niksakl

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by niksakl 3y ago
Sorry for the lousy work in structure / syntax etc, I was in a hurry. But I HOPE people get the point and realize how serious all this is.
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by niksakl 3y ago
Let's talk about Microsoft as serious mail provider: I self-host my mail server for <10 years. My server is in 0 blocklists. DKIM / DMARC / SPF implemented since ages. The company I work for, hosts their emails on 0365, I
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by niksakl 5y ago
There is a fork of it called "barrier". Using it every day. https://github.com/debauchee/barrier
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by niksakl 5y ago
...which has the root of the Greek verb "κυβερνώ", which means "to govern", and is also the root of Kubernetes, which means "governor/captain" :)
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by niksakl 5y ago
I believe it is not about the means and the tooling. Systemic problems need to fix the system, not various outcomes of such problems. Assuming we are talking about democracies, I guess it is up to the people. If the people do not care, then
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by niksakl 5y ago
Well, to the best of my knowledge, in most countries, the constitutions themselves suggest some actions to the people in the case somebody is not complying with the constitution. Did we see any of those suggested countermeasures taking pla
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by niksakl 5y ago
>There's no reason why this should not hold for spying and policing agencies Isn't that what democracies call "constitution"? Something that protects citizens' rights again wrong-doing of powerful entities includ
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by niksakl 6y ago
WhatsApp has streams.
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by niksakl 6y ago
"Streams" for example. You cannot create a group of contacts that only receive messages from you, but they cannot send into the group. Replies of stream-members only come to the creator of the stream. Moreover, members of "st
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by niksakl 6y ago
Is there any plan in making it part of pulse audio shipped with Ubuntu? Is there a straight-fw way to install it somehow and enable high-quality calls for BT Headsets? I am sure that this is a very common issue especially now-days, where pe
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by niksakl 6y ago
The point is that the same headset works perfectly fine on windows/android/apple devices. The call quality there is just great. Only calls on Linux are with that issue.
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by niksakl 6y ago
A HUGE issue for me is the quality during calls with a BT headset (HSP/HFP) profiles. This is a killer in my workflow as I need to be in calls all the time, and for that I need to take them through a separate windows laptop. It is craz
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by niksakl 6y ago
With basic auth you give something more than that. You give the ACTUAL credentials, because they are base64 encoded and not hashed. It is trivial to decode them and have the raw values. To assume that a user trusts the subdomain because she
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by niksakl 8y ago
here is a youtube link to the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=976Q2cu1_DE
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by niksakl 9y ago
Yes, i guessed the same, but after i posted the original answer.
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by niksakl 9y ago
1. Telegram - Not p2p 2. Tox - p2p 3. Whatsapp - Not p2p 4. Signal - Not p2p Putting the above aside: If Tox doesn't work for you, your best mobile-friendly options are: 1) Signal and 2) as others have mentioned Matrix - if you want a
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by niksakl 9y ago
Yes I did that, but the gui looked horrible, as it was not using my themes, colors etc. I then found out that this was a known issue of snap at that time.
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by niksakl 9y ago
An official ppa repository for Ubuntu would be great! There is a link to an unofficial one in your page, but since this is a security app, installing it from some random repo just feels wrong... Thank you for the great work!
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by niksakl 9y ago
No I have not misunderstood you, maybe I haven't made myself clear enough(not a native English speaker here...). As you also say, the context itself is what matters. For example, today I would guess most e.g. Canadians do not hunt for
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by niksakl 9y ago
Obviously then, you appreciate "having a clean, web-free house" more compared to the contribution of the webs in your home to the environment. Same same way, the hunter appreciates his hunting activity more compared to how much h
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by niksakl 9y ago
But still, nobody really claims to appreciate the pork the schnitzel he enjoys in the cafeteria used to be. It is much easier to get emotionally engaged with a living being when you see it and interact with it in its natural environment and
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by niksakl 9y ago
Are you suggesting that if he had claimed that he generally appreciates elks but not the ones he kills, would make more sense?
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by niksakl 10y ago
Of course it is only speculation, but this is my argument: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13390564
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by niksakl 10y ago
this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13390564
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by niksakl 10y ago
What you say makes blocking Signal pointless. If they blocked Signal just because it was less of a trouble to block compared to WhatsApp, then all the people that were on Signal will easily switch to WhatsApp... What you have at this point
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by niksakl 10y ago
Well, I kind of feel that I have to repost my comment on this old thread[1] with regards to the government of Egypt blocking Signal application: "Isn't it "weird" that they chose to block Signal app and not the signal-pr
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by niksakl 10y ago
That is exactly my point: It seems as if Egyptian gov doesn't care if people use whatsapp. Which means something smells there...
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by niksakl 10y ago
Never said a man rules alone. Any dictatorship only takes a critical mass of powerful enough people to establish itself. This doesn't necessarily mean the people of a country as a whole, or the majority of the people, or even some time
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by niksakl 10y ago
Keep in mind that Egypt is practically under a dictatorship. It is not like their gov really cares if their people gets pissed off... Their government is far from carrying about peoples liberties[1]. So, for me the question remains: If what
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by niksakl 10y ago
Isn't it "weird" that they chose to block Signal app and not the signal-protocol based Whatsapp? If Whatsapp really implements the same kind of security and privacy measures that Signal does, why is Whatsapp allowed to contin

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