snakeanus

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by snakeanus 9y ago
> app-driven Does that mean that you can only order for a cab via an app? Or are apps an alternative?
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by snakeanus 9y ago
I am more interested in actual arguments instead of just names. That being said, since you are so interested in names, here is a list by the FSF that includes whatsapp https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary-back-do
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by snakeanus 9y ago
I don't see why would they bother with them when things like Chacha20 (which is a popular and well audited algorithm) already exist.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
DJB actually made a post on twitter about Simon/Speck https://twitter.com/hashbreaker/status/719884030796177409
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by snakeanus 9y ago
In that case this is the best moment to link to https://archive.lainchan.jp/sec/res/4386.html#4391
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by snakeanus 9y ago
This is truly odd, maybe they recently stopped blocking tor users but for some reason they decided to block vpn/proxy users? I honestly have no idea.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
I never had a problem using the wayback machine with js disabled.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
For firefox there is dom.battery.enabled and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Battery_Sta... but it seems that since 42 it is enabled only for addons. It seems that I was wrong about that
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by snakeanus 9y ago
You can still do things like being able to get the battery status with JS or detect visited links.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
With JS disabled as well? This is quite weird, I was never able to access it with TBB nor with any proxy without the cloudflare captcha page popping in.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
I wish that they would just publish that "hack" into the public, that way people would hopefully understand the dangers of "black boxes" and maybe even push intel and AMD to remove ME and PSP from their products. I wish
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by snakeanus 9y ago
Please use archive.org instead of archive.is as a mirror next time. Archive.is blocks VPNS and tor while making it impossible to see the target url and use it directly or via another archive. Moreover since it uses cloudflare every connecti
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by snakeanus 9y ago
Considering this, remember to push AMD to allow the disabling the PSP (their version of ME) or share the source of it. Recently they said that they won't do it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14803373 .
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by snakeanus 9y ago
> A completely open web will be inundated with spam, pornography and propaganda I doubt that. In fact, from my experience in a "completely open" I would say that this is false.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
Which is why federated solutions like GNUSocial, NNTP or email win here as moderation can be applied per-node.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
Moving and finding a job in another country is not something trivial, especially if you get 17k/year.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
> $55k a year This is actually a LOT. My mother who even has a PHD and works as a teacher only makes 16.8k per year.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
> So if I fix a piece of buggy open-source code and my patch is merged, then I "own" the bug fix and the author no longer owns that portion of the program? Yes, and it makes sense, after all you made that part of the code. The
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by snakeanus 9y ago
Why not apache2 then?
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by snakeanus 9y ago
> For a straight-text book, actually, Markdown is excellent. You can include images, or for technical content, tables, easily. I would probably use org-mode for that.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
> is now an expected feature in all browsers If you use the tor browser you are actually expected to have it disabled.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
I would actually switch to ddg if they actually bothered to free more parts of their site and backend. Right now their JS is nonfree for example.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
> HTML tags (or CSS) are out of reach for the vast majority CSS sure, but most people can learn the basic html tags in a minute. Same for the basic latex conventions.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
The old site from the keccak team was nice, light, easy to use (you could easily find the paper or post that you wanted) and cute. The new one can't even be accessed with js disabled. Why that huge step backwards? And referring to DJB
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by snakeanus 9y ago
Markdown is a bad joke.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
> And not postscript. Something you can author by hand. How about TeX? Many sites already use js libraries that integrate latex.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
> What is strange is how today's puritanism is coming from the left rather than the right. From both actually, take the UK for example, the anime=CP law was made under a right-wing government.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
I think that the abortion answer is quite simple: let it be legal as long as the mother agrees to remove her womb afterwards.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
> Dictators usually kill illegally Do they? They are the ones who define the law after all.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
FTP nowadays is only useful for fetching resources from very old sites. Everyone I know has switched over to sftp and other ssh-based solutions.

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