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by jarfil 8y ago
Use a master passphrase instead of a password. Make it quite long, and personal, so that you won't forget it easily. The longer you make it, the more "obvious" (to yourself) can you make it sound, without compromising its sec
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by jarfil 8y ago
On the other hand, if you use a password manager to keep track of all those different passwords, just make them random 128bit hex values, you won't need to memorize them anyway.
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by jarfil 8y ago
Shouldn't this be called "Immutable Resources" rather than immutable web apps? Sure with JS the resources make up the app, but that index.html is still mutable, so no much different from an "index.php?section=whatever&qu
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by jarfil 8y ago
So you agree.
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by jarfil 8y ago
Let's also quote @empath75 which @dmerfild is answering to: > Free speech means no one is forced to do business with nazis.
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by jarfil 8y ago
That's why you want to participate under a different pseudonym. If you're OK with participating at all, that is.
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by jarfil 8y ago
They don't want to become liable for any illegal behavior and end up having to pay a fine. They don't want to be associated with any political stance that might not agree with the vast majority of the population because they want
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by jarfil 8y ago
Yes it does. Free speech means not stopping Nazis from expressing themselves, it doesn't mean you have to help them express themselves. If you want to express something I don't like, then I'm not gonna try to silence you, but
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by jarfil 8y ago
When you maintain a piece of code, that only you have written, for a couple of years, and making changes to it is as easy as the first day, then you're a good programmer. If every change to the code feels like adding another twist to t
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by jarfil 8y ago
Fingerprints, and especially the data captured by fingerprint sensors, is not unique, but it is so unlikely that two people will be recognized as the same one, that they are good enough.
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by jarfil 8y ago
The world cares about useful things, like the ability to wire money with low fees, or being able to buy a pizza. Very few care about holding onto an asset hoping that it will go up indefinitely... and it never does if it isn't needed f
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by jarfil 8y ago
Also nowadays all domains have advanced so much that it's far more difficult to become highly proficient in more than a portion of a single one of them. Still, generalist-like integrators are needed, but not at the cost of specialists.
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by jarfil 8y ago
I use Facebook's login on some websites, its groups... and I like the ads. It may sound weird, but I adblock the hell out of ads everywhere when I'm doing something "serious", so the only ads I ever see are the ones in F
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by jarfil 8y ago
But he gets beer, so what if some beer companies know that he likes beer and decide to pay someone to know what kind of beer he's more willing to pay for? I mean, what's the problem with some companies knowing what you like, if yo
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by jarfil 8y ago
If Alice only knows that Bob is the same one who talked to her a second ago, that on itself doesn't break the anonymity of not knowing which one of 7.5 billion people is Bob. It only becomes a problem if Alice can cross-reference that
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by jarfil 8y ago
How does the client know which nodes are available to establish a circuit? Couldn't they create a fake Tor network and supply a list of its nodes to the client to choose from?
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by jarfil 8y ago
Privacy and anonymity are not opposites, you can establish anonymously an encrypted session which gives you both. However, privacy is often paired with authentication, which is the opposite of anonymity.
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by jarfil 8y ago
An FPGA is a physical circuit that can be reconfigured via software on the fly, it should be possible to run an evolutive algorithm by running every iteration on actual hardware... so it should also be possible for the algorithm to optimize
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by jarfil 8y ago
It's kind of interesting that an app developer needs to prove they've got permission from the copyright holders to display a website, but Safari can display them all just like that.
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by jarfil 8y ago
That's a lot of words to say that BGP is outdated.
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by jarfil 8y ago
Docker does that (and so do LXC, Flatpak, Snap, etc).
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by jarfil 8y ago
I'm not a fan of 1password, but their Android app does block screenshots.
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by jarfil 8y ago
Keepass2Android and Signal have it as an option, Orfox just enables it on webpages but disables it on the settings screen, Netflix enables it on video playback. My banking app doesn't have the option at all, yay banking!
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by jarfil 8y ago
There is reparations, and then there is reaping what you sow. We can't be humanitarian and at the same time think it's just the other people's fault to have whatever problems they have, when most of them were caused by first
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by jarfil 8y ago
I think those are called "torrent sites", where people get the streams from multiple services and aggregate them on a single site. Meanwhile, everyone else seems to be interested in forcing users to pay for and use as many differe
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by jarfil 8y ago
Sounds like the NYT is mad that all these internet kids don't want to pay for a subscription.
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by jarfil 8y ago
Reported: 19 years ago Resolved: 6 years ago, WONTFIX Is this what we call "news" nowadays?
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by jarfil 8y ago
Unicode tricks work on Windows too, it's just the exact \ / etc. characters that are reserved.
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by jarfil 8y ago
This feature has long outlived its usefulness, and should've been deprecated decades ago. Windows can run programs in "compatibility mode", so there is really no reason to keep these special files around for most programs. Ma
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by jarfil 8y ago
Is it, though? Nowadays we keep asking for higher standards, better infrastructures, better access to utilities, communications, commute, etc. Me parents could easily afford a house just after getting married... a house I'm weary of se

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