alan5

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by alan5 6y ago
I just donated to Signal after seeing the error banner in the app. I realised I was more than happy to pay WhatsApp's yearly charge back in the pre-Facebook days (think it was 70p or so?). Figured I could give Signal a few quid every n
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by alan5 7y ago
> Engineers design pickle forks to last the lifetime of the plane, more than 90,000 landings and takeoffs, a term known as "flight cycles" in the aviation industry, without developing cracks. That number made me do a double tak
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by alan5 7y ago
co-worker: @here co-worker is typing... co-worker is typing... co-worker is typing... co-worker: Could you help me with $x? Nothing more annoying than grabbing everyone's attention with the first message and _then_ spending time to com
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by alan5 9y ago
If you modify your .inputrc with the following this should propagate to all of readline as well (e.g. python): set editing-mode vi
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by alan5 10y ago
I assumed they were remote, otherwise I would have thought they would have premises costs stated. Rent, heating etc.
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by alan5 10y ago
I know in addition to salary there are other "hidden" costs like health care etc, but even taking that into account their employees must be taking home a pretty significant wage.
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by alan5 11y ago
While not quite to the same level of obfuscation, your suggestion reminded me of this project: http://www.cipherdyne.org/fwknop/ Its essentially port knocking with a single encrypted packet. Haven't tried it (yet)
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by alan5 11y ago
Steve Gibson's SQRL looks to be an interesting application of QR codes. https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm