what if instead of breaking encryption and violating privacy rights, we had governments enforce the death penalty for people that rape children? Why are we trying to violate the rest of society through our refusal to take out the trash?
Readit Newsdeftturtle commented on Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption 9to5mac.com/2023/07/20/ap... · Posted by u/samwillis
can confirm.
I'm really interested in the people who are saying 'no.'
I don’t trust the US government and would prefer to wait and see if there are side effects. Are there risks to taking a vaccine that was rapidly produced? We won’t know until we know, and so I will wait at the minimum.
So no, I won’t take it until I see how it plays out in society. And if I am persuaded by the evidence, I might take it. I’ve taken only 1 flu shot. As someone in mid-20s, I have low risk and honestly would prefer getting the flu to injecting myself with a vaccine. So I’ve elected to stop getting flu shots and take the risk. For now, I think 18 hours of suffering isn’t that bad. When I’m over the age of 40, or over 60, or at whatever age I decide, then maybe I’ll reconsider if I prefer to get sick or take a vaccine that may or may not work, given the multitude of strains of the flu.
For now, I wash my hands, wash my food, keep shoes outside, and stay home if I’m sick. Responsible self-quarantining and healthy diet are my strategies to avoid contracting or spreading sickness.
deftturtle commented on Show HN: Open – Free React landing page template github.com/cruip/open-rea... · Posted by u/DavideP86
I mean this 100% in good faith:
You couldn't pay me enough money to post a "Controversial Opinions" section to a site that also links to my current resume on the same page.
It's best to keep this stuff separate from your professional life.
I've moved it elsewhere, thanks! I didn't mean to upload that page yet, got careless and hadn't refined it.
I emailed her in response to the Snowden revelations back in 2013. I noticed some similarities in her format. Here's what she emailed back:
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Dear Cale:
I received your communication indicating your concerns about the two National Security Agency programs that have been in the news recently. I appreciate that you took the time to write on this important issue and welcome the opportunity to respond.
First, I understand your concerns and want to point out that by law, the government cannot listen to an American's telephone calls or read their emails without a court warrant issued upon a showing of probable cause. The programs that were recently disclosed have to do with information about phone calls – the kind of information that you might find on a telephone bill – in one case, and the internet communications (such as email) of non-Americans outside the United States in the other case. Both programs are subject to checks and balances, and oversight by the Executive Branch, the Congress, and the Judiciary.
As Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I can tell you that I believe the oversight we have conducted is strong and effective and I am doing my level best to get more information declassified. Please know that it is equally frustrating to me, as it is to you, that I cannot provide more detail on the value these programs provide and the strict limitations placed on how this information is used. I take serious my responsibility to make sure intelligence programs are effective, but I work equally hard to ensure that intelligence activities strictly comply with the Constitution and our laws and protect Americans' privacy rights.
These surveillance programs have proven to be very effective in identifying terrorists, their activities, and those associated with terrorist plots, and in allowing the Intelligence Community and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to prevent numerous terrorist attacks. More information on this should be forthcoming.
· On June 18, 2003, the Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) testified to the House Intelligence Committee that there have been "over 50 potential terrorist events" that these programs helped prevent.
· While the specific uses of these surveillance programs remain largely classified, I have reviewed the classified testimony and reports from the Executive Branch that describe in detail how this surveillance has stopped attacks.
· Two examples where these surveillance programs were used to prevent terrorist attacks were: (1) the attempted bombing of the New York City subway system in September 2009 by Najibullah Zazi and his co-conspirators; and (2) the attempted attack on a Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in October 2009 by U.S. citizen David Headley and his associates.
· Regarding the planned bombing of the New York City subway system, the NSA has determined that in early September of 2009, while monitoring the activities of Al Qaeda terrorists in Pakistan, NSA noted contact from an individual in the U.S. that the FBI subsequently identified as Colorado-based Najibullah Zazi. The U.S. Intelligence Community, including the FBI and NSA, worked in concert to determine his relationship with Al Qaeda, as well as identify any foreign or domestic terrorist links. The FBI tracked Zazi as he traveled to New York to meet with co-conspirators, where they were planning to conduct a terrorist attack using hydrogen peroxide bombs placed in backpacks. Zazi and his co-conspirators were subsequently arrested. Zazi eventually pleaded guilty to conspiring to bomb the NYC subway system.
· Regarding terrorist David Headley, he was also involved in the planning and reconnaissance of the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India that killed 166 people, including six Americans. According to NSA, in October 2009, Headley, a Chicago businessman and dual U.S. and Pakistani citizen, was arrested by the FBI as he tried to depart from Chicago O'Hare airport on a trip to Europe. Headley was charged with material support to terrorism based on his involvement in the planning and reconnaissance of the hotel attack in Mumbai 2008. At the time of his arrest, Headley and his colleagues were plotting to attack the Danish newspaper that published the unflattering cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, at the behest of Al Qaeda.
