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by ge0rg 9y ago
The sender could open a download connection and stall it as far as possible (maybe keep the download rate shaped to some bytes/second, to prevent an inactivity timeout). That would open a large time window for further downloads.
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by ge0rg 9y ago
Does that mean that all embedded WiFi (and probably also baseband) controllers are deeply rotten, and we only blame Broadcom so far because of their popularity with device manufacturers?
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by ge0rg 9y ago
I wish it were possible to make a service that lets you upload encrypted notes that will be made public after your death. That sounds like an awesome startup idea. Except that the startup will run out of money after two years and sell you
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by ge0rg 9y ago
There is no "DNS police" entity to force them, but just using a random domain will cause issues if that domain ever gets registered. First, you will begin leaking internal data by means of DNS requests, server connections, maybe e
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by ge0rg 9y ago
Original source (with screenshot): https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/6nhyur/t... That absolutely reminded me of the "Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?" Futurama sc
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by ge0rg 9y ago
Ironically, Vim IDE plugins often have slightly different behavior on seemingly identical key buildings...
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by ge0rg 9y ago
There are many free community servers, but you can't host your own domain with them. If this is a requirement, you can have a paid hosting for 1€/address/mo at https://account.conversations.im/domain/
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by ge0rg 9y ago
It looks like in some regions HipChat is a thing, while in others people don't even know what it is. I haven't seen it yet in my professional practice in Germany, whereas Lync (Skype 4 business) is almost everywhere...
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by ge0rg 9y ago
I think that ChatPro (or any other SV startup) is motivated in silo lock-in of their users indeed. Normal people don't care much about it, they just move to the next silo at some point. I see an interesting niche for XMPP in business d
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by ge0rg 9y ago
That might look a bit weird on the outside, but this is how protocol design works in the XSF. First you make a proposal (which is marked as Experimental), then you implement it and wait for other people to implement it as well, and then you
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by ge0rg 9y ago
File sharing, cross-device logs and encryption have been addressed in the last one-two years, pushed forward by Conversations on Android. However, getting that into other clients (e.g. on desktop/web) requires dedicated developers, and
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Easy XMPP: The Challenges(xmpp.org)
68 points by ge0rg 9y ago|60 comments
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by ge0rg 9y ago
many NATO guided bombs, missiles and drones rely on GPS navigation There are separate code sets for civilian and military GPS, and the latter should only be availability to US military equipment manufacturers. What I wonder is whether tha
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Git v2.14.1, v2.13.5, and others – security fix for CVE-2017-1000117(mail-archive.com)
21 points by ge0rg 9y ago|5 comments
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by ge0rg 9y ago
I think this is a political move disguised as technical move I think there are solid technical reasons to discourage Btrfs use, just to quote from the official wiki [0]: > The parity RAID code has multiple serious data-loss bugs in it
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by ge0rg 9y ago
Could you please elaborate, or provide examples? I can see how high-res pictures embedded in the app can add dozens of megabytes, and maybe a different runtime that you have to bundle for compat reasons, but multiple hundreds of MB?
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by ge0rg 9y ago
Unauthenticated installers have been a dumb idea from day 1. This finally looks like the right opportunity to get rid of them. I'm sure that having an additional step to verify your read/write access to the installation directory
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by ge0rg 9y ago
There was a nice in-depth analysis of the SEE at [0]. Furthermore, Apple has been very fast in fixing security issues, and rolling out updates to all of their user base, as opposed to the "These issues probably will never be fixed, buy
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by ge0rg 9y ago
Protocol bridges always only provide a subset of the original functionality, mostly because it's impossible to fully map one protocol to another. Of course, the same problem can happen for a multi protocol client as well, but at least
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Unix Time: 1,5B Seconds and Y2K38(op-co.de)
4 points by ge0rg 9y ago|0 comments
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by ge0rg 9y ago
Code needs to be compiled, but it isn't required to build everything from scratch whenever someone touches a source file. Except for C++, where a tiny change in a single object will require recompiling every file that transitively in
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by ge0rg 9y ago
The worst offender here is Microsoft, if you have a personal and a business account under the same email address (that alone is a major UX fuckup). But they add insult to injury by showing you a typical email+password form, and when you pre
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by ge0rg 9y ago
I think that solving the technical problem is in the same order of complexity as the IM problem actually. It is solvable if you have some strong backers and not just the nerdy volunteers doing it in their leasure time, the ones who are tell
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by ge0rg 9y ago
You could still have multiple different social networks per social context, which would compete on features, as opposed to lock-in and network effects.
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by ge0rg 9y ago
I remember those Wonder devices as well. They could emulate Hercules or CGA, but not EGA. The two available modes didn't look very different on a monochrome monitor though
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by ge0rg 9y ago
I got redirected to some winning notification that also stole focus from another app and broke the navigation history. All I could do was to close the tab. It's really ridiculous what Google allows and tolerates on mobile Chrome these
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by ge0rg 9y ago
Why does every website ever want me to download and install their app, when the web is just as powerful an application platform for 90% of use cases? Especially if the app is a really badly made bloated webview wrapper that doesn't w
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by ge0rg 9y ago
I tend to agree for privacy reasons, but message delivery receipts are really useful, especially when the other party is using a mobile connection.
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by ge0rg 9y ago
It might also be possible to use WeeChat or irssi as the IRC "server", using their respective IRC proxy module. You should be able to connect to those from bitlbee.
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by ge0rg 9y ago
Using an IRC client for XMPP guarantees a sub-par experience. I've been doing that for years with bitlbee (how do you join a MUC again?) and later with irssi-xmpp (whoops, Segmentation fault), but IRC has much fewer features than XMPP,

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