footoverhand

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by footoverhand 2mo ago
Not quite sure the right answer, if AI usage is increasing and the project is valued by human maintainers, then the number of volunteer maintainers should increase. The other extremes are either leveraging AI more, or banning AI contributi
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by footoverhand 5mo ago
Thank you for sharing, it is inspiring to see other's ideas. I sometimes use it to create projects that would be a nice to have, my latest project was a go project called hookguard, a go binary that enforces deterministic safety rules
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by footoverhand 1y ago
Delta-chat? Email based.
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by footoverhand 12y ago
While verifying some of the claims of the EFF's scoreboard, I discovered a website which scores programs by their policy decisions and security [1]. I also find it interesting that mumble wasn't mentioned in this secure messaging
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by footoverhand 12y ago
This is the first time I have seen the KiCad library on github, that would presumably make sharing generated footprints and parts easier. For the board I produced of in 2011, I shared my library on sourceforge as a zip with no clear instal
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by footoverhand 12y ago
Great article. It has been a few years since I last laid out a board in KiCad, the biggest thing I remember is that importing parts and footprints took a lot of work and it wasn't a very straight forward process. Does anyone have a go
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by footoverhand 12y ago
A better title would be: Open Source webmail client with Gmail-like conversations It seems like an interesting project and I wish this developer the best of luck in their fund-raising campaign. Their motivation for developing namail is so
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by footoverhand 13y ago
Tor is the lazy man's attempt at anonymity. I wouldn't trust it since it receives the majority of its funding from the US Government, and that government is the reason many are looking for anonymity. For better anonymity, ditch y
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by footoverhand 13y ago
I was first interested in this post since I do most of my HN browsing via newsbeuter/w3m which are terminal applications. To post, the easiest way seems to be to just pull up the story in my web browser.
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by footoverhand 13y ago
An easy way to determine if the US supports a group is to look at the language used to describe that group. Are they "freedom fighters" or "terrorists"? France is fighting "terrorists" in Mali, not "freed
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by footoverhand 13y ago
Well there's a good chance that those job postings are created after they have the H1-B visa candidate already selected. List exactly the candidates "qualifications" so that no one is eligible. That way they can claim that
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by footoverhand 13y ago
As an American Electrical Engineering Master's graduate from one of the mentioned schools, the program I was in was flooded with international students (mostly from India, some from China, a few from Turkey). What I found interesting i
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by footoverhand 13y ago
If 40 hours working at minimum wage is not enough to live on, shouldn't the minimum wage be raised?
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by footoverhand 13y ago
I think the safest thing to do is to avoid all cloud services that aren't essential to you. Downloading all of your email and removing them from cloud providers (gmail, yahoo, etc...) is probably a good idea too. All of the cloud provi
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by footoverhand 13y ago
It would be much better to not trust Internet services with your security, because you'd still have to trust them. A better solution would be to add your own encryption on top of all of your communications, and to toss out your cell ph
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by footoverhand 13y ago
It's interesting that this event may spur countries into making their own electronics, rather than depending on multinational corporations which may include "special features" for the US government. This encouragement of nati
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by footoverhand 13y ago
Why should customers trust your closed source app, when no one but you can inspect the implementation?
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by footoverhand 13y ago
It's a neat idea, but you'd still need to trust rsync.net. If you start with the assumption that you cannot ever trust them, then you can use them(if needed) as a 3rd party storage site for encrypted files.
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by footoverhand 13y ago
Do you have any plans to support Seamonkey?
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by footoverhand 13y ago
Your Burnerphone is an interesting idea, but how does it compare to buying a prepaid wireless phone from a brick and morter store with cash? Can your phones be recycled? What carrier are you using?
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by footoverhand 13y ago
I think it would be simpler and easier to remember one password to your non-cloud based password program such as Keepass. That way, you can create not only random passwords, but random usernames (since usernames are one key to unlocking yo
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by footoverhand 13y ago
Why do all of the photo's have Apple products in them? I would recommend displaying the license in which these high resolution photos can be used, because "free" isn't a license.
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by footoverhand 13y ago
Perhaps he missed the memo which clearly states that patent's are used to protect multinational corporations and governments, not individuals or small corporations.
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by footoverhand 13y ago
I've been using them for quite a while and found their service to be reliable. Even their webmail access is decent. A con is that their spam filtering isn't as good as gmail.
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by footoverhand 13y ago
If one wants to know the official narrative of the US government or the EU, you only need to glance into a recent history book distributed in schools, or Wikipedia.
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by footoverhand 13y ago
While the internal email does indicate that players will be able to play offline, it does not indicate if the games themselves will be tied to a account like Steam games. We will have to see if Microsoft will allow the used games market to