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by prophesi 7y ago
Yeah, there's quite the echo chamber on Hacker News, and most other tech-oriented forums. Everywhere else is full of "Nothing to hide" arguments and Alexas.
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by prophesi 7y ago
"I recognize I’m saying something unconventional if not provocative." On the contrary, you're preaching the conventional wisdom of today. And I also don't think you read the short article; it's simply about making m
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by prophesi 7y ago
I'm still having issues convincing friends/family that the initial friction of a password manager and replacing all of your reused passwords is worth it at all. Security is a battle of convenience, and we still haven't struck
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by prophesi 7y ago
Firewatch was top-notch. Untitled Goose Game was top-notch. I would never imagine a handheld with a _crank_ actually selling well in 2020; but if anyone can do it, it's Panic.
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by prophesi 7y ago
I did check them. I set my settings to "Check for updates but let you choose to install them." via the about:config method, which is the setting I assumed they were referring to. I could still update from 72.0.0 to 72.0.1 from the
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by prophesi 7y ago
Well, yes, it will keep your Firefox profile and its related settings. It's only the about:config settings that will be reset, which I think is a sane default.
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by prophesi 7y ago
It's to be expected that running the installer will give you a fresh install of Firefox. You can still manually update by hitting "About Firefox" in your menu, which will keep your settings as-is.
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by prophesi 7y ago
When you try to manually update via the installer, make sure to pass the /RemoveDistributionDir=false flag, then you're good to go. If you're a power user who understands the security implications of not having automatic upda
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by prophesi 7y ago
Odd, I have a knee-jerk reaction when I see a service offered for "free."
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by prophesi 7y ago
I recommend https://www.librarything.com/ Sadly, any Goodreads competitor will need to miraculously gain the network effect; everyone you know is on Goodreads, so it'll just be you and whoever you can convince to move
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by prophesi 7y ago
For one, it's a lot of text for the myriad of ways you can moderate your server/chat. It's just a paragraph for kicking "a nazi out of the cybersecurity chat." And two, "In Riot, Admins are shown in the members
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by prophesi 7y ago
And it's a worthwhile pursuit. Moxie's points simply don't make sense, and are infuriating / disrespectful to those who are working on solving decentralization's issues. _Of course_ it will be difficult. But the sam
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by prophesi 7y ago
Did some digging, and it seems like it's at least on the roadmap, but I'm not sure how high of a priority it is. https://github.com/tutao/tutanota/issues/544
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by prophesi 7y ago
Well, snap! Does Tutanota have something akin to this? I also have stopped using Tuta/Proton due to the IMAP incompatibility.
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by prophesi 7y ago
The PS4 might be a pain (though I haven't tried the gesture typing feature), but the Switch has a touchscreen so there's no issue there.
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by prophesi 7y ago
Ultimately, it's just a personal belief that all knowledge should be free as in freedom. SoloKey Hacker Edition in particular lets you run custom firmware, so you can at least be confident in the software side of things, and build upon
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by prophesi 7y ago
It's still a little better than security questions in that the layman's recovery codes won't be publicly available or easily guessable personal information.
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by prophesi 7y ago
Yeah, I've been happy with my SoloKey, but OnlyKey's integration with a software password manager + OpenPGP + SSH keys is really enticing. I'm on the same boat as a lot of others here, however, that the lack of open hardware
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by prophesi 7y ago
Just a quick nitpick; could the link be updated to use https? I'm a bit surprised it doesn't automatically redirect in the first place.
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by prophesi 7y ago
I was about to post that. I really hope this proposal goes through. It's still difficult to keep up with password rotation.
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by prophesi 7y ago
Feature conservatism has never been Keybase; their identity crisis has been going on for quite some time. What first started as a simple messaging app became a file-sharing service, then a Slack competitor, and now a cryptocurrency wallet.
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by prophesi 7y ago
Did you set up an Uphold account and link your Brave wallet to it? That should pretty much be the end of it; should be straightforward from there to send/exchange the BAT elsewhere. As your browser receives BAT on the 5th of every mont
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by prophesi 7y ago
What examples do you have? So far I can think of Steem coin and Dogecoin. The former has the vendor lock-in issue, and the latter has no standardized automation of tipping.
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by prophesi 7y ago
Hm, touché! That lines up with the timeline, though I still think Chrome's _sustained_ and _stark_ uptick in market share is due to their market dominance in every field of one's digital life. I must admit that I've never use
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by prophesi 7y ago
Welppp, that's a sad chart. Though I really doubt Firefox's drop in market-share is that tied to performance. The story is more likely to be Chrome/Chromium as the default on Android, the release of Chromebooks, etc. Of cours
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by prophesi 7y ago
Ah, then there's no need to check out Solr! They both use the same backend search engine called Lucene.
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by prophesi 7y ago
I'd highly recommend Solr[0] for searching to cut down the load. Or, if this is a static site, you could use Lunr[1] to have an efficient search that runs on the client. Is this site OSS? [0] https://lucene.apache.org/s
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by prophesi 7y ago
Do you actually use firefox for your personal usage? FF Quantum hit the stage two years ago. Performance is now a moot point; they've had plenty of time to recoup on any market share losses from that with the new Quantum branding. And
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by prophesi 7y ago
From what I've gathered from the discussions & links on here: Our current solution for password authentication is perfectly fine, unless you distrust your CA's. SRP itself is a bit of a mess, and has gone through a lot of iter
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by prophesi 7y ago
Could you elaborate on that? I'm assuming by "password authenticators" you mean the different hashing algorithms one could employ to securely store passwords. With SRP, you're protected from replay attacks, and from eave

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