jcynix

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by jcynix 6y ago
You aren't the only one. Those "fancy" apps are too complex IMO to be trustworthy. Neither are other people's computers (aka clouds). My secrets are stored in plain text files which are encrypted with GnuPG. Emacs (and v
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by jcynix 6y ago
I always wonder how those "dark mode" or "change menu" requestors would react to the interfaces of airplanes or helicopters. People want complex and powerful tools to look like a car with an automatic gear or even a bicy
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by jcynix 6y ago
I agree, many "educational" podcasts/videos could be turned into a text with pictures which could be read in less time. Some rare videos definitely are worth the time, like those of 3Blue1Brown or the excellent Jamie Windsor
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by jcynix 6y ago
Yes, shell functions are cool. I use them to augment standard commands too, e.g. make head(1) or tail(1) output more lines than usual, depending on the terminal's number of lines: head () { if [[ $# -eq 0 ]] then /us
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by jcynix 6y ago
Very interesting article, including the linked first part. Especially his point in the first part that > It turns out that in some categories, a machine learning algorithm significantly responsive and accurate can pierce the veil of cult
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by jcynix 6y ago
> Don't expose SSH to the entire internet [...] Yes, and that's what tools like tcp wrapper (or iptables) are there for. I use it to disallow whole networks from Brazil, China, etc so they don't even reach sshd to talk to
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by jcynix 6y ago
Besides the DND features of the OS, I use the Macrodroid app on Android to silence my mobile based on location and time. For example my devices will turn off WiFi, dial down audio levels and brightness at a certain time in the evening, even
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by jcynix 6y ago
Gym? Just the gym, no music. Walking? The same, enjoying my surrounding. I quit music streaming (tried Amazon, Google) after some trials and concentrate on a selection of music, which I can listen to again and again. I do use a tablet with
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by jcynix 6y ago
Solar noon is only that in the middle of a timezone, isn't it? And if you live on the east or west border of a timezone its not. So arguments for some "natural" time would need some kind of dynamic time zones, which the world
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by jcynix 6y ago
Microsoft's office products are mostly GUI centered. But I rarely can easily find ways to accomplish things there and instead get lost in their GUI, which sometimes looks like a twisty maze of little passages all different. So "GU
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by jcynix 6y ago
Reminds me of the insane mbox style of "escaping" the word "from" at the start of content lines, because it parses "From email-address some-date" as the start of each message. I almost always prefer to use a by
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by jcynix 6y ago
And this site includes an interesting chart of effective light frequencies: "This chart pulled from the Joovv site shows that one of the receptors of light energy in our body, Cytochrome C Oxidase, absorbs many more photons at certain
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by jcynix 6y ago
> My issue with all notetaking applications is that all of my notes are "very sensitive data" to me. I treat my notes repository like a combination diary, scratchpad [...] Same here. I'm currently using Joplin ( https:&#x2
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by jcynix 6y ago
> 2. Ask the user to store a (non-random-looking) disk-encryption header elsewhere (i.e., “detached header mode”). (Where do you store the header?) If the header isn't needed on a daily basis, storing it as a QR-Code on paper would
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by jcynix 6y ago
It doesn't happen with the z-shell (zsh) as I just tested under Debian. Bash shows the described behaviour. Interesting, need to look at other shells too, later. But it's definitely better to be careful and expect the bash ("
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by jcynix 6y ago
Maybe my point wasn't stated clear enough: the crontab itself is in spool, obviously, but the scripts started from crontab entries reside in my home directory. And while a procmailrc can live in some spool too, the files to be delivere
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by jcynix 6y ago
This must be satire, not? Because soon my .forward won't work, my .procmailrc won't work, my crontab scripts won't (etc pp) unless my encrypted home directory (planned to be decrypted on login) is decrypted. Or all these are
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by jcynix 7y ago
Let's not forget the history of shareware: https://www.filfre.net/2020/04/the-shareware-scene-part-1-th...
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by jcynix 7y ago
Technically one can argue it's not encryption. But it wouldn't be that difficult for law makers to add a clause that "any similar method of information hiding" is equal to encryption under this law. E.g. "A donkey i
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by jcynix 7y ago
There's more than emacs or vi in "editor history" e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bravo_%28software%29 and follow-ups at Xerox PARC.
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by jcynix 7y ago
Discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22351183
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by jcynix 7y ago
If you carefully read Nils Melzer's report(s), you'll see that both women are unwilling victims of what's going on.