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I'm not a physicist either. As a student, some years ago I asked my physics teacher if this conception was right, but I only got pretty elusive answers. It turns out that general relativity and quantum mechanics are not 100% coherent on this point. I suggest you to read this short, a-bit-technical-but-not-too-much essay on the problem: http://quasars.org/photon.txt

Thank you for your answer and for your time.

My language of choice for the bot was Clojure. I was interfacing with libaxolotl-java and basically rebuilding libtextsecure in Clojure (that was months ago).

Yesterday, when I discovered libtextsecure-java (while exploring Github repositories, by the way, I didn't notice your website had been updated in the meantime), I started a rewrite, using README as my primary source of documentation (the only piece of doc I could find, actually).

Ok, so what's this `KeyHelper`? Ok, I'll search on Github. Fine, it's actually `org.whispersystems.libaxolotl.util.KeyHelper` - luckily I knew it was in a completely different project. The same goes for `AxolotlStore`, which is actually `org.whispersystems.libaxolotl.state.AxolotlStore`, and it's not even mentioned on libaxolotl-java README because the latter is outdated.

Then: what is `TrustStore`? Good luck finding out that! Basically it is a wrapper around a binary file - which I had to download from TextSecure source repo without knowing what there was inside, and which by the way is encrypted with the password whisper (documentation: nowhere - thank you @AsamK for your textsecure-cli sources on github).

Ok, and finally figuring out - turning to TextSecure-Server docs - what is a signaling key, what are the specifics for the client-generated password (which by the way is sent over SSL via Basic authentication - probably not the most secure method ever, but probably there are many reason for that) and what is an install ID, I finally had the opportunity to debug obscure security problems on Java and to meet in person a Fedora bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1167153). Not to mention the fact that apparently libtextsecure-java doesn't work over websockets but only over GCM (https://github.com/WhisperSystems/libtextsecure-java/pull/5) - however I won't be surprised if it did.

A really nightmarish experience. Maybe this summer I'll try to reimplement libtextsecure in another language and then document thoroughly my efforts. Who knows.

Just yesterday I was trying to get a bot working on the TextSecure platform. A vastly disappointing experience: almost not existing libraries, sparse and incomplete documentation, unstable protocol breaking without any kind of notice (https://github.com/JavaJens/TextSecure/issues/6, for example). And still no way to register without a phone, which would be amazing for this kind of project: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/1085

I think Telegram is succeeding in what TextSecure is failing: attracting a widespread community of developers. This is only a confirmation, in my opinion.

EDIT: and, by the way, while Telegram security is no good, I wonder why we cannot have both (security & developer-friendliness)

Sightly off-topic but:

Do we really need user agent? What are good reasons we should keep on using them? I could find none...

It makes me remember John Locke's An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding[0]

The Indian before mentioned [...], saying that the world was supported by a great elephant, was asked what the elephant rested on; to which his answer was—a great tortoise: but being again pressed to know what gave support to the broad-backed tortoise, replied—SOMETHING, HE KNEW NOT WHAT

-- [0] http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10615/pg10615.txt, 2nd book, chapter XXIII, paragraph 2

Actually you could. They are called "deterministic builds".

But this would require some kind of effort from project maintainers.

    Later this summer, Signal for iPhone will be expanded to support text communication compatible with TextSecure for Android.

Flask, under the hood, uses Werkzeug routing. Basically, this is a wrapper over Werkzeug, just like Flask routing is.

Am I the only one who thinks that routes should be defined near views, just like default Flask does?

28.58 mph == 45.995 km/h [0], BTW.

[0] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=28.58+mph+in+kilometers...

Thanks for sharing! Unfortunately, bytes representations are wrong.

As you may now, there is a difference between kilobytes (KB) and kibibytes (KiB), megabytes (MB) and mibibytes (MiB) et cetera. 1 KiB = 1024 bytes = 1.024 KB.

Please check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix and fix your library :)

Reynold (Diceware creator) says:

"Five words are breakable with a thousand or so PCs equipped with high-end graphics processors (criminal gangs with botnets of infected PCs can marshal such resources). Six words may be breakable by an organization with a very large budget, such as a large country's security agency. Seven words and longer are unbreakable with any known technology, but may be within the range of large organizations by around 2030. Eight words should be completely secure through 2050."

http://world.std.com/~reinhold/dicewarefaq.html#howlong

Don't seriously use this tool.

"People shouldn't use passwords that have been generated by a remote service unless they have very very good reasons to trust the tool and the transmission of the data." [0]

Passphrases are generated server-side, and this mines at the heart the security of the system. Are password saved? Yes? No? Who knows?

And you can trust a pair of dice more than an unknown website. Look up diceware on the web and see what I mean.

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[0] http://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/10684/password-w...

This seems to be the natural continuation of Document Freedom Day... Not sure if the two are related.

Mozilla's Rust & Servo go exactly in this direction, thankfully.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7401371

http://status.twitter.com is kinda down here (Italy).

And antirez's comment doesn't contradict mine :)

To be fair, PD is the only italian party whose direction has been elected democratically (I'm Italian and I voted to the last PD primarie).

What's wrong with this democratic process? Internal debate started only after approving law. Don't you think this is... wrong?

A personal note:

Francesco Boccia (the proposer), Enrico Letta (old prime minister) and Matteo Renzi come all from the same politic party, Partito Democratico. Web tax was proposed when Matteo Renzi was already the secretary of the Party.

This page is actually returning HTTP 500 ("Error establishing a database connection"). Wow.

I think the best approach to single-page apps is simplicity and elegance (and often they coincide). You will need some abstraction to achieve simplicity and elegance, and in the end you will be more productive. That's it.

<rant>I have a personal aversion for jQuery... It's awful because you probably don't need 99% of it.</rant>

Thank you! I've never met MoviePy and it looks really good. I'm waiting for libopenshot to be released, what do you think about it?

I love shells because you can't use your mouse. Nice idea, but it doesn't suit me.

With the advent of new gTLDs, .fake could be registered. So, use .invalid, a reserved TLD.

I asked what's wrong with the idea, not with the implementation. I completely agree with the fact that this law should have been discussed at international level (at least EU+USA). I can realize from your words all your discouragement for the global ethical crisis. I really hope that future generations will be able to enforce this kind of measures. (BTW, may I ask you where are you from?)

Have you read the law? Do it. Rendering is not illegal, but if you're an Italian company you can buy online ads only from another Italian company.

I'm Italian. Here tax burden for artisans, small business, big companies is over 50%. What if we could shift part of the taxation from artisans to big multinationals? What's wrong with this idea?

Isso. https://github.com/posativ/isso (Python)

Ok, now we just need to convince W3C.