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by diafygi 7y ago
When framed correctly, a stateless browser is totally acceptable for general users. General users have no concept of cookies, so if you describe browsers as just a dumb window to let you load websites, it totally makes sense that you would
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by diafygi 7y ago
I like donating what I call "The Orwell Tax". $19.84 per month (or year, if you can't afford monthly).
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by diafygi 7y ago
Isn't this exactly how McDonald's did it?
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by diafygi 7y ago
And that's fine. It is a great way to bootstrap a small circle of trust that can be used apart from any large centralized infrastructure. It seems like everyone is trying to find a way to make a global trust network (keybase, LinkedIn,
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by diafygi 7y ago
Is the difference now that the tracking metadata used to be set at upload time, and now it's set at download time? Presumably, if you set it at download time, you can not only track the uploader but also the downloader.
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by diafygi 7y ago
I'm confused. Does the patch now make it to where if you drag the app to the trash, it actually uninstalls?
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by diafygi 7y ago
If you're ever in Dallas, TX, the Perot museum is one of the best children's science museums in the world. Highly recommended for both kids and adults.
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by diafygi 7y ago
> But insisting Zoom change the software because it's possible some doofus might be duped into joining a meeting with someone is kinda ridiculous, IMO. In my experience (the energy sector), most of the people I interact with on Zoom
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by diafygi 7y ago
I'm curious why you think it's not an option? And what makes you think it's a luxury? A cleantech job is just like any other job.
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by diafygi 7y ago
For HN, there's an extremely important item missing from this list: * Get a job in cleantech. I got into the climate-change fighting industry 6 years ago when I became a project engineer for a commercial solar company, then eventually
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by diafygi 7y ago
Isn't this basically what Duplicity does? It uses GPG to encrypt files before sending them to the remote server. https://www.nongnu.org/duplicity/
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by diafygi 7y ago
Have a fully functional ad-blocker. Firefox + uBlock Origin is the only thing that makes mobile browsing tolerable. IPhones don't let you install add-ons in browsers, so you're stuck with rule-based content blocking, which has cap
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by diafygi 7y ago
Can you please explain a bit more about these CIA poisoning attacks? As far as I know, the vulnerability here is just flooding keys with spam signatures so much that the public keys crash sks keyservers and gpg when downloaded. That seems l
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by diafygi 7y ago
I'm a bit confused as to the point you're trying to make. Can you please elaborate?
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by diafygi 7y ago
> The fact that it is simultaneously a "hobby" and an "attempt to help activists communicate securely" is emblematic of the whole problem here. Isn't that the way it usually gets done for most non-profit altruist
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by diafygi 7y ago
> This isn't the first time the GnuPG ecosystem has responded this way to attacks. Hmmmm, I think this is a bit of squeaky wheel situation going on. Remember that the sks keyserver pool is mostly a decentralized group of volunteers
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by diafygi 7y ago
Hmmmm, isn't that an inherent property of any for-public-use database? By your definition, any public pki (keybase.io, keys.openpgp.org, etc.), social network (Twitter, Facebook, Mastodon, etc.), and more are vulnerable to someone just
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by diafygi 7y ago
> Any particular reason it's difficult to maintain (other than the lack of popularity of FP in general)? A much bigger issue than the language itself is the overall architecture of the server. It uses Berkeley DB as the main databas
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by diafygi 7y ago
I have maintained keyserver in the pool for many years[1], and attacks like this are, in theory, able to be easily mitigated. I mean, we're only talking about appending spam to public keys. It's not like the attackers found some f
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by diafygi 7y ago
Do you have a recommendation for a phone that has a <=5" screen that is supported by LineageOS and MicroG? It seems like most of the well supported phones are too big to comfortably fit in my pocket.
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by diafygi 7y ago
My ideal for mobile: Firefox + uBlock Origin + Containers Now: Firefox + uBlock Origin (no Containers) Upcoming: Firefox (no uBlock Origin, no Containers) Seems like we're moving backwards, no?
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by diafygi 7y ago
> In legal filings, Google has disputed that conservatives are an identifiable class under the law. In a decision, the judge on the case said the court “indeed has doubts” about the viability of the idea, but it is, for the time being, l
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by diafygi 7y ago
> What if the person being ordered to hand over the password says "I forgot"? How do we know if they have genuinely forgotten the password? I'm curious what case law there is there for this situation. I change my passwords
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by diafygi 7y ago
For years I have been working with my mom to get her to be suspicious of any pop-ups in her browser. Many times she has texted me a photo asking if some pop-up update box was legit (almost always a shady ad). When she got her new computer,
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by diafygi 7y ago
Just so I have good arguments when talking to someone about this specific point, can you or someone else please go into more detail on why this will happen?
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by diafygi 7y ago
Hmmmm, the issue with train of thought is that it assumes Altman is dismissing many other energy experts' who are saying they do know how to solve x. Silicon Valley can't be that much of a bubble to think that just because it hasn
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by diafygi 7y ago
> Building carbon-neutral energy sources is a hard problem, but most experts are optimistic about our ability to solve this (for example, nuclear fusion). Having been in the carbon-neutral energy sources industry for a while, I agree wit
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by diafygi 7y ago
Oh totally. If next gen nuclear can help decarbonize the last 10%, that would be great. However the tone in OP's comment seemed more like nuclear is our only hope. When in reality it will likely be something to meet edge cases rather t
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by diafygi 7y ago
> nuclear energy seems to be the only way we have right now to at least try to avoid the oncoming climate catastrophe. Fortunately, within the past few years, this is no longer true. Renewables + storage are now cheaper than nuclear as a

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