octosphere

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by octosphere 7y ago
I haven't had a Google account for over 5 years now, after my account got suspended for no apparent reason. The only thing I can think of that raised the alarm at Google was that I created two other accounts using the same IP and devic
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CenturyLink Embraces Fiber(potsandpansbyccg.com)
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Lexend: The variable font to improve our reading experience for good(typeroom.eu)
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by octosphere 7y ago
Most people know this, but still continue to upload images without stripping the EXIF data. I think it's just convenient to not strip it, but they pay with an invasion into their privacy. If I recall correctly, Twitter strips EXIF info
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by octosphere 7y ago
Single serving site by Brad Frost on bullshit in terms of web design: http://www.deathtobullshit.com (Dug it up from my bookmarks)
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Disk Prices – Comparison of All Hard Drives and SSDs on Amazon(diskprices.com)
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ReadKit – Have all your reading in one place(readkitapp.com)
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by octosphere 7y ago
I use a diceware[0] passphrase for my Keepass database. I was inspired heavily by XKCD comic 936[1]. My only issue with password managers is that they are a single point of failure and are juicy targets for hackers, so I usually vet them an
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Thunderbird to support OpenPGP encryption standard in 2020(ghacks.net)
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Hide Private Mode for Firefox prevents private browsing mode detection(ghacks.net)
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A Firsthand Account of Huawei's PR Drive(thediplomat.com)
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Firefox 71: set a custom private browsing search engine(ghacks.net)
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by octosphere 7y ago
I loathe the way Youtube is this big gatekeeper and can make arbitrary decisions on what is/isn't allowed. We need to build alternatives to Youtube which are not subject to arbitrary interference.
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by octosphere 7y ago
> 55% of respondents agreed their emotions become heightened when on a flight Of course everything is heightened on a plane flight
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Introduction to Slides, a Clean Presentation Tool(zge.us.to)
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Huawei already manufacturing 5G base stations without U.S. parts(rcrwireless.com)
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by octosphere 7y ago
Recycled comment of mine from a few weeks ago here. Note: I was told NLP[0] (Neuro Linguistic Programming) was not cast in a good light in its Wikipedia entry, and I admit it has its weaknesses, but I was inspired by the fact Tony Robbins u
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by octosphere 7y ago
This might have issues. It wasn't well received in infosec Twitter where famed researcher @notdan gave out about the VPN potentially leaking your real IP through a http header https://twitter.com/notdan/status&#x2F
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by octosphere 7y ago
I do an exercise each day where I try to (for at least 10 minutes) look at very distant objects like the horizon or a tree in the distance. I do this because it relaxes the eye especially if you work with screens all day (which I do).
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by octosphere 7y ago
I suppose it could be done a lot cheaper and easier, but don't forget the initial research required to figure out how to do it efficiently. All the trial and error required to create a set of OPSEC rules to abide by as you operate. In
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by octosphere 7y ago
You need more than one single solitary account to do psyops on Twitter (I know - I regularly play around with Twitter sockpuppet accounts because I have inordinate amounts of free time to do research on the effects of a campaign, albeit sma
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API Calls and HTTP Status Codes(itnext.io)
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Datastructures for External Memory (2016)(blog.omega-prime.co.uk)
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Disable TLS 1.0 and 1.1 for Nightly(bugzilla.mozilla.org)
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by octosphere 7y ago
I meant having a sufficient amount of time before certain crypto schemes are broken. Maybe I really meant reasonable . In a reasonable amount of time we can expect quantum computers to attack crypto schemes. If you mean brute forcing an
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by octosphere 7y ago
> I don't think money is the issue Interesting reading the Wikipedia entry regarding SpaceX's funding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX#Ownership,_funding_and_... Seems to be a lot of capital 'rai
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5G Network Architecture – A High-Level Perspective [pdf](huawei.com)
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by octosphere 7y ago
Yes but isn't there a competition to find an algo that can be widely deployed and not subject to weird requirements? A sort of 'goldilocks' algo. For example, I can't recall the name of the algo, but one such candidate f
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by octosphere 7y ago
> in particular, they can't run Shor's algorithm to factorize numbers and break a big part of encryption methods Given a sufficient time horizon, large swathes of crypto will be broken by such a computer and has many people w
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Mozilla Disables TLS 1.0 and 1.1 in Firefox Nightly(ghacks.net)
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