Karellen

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by Karellen 4y ago
> The “end” in end-to-end encryption for regular users is never a server. Why not? Are servers not communication endpoints?
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by Karellen 4y ago
The thing I don't get is... won't bans on end-to-end encryption ban https? If I go to a website and ask for a web page over https, isn't the request and response between my device and the web server, an end-to-end encrypted m
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by Karellen 4y ago
As another example, with ADFS (Advanced Disk Filing System) on the Acorn/BBC computer family, the root directory was specified with `$`, and the directory separator was `.`. $dir1.dir2.dir3.filename
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by Karellen 4y ago
> Windows allows files to be named `..`?! Maybe not? Under unix, if you create a symlink to a directory, e.g. `~/syslogs` is a symlink to `/var/log`, then `..` can be used to traverse the "true" parent directory.
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by Karellen 4y ago
Is it really "breaking" the API when moving from v5 to v6 (or v2 to v3, or v3 to v4), when the old and new versions are co-installable, especially if they're all still at least receiving security support? GTK2 will continue t
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by Karellen 4y ago
If you're just looking for any correlations, then p-values aren't really applicable due to the sharpshooter fallacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_sharpshooter_fallacy You need a specific hypothesis to
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by Karellen 4y ago
Yeah, that seems completely absurd. If the experiments are rigorous enough, and the p value is low enough, you should be able to trust the results, no matter how small the effect is. If, for example, research shows that social media use inc
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by Karellen 4y ago
> You have to re-architect things so that the UI is optimistic, commits to a local database and that local database is synced up to the server when you come online. Isn't that exactly what the article argues for though? > This ki
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by Karellen 4y ago
> if you refused to open a safe for the cops, their fallback would be to drill it, not incarcerate you for failure to disclose the combination. Or, more likely, they would do both. They would drill it, and prosecute you for failing to
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by Karellen 4y ago
I'm still having trouble picturing how to actually implement the suggestion. Could you, as an example, rewrite the first paragraph of the fine article, so that the 3 links are either at the start or end of the paragraph (as suggested),
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by Karellen 4y ago
What about a way to sign the new key with the old key? If the host presents a new key, plus a signature from the old key which you already trusted, then your system switches to trusting the new key? I can see that there are problems in that
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by Karellen 4y ago
> It just takes a lot of effort to know what the link in the middle of the text is about. How does specifically linking the first or last word (of ...the sentence? paragraph?) make things any clearer? Wouldn't it be best to just lin
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by Karellen 4y ago
> The null "f" values (call sites) are due to the sampling nature of small allocations. Recording all call sites of all potential leaks introduces too much overhead. Hmmm.... "too much" feels like a trade-off or value
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by Karellen 4y ago
After some further consideration, the thought occurred to me that "devops means writing your scripts in any language other than perl"
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by Karellen 4y ago
As far as I can tell, being in DevOps is like being a SysAdmin, except you write code to automate as much of your job as possible. ...so, exactly like being a SysAdmin.
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by Karellen 4y ago
79.3±0.92 for me in Epiphany/Gnome Web Which is a lot better than I was expecting compared to Firefox/Chromium.
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by Karellen 4y ago
Shouldn't "DX" refer to the experience of people hacking on the Docker (or whatever) code itself? Like... how easy the build system is to work with if you're adding a new source file to the docker codebase? The people wo
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by Karellen 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity (aka Sapir-Whorf hypothesis)
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by Karellen 4y ago
> On this desktop I have 1.5 million files, "df -i" says I've used 1.1 million inodes You have 400,000 files with 2 hard links? Or 100,000 files with 5 hard links each? How? Why?
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by Karellen 4y ago
> Surnames often don't mean anything. That depends on where you're from. Often in the English-speaking world, they do. To take the another commenter's example, "Smith" comes from a word meaning, roughly, "cr
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by Karellen 4y ago
> What you're suggesting is messing with a spam filter designed to handle illegitimate email No, I'm teaching my spam filter about which emails I consider spam, so it knows to automatically filter them out in future. Which is e
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by Karellen 4y ago
I get plenty of junk mail in the post. The fact that it's legal doesn't stop it being junk mail. Yes, I could take the time to write to a politician to complain about junk mail, or I could just chuck it in the trash and get on wit
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by Karellen 4y ago
...of which 20 seconds is typing in the LUKS passphrase
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by Karellen 4y ago
Whether I have a relationship with a business or not, if they send me emails that I didn't ask for and don't want, they're unsolicited. That's, like, the definition of "unsolicited". In the dictionary and every
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by Karellen 4y ago
> The Simulation actually has a bug. If you resize the window to be smaller you can trap the DVD logo on an edge. Resizing the window in the Animation solution means we recalculate to the correct position. Hmmm....that depends on what yo
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by Karellen 4y ago
Verbing weirds language - but in a good way. https://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/verbing-weirds-langu...
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by Karellen 4y ago
> Apple Passwords on Windows is a good example [...] the experience is entirely unlike what you get on Mac If you were a Windows user, why would you want an app that acts like a Mac app? Surely the benefit of having a dedicated Windows a
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by Karellen 4y ago
Be careful with that: > The shuf, shred, and sort commands sometimes need random data to do their work. For example, ‘sort -R’ must choose a hash function at random, and it needs random data to make this selection. > By default these
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by Karellen 4y ago
If you have a password manager installed on your system (and you should) then it might have a command-line client that can generate new passwords. e.g.: karellen@localhost:~$ keepassxc-cli generate -lU hpJUwcYZnzJyAbrnvTWnTzrlqzqc
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by Karellen 4y ago
> The purpose of this page is to describe those rules -- to explain the system behind English spelling, the rules that tell you how to pronounce a written word correctly over 85% of the time. The way that's written gives the impress

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