hobarrera

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by hobarrera 12y ago
Since it's just for backwards compatibility, modern clients should never drop to unencrypted communication. It's the server that needs to support older clients, not the other way around.
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by hobarrera 12y ago
STARTTLS isn't just "optional encryption". For example, my email server will accept any email encrypted or not, but will only allow authentication over a channel if it's encrypted. But encryption is not optional for th
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by hobarrera 12y ago
The "alt" attributes on images (at least on the few templates I saw), are pretty bad. For example, here [0] all the social icons have an alt of "social icon". Have you guys even tried looking at these templates on a non
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by hobarrera 12y ago
How is it superior to existing IM protocols (eg: XMPP)? The article comapres it to skype, which is popular, but, techonologically, one of the worst protocols around.
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by hobarrera 12y ago
As is XMPP. Does Tox actually offer any advantages?
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by hobarrera 12y ago
License is one of the reasons. OpenBSD uses the BSD license, and has a strong preference for it when it comes to the base system, base tools, etc. There's no chance they'll move something so critical to GPL-licensed software.
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by hobarrera 12y ago
Honestly, if you're using windows (which, AFAIK, is the only OS that includes Comic Sans), why the are you complaining about being unable to trust security software from a certain provider?
1178.
by hobarrera 12y ago
This works for your goal (being able to reproduce the binary build), but in Mozilla's case it's slightly different. Being FLOSS software, Mozilla's goal is that end-users can completely reproduce the builds from source. Thi
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by hobarrera 12y ago
Looks a lot like the terminal from Plan 9 from Bell Labs. Using a mouse, is regrettably, too slow to replace current keyboard-based terminals.
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by hobarrera 13y ago
Yes there is. The maemo/meego community reverse engineered it and created a proof-of-concept java app, and a totally working meego app for the N9. Check their forum for protocol info, etc, but there's clearly enough to create a desktop app