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blog.dbalan.in 4y ago

Resurrecting an Old Plotter (2019)

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reallifemag.com 4y ago

Same Old

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www.youtube.com 6y ago

Toslink: That one consumer fiber optic standard (2019) [video]

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www.servant.dev 6y ago

Servant: A type level DSL to write web APIs in haskell

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furius.ca 6y ago

Beancount: Double-Entry Accounting from Text Files

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www.c0ffee.net 6y ago

How to Run Your Own Mail Server

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ifixit.com 6y ago

Mac Pro 2019 Teardown

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blog.lukaszolejnik.com 6y ago

ICRC on Basic Rules of Cyberwarfare

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www.minor.gripe 6y ago

Quick and Dirty Outage Reports

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tpm.fail 6y ago

Side channel attacks on TPM2.0 devices exposes private keys [pdf]

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www.freehaven.net 6y ago

The Tor Censorship Arms Race: The Next Chapter [slides] [pdf]

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blog.lukaszolejnik.com 6y ago

ICRC Report on Cyberoperations

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ooni.torproject.org 6y ago

OONI: Open Observatory of Network Interference

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www.youtube.com 6y ago

Plan 9: Not Dead, Just Resting, Ori Bernstein

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codex99.com 6y ago

The HP-35 (2018)

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vimwiki.github.io 6y ago

Personal Wiki with Vim

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www.wnycstudios.org 6y ago

G: Radiolab mini series examining nature of intelligence

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blog.dbalan.in 6y ago

OCSP side-channel leaks in OnionBrowser

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blog.dbalan.in 7y ago

Resurrecting an old plotter (2019)

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blog.dbalan.in 7y ago

Resurrecting an Old Plotter

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github.com 8y ago

Show HN: Minimal code snippet manager

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beets.io 8y ago

Beets: cli to organize your music collection

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nossl.dbalan.in 8y ago

Show HN: Nossl page to redirect to captive portals

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99percentinvisible.org 8y ago

Unpleasant Design and Hostile Urban Architecture

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medium.com 9y ago

The JavaScript phenomenon is a mass psychosis

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www.independent.co.uk 9y ago

Britain to ban electronic devices on flights from Middle East

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rfc.zeromq.org 9y ago

Collective Code Construction Contract

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media.ccc.de 9y ago

An introduction to mobile messaging and analysis of the Threema protocol [video]

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parallel.princeton.edu 9y ago

OpenPiton – The Open Source Princeton Piton Processor

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www.proofpoint.com 9y ago

Pokémon go blackmarket apk with backdoors

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This is a really nice tool. But the fundamental reason most go for print is because its right there and that wins over other UX improvements or machinery. Python is a language where you can get a reasonably good debugger with a single line almost anywhere, still people reach for print()

I am not sure what do you mean by technical,

- but 99% invincible is a podcast talks about how things (a very broad definition) work - often from a design/interconnections viewpoint.

- Beats, Rye and Type is nice but they seems to be dead

That's the central problem, isn't it? Technology only gets more complicated, and we have never bothered much about giving general population effective tools and skills to make informed decisions for themselves. A well-known company vouches for something, and that's all I'd know if I was buying a ring device.

As a side note, I'd consider trying to flash something openWRT on other routers that anybody owns. There are not really many companies that keeps releasing patches for consumer devices unless there is a major outcry (for e.g KRACK). In most cases your router in a small MIPS box running linux (consumer ones), treat it as you'd treat your other systems and update it often!

This is going to be a problem for open source communities that use a semi-public slack as the communication platform. I don't think the users expect the DMs to be public to the project admin.

Its not necessarily bad. Bit it might be time for those communities to move.

iPad 9.7‑inch 9 years ago

Its nice to give consumers choice, but it puts extereme pressure on Apple to commit to their things works across every apple product policy. Most of loyal [non dev] apple consumers count on this.

Some observations, 1. At this point its extremely hard to use XMPP - there are too many competing standards that implements encryption (of which a subset has forward secrecy), and if sender server doesn't implement any the other end does, usually falls back to plain text, one can disable it - but this is just too much overhead for a regular user. (food for thought [1])

2. Again, reminder from countless HN comments - there is a PR in works to make GCM optional[2], as soon as its merged, this will be solved

3. Maps seems to the real problem here: this could be disabled after 2? (otherwise, whats the point?)

[1] https://whispersystems.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/ [2] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/pull/5962

edit: formatting, forward secrecy not e2e

Add-ons in 2017 10 years ago

Added OT tag, I was not comparing webextensions, pointing out, this is still an unsolved problem.

Add-ons in 2017 10 years ago

Slightly OT: There is another problem that most people seems to miss. Add-ons in their current form in ff are tightly coupled to the browser to the point that it's the browser itself. In the modern web, the browser knows too much about you, and so does the add-on, and it's not unheard of them to explore it[1]

How does that free webpage to PDF converter add-on make money? By selling your web history of course.

[1] https://www.google.de/amp/thehackernews.com/2016/11/web-of-t...

EDIT: added OT tag