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by claudius 9y ago
The add-on could tell Mozilla which files to keep because it saved the decryption key for those files. Mozilla could then select those files to decrypt, e.g. to prove to authorities that its file-sharing service was not used for illicit pur
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by claudius 9y ago
I have a rubber tree (ficus elastica) and it seems quite invincible. Got it from my grandmother about 15 years ago, it spent three years in my dad’s smoke-filled room and has moved three or four times. Right now there’s direct sunlight in s
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by claudius 9y ago
If one were to build a marketing spyware add-on to analyse user traffic from within the browser and send all visited URLs to some remote server, would those sent URLs then possibly contain the anchor?
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by claudius 9y ago
Does someone have experience using this (or other) cloud solutions in a scientific HPC context? The only obvious disadvantage I can think of is that every student running something incurs a certain cost whereas after one has bought the actu
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by claudius 9y ago
Also in Germany, I much prefer Amazon Logistics. If I’m not home, they’ll leave the parcel either with neighbours (multi-tenant house) or just in front of my door with them taking the risk (and they’ll happily send something again if it get
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by claudius 9y ago
Well they can of course trade it as they see fit, just opt-in to those things and be happy? What gives you the right to force me to trade in my personal information?
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by claudius 9y ago
Thanks, I’ll look into Termux! > No need for random forums. You should have been able to download an official LineageOS build from https://download.lineageos.org But even if this worked (from what I have read, others had pro
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by claudius 9y ago
> The OnePlus 3T seems to be officially supported by LineageOS[1]. Yes, but everything I have read, anybody who tried only the official ROM had various problems, e.g. with the camera. Hence I settled on an unofficial ROM. But even if I
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by claudius 9y ago
I’ve used Sailfish OS on the original Jolla for a little more than two years from April 2015 through July 2017. Last month, I was finally fed up enough with the horribly slow and limited hardware (couldn’t play music and open OsmAND at the
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by claudius 9y ago
Of course it applies if you wish to extract work from heat . However, it does not apply when extracting work from chemical, nuclear or electrical energy, only if you first transformed that other energy into heat and then transformed the
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by claudius 9y ago
Hm, I’m not sure I buy this argument, as it relies on the entire procedure being in equilibrium at all times. For the same reason that the human body can operate at much higher efficiency than a steam locomotive (or even the "perfect&q
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by claudius 9y ago
Yes[1], no[2]. An IP address is "personal relationships" data and collecting, processing or using such data is prohibited unless allowed by law or the concerned person gives consent. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by claudius 9y ago
Any submission of data requires the transmission of an IP address, which is personal data and necessitates appropriate protection. I very much hope that the Debian maintainers (and hopefully also the guys preparing Fennec in F-Droid) will d
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by claudius 9y ago
Currently works perfectly for me with English and German where I place \selectlanguage{UKenglish} and \selectlanguage{ngerman} in front of the appropriate paragraphs. Hyphenation then simply works.
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by claudius 9y ago
Disabling HTML e-mails does not sound particularly unreasonable. There’s little additional benefit from them but a whole host of possible issues, least of all that suddenly your e-mail client has to deal with properly parsing HTML and you h
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by claudius 9y ago
They had a net income of 23 Billion Dollars in 2016, so the one-time fine alone is approx. 10% of their net income last year. The daily fine of 5% of daily worldwide revenue would amount to approx. 20% of their daily worldwide net income (u
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by claudius 9y ago
The old Skype for Linux app stores its logs as a simple sqlite database from which you can export them fairly straightforwardly, see e.g. https://pastebin.com/bWXCQK83 for a simple script which brings them into Pidgin'
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by claudius 9y ago
Ironically, the old Opera did have this feature, where you could arrange tabs side-by-side within the browser window…
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by claudius 9y ago
> In a language designed for humans, the simplest expression of a loop (e.g. `for (auto paths : m) {}`) would use references not value copying. You'd have to go out of your way to do the it the dumb way, which you would only do when
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by claudius 9y ago
The main point of the article appears to be that peripheral EU countries did not benefit as much from the internal open market as Germany due to weak ‘civil service’ and oligarchic structures which predated the EU and caused a misappropriat
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by claudius 9y ago
Neither Google nor Apple have root access on a Yubikey, nor does that key have some sort of wireless transmitter included which would allow for unnoticed data transfer to or from the key. Furthermore, it is nowadays largely trivial to set u
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by claudius 10y ago
> If that library is the system "libc" library or something similar, then it has to be reboot (not relogin). The only way that I can think for reboot-free updates, is to save the full state of the system, then silently restart
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by claudius 10y ago
https://dns.he.net/ works for me, though your requirements may be different.
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by claudius 10y ago
You are of course responsible for the tools you use, so if I use nginx and it has a bug, I won’t send them the bill. A better analogy would be to crash your client’s car into the building of a competitor and then complain if the competitor
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by claudius 10y ago
Yes. And once it is cleaned up, send Cloudflare the bill. And once they go bankrupt, send the executive officers and the shareholders the bill. And once they go bankrupt, make sure they are still held responsible for the damage inflicted an
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by claudius 10y ago
Yes: Safety does not get you correct results where non-safety would have given you wrong results. Safety gives you correct results in some cases where non-safety would have given you no result. Those cases are easy to identify and can be so
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by claudius 10y ago
> I think this is what is most flawed in the paper. For (some) concurrent problems Go is about as fast as C [1]. Certainly, this was really only taken as a ballpark estimate of the performance difference. Looking at your link, it seems t
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by claudius 10y ago
During the past years of coding in C++ in the context of tensor networks in condensed matter physics, I have never encountered the case where a programming error which would have been caught in Rust or Go lead to incorrect results. Yes, the
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by claudius 10y ago
> * Almost as fast as C That's the key point. Judging by the (wrong) benchmark above where both C and Go seem to do some work, Go is about half as fast as C. A grad student (if paid properly) costs maybe 60k €/year. In comparis
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by claudius 10y ago
On my laptop (i7-5500U), I get the following timings (always with -march=native or -xHOST): GCC 6.3, -Ofast: 5.93s GCC 6.3, -O3: 93.06s GCC 6.3, -O2: 134.43s Clang 3.9, -O3: 346.92s Clang 3.9, -Of

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