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by barnabee 2y ago
https://www.onocoy.com/ seems to be doing just that. I have no affiliation, and no strong opinion on their specific approach, but I do find it interesting and have thought about running a node, especially since enjoying fid
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by barnabee 2y ago
Correct. I have no reason to believe Aumasson was compromised, but it’s certainly happened before that people in similar positions have been. Regardless of whether there’s a third party with an ulterior motive or it’s (more likely) simply t
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by barnabee 2y ago
The cited paper[0] only increases my concern: > “But what if your adversary is NSA or Mossad? Won’t they have the computing capabilities to run a 280 attack?” Such a question is irrelevant. If your problem is to protect against such adve
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by barnabee 2y ago
> a lightly modified version of Daniel J. Bernstein’s ChaCha stream cipher. ChaCha is widely used in a 20-round form called ChaCha20, including in TLS and SSH. Jean-Philippe Aumasson’s paper “Too Much Crypto” argues persuasively that the
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by barnabee 2y ago
> If small things mattered, you wouldn't have so many of them neglected. People are often not good understanding and deciding what matters, groups of people are generally even worse. It's why aircraft have checklists and compa
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by barnabee 2y ago
Single traveller per card. You also have to tap out at the end so it can calculate the fare. If you have more than one card you can let others in your group use those. Though it’s been a few years since I was travelling with anyone who didn
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by barnabee 2y ago
Yeah, I do this too, but many people I know wouldn't even think about the fact that they could do that, or why they would. They just know that whatever password manager they use doesn't find the password but if they search for it,
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by barnabee 2y ago
It happens to me very regularly that a password in my password manager is needed on a different domain. Maybe the logon process is at id.domain.com and password is pinned to domain.com, or maybe the password was created at signup.domain.com
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by barnabee 2y ago
Why should all of Society pay so that Saleforce, a profit-making company, doesn't have to maintain its software? I have 3rd party cookies as well as all ads and trackers blocked and have no major issues. On the odd occasion a site does
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by barnabee 3y ago
Does anyone else wish they could configure modern sat nav apps to have a simplified map display/UI somewhat in that style?
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by barnabee 3y ago
Not necessarily all of them! If the customers who can’t tell the difference leave and twice as many new ones join, you’re winning. I’m happy with Mullvad, but I’m more likely to use or recommend Windscribe in future because they do stuff li
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by barnabee 3y ago
When you build websites you are creating code for others to read as much as you're creating an "app" or document. It's the very essence of what's good and special about the web. If the companies that are trying to d
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by barnabee 3y ago
> [0] although nothing wrong with that too. [citation needed]
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by barnabee 3y ago
> My understanding is that Docs is handling layout itself, in order to support features like pagination and footnotes I’ve seen the same Google Doc use different numbers of pages both on screen and in print/PDF so I don’t believe th
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by barnabee 3y ago
> I tend to disagree, at least for many purposes. In the world of mega-apps (WeChat, Facebook, etc), do you really want these apps to be able to ask for or even require permissions like this? Not really… I want to ban or break up/ma
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by barnabee 3y ago
You can ignore them, though, not everyone can be saved
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by barnabee 3y ago
> In reality, this does far more harm than good Harm reduction isn't always the most important goal, especially when it's other people's harm and reducing it also involves restricting what they can do.
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by barnabee 3y ago
> I can't count how many times I heard people say "this decision should be mine to make" only to follow it up after some time with "somebody should have warned me not to do it". The correct response, if (as in th
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by barnabee 3y ago
Cool, ok… you either learn from your mistakes or you don’t. Developers aren’t responsible for the general population doing dumb shit, as long as they don’t trick them into it, and it doesn’t happen as a result of bugs in their software. Ima
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by barnabee 3y ago
With my permission an app should be able to read all the files on the device, even those created by other apps. It’s my device not the OS or app manufacturer’s! I’m totally onboard with per-app segregated storage as a default, but this
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by barnabee 3y ago
Totally agree. I have been completely unable to learn vim beyond the basic commands and get it to stick and feel good as an editor, despite trying on and off, sometimes seriously, for two decades. Generally I think this is because of the un
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by barnabee 3y ago
Agree and I don’t understand the downvotes. The goal isn’t for every dev or project to make money or be sustainable in open source, just as it isn’t for every business idea to succeed. I donate to numerous open source projects and make a po
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by barnabee 3y ago
I donate to a decent number of open source projects. Others I think are more than fine without me (Linux kernel, etc.) but I wouldn’t hesitate to donate if I believed they weren’t. For the rest, I would indeed as happily see them fail than
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by barnabee 3y ago
Over time I’m coming to two conclusions: 1. Standard libraries are the new operating systems 2. The only way to design reasonable (lean, secure, responsive, interoperable, reliable, long lasting, etc.) software is for rich and carefully tho
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by barnabee 3y ago
This looks promising! As an extremely heavy Alfred user I'd love to see a fully open source alternative (Raycast is a full no for me due to the subscription). I'd definitely donate towards development if it gets a bit further alon
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by barnabee 3y ago
Relax. “Professionalism” of this sort is almost as nebulous a concept as it is overrated.
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by barnabee 3y ago
Why "but" rather than "and"? Do memes make it a worse front-end library?
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by barnabee 3y ago
Amazing (not to mention sad) that the obviously fair, reasonable thing feels like an unattainable fantasy, isn’t it?
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by barnabee 3y ago
1. I’m lazy. I have hundreds of albums saved to my library and I can’t face recreating that. 2. I collaborate on a small number of shared playlists with others who I won’t persuade to move. Nonetheless I agree with you, I probably should.
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by barnabee 3y ago
I wish I could get a music only Spotify subscription. I’d be willing to pay slightly more than I pay for my subscription with everything, if they removed the other stuff from the UI entirely, guaranteed that none of my money would go toward

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