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Re:Ask HN: Is Visual Studio Code the Emacs of 21st century? on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @03:06PM (#18401926)
How exactly do they "try to keep extension authors from destroying the editor"?
Re:Exercises in Programming Style on Monday March 19, 2018 @06:52AM (#16617433)
There's mypy.
Re:Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57? on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @04:38PM (#15708075)
This is making me really curious because while Chrome is buttery smooth on my Macbook Pro, Firefox 57 is really sluggish, especially when creating/closing tabs. You can literally see the animation stuttering. Other times when a page loads it won't paint for some seconds even if it appears that it has completed loading. Is anyone else having these issues?
Re:Docker for Mac Beta Review on Monday April 25, 2016 @08:11PM (#11568411)
docker id is gtklocker, thanks!
Re:Towelroot by geohot to root Galaxy S5 with one click on Sunday June 15, 2014 @07:15PM (#7896670)
Didn't restore most stuff for me (especially SMSs and calls) last time I tried it on my N4.
Re:Free Your Android on Thursday May 08, 2014 @02:54PM (#7716964)
* I'm not talking about F-Droid. I'm talking about CM as a whole and the recovery someone may use.

* There is a way, however it's common practice to leave it unlocked and I'm not sure you mention that in your article.

Re:Free Your Android on Thursday May 08, 2014 @09:59AM (#7715279)
The idea of freeing your phone is cute, however, there are some considerable dangers.

* The software that you give access to your phone (be it drivers or the recovery images themselves) isn't signed by anyone. Some of the software isn't even available via HTTPS. I think it's a bad idea to trust some HTTP and unsigned executable more than Google, who are making all they can to ensure the integrity of anything that runs on your phone.

* Unlocking your bootloader is a bad idea. Google erases all your data whenever you unlock your phone[1]. They don't hate you, they've just realized the security issues that come from having an unlocked phone. Take this for example: You're at the airport and ready to leave. However, TSA stops you for a "random" check. They have your phone for about 5 minutes and there's nothing you can do about it. Now, they could ask you for your passcode but then you'd know something's wrong. Now, your bootloader is unlocked, which means they can see your device at firmware level and alter it to their liking it. Nothing can stop them from plating a backdoor in there or just making a copy of all your files and you wouldn't know. That's why Google does [1].

[1]: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_maguro#Unlockin...

Re:F.lux updated on Friday March 07, 2014 @04:56AM (#7359389)
Good to see the HTTPS site/download working. Now if only we had GPG signatures for this.
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2014) on Saturday March 01, 2014 @09:34AM (#7324305)
SEEKING WORK - Remote

I've worked on technologies ranging from package management/maintenance and Linux distros to web development and computer graphics.

Currently studying Computer Science and Engineering, my passion is to learn and to teach.

Lately I'm quite inclined in writing Python but I've also done lots of Javascript (also WebGL) and some PHP as well.

Website: https://gtklocker.com/ Github: https://github.com/gtklocker/ CV: https://gtklocker.com/cv.html Twitter: https://twitter.com/gtklocker Email: [email protected]

Re:Link to delete your Google+ account on Saturday January 11, 2014 @07:09PM (#7044442)
I regret putting myself on one of those circles. :(
Re:Bing now supports https on Saturday January 11, 2014 @05:12PM (#7043979)
The SafeSearch setting isn't saved on https. Did they even test this thing before pushing it out?
Re:Dropbox is down on Friday January 10, 2014 @10:17PM (#7041363)
They're stating they have a partial DB leak. https://twitter.com/1775Sec/status/421842856748126208
Re:Toyota Manufacturing Principles on Sunday December 29, 2013 @10:19PM (#6982843)
Re:OpenSSL.org hacked? on Sunday December 29, 2013 @12:27AM (#6978539)
Point is, I should not be able to access a plaintext version of a website hosting such cryptographically crucial software/information.

It's obvious why it can be a grand target for Man in the Middle, defacement and worst of all integrity attacks. Apart from preventing many of the latter, implementing HSTS could have really mitigated the problem. Anyone who had already visited the site wouldn't see the defaced page. Furthermore, they could get added to an STS preloaded list[1], making the attack invisible to anyone using a modern browser.

If you are interested, the Wikipedia page[2] does a fair job at explaining more about why HSTS is needed.

[1]: https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/net/http/tr...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security...

Re:OpenSSL.org hacked? on Saturday December 28, 2013 @11:00PM (#6978298)
What is a good reason for openssl.org not to utilize HSTS[1]?

  $ curl -I https://www.openssl.org/
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 03:57:54 GMT
  Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)
  Accept-Ranges: bytes
  Vary: Accept-Encoding
  Content-Length: 15686
  Content-Type: text/html
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security
Re:Dell Ultra Sharp 24" 4K display on Thursday December 26, 2013 @06:51AM (#6966014)
I want to believe!
A thing I've noticed is that pinch to zoom is much more smooth than Chrome in OS X.

How do I switch tabs using my keyboard? Cmd-<N> doesn't work, so does not Cmd-Alt-Left|Right.

What do you mean native? How is this more native than Chrome?
3.4.2-x86_64-linode25 doesn't seem to suffer from this.

    gunther> gcc -O2 semtex.c
    gunther> ./a.out
    a.out: semtex.c:63: main: Assertion `(map = mmap((void*)0x380000000, 0x010000000, 3, 0x32, 0,0)) == (void*)0x380000000' failed.
    Aborted
    gunther> uname -r
    3.4.2-x86_64-linode25
Re:Nobody Really Likes Google Glass on Saturday May 04, 2013 @11:20AM (#5655158)
I really like Google Glass.
Re:CloudFlare was down on Sunday March 03, 2013 @06:05AM (#5313354)
Nameterrific is down. https://www.nameterrific.com/
Re:Ask HN: Macbook Air + Remote Server = Macbook Pro? on Sunday January 06, 2013 @08:38AM (#5016274)
I'd prefer the Air or even the Pro (there's really not much difference in portability terms) and still work remotely. It's liberating to host everything on the cloud. You don't have to worry about your local setup failing, the VMs hogging resources and making your machine unusable (or destroying your battery).

Right now I'm using a Macbook Pro 2012 w/o the Retina. I do all my development on Linode servers, remotely. I get 6 hours of battery life and the machine is a pleasure to work on. I wouldn't go back to my old Windows laptop, where I used PuTTY to work.

Re:Receiveee.com - disposable email address on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @09:42PM (#4967950)
Some services, like Facebook, normalize the mail address (turn all letters to lower case). Can you make sure that mails to the normalized email also reach my inbox? (They don't now!)
Poorly written, does not even work for me.
Error: Command failed: /tmp/test969394043.c:1:0: fatal error: can’t open /root/assembler/ccMEBJ3B.s for writing: Permission denied compilation terminated. The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem.

Really.

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