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841.
by 4ad 8y ago
Desktop applications are incredibly risky, yes; as for iOS mobile apps we can't even know, as these devices don't allow auditing what software is running on them. PGP has many problems and I hope a better replacement will come alo
842.
by 4ad 8y ago
Thunderbird does not download remote content by default. I don't know anybody who is using Apple Mail with GPG, but if there are such people, they have been doing it very wrong regardless of this vulnerability. It's an unsafe comb
843.
by 4ad 8y ago
Can you provide some examples?
844.
by 4ad 8y ago
The PGP vulnerability is actually in e-mail clients, and it affects almost nobody. And how often do PGP vulnerabilities happen? Signal got two vulnerabilities that affect everyone JUST THIS WEEK .
845.
by 4ad 8y ago
> he is also "burying the lead" The expression is burying the lede, not lead.
846.
by 4ad 8y ago
Maps that always rotate with you are the bane of my existence. I don't understand why would anyone want such a catastrophe. Luckily, you can lock north on top in most apps.
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by 4ad 8y ago
I do have Chrome installed on iOS, although I don't generally want to use it. But now that I have it installed, Hangouts on iOS opens links ONLY in Chrome. It's infuriating. Oh course the "desktop" (not really) Hangout
848.
by 4ad 8y ago
Going on a tangent here... I don't know the failure rate of building file alarms, but the damn ceiling alarms seem to have a failure rate of 99.99%. We don't use those in Europe, and every time I travel to the US I get frustra
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by 4ad 8y ago
Somewhat related: can anyone recommend an ad blocker for Safari (on macOS) that uses the Safari Content Block API (instead of JavaScript injection? Right now I am using AdGuard, but I am looking for alternatives.
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by 4ad 9y ago
> Using an inconsistent and unlikely email address [...] By "unlikely" I mean one that no reasonable person would want to have, usually containing a big batch of numbers in it. This is awful. I create random e-mail addresses fo
851.
by 4ad 9y ago
These systems are the most frustrating to me, because it is the unusual transactions that are more important than the usual ones. If I have eggs delivered every week, and one of those transaction fails, who cares? If I buy a plane ticket fo
852.
by 4ad 9y ago
Way more than you think. And now that I told you that, 10-50x more than you revised estimation.
853.
by 4ad 9y ago
Imagine how many external contributors could have been sponsored to work on Go for the money Google blew on this project.
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by 4ad 9y ago
> the migration from Talk to Hangouts was pretty smooth So smooth that I lost access to hundreds of contacts that used a different, non-Google XMPP server.
855.
by 4ad 9y ago
I don't know how this is happening exactly, but I want to add that it has also been happening to myself and to my friends for quite some time.
856.
by 4ad 9y ago
Yes, buffered channels should almost never be used for performance reasons. Buffered channels should be used for their semantics, but in general unbuffered channels are preferred to buffered channels if possible because buffered channels ca
857.
by 4ad 9y ago
Not true. Buffered channels are able to express semantics impossible to express with unbuffered channels. E.g. a counting semaphore. The most common buffered channel buffer size is one, and the code would not be correct with either zero, or
858.
by 4ad 9y ago
On Safari the only option to proceed requires installing the DoD certificate.
859.
by 4ad 9y ago
I have the opposite problem. Here in Austria drivers give me, a passenger, bad ratings for absolutely no reason whatsoever. I had a perfect 5 star rating for many years, then I visited a 3rd world country where I had some problem with the U
860.
by 4ad 9y ago
I don't advocate against Tor though, but against the Tor Browser.
861.
by 4ad 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15735789 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13798275
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by 4ad 9y ago
There's bad stuff like Telegram and the Tor browser bundle in the alternatives section. I feel that's somewhat misleading and possibly dangerous to someone not tech savvy enough to do his own vetting. I like these kinds of list, t
863.
by 4ad 9y ago
> @Korni22 What if this doesn't happen because our security is amazingly good? ^Käthe Famous last words? No, your security is not "amazingly good" if you store passwords in plain text! This is pure comedy[1]: > Three of
864.
by 4ad 9y ago
Plus pipelining.
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by 4ad 9y ago
No, it doesn't take 20 seconds, even a 2 (two!) second wipe job does a better job at drying than 30s of air. Apart from that, air driers are incredibly unsanitary, spreading stuff everywhere. https://www.webmd.com/a-to-
866.
by 4ad 9y ago
What's the limitation? Why can't we make actually flushable wipes?
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by 4ad 9y ago
Just like those stupid hand air driers at public facilities. God, how I hate those. Americans have it easy, in general paper towels are available even when the damn air thing is installed. But here in Europe, most often you only get the stu
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by 4ad 9y ago
Yep. However I think that you responded to the wrong comment.
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by 4ad 9y ago
> I started remapping the Caps Lock key to the Escape command I could't care less about this, but... > even love, at a visceral level, the balanced symmetry of ESC and ENTER being opposite each other. now that you mentioned it,
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by 4ad 9y ago
Only when tracing the operating system, not your program. But yes, that is still a shame. You don't need to turn off SIP globally, you can just enable DTrace while keeping the rest of SIP on.

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