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by tikums 9y ago
That's not quite correct. There were also 'Latvian vikings', the Curonians. Latvia was also ruled by Sweden for centuries. There's not much difference there, apart from language. They were a mix of Baltic tribes, some co
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by tikums 10y ago
I care very little what you do with this rather uncivil "doxxing" here, Mr. J.Č and certainly plan to take no action.
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by tikums 10y ago
> No proper term in Latvian can be found in this example [by yours truly] FTFY.
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by tikums 10y ago
The word for independence ("neatkarība") in Latvian is a calque from the German Abhängigkeit ‎("dependence")[1]. Thus, "atkarāties" and "karāties" ("to hang"). Thus, the English expression &
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by tikums 10y ago
Calque of German abhängig ‎(“dependent”), coined at the end of the 19th century from atkār(t) ‎(“to hang down”) +‎ -īgs (with atkārt from at- +‎ kārt ‎(“to hang”)), together with the related term atkarība. Source: https://en.wikt
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by tikums 10y ago
> Latvian for "independence" is "neatkarība" which itself is wrong pair, because "independence" means not being dependent, and therefore free, while Latvian word means more like "impossibility to take b
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by tikums 10y ago
I am talking about the general principle of translating a text with developed and precise terminology that is steeped in tradition for which no reference point exists in the language-of-destination. Therefore, it matters very little whether
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by tikums 10y ago
I don't find it strange at all, it plays very well into the "divide and conquer" approach to ethnic politics that Russia has put to use both in the past and more recently in Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova and elsewhere. For what i
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by tikums 10y ago
Indeed, there are so many words of French and German origins in the Russian language, that linguists have lost their count. This is to do with the Russian nobility, at different periods, helming from those countries and/or it being the
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by tikums 10y ago
Why, thank you, I speak Russian fluently. It doesn't matter whether the text has been translated from Traditional Chinese or Sanskrit, the issue remains the same: Buddhist terminology is specific to the Buddhist tradition. You will fac
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by tikums 10y ago
Indeed, Latvian is a somewhat formalized version of Latgalian, so I'm not sure how that can be "truth worth discovery [sic]". If you haven't kept up with news back home, it might be of interest to you that there are MPs
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by tikums 10y ago
> try to translate a piece of classic buddhist text to Latvian Here is a translation of a classic buddhist sūtra in Latvian: http://www.ugis.info/?t#sutra_ > You will simply have no words to express what you need That
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by tikums 10y ago
As a native Latvian speaker, I have no idea what you're talking about. In comparison to other languages spoken on the European continent, Lithuanian and Latvian have retained more of the features of what linguists call Proto-Indo-Europ
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by tikums 11y ago
Vodafone's also actively pushing for "network management" (read, MITM) for HTTP/2. Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9422311
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by tikums 11y ago
OpenBSD (+LibreSSL) folks have been uncomfortable with unpredictable compiler optimizations for quite a while too. Here's a previous discussion on compilers in OpenBSD: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9322259
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by tikums 11y ago
MinimaLT http://cr.yp.to/tcpip/minimalt-20130522.pdf
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by tikums 11y ago
It may be misleading but also in the sense that there's no recommendation to just drop VPN altogether. How about we just stop relying on terribly over-designed protocols such as VPN and IPSec? Complexity is the enemy of security.
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by tikums 11y ago
- Tab sandboxing - No phoning home - In-built privacy protection
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by tikums 11y ago
I would never have my private keys leave a smart card. I'd assume your PGP private key on hard drive, located in your home directory no less, is as good as compromised.
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by tikums 11y ago
> Bash would have been more appropriate A script that is compatible with POSIX Bourne shell (/bin/sh) would be more appropriate. FreeBSD, for example, does not come pre-installed with bash. If you want cross-platform portabilit
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by tikums 11y ago
That's wrong. NSAs new IDS also protects enterprises that the state considers to be "critical infrastructure", such as banks.
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by tikums 11y ago
> I'll email you a list of my designs and essays on there Yes, please.
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by tikums 11y ago
So, basically anyone providing online services to customers then? Who's threat model should not include intelligence agencies? Online pet shop?
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by tikums 11y ago
There's no contest between physical vs. virtual isolation. Theo de Raadt and @thegrugq are right when they're saying you shouldn't put much trust in virtualisation-as-isolation model. Just look at the recent VENOM bug.
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by tikums 11y ago
It's a Russian newspaper-in-exile. It wasn't hard to find: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meduza#Censorship
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by tikums 11y ago
> much of the commercial world is thinly veiled NSA work While security agencies of various governments are on the buy-side on the "zero day" vulnerability market, majority of commercial "cyber" security companies are
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by tikums 11y ago
> They are highly skilled network attack specialists, with basically no way to apply their skills other than working for the NSA. Why is commercial "cyber" security industry not a viable option? It pays well, there's curre
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by tikums 11y ago
Or use multitail. It supports syntax highlighting, among other features: http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/
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by tikums 11y ago
> Wouldn't any process running as root on the computer be able to re-flash the router? No, because router's management interface is only available out-of-band. This is a conscious design decision to mitigate against this threat
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by tikums 11y ago
In the same vein, P.O.R.T.A.L.[0] mitigates against leaks by running Tor on a separate hardware router. In principle, it should reduce the risk of geolocation, as VM esape to dom0 is not possible. Annual success of pwn2own should tell you t

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