Tecuane

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by Tecuane 7y ago
Relevant article, for the curious: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/malcolm-turnbull-prime-mi...
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by Tecuane 7y ago
DO's branding and a lot of their offering is pretty good, but their locations for non-US customers are much worse than many of their competitors. For instance (and a particular point for me), they still don't have any presence in
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by Tecuane 7y ago
> Inside of the home directory a file ~/.identity contains the JSON formatted user record of the user. It follows the format defined in JSON User Records. Why couldn't this have gone into ~/.config/? There's enou
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by Tecuane 7y ago
Passwords for Blizzard accounts are also case-insensitive, as they are converted to upper case before hashing. Try it! I first found this while working on a WoW server emulator in around 2009, but I believe it's been the case since Bat
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by Tecuane 7y ago
I feel like as a collective set of industries across development and security we have been telling people for years not to reinvent the wheel because it's easier to stand on the shoulders of giants. Despite this, there seems to be an i
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by Tecuane 7y ago
This sort of thing could not appeal to me any more, honestly. I've been trying to work out the most cost-efficient way of doing exactly this. Of course, I am aware that _the_ most cost-efficient way is to accept that having the brand n
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by Tecuane 7y ago
I've played WoW for something like 11 years, from its peak in around 2008-2010 and through its slow decline since. Logging in now and having the reality that this game is actually genuinely fading away is difficult for me to properly p
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by Tecuane 8y ago
My understanding of the policy matches the parent comment from communications I've had. Is this a recent policy change?
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by Tecuane 8y ago
I believe that at one stage the Quad9 resolvers were owned by IBM. A brief look at the site indicates it was transferred to CleanerDNS, which is a 501(c)(3). Do you know how much involvement IBM still has in the project, if any?
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by Tecuane 8y ago
This is a rather unique take on Go that I haven't seen before. A quick scan of your post history indicates you feel quite strongly (negatively) about Go. May I ask what inspired this particular take, and what language background you ha
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by Tecuane 8y ago
That would probably be ICANN[1], and most authoritative name servers follow the policies set out there as the guiding committee is part of ICANN[2]. There are alternative DNS roots, though. I participated in running one myself for a time. 1
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by Tecuane 8y ago
> I wish there were fully functional privacy focussed ROMs that was shipped by Android OEMs. I'm sure everyone on this discussion board knows why this will never be the case, unfortunately. With that said, are there any regularly-up
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by Tecuane 8y ago
> Gitlab supposedly is Google-backed, so I don't want to have my private code there. This strikes me as odd. May I ask why usage of GCP is a deal-breaker for you? While I can understand not wanting to use Google products directly as
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by Tecuane 8y ago
I admit I'm not an American citizen, and have never actually stepped foot on American soil, but I do see the "first amendment" and "free speech" arguments being trotted out for almost anything that involves communic
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by Tecuane 8y ago
Looks like I have to be "that one", this time: Given there's a custom Git library in use under the hood, I don't suppose there'll be Mercurial support in the future?
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by Tecuane 8y ago
I used Ulysses but I ended up moving to Bear[1]. It's still. a subscription fee, but much cheaper ($1.49/mo). It's lightweight and perfect for what I use it for - taking notes. If I was going to suggest something for longer-f
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by Tecuane 8y ago
I really like Wire, for a large number of reasons - privacy and user experience among them. I've talked about it in the past[1]. If you get the time, please give it a proper whirl. With the recent open-sourcing of their server and prop
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by Tecuane 8y ago
>I do forget to remap the esc key each time I do this, or the name of the thingie that helps you do that I don't suppose it's Karabiner[1], is it? This is the one I'm most familiar with, as it's been around under a fe
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by Tecuane 8y ago
As far as I'm aware they consider it to be a feature, and I don't particularly disagree. The rationale is that if somehow someone else manages to add a device to your account (which you get notified about on your other devices), t
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by Tecuane 8y ago
In Matrix, E2EE isn't enabled by default[1], and the option to enable it is in fact marked with a warning that it comes with potentially unwanted side-effects. This isn't the same, and the arguments that call recommending Telegram
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by Tecuane 8y ago
Wire[1], another E2EE chat application (using libsignal, just like WhatsApp and Signal itself), does not require this. It also has open-sourced its client and server applications[2], and is in the process of documenting how to run them your