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by ge0rg 8y ago
I also had the initial impression that the article is misleading, but later on the author made the point that the C compiler is doing significant work to reorder / parallelize / optimize the code. I agree that x86/x64 is not
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by ge0rg 8y ago
Last discussion of Briar on HN (9 months ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14825019
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Iran releases messaging app Soroush to replace Telegram(aljazeera.com)
2 points by ge0rg 8y ago|0 comments
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by ge0rg 8y ago
RSS feeds that provide a paragraph (or less) and a "more..." link make me unsubscribe immediately. I'm most often reading my feeds when offline or on the go, and not having the full article makes it worthless.
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by ge0rg 9y ago
Don't forget that these 90 days are also 90 more days where this vulnerability can be exploited by attackers. Microsoft has set up a patch delivery infrastructure that's pretty effective and comparably fast by industry standards,
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by ge0rg 9y ago
Original source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=15...
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by ge0rg 9y ago
Except that everybody knows that the "fake" phone number prefix is 555: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_(telephone_number) ;-)
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by ge0rg 9y ago
Disable UPnP in the router settings. In theory, that should close the hole. Disable remote maintenace / web access. Many router web UIs have exploitable flaws that can be used to bypass password authentication. Ensure that you are alwa
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by ge0rg 9y ago
The full Akamai report linked from the article also outlines that this technique (accessing UPnP from the Internet while pretending to come from the LAN) allows to expose the router's LAN services (e.g. web interface) on the Internet.
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by ge0rg 9y ago
Efficiency of transmission. Having shorter codes for more frequent letters reduces the average length of the encoding.
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by ge0rg 9y ago
Ejabberd and prosody are the most widely used ones. For prosody you should also consider using the community prosody-modules repository that adds many modern features. I'm running prosody 0.10 on a server for my app users, with multipl
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by ge0rg 9y ago
Briar seems to be an interesting p2p encrypted chat and forum system.
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by ge0rg 9y ago
I've been using   for my own blogs, but there are more options available, e.g. here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/8515417/539443
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by ge0rg 9y ago
Or, the "smart" TV is cheaper than a technically comparable flat screen that just comes with HDMI-In.
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by ge0rg 9y ago
It never was perfectly valid . That blog post is incorrect, and network engineers are perfectly fine arguing against that practice. The IP address 1.1.1.1 was reserved by APNIC and now belongs to the APNIC and Cloudflare research project.
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by ge0rg 9y ago
As said in other comments there is no obligation for any company to store personal information, and without such information the request can be easily dealt with by a simple form letter. Companies storing and losing PII have a huge negative
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Somebody’s watching When cameras are more than just ‘smart’(securelist.com)
1 points by ge0rg 9y ago|0 comments
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by ge0rg 9y ago
I don't see how. You would still need to authenticate with that group, so it wouldn't automatically allow anonymous participants from the Internets.
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by ge0rg 9y ago
In theory, we can. However, building a well-working multi-platform chat client is a significant task, imagine a 5-10 person team working over a year, plus the long-term maintenance support. IRC might not be the right protocol for that, beca
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by ge0rg 9y ago
For prosody you'll need the community modules repository from https://modules.prosody.im/ to have modern features. Also please don't enable public registration on your server, or it will become a spam relay in a m
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by ge0rg 9y ago
It's perfectly fine to make money, nobody argues that. The point is that Open Source and making money don't contradict each other. Examples: - Conversations, the Android XMPP client, is GPL and sold on Google Play: https:/&#
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by ge0rg 9y ago
There is some serious work on making federated XMPP work together with APNS. The iOS client developer needs to run a proxy server that will accept notifications from XMPP servers and wake up the client via APNS (this is required by how APNS
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by ge0rg 9y ago
As a user, I was very disappointed to see that the gateways must be enabled by the project owner, not by the users themselves. In the end none of the Slack groups I've participated in allowed me to connect via IRC/XMPP.
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by ge0rg 9y ago
Conversations is keeping its own TCP connection to the server. Battery usage depends on how many XMPP contacts you have, which modules your server has enables and whether you have the F-Droid or the Google Play version of the app. Come to t
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by ge0rg 9y ago
3. use a phone number from a semi-anonymous online VoIP service like https://jmp.chat/ (can be reached via Tor)
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by ge0rg 9y ago
You register with public jabber servers and send thousands of messages to crawled and constructed destination addresses: https://yaxim.org/blog/2017/12/22/spam-reduction-on-yax-dot-... https:/&#x2F
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by ge0rg 9y ago
This is a myth. If you didn't commit a crime, you aren't on the hook for it. This is a nice theory. In Germany, if you are the owner of a SIM card associated with a crime, it is well possible that a prosecutor will consider this
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by ge0rg 9y ago
The major hurdle in this situation is that most XMPP clients are developed by FOSS volunteers or small underfunded developer groups. There is no VC monetization concept to be built on top of federated messaging, and there is no benevolent b
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by ge0rg 9y ago
Unfortunately, tour tickets are a scarce resource and there is a whole secondary market that makes tickets even more expensive [0]. This is not an argument pro or contra copyright, just another limitation of this approach. [0] http:/&
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by ge0rg 9y ago
We made a lot of money from these players who spent thousands. They are known to the industry as "Whales". I haven't seen this addressed yet, but what if the whales we are seeing are not poor addicted victims nor rich peopl

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