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RRRA··on Browse Against the Machine
Firefox needs multiprocessor asap and a great sandbox... after that, yeah, fuck Chrome (except for those site who can't code against a standard, for what they're worth)
RRRA··on I Stopped Attending Programming Meet-ups
Well someone is choosing shitty meetups...

Here we usually get:

- A quite accurate description

- Time to chat with people and an on time presentation

- Hot pizza upon arrival

- Humble presenters willing to take their own time to teach us something for very little exposure

- 1 minute at most of sponsor specific content (with the occasional bad filtering of presenters, but those are rare and get a bad rep. quickly..)

- Great Wi-Fi

Maybe you should think of moving to Montreal?

RRRA··on Solid – Re-decentralizing the web
They CAN, sure, but they MUST coexist...

and that is less guaranteed considering market forces and network effects.

RRRA··on Golang SSH Security
Which one of their tools are we talking about here? Terraform?
RRRA··on An obscure religion that shaped the West
And here I thought they would talk about objectivism...
RRRA··on Deis to Join Microsoft
I'm really curious how people administer their K8S clusters for installation, upgrades, etc.

I'm very familiar with docker, which we've been using for over 2 years. But now, we're trying to get k8s running, with either kargo, kubeadm, deb packages, etc.: They all failed with different bugs on different set of clouds / settings. (Trying to stick to running it on Ubuntu xenial).

Not sure if it's because 1.6.* just came out of the oven when I started...?

Thanks to Minikube, I understand how powerful k8s can be, and actually find kubectl quite simple to use, but I'm confused by how fragile and complex installation and setup seems to be. I'm unsure how someone is supposed to maintain this system considering how (overly?) modular it is and the bugs I've encountered. Knowing that docker has a LOT of bugs, and k8s builds on top of it, I'm a bit scared. And there is no clean documentation on how to install it, with sections for all your choices, in a generic/agnostic way (deb+rpm distros, cloud integration or simple abstract VMs, ...)

What is you workflow? :)

RRRA··on Lbry.io – decentralized digital library
I'm eager to see how IPFS integrates the IPNS & IPLD layers and how it affects the open linked data context...
RRRA··on Notepad++ V 7.3.3 – Fix CIA Hacking Notepad++ Issue
Knowing the NSA got to the SIM cards manufacturer master keys, I wouldn't be surprised if they had Intel's key to forge microcode updates...
RRRA··on How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authorities Worldwide
Good thing Uber was not in the Apple seat about backdooring specific iPhones...

We know on which side of ethic they are... I'm happy that, at least in Montreal, we have Téo as a more legit alternative.

RRRA··on WhatsApp launches Status, an encrypted Snapchat Stories clone
Why can't we have (FOSS) nice things that are e2e encrypted and not conglomerate owned...
RRRA··on Show HN: Rumuki, a prenup for sex tapes
would be nice if it was a n of m keys. Could be useful to film in a protest but only be able to unlock it with more people from the news room while still syncing it to them.
RRRA··on Basic Security Precautions for Non-Profits and Journalists
So, no Android phones is not very pragmatic... Any justifications?

(Especially without saying to use only FOSS OS)

RRRA··on First they came for the Iranians
^ This!

Or if you are into AI, university of Montreal is also a hot bed right now with Mr Bengio.

Canadians will gladly take you, in fact I know an Iranian who just finished his math phd...

Courage! :)

RRRA··on What’s New in Docker 1.13?
And my understanding is that all the capabilities and security options that were in 2.1 version are not supported yet... :(
RRRA··on At Davos, IBM Chief Predicts Artificial Intelligence Won’t Be a Job Killer
This whole question is missing philosophical context.

Maybe not now, but once we all get automated, what is the goal we're trying to reach?

Where are we going with this?

RRRA··on 2017 Levchin Prize for Real World Cryptography
Interesting, didn't know he was also involved with that one.

Has anyone seen a table comparing Noise, Axoltl & OTRv4?

RRRA··on There is no WhatsApp 'backdoor'
Terrible UX combined with unsane default, at best...
RRRA··on Affordable Care
It's frustrating to see so much energy wasted in fragmenting health coverage solutions in the US. This makes it so costly, that it _looks_ like it's too expensive or inefficient, making right wing politicians justify the fact that it should be everyone for themselves.

