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Re:Black Tom Explosion
on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @01:02PM (#24556990)
The explosion was an act of sabotage? I would have thought it
were an event resulting from an act and not itself an act.
Re:Show HN: Talk – A free group video call app with screen sharing
on Sunday September 06, 2020 @07:58AM (#24390757)
Maybe on Ubuntu. I'm talking about the ``manual'' installation to which everyone not using Ubuntu must resort.
Re:Show HN: Talk – A free group video call app with screen sharing
on Saturday September 05, 2020 @11:38AM (#24384329)
Was this using Ubuntu or whatever it is they recommend or ``manually''?
Re:Show HN: Talk – A free group video call app with screen sharing
on Saturday September 05, 2020 @05:59AM (#24382557)
What are TURN and STUN?
Re:Show HN: Talk – A free group video call app with screen sharing
on Saturday September 05, 2020 @05:55AM (#24382539)
Setting up a Jitsi server is non-trivial; this is simple (git clone / cd talk / npm install / npm start). And, if you don't want to trust the programme, you can do this from a dedicated unpriviledged user.
Re:Zoom still don't understand GDPR
on Friday August 28, 2020 @04:51AM (#24302747)
If you have run the native programme (for me it keeps breaking up in the browser), run it from a dedicated unpriviledged user, without installing it on the system. (Run ./opt/zoom/ZoomLauncher.) If you have to log in (I couldn't change the input device without logging in), when your browser tries to open the not installed programme, copy the link and give it as a command-line argument to ZoomLauncher.
Looking forward to a working alternative.
Re:How to Write in Plain English
on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @08:11AM (#24270515)
It is also possible that certain styles of writing and clothing are felt by some to be more beautiful. It is not necessary to reduce every stylistic predilection to status or identity signalling.
Re:Kali Linux 2020.3
on Monday August 24, 2020 @04:42AM (#24258628)
One nice thing in zsh is that you can type `/u/lo/b<tab><return>` and be in `/usr/local/bin`.
Re:NSA Owns Everything (2015)
on Thursday August 13, 2020 @09:38AM (#24143193)
Does that mean that a firmware backdoor is impossible or very unlikely?
Re:NSA Owns Everything (2015)
on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:28AM (#24141142)
Are you saying a librebooted machine is still probably backdoored?
Re:NSA Owns Everything (2015)
on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:24AM (#24141124)
It's easy to find x200 etc. used. Flashing is another story.
Re:A Keyboard with Blank Keycaps Made Me an Expert Typist
on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @10:27AM (#24132341)
Blank keyboards also look better, especially these:
Re:Why Software Should Be Free (2002)
on Monday August 10, 2020 @12:18PM (#24110882)
> Simply putting on a clean shirt, some proper shoes and having a shave does wonders in this regard.
Just curious: what do you think of the view that such superficial acts are gestures of respect towards one's fellow man?
Re:PDF: Still unfit for human consumption, 20 years later
on Monday August 10, 2020 @12:08PM (#24110751)
> Do not use PDFs to present digital content that could and
> should otherwise be a web page.
To get decent typography, one needs TeX, and TeX produces PDFs, not web pages.
Re:Why Software Should Be Free (2002)
on Monday August 10, 2020 @08:07AM (#24108371)
What exactly do you think he said? If I remember correctly, he expressed a valid doubt about a matter of fact.
Re:Apple takes legal action against small company with pear logo
on Sunday August 09, 2020 @08:25AM (#24099137)
Seems that in Germany too Apple was able to make the decision to
resist quite risky. So maybe the question should be: is there
any country where the target would be better protected and
wouldn't have to risk so much to resist?
Re:Apple takes legal action against small company with pear logo
on Saturday August 08, 2020 @04:42PM (#24095039)
In what other countries than America would this sort of thing work? (Not a rhetorical question.)
Re:So You Want to Learn Physics (2016)
on Saturday August 08, 2020 @08:56AM (#24091285)
https://www.bookdepository.com/University-Physics-with-Moder...
Is this the full book? I'm confused by some items' being marked as "third volume".
Re:Usbkill – anti-forensic tool to halt computer when new USB device i...
on Thursday August 06, 2020 @07:38AM (#24070050)
Yeah, I was thinking of custom window-manager setups. You can usually get a tty console by ctrl-meta-f1 etc., but that wouldn't help, since you'd have to enter a password. I suppose an advanced version could try different combinations and test each by entering a command that would be detected by the stick.
Re:Usbkill – anti-forensic tool to halt computer when new USB device i...
on Thursday August 06, 2020 @07:28AM (#24070002)
This will only work, I suppose, if the attacker knows beforehand a keychord that will focus a terminal.
Re:Usbkill – anti-forensic tool to halt computer when new USB device i...
on Thursday August 06, 2020 @07:25AM (#24069981)
That would only work on a known operating system and window manager with known keyboard shortcuts, unless a terminal is already focused.
Re:Usbkill – anti-forensic tool to halt computer when new USB device i...
on Thursday August 06, 2020 @07:09AM (#24069887)
> depending on the OS, it's possible to craft a USB stick that copies files to a remote server as soon as it's plugged in.
Is this possible with Linux?
Re:Usbkill – anti-forensic tool to halt computer when new USB device i...
on Thursday August 06, 2020 @06:43AM (#24069747)
> Kiernan then inserted a flash drive in one of the laptop's USB ports, with software that copied key files.
How exactly does this work? Is there a sort of software that runs automatically when you insert the stick, or did he have to click on it?
Re:Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0
on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @01:01PM (#24063021)
Qutebrowser with a Firefox backend would be nice.
Re:1Password for Linux development preview
on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @08:18PM (#24055924)
No.
Re:1Password for Linux development preview
on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @08:11PM (#24055887)
But if my machine were compromised, my 1password password would be compromised too, wouldn't it?
Re:1Password for Linux development preview
on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @07:59PM (#24055822)
Why would I want to trust some company with all my passwords?
Re:1Password for Linux development preview
on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @07:53PM (#24055791)
An open-source alternative that just uses GPG for encryption is "pass":
Re:“Irregardless” is part of a penumbra of unorthodox English words
on Thursday July 30, 2020 @11:11AM (#23999076)
What do you mean?
Re:Berners-Lee 'Sorry' for Slashes (2009)
on Thursday July 30, 2020 @06:55AM (#23996699)
> Also, there are a number of factors at play, a number of different futures that could have been resulted if there were no slashes just by chaos theory[1]. So, speculating in the hindsight is not fruitful.
This sounds like an argument that one should do whatever, because whatever can result from it.