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by yosamino 4y ago
That sounds very interesting - do you have some tips about how you learned this skill and how to do these interviews ?
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by yosamino 4y ago
> AFAIK, Firefox is not Chrome-based anywhere. Not technically "Chrome-based", but Firefox draws graphics using Chrome's Skia graphics engine. Firefox is not completely independent from Chrome.
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by yosamino 4y ago
I feel you, but to me it was worth the effort and now I have a setup that works. I run a calendar server[0] that is my main calendar repository. And I use vdirsyncer[1] to sync to my laptop to use khal[3]. On the Android side I sync with da
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by yosamino 4y ago
> Case in point: TPM is not required to implement UEFI Secure Boot. You can test yourself in a QEMU VM, if you don’t believe me. I believe you, but doesn't that mean that there is nothing particular secure about this operation ? But
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by yosamino 4y ago
It's a "Trusted Platform Module". The high level summary is that it's a chip that sits inside your computer that is designed to only allow only signed code to run. The computer's manufacturer loads it with a special
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by yosamino 5y ago
> That suppressed smile worries me. https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1995/05/06/
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by yosamino 5y ago
One example also mentioned in the article: If you connect to a ssh-server for the first time, ssh will give you a warning and let you know that you have to verify the fingerprint of the host key. This becomes annoying when you connect to ma
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by yosamino 5y ago
> whose circumstances and needs you know nothing about. I think the circumstances "tourist haggling with vendor" and needs "tourist wants to experice other culture" where very well established. Whether or not I know a
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by yosamino 5y ago
> they will dramatically increase the starting price if you're a Westerner. The point is that due to the large different in wealth, the increase is "dramatic" for them, but probably neglible for you. Why not make someone&#
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by yosamino 5y ago
Have you considered, though, that we (as in you and I) might be some of these bullies in the world and that these rough men aren't just standing by, but are actively doing violence on our behalf ? One needn't look much further p
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by yosamino 5y ago
I vividly remember .de being offline causing trouble for a couple of hours in 2010. https://www.theregister.com/2010/05/12/germany_top_level_dom...
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by yosamino 5y ago
There is a very good point about the difficult-to-impossibility of securing email. BUT: > Ordinary people don’t exchange email messages that any powerful adversary would bother to read, This just one hundred percent incorrect and it comp
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by yosamino 5y ago
I am now super curious how you are using Vimium on a handheld device, do you mind sharing ?
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by yosamino 5y ago
The creator does not get money from you watching these ads, they get money from you buying the products or services advertized - if you're not going to buy any of these things anyhow then why subject yourself to it ? Skipping an ad f
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by yosamino 5y ago
I have a private CA for all internal hosts. It's a bit of a pain to run, but it's neccessary because "internal" includes VMs that run colocated servers and many services to mutual authentication. It's hyper annoyi
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by yosamino 5y ago
Gmail configured it for you. This is implemented as an API[0] that can be called from a site's javascript code, like this: navigator.registerProtocolHandler("mailto", "https://webmail.example.com/handl
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by yosamino 5y ago
> CEPROTECT3 just lumps ISPs into the list even though an address has never sent spam. But this is by design [0] > This blacklist has been created for HARDLINERS. It can, and probably will cause collateral damage to innocent users wh
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by yosamino 5y ago
This is a complaint about "UCEPROTECT Blacklist Policy LEVEL 3" [0] It's description is not subtle: > This blacklist has been created for HARDLINERS. It can, and probably will cause collateral damage to innocent users when
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by yosamino 5y ago
This complaint is a bit strange given that they have an entire free tier for you to use and that their custom package includes them doing actual design work for you, not just more and better hosting options. Every service can be replicate
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by yosamino 5y ago
There is nothing odd about it, and it has nothing to do with being "important enough to be tracked". It has become almost impossible to participate in society, without every aspect of your life being recorded in some way. My Bank
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by yosamino 5y ago
Advertizement uses your brain power to process stimuli for the purpose of trying to sell you things that you do not need. You did not ask for your brain to be stimulated like this - what you did ask for is the content that comes after ad. T
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by yosamino 5y ago
I haven't watched the video, but based off of the title "Pod train" the argument is probably along the lines of this: There is a futuristic theme in logistics that envisions humans or cargo to be shipped in "pods".
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by yosamino 5y ago
Dear Mozilla, We want you to make a browser that is so good, that it can function independenty of Google and Chrome financially and technologically. This is not an end in itself. Google is just not a very trustworthy steward of the marketsh
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by yosamino 5y ago
A critique of conspiracy theories is not a denial that conspiracies exist. It just means that the concept of a "conspiracy theory" as basis of trying to understand reality is flawed, because it relies on no or bad evidence, and ve
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by yosamino 5y ago
This argument has the structure of a conspiracy theory: "A small group of people being able to keep an enormous secret, in order to manipulate the rest of us." The more enormous the secret and the larger the group of people who su
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by yosamino 5y ago
While technically correct, a private key will usually need to be encrypted to provide adequate security. From the user point of view, they will still need to remember the password to unlock this private key.
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by yosamino 5y ago
> Nobody can store passwords securely. 100% busted. [...] Let’s talk about > one-time codes One-time codes rely on a password: either it is stored in your 2FA App, or they rely on your email password, or they rely you storing a passwo
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by yosamino 5y ago
I don'get this list. It just seems to be about being explicitly hostile towards users. Any useful disposable email service will only allow *receiving* emails. As a user this protects me against possible bad actors that for some reason
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by yosamino 5y ago
> OSM contains errors and I don't know how to fix them. The easy part of the answer to this is: go to openstreetmap.org, sign up for an account, login (top right) and then press the "Edit" button (top left). There is a lot
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by yosamino 5y ago
To do the job of minifying, this minifyer first reads the CSS file into an internal datastructure. That process is called parsing. All the minifying operations are done on that internal datastructure. Then it writes it out again into a text

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