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by blcknight 12y ago
Except the Valve bug passed their QE process if any and got out into the wild. This is for an unreleased version of RHEL, and was caught....
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by blcknight 12y ago
Plenty of companies hire people full time to work on open source projects - look at all the companies involved in things like the Linux kernel or OpenStack, they hire messes of developers who work on F/OSS projects. I work at Red Hat.
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by blcknight 12y ago
If you read closely the fare rules of the ticket, it's not allowed. It's like going to Amazon and buying something but the terms and conditions say "You may not buy this item." The mainframe computer systems are so utter
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by blcknight 12y ago
I don't see how his argument holds water, the BSD license is quite permissive, and porting software to another language sounds like a modification to me, assuming you keep all the copyright info intact. He still holds the copyright, b
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by blcknight 12y ago
Is Festival still maintained? Seems like there's other options. Google sounds nice, but not sure this is really a "life"hack or reliable, as it's going to break when Google changes how this works.
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by blcknight 12y ago
All someone needs to do is hack the AMO servers and change out the XPI -- and no one would no the difference, because the packages aren't signed. Not to also mention, MITM attacks on the actual SSL connection. Serving over HTTPS isn&#x
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by blcknight 12y ago
Old... but interesting, I guess. From the bug report: > We don't require update.rdf files to be signed when they're served over HTTPS, since HTTPS provides the same level of verification as an updateKey, and we don't see
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by blcknight 12y ago
Ah, I see. TL;DR. Ebola is like Amazon, If you shoot a duck, I'm scared of toasters and HIV is Microsoft.
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by blcknight 12y ago
I think it's a big misconception that the labor pool for libre software is volunteers, it's paid -- by Red Hat, IBM, Intel, Canonical, etc. In this case, bash had plenty of resources to be fixed quickly, it wasn't a problem
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by blcknight 12y ago
Care to elaborate? IMHO, it's always the time to advocate libre software.
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by blcknight 12y ago
You can send both formats, and in fact, if you send text/html, you should send a text/plain copy as well. As one of the remaining mutt users out there, nothing annoys me more than html mail. I don't read it.
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by blcknight 12y ago
No, but it's human readable styling.
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by blcknight 12y ago
At least in Berlin, with an app that I can also use to pay like Uber (mytaxi), I can have a pristine regulated taxi (usually a newish Mercedes) to my door in five minutes. And it costs 30% less than Uber. But in the US, you have idiotic cit
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by blcknight 13y ago
Only if you have magic SysRq keys enabled in the kernel... are kernels shipping these days with this by default?
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by blcknight 13y ago
Link to delete your Google account entirely https://www.google.com/accounts/DeleteAccount
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by blcknight 13y ago
What you mean number of sources is limited? The distros come with their own repos with a large selection of software. When you go outside of that, you need to have a specific reason...like going to RPM Fusion to grab things like non-free c
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by blcknight 13y ago
package-cleanup --cleandupes
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by blcknight 13y ago
"We all know that it's illegal to look at a US citizen's data without a court order. I use the term "look" deliberately: the Agency makes the distinction that looking at data is surveillance, while gathering it from
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by blcknight 13y ago
But...how do you get to your e-mail?
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by blcknight 13y ago
The links thing is stupid, but it does tell you. http://i.imgur.com/ijTQTTq.png
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by blcknight 13y ago
Except for the part when they tell you. http://i.imgur.com/ijTQTTq.png
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by blcknight 13y ago
And most other people, I imagine. Dropbox would work the same way. Although it might be permanent, but I've never tried something so ridiculous.
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by blcknight 13y ago
Huh? If you remove the files from the copy of Google drive on your disk, they get removed on the web. It's one "drive." That's KIND OF THE WHOLE POINT. It's not poor user design. That they go to the trash is good
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by blcknight 13y ago
1/4 OF A MILLION HITS!? That's like 250,000.
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by blcknight 13y ago
Where do you get that this is using images? Honey Docs doesn't actually explain what the callback looks like in the doc file, but it doesn't look like it has anything to do with images.
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by blcknight 13y ago
Install EncFS and use it on your Dropbox. No account, no binary blobs needed. You can compile all the bits for EncFS yourself, if you want.
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by blcknight 13y ago
I just tried this with a doc file, and the buzz was nearly instantaneous, within seconds -- 3 buzzes total. Certainly it's automated. Paranoid part of me says it's NSA keyword scanning. I feel a little insane suggesting that, but
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by blcknight 13y ago
It could be minimum key size and such, or potentially a specific older version of GPG if NSA ever managed to get something into the codebase, but I suspect it's simple. Glenn Greenwald is really not very technical at all, so I imagine
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by blcknight 13y ago
"Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is so terrifically weak that NSA can frequently find ways around it." - http:/&#x
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by blcknight 13y ago
We need to stop posting these non-technical ravings of people who haven't a clue. Kevin Drum can certainly have an opinion about the NSA (and he's mostly wrong, I think), but his musings about what the NSA can do is clearly uninf

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