wallunit

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by wallunit 1y ago
This is actually rather a reason to avoid Python in my opinion. You don't want pip to pollute your system with untracked files. There are tools like virtualenv to contain your Python dependencies but this isn't by default, and pip
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by wallunit 1y ago
"Penalizing solo travelers" is a hell of a spin on quantity discounts. If this isn't click bait what is?
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by wallunit 2y ago
I used zopflipng in the past to optimize PNG images. It made sense since there was no better alternative to store lossless image data than the PNG format at the given time in the given environment. Zopfli is awesome when you are locked in o
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by wallunit 7y ago
That's awesome. I'm looking forward to any feedback. Not sure for how much longer I will keep monitoring this thread. But you can reach me either by filing issues on GitHub, or if you could at least drop me an email at sebastian.n
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by wallunit 7y ago
Honestly, when I first started working on mypass, I wasn't aware of "pass". Anyway, one issue I have with "pass" is that it leaks metadata, as it uses the file system to organize different credentials, while only th
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by wallunit 7y ago
I'm the author of mypass. First of all, I'm very sorry to drop support (temporarily at least) for macOS and Windows with the latest release. It was a necessity for adopting SQLCipher (without available bindings for Python 3). But
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Show HN: A password manager for the command line(github.com)
3 points by wallunit 7y ago|5 comments
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by wallunit 8y ago
Is that even true? In practice rather than downloading a single package you'd download/update a bunch of packages over the same connection, and an attacker would only see the accumulated size, right?
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by wallunit 8y ago
No, I never used Facebook (or WhatsApp or Instagram) in the first place. ;)
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by wallunit 9y ago
I wrote a similar password manager (without knowing that pass already exists): https://github.com/snoack/mypass But I ended up storing everything into one single encrypted file, rather than having one file per password
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by wallunit 9y ago
Awesome, I'm looking forward to see whether it is working on your Acer laptop. You can use anything that is exposed by the Linux kernel under /sys/class/leds/*. This includes the keyboard backlight of ThinkPads. As
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by wallunit 9y ago
Thanks, man. It's almost frustrating how few attention my projects that are targeted to Linux users get nowadays on HN. That said, I appreciate your appreciation, very much. If you try it out, let me know how well it works. So far I on
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Show HN: A browser extension that notifies you about new messages using LEDs(github.com)
17 points by wallunit 9y ago|6 comments
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Show HN: A password manager that can conveniently be used from the command line(github.com)
7 points by wallunit 9y ago|0 comments
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Is undetectable ad blocking possible?(palant.de)
1 points by wallunit 9y ago|0 comments
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LastPass: Security done wrong(palant.de)
251 points by wallunit 9y ago|213 comments
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by wallunit 10y ago
I like that approach, and we tried doing something like that in the past, but here is why it didn't work for us, unfortunately: We work remotely, so is our hiring process. While it would be possible to give a programming task to a cand
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by wallunit 10y ago
I'm sorry but that whole article is just FUD... > Input function Yes, in Python 2, input() is a shortcut for eval(raw_input(...)), and documented as such. Obviously that is not a safe way to parse user input, and therefore it has be
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by wallunit 10y ago
Not that this is the same situation with unencrypted websites anyways.
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by wallunit 10y ago
I never got, in the first place, why browsers show a big fat warning when accessing a properly encrypted website where the certificate can just not be verified, while a completely unencrypted website on the other hand looks just legit in th
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by wallunit 11y ago
Fixed: https://github.com/snoack/python-goto/commit/a46dbe57e9cfa4f... Jumps out of loops and other blocks work now. However, there are some limitations: 1. As I only have 4 bytes left to inject POP_BLOCK ins
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by wallunit 11y ago
I did run the example from the README, with "%timeit range(0, 1000)" in ipython: 10000 loops, best of 3: 72.9 µs per loop @ CPython 2.7.10 with NOP 10000 loops, best of 3: 77.2 µs per loop @ CPython 2.7.10 with JUMP_FORWARD 10000
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by wallunit 11y ago
Awesome, I added it to the README!
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by wallunit 11y ago
> I wonder if there's a way to remove the extra nops? Yes, technically it would be possible to remove the code instead injecting NOPs. But then I'd have to adjust the jump targets. However, I don't think these NOPs are too
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Goto in Python(github.com)
170 points by wallunit 11y ago|43 comments
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Content blocking in Safari 9 and iOS 9(adblockplus.org)
3 points by wallunit 11y ago|0 comments
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by wallunit 11y ago
I'm very curious about Content Blocking Safari Extensions as well. The old mechanism, that is the non-standard "beforeload" DOM event + synchronous messaging via canLoad, had it's issues. But the new one is entirely diff
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German Cat Breeder Websites Are the Most Beautiful Thing on the Internet(vice.com)
1 points by wallunit 12y ago|0 comments
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by wallunit 12y ago
Adblock Plus not only prevent ads from loading, but also hide their elements. And also hides text ads that don't require a separate request. So you will see less ads and the space reserved for ads will be used for the actual content in
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by wallunit 12y ago
I was also pretty surprised when I saw that code. It is obviously there, that they know how many users they have, which browser and which settings they use. It is absolutely unacceptable to that without asking the user. It is also illegal i

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