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by oil25 7y ago
I stay away from fish oil due to concerns about pollutant bio-accumulation in fatty flesh. My research leads me to believe algae-based EPA/DHA supplements are much safer, as they're created in a clean, hermetically sealed environm
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by oil25 7y ago
This was very well written and helpful to me as a newly remote employee. The tone in this article is very pleasant and uplifting. I especially like your point about having mental triggers to establish routines. When I worked in an office, I
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by oil25 7y ago
In my experience, "senior" in a title means the individual is capable of planning tasks for themselves and a small team with minimal or no supervision. A senior developer doesn't wait to be assigned a task; they identify a pr
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by oil25 7y ago
If you have to ask, then neither. Anonymity isn't achieved merely as a result of installing a program or two; rather through apprehending a rational threat model and taking technical steps which you can actually understand to reduce ri
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by oil25 7y ago
Agreed. Another satisfied LineageOS (Nexus 6P) user here. Huge thanks to any devs that might be reading this. Our intimate private data is not a commodity!
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by oil25 7y ago
Lots of speculation, mostly from owners of Web sites which profit off marketing credit cards. The article tries to claim that low-interest loans are BAD for consumers because they "generally set at a higher amount each month". Do
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by oil25 7y ago
Mark Zuckerberg is an adult responsible for his own decisions in life, including those which enable Facebook to violate our privacy or other bad behavior, as its leader. "If it wasn’t Zuckerberg running the largest network, it would be
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by oil25 7y ago
What absolute mindless drivel! Mr. Clegg starts his opinion piece with a nirvana fallacy: breaking up Facebook won't solve all the world's problem, so why bother? More appeals are made throughout to Facebook's large user-base
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by oil25 7y ago
The Tor network is not and has never been designed to thwart a global network panopticon, as most (all?) low-latency mixer networks aren't. This is stated clearly in the Tor design spec. Choosing to frame this negatively (as a "ho
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by oil25 7y ago
Does anybody know how security updates work with these devices? I assume Samsung will continue supporting S7 and S9, but for how long, and do these patches make it to /e/? I'm always skeptical of privacy grandstanding when li
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by oil25 7y ago
Brand new, from seller "Deus PC" on Newegg at a cost of $649.
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by oil25 7y ago
That's a pretty uncharitable characterization of their experiments framework. Have you ever worked on large-scale software with tens of millions of users or end-points? Then no doubt you'll know the tremendous value incremental de
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by oil25 7y ago
Flashrom is excellent software. I just used it yesterday to flash Coreboot on a new Thinkpad X230, using a SOIC8 clip and Raspberry Pi, to replace the proprietary Lenovo BIOS and run me_cleaner. Huge thanks to the developers!
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by oil25 7y ago
Tech firms engage in capitalist logic to achieve it: wherein the true costs of production are externalized and obscured from public view (or worse, portrayed as being virtuous and of benefit to the user). Willing or not, we are in their emp
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by oil25 7y ago
I don't use Docker; I run dnscrypt-wrapper on my own server and clients connect to it using your dnscrypt-proxy software. Please pardon my ignorance, but how would you propose automating key rotation in this circumstance (assuming the
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by oil25 7y ago
It is a valid trade-off to leave Javascript enabled by default in Tor Browser. The reason being, the experience is much more user-friendly to a layperson and thus results in greater network usage and diversity. "Safe" is a relativ
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by oil25 7y ago
I've used DNSCrypt for some time and think it's great software, however I disagree with the author's position it makes certificate expiration a thing of the past. Setting a short expiry and automation for renewal is optional
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by oil25 7y ago
> I don't buy for 5 minutes that Tor Browser is secure regardless of configuration. You don't need to "buy" this idea - we're talking about free and open source software. If you passionately believe it's ins
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by oil25 7y ago
Don't attribute malice where incompetence may serve as a valid explanation. This is a fundamental tenet of information security practice. Besides, it's silly to think an outage of massive proportions would be the most effective me
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by oil25 7y ago
It seems to be part of a larger PR effort to appear socially acceptable and relatable in a post-Snowden world.
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by oil25 7y ago
The rationale stated for this work is preventing ISPs from being able to monitor and potentially sell information about Internet usage, which is reasonable and worthwhile. But by hosting a VPN with a third party, haven't we simply reas
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by oil25 7y ago
Needs "2015" in the title. The article is about reproducible builds. Here's a more technical and less alarmist explanation of how it works in Debian: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/About
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by oil25 7y ago
Replying from the latest -current snapshot on my desktop (AMD Ryzen 7 / B450 chipset / ECC RAM) and have nothing but good things to say about OpenBSD. As others have iterated, this operating system is extremely reliable, secure by
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by oil25 8y ago
I always create and use Firefox profiles with a custom user.js preference file. Here's a great one: https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js
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by oil25 8y ago
Nothing but blank pages in Firefox without Javascript, which I disable for non-HTTPS protected sites. If your site needs Javascript to display a simple image on an HTML page, please consider your users and their accessibility needs.
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by oil25 8y ago
> Whenever I browse with the TOR browser, it's been 100% impossible for me to verify myself as a human even if all my answers are correct Consider this a canary that Tor is working as intended. If you get past Captcha on Tor, to me
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by oil25 8y ago
It seems they are difficult because they're intentionally designed to de-anonymize users coming in over VPN/Tor, using the small variation in click timing. If you see one of these and want to stay anonymous, close the tab and walk
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by oil25 8y ago
Not nearly all personal data collection is obvious and even less of it is of tangible benefit to users. I'm with you about voluntary collection, but when the last several years' of history is replete with spying, coercion, back-do
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by oil25 8y ago
This is about ancient VIA C3 CPUs processors - not your modern Intel/AMD. This isn't to say backdoors are implausible on modern processors (vulnerabilities in Intel ME/AMD PSP come to mind), but I would like to see some hard
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by oil25 8y ago
I find the information empowering and it doesn't cause undue fear in me. To the contrary, these articles help form a collective vocabulary to understand the world around us, especially the less overt parts. It is so much deeper than &q

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