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Explore the Noise Protocol interactively in the browser(noiseexplorer.com)
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How I choose software(nero.github.io)
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Stepping towards a password-free world(ebayinc.com)
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by rauhl 8y ago
This seems to be a good excuse to share this great story: > At ILC 2002 former Lisp giant now Python advocate Peter Norvig was for some reason allowed to give the keynote address like Martin Luther leading Easter Sunday mass at the Vatic
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I don’t necessarily want a dumb phone, but I’d like a simpler phone. I’d like navigation (which is the entire reason I got a smartphone in the first place), a Web browser & Signal (or an equivalently-secure text- & video-chat a
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Eighteen favourite financial rules of thumb (and some useful money guidelines)(getrichslowly.org)
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> But the most important use case for VPNs for startups is to get developers access to cloud deployment environments, and developers use MacOS, which made it hard to recommend. What’s that? > … developers use MacOS … Not all developer
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by rauhl 8y ago
> The fact that we have AES-NI (despite the fact that AES constructions are being replaced with EC constructions in quite a few protocols, due to the difficulty of using AES in a safe way) Say what? Unless you mean something other than
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by rauhl 8y ago
In fairness, he’s correct that Linux is better called GNU/Linux: a Linux kernel really is useless without the GNU userland. I’m not a fan of him personally, and many of his technical decisions have been questionable, but he’s achieved
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by rauhl 8y ago
I love that they took the NixOS idea and converted it from brackets to S-expressions, but I do wish that they’d used Common Lisp instead of Scheme. Had they gone with the former, I think that we’d be one step closer to computing’s ultimate
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Revisiting using Docker(gregoryszorc.com)
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This is so cool! I didn’t realise that WSL supports Debian and that Xming is good enough to get running. I have a spare Windows machine — maybe it’s time to give WSL a shot …
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Designing open standards with the minority rule(bensima.com)
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Agreed about how useful paper can be. I’ve settled on a hybrid approach: I take my notes long-hand, but each morning the first thing I do is type them all up into an Org mode file. This gives me the best of all worlds: the tactile benefits
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by rauhl 8y ago
> Data-point of one here, but I was instantly turned off by the conflation of the empty-list, nil, and boolean-false. Oddly enough, that’s almost always something I consider a feature, even when I'm interfacing with the outside worl
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by rauhl 8y ago
> I've never seen any particularly compelling sub-$1000 mechanical watches I guess it depends on what you mean by ‘compelling.’ Ævig, Lew & Huey, Nivrel, Hamilton, Christopher Ward, Melbourne and many, many more have some very
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by rauhl 8y ago
About two years ago I decided that it was time to get a smart watch. I’m a developer, I’m a geek, I love my smart phone — a smart watch is the perfect accessory, right? Well, actually it’s not. After spending quite a lot of time looking a
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by rauhl 8y ago
> Surprised no one has mention it yet, but Recruit Holdings is the parent company of Indeed. As of right now (2018-05-09T14:33Z), the article reads ‘Recruit Holdings, a large Japanese human resources company that owns other job sites lik
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by rauhl 8y ago
> I was going to be all "yeah, but I don't run a Linux desktop because I'm not a masochist, so my only use for a terminal is over SSH from Windows." I purchased a Windows laptop a couple of years ago as an additional
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by rauhl 8y ago
I'm the author: feel free to ask me anything! I think that it’s a nice example of Go’s composability (i.e., with respect to http.RoundTripper).
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PDF files can be abused to steal Windows credentials(bleepingcomputer.com)
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> Going on a plane? Probably bring an adapter. Like to listen to music in your car? Keep an adapter in your car. Listen to music at work? Keep an adapter at work. So, I should have travel, car & work adapters instead of a working, no
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> Unpopular opinion: I hate meta programming. As papaf asked, is it metaprogramming you hate, or bad metaprogramming ? Metaprogramming is just another tool in the toolbox, and hating syntactic abstraction (macros) makes as much sense
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by rauhl 8y ago
I haven’t switched, but I often use my fiancée’s iPhone (which isn’t at all the same thing, I know). The way that I put it is that the iPhone is a better smart phone; Android is a better pocket computer. If you want something which is basi
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by rauhl 8y ago
Yeah, but if you leave JavaScript disabled how can the trackers fire? I assume that's the real reason for all these pages which would work just fine without JavaScript requiring it.
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by rauhl 8y ago
Weirdly, I submitted the exact same URL 20 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16958811 Not complaining, just surprised: I thought that HN deduplicated within a few days or weeks.
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by rauhl 8y ago
> And while it's fun, you realise most emails are heavy in html/images/attachments and barely readable in full text form anymore... :/ That’s why I use notmuch with emacs. I can view text emails as text & HTML em
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by rauhl 8y ago
I've used OfflineIMAP[0] for this sort of thing successfully, but gmailieer & isync do sound interesting — particularly the ‘high performance’ bit about the latter. OfflineIMAP is not exactly a speed demon. 0: http://
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Bootstrap your elisp learning(puntoblogspot.blogspot.com)
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An alternative point of view would be that lab-grown 'animal' products and factory-farmed animal products alike are dehumanising, and that people should kill & butcher their own meat. I'm a huntsman, and I can report that

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