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by pferde 7y ago
Not if you are the only one holding the encryption keys to your content.
572.
by pferde 7y ago
Thanks, I haven't seen that. HN simply moves too fast these days.
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Signal Threatens to Leave the US If Earn IT Act Passes(wired.com)
82 points by pferde 7y ago|3 comments
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by pferde 7y ago
What's it with people making long, split-up twitter threads like this? They're cumbersome and hard to read. Be an adult, write and publish an article on your blog. It feels weird having to criticize Marlinspike about this, but stu
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by pferde 7y ago
Nice advertisment. As long as there is no single negative thing about LinkedIn mentioned (and we all know there are plenty), this article can't be taken as anything else. Flagged.
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by pferde 7y ago
I posit that things sucked less back then. Sure, there were some protocols whose owners would break things on purpose, but on the other hand, those times gave us libpurple. Also, users weren't yet conditioned to expect proprietary chat
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by pferde 7y ago
I used it almost daily up until maybe two years ago, when they finally cut off third-party client programs.
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by pferde 7y ago
Remember about 20 years ago, when it was about protocols and not about brand names? You could have all the chat services in one client, complete with merging contacts from different services. Nowadays, you have to jump through hoops to get
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Automake-1.16.2 Released [Stable](lists.gnu.org)
5 points by pferde 7y ago|0 comments
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by pferde 7y ago
I fully agree with you here, and think pg is utterly wrong in this regard. In the long term, it hurts everyone involved. With enough people downvoting to disagree and upvoting to agree, the community devolves to tribalism and echo chambers,
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by pferde 7y ago
Mine has the advantage of the browser processes not having access to anything important, in case of a RCE vulnerability. An attacker would just see a vanilla debian install with no juicy user data, and only the ~/Downloads directory li
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by pferde 7y ago
I do not, sorry. I have to set up a blog some day, but I have been putting it off because most of the time I can't think of anything interesting to say. :) Anyway, I was mostly inspired by an article on how to set up Steam in a contain
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by pferde 7y ago
I have an ephemeral container (systemd-nspawn with -x switch) with almost-default configuration of firefox (only uBlock Origin added) for such websites. After I'm done, I close the browser and everything gets deleted.
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by pferde 7y ago
So, not Luna, but a diminutive Lunita? :)
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by pferde 7y ago
That only matters if the management looks beyond the next quarterly report.
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by pferde 7y ago
The mere fact that something is done for voluntarily and for free does not mean it cannot be criticized if it is bad. Note that GP did not criticize the person that made the README, but the README itself. That is how it should be.
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by pferde 7y ago
I wonder - would such audit be in their interest? Perhaps it's easier for Twitter if foreign dissidents know that Twitter is not safe to use for them, and go elsewhere. Twitter then does not have a risk of politically charged situation
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by pferde 7y ago
I agree on the low quality of the global public channel (both Diaspora and Mastodon have one), but if you pick a good server, the local public channel tends to be quite useful for discovering new and interesting stuff - or people. Once you
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by pferde 7y ago
Looks good so far. A suggestion, though - if you really can't make the site work at least a little bit with javascript disabled, at least have a basic landing/about page display for js-less browsers. Simply put - give me a reason
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by pferde 7y ago
Yes, that is exactly my problem with such bots. They turn RSS - a thing which you have to go out of your way to opt in to - to something which you have to go out of your way to opt out of.
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by pferde 7y ago
Sorry for being unclear - I was referring to blocking on user level, where everyone can decide for themselves what they consider spam, instead of leaving it "for the admin".
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by pferde 7y ago
"Would be"? There are already way too many bots on Mastodon, many of them do unpaid advertising for commercial news outlets (reposting their RSS feeds). I guess people who run them think they're doing "fediverse" a
593.
by pferde 7y ago
"(even though no one did succesfully invocated a major demon as far as I know ...) " There's a Trump joke in there somewhere. :)
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by pferde 7y ago
Yeah, I'd prefer the bike shed to be painted green.
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by pferde 7y ago
I think there is a reason to keep audio and video playback separate, because you approach them differently. When you are watching video, it's usually where your attention goes, whereas listening to audio is something done "in th
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by pferde 7y ago
You may be interested in Qmmp - a Qt-based winamp-style player. I use it every day, it's pretty great. http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/
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by pferde 7y ago
Yeah, I haven't been there myself in months (I forget, plus do not have a NNTP reader in my phone), but I don't remember it being this bad before. Still, there are still interesting threads, and with judicious application of PLONK
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by pferde 7y ago
Something like that happened back when Slashdot was bought by Dice.com, and lot of users just up and left. Some people started building new, similar sites, but a lot of them agreed to go to Usenet newsgroup comp.misc, which had been long do
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by pferde 7y ago
Yup, looks like I misunderstood your use of "this" at the beginning - I thought you were referring to the post you were replying to. My bad.
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Why Bruce Perens Is Proposing ‘Coherent Open Source’(thenewstack.io)
1 points by pferde 7y ago|0 comments

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