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fdikon Sequoia PGP: The Seeding Sees the Light of Day

Congrats!

Volker Birk, p≡p

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What a beautiful piece of propaganda bullshit!

I love the pictures ;-)

fdikon Ask HN: Why are supercomputers all running Linux and not BSD?

SMP + NUMA performance

fdikon Ask HN: Do you write code on the train? What's your setup?

In train's restaurant, a cup of coffee, laptop open. SBB rules ;-) https://sbb.ch

fdikon Ask HN: How much time do you spend on “marketing” your open source projects?

Really depending on project.

For pretty Easy privacy we do a lot https://pep.foundation. For my small side projects like pyPEG or YML2 I'm doing nearly nothing https://fdik.org/yml https://fdik.org/pyPEG2

fdikon Ask HN: What to do as a back-end dev and with many app ideas but can't do UX?

UX is something, which is connected to feelings. It's not enough to have a tool, try to work with designers.

If you're developing Free Software with good purposes, then contact our design team at https://bold.cat/

fdikon Ask HN: Have you regretted making something open-source?

Never.

fdikon Ask HN: Who'se running a nonprofit here?

https://pEp.foundation Supporting Freedom of Speech, Privacy, Freedom of Information.

Tough fight. Politically complex.

fdikon The NSA has linked the WannaCry computer worm to North Korea

Or deep, deep sarcasm.

fdikon The NSA has linked the WannaCry computer worm to North Korea

It is so incredibly stupid that some people actually buy such bullshit, that I'm impressed from the makers of this propaganda. I never could assume total idiocy in my fellow human beings, but I stand corrected.

Chapeau!

fdikon Overview of top cryptocurrencies

None of them can solve the micropayment problem.

GNU Taler can.

fdikon The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data

Plain wrong. To compare company sizes:

Google est. $500 billion Saudi Aramco est. $10,000 billion (!)

Google is ~5% of Saudi Aramco.

fdikon Ask HN: Have you created a programming language and why?

Working on automating software development, I created YSLT as part of the YML project: https://fdik.org/yml/yslt – this is just syntactic sugar to make XSLT usable.

Now I'm creating Intrinsic, a programming language with a modifiable grammar while runtime. Because I found no tool chain, I published pyPEG, which is an compiler interpreter https://fdik.org/pyPEG/ Intrinsic will have a generative paradigm.

fdikon Ask HN: What books fundamentally changed the way you think about the world?

Saul Kripke, “Naming and Necessity”

fdikon Is Consciousness an Illusion?

If consciousness is an illusion, who is it falling for it?

fdikon Ask HN: How do you offer your startup employees 100% health insurance?

Good that we're a startup with offices in Luxmenbourg, Switzerland and Spain.

In Europe it is unthinkable not to offer 100% health insurance.

fdikon Putin's DNC Hackers Actively Targeting French Elections

It was a lie, and there will be more lies. Putin, the evil emperor.

Bullshit for the simple minded.

fdikon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)

We're hiring developers in Luxembourg and Barcelona (Spain).

https://pep.foundation https://pep.security

mailto:jobs-dev@pep-project.org

C, C++, Java, Objective C, Swift, Python, C#, JavaScript

fdikon Ask HN: Excluding WordPress, what is your favorite for blogs or small stores?

Have my own blog software, YBlog: http://blog.fdik.org/yblog2.tar.bz2 Probably it's not feasable for most people, because it is heavily relying on YML2 http://fdik.org/yml and vim http://vim.org

For CMS I really can recommend http://mezzanine.jupo.org/

It also includes a Blog, is in Python/Django and is fulfilling all needs from very small to very large sites.

fdikon Intel Security True Key

They never seem to understand:

Your fingerprint like your face can be the username, but never the password.

Your fingerprint is exactly like your username: you cannot change it and you always leave it in public.

fdikon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)

pEp is hiring in Luxembourg city, Luxembourg, and in Barcelona, Spain.

AppDev in Barcelona:

JavaScript developers, iOS developers in Swift and Objective C, Java developers for Android, C# developers

CryptoDev in Luxembourg:

C, C++, Rust

All what we write is published as Free Software.

https://pep-project.org mailto:jobs-dev@pep-project.org 919A B074 4CC2 0F84 0E37 2D32 4B4A 2423 D041 C63D PROFUSE SUBSEQUENCE GAUNTLET BANKCARD BABY

fdikon Python packaging is good now

Is it?

On Debian there is Debian Python, and Debian pip. Then there is easy_install to install own pip, and that's different. virtualenv comes on top of all. Of course, there is Debian's Python packages, too.

On MacOS X with Macports, there is Apple's Python and Macports' Pythons, all with different pips. Of course, there is Macports' Python packages, too, for different Pythons.

fdikon Facebook and Privacy

Facebook and Privacy are a contradiction in terms. All what you enter into Facebook is available to Facebook's owners. What you're configuring as “privacy settings” is a wish list for Santa.

fdikon Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client

In short: this is not true.

We are in discussions with Mozilla how to safe Thunderbird and make it sustainable. There is a commitment from Mozilla to make that happen.

Thunderbird will continue being maintained.

Volker Birk p≡p foundation http://pep-project.org

fdikon Enigmail and p≡p are partnering together for developing Enigmail/p≡p

See also the homepage of Enigmail:

https://www.enigmail.net/news/

fdikon Germany halts treason inquiry into journalists after protests

Unfortunately, Germany did not. To understand that, one should understand the legal situation in Germany.

By opening such an inquiry the intelligence agencies have the right to intercept all communication with Netzpolitik.org. Additionally, the Generalbundesanwalt, Mr. Range, can do house search or arrests at any time even when he is “halting”.

The bet of the German government here is clear: when the media will go to the next topic there will be no clearing of the situation any more. Freedom of the press then is only a text in a not so often read constitution any more.

Responsible for these actions is German minister of justice, Heiko Maas (SPD). He himself went to the media and gave an interview where he claimed “not to understand why Federal Public Prosecutor Harald Range” is doing that. In reality, he's his boss. Range can do nothing without the minister allowing it.

fdikon The Grand Illusion: Why consciousness exists only when you look for it (2002)

If consciousness is an illusion, then ego is an illusion as well.

Who is it then, who is succumbing to this illusion?

fdikon C Questions and Answers

Already the first example is wrong. So I stopped reading.

% cc -std=c11 -o dingens dingens.c dingens.c:6:9: error: redefinition of 'i' int i = 10; ^ dingens.c:5:9: note: previous definition is here int i; ^ 1 error generated. % cat dingens.c

#include <stdio.h>

int main() { int i; int i = 10;

    printf("hello, world\n");
    return 0;

}

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Google employees can access your account, passwords not needed.

Microsoft employees can. Apple's can. And all others can.

Such employess we call “admins”.

fdikon Countering Trusting Trust Through Diverse Double-Compiling (DDC)

“source code is compiled twice: once with a second (trusted) compiler”

Here I stopped reading.