kardos

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by kardos 11y ago
Or perhaps, miraculously, you're only looking at the best of the best products?
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by kardos 11y ago
> accelerate the proliferation and acceptance of locked-down, user-hostile devices. We're already there. Can you read the Windows 10 telemetry?
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by kardos 11y ago
Just before the conclusion he addresses that; there was a revised/improved version in 1997 that was a commercial failure. Presumably due to the 555's ubiquity.
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by kardos 11y ago
While "cash only" could be an indicator of tax evasion, it's also a way to sidestep credit card fees which can chew up a few percent of your profit margin.
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by kardos 11y ago
Eliminating the 500 EUR would leave the 200 EUR in circulation. Assuming the criminals shift to using that, they'll see a modest 2.5x increase in volume to transport. Somehow I doubt that would be a show stopper.
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by kardos 11y ago
Indeed. Anything Microsoft writes in their "privacy policy" is indistinguishable from hogwash until we can see what is in the packets.
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by kardos 11y ago
It would be overwhelmingly more interesting to see the contents of these 'telemetry' packets. Has anyone sorted out how to do that yet? A side-effect of being able to view the 'telemetry' packets is that one could also m
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by kardos 11y ago
He didn't reverse course as late as 2007 [1]. Where's the article/quote where he "wishes he never used the GPL"? [1] http://www.informationweek.com/the-torvalds-transcript-why-i... ?
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by kardos 11y ago
> He can crow all he likes about how he wishes he never used the GPL Wikipedia [1] has this quote: > Torvalds has described licensing Linux under the GPL as the "best thing I ever did." [1] https://en.wikipedia.or
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by kardos 11y ago
I understand the fun part but somehow missed the profit aspect
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by kardos 11y ago
Even if you don't care about secrecy/privacy, things like this [1,2] and this [3] are reasons to do everything under HTTPS. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10926696 [2] https://labs.mwrinfosecu
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by kardos 11y ago
> nor BlackBerry Maybe not for the old blackberries, but SNI works on BB10.
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by kardos 11y ago
They don't have much in the way of competition to keep 'trade secrets' from
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by kardos 11y ago
That seems incredibly unlikely. Also maybe mosh [1] will do that for you. [1] https://mosh.mit.edu/
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by kardos 11y ago
Unless it's your first connection to a legit uncompromised server, yes? (AWS instance, etc)
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by kardos 11y ago
Plural of UNIX (or equivalent) system [1] [1] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/boxen.html
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by kardos 11y ago
... and those that you haven't established TOFU with yet
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by kardos 11y ago
So the real question is, can a MITM intercept connections to boxen you frequent to exploit this? Or is it limited to connecting to hostile honeypots?
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by kardos 11y ago
But they didn't disclose the bug yet. The implication is that this bug is /so bad/ that it justified breaking the normal "just disclose it" approach.
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by kardos 11y ago
Python won't run without specified indentation, and leaves no freedom for brace positioning. On the C side, we've accumulated a variety of formatting styles [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style#
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by kardos 11y ago
> Formatting > The solution here is to always use an automated code formatter. Spot on. Python got that part right.
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by kardos 11y ago
Right, par2 does as well [1]. My question is: what advantage does the freeze/melt thing have? It looks to me that freeze/melt produces a larger file that contains the recovery blocks, while par2 stores the recovery blocks in a sec
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by kardos 11y ago
The idea is excellent (I've lost files to bitrot before), but what is the advantage here over using "Parchives" [1]? There is widespread cross-platform software available for "par2" format. [1] https://en
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by kardos 11y ago
Indeed. I don't have a reference handy, but have read that the revenue for online advertising on news articles is south of 5 cents per reader. Paying an order of magnitude more to buy out the advertising "experience" must als
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by kardos 11y ago
That's not quite accurate... FileZilla has opted into the bundle-with-crapware program [1] to make some money. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8849950
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by kardos 11y ago
I'm having some difficulty thinking of a scenario where, given the choice, I'd trade off authentication for speed. The information would have to be of so little value that it doesn't matter if the remote party gets what I sen
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by kardos 11y ago
Regarding more privacy: have they found a way to keep the SNI information private?
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by kardos 11y ago
Not at all
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by kardos 11y ago
I agree that technology /enables/ behaviours, but it's people who use/abuse it and the society who needs to instate the controls. If we attack this purely from a technological angle and manage to ramp up to ubiquitous E2
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by kardos 11y ago
Privacy erosion is enhanced/enabled by use of technology, but it's ultimately a social issue. This is not an us-vs-skynet situation. Our society is simply organised incorrectly; power/control over private information is misal

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