smichel17

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by smichel17 5y ago
> I have seen emails get leaked from hacks or just plain "we share only with trusted 3rd parties!" buried somewhere. This is why using a different email with each website is glorious! If example.com leaks my example.com@«my dom
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by smichel17 5y ago
Adding my disagreement to the chorus— the number of permutations they try on my personal domain is not high enough to warrant an explicit allowlist. I actually don't even have a blocklist; I simply don't receive that much spam.
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by smichel17 5y ago
> Can you create a space that's only for "personal" use, if you are not an admin of your home server? Yes
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by smichel17 5y ago
As a compromise, I use a catchall email adress, so @«my HN handle, without numbers».me comes to my single mailbox. Then I use sieve filtering to sort the emails into folders based on the address they're sent to; if there's no spe
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by smichel17 5y ago
> As I said, if you have $5MM, you'll get what you get for $5MM. If you want to spend a boatload of time researching, your estimate might be closer, but that research isn't free. Knowing how far you'll get might affect wha
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by smichel17 5y ago
I doubt CDs will have the same retro appeal for several reasons, which all boil down to "They're insufficiently different from a FLAC library, which has [almost] all the upsides of CDs with [almost] none of the downsides." In
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by smichel17 5y ago
And, as I just found while poking around, `bpytop` is also a rewrite, of the original(?) `bashtop`.
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by smichel17 5y ago
Judicial precedent, also known as common law... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law
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by smichel17 5y ago
I disable url bar autocompletion for history, so it's only for bookmarks and open tabs, and use my bookmarks as a way to choose which sites are easy to get to.
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by smichel17 5y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key
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by smichel17 5y ago
Are we sure they're not actually the exact same problem? Hypothesis: the "10x" developer does not actually have 10x the output of a single average developer, but rather the same output as 10 average developers working togethe
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by smichel17 5y ago
At least with "google" I can still say [web] search and people will know what I mean. I'm not sure how I'd even refer to e-ink screens without that word; even with the word I sometimes need to clarify ("like a calcu
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by smichel17 5y ago
Yeah, the implementation described in the article seems almost exactly how I understand Signal has been doing it all along. It's purely a client software choice not to allow a phone to be a secondary device. There's a fork which a
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by smichel17 5y ago
TFA ends with that quote.
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by smichel17 5y ago
How do they compare to Luxon?
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by smichel17 5y ago
https://www.sci-hub.ru/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/a...
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by smichel17 5y ago
When I visited Barcelona, I was struck by their intersection design. It's great. Instead of squares, their streets intersect in diamonds , where the (largely one-way) streets come out of the corners. They're a bit larger than a s
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by smichel17 5y ago
Ha, you're right, I might have overshot my time period a little. I was thinking Windows 7 era, plus some late Vista/XP. Wikipedia tells me Windows 7 was released in 2009, so my statement would probably hold better if I'd said
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by smichel17 5y ago
This comment made me sad, a little. 15 years ago practically everyone would know how to do this: download the installer from Microsoft and run it.
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by smichel17 5y ago
> i find US fascination with their theoretical ability to fight their government with small arms adorable and misguided. There's a difference between "fight" and "defeat". Anyone who thinks that a motley band of
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by smichel17 5y ago
The production costs of digital goods are naturally scarce. We "just" haven't (yet) figured out a good way to compensate people for those, so we turn to artificial scarcity.
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by smichel17 5y ago
Some homeservers are larger than others (e.g. matrix.org). They don't all need to be compromised to enable mass surveillance. It also depends on where TLS is terminated. If you're running a homeserver on AWS or something behind
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by smichel17 5y ago
"You can fool some people sometimes, but you can't fool all the people all the time." If you don't verify the keys, e2ee is basically meaningless against targeted surveillance. As long as some fraction of people verify
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by smichel17 5y ago
Are reproducible builds the solution? Seems like the fdroid folks would still have to build ("reproduce") the apk to verify that it matches the one provided by the developer. Then they'd sign it and distribute the double-sign
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by smichel17 5y ago
I've understood the second E to mean "...with our proprietary stuff". Building OSS on top of other OSS is still just Embrace. An example of Extend would be building features for WSL that only work in WSL, not Linux proper. So
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by smichel17 5y ago
uMatrix. You can configure it to allow everything else by default if cookies is all you care about. Then, also enable uBlock origin's "annoyances" filter.
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by smichel17 5y ago
I like browsing HN from the Android app Materialistic because (1) I can't see votes on my posts and (2) it's difficult to find replies to my posts (you can view your profile, but jumping to a post only shows its ancestors, not r
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by smichel17 5y ago
That sounds pretty similar to the QMK firmware that runs on my keyboard (an Ergodox-EZ). It's been a blast to play around with. Best part is that it travels with the keyboard rather than the OS, so I can plug into a different computer
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by smichel17 5y ago
Which apps? Not that it makes a difference for this conversation, but I'm interested in keeping up to date with what the "killer apps" are that keep people from switching.
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by smichel17 5y ago
This wouldn't be an issue if credit card providers offered a standardized system for making subscription charges. When you sign up, you'd pre-authorize them to charge your card a certain amount per time period. You could revoke th

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