octosphere

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by octosphere 7y ago
What if I need absolute surety my image(s) is not going to be subject to bit rot and not be available in a few years time? What if I do 'multi-posts' and share the same image across 10,000+ bulletin boards? Your bandwidth will run
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by octosphere 7y ago
Any other show stopping bugs you have encountered? I'm thinking of making the switch myself, but I hear nothing but anecdotes of people having a bad time getting proprietary Microsoft Office .docx files to play nice in LibreOffice
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by octosphere 7y ago
> Amazon has never done that Well maybe they do? I know Amazon's algorithms are opaque to the user, but after several purchases on Amazon I noticed this trend of items I researched showing a small uptick in the price after a few day
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by octosphere 7y ago
Never liked when Amazon increases the price a few days later after witnessing you researching something to buy. This is why I only purchase items 'on-the-spot' in a small window of time which allows me to escape such a practice.
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by octosphere 7y ago
> I feel like the list should be longer Isn't there a small window of time to edit a submission before it gets committed permanently to HN? I imagine the list would be bigger if the grace period lasted much longer.
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by octosphere 7y ago
Thanks for recommending that :)
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by octosphere 7y ago
Worse still is the threat of quantum computers that will make cracking his vault trivial. Apparently in 20-30 years people will be able to fit a quantum computer into a laptop form factor and break certain types of crypto at will, regardles
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by octosphere 7y ago
Sad to see Windows To Go being deprecated. It's the only way to have Windows running off a USB device. I hope it doesn't break the devices I own with WTG on them. I wish Microsoft devs would add the option to install Windows on a
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Dril(en.wikipedia.org)
56 points by octosphere 7y ago|4 comments
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Installing Guix on IntelNUC(willschenk.com)
1 points by octosphere 7y ago|0 comments
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by octosphere 7y ago
> Google is not dying any time soon One way to kill it is blocking all their domains either in /etc/hosts or using pi-hole. But I imagine using the web would be slightly broken as Google host various font libraries and javascri
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by octosphere 7y ago
I never use a password, but I do use a passphrase like something similar to the one used in XKCD 936[0]. There's a few open source diceware[1] generators on Github that you should look at. [0] https://www.xkcd.com/936&#
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by octosphere 7y ago
This is why I don't give registrars (or other actors) enough time to register a domain behind my back, so when I want a name, I do no prior research in advance of buying the domain, and buy it 'on the spot'. The same idea can
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by octosphere 7y ago
My personal favorite speaker on this topic is Chris Heilmann[0]. He's been in the trenches for a long time and highlights a lot of issues in webdev that are often overlooked, like accessibility, and a common thing: over-engineering. h
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by octosphere 7y ago
Oops, my bad. You are right, I didn't read the article fully and presumed it didn't talk about spreading oneself thinly. Thanks for pointing it out ;)
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by octosphere 7y ago
> but I’m always looking for another trick to hold the flow for longer. Flow is usually something not to be sustained for long periods, because sustained flow is actually not practical - there must be an intermittent ebb to every flow s
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by octosphere 7y ago
Yeah but the article overlooks the many polymaths who spread themselves thinly across a variety of different fields, never achieving true mastery of a particular field. The phrase 'Jack of all trades, master of none' springs to mi
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by octosphere 7y ago
I'm probably a bit naive, but who torrents on their phone or tablet? Like, who does that?
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by octosphere 7y ago
The TL;DR of most VPN reviews is use Mullvad
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by octosphere 7y ago
Seems like only high-profile accounts get sim jacked. I would love to see some stats to see how prevalent sim porting attacks happen to ordinary low-follower-count accounts that have little influence on the network.
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by octosphere 7y ago
Yeah but as per the parent post - Paypal makes revoking a recurring fee easier, as sometimes there is not an option within a particular SaaS product/service to disable recurring fees. Also it is impossible to login to Mastercard's
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DNS over HTTPS – Publicly Available Servers(github.com)
5 points by octosphere 7y ago|0 comments
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Agedu – Find Out Wasted Disk Space in Linux(ostechnix.com)
1 points by octosphere 7y ago|0 comments
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5G SIM-swap attacks could be even worse for industrial IoT than now(theregister.co.uk)
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U.S. may grant another 90-day license extension to Huawei(mobilesyrup.com)
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Country of origin is 'unrelated' to cybersecurity: Huawei(technode.com)
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Norm of Reciprocity(en.wikipedia.org)
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by octosphere 7y ago
Recycled comment from an article a few weeks back about Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Choosing Encryption over Backdoors[0] [0] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/10/former_fbi_ge... You
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The Chinese Tech Giants: National Security and Foreign Policy Implications(state.gov)
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by octosphere 7y ago
Got it. Thanks for elaborating!

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