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721.
by aorth 11y ago
There is a UI. It doesn't even show (decrypt) the new messages until you add the new key.
722.
by aorth 11y ago
You're right. So when you get a notification of a key change (for malicious or other reasons) it is up to you to verify that the user did indeed have a key change — preferably out of band, or at least over another medium.
723.
by aorth 11y ago
So now WhatsApp is finally on par with iMessage and Signal, and shares the same weakness: public key distribution. Key distribution is controlled by a centralized server that could, for malicious or other reasons, send you new fake keys for
724.
by aorth 11y ago
Bravo to moxie, and the WhatsApp guys actually sound really cool. So, assuming you're using WhatsApp Web, does that mean you have end-to-end encryption there too? I recall the web version used your phone somehow.
725.
by aorth 11y ago
Ah! And this ironically relevant 2008 post from Coding Horror about testing your code in the Turkish locale. https://blog.codinghorror.com/whats-wrong-with-turkey/
726.
by aorth 11y ago
It's interesting that the data doesn't have values with the Turkish dotted or dotless I, ie the one in İstanbul, İbrahim, or Diyarbakır. Seems pretty important to store people's names correctly. https://en.wikipedi
727.
by aorth 11y ago
In an increasingly end-to-end encrypted world, wouldn't services like this be going away eventually?
728.
by aorth 11y ago
Where is Safari in terms of security? Speed, battery usage, and standards support are one thing, but as far as I know, neither Firefox nor Safari have the robust level of sandboxing and other Chrome security features.
729.
by aorth 11y ago
I learned to like em and en dashes as grammatical devices but was undecided about the space around them — "regular" spaces are too much, but having them flush with the surrounding text was equally undesirable. The "hair"
730.
Space Yourself (2015)(smashingmagazine.com)
68 points by aorth 11y ago|9 comments
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Angola’s Wikipedia Pirates Are Exposing the Problems with Digital Colonialism(motherboard.vice.com)
2 points by aorth 11y ago|0 comments
732.
by aorth 11y ago
I've been using Tarsnap for personal, encrypted, deduplicated backups for a few years. It's not shiny, but it works fantastically. https://www.tarsnap.com/
733.
by aorth 11y ago
It seems the parallel aggregation increases efficiency of queries linearly with regard to CPUs, close to "perfect parallelisation." I have some 8-core boxes running PostgreSQL and this is still good to know.
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My Take on FBI's “Alternative” Method(zdziarski.com)
149 points by aorth 11y ago|86 comments
735.
by aorth 11y ago
Something about this bothers me too. I am trying to formulate a way to look at this that gives Facebook the benefit of the doubt, like "anyone you can help is good, even if you can't help them all"... but there's a pessi
736.
by aorth 11y ago
Lucky me, I saw it at 999,905 and then immediately refreshed and it was at 1,000,038. I feel so blessed to have seen it pass 1M. :)
737.
by aorth 11y ago
> Adblockers deny money for websites without replacing it. I hate the way this frames the debate. Ads invade my privacy, slow down my Internet browsing, and consume my network and device resources—why can't the cost for content wr
738.
by aorth 11y ago
I got a bit of a headache when I saw that B.C.E dates are displayed on the slider like: 12-01--4. Four years before the Common Era, aka "-4"... hah! It seems ISO 8601 actually tries to solve this problem: https://en.wik
739.
by aorth 11y ago
Yes, unbound is great—I run it on my local machine with a list of ad servers to block. I use this little script to download and convert the Someone Who Cares hosts list to unbound format[0] every few weeks. BTW, the pgl.yoyo.org list is ava
740.
by aorth 11y ago
I also thought the same. I have it enabled in my Chrome's uBlock Origin, but this test—linked from the FuckFuckAdblock repo—still detects it: http://fuckadblock.sitexw.fr/
741.
by aorth 11y ago
This release is particularly notable because it has full Wayland support.
742.
by aorth 11y ago
I use Time Machine for general system backups, but I also push a few select things like ~/Documents and ~/Pictures offsite with Tarsnap. I want to find a way to integrate Syncthing into my workflow too.
743.
by aorth 11y ago
Indeed. Even more strange is that they are handling it with a (temporary) redirect on that specific article. $ http --print h http://telecom.kz/en/news/view/18729 HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily Con
744.
by aorth 11y ago
They look great. Installing pandoc is a pain, though. My CV is LaTeX as well—using the moderncv template—and I build it regularly on both GNU/Linux and Mac OS X: https://github.com/alanorth/cv
745.
by aorth 11y ago
"Each day, my associates and I are seated at a table staring at each other, having an ongoing 12-person conversation from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m." Been there, done that. It was very counter productive, and led to me shifting my office ho
746.
by aorth 11y ago
Updating Raspbian is easy, sure, and I have faith you'll update your media center or the one powering lights in your house, but for $5 I could connect one to all the cows on my farm, or to every car in the fleet of my delivery service,
747.
by aorth 11y ago
Fantastic development, but I can't help but think about the years of pain we're going to be in security wise when people inevitably start using these for all sorts of "Internet of Things" purposes. Software stacks on the
748.
by aorth 11y ago
Ah, you're right about the cookies thing. Regarding uBlock Origin and e10s, you've never gotten the dialog "uBlock Origin is making Firefox run slowly" or similar? I believe that's related to e10s...
749.
by aorth 11y ago
I'm curious how this behaves in relation to blocking third-party cookies via Settings→Privacy→Accept third-party cookies: Never. I've had this turned on for a year or so. Also, I wonder what this would catch that uBlock Origin wou
750.
by aorth 11y ago
I didn't see any note about what version these bugs were found in, or will be fixed in. For reference, at the time of this writing, my GNU/Linux box has ffmpeg 2.8.1.

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