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by ale42 4y ago
So they can definitely do it. But they don't it for Chrome. Guess why?
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by ale42 4y ago
Mostly the potato, I'd say... as it will probably contain potentially toxic copper salts after the operation. If the adapter generates 9-12V, it will be pretty unpleasant to have that voltage in your mouth, but probably not dangerous (
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by ale42 4y ago
PHP is not inherently insecure—but some deprecated and now removed or disabled-by-default features were in the past. It all depends on the way apps are developed on it. You can create web apps with security vulnerabilities in any language&#
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by ale42 4y ago
At a first glance it looks nice (the number of default processes reminds me of XP days...), but as always with this kind of project... is this legal, or will they get a DMCA complaint soon or later?
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by ale42 4y ago
Oh, sorry, I posted the wrong link. Can't any more edit the original message, so here is the right link: https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/firefox-translat...
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by ale42 4y ago
Any reference about this? (i.e. somebody saying that it would break something?) Curious to see how they'd justify it.
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by ale42 4y ago
that's probably some "intelligent" thing by the App Store showing you similar applications to what you are looking for... unless Signal has "briar" as a keyword but I'd doubt
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An Untrustworthy TLS Certificate in Browsers(schneier.com)
19 points by ale42 4y ago|3 comments
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by ale42 4y ago
Now: Estimated wait time: 9 hours, 49 minutes... The hug is getting tighter ;-)
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by ale42 4y ago
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/translate/ never tried, but seems promising
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by ale42 4y ago
or type "random", select it and press F1 :-)
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by ale42 4y ago
> Camera Link, another serial protocol, also just works. USB is also a serial protocol on the wire ;-) But there are so many layer of complexity on the top that make it indeed a nightmare in many situation. I worked with a control system
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by ale42 4y ago
The funnier part was that it was pretty easy (by compiling some simple code) to abuse the protocol sending out net send packets with spoofed senders ;-)
764.
by ale42 4y ago
Except that SMS messages can be intercepted, e.g. by having a proper access to the SS7 backbone, by abusing services provided for other reasons, or by SIM swapping attacks. All of this has already been done, so it's not just theory. Se
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by ale42 4y ago
What I'd really like to see is a way to boot FreeDOS on UEFI. Of course this would require a BIOS emulator somewhere, either inside a native UEFI version of FreeDOS (not very probable to happen, I think), or as an external UEFI executa
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by ale42 4y ago
One case where it has a use is on partition (or floppy disk) boot sectors. First instruction is a jump to skip the disk metadata (actually a BIOS parameter block), which is in a fixed place. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by ale42 4y ago
Not sure if the question was for the OP or for everyone... in the latter case: Organic Maps (for of maps.me without ads/trackers, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27543012 ). It works great, allows you to downlo
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by ale42 4y ago
I'm running a mail server at home (on a small low-power server). Getting it right for incoming mails was easy (I have the chance that my ISP doesn't block anything, so I can have port 25 open), for outgoing mails it's another
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by ale42 4y ago
The more people get off of Gmail, the lesser the probability that Google will see a given mail (even if currently it is pretty high given the abundance of people using Gmail)
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by ale42 4y ago
> Apparently there are some workloads in finance that use similar hardware. Not surprising, I've heard from someone who worked at a financial institution doing high-speed trading that basically every ms counts for them.
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by ale42 4y ago
In a reverse proxy scenario, you would trigger your own IDS, so you can probably configure it appropriately...
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by ale42 4y ago
Not spy messages, but steganography has been used for malvertizing campaigns, hiding malicious code inside ad images to prevent automated detection by ad networks. See for example https://www.proofpoint.com/us/threat-in
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by ale42 4y ago
This image is clearly showing JPEG artifacts, you'd never see such square blocks in an photograph that has not been compressed with a lossy algorithm.
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by ale42 4y ago
Sounds a bit like the hidden volumes in TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt...
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by ale42 4y ago
Quite true. It would be better, though, to be able to use an instant messaging system using a simple identifier lie an e-mail address, as an alternative to a phone number. Simply because there are quite some people out there who mainly want
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by ale42 4y ago
Because it can suffer the same problem WhatsApp had, because it's centralized. If something on their infrastructure goes down, it might have consequences for all users. This is not the case for distributes solutions like Matrix. (I act
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by ale42 4y ago
"Everyone on Signal is also on WA": not true. I'm not and I know other people who aren't. But of course, this is not the majority. And "on SMS" isn't completely true either: you can have Signal on a landli
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by ale42 4y ago
There's no auto-update of the page if the status changes! ;-)
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by ale42 4y ago
Same here for turbovision interfaces and similar. I've never found them bad. But when I've seen that an alternative was possible by changing the VGA character generator, I found that more aesthetically pleasing. > it feels like
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by ale42 4y ago
When I was using MS-DOS, boxes were typically done with line-drawing characters that are basically the same that can be used in terminals nowadays, i.e. with color bleeding. But then I learned that it was possible to avoid that, by creating

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