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Re:Signal is having technical difficulties on Friday January 15, 2021 @01:25PM (#25794193)
I just donated to Signal after seeing the error banner in the app.

I realised I was more than happy to pay WhatsApp's yearly charge back in the pre-Facebook days (think it was 70p or so?).

Figured I could give Signal a few quid every now and then, maybe keep a server up for a few seconds :)

Donation link should anyone be interested: https://signal.org/donate/

> Engineers design pickle forks to last the lifetime of the plane, more than 90,000 landings and takeoffs, a term known as "flight cycles" in the aviation industry, without developing cracks.

That number made me do a double take. Seems planes never stay on the ground for very long.

Re:Please Don't Say Just Hello In Chat (2013) on Friday April 12, 2019 @05:27PM (#19649179)
co-worker: @here

co-worker is typing...

co-worker is typing...

co-worker is typing...

co-worker: Could you help me with $x?

Nothing more annoying than grabbing everyone's attention with the first message and _then_ spending time to compose the question.

Re:Moving efficiently in the CLI on Friday January 26, 2018 @05:44PM (#16243516)
If you modify your .inputrc with the following this should propagate to all of readline as well (e.g. python):

    set editing-mode vi
Re:What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @02:01PM (#12541687)
I assumed they were remote, otherwise I would have thought they would have premises costs stated. Rent, heating etc.
Re:What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @01:59PM (#12541658)
I know in addition to salary there are other "hidden" costs like health care etc, but even taking that into account their employees must be taking home a pretty significant wage.
Re:I may be the only evil bit user on the internet on Thursday November 26, 2015 @03:49PM (#10634654)
While not quite to the same level of obfuscation, your suggestion reminded me of this project: http://www.cipherdyne.org/fwknop/ Its essentially port knocking with a single encrypted packet.

Haven't tried it (yet) myself but sounds interesting.

Re:Ask HN: Does anyone still use QR codes? on Monday November 23, 2015 @05:31PM (#10617827)
Steve Gibson's SQRL looks to be an interesting application of QR codes. https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm