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by bwindels 10y ago
First time I hear this. Can you elaborate or give a source for this?
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by bwindels 10y ago
This product makes full disk encryption a bit more convenient, but that's about it. Even that turns something to know in something to have, which you could argue is easier to coerce someone into handing over. The parent comment is righ
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by bwindels 10y ago
I agree, if this turns out to be a historic announcement, this Q&A will definitely not make humanity look very intelligent to future viewers. I guess the reason for inviting non-technical press (and being so patient with their silly que
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by bwindels 10y ago
The fairphone 2 is "fairly" hacker-friendly. The bootloader is not locked. They provide android stripped of google mobile services, and Ubuntu phone is reportedly 70% ported. Sailfish OS could also be an option if either Fairphone
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by bwindels 10y ago
I wish we would elect leaders that introduce a carbon tax.
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by bwindels 10y ago
Pay a fair amount of corporate tax for example...
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by bwindels 10y ago
These self-congratulatory billionaire philanthropists and their tax evasion schemes really irk me. Everything won't be peachy in the future. We're well on our way to warm up the planet by 4 degrees Celsius by 2100, because of the
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Gnome 3.22 Released(gnome.org)
19 points by bwindels 10y ago|4 comments
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by bwindels 10y ago
No windows phone client :-(
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by bwindels 10y ago
For Gtk+ this might be a good place to start: https://blog.gtk.org/2016/06/15/drawing-in-gtk/ The API will likely change considerably in Gtk4, more here: https://www.bassi.io/articles&#x2
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by bwindels 10y ago
As additional information has appeared recently, I add it here. Allegedly, some contributions from others have been committed in Rowe's name, and at least one contributor published his opinion of Rowe's leadership: http:/&#x
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by bwindels 10y ago
Don't see what good forking would do since AFAIK Leah Rowe is by far the biggest contributor to libreboot. I think the contribution of the GNU project was more in project infrastructure than actual code. I only see 3 - 4 people appear
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by bwindels 10y ago
1) because there's a steep change since then 2) He addresses this, there could have been faster fluctuation that canceled each other out in measurements longer ago, although unlikely.
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by bwindels 10y ago
Also, like mentioned in the article and here before, some applications on iOS that want to implement DRM could identify and block the jack adapter with their audio. "Please use lightning headphones to play this content". Apps from
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by bwindels 10y ago
This is my understanding, could be missing something though: The comic proposes that correcthorsebatterystaple would be a secure password. It is 26 characters long and contains 4 basic english words that would be in even the smallest of dic
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by bwindels 10y ago
It is indeed no longer good advice, but not because of longer passwords not being better: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/03/choosing_secu... > This is why the oft-cited XKCD scheme for ge
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by bwindels 10y ago
GNU/Linux distribution with wayland and gnome running on top AFAIK.
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by bwindels 10y ago
This is what http://flatpak.org is moving towards on Linux. https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2016/07/08/portals-using-gtk...
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by bwindels 10y ago
Interesting talk! Here's the link: https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Cpp-and-Beyond-20...
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by bwindels 10y ago
Great article. Interesting that modifying and reading word-sized values is an atomic operation on ARM. IIRC on x86 this is not the case because values can be cached on the cache of the different cpu cores, and thus be out of sync. Does some
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by bwindels 10y ago
> It's a natural step to use this data for compression, which is what the authors have done here. I understood the pixels for compression were chosen randomly, not by how much they define the main features of the picture. Or you mea
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by bwindels 10y ago
You can, of course, always do Pure/Poor man's DI [1]. [1] http://blog.ploeh.dk/2012/11/06/WhentouseaDIContainer/
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by bwindels 11y ago
True to a certain extent, but to come back to an example given by the author; Apple Preview vs Acrobat Reader: both are successful pieces of software used by millions, one is a lot less bloated than the other though. Some companies/pro
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by bwindels 11y ago
I agree with the sentiment of the article that aesthetics are often mixed up with good overall design, whereas good functional UX design is an even more important part of it IMHO (of which craiglist is an excellent example). I don't li
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by bwindels 11y ago
I wonder how much patents would prevent a newcomer from entering the market...
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by bwindels 11y ago
I know I would, Mapping. Phone. Internet. Email. Alarm Clock. Calendaring are also my primary use cases, but there are devices that cost a lot less than an iPhone that do those things just as good or even better.
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by bwindels 11y ago
The cheapest iPad Pro (the device that Schiller mentioned to replace PCs) costs 600$. You can get a fairly good windows laptop for that amount of money. So yes, either Phil Schiller was mocking people that don't buy into their "re
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by bwindels 11y ago
I agree with your sentiment for the need of nuance. The attacks though, as suspected by many, do seem to have been to work of ISIS: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35869254
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by bwindels 11y ago
After reading the comments here, it seems like the attack would indeed assume you spread the alternative URL with the .html extension through other means like IM, ...
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by bwindels 11y ago
Pretty clever, but I'm wondering how this would be exploited. To insert an XSS attack on facebook.com, he would have to be able to change the extension in url in the facebook page of an uploaded image to .html, right? Don't see a

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