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It's still an open issue: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/109

But you can combine it with an encryption layer yourself by using any of the projects listed here: https://nuetzlich.net/gocryptfs/comparison/

rahielon Happy Birthday, GNU: Why I still love GNU 35 years later

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....

rahielon Qwant: A European search engine that respects privacy

> The only way to have privacy in search is not to give your queries to a 3rd party i.e. you need decentralised search.

Another way is by connecting to a search engine within the Tor network, like DuckDuckGo's hidden service: https://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion

rahielon How Firefox Got Fast Again

> firefox --profile $(mktemp -d) --new-instance

Thanks for that, I can now replace `chromium --temp-profile`.

rahielon How Firefox Got Fast Again

I'm using Brave on Android and it does block ads, here is the ad block engine they use: https://github.com/brave/ad-block. The replacing of ads thing isn't implemented yet, and I expect that it can be turned off when that feature has landed, like the Brave payments thing that is currently opt-in on the desktop version: https://www.brave.com/publishers/.

rahielon Analyzing Your Browser History Using Python and Pandas

These two loops:

  raw_data = [line.split('|', 1) for line in [x.strip() for x in content]]

can be simplified to a single loop:

  raw_data = [line.strip().split('|', 1) for line in content]

Using str.replace here is also non-idiomatic:

  plt.title('Top $n Sites Visited'.replace('$n', str(topN)))

How about using str.format instead:

  plt.title('Top {n} Sites Visited'.format(n=topN))

rahielon Show HN: PageDash, Your Personal Web Archive

The previous web archive launched on HN is already dead [0]. Many of the comments from that discussion also apply here. Good luck and I hope you'll manage to stay online!

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14644441

rahielon An Open Letter to Intel

The Minix 3 license contains [0]:

    * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

So it looks like Minix's license does require the copyright/license to be included in distributions.

[0]: https://github.com/Stichting-MINIX-Research-Foundation/minix...

rahielon We're switching to a DCO for source code contributions

You could subscribe to the debian-devel-announce mailing list (https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/).

rahielon We're switching to a DCO for source code contributions

Sounds like a temporary issue? (The link works for me.) You can see a copy of that page here: https://web.archive.org/web/20171102070648/https://wiki.debi...

rahielon We're switching to a DCO for source code contributions

Debian's GitLab instance will run at https://salsa.debian.org. In May 2017 they had about 19k git repo's in the old system [0].

[0]: https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth#Deprecation_of_Alioth

rahielon Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail

The end-to-end encryption is only between protonmail addresses, in practice when you email people with gmail/hotmail/yahoo etc. it doesn't matter if protonmail can't read the e-mail, the other party can. (Their solution for that is to send an e-mail that contains a password-protected link with the actual message [0], I find this procedure inconvenient.)

Gmail could be as secure as Protonmail by using PGP yourself [1]. And then you can keep your desktop mail client.

Also Google won't need to pay criminals if they're DDOS attacked like Protonmail in the past: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/11/05/proto... (this is when I gave up on Protonmail)

[0]: https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/encrypt-for-ou...

[1]: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/

rahielon Show HN: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find, written in Rust

You can't install this with cargo. Una is a Haskell program; you can get it with `stack install una`.

rahielon Debian reproducibility statistics

This was the originally submitted link: http://isdebianreproducibleyet.com/

rahielon I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of the Links Worked

Content from Stack Overflow has higher odds to survive than this, they've uploaded a data dump of all user-contributed data to archive.org: https://archive.org/details/stackexchange. It's all plaintext. This is really generous of Stack Exchange and shows they care for the long-term.

rahielon I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of the Links Worked

> Also, sites are a very volatile medium. I often bookmark pages with interesting information to read later, and it inevitably happens once in a while that a site went down and I just can't find the information anymore.

I had the same experience and that's why I made a browser extension that archives pages when you bookmark them. (https://github.com/rahiel/archiveror)

rahielon Show HN: Tesoro – Personal internet archive

I made a browser extension [1] that automatically archives bookmarks to archive.is or (currently Chromium only) locally as MHTML files.

