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by photon-torpedo 10y ago
The interesting bit is that they explicitly point out part 7 of the TKG (telecommunications act) which details the telecommunication provider's duties in assisting law enforcement agencies, such as providing interfaces for targeted sur
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by photon-torpedo 10y ago
Additional info: According to a German news article [1], this affects more than 100 developers/companies who provide XMPP client software. In their view, these count as "telecommunication providers". The interesting bit is th
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German network authority demands registration of XMPP client software(twitter.com)
8 points by photon-torpedo 10y ago|1 comments
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by photon-torpedo 10y ago
Right, with currying it can be even more terse. And getting the error at compile time is actually preferable. My Haskell is very rusty, but IIRC it will deduce that the argument to add1 must be Num, because of the type constraint on (+):
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by photon-torpedo 10y ago
For terseness, it's probably hard to beat Julia: addone1(x) = x+1 Completely generic with type inference, and compiles to optimal machine code. But it also suffers from the "latent type errors deferred to the user" t
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by photon-torpedo 10y ago
There have been some reports about UEFI-based malware, which can hook into the OS boot process. I guess this could also work even if the disk is encrypted. First Google hit for "UEFI malware": http://www.pcworld.com&#x2
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by photon-torpedo 10y ago
This sounds similar to 'vidir', which is available in Debian/Ubuntu in the package 'moreutils'. Indeed very useful for editing large directories.
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by photon-torpedo 10y ago
I wonder how accidental that feature is. It's certainly not something that Firefox can advertise, since other apps which did that have been kicked out off the Play Store. Also, I also found that feature to be not very reliable since An
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by photon-torpedo 10y ago
In this context, yes. More literally, Funk means radio, and the word for wireless would be "drahtlos".
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by photon-torpedo 10y ago
To word your statement differently: without ECC, your memory either works fine or is corrupted. But you don't know which one it is, until you run memtest. How often do you do that? Personal anecdote: Upgraded RAM in my PC, ran memtest,
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by photon-torpedo 10y ago
The good thing about PasswordSafe is that the file format is well documented, so there are several implementations of password managers using this format, which should all be interoperable. For Android, there is the app PasswdSafe. It also
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by photon-torpedo 10y ago
For Firefox, I just made this: https://github.com/traktofon/cf-detect
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by photon-torpedo 10y ago
Author here. In the discussion thread about the cloudbleed bug, it was mentioned that there is a Cloudflare detector add-on for Chrome (at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/claire/fgbpcgddpmj... ). Sin
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Show HN: Detect Cloudflare (for Firefox)(github.com)
3 points by photon-torpedo 10y ago|3 comments
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by photon-torpedo 10y ago
> This will take weeks to clean, and that's just for Google. Couldn't Google just purge all cached documents which match any Cloudflare header? This will probably purge a lot of false positives, but it's just cached data,
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by photon-torpedo 10y ago
Sent by mail. Thanks for looking into it!
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by photon-torpedo 10y ago
FWIW, I just tried this in Firefox (set javascript.enabled=false) and went to my bank's website to see how it would fare. Firefox crashed. Tried again with no other tabs open, still crashed. Crash report sent. OTOH, in Chrome the websi
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'Expanse' Co-Creator on Writing, Star Citizen, and Why He Hated Mass Effect 3(glixel.com)
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by photon-torpedo 10y ago
Are there legitimate use cases for 'data:...' URIs as clickable links? I understand these URIs can be useful for embedding resources directly into the HTML, e.g. images and icons. But as clickable links, I have only ever encounter
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by photon-torpedo 10y ago
Somewhat off-topic, but honest question: In the article the author says that he OWNs his email domains. Is this really possible? In my understanding it's more like you rent the domain name from the registrar, and you need to keep renew
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by photon-torpedo 10y ago
Most restaurants in Germany do. You'd have to explicitly and sometimes adamantly request "tap water" to get access to free water, otherwise you'll be served and charged for fancy "mineral water".
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by photon-torpedo 10y ago
This is quite common in legacy Fortran codes. The reason is that these reciprocals are probably later used in many multiplications (e.g. for scaling a vector) which is faster than doing many divisions. Well, nowadays the compiler would opti
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by photon-torpedo 10y ago
Additionally, invoking BLAS/LAPACK only happens for dense arrays of specific types (single/double precision real/complex numbers). The great thing in Julia is that almost all of the array and linear algebra functionality is
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by photon-torpedo 10y ago
Could you elaborate on why you felt the need to "dump everything into the global namespace"? For quite a long time now, you can use modules in Julia to keep things in separate namespaces. With "import MyModule" (instead
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by photon-torpedo 10y ago
Nice work. But as far as I can see this only works for the intrinsic Fortran datatypes, i.e. the various kinds of integers and reals. Any chance for extending this to user-defined types? Looking at the code, all functionality has been repet