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Dosenpfandon Why does Kars4Kids sends most of its money to one town in New Jersey? (2023)

It's mentioned in the article.

Dosenpfandon The Year of McDonald's

Innocent until proven guilty.

Dosenpfandon Alexei Navalny has died

> There is no civilian targetting.

That's just plain wrong. Please read https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_civilians_in_the_...

Dosenpfandon Must, Should, Don't Care: TCP Conformance in the Wild

There is Google's packetdrill: https://github.com/google/packetdrill

Dosenpfandon New Sci-Hub domain

Yes it's Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha top level domain. Interesting fact: If it's a two-letter top-level domain it belongs to a country. Generic top-level domains have 3 or more characters.

Dosenpfandon Pacman-5.0 Released

It's explained in the linked article and it even links to an examples repo: https://github.com/andrewgregory/pachooks

Dosenpfandon Firefox exploit found in the wild

> And what a pdf reader has to do with javascript is a mystery as well.

The whole reader is written in Javascript: https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/

Dosenpfandon Fossdroid.com: Free and open source Android applications

I really like the popular "popular" sections, the one thing that's missing from f-droid. What could be improved:

1. HTTPS, especially for APK downloads

2. Information about the APKs: built/signed by whom

Dosenpfandon New hubiC offers

It seems that since duplicity v0.7.01 [1] (2015/01/11) it has native support for hubic [2]. Will definitely check it out.

[1] http://www.nongnu.org/duplicity/CHANGELOG

[2] http://duplicity.nongnu.org/duplicity.1.html#sect17

Dosenpfandon Any good open-source self-hosted evernote alternatives?

No need to build from source if you don't want to, it's available on F-Droid:

https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=com.owncloud.and...

Dosenpfandon Once-starving GnuPG crypto project gets a windfall. Now comes the hard part

Yes, there's NetPGP: http://www.netpgp.com/

Dosenpfandon µBlock for Firefox

I use this list and it works quite well: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

Dosenpfandon 31C3 Ticket Shop Has Opened

Prices are:

Supporter 140: 140.00 EUR

Supporter: 120.00 EUR

Standard: 100.00 EUR

Business Platinum: 750.00 EUR

Business Gold: 600.00 EUR

Business Silver: 450.00 EUR

Members of the CCC e.V.: 80.00 EUR

Up-and-coming: 25.00 EUR

Dosenpfandon LibreSSL

>This page scientifically designed to annoy web hipsters. Donate now to stop the Comic Sans and Blink Tags

Dosenpfandon Dear Newsweek: RTFM

Do we know with a certainty that it was him who denied it?

I think the real Satoshi would have at least signed the message.

Dosenpfandon Tinkercoin Will Sell You $20 in Bitcoin, But Only Once

You can login only via Facebook and it requests the following information: public profile, friend list, e-mail address, employer, status messages, education, hometown, place of residence;

Dosenpfandon Bitcoin withdrawal processing suspended

Please stop spreading FUD.

>In the meantime, users of the reference implementation do not need to be concerned. Transactions are always tracked properly by the Bitcoin-Qt/bitcoind software.

https://bitcoinfoundation.org/blog/?p=418

Dosenpfandon It’s Time to Make OpenStreetMap Your Only Street Map

Try http://open.mapquest.com/ It's using OSM data and I'm using the search function the way you describe it.

Dosenpfandon PirateBrowser - No more censorship

http://jntlesnev5o7zysa.onion seems to be the official one, according to https://twitter.com/tpbdotorg/status/203221129513545729

Dosenpfandon Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)

If you want more information about new features/packages have a look at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SaucySalamander/ReleaseNotes#New_fea...

Dosenpfandon [dead]

You can't audit RdRand because it's hardware, not software code:

>It is impossible for software to tell whether this instruction is actually returning random numbers or whether it has been deliberately subverted, either by Intel, by a malware microcode patch, or by a virtual machine operating system. One of the standards it relies on, NIST SP800-90, was led by an NSA employee and contained subverted randomness standards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RdRand

But since RdRand isn't the only source of randomness, it doesn't matter if it's backdoored, or so Linus claims.

Dosenpfandon Wikipedia: Size in volumes

>Dutch and Swedish used to be your average Wikipedias, with article counts somewhere in the ~500k. They both decided that it was more important to have a higher article count so they now employ bots to create new articles with the bare minimum of data (sentence or two, pulled from other language Wikipedias).

Interesting! The german wikipedia in comparison is doing the exact opposite and has very strict relevance criteria for new articles.

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=...

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=ht...

Dosenpfandon White House Had Advance Notice on Heathrow Detention

Do you have a link to said interview?

Dosenpfandon Lavabit abruptly shuts down

If you're so easily intimidated why do you still post comments about the NSA on the internet?

Dosenpfandon Snowden Leaves Hong Kong on Commercial Flight to Moscow

It seems that he got help from Wikileaks' legal team:

>FLASH: WikiLeaks has assisted Mr. Snowden's political asylum in a democratic country, travel papers ans safe exit from Hong Kong. More soon.

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/348724514135347200

>FLASH: Mr. Snowden is currently over Russian airspace accompanied by WikiLeaks legal advisors.

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/348732325909102593