[1]: https://github.com/rahiel/archiveror

rahielon Show HN: Tesoro – Personal internet archive

An internet archive can only provide value if it's there for the long-term. What's your plan to keep this service running if it gets popular? For example, archive.is costed about $2000/month at the start of 2014 [1]. I expect it to cost even more now.

[1]: http://blog.archive.is/post/72136308644/how-much-does-it-cos...

rahielon Ask HN: What do you want to see in Debian 10 (“buster”)?

Because Debian has already done much work on integrating AppArmor [1].

And Debian based distro's like Ubuntu, Tails, and Subgraph also work on AppArmor so choosing AppArmor over SELinux means overall less work for the Debian community.

[1]: https://wiki.debian.org/AppArmor/Progress

rahielon Ask HN: What do you want to see in Debian 10 (“buster”)?

For local .deb files you can run 'less' on it. This shows the package contents and a line 'Depends:' with the package's dependencies.

rahielon Ask HN: What do you want to see in Debian 10 (“buster”)?

I don't think Debian needs to choose. Debian will keep using deb/dpkg as flatpak and snap are not intended to replace a distro's main packaging. They are supplements so users can get newer packages directly from upstream developers. Note that Debian 9 already supports both flatpak [1] and snap [2]. Because of the way snaps/flatpaks are isolated from the rest of the system, they can coexist without issues.

I thought the creators of snaps/flatpaks would be upstream developers, so they themselves will vote on the package management system by using either. There is no duplication of effort here.

Myself I prefer AppImage [3], because of its simplicity and the fact that they are already supported on all Linux distributions, without installing any explicit support.

[1]: https://packages.debian.org/stretch/flatpak

[2]: https://packages.debian.org/stretch/snapd

[3]: http://appimage.org

rahielon Ask HN: What do you want to see in Debian 10 (“buster”)?

HEADLINE: enable AppArmor by default

DESCRIPTION: AppArmor improves security by limiting the capabilities of programs. Ubuntu has done this years ago [1]. I'd like to see profiles for web browsers enabled by default.

I think AppArmor is the right choice of default Mandatory Access Control for Debian because Ubuntu and security focused Debian derivatives like Tails [2] and SubgraphOS [3] have already committed to it.

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/AppArmorP...

[2]: https://tails.boum.org/contribute/design/application_isolati...

[3]: https://subgraph.com/

rahielon Ask HN: What do you want to see in Debian 10 (“buster”)?

Debian already provides images with non-free firmware: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-in...

I use these when installing on laptops.

rahielon Ask HN: What keeps you up at night? What do you worry about?

Thanks for sharing, shows why we should all do a first aid course.

rahielon Why do so few people major in computer science?

https://web.archive.org/web/20170529185317/http://danwang.co...

https://archive.is/9ksWG

rahielon A proof-of-concept of a vulnerability in custom shell prompt scripts

The "official" git prompt[1] is safe on Bash; the script doesn't run.

[1]: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/completion/gi...

rahielon Music for Programming

If there's something on the internet you love, you should make a (local) copy of it. Online content can disappear anytime.

rahielon Nano to remain in GNU

Happy to see the conflict settled! Here's what's in the news entry for the GNU release:

    With this release we return to GNU.  For just a little while
    we dreamt we were tigers.  But we are back in the herd,
    back to a healthy diet of fresh green free grass.

rahielon Transmission BitTorrent Client OSX/Keydnap Malware Incident Q+A

It's nasty that a free software project has to deal with this, given their limited resources. This shows the importance of reproducible builds and using package managers with verification like APT or homebrew.

rahielon Ask HN: Looking for a Book on Cellular Automata

Chapters 11 & 12 of the free textbook "Introduction to the Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems" [1] are on cellular automata. The "Complex Systems" journal has many papers on CA. [2] (I've just finished a project where we implemented a random number generator using a cellular automaton, might be nice to see. [3])

[1]: http://textbooks.opensuny.org/introduction-to-the-modeling-a...

[2]: http://www.complex-systems.com/archives.html

[3]: https://sunsistemo.github.io/mozzacella-automato-salad