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Re:Syncthing graduation day on Saturday January 05, 2019 @02:24PM (#18833644)
It's still an open issue: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/109

But you can combine it with an encryption layer yourself by using any of the projects listed here: https://nuetzlich.net/gocryptfs/comparison/

Re:Qwant: A European search engine that respects privacy on Saturday November 18, 2017 @06:15AM (#15728597)
> The only way to have privacy in search is not to give your queries to a 3rd party i.e. you need decentralised search.

Another way is by connecting to a search engine within the Tor network, like DuckDuckGo's hidden service: https://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion

Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again on Monday November 13, 2017 @05:26PM (#15690877)
> firefox --profile $(mktemp -d) --new-instance

Thanks for that, I can now replace `chromium --temp-profile`.

Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again on Monday November 13, 2017 @04:48PM (#15690573)
I'm using Brave on Android and it does block ads, here is the ad block engine they use: https://github.com/brave/ad-block. The replacing of ads thing isn't implemented yet, and I expect that it can be turned off when that feature has landed, like the Brave payments thing that is currently opt-in on the desktop version: https://www.brave.com/publishers/.
Re:Analyzing Your Browser History Using Python and Pandas on Monday November 13, 2017 @06:07AM (#15685639)
These two loops:

  raw_data = [line.split('|', 1) for line in [x.strip() for x in content]]
can be simplified to a single loop:

  raw_data = [line.strip().split('|', 1) for line in content]
Using str.replace here is also non-idiomatic:

  plt.title('Top $n Sites Visited'.replace('$n', str(topN)))
How about using str.format instead:

  plt.title('Top {n} Sites Visited'.format(n=topN))
Re:Show HN: PageDash, Your Personal Web Archive on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @01:51PM (#15655636)
The previous web archive launched on HN is already dead [0]. Many of the comments from that discussion also apply here. Good luck and I hope you'll manage to stay online!

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14644441

Re:An Open Letter to Intel on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @07:44AM (#15642875)
The Minix 3 license contains [0]:

    * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
So it looks like Minix's license does require the copyright/license to be included in distributions.

[0]: https://github.com/Stichting-MINIX-Research-Foundation/minix...

Re:We're switching to a DCO for source code contributions on Thursday November 02, 2017 @03:15AM (#15608445)
You could subscribe to the debian-devel-announce mailing list (https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/).
Re:We're switching to a DCO for source code contributions on Thursday November 02, 2017 @03:09AM (#15608420)
Sounds like a temporary issue? (The link works for me.) You can see a copy of that page here: https://web.archive.org/web/20171102070648/https://wiki.debi...
Re:We're switching to a DCO for source code contributions on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @02:16PM (#15603974)
Debian's GitLab instance will run at https://salsa.debian.org. In May 2017 they had about 19k git repo's in the old system [0].

[0]: https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth#Deprecation_of_Alioth

Re:Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail on Monday October 23, 2017 @11:05AM (#15533695)
The end-to-end encryption is only between protonmail addresses, in practice when you email people with gmail/hotmail/yahoo etc. it doesn't matter if protonmail can't read the e-mail, the other party can. (Their solution for that is to send an e-mail that contains a password-protected link with the actual message [0], I find this procedure inconvenient.)

Gmail could be as secure as Protonmail by using PGP yourself [1]. And then you can keep your desktop mail client.

Also Google won't need to pay criminals if they're DDOS attacked like Protonmail in the past: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/11/05/proto... (this is when I gave up on Protonmail)

[0]: https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/encrypt-for-ou...

[1]: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/

You can't install this with cargo. Una is a Haskell program; you can get it with `stack install una`.
Re:Debian reproducibility statistics on Thursday August 24, 2017 @11:12AM (#15090737)
This was the originally submitted link: http://isdebianreproducibleyet.com/
Content from Stack Overflow has higher odds to survive than this, they've uploaded a data dump of all user-contributed data to archive.org: https://archive.org/details/stackexchange. It's all plaintext. This is really generous of Stack Exchange and shows they care for the long-term.
> Also, sites are a very volatile medium. I often bookmark pages with interesting information to read later, and it inevitably happens once in a while that a site went down and I just can't find the information anymore.

I had the same experience and that's why I made a browser extension that archives pages when you bookmark them. (https://github.com/rahiel/archiveror)

Re:Show HN: Tesoro – Personal internet archive on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @11:17AM (#14646152)
I made a browser extension [1] that automatically archives bookmarks to archive.is or (currently Chromium only) locally as MHTML files.

[1]: https://github.com/rahiel/archiveror

Re:Show HN: Tesoro – Personal internet archive on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @09:10AM (#14645009)
An internet archive can only provide value if it's there for the long-term. What's your plan to keep this service running if it gets popular? For example, archive.is costed about $2000/month at the start of 2014 [1]. I expect it to cost even more now.

[1]: http://blog.archive.is/post/72136308644/how-much-does-it-cos...

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