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daffyon Black Tom Explosion

The explosion was an act of sabotage? I would have thought it were an event resulting from an act and not itself an act.

daffyon Show HN: Talk – A free group video call app with screen sharing

Maybe on Ubuntu. I'm talking about the ``manual'' installation to which everyone not using Ubuntu must resort.

daffyon Show HN: Talk – A free group video call app with screen sharing

Was this using Ubuntu or whatever it is they recommend or ``manually''?

daffyon Show HN: Talk – A free group video call app with screen sharing

What are TURN and STUN?

daffyon Show HN: Talk – A free group video call app with screen sharing

Setting up a Jitsi server is non-trivial; this is simple (git clone / cd talk / npm install / npm start). And, if you don't want to trust the programme, you can do this from a dedicated unpriviledged user.

daffyon Zoom still don't understand GDPR

If you have run the native programme (for me it keeps breaking up in the browser), run it from a dedicated unpriviledged user, without installing it on the system. (Run ./opt/zoom/ZoomLauncher.) If you have to log in (I couldn't change the input device without logging in), when your browser tries to open the not installed programme, copy the link and give it as a command-line argument to ZoomLauncher.

Looking forward to a working alternative.

daffyon How to Write in Plain English

It is also possible that certain styles of writing and clothing are felt by some to be more beautiful. It is not necessary to reduce every stylistic predilection to status or identity signalling.

daffyon Kali Linux 2020.3

One nice thing in zsh is that you can type `/u/lo/b<tab><return>` and be in `/usr/local/bin`.

daffyon NSA Owns Everything (2015)

Does that mean that a firmware backdoor is impossible or very unlikely?

daffyon NSA Owns Everything (2015)

Are you saying a librebooted machine is still probably backdoored?

daffyon NSA Owns Everything (2015)

It's easy to find x200 etc. used. Flashing is another story.

daffyon A Keyboard with Blank Keycaps Made Me an Expert Typist

Blank keyboards also look better, especially these:

https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/

daffyon Why Software Should Be Free (2002)

> Simply putting on a clean shirt, some proper shoes and having a shave does wonders in this regard.

Just curious: what do you think of the view that such superficial acts are gestures of respect towards one's fellow man?

daffyon PDF: Still unfit for human consumption, 20 years later

> Do not use PDFs to present digital content that could and > should otherwise be a web page.

To get decent typography, one needs TeX, and TeX produces PDFs, not web pages.

daffyon Why Software Should Be Free (2002)

What exactly do you think he said? If I remember correctly, he expressed a valid doubt about a matter of fact.

daffyon Apple takes legal action against small company with pear logo

Seems that in Germany too Apple was able to make the decision to resist quite risky. So maybe the question should be: is there any country where the target would be better protected and wouldn't have to risk so much to resist?

daffyon Apple takes legal action against small company with pear logo

In what other countries than America would this sort of thing work? (Not a rhetorical question.)

daffyon So You Want to Learn Physics (2016)

https://www.bookdepository.com/University-Physics-with-Moder...

Is this the full book? I'm confused by some items' being marked as "third volume".

daffyon Usbkill – anti-forensic tool to halt computer when new USB device is connected

Yeah, I was thinking of custom window-manager setups. You can usually get a tty console by ctrl-meta-f1 etc., but that wouldn't help, since you'd have to enter a password. I suppose an advanced version could try different combinations and test each by entering a command that would be detected by the stick.

daffyon Usbkill – anti-forensic tool to halt computer when new USB device is connected

This will only work, I suppose, if the attacker knows beforehand a keychord that will focus a terminal.

daffyon Usbkill – anti-forensic tool to halt computer when new USB device is connected

That would only work on a known operating system and window manager with known keyboard shortcuts, unless a terminal is already focused.

daffyon Usbkill – anti-forensic tool to halt computer when new USB device is connected

> depending on the OS, it's possible to craft a USB stick that copies files to a remote server as soon as it's plugged in.

Is this possible with Linux?

daffyon Usbkill – anti-forensic tool to halt computer when new USB device is connected

> Kiernan then inserted a flash drive in one of the laptop's USB ports, with software that copied key files.

How exactly does this work? Is there a sort of software that runs automatically when you insert the stick, or did he have to click on it?

daffyon Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0

Qutebrowser with a Firefox backend would be nice.

daffyon 1Password for Linux development preview

No.

daffyon 1Password for Linux development preview

But if my machine were compromised, my 1password password would be compromised too, wouldn't it?

daffyon 1Password for Linux development preview

Why would I want to trust some company with all my passwords?

daffyon 1Password for Linux development preview

An open-source alternative that just uses GPG for encryption is "pass":

https://www.passwordstore.org/

daffyon “Irregardless” is part of a penumbra of unorthodox English words

What do you mean?

daffyon Berners-Lee 'Sorry' for Slashes (2009)

> Also, there are a number of factors at play, a number of different futures that could have been resulted if there were no slashes just by chaos theory[1]. So, speculating in the hindsight is not fruitful.

This sounds like an argument that one should do whatever, because whatever can result from it.