giovani

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by giovani 11mo ago
Police Squad!
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by giovani 3y ago
Insomnia has an open source fork from before all the cloud bulls*t: https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium
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by giovani 3y ago
I'm not aware if you can do it the way you mention, but you can used NextDNS and it pretty much cleans most of the ads (I actually haven't seen an ad in a very long time). If it ever interests you: https://nextdns.io&#x
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by giovani 5y ago
[PDF] https://media.nature.com/original/magazine-assets/d41586-021...
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by giovani 5y ago
It goes to the website of the company named in the article: bilibili.com
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by giovani 5y ago
On my keyboard its CMD + ` by default, but I guess you can probably change it somewhere.
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by giovani 7y ago
I don't know about any research on the matter, but I can say 2 things that worked very well for me: 1) take an intensive course first 2) then live in a country where the main language was the one I learned Granted, point 2 isn't e
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by giovani 8y ago
I think the broader point was that buying something only because it's cheap is generating unnecessary waste. I'm not saying this is the case here because the original pair of glasses can still be used, but isn't avoiding this
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by giovani 11y ago
> In fact, making HTTPS free to use would probably be the best thing that could ever be done for cybersecurity for mankind I guess we'll eventually get there, but unless we get decentralised I don't see how it could be done.
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by giovani 11y ago
I agree, the bootstrapping trust is a hard issue, and I don't think either that a distributed system will magically fix things. What would happen is we'd just change one set of problems for another one, but IMHO it'd be a bet
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by giovani 11y ago
He was probably talking about the centralised model used with CAs, and trying to start a discussion about an alternative to the CA model, probably some way of decentralised control, hence the bitcoin reference. Convergence [1] comes to mind
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by giovani 12y ago
So this ends up being as "simple" as answering the question: Do you trust Apple? Given they control the operating system and all around it, having the directory server controlled by someone else (or distributed) doesn't solve
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by giovani 12y ago
I disagree. If things go south (meaning they do what they claimed they couldn't, and then get caught) people will surely remember it, and in that case it would be negative PR-points, doubled. That doesn't mean he's not lying,
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by giovani 12y ago
I agree education is a big problem in Brazil. IMO, the main issue is this culture around not asking questions so it won't look like you don't know something. As a consequence, getting involved and going into depth to really learn
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by giovani 12y ago
Exactly. That's more than impolite, it's unfair IMO. If the only way they can offer a better service is by screwing with the competition, well, they aren't doing a very good job then. Otherwise they could spend their time loo