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0xdeadb00f··on Russia is abandoning SSL certs in favor of their own
You say this as if to imply they don't already.
0xdeadb00f··on DARPA developing new cognitive science tool to identify those at risk of suicide
Or it could be a way for them to fire suspicious, defiant, or personell they suspect are whistleblowers, without any questions asked.
0xdeadb00f··on Twitter's new Tor onion service
Agreed. Why is it so important that users protecting themselves by using Tor, etc aren't allowed to use Twitter?

Is it ads? Is it because it's harder to serve ads to such users? Say it ain't so...

0xdeadb00f··on Ask HN: If Bitcoin can be sanctioned, what’s the point?
Agreed.
0xdeadb00f··on Ask HN: If Bitcoin can be sanctioned, what’s the point?
Bitcoin is probably not a honeypot IMO. But it's also the worst cryptocoin to use for actually securely and privately sending money - its just that its the most well known coin.
0xdeadb00f··on Libli, tiny Matrix client for building public libraries
What about copyright? What if someone posts copyrighted material and the holders want it off your website? Will you have to comply?
0xdeadb00f··on Pre-infection vitamin D3 levels association with severity of Covid-19 illness
With Vitamin D specifically I think the answer is yes.
0xdeadb00f··on Yale’s Happiness Professor Says Anxiety Is Destroying Her Students
Well, multiple people means you split the rent/bills for starters.
0xdeadb00f··on Privacy in email communication: we should use encryption by default
Email is fundermentally insecure. What we need is a new protocol entirely, not to pile more stuff on top of it.
0xdeadb00f··on I went out for dinner and I took some endpoint
At this point I feel like an anonymous platform for publicly available bugs and vulns like this would be a good thing.

Oh, you don't do a bug bounty, and you say it's fixed when it clearly isn't? Okay, then it shouldn't be a problem if I publicly name, shame and provide a POC for everyone to see.

Though, I'm sure most people would just sell it to a vulnerability broker instead and make a quick buck.

Note: Such a platform I'm invisioning here would definitely be illegal. I'm aware.

0xdeadb00f··on Ask HN: Has Gmail stopped working for you with uBlock Origin on Chrome?
Good advice. What I usually do is also create a few chrome profiles. One for Discord, one for Gmail, one for Shopping, etc.

Firefox is also great for this kind of thing with custom container tabs.

0xdeadb00f··on 10 years ago the Feds shut down Megaupload
Cuz it's kinda cool?
0xdeadb00f··on BioNTech plans to make vaccines in shipping containers
This is a pretty cyberpunk headline.
0xdeadb00f··on White Hole
In typical HN fashion here is my unacademic and fantastical theory:

White holes haven't been observed, because each and every black hole "spits out" everything that it has ever "sucked in" into a new universe - the bing bang is/was a white hole.

0xdeadb00f··on Government of Canada pledges to match donations for Ukraine
No no, you see those counties are brown. Brown = terrorist. Nobody wants to support those people.

(/s and for the record I'm brown myself).

0xdeadb00f··on Login with a Public Ed25519 Key
I don't believe it does. The author is in this thread and keeps indisting the idea is to use a different ed25519 keypair for every site.
0xdeadb00f··on What to do if a cop tries to scan your face during a traffic stop
"Traffic stops" the term you're looking for? Or is that a different thin?
0xdeadb00f··on Pangolin desktop environment for Fuchsia and Linux written in Flutter
It's also a visual indicator of where you are on the page. How far through you are, and how much is "left" to go.
0xdeadb00f··on Explain the first 10 lines of Twitter's source code to me
If asked this I would ace it. And I'm not even a web dev :)
0xdeadb00f··on Ask HN: How do I pay our Russian devs?
OP is trying to pay Russian employees. I figured they already knew that in the current climate it would be illegal.
0xdeadb00f··on Is Grammarly a keylogger? What can you do about it?
I used to use it in highschool. What I'd do is just copy/paste my assessment text into their web interface rather than installing their addon or desktop client.

I'm not sure if they.offer.a web interface outside of their plugins/client apps these days.

0xdeadb00f··on Ask HN: How do I pay our Russian devs?
So use Monero then. From the exchange's wallet -> your personal software wallet -> hardware wallet.

Then use the HW wallet to send coins to Russians, making sure they do something similar (moving the Monero around to a few wallets) on their end to try and cover some tracks.

Should be sufficient.

0xdeadb00f··on Ask HN: How do I pay our Russian devs?
Bitcoin, Monero?
0xdeadb00f··on U.S. Officials Repeatedly Urged China to Help Avert War in Ukraine
Prediction: China isn't going to do jack shit help Ukraine.

Also, why would they even listen to anything the US has to say given their relatively recent rocky relationship with each other?

0xdeadb00f··on Is Math the Key to Quantum Entanglement Protection?
"Math" is the "key" to quantum mechanics in general, isn't it?
0xdeadb00f··on 500-year-old manuscript contains earliest known use of the “F-word” (2020)
I think it's seen by many as informal and crass, rather than offensive or something like that.

In Australia a lot of people swear like a sailor in their work setting (and, just in general really). This put me off a bit initally. Since in school you'd never swear around figures of authority (because you'd simply get in trouble for it). So having to transition to a workplace where everyone is saying "fuck this and fuck that" infeont of colleagues and higher ups was a bit odd.

But I'd never swear in a job interview (although I believe I have before), I'd also never swear when meeting someone new - I try to gauge first if they're as much of a potty mouth as me, then I go for it.

As for

> What are they trying to signal with that?

I don't think they're "signaling" anything intentionally. I think they must just believe it to be unprofessional or disrespectful. And in my opinion that's perfectly fine. In fact I sometimes wish I could get my points and frustration across without swearing - in _my_ opinion it tells me you hace better self control, and a certain professionalism. But I don't think you'd agree with me on that :)

0xdeadb00f··on F-Droid: how it weakens Android's security model
The anonymous account is picked from a pool of real accounts. The username/passwords are hardcoded into the app I'm pretty sure? So basically the aurora devs can login to this account and see the crap everyone's been downlidng (Id assume?)
0xdeadb00f··on F-Droid: how it weakens Android's security model
This person isn't a grapheneOS developer. I'm unsure why people keep saying that.

In the GOS chatrooms this article has come up a few times but I've seen them say they don't know why people keep saying this person is a GOS dev. I mean look at the author's github. They sponsor the lead dev but have no commits or forks in the project to show for.

0xdeadb00f··on NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android
It does break YT/Google TOS. Which is why it isn't allowed on the play store.
0xdeadb00f··on Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack
Even if they could I think this is a pretty stupid idea if you think about for a half hour or so.
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