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by meibo 6y ago
I wonder how much you get away with posting/publicizing RE of these things on Chinese blogs as a PRC citizen. I would be very careful.
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by meibo 6y ago
Apparently, from what I hear, they never bothered to move the codebase past "the concept you show to your boss to get feedback" and kept bolting on features. (They also used a free trial of Okta for identity management of their wh
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by meibo 6y ago
Nice! The current image search is still a great product, with some filters, especially with the "find by image" stuff - this takes it to another level. Can't fathom how Getty was able to make them remove the "view image&
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by meibo 6y ago
The point of honeypots is not to block malicious IPs, but to become aware of places in your security concept where more hardening is needed, be it exploits, misconfigured firewalls, etc. That can be a lot of things, blocking IP ranges can b
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by meibo 6y ago
How is it in-transit encryption? How does Facebook decrypt it? Do you have any facts other than "it's Facebook, so it must be bad"? There is no evidence that messages ever leak outside of WhatsApp via means other than potenti
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by meibo 6y ago
WhatsApp's encryption scheme was designed by Open Whisper Systems, which is now Signal, and even uses the Signal protocol library: http://www.cdn.whatsapp.net/security/WhatsApp-Security-White... Of course you got
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by meibo 6y ago
Probably a bad time to get people started on Signal right now, as it's been down for a few hours. Had to migrate back to Telegram temporarily!
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by meibo 6y ago
It's a custom bytecode, so it's definitely harder than just throwing it into a disassembler - you have to understand the VM it runs in, and depending on how it's implemented, that can be a whole other skill set - especially
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by meibo 6y ago
It's only FOSS by appearance really - it's still a team of well-paid engineers that operate like any other startup, with the difference that you can read the code of their apps and the bug-tracker is public. They operate on their
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by meibo 6y ago
I'm not sure if this is because of all the new users, so maybe someone that has been using Signal for a while longer can pitch in: Is the Desktop experience really as bad as it has been over the past few days? It took 4 minutes for me
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by meibo 6y ago
This is what surprised me most, using Telegram next to Signal in the recent months - their Windows app is fully native and super fluid + speedy. It's really a night and day difference, I hope Signal devs will reconsider some time.
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by meibo 6y ago
A googler recently commented here that, in order to forgive "bigger" bills, you really need to know someone to pull some heavy strings for you - and that it doesn't happen in many cases. This taught me to be very very careful
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by meibo 6y ago
Yeah, I was thinking this as well - the only official versions are for Debian-based repositories, feels a bit misguided to me for the "privacy and only privacy" messenger that probably has an essential userbase on Linux. The oth
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by meibo 6y ago
No, you need an active smartphone and a phone number to sign up to Signal and register the desktop app at the moment. Maybe that'll change once they introduce usernames.
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by meibo 6y ago
The common excuse is "billing is heavily distributed and every product does it differently, so it's impossible to implement limits", but yeah, you're probably not the target audience.
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by meibo 6y ago
.NET 5 or what's now called .NET is the final result of the .NET Core/dotnet project which is the "open-sourcification" of the .NET ecosystem and the effective replacement of .NET Framework which could not have been made
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by meibo 6y ago
WhatsApp's design still makes this impossible without leaking backups to Facebook or using a Keyboard that leaks what you type, this goes for calls as well. It's not exactly clear what they actually want to do in the future, I ass
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by meibo 6y ago
Yeah, you're right, my bad - It seems I was misremembering about that part, too late to edit now.
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by meibo 6y ago
WebKit used to use Skia as well afaik, but switched to Cairo(a FOSS 2d graphics library without any connections to Google) after Google forked WebKit. The same thing happened to V8, Apple made JavaScriptCore to remove dependencies on any Go
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by meibo 6y ago
Matrix seems to be the best implementation of this I've seen up to now, I agree. Even just giving you the option to upload to Drive or iCloud, while allowing you to keep the key yourself on a note or another device, would be a step in
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by meibo 6y ago
> 1) Users don’t want to lose their entire message history when they lose/change their phones so apps of this kind never become massively popular. I think this is a key point to consider for Signal and the other "good" mes
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by meibo 6y ago
I wouldn't call it an impossibility, Steam accounts often carry a real, huge amount of value to their owners, going into the thousands of dollars of either games or trade items. Even if it wasn't the main reason, it probably playe
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by meibo 6y ago
This seems like a design decision on Drive and not an evil plot to hold your files hostage. To make it work again, you can enable third party cookies exclusively for drive.google.com. Every modern browser will let you do this per-site, and
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by meibo 6y ago
You do need an Apple account and constant connection to Apple servers to be able to sign development and AltStore apps - I assume for a govt that wants to block the store, blocking auth or signing servers is just one more line on a memo. Bu
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by meibo 6y ago
What can you do on your Apple iPhone without Apple servers? Hint: it's nothing.
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by meibo 6y ago
IP is very highly valued and (usually) well-respected over there, so I can imagine that this is part of the reason.
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by meibo 6y ago
I assume that this would work better for games like Sims or SimCity, since generally you're always clicking the same things and reading the same text - for e.g. Grim Fandango, you'll only be reading the same text again when you re
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by meibo 6y ago
Mind that this was before the Facebook buy-out/the original creators leaving, so I assume strategic masterminds at FB reversed that pretty quickly.
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by meibo 6y ago
Android regexes out the code and adds a button to copy it to the notification bar, along with one to dismiss it.
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by meibo 6y ago
I don't think anyone would have expected this today, but good job GitHub. I honestly think that they're trying their hardest to keep it open for everyone - they can't ignore U.S. law as an organization of their scale, regardl

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