Not only has Congress been briefed on these programs, but laws passed and enacted since 9/11 specifically authorize them. The surveillance programs are authorized by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which itself was enacted by Congress in 1978 to establish the legal structure to carry out these programs, but also to prevent government abuses, such as surveillance of Americans without approval from the federal courts. The Act authorizes the government to gather communications and other information for foreign intelligence purposes. It also establishes privacy protections, oversight mechanisms (including court review), and other restrictions to protect privacy rights of Americans.
The laws that have established and reauthorized these programs since 9/11 have passed by mostly overwhelming margins. For example, the phone call business record program was reauthorized most recently on May 26, 2011 by a vote of 72-23 in the Senate and 250-153 in the House. The internet communications program was reauthorized most recently on December 30, 2012 by a vote of 73-22 in the Senate and 301-118 in the House.
You may be interested to know that the Senate Intelligence Committee will be proposing changes to these programs to ensure transparency and to make public additional facts. Attached to this letter is an opinion piece (http://tinyurl.com/NSA-OpEd) I authored in the Washington Post on July 30, 2013 that further highlights our proposed changes. While I very much regret the disclosure of classified information in a way that will damage our ability to identify and stop terrorist activity, I believe it is important to ensure that the public record now available on these programs is accurate and provided with the proper context.
Again, thank you for contacting me with your concerns and comments. I appreciate knowing your views and hope you continue to inform me of issues that matter to you. If you have any additional questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact my office in Washington, D.C. at (202) 224-3841.
Sincerely yours,
Dianne Feinstein United States Senator
deftturtle commented on Show HN: Open – Free React landing page template github.com/cruip/open-rea... · Posted by u/DavideP86
As others have pointed out, you could use a static html page, vanilla js, etc, but ignoring this, I see value for future learning. Sure, there are alternatives, but it looks like the industry wants React skills. I've never used React, and I'm pretty new to web design, so this makes me interested in learning. It's a small project, one which I could modify and study.
This is how I got into making my own website. I came across BMFW [0], and studied the CSS file. I styled my plain html, adapted their CSS, and then kept going, finding inspiration from other sites and projects along the way. Almost 4 years later, my site [1] is a lot better, though still not perfect or finished.
I plan to download this React template, and use it as a learning opportunity. I'm definitely more interested in learning Vue or another hipster ass framework, but at this point I've done zero learning. Gotta start somewhere.
deftturtle commented on NextDNS is my new favourite DNS service angristan.xyz/2020/04/nex... · Posted by u/angristan
I've not used it, but Adguard also has an ad blocking DNS[0].
Used Adguard for about 2.5 years, and literally switched to NextDNS yesterday after reading this article. I've got a blog post about DNS ad-blocking [0], updating stuff now and then. I hope it points out some of the different features and reasons to use one over the other. Let me know what you think!
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Is it?? My kids aren't teenagers yet but if they were I wouldn't be buying them $400 phones.
Same here. I'd got an iPhone 7 with 128GB for only $100 used, on Craigslist. I only buy used phones now, and I never spend more than $200. The market is always saturated with used phones, and they work fine.
I bought two Sony a7ii cameras and a flash for only $1400, because they were used. Full price new, it would've been 3600. They work great, and I can use my money on other things. I see very few reasons to buy new electronics, especially given the security of an iPhone and how easily they are reset.
Oh yeah. User-agent stylesheets and a list of links. The pinnacle of human-centered design. /s The author either doesn't understand design or has a very low-bar for tactically good user-centered experiences, or both.
I can list an endless list of bad things on this website:
- Bad information architecture.
- Poor contextualization, narrative, and direction of a message (just because it's Berkshire Hathaway, doesn't mean that I automatically know what I'm trying to find in their website)
- Poor document structure that renders at the whole width of wide screens and doesn't wrap for small screens.
- Bad typography and typographic scale (can a visually impaired person read the small text that shows dates and footnotes?)
- Bad use of color. Everything is blue, the links are purple. Usually in plain stylesheets blue is reserved for links and purple for clicked links.
- External links don't open in a new tab.
- No branding. Can a user trust that this is an official website?
- No navigational elements (navbar, breadcrumbs, etc) that allow a user to return to the main page (which is supposed to be the "master class of human-centered design). Every click is a dead-end.
- Multiple SEO and accessibility issues:
- Does not have a <meta name="viewport"> tag with width or
initial-scaleNo `<meta name="viewport">` tag found. Document
does not have a meta description
- Text is illegible because there's no viewport meta tag
optimized for mobile screens.
- Tap targets are too small because there's no viewport meta
tag optimized for mobile screens
- The page does not contain a heading, skip link, or
landmark regionModern sites are so bad that anything else is "genius." IMO the site needs parallax scroll and hamburger menus. /s