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by groovybits 7y ago
I was attempting to explain in a simplified manner, since OP said that they did not know much about email encryption. But if you want to be semi-technical about it: Both the sender's and recipient's public keys are required to cal
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Yep. In that case, I wonder why they would list PIA as competition at all.
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by groovybits 7y ago
I was also confused by the competition chart[1] Regarding the VPN row, I don't think this is a case of being dishonest - meaning, Purism is lying. Rather, this chart simply feels like it was created hurriedly. What motive would they ha
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by groovybits 7y ago
PGP is a two-party system. The sender has a public/private keypair, and the recipient has a public/private keypair. The sender encrypts a message with the sender's priv key and the recipient's pub key. The recipient decr
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by groovybits 7y ago
> can't afford the phones they're making. Really? I was under the impression that Chinese consumers almost exclusively purchased Chinese-brand phones. How many sales do Samsung and Apple make in these countries? I thought that
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by groovybits 7y ago
> This is aiming for emerging markets Agreed > India and China India[1] and China are the two largest phone manufacturers in the world right now. I would not consider them emerging markets in terms of smartphones. 1: https:/&#x2
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by groovybits 8y ago
<< adblock >> PiHole works well for this: https://pi-hole.net
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by groovybits 8y ago
If I'm not mistaken, Firefox's currently built-in Tracking Protection also borrows from the base Disconnect blocking lists. So this would not be the first time they've used them.
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by groovybits 8y ago
Seemingly via donations only: https://archive.org/donate "The Internet Archive is a US 501c3 non-profit organization." So, similar to Wikipedia.
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by groovybits 8y ago
I'm curious, what about Spotify does not work with your Sonos speakers? I have a pair of Sonos Play 1 speakers in the house and have not had any issues with Spotify for the past few months.
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by groovybits 8y ago
> I really wish DDG would build a Google Apps competitor That sounds like it violates the nature in which DDG wishes to brand itself. It seems DDG does not want to be the next centralized data platform (this kills their brand of privacy)
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by groovybits 8y ago
> PhotoDNA is a technology developed by Microsoft [...] Some other services by MS that might build on this: * https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services * https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure&#x2
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by groovybits 8y ago
QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) is a protocol derived from Google's Speedy project. Another protocol would use QUIC to initiate a handshake between server and client. The cool thing is that it only takes one UDP packet to do what
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by groovybits 8y ago
Somewhat tangential: HTTP/3, which will also be using QUIC https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-quic-http-13
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by groovybits 8y ago
Not sure about Silicon Valley, but Steve Gibson is well known in the security community. He has been working on this for years now, and has had beta testers for the past year I believe. SQRL (as a whole deliverable package) is not finished
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by groovybits 8y ago
SQRL is not finished yet. Steve has said he will do an SN episode on it when its finished, soon(tm).
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by groovybits 8y ago
The main justification for the argument in this article is: 'Learn at your own pace is ineffective because dropout rates are high'. However, the source article [1] that references the dropout rates also questions whether dropout r
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by groovybits 8y ago
> Dropbox offers vast support to Linux Dropbox only supports unencrypted ext4 filesystems on Linux, so I would not use the phrase 'vast support'.
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by groovybits 8y ago
The action to resolve all of those is to use an AOSP ROM and do not sign into Google. Thats it. The hard part is de-coupling yourself from Google services, if you rely on them. That may be solved via self-hosted services. See: https:/
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Hosting your own, ie NextCloud or others
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by groovybits 8y ago
No. The only part of Google associated with LOS is that it uses G's DNS servers.
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by groovybits 8y ago
you can also do: !site <domain> <search string> ex: !site news.ycombinator.com duckduckgo equates to: site:news.ycombinator.com duckduckgo
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you can already query with a bang at the end of the search string. <something you want to search> !g
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by groovybits 8y ago
Not sure if you know, but GDPR deadline actually is May 25. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/gdpr-compliance-deadlin...
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by groovybits 8y ago
Is this the same classification project that was presented at this past Bsides NoVA?