Worf

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by Worf 4mo ago
I hope the average person will soon understand the importance of security and will be OK with making the necessary sacrifices to achieve it. Almost everyone has something to protect, be it personal information or property (money, IP). Peopl
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by Worf 4mo ago
It seemed for a second that the top security firm auditing Proton's password manager was Proton.
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by Worf 4mo ago
In one of the languages I read, journalists do this when quoting someone and it pisses me off. Instead of "said", they'll cycle through the same 6-7 synonyms. Instead of just quoting everything together, they break it up. So
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by Worf 4mo ago
There's almost nothing written about Haiku's security [0]. Am I missing something? I also don't understand this: > Our infrastructure contains sensitive personal user data, and we aggressively keep this information private
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by Worf 4mo ago
Could a case be made not from a free speech POV but from a antitrust one?
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by Worf 4mo ago
While the EU currently offers more privacy than the US, the best solution would be to use services which no one could have any meaningful control over, as much as possible, except the user. Self-hosting (including object storage, backups, C
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by Worf 4mo ago
Can you elaborate on how that would work exactly? What would the flow be - which party would request what from whom? Would there be technical assurances that no list is stored by the government?
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by Worf 4mo ago
Sorry for the late reply. Right now I don't use Android (in any form) or iOS. I have a dumb phone for calls and SMS. I'm fortunate enough that I can keep it on mute for days. I don't really need a tiny computer right now. My
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by Worf 4mo ago
Sorry for the late reply. While that's a good example of a vuln that's not "owned" by the affected party and mitigation would be hard to create and distribute, IMO we should still make it public relatively quickly becaus
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by Worf 4mo ago
The company can almost always shut down their service until they fix it. They'll lose money and their customers could also lose money if they depend on the service. That's the price they'll have to pay. Otherwise, they should
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by Worf 4mo ago
> On the other side you have "bugs are bugs" culture. This is especially common in Linux, where the argument is that if the kernel is doing something it shouldn't then someone somewhere may be able to turn it into an atta
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by Worf 4mo ago
I don't use Android right now and haven't used Google'd Android for almost a decade. And I won't. If this is the hill I die on, so be it. I'm not going to use any sort of hardware attestation, especially one control
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by Worf 4mo ago
From what I've seen no such solution guarantees privacy to the user if the signing body (or the government) and the website collude to deanonymize the user.
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by Worf 4mo ago
3) micropayments There are many issues with those, like the wildly different standards of living across the globe. OTOH anyone can acquire Monero if they want to. But someone from a rich country will likely be able to pay for more fake acco
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by Worf 4mo ago
I absolutely want to increase or decrease the font while keeping the whole width unchanged. This is not possible with PDF. Or maybe it is, but I've never seen a PDF file that supports it. I may be reading on a tiny phone or on a FULL H
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by Worf 4mo ago
I get "Keine Leseprobe verfügbar" which is "no sample available" according to DDG. I'm downloading a 101 MB EPUB from Anna’s Archive. I'm not sure if it's an official EPUB or someone converted it from some
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by Worf 4mo ago
I understand your point that you want a fixed presentation layout and pagination. I prefer to be able to responsively resize the document and to follow the ToC instead of pages. I've yet to see documentation that's thousands of pa
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by Worf 4mo ago
My issue with EPUB readers is about features a PDF reader wouldn't even have. Small and annoying things like how much freedom I get when changing fonts and whatnot. I haven't had a need to use annotations. I guess that could be so
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by Worf 4mo ago
But you can actually edit PDFs if you're into pain. For immutability there are hashes, signatures and so on. I've seen rendering differences on different readers over the years. Rarely, but it happens. Probably not for basic docum
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by Worf 4mo ago
> correct behavior on windows size change Except the PDF is not responsive at all and you can't increase or decrease the font size without increasing the whole width of page. > Some vendors have switched to online-only for some d
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by Worf 4mo ago
The "figures that are deliberately placed close to the relevant section in the text" is something I've heard often, and I'd agree to an extent. But the figure is never 10 pages away (unless you have a tiny screen or some
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by Worf 4mo ago
> It would be amazing if we didn’t have to have this conversation on every single thread about anything related to Firefox. If Firefox starts acting maturely, we can stop having these conversations. Until then we see useless crap in ever
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by Worf 4mo ago
Maybe if Mozilla focused less on new useless features and redesigns, they would be able to focus more on writing secure and bug-free code. I'm not only talking about big things like * Pocket, * several major UI redesigns and * the offl
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by Worf 4mo ago
PDFs should be only for printing or maybe for keeping scanned versions of things. For anything else they're just not the right tool for the job. Not for things meant to be accessed on a computer like books, scientific papers or, for so
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by Worf 4mo ago
> All they'll have is higher property taxes, water, and electricity bills. How would the datacenter lead to higher taxes and bills? Genuinely curious.
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by Worf 4mo ago
You mean leg prisons?
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by Worf 4mo ago
Is "plant matter" weed?
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by Worf 4mo ago
Help, I'm now stuck in the 90s. Or at least give me some stock tips or something.
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by Worf 4mo ago
True, but some sites, especially the smaller ones, make fun artistic AI images in a certain style with some quirky elements thrown in. It's not drawn by a human, but the prompt for good images that I personally like (or tolerate, at le
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by Worf 4mo ago
Reminds me of how kings used to (I think, I'm bad at history) actually fight the battles themselves. Now the head of state, the head of government and the other top people don't fight themselves. Even the admirals only plan and co

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