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by x1798DE 10y ago
I think it's more in Hanlon's razor territory than Ockham's razor. It's absolutely not unheard-of to see deliberate backdoors in a lot of commercial software (usually as some debugging port that the devs didn't thin
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by x1798DE 10y ago
I can't speak to the "merge-and-run" behavior of CI, but in my experience, most of these merge conflicts arise because of a time delay between making the PR (at which point CI is run) and merging the PR. It would be quite res
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by x1798DE 10y ago
I think it's unambiguous if you switch the order: "Employees stalk their exes and celebrities"
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by x1798DE 10y ago
Everything on Wikipedia is CC-BY-SA or free-er, and the software that runs it is GPL. If you think you can do better, feel free to try. I'm fairly certain several people have already tried. I personally find the "hostile culture&q
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by x1798DE 10y ago
Seems to me it's more like bringing your home-baked cake to Wal-mart and being horribly offended that they don't just put it on the shelves. I think Animats' analogy in a sibling comment of making a pull request against a maj
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by x1798DE 10y ago
> A better method might be "get 5 people infected", regardless of payment. If you don't require payment, anyone could just spin up five VMs and infect them, then request a decryption key. Not saying these guys are clever o
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by x1798DE 10y ago
If they weren't using inflation-adjusted numbers, I'm pretty sure that would be MUCH bigger news. Assuming people have their kids at 25, that would mean, in inflation adjusted terms, that would correspond to a 40% DROP in inter-ge
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by x1798DE 10y ago
This seems like a pretty sensationalist way to put this. Looks like the stock price of a ~$80B company dropped a bit over 1% for around 5 minutes, then immediately went back to the pre-tweet level. Interesting for people looking to exploit
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by x1798DE 10y ago
I think generally people stick to ASCII printable characters because of the support cost, since the benefit of allowing non-ASCII passwords is not generally worth the headache of dealing with customers who find themselves trying to log in t
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by x1798DE 10y ago
It's a horrible practice that reduces the entropy of your password a huge amount, but it's possible to generate these things without storing them in plain text. Like if you know you're going to ask for 6 of the 9 characters e
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by x1798DE 10y ago
Yes, this is what I was suggesting. Currently I am doing it manually, but if you can assign groups by site domain, it should feel much more seamless.
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by x1798DE 10y ago
I specifically meant in a browser. I'm certainly planning on looking into Qubes for an OS, but this is really more of a problem with data leaking within a browser, I don't think the OS has much say in that.
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by x1798DE 10y ago
I would really like a (preferably cross-platform) solution for browsing the internet in a maximally silo-ed way. I think Firefox has been making some progress on this, but here's my ideal workflow: - I can set up any number of "si
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by x1798DE 10y ago
My preference would be something CSS or HTML based where if JS is off it still displays an image. I am not a super web developer or anything, but how about a fixed-size <div> block with the background set to the low-resolution version
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by x1798DE 10y ago
If anyone is interested, this is has been implemented in a backwards-compatible way in the latest version of python-dateutil's time zones, so it has been effectively backported to python 2.6+ and python 3.3+. Release notes: https:&#x2
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by x1798DE 10y ago
Is that sarcastic? If you're browsing without JS, or even without first-party JS, the images are basically worthless. I'd much rather they used CSS to accomplish whatever they were going for there.
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by x1798DE 10y ago
Also, a bit surprising he went with StartSSL. I thought they had a digital death sentence because of the WoSign thing. Is that not accurate?
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by x1798DE 10y ago
This is obviously an issue, but I feel like this is a situation where you should ignore that part of the spec or at worst offer an http-only alternate version. When the spec is dangerously out of date like this, there's no reason to fe
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by x1798DE 10y ago
What is this? There is zero explanatory information, no privacy policy, but terms of service. Presumably I can publish something? To whom?
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by x1798DE 10y ago
> 3. The mining methodology sucks. Seriously all those CPU cycles wasted solving pointless algorithms, from every standpoint its just wrong. You want to mine, go and get a fucking pick and shovel and get something real! It's not lik
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by x1798DE 10y ago
Why doesn't within the EU count? There are dramatic differences in trust and economic levels between didn't states in the EU, as well as dramatic language differences. Seems like it would be a perfect case study for a region cross
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by x1798DE 10y ago
I believe it has been implemented in the web interface for some time now, but now it's available in the mobile apps as well, so for mobile-to-web or mobile-to-mobile chats or other cross-device implementations you can use encrypted cha
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by x1798DE 10y ago
I don't really assume people from other states are thieves or con men. I assume the same thing goes for countries in the EU with no border control between their countries.
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by x1798DE 10y ago
I agree that that could be a proof of life, but in Assange's particular situation, that would be putting a good amount of faith in his operational security with respect to his GPG keys. I try to keep good op-sec, but I'm not sur
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by x1798DE 10y ago
That article says that his internet was cut off because they were afraid he was interfering with US Elections, which were two weeks ago. Why wouldn't they have turned them back on by now? Also, the internet isn't the only way to c
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by x1798DE 10y ago
My question was really who does this extension help. This sort of extension would be useful only for people who are unlikely to install it, because anyone who is aware of the phenomenon of entirely fabricated news stories can probably spo
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by x1798DE 10y ago
I don't totally understand who would use this sort of thing. The people who would bother to install an extension that detects fake news and would even know to do so would already be able to identify news as fake much more easily than a
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by x1798DE 10y ago
Jeez, that sounds so much like a writ of assistance (which is what inspired the Fourth Amendment), it's ridiculous on its face that anyone would grant a warrant like that.
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by x1798DE 10y ago
> The main issue for more OSS is that for pure software-based solutions (i.e. not the software of a medical device), the biggest cost for an hospital is usually maintenance, not the license, since (obviously) the hospital will want someo
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by x1798DE 10y ago
I've been using syncthing and I'm reasonably pleased with it. I don't use it heavily and only over my local network, though, so I'm not sure how well it handles archiving changes and file conflicts.

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