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by gst 14y ago
If you're fine with limited hardware just use hardware that is supported by Linux. Every Thinkpad I've used so far worked perfectly out of the box. If you're not sure what to buy just look at the list of Ubuntu certified hardware: http://w
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by gst 14y ago
Nope - it's not. And for me also the Paypal behavior is broken, as I'm resident of multiple countries. Just wanted to point out that the above statement about Paypal was wrong. For a positive example look at the Google Play Store: The apps
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by gst 14y ago
Paypal didn't sort this out. It's the same as for the App Store. Your account is bound to one given country and when you move to another country you are supposed to close the account and re-open another one. In addition, you can only link b
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by gst 14y ago
I don't want to discuss if helmets actually have any safety advantage (there are studies claiming both things). But I don't think that biking is a particularly dangerous activity. I don't wear a helmet while walking on the street or while d
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by gst 14y ago
There are already lots of responses regarding rain. For snow I suggest buying studded tires. They worked really well for me while I lived in Vienna.
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by gst 14y ago
The Zahlschein that is still very common in Germany isn't really any more modern than a check.
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by gst 14y ago
So recording a phone call (without consent) is a reason for locking someone up for 21 years?
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by gst 14y ago
Isn't there some commonly accepted cryptographic digital signature standard in the US, as it's the case in many European countries (where the user's keys are basically certified by a government agency)? Using simple pictures as "digital sig
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by gst 14y ago
And now replace the "Freenet" in your sentence with "Internet". The sentence is still valid. But would this be a reason to shutdown the Internet or to not run any Internet backbone routers?
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by gst 14y ago
Up until at last something like one year ago Google Chat didn't even support the full Jingle spec, but only Google's Jingle-like variant.
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by gst 14y ago
This was already possible years ago. I used a patched Psi (XMPP) client for VoIP calls to Google Talk clients in 2006 (IIRC).
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by gst 14y ago
Wuala can deduplicate encrypted data. The encryption is a little bit weaker than standard encryption (because you can tell if two users are hosting the same file), but it's not possible to determine a file's content from the cipher text (if
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by gst 14y ago
I copy/pasted the text and sent it to my gmail address (to archive it), and gmail rejected the message with "Our system detected an illegal attachment on your message.". (There was no attachment, but just the main part). So it might be poss
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by gst 14y ago
That's only true for the US. In the majority of other countries algorithms aren't patentable.
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by gst 14y ago
It doesn't - if done right. When hibernating my laptop it writes the memory contents into swap - which is also encrypted. Yes, de-hibernating is slower if contents need to be read from disk. OTOH it's still faster than booting from disk.
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by gst 15y ago
There are dozens of choices - just don't follow the Lemmings that think they need to get the "largest" provider.
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by gst 15y ago
There is: https://www.dmachoice.org/ . It took quite a while (several months) until I noticed any changes, but my (very subjective) impression is that the (spam) mail volume decreased over time. Another thing I'd suggest is https://donotc
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by gst 15y ago
Does this mean that I can just limit my Bittorrent client to only connect to peers in Comcast's network, if I don't want Bittorrent traffic to count against my quota?
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by gst 15y ago
Yes - sending bounce messages isn't a good idea in most cases. But you don't need to: you can just reject messages during the SMTP dialog and then there's no need to send a bounce (that what's the mailserver I use does).
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by gst 15y ago
> and more SMS-like, almost real-time, and packed with multimedia content Unfortunately yes. Just a decade ago we made fun of people sending mails with HTML content because they didn't know better. The same goes for correct email quotin
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by gst 15y ago
IMO this looks overly complicated, especially as SPF works fine. The only problem with SPF right now is that many receivers (including) GMail don't abide to the specification. If there's an "-all" clause at the end this implies that you mus
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by gst 15y ago
> I wonder how large percentage of messages are dropped silently by services like GMail as a spam prevention measure. I bet it's non-zero. Nobody forces you to use GMail. There are other mailservers with a much more sane behavior. For e
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by gst 15y ago
"For petitions, open letters, or similar public communications that you've signed or completed, we treat your name, city, state, and comments as public information." Nice. So if I sign the petition they are allowed to sell my data?
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by gst 15y ago
As an Android user I must say that I really hate ads. I don't mind paying for apps, but I don't use apps that are infected with ads (even if they are free). In fact, if there's a premium and a free version available I almost always install
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by gst 15y ago
Some European countries tried out different systems in the past, for example the "Quick" system in Austria over a decade ago. As far as I know all of them failed. Quick was a small chip on a smart card that allowed you to store a monetary a
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by gst 15y ago
Wonder if the plan to also double the space you get on https://www.dropbox.com/edu
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by gst 15y ago
How do all those European data retention laws apply to US companies? Do US companies (with offices in Europe, but servers in the US) need to adhere to those data retention laws, or is it safe to use US-based services?
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by gst 15y ago
So without those servers the clients would break and can't resolve DNS requests. Is this correct? If it is, I don't understand why to bother at all with keeping them running. Just stop them. Internet will break for the people affected, they
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by gst 15y ago
It is hard. Very hard. A bitcoin address is basically the hash of a public key. It's trivial to prove that you are the owner of the address. Once you use names instead of addresses you need a mapping of names to addresses. Who owns a name?
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by gst 15y ago
box.net offers a webdav interface, even for their free accounts. That's an open standardized interface for box.net vs. a proprietary client for Dropbox.

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