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Comment · 7 years ago
Does anyone know if it's possible to do a 'reproducible build' of mainline Firefox so we can be sure their official releases are actually based on legit Mozilla code and not tampered copies with hidden nasties baked in?
Comment · 7 years ago
Interesting. Never even knew XKCD had a blog until now. I love the way you can read all his posts on one massive page lol https://blog.xkcd.com
Comment · 7 years ago
I'm a Linux n00b. Can anyone tell me if LUKS is inline encryption? I use LUKS myself. Funnily this article never mentions it
Comment · 7 years ago
What a slippery slope. I imagine a future when the entire URL itself has disappeared and we live in some sort of Google-controlled walled garden environment, like what they're trying to do with AMP[0]. Some sites only work with WWW prefixed as the APEX DNS record is misconfigured and points to nothing. I've even seen some sites point to `0.0.0.0' but had a CNAME record for WWW and I could then view the site.
Comment · 7 years ago
I know this is a cheap potshot, but who has a keyboard setup like that? https://images.wsj.net/im-90409?width=1260&size=0.6666666666...
And the caption:
Diana Hubbard, working from her home office in Texas, says she does not communicate about her private life on work devices at all. PHOTO: JONATHAN ZIZZO FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNALComment · 7 years ago
From: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
> 3. Boredom and drudgery are evil.
> Hackers (and creative people in general) should never be bored or have to drudge at stupid repetitive work, because when this happens it means they aren't doing what only they can do — solve new problems. This wastefulness hurts everybody. Therefore boredom and drudgery are not just unpleasant but actually evil.
> To behave like a hacker, you have to believe this enough to want to automate away the boring bits as much as possible, not just for yourself but for everybody else (especially other hackers).
> (There is one apparent exception to this. Hackers will sometimes do things that may seem repetitive or boring to an observer as a mind-clearing exercise, or in order to acquire a skill or have some particular kind of experience you can't have otherwise. But this is by choice — nobody who can think should ever be forced into a situation that bores them.)
Comment · 7 years ago
> Around the world, manufacture of latch refrigerators has been replaced by that of ones with magnet-closing doors.
And amen to that