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Re:Exploring Self-Hosted Email Services on Thursday November 30, 2023 @04:45AM (#38471575)
Does anybody run maddy (https://github.com/foxcpp/maddy) in production or for personal matters?
Re:Ask HN: Why is Docusign a $50B company? on Saturday November 27, 2021 @05:45PM (#29364358)
Now really sure that it'll help you, but in Kazakhstan digital signatures can be legally significant (have equal significance as hand-written signatures) in case if several requirements are met.

One of the requirements is that certificate has to be issued by accredited CA. And there is one such CA - National CA (https://pki.gov.kz/), it issues such certificates for free.

Also there is a service that allows anyone to sign any file using a certificate issued by National CA - https://sigex.kz, thus making it legally significant. It's free for use (except for heavy RPS enterprise users and the ones, how need support).

So in Kazakhstan you can do e-docs signed by e-signs totally for free.

P.S.: Pardon, but the links are in Russian.

The article neglects the details of crafting the private key which are provided in the original blog post: https://www.agwa.name/blog/2015/12

IMO crafting the public key alone does not provide the attacker significant benefits.

Re:Ask HN: A more convinient Magic Wormhole alternative? on Monday October 28, 2019 @04:44AM (#21375242)
I'm talking about a broad range of scenarios where it's impossible to use standard tools, like this one: - You need to transfer some data from your machine to the one you do not trust (e.g. kiosk). USB drive is a bad idea in such situation, logging in to any service on an untrusted machine is even worse. One could create a temporary email account for this purpose, but it's a burden.

Ask HN: A more convinient Magic Wormhole alternative?

Magic Wormhole (https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole) is an incredible piece of software that facilitates data transfer between computers when URL/id/hash digital transfer or copy-paste is not an option.But, in my opinion, it has one significant drawback - it has to be installed and has not so few dependencies.Thus if, for example, the objective is to transmit a single send.firefox.com URL...

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In case when remote control capabilities are not required, one could use jitsi (https://jitsi.org) video conferencing service which provides screen sharing capabilities (implementation depends on the web browser).

The main advantage is that there is no need to install any software neither on the remote machine nor on the local one.

There is a cloud hosted free version https://meet.jit.si which does not even require registration.

Never did, thank you!

I'll try to contact them!

Yes, 19" rack-mount server chassis would be a perfect solution, but it is not mandatory. The previous best bet were ORWL devices but I never managed to use them because of several nasty bugs.

An idea to wrap equipment in some kind of a sealant is interesting, but I suppose that we'll face overheating problems in this case.

There is no need to automagically wipe data or to explode anything: sensitive data is protected by encryption, during system startup key are loaded from external removable storage. But I have to be sure that software was not tampered with while server was offline.

Ask HN: Where can I find tamper resistant server hardware?

Hi HN!I'm looking for a manufacturer of tamper resistant server hardware for a side project.The main requirement: in case of an attempt to access server internals the server has to be either shut down by its firmware or this event has to be obtainable from our software.Access to server internals is something like this:- attempt to open server chassis lid;- attempt to drill a hole in server...

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What bothers me a lot, is that no one talked about a possible leak of private npm repositories accounts. Keys (along with repository urls) are usually stored in .npmrc along with all other stuff.

The fact that npmjs.com revoked access token has no effect on private repositories access tokens. I would recommend everyone, who uses private npm repositories, to investigate a possibility of credentials leak.

Re:Common Mistakes for New Golang Devs on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @05:21AM (#17353731)
It would be great if you could elaborate on this: "Sending to an Unbuffered Channel Returns As Soon As the Target Receiver Is Ready"

As far as I understand, the problem is that the printing goroutine is forced to exit when the main goroutine exits. This way it's unknown if all the submitted work was done.

It seems to me that the caption is a bit misleading, it implies that the problem occurs only with "Unbuffered" channels.

Re:Ask HN: What service do you use for audio conference calls? on Thursday November 16, 2017 @10:28PM (#15718666)
We used riot.im for 2-3 participants and it worked fine.

Maybe somebody has more experience with it?

Re:Sony Aibo on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @02:45AM (#15599233)
An idea of an autonomous cyber pet detached of any clouds and vendor infrastructure appeals to me a lot.

But what Sony offers is a kind of a tentacle of a huge corporation.

Re:Ask HN: Are there any programmable 'feature' phones? on Friday October 27, 2017 @02:31AM (#15566179)
Probably Librem 5 would suit, but it is still in development.

https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/

Syncthing (https://syncthing.net/) works well for tech guys. It's oss and bidirectional.
They are doing a better job - such announcements attract community attention and potentially lead to further funding.
Re:Stardust: GPU-Based Visualization Library on Monday June 19, 2017 @07:17AM (#14586033)
Have you considered using dygraphs (http://dygraphs.com/)? It is designed to endure large ammounts of data.
Re:Node.js: Be a good dev: offer dependencies on Monday September 05, 2016 @01:35AM (#12428333)
I'm not shure that it is a good idea to create (and use) such packages as 'parse-any-structed-file'. If you know what you need, then you can use an optimized implementation.