Hacker News: portref

New comment by portref in "‘There’s no place to go after eight-man’: Small towns seek to preserve football"

portref — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 13:52:32 +0000

Five-a-side is very common, tons of five-side pitches in the UK.

edit: in the context of your comment, yeah there's no mistaking the headline is about american football.

New comment by portref in "‘There’s no place to go after eight-man’: Small towns seek to preserve football"

portref — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 13:49:53 +0000

Five-a-side is very common, tons of five-a-side pitches in the UK with people playing in leagues or more casually.

New comment by portref in "Why People from Manchester Are Mancunians, Not Manchesterians"

portref — Sun, 09 Jul 2017 21:40:27 +0000

That's pretty condescending. Plenty of geordies are familiar with the term novocastrian.

edit to add: Not a term in common usage though, granted.

New comment by portref in "Ask HN: How do you backup your linux system?"

portref — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 20:46:43 +0000

I've long used rsnapshot for automated incremental backups, and manually run a script to do a full rsync backup with excludes for /tmp, /sys and the like to an external drive.

http://rsnapshot.org/

New comment by portref in "Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off"

portref — Sun, 19 Mar 2017 12:42:43 +0000

In any discussion of Windows privacy a load of posts about Ubuntu "spyware" appear, suggesting an equivalence between Win 10's myriad issues and that short-lived much criticised easily disabled feature of Unity on one release of Ubuntu.

It's a bit desperate.

New comment by portref in "Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory"

portref — Sat, 25 Feb 2017 10:44:55 +0000

To answer my own question Zoho isn't affected.

https://twitter.com/zoho/status/835109283922608130

New comment by portref in "Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory"

portref — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 10:07:14 +0000

Anyone know if Zoho mail is vulnerable too?

According to doesitusecloudflare.com Zoho isn't using Cloudflare, was it previously?

New comment by portref in "Microsoft Allowed to Sue U.S. Government Over E-mail Surveillance"

portref — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 11:06:31 +0000

Dog and pony show from enthusiastic PRISM partners.

"We've changed, honest!"

New comment by portref in "VESA HOTAS Mounts for IKEA Markus Chair"

portref — Fri, 20 Jan 2017 15:32:49 +0000

There's lots of HOTAS setups for this chair around on Imgur and the r/hotas subreddit. Here's one I used:

https://imgur.com/a/CsKoY

New comment by portref in "Theresa May: UK must leave European single market"

portref — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 15:29:53 +0000

Can't just blame post-industrial areas, SE England voted to leave too.