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by legrande 5y ago
Well .COM has had its day. There (was?) even a semi-parody site called Domains For the Rest of Us[0] that generates .COM domains that you can use for side projects (or startups?). [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=245
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by legrande 5y ago
> Mullvad VPN is here to stay, and we are not interested in ever selling it Yeah we don't want another Kape Technologies acquisition[0]. Kape already own Cyberghost, PrivateInternetAccess and Zenmate. If they bought Mullvad, I would
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Sushi and the Founding Murder(readthegeneralist.com)
44 points by legrande 5y ago|6 comments
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by legrande 5y ago
> If you are passionate about iOS and kernel exploitation So is the main use-case to find bugs in iOS or are there other major use-cases I'm not thinking about? The only other use case I can think of is setting up a click-farm, or p
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by legrande 5y ago
> Protonmail fiasco Not a fiasco as they're required by law to keep IP logs. You can disable the logging of IP sessions in the PM dashboard, but you can't guarantee that PM will not keep logs, since their servers are all Publ
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by legrande 5y ago
There is a lot of CFAA[0] trial evasion going on perhaps? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act
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by legrande 5y ago
Good point. I never thought of it that way. The modern PC is a marvel. On one hand it's a complex mess, on the other we can write poetry like that JS snippet, and it all works seamlessly (unless you're doing something weird).
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Bitaddress – Open-Source JavaScript Client-Side Bitcoin Wallet Generator(bitaddress.org)
1 points by legrande 5y ago|0 comments
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by legrande 5y ago
> This is a sweet and simple implementation I love one-thing-well items of code instead of large (and thus non-secure) abstractions built upon other abstractions. Big fan of the K.I.S.S principle https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by legrande 5y ago
> social networks are starting to implement features where they fill your feed with content you never signed up for. They'll call it something like "suggested" posts Well Twitter has lists which I make full use of. I creat
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Bitaddress – Open-Source JavaScript Client-Side Bitcoin Wallet Generator(bitaddress.org)
3 points by legrande 5y ago|0 comments
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by legrande 5y ago
I quit social media for a year and nothing magical happened to me. I think it's because I never really had a problem with it, since all my feeds were heavily curated and I didn't scroll through mountains of noise. The content I co
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by legrande 5y ago
*You're
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User Experience Checklist [pdf](paceco.com)
1 points by legrande 5y ago|0 comments
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by legrande 5y ago
Tried Github; didn't like it. 1: I prefer EU companies with strict privacy laws. I only host with Switzerland. 2: Github won't be happy with 1/2 million unique IPs in a day hitting their servers when a post goes viral. (That&
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by legrande 5y ago
Rather than workarounds, it is preferable to have media on The Internet free by default, since there are so many workarounds for people who don't want to pay a cent for anything on the web. Yes, news outlets need to make money, but the
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by legrande 5y ago
Personal anecdote: I refuse to blog anymore because I can't find the right CMS to use. I have weighed the pros and cons so heavily over a whole decade and just can't decide what to use (And I've used them all). Posthaven, Wor
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Crypto’s latest trend is to play games before they’re even built(theblockcrypto.com)
2 points by legrande 5y ago|0 comments
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by legrande 5y ago
You could store stuff in URL shorteners, but I imagine that's against their terms. Also: how does this break Imgur's terms? If 'an image is just an image' I imagine it's okay to host websites in an Imgur abstraction
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by legrande 5y ago
> This is a very fair answer, and all "permalinks" are lies Cool URIs don't change: https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html You can believe that cool URIs don't change or you could go the
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by legrande 5y ago
> There is an interesting conundrum here, when we post to the internet do we also consent to having that information saved for all eternity? I'm not sure about consent, but presume it will be 'stuck' and un-removeable from
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by legrande 5y ago
> Their homepage says "By default, we do not keep any IP logs" To have a true zero knowledge email service it should not connect to the public facing Internet at all. It needs to reside in a darknet exclusively for IPs Not to
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by legrande 5y ago
Always interesting to see pirate sites having multiple ccTLDs in an attempt to stop shutdowns. It doesn't do anything, it's just OPSEC theater. Sci-Hub needs to burrow itself in the dark web, but it may be too late. The lady behin
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by legrande 5y ago
PM addresses to PM addresses are encrypted. All it takes is a mistakenly made carbon-copy / blind-carbon-copy to a Gmail account and all that encryption goes out the window
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An Introduction to Polkadot [pdf](polkadot.network)
40 points by legrande 5y ago|12 comments
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J.P. Morgan Creates Digital Coin for Payments(jpmorgan.com)
18 points by legrande 5y ago|1 comments
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by legrande 5y ago
Presume any phone you own has malware in it, and adjust your behavior accordingly. This means putting the phone in a Faraday sleeve when not using it, so it can't communicate with a C2, putting black nail varnish on the camera, keepi
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by legrande 5y ago
Well one heuristic to look at is how much proprietary and closed-source software is out there, and then make a rough estimate, say 3% of proprietary software has some sort of backdoor or malicious payload in it. What you have to ask, is why
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by legrande 5y ago
Oops: https://www.opendesktop.org/donate
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Cybernetic.dev – Data-centric UI experiments(cybernetic.dev)
3 points by legrande 5y ago|0 comments

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