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by octosphere 7y ago
More on Melissa here and also some more detail on David L. Smith: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_(computer_virus) > The virus itself was credited to Kwyjibo, who was shown to be the macrovirus writers Vicodin
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Spaghettification(en.wikipedia.org)
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by octosphere 7y ago
Everything is a bardo [0]. I learned that from The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. I tested out the theory and it's the truest thing I ever heard. A bardo basically means 'in between'. We are forever in between something,
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by octosphere 7y ago
Or learn to meditate without crutches like this. I've learned to not rely on something outside of myself for my own peace of mind. That's what meditation is about: getting to know your inner self and calling upon your inner calm
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by octosphere 7y ago
I think the more meta and wide ranging the subject matter, the better, because there's something for every user of HN to comment on, and oh do users love to snipe on specific sections of an article. Meta content is like crack for users
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Safekeeping – A Useful Tool for Interacting with First Class Disks(cormachogan.com)
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by octosphere 7y ago
There is an alternative called Liberapay[0] but I haven't tried it, so I can't vouch for it. There is also Flattr[1], but Flattr is more for small micropayments to show your appreciation for a project or piece of software (not to
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by octosphere 7y ago
This is neat. Although in recent years I have trimmed down my extensions to just uBlock Origin and HTTPS everywhere. I went through a huge phase of installing novelty addons like this but got concerned about the privacy of the addons and wh
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Ask HN: Let's Discuss Hacker News' Logo Icon
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Edge Blocker – Block Microsoft Edge Browser from Opening(sordum.org)
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by octosphere 7y ago
I read somewhere that Chrome will be adding DoH (DNS over HTTPS) and I'm not sure if it's some experimental flag you toggle. I imagine they will be using 8.8.8.8 (which supports DoH). So now you are sending all your personal data
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by octosphere 7y ago
> So even though they can't tell Bitcoin itself to stop they could stop underlying technologies Bitcoin uses. It's not as simple as that. Due to things like carrier grade NAT, thousands if not millions of users and services use
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by octosphere 7y ago
I'm going to 'recycle' an older comment of mine, pertaining to the comments about the book. The original comment can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20583363 I was annoyed that someone cal
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by octosphere 7y ago
> other stuff like open image in new window Well you can open an image in a new tab by holding down control as you click the 'view image' button. Right click on any image and hold control.
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by octosphere 7y ago
> but I'm sure there are concerns that people here would know something about. Please educate me! Even though DoH encrypts the DNS metadata, it is still visible to the provider so you have to trust the provider not to expose your
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by octosphere 7y ago
> Or modifying the html form You used to be able to send a POST request containing a comment for sites with comments disabled, and the comment still got submitted for the article. Newer versions of Wordpress don't let the comment th
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BlinkStick – Smart LED Controllers with Integrated USB Firmware(blinkstick.com)
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Mushroom Management(en.wikipedia.org)
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Ultracopier is an open source file copying tool for Windows, macOS and Linux(ghacks.net)
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by octosphere 7y ago
That article was way above my head. I just glossed over it and have no other takeaway other than: Why are people not scared shitless of quantum computers? Are they even aware of the implications for privacy that quantum computers have? I am
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by octosphere 7y ago
This is why Tor and onionland is a lawless wild west. All so that journalists can report and trade documents, and so that repressive regimes can't easily censor access to news and information. This is the cost of encryption: you get
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Seagull Manager(en.wikipedia.org)
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by octosphere 7y ago
> Funneling all your Internet access through a single entity You don't have to funnel it all , only data crossing hostile networks like free wifi hotspots (The only real use-case for VPNs in the first place). Alongside this is choi
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Ericsson Snags 5G Ran Deal with South Korea’s LG U+(fiercewireless.com)
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Elisa CTO says the business case for 5G is simple–’human impatience'(rcrwireless.com)
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by octosphere 7y ago
DNS was always a thorn in my side. I never liked the way it was a single point of failure and the first thing attackers looked at when analyzing traffic. Luckily with things like DoH[0], looking at DNS traffic is a lot less invasive in term
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by octosphere 7y ago
There are still some things you can do to mitigate the damage caused by surveillance capitalism, or in some events, logs being kept against your best interest. One of the major ones is installing an adblocker like uBlock origin, and the oth
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by octosphere 7y ago
I also like to do it through diet. My natural 'Nootropics' consist of walnuts, blueberries, raw cacao powder, fish oils (salmon, cod liver oil etc) and Pure MCT oil, mixed with strong coffee.
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Living Off the Orchard: Leveraging Apple Remote Desktop for Good and Evil(fireeye.com)
1 points by octosphere 7y ago|0 comments
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by octosphere 7y ago
Looking forward to creating an encrypted filesystem with ZFS. The snapshots thing seems to be a good unique selling point of ZFS. Will be interesting to see how I go about creating an encrypted ZFS filesystem. Does anyone know - does the en

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