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uulbiy
5y ago
I think this is not correct. The 20K were the content creators and the payments were from the their subscribers which should be a lot more. Even more impressive!
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uulbiy
6y ago
While the report mentions Threema, there are quite a lot more messaging apps. I found a nice list comparing them here: https://www.securemessagingapps.com/
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uulbiy
7y ago
It looks good. When should we expect firefox support?
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uulbiy
9y ago
I have been using Fedora on the desktop for the last 7 years. There are lots of pros like large selection of mostly up-to-date packages, good community, security, sane defaults etc. The cons for me are the below par wiki (so I use the Arch
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uulbiy
10y ago
Both Firefox[1] and Chrome[2] removed it from their stores. I don't know if we should expect an official announcement, but it seems that neither Mozilla nor Google commented on the issue. Many other sources reported it though[3][4][5].
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uulbiy
10y ago
I think the big mistake was offering something for free and then asking money for it. The first backlash was with the (unverified) certificates and the latest with the tests and assignments. It might have been a different story if they anno
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uulbiy
11y ago
Someone should just edit the title. It's not "emac's" it's "emacs"! The name was originally derived from "Editor MACroS". Here is the wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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uulbiy
11y ago
Actually, you can update with windows update. It will take a lot of time though.
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uulbiy
11y ago
My Coursera profile lists 67 courses, I have completed ~15 of them and with a passing grade ~8 of them. My most favorite one, which for me was the hardest as well, was The Hardware/Software Interface by Gaetano Borriello and Luis Ceze[
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uulbiy
11y ago
I finished Cryptography I in March 2012 and wanted to take Cryptography II ever since. Every time the announced time is close it gets pushed back by 4 months.
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uulbiy
11y ago
The content of the lecture notes[1] seem good, although I don't really like the presentation that much. Also, its difficult to follow just the notes without watching or listening to the lectures. Maybe I'm just spoiled by the onli
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uulbiy
11y ago
If anyone wonders about dbus/kdbus, this[1] was asked on r/linux yesterday. [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3auufg/eli12_dbus_vs...
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uulbiy
11y ago
It's partly mentioned in the article: > Later, he conducted a study showing that rats developed atherosclerosis after being fed artificial trans fats. When he removed the substance from their diets, the atherosclerosis disappeared f
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uulbiy
11y ago
Similarly, I got 3 wavs and 3 320s. I could distinguish the 128s but not between the other two. Please note that I did this wearing studio headphones (shure srh840).
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uulbiy
11y ago
IP spoofing can be prevented by ISPs[1] but I don't thing there is an incentive for them to do it. That could not stop the NSA anyway. [1]: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/1062/why-dont-is...
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uulbiy
11y ago
Additionally, > HTTPS would hide attacks from existing intrusion detection systems. is completely wrong. Intrusion detection systems are usually checking traffic between the reverse proxies and the servers where traffic is not encrypted.
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uulbiy
12y ago
> The course content is locked Actually, you can view both previous sessions. I am not sure if you can do it without previously registering for the course since I registered for both previous sessions. I am sure though that you have to l
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uulbiy
12y ago
There is a coursera course called "Learning How to Learn"[1] by Barbara Oakley that is starting soon. I took the previous session and it was very interesting. I liked the science[2] behind each part of the course (procrastination,
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uulbiy
12y ago
Actually, it's processed by a script (a bot if you like), however, if something fails a person replies to you. This is the problem with many of the challengers. When everything is ok they proceed, when something fails[1] it might take
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uulbiy
12y ago
Here are some interesting threads from reddit: -A user found an identical device on a chinese website: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2j8kyo/tor_rout... -Updated thread with a lot of info&#
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uulbiy
12y ago
You should note the date on that article (April 3rd). Kay Sievers rights have been reinstated by Linus. It's also important to note that the issue was with Sievers specifically and not with systemd. As Linus said "[...] you don&#x
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uulbiy
12y ago
Ctrl-p in emacs takes you to the previous line. Since readline uses emcs-style notation by default, Ctrl-p takes you to the previous command in history (and Ctrl-n to the next). I don't know about zsh though. Also, other emacs keys wor
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uulbiy
12y ago
It's not the same but there are other security issues. The server to server transfer of the email message might not be encrypted (it might be if both have TLS extensions enabled). So, emailing plain text passwords is always a bad ide
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uulbiy
12y ago
I agree, "Crypto 1" was excellent! On Coursera's website, in the upcoming section, it says that "Crypto 2" starts in 3 months. I hope that's true!
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uulbiy
12y ago
Although you got some pretty good answers there is one point that is not covered: parallel I/O. This is especially important for virtualization hosts as it improves performance significantly.
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uulbiy
12y ago
Let me start by answering another question. Why do people use webmail? Because it's convenient. If I use a client like Thunderbird and download all my emails then if I want to find one of them I have to search for it on the device that
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uulbiy
12y ago
Obviously the article was not written by a cyclist! The feature is really great for us with limited time.
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uulbiy
12y ago
From their website's faq[1]: > Is Epic Open Source? > Yes! Epic is open source software. Chromium which Epic is built on is also open source software. We haven't had a chance to formally release Epic's source code becau
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uulbiy
12y ago
I think this is closest to the correct answer, so I will try to expand on it. Qemu, is a processor emulator[1] and can emulate processors like x86, x86_64, ppc, mips, arm etc. Qemu is usually run with kvm[2]. [1]: http://wiki.qem
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uulbiy
12y ago
Actually you can run virtualbox in a headless server using the VBoxManage and VBoxHeadless[1]. I have been using that for years. [1]: http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch07.html
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