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SEEKING WORK- Remote/Bangkok, Thailand. Remote OK

Intermediate Javascript/Node.Js developer

CS grad(2013) and Android turned Js developer. More than 5 years' programming experience, 3+ years with Node/Js

Forte: express.js, pg-promise, pouchdb, pug.js, postgresql, twitter bootstrap, html, css, git

Familiarity: Vue.js, Electron/node-webkit, Python3

Toolbox: Visual Studio Code, Insomnia, DBGlass, Bash

Previous Work:

* node-webkit based app for collecting survey data with selective sync capabilities

* decentralized application for managing the knowledge base of a financial institution

* electron based proof of concept for a startup(still not launched) [based on blockchain technology]

Looking for both long/short term projects and can start immediately. Would love to work on an electron/vue.js based/full stack project.

Github: navdeepio

Contact me: hi [at] navdeep 'dot' io


Kudos. Can I have a named blog or similar?


You could do something like I did. Here is the MyPost blog: https://mypost.io/post/blog

It is a series of posts and I connect them all together via URL so it looks like one blog, but really, its just a bunch of separate posts.

You could do something similar.

You can style them to however you want it all to look so they can look like completely separate posts or all take on a unique look, as if they are part of a single blog.

The thing that makes MyPost unique, and there are certainly other creation platforms out there that allow it too, is the fact that you can have your own unique URL.

So you could do something like:

b01t-blog-post1 b01t-blog-post2 b01t-blog-post3

And so on.

URLs on MyPost are a first-come first-serve basis, and once you claim a URL, unless you choose to delete it, its unavailable to anyone else but you.

It also is not really public until you choose to share it on your social media or set in the Advanced Options that you want to display it on the MyPost display (at which point-Googlebot would do its thing). (https://mypost.io/display)

Go crazy with it if you decide MyPost is for you. It is free to use. I don't have any plans to charge for it in the future. Posts are private until you decide you want to share them with your following.

It was my first project where I was experimenting with PHP, database, and user input. I still update it from time to time, but it mostly functions properly as it should.


yup


privacytools.io - plain and simple


> Get an iPhone and use it in preference to your computer.

Color me surprised, but wasn't Apple involved with PRISM. Gives me reason enough to believe they maybe in on similar programs given there have been no drastic changes to their policy and whatnot


The problem is that PRISM has conflated two separate things, and it is unclear how much of that conflation occurred at the NSA and how much outside.

Apple was (and is) compliant in the "release customer details with a court order" thing, which it seems is part of the PRISM data.

However, there was a second part, where the NSA got bulk access to communications without a court order. It is unclear which companies were complicit in this part. We know Google wasn't (because the NSA slide decks show how they had to intercept Google's inter and intra-data center links which were unencrypted at the time - and Google undertook a crash program to fix that).

Apple's statements are pretty clear: they say they only release information with a court order. That means they weren't complicit in bulk collection - but they may have been hacked at the time like Google was.


PRISM = FISA - it's just the NSA code name for data collection under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. All tech companies were involved, because to do otherwise would've been illegal.

The press cycle around the Snowden declarations made it seem like the big tech companies were in bed with the government, but honestly they hated it as much as you did, and in many cases the programs had different names within the NSA from when they interfaced with the companies involved, or were done entirely without knowledge of those companies.


Aside from Apple appearing on a PRISM slide deck, I don't think there is any evidence to support your claim.

I suspect they weren't complicit in being involved in PRISM, but maybe that's just me hoping.


> Aside from Apple appearing on a PRISM slide deck

That's far from a random mistake..


No doubt they may have been pwned, either by infiltration or other means. There's no evidence of them (ala Yahoo) complying with the NSA


I remember one of the slides implied that Microsoft did comply without much resistance.

I'll see if I can dig it up.


thanks for the awesome link!


Very funny indeed, thanks!


I have a Skull Canyon NUC(desktop) that I carry to work. Also a Thinkpad E460 if I'm travelling.


I'm on Dvorak currently, but on Vim, the keybindings make up for an awkward experience. How does one deal with that?


I wrote my own Dvorak optimized editor, aoeui. :-)


that's awesome, great work!!


Hmm, I learned Vim on Dvorak and never had a chance to really appreciate this weirdness. What's better about Vim on QWERTY?


HJKL on the home row under the right hand.


Google and Apple are part of PRISM, and Blackberry too now.. what options do we have left? Cyanogenmod?


Chinese smartphones. They may or may not have backdoors in them, but then China state surveillance doesn't care about you, unless you work on a missile research or something similar.


nope they're breached by microsoft : https://www.engadget.com/2015/04/16/microsoft-apps-cyanogen-...

If we're open about it nothing is really secure anymore. Nothing can really provide us with security atm, i would even hesitate to trust a company like blackphone.

I side towards abstiance, use an older dumb/feature-phone thats less likely to have backdoors (downside is its less likely to have the latest security updates). Dont send revealing photos, dont carry a gps tracker with you. Remove your presence for the web, stop providing companies with all your data (facebook etc) and actually meet people face to face for your conversations.

The only argument i can think of against the above is that people want to listen to their music and audiobooks on the go. Simple solution, get a feature phone which can support that or accept that your life is now open to everyone who wants to know everything about you.


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