vonuebelgarten

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Surveillance Under Surveillance(sunders.uber.space)
100 points by vonuebelgarten 5y ago|15 comments
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Every Lord of the Rings Frame(twitter.com)
2 points by vonuebelgarten 5y ago|0 comments
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by vonuebelgarten 5y ago
The sad part is that this problem was solved decades ago with grid locators like Maidenhead[1]. It's a purely mathematical conversions with no lookup tables, cover the entire world and alternate pairs of letters with pairs of digits (s
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by vonuebelgarten 6y ago
> do you have any thoughts on what causes these systems to stick to trains? Trains are excellent for dense urban environments and better yet when integrated with another modes. I take Berlin as an example: You have fare zones and S/
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by vonuebelgarten 7y ago
This is also standard practice here in Brazil.
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by vonuebelgarten 8y ago
Why the hell aren't we migrating to the Fediverse (aka Mastodon) en masse ?
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by vonuebelgarten 8y ago
> So encryption isn't allowed, but is there any way to authenticate information sent over packet radio? Open communication has plenty of uses, but some of those can be spoiled by bad actors impersonating others. You are not allowed
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by vonuebelgarten 8y ago
This is an example of title that could benefit from a simple, non-editorialized, and purely factual change: "Programming the Z3 SMT solver". I am sure I was not the first to think it was related to Konrad Zuse's Z3.
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by vonuebelgarten 8y ago
So, did they just reinvent the Maidenhead locator ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidenhead_Locator_System ) or any of the previous systems?
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by vonuebelgarten 9y ago
Question: is Wired actively blocking archive.is? I tried to archive this article just to get a repeated "Network error" [1] which may be a sign of a Layer 3 block. A trivial search [2] shows no page is successfully archived since
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by vonuebelgarten 9y ago
People are too quick to understand these new terms as solely necessary to provide service. The entire paragraph is: > "By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive,
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by vonuebelgarten 9y ago
Wait no more, just install F-Droid and NewPipe ( https://f-droid.org/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/ ). Bonus feature: it does not use the API so Youtube can not track what do you watch.
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by vonuebelgarten 9y ago
This site is absolutely unusable (breaks when I block some scripts, trackers, etc. and even fails to load in archive.is). For anybody who wants to read the article, I just put a text-only transcript in https://pastebin.com/r
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by vonuebelgarten 9y ago
Gun control is not a magic solution for firearm killings (after all it only affects law-abiding citizens who, by definition, are not murderers). E.g.: here in Brazil it is almost impossible to legally own a firearm but we had 212 firearm-mu
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by vonuebelgarten 9y ago
Their strategy is particularly awesome: a hundred of small short-lived satellites (really small, they're 3-unit cubesats, 30x10x10 cm) operating in a swarm. No big deal if a single one is lost: operation can continue with other ones o
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by vonuebelgarten 9y ago
I have the impression Tox withered and died, which is really sad considering how usable (when compared to alternatives) it is.
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by vonuebelgarten 9y ago
Same problem here. Despite this being the best MITM-prevention strategy, it will be hard to assemble a group of people. Maybe allow copying/pasting keys but with a Signal-style post-validation or something like a PGP wordlist to allow
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by vonuebelgarten 10y ago
Iep. Running the tests over the new commits before pushing is still required. Usually not a big problem.
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by vonuebelgarten 10y ago
> I don't understand. What do you mean by this? Ads embedded in the video stream (i.e. "burnt" as one with subtitles) can't be blocked but also can't deliver any active content (JS, Flash, etc) used for tracking
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by vonuebelgarten 10y ago
> they could make the ads indistinguishable from the actual video (in the html), or even splice the videos into one stream. And make ads unsuitable for the most egregious attacks on privacy, simple plain tracking or even as distribution
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by vonuebelgarten 10y ago
That's the actual problem with these ads: bloat, bandwidth usage, javascript, profiling, de-anonymization, tracking, attacks on privacy, sound, unskippable videos, etc. I will feel no remorse for adblocking until advertisers go back to
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by vonuebelgarten 10y ago
> Ads shorter than 30-seconds, including the 20-second spots, can be made unskippable. uBlock Origin will continue to serve me well.
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by vonuebelgarten 10y ago
>No multi-stage commit pipeline is much easier conceptually -- mostly I just want to commit the changes I made to my repository and automatically sync upstream. But forcing this approach precludes you of, for example, easily splitting yo
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by vonuebelgarten 10y ago
>Genuinely curious: Why do you need rebasing? Mostly to sort the code out before publication. People usually assume rebase as a tool for integration but forget how useful it is in the "local" development stage (ie. before pushi
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by vonuebelgarten 10y ago
Very informative. I just took the liberty of converting your post to units I can read (sorry for the pathological imperialphobia :) ) > Yes: because Samoa Air's fleet aircraft are all Cessna 172s. You are essentially paying for a pe
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by vonuebelgarten 10y ago
They are the dominant player in this market, I simply can't understand why they didn't crewed it already. I can only speculate: it's because WhatsApp is giving them an always-updated social graph of a billion people right now
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by vonuebelgarten 11y ago
Hibernation is a very nice feature (I use it for laptop and desktop machines) and it requires a swap partition. Also, a encrypted swap is even more important in this scenario. In the laptop I'm typing this, swap is one of the partions
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by vonuebelgarten 11y ago
> More of the "If you've got nothing to hide, then you've got nothing to worry about" attitude. This suspicion is so hostile to normal traffic that its chilling effect is undeniable. It's very sad to see. It&#x27
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by vonuebelgarten 11y ago
I changed the title to give some context to international headers and stay within the 80 character limit, I hope it stills within the spirit of the rule concerning editorial changes. A literal translation would be "Representative to re
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[Law] to require Brazilians to [use real name and SSN-like] to post [in the web](translate.google.com)
7 points by vonuebelgarten 11y ago|6 comments

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