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by foresto 6y ago
If left unattended, an attacker could install bootable code that impersonates your normal startup sequence, prompting for your encryption key and booting as normal, but secretly storing or forwarding the key to the attacker. (I believe this
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by foresto 6y ago
Depends on the device. This could be done (with some hackery) on Sony Xperia phones from several years ago, but more recent ones will brick if you try it. I think Google's Pixel phones will let you re-lock, but my impression is that m
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by foresto 6y ago
> If you want packages that are actually recent you have to sit on Sid There are other options. For example, you can sit on stable and get specific packages from unstable, so long as they don't have dependency conflicts with the res
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by foresto 6y ago
> Smart background replace with optional green screen support I find that one curious. Can you elaborate on it? I'm having trouble thinking of a situation that would make it a need. I don't particularly want people having a vie
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by foresto 6y ago
This might be more to your liking: https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/NASCase The first unit I got (the case) had manufacturing flaws, but the second one was okay. The board it's built for has been doing well in th
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by foresto 6y ago
I look forward to more ARM boards getting mainline kernel support for exactly this reason. > Better buy a RPi4 with a NAS Hat Do you know of such a HAT that does USB-attached SCSI Protocol correctly and reliably, and passes through SMART
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by foresto 6y ago
> the rpi4 is hardly the best in many ways, but it is the one board that likely isn't going to be abandoned in a couple years. That might have been true once upon a time, but not any more. Once a board is supported by the open sourc
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by foresto 6y ago
Counterpoint: This is an Amlogic S905X device, presumably similar under the hood to the S905. Armbian already supports at least one such device (ODROID-C2) using the current kernel, so once the device tree configuration is worked out, NAS s
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by foresto 6y ago
Does anyone else remember the learn(1) program by Kernighan & Lesk? That's how I got started with Unix, and I sincerely think it was simpler back then. https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads
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by foresto 6y ago
Arlo Guthrie would be proud.
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by foresto 6y ago
I've been bookmarking point-to-point file transfer tools. These are not file hosting services like Firefox Send; both endpoints must be online at the same time. Nevertheless, I suspect they might be useful to some other folks here. Ple
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by foresto 6y ago
Last time I looked, FilePizza failed on large files, seemingly because it wanted to pull them entirely into RAM. Has that changed?
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by foresto 6y ago
On the other hand, those documents are well organized and clearly written, which makes skipping around to just the parts you need rather easy. A wealth of example material and helper tools (e.g. lintian) are also available, and all the poli
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by foresto 6y ago
I would phrase that: Companies should not be able to hide from us what they are instructing our hardware to do, especially with our data.
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by foresto 6y ago
I still see examples of this in modern games. Overwatch chose cartoonish visuals while other shooters aimed for realism, and the result is both more appealing to my eye and more performant. A few more years down the road, I suspect Overwa
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by foresto 6y ago
I suspect many people buy from Amazon because they can't find what they want anywhere else, or don't want to be stuck with shipping and restocking fees if something is wrong with it, or both. Sadly, there aren't many vendors
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by foresto 6y ago
TikTok might (as far as we know and at any given moment) collect fewer individual pieces of data than other apps, but they have been caught circumventing protections and covertly collecting data. https://www.msn.com/en-us&#x
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by foresto 6y ago
Somewhat tangential: If you use software in American English but dislike American date and time formats, you might see if your OS respects the en_DK locale setting. It works on most recent linux systems I've tried. $ LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-
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by foresto 6y ago
I agree in principle, and I look forward to the day when all my requirements can be met without self-hosting or trusting another party with metadata. After all, most people don't have the means to self-host. Multiple projects (includin
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by foresto 6y ago
Yeah, Wire failed my requirements, but I probably should have mentioned it. (I simply forgot about it when I was posting.) There's the issue you mentioned, and there's also the issue of them violating their published policy (eithe
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by foresto 6y ago
Yes. The reference clients recently started displaying those differently from group conversations, but the visual distinction has been pretty minor so far.
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by foresto 6y ago
I think it's important to distinguish mass surveillance from targeted surveillance. They present very different threat models. I need a general-purpose chat tool for use with friends, family, and business contacts. Protection from targ
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by foresto 6y ago
I didn't, but since you linked to it, I took a peek. I couldn't find any linux, macos, or windows support within a couple minutes of visiting the site, so it fails my "cross-platform" and "easy enough" requirem
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by foresto 6y ago
Earlier this year, I finally took the time to revisit the state of instant messaging services. My requirements: - open source - cross-platform (linux, mac, windows, ios, android) - group chats - end-to-end encryption - well-understood cryp
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by foresto 6y ago
The Internet Archive is younger than Deja News. Someone would have had to provide the data. Did they? If you want to look, you might start here: https://archive.org/details/usenet
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by foresto 6y ago
Indeed. While we're at it, let's not forget the PRISM [1] program, or the fact that "privacy from advert companies" does not imply "privacy from all surveillance". [1] https://www.theguardian.com&#x2
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by foresto 6y ago
Ugh. Yet another design by someone who keeps their browser window maximized (or has the luxury of an enormous display) and expects everyone else to do the same. A few things that leap out at me: - Large margins everywhere - Sidebar gobbling
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by foresto 6y ago
> I think security and ease of use are mutually exclusive. > I can't think of a single counterexample where security did not have an effect on usability. Sticking with the "mutually exclusive" criterion, wouldn't s
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by foresto 6y ago
> Please wake up, we miss you. I think that sentence gives itself away as modern. Were comma splices in common use 20 years ago?
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by foresto 6y ago
Thank you. I spent ten minutes looking for a project index when I discovered sourcehut today, and failed to find one. Am I blind, or is there no link to https://sr.ht/projects from the main sr.ht or sourcehut.org pages? Wha

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