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by schlowmo 10y ago
Same with Lenovo where mini-DP is the standard for Ultrabooks.
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by schlowmo 10y ago
> "Zuse is an interesting example of history being written by the victors." This may hold true for the Zuse story, but he's also an example for german history about german scientists. While the Wikipedia article (both germ
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by schlowmo 10y ago
> "The current government also announced that'll soon throw out this obscure paragraph [...]" I'm not sure if I would call 2018 (like Merkel announced) soon. At least it's after her current period of governance
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by schlowmo 10y ago
> "says a big "F* Y" by eliminating the law and saving the comedian" I don't think that this is "saving the comedian", since the law should be eliminated as of 2018. It's likely that judgement (at
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by schlowmo 10y ago
You can read those mentioned qualifications for this particular officer in the Affidavit for Search Warrant at page 2: https://www.thestranger.com/images/blogimages/2016/04/08/146... My favorite is
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by schlowmo 10y ago
> "or any other cloud storage provider" I just wanted to point out that as long as you're not in full control of the server hosting Owncloud (and not connect your Owncloud to third party cloud spaces) you've to care a
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by schlowmo 11y ago
If you want to go along with owncloud (and I don't know a proper alternative) there's not much you can do then upgrading to Owncloud 9 and hope that the fix was done right. In the meantime you could encourage your users to use the
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by schlowmo 11y ago
Yes, maybe I should've made this emphasis stronger in my comment. Also I didn't meant to say that using owncloud is worse than using dropbox in security terms - but you should use your own (client-side) crypto either way if you ca
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by schlowmo 11y ago
Word! I just like to add that it's especially indispensable for many community radios across the world. Maybe there are more powerful tools out there (FOSS or not), but I never saw an audio tool with such capabilities which people got
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by schlowmo 11y ago
> "First it is important to understand what this encryption module is actually supposed to do and understand the threat scenario. The encryption provides no security against a malicious server operator, because the encryption happen
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by schlowmo 11y ago
There was a question on Information Security (Stackexchange) about a year ago which was exactly adressing this issue: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/92512/how-much-... This was a follow up of a more
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by schlowmo 11y ago
Hm, now wait for what could happen next: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11255160
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by schlowmo 11y ago
I think unfortunately you're right with your thoughts about the perception, but this leads to very misguided customer happiness management crap. Since it's well known that cashiers (especially at grocery stores, but in most countr
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by schlowmo 11y ago
In Germany (where Aldi comes from) sitting behind the cash desk is the standard for grocery stores.
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by schlowmo 11y ago
The math behind the security gain by increasing the key length of an RSA key seems slighly more complicated then one might expect. Here is a (short) introduction by the GnuPG folks: https://www.gnupg.org/faq/gnupg-faq.h
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by schlowmo 11y ago
As far as I know: no. Whatsapp just implemented the (open source) signal protocol formerly known as Axolotl with the help of Open Whisper Systems. The rest of the IM "ecosystem" (like push notifications, contact recognition, serve
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by schlowmo 11y ago
Neither is Open Whisper Systems or the signal protocol mentioned in this blog post, but maybe this would have been too much of advertisement for a competitor. To be fair: whatsapp mentioned it at the other two links.
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by schlowmo 11y ago
Point taken. If I talk to "normal" people, I wouldn't use the word "protocol" neither (or at least not as conversation starter). Normal-people-rephrased it's more like "When whatsapp take the fundamental c
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by schlowmo 11y ago
I should use this as a strong argument for the rest of my no-please-not-another-instant-messenger-i-stay-with-whatsapp-contacts: When whatsapp is implementing the signal protocol, why should one use whatsapp in the first place?[1] I hope t
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by schlowmo 11y ago
One could use this as an example to demonstrate the methodological weaknesses of the Turing test: Random racist dumbhead: @TayandYou Do you hate black people? Tay: @RandomRacistDumbhead i do indeed Random racist dumbhead: Wow, this guy is m
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by schlowmo 11y ago
I think the "wrong shell incident" is quite common: "Just need to load this dump to the testing database and I'm on my way to weekend...ok done...oh wait, if I look closer, this shell isn't the testing system...hell
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by schlowmo 11y ago
No need to buy it, it's free: https://www.gitbook.com/book/tra38/essential-copying-and-pas... Found yesterday in this HN Story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11333448
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by schlowmo 11y ago
Besides the reference to Fahrenheit 451 the referece to Life of Brian at the example from the RFC made my day: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7725#section-3 "Unavailable For Legal Reasons This request may not be s