Leace

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by Leace 8y ago
Yes, it's funny that you mention CT because BT actually uses CT under the hood :)
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by Leace 8y ago
> I'm no Android or iOs dev, so I might be wrong, but to my knowledge there is no feature to push an app update specifically to a narrow set of devices? Yes, it's possible to target "narrow set of devices" by using De
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by Leace 8y ago
Unfortunately verification of reproducible builds is not baked in the OS (Android/iOS) so it's still possible to target someone with malicious update. When vast majority of people don't verify the build it's possible tha
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by Leace 8y ago
Note that "RESTful" in JMAP's case means "everything over JSON HTTP POST", methods to be invoked are embedded in the JSON request. As for XMPP battery consumption I didn't see major problems, Conversations.im i
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by Leace 8y ago
What happened with the Gmail's Authenticated Senders key icon for e-mails from certain high profile sites that properly validate through DMARC? (described e.g. here [0]) [0]: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2921383
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Security bug in apt can be used inject malicous content in the HTTP connection(debian.org)
2 points by Leace 8y ago|0 comments
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by Leace 8y ago
Conversations.im uses an interesting trick for rendering Markdown [0] - it leaves the syntax as is, so in the worst case you've got text with weird bold/italics, but the characters are 1:1 identical to what was sent. [0]: Actually
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by Leace 8y ago
It seems "white-space: pre-wrap" on code block would solve most of the problem. There is also additional "max-width" on the pre that I think is not needed.
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by Leace 8y ago
I actually think that cat makes it more obvious what's happening in some cases. I had recently built a set of tools used primarily via pipes: (tool-a | tool-b | tool-c) and it looks clearer when I mock (for testing) one command (cat re
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by Leace 8y ago
It's inspiring to see people work full-time on free software. I remember the shock when I found out Conversations.im creator is also working "9-5 days in Open Source." [0] Good luck Drew! [0]: https://twitter.com&#
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by Leace 8y ago
I agree wholeheartedly! It's interesting that trying to make to process easier actually made it hard for both novices and experts. Too bad it's enabled by default and plagued by issues: https://pep.foundation/blog&
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by Leace 8y ago
It's a chicken-and-egg problem, no clients to support it because currently it'd be only a client for Fastmail, no servers for it as there are no clients.
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by Leace 8y ago
> An overwhelming majority of email that ProtonMail users get is in fact unencrypted. Not only that, but an overwhelming majority of email that ProtonMail users send is unencrypted as well. Could you cite your sources? I'm wondering
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Keybase advisory: Local Privilege Escalation on Linux via Keybase-Redirector(keybase.io)
58 points by Leace 8y ago|6 comments
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by Leace 8y ago
xclip works fine for me on wayland (Arch), the rest... yeah, colorpicker? doesn't work. Screenshot? Gnome tool works but grabbing an area has a weird tainted color.
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by Leace 8y ago
<some-sort-of-hash-looking-thing> is ZBase32(SHA1(localPart)) and the standard is described here: https://wiki.gnupg.org/WKD If one controls a domain, has HTTPS set up and uses PGP this is the easiest and most secure
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by Leace 8y ago
Lync is now Skype for Business... I mean in the splash and window title because the executable is still "lync.exe".
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by Leace 8y ago
That seems to be confirmed by admins running bigger servers such as disroot [0]. [0]: https://disroot.org/en/blog/matrix-closure
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by Leace 8y ago
Rebol's parse dialect is basically easily readable regexes (actually even more, but that's not relevant here). For some examples see: http://blog.hostilefork.com/why-rebol-red-parse-cool/
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by Leace 8y ago
Yes, keep the amount of noise to minimum. I subscribed to daily newsletter of HackerNews and check it only then no more. I deleted my accounts on other social networks that I never really used. Remember, Internet is like TV nowadays, everyo
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by Leace 8y ago
I'm surprised there are no mentions to Microsoft Research's Singularity, that used only software barriers, and the languages used there (Sing#, Spec#) had ownership concepts ([Claims] attribute).
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by Leace 8y ago
When using hardware keys remember to register at least two. In case one stops working or is lost/stolen you're locked out of your account. Backup codes help but they're another barrier one have to remember.
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by Leace 8y ago
Last time I opened PDF with JS even Acrobat warned about that and disabled it by default (but that was some time ago).
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by Leace 8y ago
As far as I understand this the "standard" is the XML that is being embedded inside PDF, so you need a small tool to extract the XML from the PDF and then you've got the standard XML invoice. The PDF is just for nice presenta
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by Leace 8y ago
> ... to claims that high tech companies can’t find sufficient workers ... Does anyone claim that? I thought "high tech companies" have just enough candidates even with this kind of bad practices.
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by Leace 8y ago
Judging by the issues on WinBtrfs it doesn't work well (or at all).
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by Leace 8y ago
This reminds me of that extreme example of altering the contract: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/borrowin...
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by Leace 8y ago
Thanks for your explanation. If only ZFS was GPL licensed btrfs would probably never exist. I was very much interested in ZFS and invested a lot to learn the internals but the out-of-tree status of it and the fact that btrfs gets better and
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by Leace 8y ago
I've installed Arch on XPS 13 9350 and was also surprised by the amount of things that worked out of the box: touchpad, HiDPI scaling, different scales for different monitors, no issues with the Thunderbolt dock. Actually Windows had m
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by Leace 8y ago
Why ZFS instead of btrfs (asking out of curiosity as I'm pondering the issue myself)?

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