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I think this approach is better for your mom than for your average developer. I use LastPass and it continues to be difficult even for me to use, less savvy people wouldn't have a hope.

Your email address is your identity online - everything but everything assumes this. I have strong passwords and 2FA on my main account. If it was hacked, an attacker could (for example), reset my pas…

Can the link be changed? The DM is not only terrible journalism, it's a terrible business too.

I would have thought remaining in the EU would result in (eventual) greater regulation, and Brexit would make the situation worse (for non-corporations).

This, and Javascript, and browser bloat.

> So if I have a cross platform messaging app, I can't say, "syncs with android and Windows phone devices". Really? Really[1]. 1: http://www.cultofmac.com/320141/…

Those people are probably off being "comment-thread poison" trolls on right-wing websites.

Great stuff, but please normalise to UTC in future. Everyone (reading this) knows their own offset from UTC and can probably makes sense of the data directly in that format. For anything else I have t…

I haven't used Perl in quite some time, and this is the sort of thing is why it was bad. Quotes are quotes are quotes in almost every language. It's completely unambiguous, the downside is t…

You can side-load apps, but the watch is very tightly dependent on the phone apps - without them it's essentially just a regular watch. If Pebble were to go bust, I'd hope they'd at lea…

Yes, I am aware of that (hence 'trivially') thank you!

Which leads to the interesting question: if this happens in base 10, but not (trivially) in base 2, what other bases does it happen or not happen in?

IP over Avian Carriers: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt

Go today, urban warfare tomorrow.

Given that this is in the UK, I wouldn't be surprised.

This is incredible stuff. Zeus in particular is amazing. It all seems to be done with weighted objects and a clever way of rendering them, but it's indistinguishable from magic from where I'…

Serious question: is it feasible to implement a kind of loose voice 'fingerprint' to prevent this kind of thing? Will/could Alexa know who's talking to it?

In terms of banning mathematics, the UK Government is trying its hardest to outlaw strong encryption, so...

You do need to relax and unwind though, and video games are a great way to do that.

I like beatblender or poptron depending on my mood.

I think there's probably an upper limit for how big any community can become before it becomes fractured. This size is probably variable, and dependent on the medium and structure of the communit…

This was great fun! However, it could be called grep murder, as that's the only tool you really need!

Do you have a citation for this statistic?

I'm assuming there's an extension to merge the URL and search bars to get Chrome-like behaviour?

Agreed, being able to levy fees on probably the largest bank accounts in the world, and not having to pay upkeep on a nuclear arsenal probably helps too.