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by da_n 13y ago
Here is the idea I submitted, uses Deja Vu monospace for the font. The shape is a bolt, and I am trying to go for the idea of industrial strength and security. http://dev.bitmono.com/tarsnap/tarsnap.png
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by da_n 13y ago
Nice link I'll definitely give them a try, thanks!
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by da_n 13y ago
I own a Galaxy Note 2 and decided quite soon after I would never buy Samsung again even though I think it is a great piece of hardware. The issue is they promised to release sources for certain drivers and never actually did, CyanogenMod sa
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by da_n 13y ago
Looking at it, I have about 10k files and it is only using about 12% memory, perhaps not as bad as I thought. 50k should be absolutely fine I would think. Here is the output of top showing btsync at idle: PID USER PR NI VIRT R
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by da_n 13y ago
Thanks for your detailed reply. It pretty much mirrors things I've heard elsewhere, it seems file sync is one issue in particular which can be slow and prone to errors, it is a shame as an all in one solution would be great. Funnily en
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by da_n 13y ago
How do you find Owncloud, is it reliable enough? I have heard it has a lot of bugs, can be very slow and in rare instances deletes data at random which would be unacceptable to me. I am using Baikal for CardDav and CalDav which has been ver
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by da_n 13y ago
I think they could really get an edge over other email providers if they went all out as a pro-privacy/non-US email alternative. They would need to exit the US though to take such a claim seriously, which is unlikely.
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by da_n 13y ago
So far I've looked into 1984hosting.com and orangewebsite.com, both pricey compared to what I'm used to but I guess that is the price of better privacy. There is a cheaper one called icelandvps.com but they are owned by a UK paren
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by da_n 13y ago
I'm currently looking into setting up a VPS in Iceland or Germany and running my own mail server from it, moving away from Fastmail. It saddens me as I both dislike managing my own mail server and really like Fastmail, but having my em
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by da_n 13y ago
Totally, let me just go and tell my lobbyist to petition them... oh wait. Giving the government hell is all well and good, but it is unlikely to cause much in the way of change. If businesses start to feel the pain on the other hand, then t
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by da_n 13y ago
Guess I should have been more specific, it is an official D-Notice by the MOD relating to Tempura: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/17/defence-d-bbc-m... http://order-order.com/2
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by da_n 13y ago
There is a gag order on the media against any reporting of GCHQ. Ministry of Truth is in full effect in the UK right now.
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by da_n 13y ago
Good collection. iOS7 is an obvious improvement over previous iOS versions (perhaps with the exception of the icons) and has done a good job of bringing iOS up to date visually. Worth remembering that there are a lot of inconsistencies in A
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by da_n 13y ago
It is weird how a business phone caught on just because of BBM.
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by da_n 13y ago
By the way read this specifically the DA-Notice, UK has been gag ordered so the Guardian is nothing but a distraction at this point as they are complying with the notice. Sure, they have revealed some interesting stuff but they cannot also
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by da_n 13y ago
Well, go and look at the Wikipedia entry for PRISM and follow the leads to the UK coverage, anything to do with GCHQ is gag ordered. Nobody is talking about this fact, yet we should all do a kumbayah around the fire because Google have rele
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by da_n 13y ago
+1. I think a lot of people just want this thing to "go away", be happy and remember the great stuff the US does, just admire the philanthropic endeavours this multi-billion dollar company is doing, all in the name of education an
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by da_n 13y ago
Yes, I guess my comment was about how ridiculous it is that this was my feeling and reaction, that the situation we are in makes me jump to such conclusions. I have a lot of faith that the ground level sys admins and engineers at Google are
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by da_n 13y ago
Great, but to be honest this all feels almost cynical at this point coming from Google, headline might as well read: > NSA unleashes Coder for Raspberry Pi as kid-friendly tool Don't get me wrong, I have a Raspberry Pi and think it
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by da_n 13y ago
-- Sent from my MacBook Pro
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by da_n 13y ago
For someone who lives more and more on the command line Pass looks really nice. The only issue I have is that the lastpass importer is not working for me, tried it with 2 different version of Ruby but always get a NoMethodError. Adding 400+
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by da_n 13y ago
This is good news for Mailpile, and an interesting project I have donated. Anyone looking to raise funds needs to take note however that the decision was only reversed by PayPal because of the bad publicity, they wouldn't give a shit o
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by da_n 13y ago
The lack of privacy is a bug which needs to be fixed, I don't believe the OP means a users right to privacy is a bug.
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by da_n 13y ago
Linux on the Desktop was a bug until Mark Cuban closed it (controversially). I'm not sure why referring to it as a bug is disturbing.
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by da_n 13y ago
It is not as polished as Dropbox yet, but since this is Hacker News one solution would be to have BitTorrent Sync running on a home server then you could just SSH/sFTP to retrieve files. I have a Raspberry Pi running 24/7 on my ho
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by da_n 13y ago
I am not assuming and I agree about the magical box, but I have little sympathy for user ignorance and tire of this as an excuse. In the UK we are facing massive internet censorship because the masses of 'computer is magic' users
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by da_n 13y ago
This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. You're using a web based email service and you're sending postcards when you should be sending letters. Both this and Lavabit feel like distractions.
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by da_n 13y ago
> you’re trusting an advertising company with all your personal data :-) Although this is probably my single biggest gripe with Android, you should employ just as little trust in any of the big tech companies at this point; Apple, Micros
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by da_n 13y ago
> Good artists copy, great artists steal. Pablo Picasso To the devs, congratulations on a truly stunning OS, I think I will be swapping out my Linux Mint install very soon.
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by da_n 13y ago
Do as I say, not as I do. (though not to say I approve of phone tracking).

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