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by yosamino 7y ago
No, that's exactly the point. If water distribution worked in the way that utility companies just laid the pipes, connected them to those of other utilites, and otherwise did not care about what sort of water anybody pumped into them,
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by yosamino 7y ago
> Imagine if real life utilities did this. If because someone used your property for offensive purposes, the water company cut off the water supply, or the electricity company refused to provide electricity, or your phone provider cut of
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by yosamino 7y ago
I am really sick of the high horse that this company thinks they are on because of their pseudo-neutrality. What should normally happen if you come across some criminal or reprensible content, is that it's possible to figure out who ow
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by yosamino 7y ago
Harbouring, enabling and protecting criminals is not "a strong position on freedom" - try to report a scamming site to them and see how they deal with it. Spoiler: They will not, and because it's behind their firewall, you&#x
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by yosamino 7y ago
I'm fond of the condensed way similar advice is presented here: https://www.darkhorseanalytics.com/portfolio/2016/1/7/data-l...
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by yosamino 7y ago
> Police in other countries usually works out of a desire to help. People rarely see themselves as the bad guys. To understand people's motivations it's usually helpful to understand that they are just trying to do what they th
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by yosamino 7y ago
> and their election security. This is by now a couple of years out of date and I do not have any idea if and how things have improved, but this particular aspect of the Estonian e-government should not be emulated. > Close inspection
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by yosamino 8y ago
They send you a confirmation email, and then, instead of you logging into your emailaccount and clicking the verification link, they ask your emailacount password and log into your emailaccount for you and click the verification link for
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by yosamino 8y ago
And thank you so much for the chart[0] mapping absolute to wall time. I always have a hard time visualizing DST changes ( usually I am mentally "sliding" bars of time against each other and get confused), but that one just gave me
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by yosamino 8y ago
This is probably what they are referring to: https://github.com/autocrypt/memoryhole
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by yosamino 8y ago
Triaging bugs in ChatSecure without regular access to an iDevice. I am mostly on the admin/user side of things.
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by yosamino 8y ago
For sure! I use gajim as my main Desktop client. And thanks for the link to salut-a-toi, I hadn't heard of it.
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by yosamino 8y ago
Is there something you're looking for specifically? Just asking, because xmpp is currently my thing, and some of the interesting bits and tricks sometimes are a bit hidden, but there is lot's of stuff possible that I didn't t
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by yosamino 8y ago
> it didn't happen before (at least for XMPP). It was the niche of niches but the Nokia n900's standard built in xmpp client could do voice/video/filetransfer with a gnome desktop's standard messaging infrastruct
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by yosamino 8y ago
I really like that xmpp is experiencing a sort of revival at the moment. Not maybe in terms of user-base, but Conversations for android is really good, on iOS ChatSecure has some issues, but is usable. OTR encryption is being replaced by OM
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by yosamino 8y ago
When you open the app, when you close it, which button you press, which device you are on, which ip address this device is using ... there's a whole lot of things that fall under the general term "tracking". There can be argu
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by yosamino 9y ago
It's not red anymore, but I remember having seen it before https://imgur.com/a/n7g9V (link goes here: https://policies.google.com/faq ) Google also does this in response to DMCA requests, the diffe
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by yosamino 9y ago
> set relativenumber why thank you!
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by yosamino 9y ago
> let's hope in 10 years time we have added a standard chat protocol to that list Well we do have one now: XMPP. I was pleasantly surprised at the current state of it, when I revisited it last year. That being said, it's still
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by yosamino 9y ago
> this isn’t just a 400 Bad Request [...] Any (valid) vCard that the CardDAV server does not understand, will result in our HTTP requests timing out That's just terrible. Why would such a thing be implemented ? The only valid explai
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by yosamino 9y ago
You misunderstood. They meant that CSS Grid is easy and that for many years things that have been Standards Compliant weren't easy, so it's a bit of a hurdle to let go of the "if it's easy, then it's probably a no
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by yosamino 9y ago
> a provider of the phishing site in a lawsuit. Except CloudFlare refuses to name such an entity. All they're willing to do is forward my complaint to the "provider of the phishing site". So they're willing to violate
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by yosamino 9y ago
That is not the logic. The logic is this: Cloudflare serves up illegal content, let's say a phishing site. Cloudflare refuses to stop serving the phishing site. Cloudflare refuses to disclose who they are serving the site for. By using
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by yosamino 9y ago
> Postfix is not the best choice for novices, I'll give you that in general, mail servers are not for novices, and they have a huge array of configuration options, but Postfix is by a wide margin the best piece of software that I&#x
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by yosamino 9y ago
Well, yeah... but if you have any people actually using the server, they will start calling you around day One asking about their mail. At least if the the mail get's bounced after a few hours only, they get some sort of feedback, inst
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by yosamino 9y ago
You need to know your DNS well, you need to know your OS basics well (when's the last time you understood what S.M.A.R.T statistics really mean?), you need to know your monitoring well, you need to know your backups are up to date and
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by yosamino 9y ago
> we’re optimistic about what’s next. Well... what's next for me is rewriting this application in the next 30 days. Not feeling too "optimistic" there about that.
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by yosamino 9y ago
> when it's clear there is an immediate and present danger. And that makes sense. There are certainly situations where it's neccessary to subdue everyone in the room and ask questions later. The problem is here > when it&#x2
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by yosamino 9y ago
I will say this: XMPP is far from perfect. But I recently came back to it from a five year absence or so, and I must say, it's gotten really good. I set up a server with relatively little difficulty, and since in my circle, it's c
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by yosamino 9y ago
> my bank has a max password length of 12 Look at Mr. PrivateBanking over there, my one is 5. Amount in words : Five. And that is after they updated all their software and moved to a new datacenter and everything recently. Granted I have

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