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by dngray 7y ago
> As someone who likes to think that I do have as many "commits/participation" as many others, I would appreciate it if people would focus on the core argument The reason this is important is because in recent times esse
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by dngray 7y ago
without naming names I see a lot of SJW in that issue without very many commits/participation in the open source community. Also the maintainers gave their reply as it is their prerogative to do so. > Michael Natterer @mitch · 5 ho
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by dngray 7y ago
One of the things that surprises me is the TorProject still uses SKS in their documentation. They don't make their keys available any other way or have their own key server https://support.torproject.org/tbb/how-to
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by dngray 7y ago
> It would be a better way, but the technology hinges on support by e-mail providers. I wouldn't recommend holding your breath. Ah. > The objective of the project was to develop new mechanisms for the reliable and automatic pu
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by dngray 7y ago
Isn't WKD supposed to help out with key distribution for email? * https://wiki.gnupg.org/WKD * https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-koch-openpgp-webkey-servic... I'm thinking that's a bette
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by dngray 7y ago
> I tried creating my own mail server with DigitalOcean but they didn't open port 25 for me > DO opens up port 25 by raising a support ticket. Should also note many of the DO IPs are on blacklists so you'll probably have
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by dngray 7y ago
> I quite like Fastmail. I switched from Gmail five years ago and have had no complaints. I have heard fastmail has a rather good user interface. Gmail's is terribly slow these days. They also are the only provider I know of that
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by dngray 7y ago
> Why would the current right-wing Australian government fund a socialist station? I think that's a matter of historical tradition. They have attempted, (and have in the past reduced funding).
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by dngray 7y ago
> I hate air dryers perhaps slightly too vehemently. When I was little I used to be worried they would eat my fingers, particularly ones that looked like https://i.imgur.com/hCMAQV7.jpg with that little shiny metal dom
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by dngray 7y ago
I would say one of these providers: * https://www.privacytools.io/providers/email/ * https://web.archive.org/web/20190619003906/https://www.priva... Ultimately free without enc
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by dngray 7y ago
I would say one of these providers: * https://www.privacytools.io/providers/email/ * https://web.archive.org/web/20190619003906/https://www.priva... Ultimately free without enc
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by dngray 7y ago
There was this a while back: https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted https://selfhosted.libhunt.com/ https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/ and possibly some of the opti
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by dngray 7y ago
> If business really wanted end to end un-eaves-droppable confidentiality they would have mandated S/MIME years ago. The very nature of a store-and-forward protocol without end to end encryption pretty much guarantees you don'
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by dngray 7y ago
> But the idea that Email can't evolve and change and should stay exactly the way it was, pretty much assures its death in the dust bin of history, the same way we lost USENET, LISTSERV, or even XMPP. Old standards didn't evol
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by dngray 7y ago
What I am curious to know is what stops someone using this to get around spam filtering. Ie send something that gets through the spam filter then change it later. Also on another note I'm pretty sure google marks your emails as spam if
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by dngray 7y ago
and that's not really the same thing. That couple could buy a cake anywhere else if they wanted. The thing is with social networking websites, there's nothing mandating that the company must allow content on their network that the
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by dngray 7y ago
> Customers should refuse to do business with companies that do not. Except that anti vaxxers are usually mentally ill themselves and are incapable of building product or service, particularly in the technology industry. That's wh
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by dngray 7y ago
> The first thing I thought about was Libranet Linux. Yes and you're on HN like me. This site caters for a certain audience.
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by dngray 7y ago
Also: https://www.daniel.priv.no/web-extensions/amp2html.html https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/amp2html-extension.html I opted out of this bullshit when it came out, works on Android Firefox too!
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by dngray 7y ago
HN doesn't do markdown, to get code text indent by 4 spaces. My userChrome.css looks like this https://github.com/dngray/ghacks-user.js/tree/fx-desktop#use... @namespace url("http://
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by dngray 7y ago
> For about:config, I put all my rules in a user.js file. Make that file in a synced folder (Dropbox, Nextcloud, Syncthing, etc.), go to your FF profile folder, and in there make a symlink to the actual synced user.js. That's exac
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by dngray 7y ago
Yes, more specifically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoriated_glass also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHjCKiXDIDc
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by dngray 7y ago
I am sure you could have figured this out for yourself: • May 5, 2019 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/android/66.0.4/release... • May 7, 2019 (further fix that was for the master password thing) h
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by dngray 7y ago
> The iPad didn't really suffer much from the same naming "problem". It's not really the same thing. Pad can often refer to things like "pads of paper", or be a slang name for an apartment. > Libra is
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by dngray 7y ago
> Isn't it strange that the Chinese copied facebook, but now facebook copys WeChat Not really, Facebook is lacking in originality and sees how much money can be made (Wechat is doing it). They also see how they can harvest huge am
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by dngray 7y ago
douche marks (one of the names people were calling them) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20181639 Yeah now it's called Libra. I can totally see my daughter wanting to think about her girl products every time she u
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by dngray 7y ago
> So you can't just say, let's use XMPP. You have to be very specific and make sure people use the right versions. I too ran an XMPP server for years, used plaintext and OTR, it was nice. This was in the days before everyone
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by dngray 7y ago
> Say you browse sites A B C D E, then later you go back and browse D, then B. > But recording A B C D E D B might be more cluttered, but more helpful as well. It shows you the decisions you made to browse from one thing to another
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by dngray 7y ago
> people setting their ESSID to "FBI Surveillance Van #16" or something, and watching the reactions. I wonder what reaction you'd get making your ESSID a penis 𓂸 https://boingboing.net/2018/10/31&
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by dngray 7y ago
I'm not really a cat person but I enjoyed it anyway (even if it got me in the feels). I am glad it was posted as I doubt I would have ever come across it otherwise.

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