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by a3_nm 13y ago
Err... Google can just use a custom domain (e.g. "googleusercontent.com" that they already use) to serve user-supplied files rather than stopping the service altogether, so I guess this is not the issue here.
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by a3_nm 13y ago
Yes, but AFAIK it is not federated, i.e. you cannot talk with Facebook chat users without a Facebook account.
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by a3_nm 13y ago
> Is there anyone else of any consequence out there who is building these sorts of messaging apps on top of XMPP? I use XMPP to talk with Google Talk users from an XMPP account hosted on my own server. I will be annoyed if Google users
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by a3_nm 13y ago
> There is a reason why we had strict regulations (a dirty word on HN, I know) for "old fashioned" mail and telephone. I would argue that the reason had to do with the fact that you couldn't encrypt, and you couldn't choose your provide
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by a3_nm 13y ago
> I (John Kozubik / rsync.net) will donate USD 10,000 to wikipedia if they change their official stance to inclusionism The donations go to Wikimedia, the organization that runs the servers. It is purposedly distinct from the various co
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by a3_nm 14y ago
Yeah... sousveillance running on a device that you don't control and storing the data on machines that you do not own.
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by a3_nm 14y ago
> Auto play == not good. Flashblock ?
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by a3_nm 14y ago
> the Internet interface will only let you do small amounts, and only to pre-entered recipients. Who enters those recipients? You guessed it – your conseiller! I do not think this is true. With my French bank account, I can add recipien
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by a3_nm 14y ago
I'm not in the valley, but I have the opposite policy: I systematically use cash unless it is not possible to do so. (It's better for privacy.)
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by a3_nm 14y ago
Even if the Calendar API were open to all platforms, it's not a standard, it's just an API unilaterally defined by Google. CalDAV, however, is a standard < https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4791> . It is certainly an evil move from Goo
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Wikidata, the free knowledge base that anyone can edit(wikidata.org)
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by a3_nm 14y ago
> Someone could take my work, turn it into a piece of crap, and put my name on it. Am I right in thinking that this is forbidden by other laws than copyright law?
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by a3_nm 14y ago
> If there was no such thing as patent protection [...] any of the current big names in the market could take my tech and bring it to market with their existing connections and heavy market presence If they do it despite patent protecti
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by a3_nm 14y ago
I agree with this. I do theoretical CS research, and whenever I find a general problem that I feel must have been solved by someone but seemingly hasn't, the only way I can get the problem off my head is phrase it as a StackExchange quest
555.
by a3_nm 14y ago
Not sure if this makes sense, but couldn't they have different projections for different zoom levels?
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by a3_nm 14y ago
There's a great book about browser security by the same author: _The Tangled Web_ < http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/tangled/&#62 ;
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by a3_nm 14y ago
My bank (BNP Paribas in France) has an even worse policy: 6 digits . No more, no less. They try to prevent phishing attempts with mouse-based PIN entry, require you to change the password every so many logins, but the fact remains: there a
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by a3_nm 14y ago
Agreed. I've already witnessed Windows making a modem call the fire brigade emergency number (probably because it was confused about the country I was in). Woops.
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by a3_nm 14y ago
Are you sure those were automatically transcribed? https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=TimedText:Di... says they were uploaded by an anonymous user. I think this is a joke created by a human.
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by a3_nm 14y ago
> All of Debian is available in Ubuntu. Less is more. If everything he needs is available in Debian and he doesn't need the extra stuff provided by Ubuntu, then the default choice should be to use Debian.
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by a3_nm 14y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheating_in_chess#Cheating_wit...
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by a3_nm 14y ago
Efforts like boycotting closed journals can only help for new publications. Sadly, past publications sometimes stay relevant for a long time, so access restrictions are still a problem even if everyone stopped publishing in closed journals.
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by a3_nm 14y ago
August 2012 : http://www.clearbits.net/creators/146-stack-exchange-data-du...
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by a3_nm 14y ago
Agreed. The "deletes the function from your source code" part is amusing, but "swear" and "implore" are just like Python's "assert".
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by a3_nm 14y ago
If they were written in a portable language like C, maybe, but you will have to recompile them. I think the point of their WCH tool is to rewrite the machine code from x86 to ARM without having the source code, so it's a much harder problem
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by a3_nm 14y ago
cd is a shell builtin, not a command, so there is no man page for it. There will be information about it in your shell's man page, though, which should be worth reading.
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by a3_nm 14y ago
I second this, I think it is good practice to rotate the history file manually when it reaches several MBs. (Using zsh, the main symptoms of a large history file is sluggishness when using ^R and a lag of a few tenths of a second when closi
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by a3_nm 14y ago
> It's easier to use dd_rescue to track progress than to signal dd Why? I just use: watch pkill -USR1 dd
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by a3_nm 14y ago
Is the app's data on the phone encrypted using the PIN? If the phone is found by an attacker which can access its memory, will bruteforcing the PIN slow them down long enough?
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by a3_nm 14y ago
Why move your parents to Windows rather than to some other Linux distribution? (Fedora, Linux Mint, Debian...)

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