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by lucgommans 5y ago
Don't be mislead: Telenot complex is not a mental diseases but an alarm system. It can use NFC tags to open doors. TL;DR: All we wanted was to read the logs to alert if e.g. the alarm company makes use of their key without actually res
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by lucgommans 5y ago
Oh, thanks, that's a misunderstanding on my part. Checking Wikipedia: Ogg is the container and Vorbis/Speex are the codecs. Vorbis and Speex have been superseded by Opus.
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by lucgommans 5y ago
Unless there is a particular order, such as 0-5 stars ratings or whatever, one would randomize the choices to avoid people picking the first option they see or other psychological biases related to the list position.
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by lucgommans 5y ago
And the answers are randomized for each pageload. Can be a good thing, or it can be annoying if it's more of a scale kind of thing. Then again, polls aren't used that much anyway so having this as only option is fine.
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by lucgommans 5y ago
It depends what features you're looking for, but I've found VLC (available on F-Droid) to be one of the nicer ones. It does video playing also and has gestures like skipping forwards and backwards, so I'd have it installed an
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by lucgommans 5y ago
Depends what you're playing from. I don't have a terabyte of storage on my phone and I'd like to store more than just audio books and music. If you've got a desktop with magnetic storage then sure. I'd also be curio
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by lucgommans 5y ago
It's used under the hood indeed, but among hackers (let alone an average person) it's barely known. Until two days ago, I had heard of the term and knew it was some music format, or perhaps speech encoding, but I had no idea if it
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by lucgommans 5y ago
> XBMC is a popular open-source multimedia center Is that what you mean? Does this software not play MP3 files? I'm confused.
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by lucgommans 5y ago
For what it's worth, the title did confuse me. What the author seems to mean is audio files as opposed to physical media, not the MP3 format in any specific way. I thought it would be a technical discussion of the MP3 format when I cli
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by lucgommans 5y ago
Adding to this a secondary public service announcement: I recently learned of Opus (audio codec) and it's amazing. If you've been using mp3, ogg, speex, aac, or any other lossy format: time to upgrade. Opus is freely licensed and
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by lucgommans 5y ago
I thought this was super interesting. Initially saw it on Wikipedia but this is the best article I could find that puts most of the info in one spot. Wikipedia[1] describes it as: > A unique strain within the population is the Leader she
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Leader sheep's exceptional intelligence not folklore, study proves (2015)(icelandmag.is)
3 points by lucgommans 5y ago|1 comments
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by lucgommans 5y ago
Also using AntennaPod from F-Droid here: it gets its data from CDNs. The CDN is in a position to log data from a lot of people, that's why I think they are on the block list. It depends on which podcasts you listen to which services yo
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by lucgommans 5y ago
If you install TrackerControl, no root needed (it pretends to be a VPN to capture your traffic, but is not a real VPN), you will see which apps try to talk to tracking services and thus also which ones talk to Google. It also as a 'tra
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by lucgommans 5y ago
It certifies what it says on the tin: an independent audit was performed by Cure53. You are correct in believing that certifying complex software to be free of bugs to be practically impossible at the moment. But which product would you rat
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by lucgommans 5y ago
> Too often, they're also product marketing documents, beginning and concluding with "overall assessments" of the target software that is almost invariably positive We have some customers that clearly come to us to get rep
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by lucgommans 5y ago
Via Austin Z. Henley's favorite Wikipedia articles about science: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/favwikiarticles.html
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Keystroke-level model: predict how long a task takes with different UX designs(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by lucgommans 5y ago|1 comments
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by lucgommans 5y ago
> add a UI that shows the user the key and helps them verify it [...] probably nowhere near as good as Threema Indeed, Threema really has to get more credit for this one. How many people verify their contacts in Signal when they opportun
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by lucgommans 5y ago
Good point, should have thought of that. I have a bunch of things open where I don't want to reload the page so restarting in safe mode is a bit tricky now, but unless someone happens to know the exact answer I can try this on the week
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by lucgommans 5y ago
Which OS is that on? Mine was on Linux, perhaps that makes a difference. Also I have a rather crappy cpu (i5-8250U); for you I still see the gaps even if they're smaller (both in absolute terms but if I'm seeing it correctly also
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by lucgommans 5y ago
Speaking of Firefox performance, does anyone know what introduces pauses in page loading? A page of 900 bytes HTML, with 2 KB of CSS and a 33 KB background image, takes 918 ms to load. Only a third of that is network stuff (DNS resolving, T
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by lucgommans 5y ago
I wonder where they measure from, as it claims >1 second of loading time for what is ~500ms in my browser. And my browser is also absurdly slow, now that I look at it. The HTML at https://lucgommans.nl is 978 bytes, the CSS 2
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by lucgommans 5y ago
> They are providing a system that is completely under the control of a central authority. That could be the dictionary definition of the opposite of end-to-end encryption. Since the claim is that it will be e2ee, I'd assume they at
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by lucgommans 5y ago
> Every additional step required to set up a chat ... Nobody was arguing that it should get in your way. Again, see the alternative app I mentioned as an example of how it can be done: in Threema it also doesn't get in your way, you
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by lucgommans 5y ago
Oh just that little message saying that the safety number changed? I thought it would actually, like you said, start bugging you to verify the safety number upon "sudden" changes.
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by lucgommans 5y ago
I'm confused, what is it that you're trying to say? None of it adds up to "you are trusting the server" and all of it (except the part saying that you're necessarily trusting the server) is exactly my understandin
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by lucgommans 5y ago
> The umbrage that the GP seems to be taking is that Signal doesn't require you to verify your key, nor is it particularly visible. Only the latter really, but yes. It doesn't need to be required -- see the footnote text where
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by lucgommans 5y ago
This is indeed what I meant. Of course it's encrypted by default, but unless you verify the keys, you're trusting the server to be honest which is not the point of end-to-end encryption. Because you can verify keys, the chance o
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by lucgommans 5y ago
I wonder if they'll make it unverifiable (like Keybase[1]), opportunistic (like WhatsApp[2]), requiring confirmation in every call so nobody practically uses it (like Telegram[3]), hide the key verification screen so 0.001% practically

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