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Show HN: Slip-0039 Shamir's Secret Sharing in GUI, CLI and C#/.NET NuGet
3 points by svantex 1y ago|0 comments
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by svantex 2y ago
Fair enough, that's a little out of main scope for Xecrets Cli. Just for fun, I tested now to build and publish for an ARM processor running Linux (linux-arm) and the build worked fine. I don't have a device to test it on though.
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by svantex 2y ago
I'm the original author of AxCrypt. There's a new compatible iteration of it based on the original cryptography code called Xecrets, with several components. Xecrets Cli is the main fully featured command line engine, free open so
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by svantex 2y ago
Good question. There's some evidence that not all affected systems has seen this 'all zeroes' file, the first account stories varies. But something was definitely broken in the deployed data. But, once again, CrowdStrike does
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by svantex 2y ago
CrowdStrike does confirm that the data is to blame. "problematic content in Channel File 291 resulted in an out-of-bounds memory read triggering an exception" https://www.crowdstrike.com/falcon-content-update-reme
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by svantex 2y ago
Yes, my article is pretty much speculation - in the absence of a proper explanation by CrowdStrike. (Now there actually is sort of an explanation, but it raises almost as many questions as before). I don't have data for a first hand in
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by svantex 2y ago
Well, you don't want a fancy anti-virus update to rip through the global population of customers, effectively killing 8.5 million systems (according to an estimate by Microsoft) either in the space of approximately 78 minutes, right? W
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by svantex 2y ago
It is kind of obvious, isn't it? But I've yet to see any hard questions asked in main stream media about the process of simultaneous global rollout of "content updates". But in a recent update of https://www.c
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by svantex 2y ago
Right, they write rather cryptically "This is not related to null bytes contained within Channel File 291 or any other Channel File." That's not quite the same as saying "This is not related to Channel File 291 containin
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by svantex 2y ago
Yes, since CrowdStrike won't tell us, we'll have to rely on our own or third party analysis. As I write "Since as usual the company won't release any detailed information on what really happened, we'll have to rely
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by svantex 2y ago
Interesting, do you have a link to this statement? Also, do they state what did cause the crash? At least removing the file of zeroes does solve the problem, as the instructions both from Microsoft and CrowdStrike states "Boot into s
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by svantex 2y ago
Indeed!
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What everyone seems to be missing in the CrowdStrike incident(blog.axantum.com)
24 points by svantex 2y ago|49 comments
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Show HN: Yubikey support in Xecrets Ez encryption app(axantum.com)
1 points by svantex 2y ago|0 comments
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by svantex 2y ago
Nice!
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by svantex 2y ago
Interesting, didn't know about those. Will check out. Thanks!
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by svantex 2y ago
Ok, maybe I was to quick to judge, I didn't spend enough time studying it. I looked at some screen shots, and it seemed like the translation tool knew things about the app, but I was apparently mistaken. Sorry.
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by svantex 2y ago
Well, that's what the setup I have does, almost. If you consider .po/.pot to be a unified format file. I extract the original texts, comments and internal names from the resx into a .pot (Portable Object Template). This is then se
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by svantex 2y ago
Nice, but perhaps a little pricy for small startups. That's actually one of the things I didn't emphasize perhaps. Not only is the gettext/.po eco system big, there's also a lot of free or relatively low cost services av
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by svantex 2y ago
Nice, very ambitious! I like the twist to extract from the compiled IL code, much easier, more stable and reliable than parsing the source. My one gripe here is that the code does not follow the .NET paradigm of using resources at all. Stil
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by svantex 2y ago
If you're referring to my app, Xecrets Ez ( https://www.axantum.com/ ), it runs in Windows, macOS and Linux. As mentioned, the issue I'm trying to solve is not the code end. Resx works fine once it's there. I
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by svantex 2y ago
Quite so, and in the case of resx, that's exactly what you're getting. A list of key-value-pairs, no support for pluralisation either (as you say, it gets hard. I understand Polish for example is very complex, perhaps Russian is t
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by svantex 2y ago
Nice - but very special purpose from what I can gather. I've done a few custom solutions myself over the years, but that's exactly what I'm trying to get away from. I want to write code that does cool stuff for the users of m
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by svantex 2y ago
In my case there's no "translator team" as such. It's a mix of volunteers, part-time paid translators, colleagues etc. I've never had a translator team, it's always various ad-hoc situations and networks of peo
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by svantex 2y ago
Yes, resx support is finally becoming available in more solutions, but it's still not always a first class citizen. But perhaps that's the long-term solution, wait for resx to take over. Although it still doesn't support plur
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by svantex 2y ago
There's nothing wrong with the .NET resource system with culture-specific satellite assemblies etc as such. The bigger problem I see is lack of tooling and services for translation by non-developers, volunteers, professional translatio
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by svantex 2y ago
Thanks. Yes, I looked at AvaloniaUI, Uno, Xwt, and MAUI before finally deciding on AvaloniaUI. It's not been entirely frictionless, there are some glaring omissions, the documentation is not great and the learning threshold if you&#x2
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by svantex 2y ago
Thanks for all the feedback! The real issue that is not handled by several suggested alternatives is how to actually manage the translation process. resx files as such work fine - but... the problem is getting them from non-technical transl
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Localization in .NET console and desktop apps(blog.axantum.com)
81 points by svantex 2y ago|33 comments
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Show HN: Xecrets Ez File Encryption(axantum.com)
2 points by svantex 2y ago|0 comments

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