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by floathub 27d ago
He is charged with obstruction, but under domestic terrorism (as defined by a national security presidential memorandum).
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by floathub 27d ago
According to the article, he was actually using GrapheneOS and gave the border official the Duress PIN. So I guess technically it was the official that erased the data :-)
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Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border(nytimes.com)
1107 points by floathub 27d ago|1383 comments
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by floathub 2mo ago
Depends on what qualifies as a password "manager", but I've been using pass ( https://www.passwordstore.org/ ) for years on multiple desktops, and have recently added iOS app sepass to my setup ( https:/&#
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by floathub 2mo ago
Came across this recently, which I find is a good and short intro to Emacs for people who don't use it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJZDmO5yOxE
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Show HN: Using the secure enclave in a pass/password-store iOS client(sepass.modiot.com)
2 points by floathub 2mo ago|1 comments
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by floathub 2mo ago
Hi HN. We use YubiKeys on desktops/laptops with pass/password-store, and have been fiddling with various ways to get them to work on our phones and tablets for a long time. Sort of dawned on us that since the Apple secure enclave
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by floathub 4mo ago
Thanks. Not the original author, but I agree completely with the sentiment that it is good way to get across what's special about Emacs in a relatively short amount of time.
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What's so special about Emacs? [video](youtube.com)
20 points by floathub 4mo ago|2 comments
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by floathub 5mo ago
It's wild to me Time Machine works on your network. Are you just doing "first backups" over and over again, or have you somehow achieved the very rare state where Time Machine can run for, say, a week at a time without fallin
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Private AI Document Analysis (even in the browser)(pdflayout.ai)
1 points by floathub 5mo ago|0 comments
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by floathub 6mo ago
And then in vim you can spawn a shell to run ... oh, never mind.
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by floathub 6mo ago
Free software has never mattered more. All the infrastructure that runs the whole AI-over-the-internet juggernaut is essentially all open source. Heck, even Claude Code would be far less useful without grep, diff, git, head, etc., etc., e
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by floathub 6mo ago
The power generated from Niagara river stations was traveling on an international "grid" between Canada and the US in the late 1890s.
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by floathub 6mo ago
Man, how could they not wait 2.5 weeks until April 1 !!!
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by floathub 6mo ago
Emacs will solve this too: https://github.com/tanrax/org-social :-)
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Olympics Champ Norway prohibits competitive sports < 12(theguardian.com)
1 points by floathub 7mo ago|0 comments
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by floathub 9mo ago
This may help, it has an example pizauth config (scroll down to "Authenticating with pass and pizauth"): https://stuff.sigvaldason.com/email.html
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by floathub 9mo ago
This another similar resource with some additional stuff about using mu4e-org: https://stuff.sigvaldason.com/email.html
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by floathub 10mo ago
The "watch" method is so awesome: mpv https://live0.emacsconf.org/gen.webm
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by floathub 10mo ago
I used Emacs for several years before I discovered "project" (it's built in). If you're navigating dired trees or similar to find files or grep for strings in groups of files, this is like magic: C-x p f (find any file
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by floathub 1y ago
Thank you, that is greatly appreciated.
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by floathub 1y ago
Apparently Microsoft put half a billion dollars into this.
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by floathub 1y ago
Keep going. Here's the next step after Thunderbird: https://stuff.sigvaldason.com/email.html (Hint: Emacs) :-)
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by floathub 1y ago
> npx create-expo-app@latest --template blank HelloWorldExpoReact > du -h HelloWorldExpoReact/ 258M! A quarter of a gigabyte for a HelloWorld example. Sheesh.
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by floathub 1y ago
Canadian north makes sense (very cheap electricity, ridiculously easy heat management). Space? I really don't get it.
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by floathub 1y ago
If you're already using Emacs and/or org mode, then this is a useful guide to setting up a blog/site that is super easy to maintain/push/etc, including free hosting at github with a custom domain name: https:/
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by floathub 1y ago
The answer, as always is Emacs :-) With mu4e (an Emacs package), you can have lightning fast searching across multiple mail accounts. And with a bit of work ( https://stuff.sigvaldason.com/email.html ) it will happily interop
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The New American Surveillance State(nytimes.com)
16 points by floathub 1y ago|2 comments
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by floathub 1y ago
If you enter: A farmer has a boat that can transfer up to 500 people or animals. He has a chicken, his dog, his wife, a small leprechaun, a large leprechaun, two ham sandwiches, and a copy of Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance (the o

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