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by phaer 11y ago
I don't use Windows, but often found https://www.bvckup2.com/ quite satisfying when I set up backups for Windows users among friends & family.
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by phaer 11y ago
Just for the record: Greek governments did demand war compensation before 1980, but Germany argued that that question has to wait until unification. After 1989 it was "too late"
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by phaer 12y ago
That's most probably a part of it, but it wouldn't explain why people migrate to GNU Social, because users don't need to pay for twitter.
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by phaer 12y ago
Could you elaborate on what's "extreme" about SYRIZA? Some of them have their roots in communist parties, but their actual politics today seem very close to the politics of most european social democratic parties 20-30 years
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by phaer 12y ago
If you are using Firefox: click on the padlock icon -> "more information" -> "view certificate" and then on the "details" tab. If you check "certificate signature algorithm" for each of the 3 ce
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by phaer 12y ago
Are you sure they have the same root certificate? About a month ago, I ran in some problems because I got a new certificate from RapidSSL which had been signed by their new-ish SHA256 certificate but older clients (~3 years old browsers) ha
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by phaer 12y ago
Isn't that already the case? I heard that they already download well-tagged music from private trackers like what.cd which could be published if its copyright expires eventually. There's a page on archive.org with "what_cd&qu
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by phaer 12y ago
What exactly are you missing? I found the desktop-task-packages on Debian testing quite usable without any configuration. If you haven't tried them for a year or two or if you just tested the stable release, I can recommend to take a f
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by phaer 12y ago
What's so "bloated" about Debian with task-lxde-desktop, or task-xfce-desktop?
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Joseph E. Stiglitz on Austerity and the Eurozone(project-syndicate.org)
1 points by phaer 12y ago|0 comments
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by phaer 12y ago
Yes, but you are trying to use non-existence as a proof for the opposite of possibility.
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by phaer 12y ago
You could have argued the very same way against the possibility of nation-states before the emerged historically. There's just no way to use history as some sort of "proof" that there are no other forms to organize a society
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by phaer 12y ago
...or you are trying to build extra robust systems. And to do that, it helps to choose carefully which libraries to use because one has to understand them all. And then readability of the language is becomes an issue and I'd argue tha
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by phaer 12y ago
Thanks for your post and for not picking on one project in particular, but the obfuscation of the projects name in your last screen shot doesn't really work. It's trivial to read the projects name there.
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by phaer 12y ago
Well the hardest part is to persuade most users that end to end encryption is something they actually want. If GMail would launch an integration with PGP (or similar), call it "Secure GMail - now extra private" or something and st
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by phaer 12y ago
https://leanpub.com/javascript-allonge is a good resource on (rather basic) functional programming in JavaScript.
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by phaer 12y ago
The example is well chosen because the Common Lisp Hyperspec is actually nicer to view in a text browser than in a graphical one ;)
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by phaer 12y ago
Whhats wrong with 7.?
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by phaer 12y ago
I my experience, the talks at 30c3 were a bit more technical again than those at 29c3, at least some smaller ones. Personally, I like to discuss the implications of tech in society in bigger talks, because the most interesting technical dis
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by phaer 12y ago
> I also know of people running XP because it's incredibly stable now and they don't see anything in newer versions of Windows they really want or need. They don't need security updates? Aren't they connected to the i
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by phaer 12y ago
> The evil of legitimizing immoral actions is that they become what is, within that context, justice. Yes, that's a very important point to learn from at least the 20th century, I'd say. I you haven't already, read Hannah
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by phaer 12y ago
The pure number of employees sounds like a bad metric for "oppressiveness". What would the NSA do with all those people? Machines are doing most of the collection which the MfS/StaSi had to do manually.
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by phaer 12y ago
Who do you enter your passphrases, pins, etc if you box is controlled by someone else? How do you know there's no keylogger running? How do you use PGP if you don't care about the security of your private key?
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by phaer 12y ago
I agree but that's in stark contrast to your original comment.
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by phaer 12y ago
The worst case scenario, at least in many european countries, would actually be that you loose all your stolen money and that your future income above a state-defined 'existence minimum' is automatically seized. Prison, on the o
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by phaer 12y ago
There were plenty of "non-techies" who used Google Reader before it shut down. And at least in my circles there are plenty of non-techies who say that they don't get the concept of twitter. EDIT: Both, Twitter and RSS, have t
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by phaer 12y ago
I am quite skeptical about twitter myself but I never understood this argument: What stops you from explaining your new or controversial argument in (n * 140) chars, or multiple tweets?
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by phaer 12y ago
How exactly? In the time it takes you to register an account on twitter.com you could as well register an account on wordpress.com and publish via RSS. The main difference is that longer content is possible, that you could find even easier&
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by phaer 12y ago
But what's Twitters advantage over good ol' RSS or ATOM for this use case?
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by phaer 12y ago
Firefox provides synchronization without relying on 3rd-party servers, you can just use your own or one provided by a trusted friend. and it's quite easy to block Google from tracking your browsing habits using GA or Ads: just use an A

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