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Psilidaeon Encrypted email is still a pain

Another comment on this article actually shows this isn't true: Comodo offers free S/MIME certificates. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13635591)

I went ahead and just grabbed one for myself after learning this.

Psilidaeon Encrypted email is still a pain

Well, this just convinced me to snag a cert for myself. Are there any services like keybase for sharing S/MIME public keys?

Psilidaeon pfSense: Open source network firewall distribution

I have pfSense running on a hyper-v server; I haven't noticed any problems with it.

Psilidaeon Ask HN: What current companies have the best software engineering culture?

Based on their documentation—which, albeit, I know has many classes omitted—Unreal Engine has ~6900 classes. That number probably gets greatly multiplied, though, if you count generated classes.

Psilidaeon Why does Google Play need constant GPS?

It's weird that the writer is suggesting it's mysterious why Google Play would even need access to GPS, when at least one reason is obvious from the example in the article itself: to prompt people to download certain apps when they enter various locations.