As a Canadian with full health coverage, without any special requirements except renewing a picture card every 5 years, this looks like a very dangerous situations for millions of poor people. And while the system isn't perfect, and we do have some wait list on special cases, most heavy or light illness get treated quickly.

Even for the richer US citizens, it seems like a waste of time and a big overhead + legal battles looming on possible contract conflicts.

In term of equality of chances for that "American dream", this looks like the biggest imbalance one can imagine, just beside education.

RRRA··on Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?
bash, sed & yml:

it's crazy how far those will get you...

RRRA··on Ask HN: What is the status of VR on Linux?
You might want to look at this lightning talk from 33c3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5uqQL-dKBU&feature=youtu.be...

We really need to standardize VR drivers with a hardware class that needs to support, in a standard fashion, x types of standard i/o.

RRRA··on How publishers are defeating ad blockers and how ad blockers are fighting back
How are the ad blocker not moving to the rendering engine already...
RRRA··on Grafana 4.0 with alerting is released
My use case is one where I have servers in different datacenters and would want to have a simple, but secure, way to fetch metrics for graphing and alerts.

So, I meant encryption in transport, authentication, etc. as many solutions work well if you're monitoring "in the clear" from the backend, but not so much over the internet.

RRRA··on Grafana 4.0 with alerting is released
It'd be nice if this meant being able to use Grafana as a frontend to alertmanager.

(Writing those "ALERT ..." requires a steep learning curve.)

RRRA··on Grafana 4.0 with alerting is released
What transport are you using to secure telegraf into influxdb?

(Haven't tried telegraf yet, setuping a prometheus at the moment)

RRRA··on Britain passed the “most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy”
The whole planet is descending into fascism, put in place by the old generation who doesn't understand technology while the new one is too busy inventing the next toilet sharing app.

I guess everyone will enjoy this last century...

RRRA··on Pixel Security
meanwhile we still have to deal with a SIM and the baseband is a whole other clusterfuck entirely...

Can the users actually get the keys to their own stuff?

RRRA··on Apple is doubling down on open source
Yeah, like many, they pretend they're doing FOSS while dropping the (F)reedom part.

GPLv3 is about stopping TIVO-isation, but TIVO tactics is what Apple specializes in. Locking people in with other people's (F)ree software.

The sad part is that GPLv3 is just fine for all (F)OSS project. But to them, it's about making sure their project governance can never really be moved to a more neutral foundation if they ever feel the need to put all their energy behind one project and close it down again... The "freedom" to take away freedom from others isn't one.

A bit like how Android 3.x was code-dumped after the fact, when 4 came out... Open you say?

And yes, non-copyleft would work as well, and I have nothing against them a priori, but that's as long as the governance model is built around neutral foundations, proper community management, etc.

What the GPL does, is prevent the imbalance when a company decide it doesn't care about the community around a project because they have the bigger share and run with it.

I would understand more discussions around AGPLv3, but GPLv3 is just fine.

(On a side note, I'm always fascinated by the GPL bashing here... well... I guess it is expected considering money > freedom for some who can't think passed their project's legacy.)

RRRA··on Canada’s federal court rules intelligence service bulk data collection illegal
Except they are on the same campus as CSEC and this happened (among other things): http://www.cbc.ca/news2/pdf/airports_redacted.pdf

I'm pretty sure that CSEC dragnet-snooping on airports, including all Canadians, doesn't magically disappear from CSIS storage.

Either way, the government is spying on its own citizens and trust is broken.

RRRA··on Zcash begins
Not sure how this affects parameters ceremony compromise or the alert system, but we can't have an economy with such imbalance from the start:

https://twitter.com/HeyRhett/status/792332276453416960

RRRA··on Zcash begins
So now someone could / should...

- fork this

- remove the 10% economy imbalance

- remove centralized alerts and anything centralized

- integrate ethereum & namecoins

- Get a governance body that would be very neutral and protect principles of the blockchain (EFF? ...)

And then we could have a normalized, standardized, basis for the rest of blockchain based protocols...

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