plusquamperfekt

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by plusquamperfekt 11y ago
> Again, I do not donate. I just send checks for thousands of dollars to OSS projects. Well, I rest my case - kudos to you. Of course, you as a business owner do make money from your business, so just donating privately remains a valid o
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by plusquamperfekt 11y ago
> We don't donate to OSS software which we use, because we're legally not allowed to. Why aren't you allowed to donate? > I routinely send key projects, particularly smaller projects, a request to quote me a ... Sounds
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by plusquamperfekt 11y ago
Well ... With all due respect. The primary incentive for a man in nightlife is girls. The guy on the right most likely didn't get much of a chance in that area. The guy on the left might enjoy sober nightlife quite a lot. Girls prefer
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by plusquamperfekt 11y ago
You've been trumped ... that's all ;) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1943873/
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by plusquamperfekt 11y ago
Good point - one might choose one's peers based on the desired feedback - the end result wouldn't be more healthy than adapting oneself to the feedback of a static peer group.
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by plusquamperfekt 11y ago
69 points and growing - but nobody has anything to say about it. at the end of the day this is anyway just yet another post about how you can actually do something practically relevant with Haskell :D How about this: "PHP Game Server&q
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by plusquamperfekt 11y ago
So it is for real ... o.O It's a recurring theme in science that the more we know the more we become aware how little we actually understand. But the brain and it's embedding in the rest of the body and environment raises this p
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by plusquamperfekt 11y ago
Don't forget to support them if you like their stuff - I just remember several posts from that site on HN: https://www.damninteresting.com/damnload/
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by plusquamperfekt 11y ago
You just have to install Gnome Desktop and everything is fine.
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by plusquamperfekt 11y ago
8/16 - 1-9 IM rulez
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by plusquamperfekt 11y ago
Is it really that hard to grasp?
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by plusquamperfekt 11y ago
Huh? Apple and MS have a record of communicating in sharing data with US government - plus as companies providing closed source software they are likely to introduce backdoors ... also something you might have heard of since Snowden.
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by plusquamperfekt 11y ago
NSA only knows then that somebody with that phone number is using Signal ... so what? They would find out anyway b/c your packets are sniffed on a regular basis and so they know your phone is communicating with the Signal server and ma
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by plusquamperfekt 11y ago
> I tend to repeat the 'central server' and 'a phone number is not an address and not public information, it certainly is no identity' criticism. Your phone number is not your identity in Signal. If you change SIM c
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by plusquamperfekt 11y ago
I think the identity is connected to what key pair you control / what private key you have on your phone. F.x. I installed a while ago Signal on my phone and recently went to another country where I used a different SIM card (hence a d
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by plusquamperfekt 11y ago
Signal uses asymmetrical encryption - your private key is very well able to prove your identity - I'm pretty sure the concept "identity" in Signal is built on that technology. But for contacting people - well - what else woul
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by plusquamperfekt 11y ago
I don't trust Apple ...
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by plusquamperfekt 11y ago
If I search for "Signal" on google.com in a private Chrome window then the first five results are all about the "good" Signal app.
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by plusquamperfekt 11y ago
Interesting perspective! It's true that it should be very easy and cheap - something like setting up an E-mail account or installing an app.
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by plusquamperfekt 11y ago
- Google plus: that would be kind of pointless, wouldn't it? - LinkedIn: The worst of the worst ... :D - HN / Reddit / Twitter: How do you share pictures privately with friends? (to name one necessary feature)
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by plusquamperfekt 11y ago
Maybe for a synching feature it would be necessary to compromise on security of the data. The data is asymmetrically encrypted - so you'd have to synch it yourself by sending the data encrypted with you second phones key or you'd
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by plusquamperfekt 11y ago
AirBnB needs to make sure you are not undermining it by making the deal outside of their system ... b/c then they don't get a provision for it. So I'd say it's fine in this case. AirBnB is no medium where free speech is
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by plusquamperfekt 11y ago
http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/3/9662724/signal-encrypted-c... Seems like he changed his mind. https://whispersystems.org/
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by plusquamperfekt 11y ago
It might also be due lobbying given that Telegram was recently in the news for being a popular medium of ISIS communication (not for the attack - as we know by now, but for its public channels)
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by plusquamperfekt 11y ago
Given the credibility attributed to Signal - f.x. by Bruce Schneier and Edward Snowden - I don't understand why it's not more popular than Telegram.
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by plusquamperfekt 11y ago
We need a competitor to FB ... sadly options like Diaspora are very problematic b/c you need to either run a server or trust a private person with it.
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by plusquamperfekt 11y ago
But it is also possible to parasitically communicate encryptedly through FB - isn't it? At least in a browser it should be possible.
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by plusquamperfekt 11y ago
I love the idea of encrypting by default - since yesterday my public key is available on the usual key servers. https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/
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by plusquamperfekt 11y ago
I'm opportunistically supporting more secure messengers by "digital osmosis". Next to WhatsApp I also have installed: 1. Signal 2. Threema 3. Telegram And I will use those (in described order) if possible. Threema seems to be
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by plusquamperfekt 11y ago
The psafe3 file is encrypted.

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