alan5

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Comment · 5 years ago

I just donated to Signal after seeing the error banner in the app.

I realised I was more than happy to pay WhatsApp's yearly charge back in the pre-Facebook days (think it was 70p or so?).

Figured I could give Signal a few quid every now and then, maybe keep a server up for a few seconds :)

Donation link should anyone be interested: https://signal.org/donate/

Comment · 7 years ago

> Engineers design pickle forks to last the lifetime of the plane, more than 90,000 landings and takeoffs, a term known as "flight cycles" in the aviation industry, without developing cracks.

That number made me do a double take. Seems planes never stay on the ground for very long.

Comment · 7 years ago

co-worker: @here

co-worker is typing...

co-worker is typing...

co-worker is typing...

co-worker: Could you help me with $x?

Nothing more annoying than grabbing everyone's attention with the first message and _then_ spending time to compose the question.

Comment · 8 years ago

If you modify your .inputrc with the following this should propagate to all of readline as well (e.g. python):

    set editing-mode vi

Comment · 10 years ago

I assumed they were remote, otherwise I would have thought they would have premises costs stated. Rent, heating etc.

Comment · 10 years ago

I know in addition to salary there are other "hidden" costs like health care etc, but even taking that into account their employees must be taking home a pretty significant wage.

Comment · 11 years ago

While not quite to the same level of obfuscation, your suggestion reminded me of this project: http://www.cipherdyne.org/fwknop/ Its essentially port knocking with a single encrypted packet.

Haven't tried it (yet) myself but sounds interesting.

Comment · 11 years ago

Steve Gibson's SQRL looks to be an interesting application of QR codes. https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm