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libeclipse
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A centralized VPN solution for all users is a terrible idea, and what is "secure cloud storage" going to offer that Dropbox doesn't? I understand that developing a browser is expensive work and Mozilla need money to do it. I
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> The dramatic video is set in 1989 during the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests that are forbidden to talk about in China. > the company is now distancing itself from the 5-minute video after Chinese social media users cried fo
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libeclipse
7y ago
I use Thunderbird on the desktop and GMail on Android. I would love an alternative to the latter but have not managed to find a suitable one.
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Silicon Bandgap Temperature Sensor
(en.wikipedia.org)
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8y ago
> pplease sir, can i have some more :(
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8y ago
Comment from a Mozilla developer: I enjoyed this, well done! I’m just speaking for myself (but I know many of my colleagues agree) when I say that I don’t feel great about the source of our revenue. That being said, developing a rendering
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8y ago
Um The appearance of supporting privacy may not be mutually exclusive with openly invasive behavior, but actually supporting privacy is. I don't see the point you're trying to make but it seems as though your stance is that it
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The world wonders
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I'd also recommend this other interesting read by the same author and co-authored by Bruce Schneier: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2938033
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The cause of the problems in academia is hinted at near the end: > the truth is I understand why they have to do things that way, if they don't get published, they don't get money to continue work that should theoretically be b
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8y ago
The irony here is amazing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11082337
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Movile Cave
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It was pretty good to be honest, like a video that lets you choose your own pace. It was a bit light on the history though (doesn't seem like that was the point of the piece), so here's a decent production by Vox exploring the cri
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How to Wiretap Phone Lines with a DIY Circuit
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Turbo button
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> Optane DC Persistent Memory DIMMs have twice the error correction overhead of ECC DRAM modules. That is pretty impressive.
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8y ago
The point is that they're backing this non-secure chat over backing a secure alternative, like Allo.
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8y ago
You can have multiple certificates for a single host.
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8y ago
I know someone's going to mention it but I have the Dell XPS 13. Mine's a 16GB spec with a 512GB SSD, and honestly it's more or less perfect. I have mine dual-booted, Windows 10 and Arch Linux. Windows is great for gaming and
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libeclipse
9y ago
What are your credentials, if you don't mind my asking?
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9y ago
Blocking HTTP sites is a bit too far, but an insecure warning is perfectly reasonable as, let's be honest, it is not secure.
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9y ago
Damn. In the UK it's free next-day.
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9y ago
> ...that is, sent them to a verifiably unspendable address. How would you accomplish something like this?
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Aha I did something similar to this a while back. Had an ancient computer with a $2 WiFi dongle very far from the access point. It could barely sustain a connection, never mind actually doing anything. So I cut up the neck of a bottle, cove
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Unit 731
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“But compare that with a scenario in which that person never existed—then, the absence of the bad would be good, but the absence of the good wouldn’t be bad, because there’d be nobody to be deprived of those good things.” I'm not con
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It's astounding how much concern there is about the relatively (!) small impact of bitcoin mining on the environment while we have immense adverse effects on the global environment from things like cargo ships without so much as a pee
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> This will in turn lead to censorship of political ideologies, HTBQ+, mental health awareness, suicide awareness and prevention, etc. Sounds like a slippery slope argument.
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Yeah, and there was the thing where Comcast slowed down Netflix until they bent over and signed a deal with them. In the UK, Virgin Media have a deal with Twitter and don't charge for internet traffic to Twitter. Three do the same with
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This is honestly beautiful.
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