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Exercising Software Freedom in the Global Email System(sfconservancy.org)
2 points by vu3rdd 11y ago|0 comments
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by vu3rdd 11y ago
The paper seem closely related to another paper by all the three authors and the late Len Sassaman, titled "The Halting Problems of Network Stack Insecurity". http://langsec.org/papers/Sassaman.pdf
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by vu3rdd 11y ago
I think a lot of comments in this thread are too harsh. I am a C programmer myself and see the value of it in embedded systems, operating system kernels etc. While it is possible to write correct programs in C and C++ (which are very differ
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by vu3rdd 11y ago
Highly recommend the Coursera Course called "software security". https://www.coursera.org/course/softwaresec
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Let’s sunset C/C++(trevorjim.com)
31 points by vu3rdd 11y ago|128 comments
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On Good Software(alexey.radul.name)
1 points by vu3rdd 11y ago|0 comments
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Doing a startup is like doing a Ph.D?(pgmadblog.blogspot.com)
1 points by vu3rdd 12y ago|0 comments
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by vu3rdd 12y ago
To me, a fast bootup is a non-issue. I want "less magic" with my computers. I want to have control over my system. Surely it must be possible with systemd. But the good old sysv-init works for me and I am familiar with it. Shoehor
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by vu3rdd 12y ago
Yes, I follow that process too. I almost always use netinst. There is also a mini iso.
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Old-school desktop using Debian Jessie(sohcahtoa.org.uk)
58 points by vu3rdd 12y ago|28 comments
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by vu3rdd 12y ago
Yes. So ironic that "worse is better", which was said about Unix vs Lisp Machines, worked this time again (Plan9 vs Linux).
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by vu3rdd 12y ago
This is really cool. Have you seen the plan9port implementation? It has the channel abstraction available as a library. The 'select' is called 'alt' in the code. http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/2/th
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A Plea for Lean Software (1995) [pdf](inf.ethz.ch)
32 points by vu3rdd 12y ago|3 comments
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by vu3rdd 12y ago
Once again, I would like to recommend Tahoe-LAFS [0] (which anyone can install on their own on their servers or use the paid service from the creators of Tahoe-LAFS [1]). One can even store "shares" securely on Google Drive and Dr
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by vu3rdd 12y ago
If you really care for privacy, you should consider something for which source code is fully available and have client side encryption. To me, Dropbox, Google Drive and btsync are all the same.
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by vu3rdd 12y ago
You mean something like Dropbox autosync? There is a drop_upload option in the tahoe.cfg file. I believe it works fine on GNU/Linux. Not sure about other OSes. You could always use 'tahoe backup' command.
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Simple, secure cloud storage(leastauthority.com)
7 points by vu3rdd 12y ago|0 comments
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by vu3rdd 12y ago
I dropped Dropbox post-Snowden revelations. I am now a proud user of Tahoe-LAFS[0]. [0] https://leastauthority.com/
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Googling considered harmful – 2006 [pdf](rumint.org)
2 points by vu3rdd 12y ago|0 comments
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The Tyranny of the Hollerith Punched Card (2012)(pub.gajendra.net)
36 points by vu3rdd 12y ago|28 comments
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by vu3rdd 13y ago
Free Software and GPL is about users . It puts users first and then developers. FSF considers that freedom is a social problem than a technical problem. Open Source is about businesses and the technical merits of the software being freely
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Mob Software: The Erotic Life of Code(dreamsongs.com)
1 points by vu3rdd 13y ago|1 comments
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by vu3rdd 13y ago
I use this small commandline application called assword[1]. Available on Debian and probably quite easy to get it to work on other GNU/Linux based systems. [1] http://finestructure.net/assword/
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by vu3rdd 13y ago
I have more or less the same opinions as you. I wrote my browsing setup optimized for privacy here: http://rkrishnan.org/posts/2013-12-01-firefox-privacy.html Comments and further improvements welcome.
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by vu3rdd 13y ago
Back in 2002, I went for work to the US for about six months. Calling India on the telephone was quite expensive then, even with calling cards. So, I left my GNU/Linux machine at home with my parents and made it to login without passwo
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by vu3rdd 13y ago
The list misses one of the most important projects designed from ground up for pedagogy -- DrRacket environment[1]. It also missed the book built around Racket for first time programmers - Realm of Racket[2]. [1]: http://racket-l
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Mailpile: a free software replacement for GMail(mailpile.is)
1 points by vu3rdd 13y ago|0 comments
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Diceware: a method to pick strong, easy to remember passphrases(world.std.com)
1 points by vu3rdd 13y ago|0 comments
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by vu3rdd 13y ago
You can use offlineimap to do that. Every label is an imap folder. offlineimap allows what they call as "folder filters", using which one can write a short python function parameterised over the folder name.
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by vu3rdd 14y ago
Thinkpads have worked extremely well for me. I hear a lot of great things about Dell XPS 13 Developer laptop which was recently launched. My Thinkpad T510 has an nVidia chip but it is quite nicely supported by the Free nouveau driver.

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