cyphunk

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by cyphunk 9y ago
I use this desktop app, opensource and cross platform, constantly https://github.com/Soundnode/soundnode-app
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by cyphunk 9y ago
Did we get to this point of fragmentation due to smart phones and their walled garden philosophy? People stopped making applications for the sake of interoperability. ... if RealAudio™ was founded today it'd be king. Or is facebook to
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by cyphunk 9y ago
you're experiance sounds horrible. your solutions seem to create a narrow path through but only for people like you. and from what you describe, the problems are far beyond education reform and reflect back on social structures, as you
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by cyphunk 9y ago
don't use vanilla hn. use a proxy like hckrnews.com instead. they still show flagged posts
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by cyphunk 9y ago
So anything mainstream gets flagged, even if it relates to people in the field of science? Srsly hn, flagging != patriotism
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by cyphunk 9y ago
this response would be as short lived as it is short sighted -- not taking into account that eventually.soon their bias would be measurable and again turn into ethical and PR nightmares for VC's that dont find a way to manage their mal
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by cyphunk 9y ago
only works horizontally :/
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by cyphunk 9y ago
Yay, now all students enrolled go for free! sike
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by cyphunk 9y ago
That HN flag's this post but not some VC B.S. about company valuations is ironic. Can we call a moritorium on posts entirely about finance and money as well as posts like this one here about politics?
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by cyphunk 9y ago
Let's start with the techno-essentialism that many in the tech world depend on for their mental well being: Yes developers impact the world, no they do not impact them as much as TV (still), comedians and most other fields of science.
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by cyphunk 9y ago
Does anyone know if this, like requests for passwords or decrypting data at border, can be ground to refuse entry if the person denies access?
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by cyphunk 9y ago
This alone is reason why I think china's handling of it's past is outdated and they will soon change it. Look at the US and EU nations: people forget and move on despite it being in the open. Being a productive power house of capi
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by cyphunk 9y ago
because... seriously: > the border agent asks "are you hiding any information from us?" Answer yes, always, because: I have client data I'm most certainly hiding from you on my computer because they'd in general be wo
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by cyphunk 9y ago
> the border agent asks "are you hiding any information from us?" Answer yes, always, because: I have client data I'm most certainly hiding from you on my computer because they'd in general be worried if it i didn&#x2
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by cyphunk 9y ago
DuckDuckGo.com instead, for so many reasons. First, privacy aware. Their index is fine. They don't hide their tale and run, hiding behind captcha's and turning their users into slaves, when it comes to confronting bots: https:&#x
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The Shadow Brokers VEP: NSA Has Had at Least 96 Days to Warn Microsoft(emptywheel.net)
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by cyphunk 9y ago
It's not hard to to write or read. They feel disingenuous though. The truth is email's are not like letters. A letter of at least one half a page should be the minimum, but an email longer than two paragraphs better be seriously i
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by cyphunk 9y ago
In DE it's something like 4+ months for each parent and one parent can gift their time to the other. It does not depend on the insurance of the company or some silliness like this. However, if you are self employeed you do not get this
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by cyphunk 9y ago
> Worse than the text abbreviations was the level of informality, with no address or signoff. I some times avoid giving signoff or address so-as to avoid wasting a professional contacts time. I assume my contacts may have information ov
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by cyphunk 9y ago
The right they have is to deny you entry if you refuse to hand over passwords for your devices. If you are US citizen I think they cannot deny you entry but can take your devices for a period of days. https://www.eff.org/pre
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by cyphunk 9y ago
The 1 hour flight experiance: 1st hour: from city to airport 2+3 hour: checkin line, security line, wait at gate, seating line 4th hour: actually move somewhere through flight 5th hour: passport check, baggage pickup 6th hour: from airport
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by cyphunk 9y ago
That anyone still carries a laptop to the US suprises me, considering any client data you have on it they already have the right to demand an unencrypted copy of.
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by cyphunk 9y ago
an answer to this would be nice. I could imagine some valid reasons but considering where we are (a place generally sensistive to things that could be considered "male-bashing") one does wonder.
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by cyphunk 9y ago
there is a place to argue that when machines enforce social expectations over fleshy peers the panopticon analogy no longer applies, or has to move to other domains. When there is not an invisible human or culture on the other end of your p
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by cyphunk 9y ago
Will add this video to the list of videos with overly "positive" music that grossly underestimate peoples suspicion. Others on that list: google glasses release advert, apple developers wwdc 2014 intro video
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by cyphunk 9y ago
It's called the "social contract". It would be more concerning if it wasn't this way.
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by cyphunk 10y ago
I read through the linked thread in my previous post and I think it gives a good idea of the rift between the in-house-HN-cryptographers and those at Telegram. One will find the exact same disconnect between cryptographers that worked under
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by cyphunk 10y ago
Interesting read. Anyone know where the vulns disclosed under so-called VEP are listed? Effectiveness the VEP policy, which the FBI directory calls "informal", would be measurable now when comparing disclosed via VEP vs undisclose
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by cyphunk 10y ago
this. and probably an american that had not lived outside the US long enough to notice how over the top the effort comes off as.
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by cyphunk 10y ago
A good time to remember the official US Intelligence Community statement and policy/lie on 0days, as given post-heartbleed: When Federal agencies discover a new vulnerability in commercial and open source software – a so-cal

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