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New comment by humblebee in "DigitalOcean data breach exposes customer billing information"

humblebee — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 21:45:29 +0000

I did not find anything about the security of scanned documents or how they are destroyed on the iPostal1 website. Have you inquired about how they handle their digital document security?

New comment by humblebee in "Visa moves to allow payment settlements using cryptocurrency"

humblebee — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 20:45:41 +0000

It looks to be for settlements which are done at the end of the day between banks, not on a per transaction basis between merchant and buyers.

There is a thread on /r/CryptoCurrency that lays things out

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/mfqnfn/what...

New comment by humblebee in "Proton 5.13: A Massive Update"

humblebee — Sat, 17 Oct 2020 21:28:12 +0000

If Value does the work to get Game Pass on Linux working I don't think Microsoft would mind too much.

New comment by humblebee in "Be skeptical of Ring's indoor security drone"

humblebee — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 19:01:31 +0000

Yes, I think this could actually be a good product, or at least something similar to it for anyone who suffers from OCD. I think a lot of smart devices can help people.

Maybe there is a better product though.

New comment by humblebee in "Factorio 1.0"

humblebee — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 15:47:01 +0000

Have you reached the construction robot tech? It removes the requirement to place items by hand, and the game largely turns into a "planner" game.

New comment by humblebee in "Tesla Model 3 Driver Has License Suspended After Adjusting Wipers via Touchscree"

humblebee — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 00:59:51 +0000

A lite touch to anything shouldn't activate something in a car. Drivers are effectively blind to anything else in the car while driving and controls should be design in such a way that the use of the drivers eyes are not required.

Keep the drivers eyes on the road.

New comment by humblebee in "Study finds learning music won’t make children smart"

humblebee — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 16:53:58 +0000

I also find that far to often people think another person is not smart because they don't measure up to themselves in the same intelligence categories. I always try to describe this as the categories intelligence being disturbed across sphere where each category is a tangential line. Due to ones own perspective, another may not actually look intelligent because they're orthogonal to ones own, and they are then perceived to be "stupid".

New comment by humblebee in "Zoom announces a $599 touchscreen device for remote workers"

humblebee — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 17:28:07 +0000

My first question was how to share a presentation. Though I guess maybe this is targeted at user who wouldn't do this themselves? I don't know how realistic this is, particularly for a home device. Presenters not in control of the slide deck never seems to work.

On the specs sheet it does have an HDMI in, so I'd assume you can use it like a display, and share the input? It doesn't appear to be highlighted anywhere though.

New comment by humblebee in "How much your computer can do in a second (2015)"

humblebee — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 19:17:10 +0000

This also surprised me. A large part of it I'm sure has to do with the fact that I'd assume (given these numbers) urllib2 auto follows redirection. The request is to `http://` so it must make an additional request. Otherwise I'd expect them to be much higher as there would be no 'body' to the responses.

New comment by humblebee in "Where Am I? NYTimes or Google?"

humblebee — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 18:50:19 +0000

There is an issue opened around supporting HTTP exchanges for IPFS in the browser as well.

https://github.com/ipfs/in-web-browsers/issues/121

New comment by humblebee in "Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?"

humblebee — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 21:51:41 +0000

Ya, I didn't understand this design choice. For a while I've had some custom css which also extends the width of the main content on github as well because I've always found reading some github issues with logs in them challenging.

This is the css I'm running now to fix this, as well as extend the width of the main content. The 1600px is such that when using i3 and having my browser be half the screen it consumes most of the screen space on my 4k monitor.

    :root {
        --width: 1600px;
    }

    .container-xl {
        max-width: var(--width);
    }
    .pagehead {
        padding-left: calc(50% - (var(--width) / 2));
        padding-right: calc(50% - (var(--width) / 2));
    }

New comment by humblebee in "Reddit started banning accounts that voted for content “against their policies”"

humblebee — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 18:01:24 +0000

They are trying to train their user base to moderate content correctly. If it's against the sites policy, users should down-vote the content and report it.

New comment by humblebee in "You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain"

humblebee — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 05:19:19 +0000

YouTube is where I watch almost all of my educational / "reality tv" (vlogging, mostly makers) content. Netflix has some pretty good stuff every once in a while, but it has nothing on YouTube. Educational television of the 90s and early 2000s seems to have reinvented itself on YouTube with channels like The Great War, Tested, all of the PBS channels (Space Time, Physics Girl, Infinite Series, etc), Vsauce, 3Blue1Brown, Veritasium, SciShow, all the cooking shows, metal fabrication, music history, history in general. Far to many amazing to name here, but I think I subscribe to at least 30 rather high quality channels that I'd place under "education". I really don't care much for saving music, but I'm getting pretty close to starting to archive some of my favourite channels / series in case they disappear.

I for the most part don't watch Netflix or Hulu anymore. When a big show comes along I'll watch it, but I really enjoy watching other people talk about things they love.s

New comment by humblebee in "Working Group Last Call: QUIC protocol drafts"

humblebee — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 15:16:31 +0000

Curious, why fallback to /1.1 over /2?

New comment by humblebee in "Twitter account reposting everything Trump tweets, suspended within 3 days"

humblebee — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 15:52:27 +0000

Serious question: Where else can I find all of these government agencies / representative (Congress) statements? Twitter seems to be how the US government communicates with the people.

It seems that Twitter makes it much easier to follow and hear from US representatives.

New comment by humblebee in "Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County order"

humblebee — Tue, 12 May 2020 01:24:36 +0000

I don't understand how your source supports your current claim. No where does it state the total number of factories closed, but does state that almost all listed factories are opening in May.

New comment by humblebee in "WHO Changes 'Social Distancing' to 'Physical Distancing'"

humblebee — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 17:24:20 +0000

My friends and I had the same question. I did a little searching and found an interesting paper[0]. The oldest reference it has is from 2009[1]

[0] https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jo...

[1] Kelso J,Milne G,Kelly H (2009) Simulation suggests that rapid activation of social distancing can arrest epidemic development due to a novel strain of influenza. BMC Public Health 9: 117.

New comment by humblebee in "Companies fret as costs soar for software subscriptions (2019)"

humblebee — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 18:25:18 +0000

IRC for Slack was one that happened at a company I worked at.

New comment by humblebee in "New improvements to IPFS Bitswap for faster container image distribution"

humblebee — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 19:25:40 +0000

This might be related: https://github.com/docker/distribution/pull/2906

New comment by humblebee in "Google Fonts Analytics"

humblebee — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 20:32:28 +0000

What is GSA? A little searching hasn't brought up anything I could see being a browser.

The closest I could find was Google Search Appliance but I wouldn't think that is applicable to these stats.