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by jchook 6y ago
> Instead of developing opinionated software with a simple interface, GPG was written to be as powerful and flexible as possible. It’s up to the user whether the underlying cipher is SERPENT or IDEA or TwoFish. IMO GPG doesn't owe i
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by jchook 6y ago
I dunno maybe just an older version. Maybe the fade or the menu.
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On MacOS I found serious performance issues with f.lux and now I happily use redshift[1] without ever thinking about it. 1. http://jonls.dk/redshift/
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by jchook 6y ago
Reminds me of the story of a guy who gets flown out to meet with Microsoft about an acquisition for his extremely useful Windows program, but they never follow up. Instead, they just rip-off his idea verbatim and integrate it into the OS.
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by jchook 6y ago
I bet theoretical physics will play a crucial role in cultural shifts over the next century. You can find a strong parallel between the emerging "metamodernism" era and Hawking's "model-dependent realism": the accep
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by jchook 6y ago
They did this in Earth by David Brin. Some theorize that evaporating micro black holes could/should be an observable effect of the Large Hadron Collider. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_black_hole
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by jchook 6y ago
Thanks! Just tried a couple. I’m curious about the science/research behind the different cadences. I didn’t see any cited works in the readme[1]. May also help to give a guide on how deeply to breathe. My first go I started to get ligh
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by jchook 6y ago
It seems, early on, software devs mis-learn the meaning of “DRY” to mean “abstract away all repetition”. It takes experience to unlearn this bad habit and realize that “duplication is cheaper than the wrong abstraction”[1]. While this post
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by jchook 6y ago
DKIM was not designed to authenticate emails far into the future. In fact, it does not authenticate any emails without a corresponding public key currently published to DNS. It provides specifically for "empty" or revoked keys t
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by jchook 6y ago
Hm... There were more informative replies on the Apple support thread a bit ago... they got deleted?
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by jchook 6y ago
There's a great tool for this called minica https://github.com/jsha/minica
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Black Screen After MacBook Pro Update to macOS Big Sur(discussions.apple.com)
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by jchook 6y ago
Can’t see any obvious benefit for the company’s signing the agreement other than a PR opportunity.
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by jchook 6y ago
AFAIK Australia has far weaker personal privacy protections and powerful remedies for government agencies. They even passed a law in 2018 allowing them to force companies to build-in backdoors.
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So you think it was the manufacturer?
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One beauty of rg, sd, fd, etc is that they work almost exactly like their counterparts except they have better default behavior
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Sounds like he wrote a seller review and posted it as a product review.
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I like a few things about alacritty - it handles file drag and drop better than some IMO; config takes effect immediately and has extensive options (eg arbitrary keyboard mapping); I somehow got shift-enter to work on vim which I had troubl
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by jchook 6y ago
Knew I was forgetting a big one. fd is so dang handy. Some others: dust (like du), procs (like ps), zoxide (z), and sd (like sed)
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Adding this to the pile of awesome tool replacements written in Rust that I use on a daily basis including ripgrep, exa, bat, and alacritty
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by jchook 6y ago
PSA: make sure your Website has a strict Content Security Policy[1]. 1. https://medium.com/hackernoon/im-harvesting-credit-card-numb...
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by jchook 6y ago
Some seriously relevant psychoanalysis of this behavior in this article (also on HN front page) about toxic workplaces: https://articles.tilt365.com/identify-destructive-leadership...
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by jchook 6y ago
Yep, and there are a couple others as well including Sign-in With Apple. So far none of the services I tried supported outbound mail / replies. Replying would reveal your real email address. My service supports outbound mail and will p
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by jchook 6y ago
I solved the spam problem by using a different email address every time I sign up for something. When I receive a spam message, I get an in-message alert, I know instantly who leaked my email address, & I can shut it down with a single
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by jchook 6y ago
“Everything should be as simple as possible, but no simpler.” -Albert Einstein
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by jchook 6y ago
Maybe they reverse-engineered China's hardware backdoors and don't need additional backdoors now.
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Phab has been great for my side projects. - You can host Phabricator on a $5/mo VPS and have CPU to spare, whereas GitLab Ruby is a big hog that requires a $20/mo box minimum. - Able to deploy + configure it within a few hours, ev
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by jchook 6y ago
The article seems to gloss over the enormous contribution CommonMark made to ensuring a consistent and versatile interpretation of markdown, mostly by examining edge cases no one thinks about until they appear in the wild.
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I love this article but long for a more specific term than "discipline".
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For folks interested in further reading, I like this guide for hardening nginx: https://github.com/trimstray/nginx-admins-handbook Seems some very critical security mechanisms (such as CSP) still require additional&#x2

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