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by acatton 5y ago
I've never understood why people focus so much on revenue. "My company has a 2M$ ARR." All right, good for you, but if you're spending 2.5M$ per year to run your company, it looks like a crappy business to me... I would
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by acatton 5y ago
I totally get you, as a long time Mozilla fan, I'm sad to see the direction towards which Firefox and Mozilla as a whole are going. But it's not like Brave is ethically or technically better. They use Blink (the same engine as Chr
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by acatton 5y ago
I'm not affiliated with them in any way, but historically, Online.net (now rebranded as "Scaleway") has always been the main competitor of OVH in France. They were known for their "Dedibox" when I was younger. OVH k
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by acatton 5y ago
Somebody else already opened an issue https://github.com/wimpysworld/quickemu/issues/70
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by acatton 5y ago
While I appreciate the effort, and the code is very readable. I just want to give a friendly warning that these shell scripts just download random stuff from the internet and run this random stuff without checking any integrity/signatu
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by acatton 5y ago
Wikipedia (and its sources) tends to disagree with you and agree with GP. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brave_(web_browse...
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by acatton 5y ago
> I gave up fairly quickly because unless you keep meticulous records, there's no way to figure out the exact email you used very easily and I didn't get that much out of doing it. Does one need to keep records? I just do servi
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by acatton 5y ago
Related: the video "Why The Cops Won't Help You When You're Getting Stabbed" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAfUI_hETy0 TL;DW: In the US, the police owes you no protection. See https://en.wik
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by acatton 5y ago
> spiped looks like netcat with symmetric encryption True. But to be more specific, it does symmetric encryption and authentication . > If your SSH server has password auth disabled, then all you're doing is moving the attack su
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by acatton 5y ago
Not really. spiped is more an equivalent to mutual SSL (aka "Client certs SSL"). It basically just encrypts and mutually auths individual connections. It works at the TCP level, not the IP level.
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by acatton 5y ago
In the same vein, protecting your SSH server with spiped[1] does 99% of the job. (= No need to setup fail2ban, password auth is not a big deal anymore, protects against out-of-date SSH servers and/or zero-days exploits, ...) [1] https
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by acatton 5y ago
> I didn't think the cookie law is actually an intrinsic part of GDPR Because it is not. [1] It was part of the ePrivacy directive, it has been amended since. The TL;DR is: today, if you don't use cookies for tracking and/
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by acatton 5y ago
Who said I loved bitcoin? I'm a crypto sceptic.
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by acatton 5y ago
Looking into the linked data,[1] it looks like a lot of these "unicorns" are blockchain technology companies. I might be biased here as a shitcoin sceptic, but I would love to see in 10 years what happened to these "unicorns&
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by acatton 5y ago
When a package lands in Debian Sid or in Fedora Rawhide, there is a group/subculture of nerds who like to inspect it and report any misbehaviour. [1] [2] I usually do this directly on the source project, but some people in this subcult
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by acatton 5y ago
That is a way to see it. I see it differently, for me the main issue is the fact that people run random software that were not even vetted. If you dnf/apt install everything from the official repos of your distro, you wont have any mis
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by acatton 5y ago
The issue is that the model on Linux is different. As opposed to walled gardens, the assumption is that applications are cooperative, therefore there is no need for such "authorization systems". The security model on Linux is base
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by acatton 5y ago
Galène[1], which is FLOSS, was specifically developed by the University of Paris for the purpose you're describing. The UI is terrible, I'll admit that, but the performance and scalability is better than Zoom. [1] https:/&#x
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by acatton 5y ago
It also plays your user-name (when configured by the meeting owner) in the background at a non-audible frequency, so that companies can find out who leaked their meetings by analysing the audio from the leak. https://theintercept
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by acatton 5y ago
Because it's a legitimate behaviour. htop needs to do this, it's literally its main feature. You can use hidepid=2 to prevent users from seeing other user's processes list.[1] But I don't want my OS to ask me "do yo
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by acatton 5y ago
Take a look at https://woob.tech . In a nutshell, it is a bunch of open source python modules which allows you to scrape websites as a unified API. (i.e "bank", "classified ads", "recipes", etc.) The
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by acatton 5y ago
Maybe (even though some sibling-comments are saying it's not as clear as the parent implies). But the German constitution is overridden by the European Charter of Fundamental Rights if any article of the German constitution conflicts w
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by acatton 5y ago
Without paywall/registerwall: https://archive.ph/Lzfwc
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Micro Marketworld 1978-1987(archive.org)
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by acatton 5y ago
> subscribers buy attention rather than sex. That's how the Minitel[1] got popular in France. They had these chat services where one paid per minute to chat with "women in your area" (It was mostly male operators handling
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by acatton 5y ago
https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=460&langId=en > People who are employed in another EU country are entitled to live there. Jobseekers are also allowed to stay in another country while they are looking
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by acatton 5y ago
> You have a 3 months period where you can stay in another UE country then the national authorities can ask for your leaving. Maybe on paper. I wonder how much this is used. The only time I remember this being used in practice, is when S
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by acatton 5y ago
I personally just gave up trying to access Reddit from my mobile browser. I used to have "Compact Reddit Redirect"[1] on my phone browser. But it got more and more broken in the last two years. Now, I use RedReader[2][3] on my pho
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by acatton 5y ago
I moved to BTRFS two years ago, before it became the default. It is transparent. Pros: Fast copies with "cp --reflink" and "btrfs sub snapshot" is great, but this is for power users. I personally do backups by snapshotti
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by acatton 5y ago
> It might sound weirdly low for someone in IT in the USA, but first, not everyone commands FAANG sales, and second, wages in the EU are comparatively low. With some seniority, you can rise to $100k relatively easily, but you have to sel

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