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by offmycloud 6y ago
I gave NixOS a try recently, and generally liked it. I could get over the arcane packaging language and hit-or-miss documentation. The red flag for me was the inattention to software freedom. Most other distros like Debian or Fedora have
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by offmycloud 6y ago
A older summary of the packet encryption is here: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Counter-Strike:_Glo...
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by offmycloud 6y ago
For those who aren't familiar, JSC is JavaScriptCore, the built-in JavaScript VM in WebKit, Apple's browser engine.
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by offmycloud 7y ago
To me, it seems odd that government would have a monopoly on anything in health care. Non-profits can play a very valuable role in exposing inefficiencies in large bureaucracies.
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by offmycloud 7y ago
If Apple keeps pushing their Bitcode LLVM IR trans-compiling, along with magic App Store re-linking, they will kill the possibility of reproducible builds forever. In Apple's world, you are supposed to trust their app vetting process,
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by offmycloud 7y ago
Why do they need a back door when they can walk right in through the front door? I used to work for a large company that purchased Huawei 4G gear and had a paid support agreement. A condition of the agreement was giving VPN and SSH access
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by offmycloud 7y ago
The end of support for Chrome Apps on Windows, Mac, and Linux is June of this year, unless you have paid Enterprise/Education support.
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by offmycloud 7y ago
I believe that Authy has both a Chrome app and an extension.
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by offmycloud 7y ago
I hope so, but Fedora is dragging their feet putting out a patched Firefox package on Fedora 30, which is still suppoted.
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by offmycloud 7y ago
To defeat the Authy account recovery process, you need to perform an active SMS attack (SIM swap, etc) and then prevent the target from seeing the recovery warning emails for 24 hours. Therefore, Authy customers should only tell trusted pe
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An Open Letter to Google(privacyinternational.org)
3 points by offmycloud 7y ago|0 comments
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by offmycloud 7y ago
From the first page: > A finding of probable cause to believe that a U.S. citizen (or other "United States person" as defined at Section 1803(i)) is an agent of a foreign power cannot be solely based on activities protected b
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by offmycloud 7y ago
If a person dies and their payment card stops working, does the account get suspended for non-payment?
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by offmycloud 7y ago
It is much easier for the ISP to just inspect the smaller amount of DNS traffic on port 53, than to inspect all traffic including port 443, and scan for HTTPS and SNI. Also, the destination IP does not revel much for CDNs.
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by offmycloud 7y ago
I just has to solve three "traffic lights" and two "crosswalks" to login into HN. Why should I help Google train their ML algorithms for self-driving cars? Maybe I'll just stop logging in and voting on HN. No, I
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by offmycloud 7y ago
Could someone who understands the radio technology please explain why using time-of-arrival and phase tricks with existing WiFi and Bluetooth signals is "wide-banded" in any way?
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by offmycloud 7y ago
Privacy? It's still a credit card. MasterCard still gets all your purchase data and can do whatever they want with it. Goldman Sachs gets your SSN, credit report, and bank account info.
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by offmycloud 7y ago
It is unfortunate that the NYT is confusing 5G, which is a certain version (15?) of the LTE advanced specification, with the use of millimeter wave frequencies. Here in the U.S. at least one major carrier is deploying 5G on frequencies bel
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by offmycloud 8y ago
A good first step is disabling SSL 3.x and TLS 1.0 in your daily browser. I would also recommend the excellent Qualys SSL Server Test: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/
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by offmycloud 8y ago
It's sad that lists.gnu.org is running obsolete TLS 1.0 crypto with weak 1024-bit DH. Either upgrade to TLS 1.2 with reasonable cipher suites, or just go back to plain HTTP.
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by offmycloud 8y ago
So ... SIGINTaaS ?
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by offmycloud 12y ago
The phone companies store the records for at least some period of time already, why make unnecessary copies?
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by offmycloud 12y ago
Unless you are using VoIP, all of your voice calls go over the 2G network.
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by offmycloud 12y ago
Official SEC Edgar filing: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/354950/0000354950140...
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by offmycloud 12y ago
(From the Netflix PDF) Each appliance stores a portion of the catalog, which in general is less than the complete content library for a given region. Popularity changes, new titles being added to the service, and re-encoded movies are all p
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by offmycloud 12y ago
KryoFlux is a USB-based floppy controller http://www.kryoflux.com/
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BleachBit frees disk space and guards your privacy(bleachbit.sourceforge.net)
2 points by offmycloud 13y ago|0 comments
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by offmycloud 13y ago
A friend of mine bought a real CNC milling machine for < $5K and it can make things out of plastic and metal with real software tools and MUCH better tolerances. Most 3D printer are just ... meh.
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by offmycloud 13y ago
That's a great way to screw up the filesystem on the destination. You'll get mounted fs write combined with low-level block writes, filesystem in a blender.
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Pandora Payment Form is Not Secure(pandora.com)
1 points by offmycloud 14y ago|0 comments

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