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vaylian
8mo ago
Documentation: https://support.torproject.org/about-tor/onion-services/what... There are also many web sites that provide an onion address in addition to their clearnet address. For example, the BBC: https:/
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It's one thing to build a software just for your own needs. It's a completely different story when your software runs on systems that you can't really control and where you have only very limited visibility/feedback when
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> The industry had a chance to do something practical, the industry chose not to Wrong. There was no choice. Any type of identification technology causes more problems than it solves. The right choice is to look for different approaches
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8mo ago
That's just throwing the baby out with the bath water. In my experience, the best kind of online interactions are those where people don't have to be limited by what their offline ID is.
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This. I think differently about code that I write compared to code that I only read. Every character, every symbol, every expression that I write is guaranteed to have my full attention for at least a short moment and I know why it is suppo
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8mo ago
took long enough
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Given how long people have stuck with Internet Explorer, I don't think this is a good example.
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There's a difference between document-based web sites like this one and web applications. The potential for web applications has mostly emerged as a side effect of the introduction of JavaScript. Back then, JavaScript was supposed to o
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I appreciate the HTTPS support
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First let me clearly state that I appreciate the amount of thought you guys are putting into creating better systems that have high privacy guarantees. I concede to you, that in some situations, your system leads to better privacy. But I do
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Thanks. I'll have a look.
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Is there any production ready implementation out there?
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8mo ago
The problem is: The people who typically support this type of thing are either technically illiterate and they support it, because it sounds good. Or they are promoting these laws because they actually want more surveillance and control. It
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The problem is that people who don't know the history of the internet just call everything with user posts "social media". Web 2.0 has some overlap with social networks. But it is still a different concept. And social media i
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A native Frisian speaker would probably have an even easier time, given that Frisian is the closest language to English. However, Frisian is still more similar to other west-germanic languages than English.
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8mo ago
> My assumption was that it was an intelligence platform first. What do you mean by "intelligence platform"?
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> 3. Sadly, your e-mail, especially the line below is actually a threat that is actionable under many EU juristictions; I suppose the choice of words is the problem here? How should one announce an embargo period?
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> is illegal in Germany Germany is not exactly well-known for having reasonable IT security laws
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It's clear that the intentions of the insurance company are selfish and they want to gain leverage over the reporter. Even if the reporter managed to add a clause about data deletion, the company could still make the reporter's li
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How do you generate the email addresses? Do you run your own e-mail server or do you use a third-party service?
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> Instead, I offered to sign a modified declaration confirming data deletion. I had no interest in retaining anyone’s personal data, but I was not going to agree to silence about the disclosure process itself. Why sign anything at all? T
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Safari is the new IE6
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Rotating or SSD?
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Well argued. You do have a point for physical world data. But there are also some digital world constructs that need 128 bits: - IPv6 addresses - UUIDs I don't think it is critical that we get a 128 CPU anytime soon, but it would still
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> You can use isolated JS scripts, or other approaches like progressively-enhanced web components How would one use "progressively enchanced" web components? Maybe I misunderstand the intention behind this statement, but web co
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Do you have any insight on SSH servers that only allow login with public key authentication? Do bots leave immediately when they see that they can't use passwords?
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> Wikipedia [..] have [..] cannibalized a sizeable fraction of the former 'non-commercial, non-business focused' Internet of the 1990s and early 2000s Interesting take. Do you mean Wikipedia has cannibalized the traffic to thes
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Those general purpose registers will also need to grow to twice their size, once we get our first 128bit CPU architecture. I hope Intel is thinking this through.
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I'd like to argue that Wikipedia also tries to be comprehensive within the limits of relevant topics. And overall, Wikipedia still seems to be going strong.
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> Are there technical reasons that Rust took off and D didn't? My (somewhat outdated) experience is that D feels like a better and more elegant C++. Rust certainly has been influenced by C and C++, but it also took a lot of inspirat
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