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by dngray 1y ago
More spam? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44001768
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by dngray 2y ago
Or maybe just different marketing strategy eg Nord costs more to begin with, and then they use "promo" deals with offer huge discounts resulting in a normal price again.
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by dngray 2y ago
PIA is just one of the Kape brands. Nord Security owns the Nord, Surfshark and a bunch of others.
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by dngray 2y ago
That website is owned by a VPN company iirc, specifically NordVPN or at least they astroturf for them. Note that on the side there is 1 & 2 VPNs and they're NordVPN and Surfshark which have the same parent relationship as they merg
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by dngray 2y ago
Funnily enough Windscribe did an article on this: - https://kumu.io/Windscribe/vpn-relationships - https://windscribe.com/vpnmap The main two that parent poster would be talking about would be "Ka
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by dngray 2y ago
That very reason was raised in parliament, during question time by one senator, but neither side (LNP/Labor) gives a shit.
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by dngray 2y ago
I switched from this to https://github.com/toppair/peek.nvim as it's in lua and does more a less the same thing. Combine that with https://asdf-vm.com for the deno runtime.
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by dngray 2y ago
> what they do, or what dot file managers they use, but there's something to be said for building a workflow that works for you Like consuming time. If there is a tool which does what you need like chezmoi then you should use it, so
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by dngray 2y ago
As someone who used yadm, and switched to chezmoi, the main reason was templating was so much better in chezmoi, no external dependencies. Also less need on any scripts to set things up, due to chezmoi being more "deterministic" w
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by dngray 2y ago
Yup, I tried a number of dotfile managers. I think yadm was the first one I started with and then ended up with chezmoi. The main reason was because I discovered the power of templating. With Yadm it required an external dependency, envptl,
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by dngray 2y ago
I think he just likes to tell us about his 1 hour sex sessions if I'm being honest.
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by dngray 2y ago
To be honest after reading that, I only come to the conclusion they're a bit antisocial. > I'm not interested in collaborating, I like to work alone. Or with people I hire. If I hire people I find you, you don't need to m
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by dngray 2y ago
They will always need to strengthen requirements to strengthen security. In the past Microsoft has too heavily aimed for compatibility at the cost of security. This was pretty much their thing in the Windows XP days and everyone laughed at
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by dngray 2y ago
I always find these comments hilarious, because at some point Windows 10 will no longer have any security support. It certainly won't come as OEM with new hardware. This is not a big deal. Most laptops have TPM 2.0, and most motherboar
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by dngray 2y ago
> Apple's and Google's _push notification servers_ This never effected signal as no data that is sensitive was ever sent via that. Again though warrants against Signal are not new, and for years law enforcement has been getti
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by dngray 2y ago
> conceding defeat and accepting a centralized Internet I think you can still have decentralization without having to be a sysop. That may be server operators that run small servers etc. Decentralization doesn't inherently mean priv
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by dngray 2y ago
> Or it is my home server sitting at my router serving my family. That works in your situation, but not for most people who don't want to have to maintain a moving part. Also hosting in general on a residential connection can depend
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by dngray 2y ago
Totally the right answer, or maybe using Talk over SSH https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_(software)
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by dngray 2y ago
> And does that invalidate any of my point Yes it does, because the threat model there is not the server itself. You trust that as it's your employer's server and you're using it for work related purposes. > Timing alon
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by dngray 2y ago
> Routing data between servers and networks you literally control This isn't always the case, not every user is a server admin. Also for group chats other server admins will certainly know what data your requesting. TLDR is that XMP
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by dngray 2y ago
> This is much less critical when the protocol is federated False. Federated protocols typically have a lot more, as there is routing data between servers. The same goes for things like Matrix. The only thing that Matrix servers can see
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by dngray 2y ago
> As in not anything to do with XMPP specifically. The fact that STARTTLS is even possible with that protocol is bad.
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by dngray 2y ago
> more complicated without adding significant functionality This simply is untrue. Having first class E2EE that covers VOIP and all features (eg Matrix, Signal etc) like that is obviously a benefit. Essentially you can't "use M
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by dngray 2y ago
The main reason we won't list it on privacyguides.org is the encryption is not always on by default. There are two major problems, the implementations and the fact the spec isn't specific. I'm not particularly bothered by t
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by dngray 2y ago
Also relevant https://soatok.blog/2024/08/04/against-xmppomemo/ recently. It's quite critical of some of the code quality of common implementations as well as the fracturing across different clients
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by dngray 2y ago
The idea of using AI to practice what you might say to your girlfriend sounds terrifying. I can only see this leading to inauthentic conversations which have been rehearsed for an optimal result - and not a person's true feelings. Seem
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by dngray 2y ago
I switched from Yadm to Chezmoi. The main reason was because there invariably is always something slightly sensitive you don't want in a dotfile and the rest of the file is okay. Yadm uses third party tools to do jinja templating. The
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by dngray 2y ago
100% agree. Not sure why you'd randomly play round robin with a bunch of DNS servers. What purpose is this feature even for? If privacy is what you're intending however, DNS is only one part of that and there are other ways in whi
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by dngray 3y ago
I think this might be spam, there's basically no article, and it has a popup trying to get user's email address.
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by dngray 3y ago
I don't honestly know why you'd pay for this when there are better community projects like https://www.lazyvim.org which have contributors from the official NeoVim team like the fantastic Folke Lemaitre https:/&#

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