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by claudius 13y ago
And if all else fails, entering 63 characters is not really that hard either (unless the Apple TV has one of these weird on-screen letter-choosing wheels you sometimes encounter in videogame consoles and the like).
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by claudius 13y ago
Yeah, I stumbled over it less than a week after I had set up some nice script to delete the extraneous backups I didn’t need. At the time, my requirements for keeping backups were a little stricter, too, due to space constraints, which were
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by claudius 13y ago
The key is obviously to make some trade-off between usability and difficulty during creation. If the software is never finished because running test cases with 10e10 chars-long names takes too long, users won’t even be given the choice of n
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by claudius 13y ago
> A computer system that assumes that Wernher von Braun's middle name was "von" is ridiculous. Of course, apart from using the proper name/title when composing a letter (something like Freiherr von Braun), which is ea
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by claudius 13y ago
Fortunately, it is entirely unnecessary to remember your Wifi password (provided that you trust your devices…). Create a near-random 63 char password, put it in a text file on a USB key and possibly print it out as a QR code and you’ll neve
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by claudius 13y ago
I ha(ve/d) a small external hard drive enclosure which holds/held two 2 TB drives in RAID-1 mode (recently tested that it’s indeed RAID 1: The enclosure left out smoke and one of the drives now works happily in a single-drive encl
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by claudius 13y ago
Try C-x C-e – especially helpful if you want to paste stuff from websites.
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by claudius 13y ago
If you meet up with people specifically to sign their keys, all one can confer from a signature is that you have met this person – not quite a contact list, IMHO.
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by claudius 13y ago
The logic of this seems to be that driving has certain properties, these properties are worthwhile to experience and hence everybody has to learn how to drive. What a silly idea. While it is certainly true that driving might have these prop
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by claudius 13y ago
Bronstein/Semendjajew’s Handbook of Mathematics [0] is something close to what you envision. It’s helpful if you just need to look up a given formulae and understand the larger picture, but it will be incomprehensible if you don’t kno
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by claudius 13y ago
Usually, each maths textbook defines the syntax used within at the start and then ‘rewrites’ all proofs in that particular syntax. Since syntax – as opposed to the mathematical facts expressed thereby – is usually considered something n
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by claudius 13y ago
‘detached’ as in ‘different parts of the same company’ in Germany and a rather pro-SNCF entity in France. While this is generally a good idea, especially if you combine it with standard tickets s.t. you only need to buy one ticket even if y
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by claudius 13y ago
> "Are you willing to accept the deaths for four people in 2014 due to terrorism and the sexual abuse of 18 toddlers in exchange for online anonymity." While a good start, this should also include some ‘reference mark’ to gauge
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by claudius 13y ago
You forgot 3. Jolla http://jolla.com/ where (at least an earlier version of) the OS was actually shipped on a decent phone, the – Nokia – N9.
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by claudius 13y ago
My bank doesn’t do checks, but they check the signature on incoming (paper) mail with a signature of mine they have stored somewhere – I had to come in once specifically because my signature was different. Similarly, when signing leases for
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by claudius 13y ago
I doubt you’d be allowed to sell stuff made from toe jam and ear wax for human consumption in most of Europe. Or, even if you were allowed to sell that stuff, you’d need a proper certificate, health and sanitary checks and ensure that your
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by claudius 13y ago
The easier way would likely be to add a "sudo" script somewhere in $PATH, ideally before /usr/bin – incidentally, this gets much easier on a development machine where people have a ruby path, a perl path, a python path a
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by claudius 13y ago
In similar news, Windows XP killed system-wide administrator accounts, Linux killed process ptracing and your car brakes killed accidents. Thankfully, the ‘inline headline’ is more descriptive.
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by claudius 13y ago
Only accepting encrypted email would be a start, I guess – at the very least, the sender has to know the ~1 kB for the public key and he also has to encrypt every email individually.
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by claudius 13y ago
> Chromium on Linux would interpret middle clicking on an unclickable part of the page to mean "interpret the text stored in the clipboard as a URL or search term, and go to it." Imagine the fun I had with the occasional miscli
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by claudius 13y ago
Certainly, but those are all related to holding the middle mouse button and moving the mouse, not clicking per se. Similar behaviour is available on X with something like: Option "EmulateWheel" "on" Option &
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by claudius 13y ago
Hence ‘even’, saying that even the full path is only one letter longer than the single directory name. :) Though, really, I have never seen /opt/local/bin – /usr/bin for package-manager owned stuff, /usr&#x2F
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by claudius 13y ago
But even /opt/local/bin (a construct I’ve never seen…) is just one letter longer than ‘Program Files’ – so at least they got the "not too long" bit right.
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by claudius 13y ago
I guess it depends on the hardware used – I mostly use one of these external Thinkpad-like keyboards with three dedicated buttons and a track point and never accidentally middle-paste. But I guess if middle-click never does anything useful
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by claudius 13y ago
It takes about 30 minutes top to install Xfce…
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by claudius 13y ago
> The best balance would be to present the user with a page that lists all the things the site would like to track and let the user opt in to any way in which they would like to be tracked . FTFY.
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by claudius 13y ago
I don’t think it has much to do with OpenID – my suggestion still keeps the classical username/password tuple as credentials, but simply disallows the user to choose the password freely. One extension, of course, would be for websites
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by claudius 13y ago
> Maybe we can prevent password reuse by the browser taking a hash of the password being entered in a form and comparing it against other password hashes locally? I always thought that one possible way around this would be for websites t
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by claudius 13y ago
One possible way to implement ‘buried deep down’ would be with a command-line option (--enable-tor) that requires input on the console to continue launching the browser. Something like the following: $ iceweasel --enable-tor The optio
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by claudius 13y ago
> Airline security measures is not only a threat to civil liberties, it's also a threat to the airline industry. On short distances (<500 km) I chose cars and trains. Good. Planes are somewhat decent means of transportation on lo

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