coder/blindRSS/tree/dev
Main advantage IMO: Runs on your own server.
Comment Re:Dangerous slide (Score 1) 673
Who they are? They are people like me, coming from Europe to the US and being afraid of being killed or deported to guantanamo on the US border.
I honestly never WANTED to go to the US ever since the 9/11 hysteria broke out. I don't even like flying inside my own country anymore, because every time at the so-called 'security' check I age by a few months.
No, I'll rather ride my motorbike across the country next saturday when going from the far north to the far south of my home country. It'll be a much more relaxed travel.
Feed Open Source... Sewing? (techdirt.com)
Apparently this is the month for the fashion industry to teach some lessons to other industries that you don't need to focus on protecting your intellectual property when, instead, you can use it to promote products to sell. First there was the research showing how a lack of intellectual property protection on fashion designs helped grow the industry by making it faster to change and faster to innovate. Now, Portia writes in with an example of a company that sells high-end sewing patterns that has decided to adopt an "open source" attitude. Basically, the company has recognized that obscurity or disinterest is a much bigger risk its business than "piracy." So, with that in mind, it's removed the copyright on its designs, asked people to feel free to improve on them -- and even encourages people to make money selling the improved designs. The only thing the company asks for is attribution of where the design originated from. What gave Hubert Burda, the chairman of the company, the idea? "He said we should not make the same mistakes as record companies did with copy restrictions."
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