Even worse, we actually had a regression at work caused by a zero width space sneaking into some code. Most editors won't even display anything for that character, even the code review tool we used didn't!
In the end I configured Emacs to highlight all unicode characters, trailing whitespace and tabs bright red. I also had it render zero width characters as normal spaces, otherwise they were still invisible. https://github.com/kzar/emacs.d/blob/master/init.el#L181-L19...
Adblock Plus is not mentioned in the blog post, has a privacy policy and is open source. If you're worried about how it handles your data you can have a look at the code for yourself.
As mentioned elsewhere in this discussion AdBlock is not Adblock Plus. The second link you posted is for the Adblock Plus source code.
Unfortunately at the moment the AdBlock Git repository is not public, but I have set up this unofficial one that tracks the changes between each zip published on their releases page. https://github.com/kzar/watchadblock
What I don't understand is how you figure out where the closest fibre access point is. I'm trying to get my head around how to carry out a project similar to this / B4RN and the first step seems to be to check if there's a fibre access point reasonably close by.
Find a local line-man and ask! Wherever you see one of those trucks working on overhead or underground lines there is a ton of knowledge about local infrastructure present.
Good spots to scout for: railroad stations, microwave towers, datacenters (unlikely, but still), highways.
Cool, that looks really useful. The number of times I've had to fumble on thetrainline with patchy reception! Do you know any websites that figure out the cheapest combination of tickets to get you to your destination? (Sometimes buying several tickets for legs of your journey is cheaper than buying one ticket for it.)
Never use The Train Line. They charge a booking fee. Just your local train operator, they all use exactly the same system, same database, etc but you won't pay £1 to buy the ticket.
I wrote my own, and my expenditure on trains has fallen from around ukp9000 pa to around ukp5000 pa. It's actively user hostile, occasionally inaccurate, slow, and cranky. A bit like me. But I'm currently on a journey for which I padi ukp18.00 instead of ukp27.40.
It's worth it for me. Email me for details. I will be slow to reply, but I will reply.
Don't they all just work on published walk-up fares? My system also uses advances fares and relevant return and/or single journeys. I've never found an app or web site that uses the full range of options available.
Private Eye often have bon mots about how even the ticket offices don't offer people the cheapest ticket because they can't figure it out.
But when you have to deal with things like (eg, I'm hope I'm remembering this right from someone I know) "EUS-CDF being more expensive than EUS-SOT + SOT-CDF even though both halves are the same train as the EUS-CDF journey", you can see how no-one has a bloody clue.
Don't they all just work on published walk-up fares?
I must confess I've never used the app. I just read about it in the MSE email newsletter.
I grew up in London, and didn't often have reason to take a long distance train. I have a vague childhood memory of discovering that London and England weren't synonymous.
I think drdaeman meant trivial to use / learn. Like Google search, an incredibly complicated system that's trivial to operate. (Also I sometimes read the AngularJS source when I'm stuck reading the documentation, to be fair it's pretty easy to grok, I submitted my first little pull request a couple of hours after getting an idea.)
