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by kokx 7y ago
In Europe, in a lot of countries there are programs such as the dutch BHV (BedrijfsHulpVerlener) program. Basically: companies need to have some people on staff with a basic first aid and fire evacuation training. I have done this, and it h
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by kokx 7y ago
I have a Humax "monitor". It only has 4 HDMI inputs and a USB input (never used it, probably for viewing things on a random USB stick). If you have a separate box for TV anyways, its perfect. Don't need anything else. Otherwi
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by kokx 7y ago
For the recaptcha timesink, you can use the "Buster: Captcha Solver for Humans" extension. Though using it too often may cause issues as well.
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by kokx 7y ago
What do you mean with quantum encryption? QKD (Quantum Key Distribution)? Though the concept seems nice, it has quite a few issues in practice. Such as distance between coupled devices, and the need to have a dedicated physical communicatio
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by kokx 7y ago
If you mean that you have physical keys which you can remap, such as the Optimus Maximus keyboard concept [1], that would indeed be a great idea. However, I would not be certain if I could type well on a full-touch screen keyboard such as t
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by kokx 7y ago
It is one thing to steal a car. Another to break in and threaten someone. Escalating that much is a lot more dangerous. Firstly, now you might know what they look like, or at least partially. But you can also bet that the police will put mo
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by kokx 7y ago
Most cryptographers do not see Telegram as a secure encrypted protocol. This is for two reasons: the first one is that Telegram doesn't do end-to-end encryption by default (and if you enable it, functionality is limited). And secondly,
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by kokx 7y ago
This seems like a hidden form of taxation. Instead of paying money, citizens pay "taxes" with their private data.
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by kokx 7y ago
> How does one become a cryptographer then? Basically: studying it in depth (especially the mathematics part). Focus on cryptanalysis for a while, and find some flaws in existing implementations. The moment you really start to fix those
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by kokx 7y ago
Anecdotal evidence does not make a counterexample. After a quick internet search, you will find several USB-C chargers and docks which have reportedly bricked Nintendo Switch devices.
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by kokx 7y ago
I have programmed in both Rascal and Racket (for university courses). I really prefer Racket. Though most of that might be because Rascal isn't really polished for mainstream usage. Rascal doesn't have a lot of good error messages
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by kokx 7y ago
It is too bad that it has come to this. To me, a door that cannot be unlocked if it loses internet access or that I cannot change my heating or AC, is unacceptable. I have some privacy concerns when it comes to Nest and similar services. Bu
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by kokx 7y ago
2FA is not very helpful if your service relies on encryption for everything (like keybase). It's not possible to use 2FA without another party verifying the authentication code. Keybase could include this (then they would have to verif
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by kokx 8y ago
The dutch tax service even has a great slogan for this ideology: "Leuker kunnen we het niet maken. Wel makkelijker". Roughly translated, this means: "We can't make it nicer. But we can make it easier.". Every year,
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by kokx 8y ago
> I haven't found conclusive evidence, but the lack of news around other TACCs crashing into stationary objects is an indicator it might be a Autopilot specific issue. IMO, I think this may actually not be true. Due to Tesla's
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by kokx 8y ago
I actually have CCA cabling. On purpose. Why? It's cheaper. And I only had to run about ~15 meters through my small rental apartment. And it basically cut my cabling cost in half while having enough reserve cables left. It hasn't
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by kokx 8y ago
This is why most password managers use encryption to store your passwords. They should never be sent to the provider of the password manager in plaintext form. And if you are still afraid of that, use a password manager which does not store
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by kokx 8y ago
RTT measurements are hard to make reliable with wireless systems. You don't want to set the bounds to tight, to avoid locking out the car owner in circumstances with a lot of interference. But neither do you want a signal booster to be
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by kokx 8y ago
It does not load faster. It takes a few seconds for the actual content to appear for me.
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by kokx 8y ago
Just don't run it against anything for which you do not have permission to run such tools. Running a tool like this against your favorite websites, is a simple way of getting banned from your favorite websites.
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by kokx 8y ago
I think that these days, the best large banks do not view software development as a cost center anymore. I'm hearing more and more from people in banking that banks these days are basically IT companies with added security constraints.
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by kokx 8y ago
It is a limitation indeed. I'm not missing it a lot actually. But if you really need it, you can use the ProtonMail Bridge together with your favorite email client. For me the tradeoff of having my emails stored encrypted by default wi
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by kokx 8y ago
You can actually search quite well in ProtonMail. Though it only searches some email headers (title, sender, receiver etc) and tags. Those are not stored encrypted. But it doesn't search the body of your emails.
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by kokx 8y ago
So far, I really like ProtonMail as a gmail replacement. Their web interface is great. It costs quite a bit more money though (compared to free gmail). I've been using it for half a year now, and the only gmail features I miss (their s
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by kokx 8y ago
If you are properly paranoid, a VPN won't offer much anonymity. VPNs may still keep logs (even if they say they don't, or when they receive NSLs they may be forced to do so). For real anonymity, Tor is a much better option. Especi
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by kokx 8y ago
Though there is indeed much more software open source lately, I feel that is mostly a consequence of the free and easy availability of open source hosting. I still remember the old days where most opensource projects were doing self-hosting
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by kokx 8y ago
With one exception, when your business targets EU markets, EU citizens abroad are still covered. For example, when you are a EU citizen using a US social network that operates world wide (and thus also targets EU markets), you are still cov
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by kokx 8y ago
8 hours really is a lot of time to work for free. They are basically expecting you to dedicate some of your spare time to doing work for them. To me, this means the company does not value my own time, and it might even be a red flag which i
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by kokx 8y ago
So, Telegram is blocked. But Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp are still online. Hence, this is pushing users of a (relatively) country-neutral service, towards more American services. Seems like a weird move for Russia.
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by kokx 9y ago
Randy Pausch - The Last Lecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo Not necessarily tech. More like great life advice.

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