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by u801e 3y ago
> if the client can sign the crypto challenge and initiate a connection How can the server verify it's the same client signing the crypto challenge with the same private key? > what does it mean for the client cert to be potentia
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by u801e 3y ago
The same benefit we get by using the external certificate authority to verify that I'm connecting to a certain website and not some fraudulent version of it. To put it another way, the benefit I get by having my computer verify that I&
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by u801e 3y ago
> Before the first time you connect to a website, your browser asks if you want to generate a new cert or reuse an existing one, you make a choice The server has to have some way of verifying your certificate. The workflow I would like
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by u801e 3y ago
> webauthn, as designed, can't be used to lock anybody into any authentication method It only supports HTTP as I understand it, and won't work for other protocols like SMTP or IMAP. What does work, regardless of application lev
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by u801e 3y ago
What's interesting is that until very recently, the interest rate on treasury bills were higher for shorter term ones versus longer term. That is, the 4 week ones had a higher interest rate compared to the 26 week ones. In fact, the
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by u801e 3y ago
> Sometimes they can take up to 3 business days I've found this to be the case when transferring funds using the external account transfer feature for a number of banks where I have an account. For example, it does take 3 business
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by u801e 3y ago
> I want terminal editor that does not need me remembering keyboard shortcuts to edit things. Keyboard shortcuts are essential to increase efficiency and speed. For example, ctrl-c, ctrl-v, ctrl-z, ctrl-s, ctrl-p, ctrl-a etc. People le
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by u801e 3y ago
I never had the N900, but I used the N9 as my primary phone until the SIM holder broke and I had to hold the SIM in to make a call. Looking at the comparison[1], it looks like the N9 was a bit more advanced, but it lacked the keyboard the N
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by u801e 3y ago
> Lemmy, kbin and mastodon instances can interact with each other via activitypub. People can migrate to literally any instance they want, then subscribe to any community they want regardless their origin instance. > My mind was blown
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by u801e 3y ago
> You need to assume nobody sees you, and you have to see for everyone else. This really is only applicable when going through intersections where paths can cross. A motorcyclist on the road right in front of a motorist will be seen bec
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by u801e 3y ago
> If you're on a motorcycle you have to treat everyone and everything as out to get you, because they are. That's not the best way to put it because it implies that motorists will purposefully try to crash into motorcyclists.
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by u801e 3y ago
> This is a strange example because for a remote worker every other worker is "remote" so why would they ever exclude other workers from a group email? It's possible if all team members in the office went out for lunch and
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by u801e 3y ago
> The #1 complaint of full time remote workers is they feel we all agree on designs and decisions and they just get to see a doc that 4/6 have already signed off on verbally and they feel not involved. I have no idea how to "ma
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by u801e 3y ago
> For example, to reverse sort only the first 5 lines of in buffer, one can execute this ex[0] command: > :1,5 !sort -r Interestingly enough, you don't even need an external program for that. You can do the same thing with
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by u801e 3y ago
It's also missing H, M, and L for moving the cursor to the top, middle, and bottom of the window respectively. You can also navigate using the % command. For example, you can use 50% to scroll to the middle of the file, 75% to go down
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by u801e 3y ago
At least old.reddit.com still works and it's usable, more or less, on mobile.
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by u801e 3y ago
> Except some ISPs did eventually cutoff access to the alt.* hierarchy. Some terminated their NNTP service entirely. That happened after the attorney general of New York threatened to sue them, not because the ISP didn't like certai
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by u801e 3y ago
> 1. [ISPs] could choose which newsgroups to provide access to as part of their USENET access service. Just as they could decide which websites you can visit, but, outside of government intervention, they normally don't. Similarly,
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by u801e 3y ago
> Unfortunately, that UX is difficult to translate to mobile devices, because it basically requires to be keyboard-driven. There are GUI NNTP clients that could be adapted to work on a mobile platform. Thinking of webmail clients, you c
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by u801e 3y ago
> This is definitely not true anymore If it's political, you can still post it to alt.politics on usenet and not have any issues with any central authority.
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by u801e 3y ago
I would really like to see collaborative software development done via a usenet newsgroup. The git send-email program could be updated to send cover letters and in line patches to a newsgroup, and people could reply to those messages and r
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by u801e 3y ago
> As an analogy a lot happened to HTTP and other protocols to increase user experience, better content deliverability, and control. On a protocol level, do you have any examples of what you're referring to when you say "increas
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by u801e 3y ago
> [Thunderbird] badly needs spam filtering for its NNTP client It already has the capability to filter newsgroup posts based on header and/or message body content.
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by u801e 3y ago
> No I much prefer email groups to online forums or Reddit. Easy to register, just send a subscribe message. Trolls can be ignored or banned by the list administrators. Do you also prefer email lists over a moderated newsgroup? If so, w
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by u801e 3y ago
> Usenet servers act as common carriers but they are not legally common carriers (in my opinion) which means if I am right, the experiment will end as soon as someone decides to litigate against a server operator for passing on material
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by u801e 3y ago
> Then we would be subject to the moderation policy’s of our ISPs. ISPs are a common carrier and never really moderated the content of newsgroups on usenet. > I don’t need any bill on my internet bill I'm billed monthly for inter
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by u801e 3y ago
They did up till around 2010 IIRC. The smaller ISPs had their own feeds, but eventually outsourced them. I remember the Path header containing the server name of the ISPs own NNTP server, but later it changed to supernews. ISPs also provi
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by u801e 3y ago
> that includes things like Github for code reviews I've never worked at Google, but if you want a clean set of commits to implement a feature (think Linux kernel/subsystem, git, etc), Github makes it unnecessarily hard to do t
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by u801e 3y ago
> then they essentially bootstrapped a foolproof, checksummed machine-code editor I remember that I copied a short program in BASIC that you had to run in order to type in the machine code part of the main program you were typing. It wo
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by u801e 3y ago
>> Outlook never supported NNTP > If you know a bit more, you should know that Outlook Express does I know that Outlook Express does and it's a distinct product from Outlook. > The reason why I'm using Thunderbird as e

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