jkire

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by jkire 11y ago
> It is one of the great errors of the "SCIENCE!" attitude that it convinces people that if we do not have peer-reviewed papers, we must necessarily claim full and total ignorance and berate anybody who attempts to do otherwise
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by jkire 11y ago
> ... on vastly more secure servers with every connection under SSL/TLS for end-to-end encryption. I wish people would stop using the term "end-to-end encryption" to simply mean using encrypted channels. It really does con
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by jkire 11y ago
Most of the arguments seem to boil down to the equivalent of "they tried X, it didn't work, they should have used the money better". When trying to reform any system, be it software, business or education, risks almost always
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After Paris, Europe may never feel as free again(theguardian.com)
10 points by jkire 11y ago|4 comments
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Google Acquires Jibe Mobile to Help Adopt New Standard for Carrier Messaging(techcrunch.com)
2 points by jkire 11y ago|0 comments
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by jkire 11y ago
The SQLite documentation has a wonderfully titled section "Outlandish Recursive Query Examples" [1], which includes computation of a Mandelbrot Set. [1] https://www.sqlite.org/lang_with.html
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Rust in Detail: Writing Scalable Chat Service from Scratch(nbaksalyar.github.io)
19 points by jkire 11y ago|0 comments
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by jkire 11y ago
> Here's my simple plea: stop it. Stop mentioning vertical tabs in tutorials and language references. I'm failing to see why this is an issue? The examples tutorials/references he gave only mention '\v' in tabl
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by jkire 11y ago
> I hate abusive fucks And yet he's sitting there saying things like "[HN] is a place for men with tiny little mosquito penises". I once heard a piece of advise (by Caitlin Moran): you should never write angrily. You may b
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by jkire 11y ago
I agree, though there is a difference between being able to explain something and naming it. I've been known to forget the word "door", but I could quite happily explain how it worked.
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by jkire 11y ago
> The value of encryption as a whole increases when everything is encrypted, because it is harder for an adversary to distinguish "important" traffic from "unimportant traffic". Except you can classify a lot of traffi
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by jkire 11y ago
> The domain is not the same as the content. Far from it. Aside from that, a site being 'static' is not a meaningful data point here. For a lot of web pages this is true, but what about sites like restaurant webpages? They have
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by jkire 11y ago
> ...there may be other things valuable for sniffering such as your identity (e.g., cookie) or your browsing habits. And SSL should be used in those cases. I'm not saying you should never use SSL, I just don't buy the idea that
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by jkire 11y ago
> I do not believe that there is data that is "not important enough to encrypt". I do believe this. When I visit a static web page over SSL people sniffing my connection are almost always going to have a good idea of which do
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by jkire 11y ago
We thought the exact same thing, so we're creating Matrix [1]! It supports all sorts of things, but especially public/private group chats with multiple device support. We're basically a team of people who use IRC all day, so
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by jkire 11y ago
> DOM manipulation sucks and you know it does No I don't. I'm not at all a fan of stuffing application logic into the HTML; it means that I need to look both in the JavaScript and in the HTML. I'm also not a fan of gener
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by jkire 11y ago
It all depends on the culture and dynamics of the workplace I think. If everyone keeps their voices low (I don't mean whispering, just not booming), and are concious that when people have their headphones and have a look of deep concen
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by jkire 12y ago
A lot of people find certain features of facebook really useful (e.g. organizing events), and there are still groups of people almost exclusively using facebook chat. Just because people are still using facebook doesn't mean they trust
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by jkire 12y ago
This. It's a shame that XMPP never really took off; even more so as a lot of people seem to be taking it as proof that no distributed chat system will ever take off. I think there are quite a lot of reasons end users would really like
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by jkire 12y ago
> Even over TLS? Are your connections being MITMed? Some corporate networks do MITM you and mandate HTTP only (we've seen this surprisingly often in the wild). Now, for most apps this isn't a concern since those employees proba
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by jkire 12y ago
> What matters is that I can deploy it on an existing infrastructure and still have control over the service instead of handing over control to a third-party And its nice to be able to choose which apps you want to use on all the differe
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by jkire 12y ago
There's also http://matrix.org ; though it's not going down the RFC route (at the moment at least). </blatant self-promotion> There seems to be this general assumption at the moment that a) XMPP is the only
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by jkire 12y ago
> In this experiment, we have stored all the dictionaries in a list and dumped the list using json.dumps() I completely failed to read this the first time I went through. I guess this is equivalent to dumping bigger dictionaries. > [W
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by jkire 12y ago
> We have a dictionary with 3 keys What about larger dictionaries? With such a small one I would be worried that a significant proportion of the time would be simple overhead. [Warning: Anecdote] When we were testing out the various JSO
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by jkire 12y ago
>What's even worse most frameworks are not that extendable without going out of your way when you need some custom functionality. So as soon as your problem becomes interesting, and you could really use some help from a framework,
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by jkire 12y ago
Oh yes it's early days for Matrix still. We do have clients for web, android and ios which we use day to day; they're nothing too fancy at the moment, but they're slowly getting better. Matrix is very much still in beta; peop
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by jkire 12y ago
I think users do care about things like being able to use different apps with the same messaging service; non-techie friends of mine complain all the time about how some service X has a great mobile app but a bad web app and how service Y i
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by jkire 12y ago
I tend to use at least three different devices through out the day: my laptop, my phone and my work computer. I'm constantly switching between them. This coupled with the fact my memory is utterly atrocious means that I really really
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by jkire 12y ago
End to end encryption is probably one of the last big things we've yet to fully tackle, unfortunately. Though hopefully we'll fully begin to start spec'ing that sometime soon! One of the major things we want is the ability f
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by jkire 12y ago
Multiple device support and history synchronization between devices really are table stakes to me, especially since I tend to spend a lot of time checking messages and chatting from mobile devices these days.. That distributed social networ

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