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by hellcow 5y ago
I bought a system76 years ago wanting to support their open source work. Maybe it's changed since (?), but mine had a Clevo shell which meant it had a bad keyboard and a terrible trackpad, with a cheap plastic feel and lots of flex. It
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I came from iptables and still have the misfortune of needing to use that in my job. :) My favorite feature of pf is the configuration file, which is a human-readable/writable file which sets the state in a consistent way, rather than
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I use OpenBSD because it's a very pragmatic choice for servers. Nearly everything is "off" by default and I can add only the specific things I need, reducing the attack surface. Pledge/unveil makes sandboxing my applicat
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by hellcow 5y ago
May have happened? Given what we've learned about the NSA over the years, the news that's leaked is consistently _worse_ than expected, not better. Pessimism is warranted. This policy provides cover for the NSA's PRISM partne
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by hellcow 5y ago
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Facebook has made promises, then broken those promises, time and again. They've lied to founders they've acquired, to users, and to governments and regulators. If anyone trus
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by hellcow 5y ago
Matrix is a protocol. Element is a reference app built on top of that protocol, and Element looks like Slack/Discord. Other apps built on Matrix do not look like Slack, e.g. Fluffychat, which looks very similar to Signal.
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by hellcow 5y ago
Got it. So the concern is that there's no support for time-based deletion of messages? That is on their public roadmap, and I think it's reasonable to assume that'll be deployed before modern ECC is broken. Or am I misunderst
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They use perfect forward secrecy through OLM, no?
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Matrix is a protocol, Element is a Slack-like app on Matrix. It sounds like you have issues with Element as a replacement for Signal, which I totally get, but I think it's worth distinguishing Element from Matrix. Element being the onl
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I don't think anyone takes issue with the fact that the mistake was made or that it was really hard to track down. Shit happens. How you handle it is everything. No communication on it and issuing no warning to their users for a critic
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In word but not in spirit. They stopped updating their repo for an entire year while integrating a crypto shitcoin in secret. These actions betray trust, and trust is Signal's entire reason for being.
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Matrix is a solid replacement. Element isn't as easy to use but it's coming along. Quality-of-life features normal users expect like stickers, gifs, etc. are woefully lacking, but the important stuff (y'know, actual messagin
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by hellcow 5y ago
If this article interests you, give Tasting History on YouTube a look.[0] The host recreates historical recipes and ties in primary-source research along the way. He did a series on Roman food -- what the legions ate, etc. 0. https:/&
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by hellcow 5y ago
The issues I encountered while using MariaDB in place of MySQL were subtle -- most things worked as expected, which makes the issues so much more unexpected. But at the end of the day, the same migrations produced a different schema. Arguab
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by hellcow 5y ago
Yes, this is what I do. You just set a DNS record on a subdomain, e.g. matrix.mydomain.com, and use that as your home server. Your username can still be @me:mydomain.com with this setup.
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Nc6
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I set up Tailscale on Android to use my Pihole from anywhere. Works pretty well.
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Uber tried to charge me $90 to go 25 minutes away from LAX -- the Uber lot had almost no people waiting (not a busy time, and the middle of the day), and it had a 25 min wait. I took a cab instead, $50 including tip and 3 mins in line. I do
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Not when it outputs large sections of unique code verbatim, as it's been shown to do.
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What do you disagree with specifically? The reasoning in that link is absolutely correct. We can argue that POP, etc. should have 2FA support added to the protocol, but that's not the point the author was making.
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Firefox offers bottom UI on Android and supports ublock origin.
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Probably 5%. It's extremely low. Most either don't show up on time or fail fizzbuzz.
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by hellcow 5y ago
I should have clarified, the first interview is just a code screen. People submit resumes, and we test them with fizzbuzz. 90% of applicants are removed at this first filter.
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by hellcow 5y ago
For what it's worth on the hiring side, applicants lie (or more charitably, wildly overestimate their own abilities) all the time. Of resumes I see, 50% of them will not show up on time to their interview. Of the 50% that do, 80% canno
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Implementing Private Fields for JavaScript – Mozilla(hacks.mozilla.org)
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There are two types of options, NSO and ISO. You want ISO as an employee because it's better for taxes, but that has a 90-day exercise window set by the IRS. You can push for yourself paying higher taxes in exchange for more flexibilit
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by hellcow 5y ago
> what founders risk in terms of opportunity costs and lower wages is usually only slightly more than very early stage employees Maybe this is different for others, but my co-founder and I spent 2 years bootstrapping before we got our fi
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UltimateGuitar is a horrible website full of dirty UX to force certain behaviors and block others. You wanted to zoom in on a tab? That's a paid subscription feature! Trying to browse on your phone while at a practice session with your
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The most interesting part to me wasn't the technical details but rather the MAU, WAU, DAU stats at the end from random sample. Way fewer people than I would have expected use WhatsApp on a weekly basis.
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It's actually worse than that. They fired their auditor, presumably when that auditor uncovered the fraud and refused to produce a positive report.

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