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These companies work against your freedom
Most companies have never done anything sufficiently evil to deserve going on this list. This list is reserved for companies which have done at least one thing that was so bad they should not be forgiven for it. I will try my very best never to do anything benefiting them economically, and I hope you will too.
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How broken is Samsung UK support?
This is how broken:
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The HTTPS-only experience
EFF recently announced that "We're Halfway to Encrypting the Entire Web." As a celebration of this achievement I've started an experiment: as of yesterday, no unencrypted HTTP traffic reaches this machine*.
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When MFA is not enough
I hope you'll excuse the format of this post. Coffee does strange things to my brain.
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Full disk encryption with Arch Linux footnotes
Pavel Kogan has an excellent guide to install Arch Linux with full disk encryption. I've taken the liberty of copying the instructions, adding a couple tweaks:
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Shell scripting dos and don’ts
Shell scripting is like a room full of power tools: handy but dangerous.
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Save your bookmarks on Pinboard!
Why? Check this out:
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Why I still contribute to Stack Overflow
This is in response to Michael T. Richter's excellent critique of Stack Overflow (Update: sorry, the link is dead). While I share some of the concerns for the problems mentioned there, I don't believe they are quite as detrimental to the quality of the site as he appears to.
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How good is your unsubscribe?
How far down the list do you get? These are all real issues with real newsletters or mailing lists I have at some time had the misfortune to subscribe to. Some of them are still filling up my spam box after multiple attempts at getting rid of them.
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UK technology fail
Since moving to the UK after living in Norway, France and Switzerland, it seems that this country, more than any other I know of in the Western world, is stuck in the 20th century. Here are some examples encountered in the last few months: