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mnbvkhgvmj··on Verified by Twilio
True but if a Danish person was to read this to you you would not even recognize the individual words...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-mOy8VUEBk

EDIT: Just FYI this is a clip from a Norwegian comedy program. Danish and Norwegian have very similar written languages but sound very different when spoken. In reality with some practice Danes, Swedes and Norwegians can speak together and understand one another.

mnbvkhgvmj··on Are spies more trouble than they're worth?
Can you give some examples?
mnbvkhgvmj··on Are spies more trouble than they're worth?
The Iraq war comes to mind.
mnbvkhgvmj··on Study identifies main culprit behind lithium metal battery failure
Not for long haul jet flights anyway.
mnbvkhgvmj··on Coinbase: Responding to Firefox 0-days in the wild
> transactions are generally reversible

Not really. If your account is compromised you may indeed get your money back from the bank's insurance (although in some countries that is less likely than others). However, the criminal behind the malware will probably have got at least some of the money.

International transfers are not generally reversible. Cash withdrawals are not reversible. Even electronic transfers to another bank in the same country (maybe this varies by country) are only reversible if the money has not been withdrawn.

And then there have been cases of actual bank systems being compromised so that criminals can just increase the balance of accounts directly.. And cashpoints (atms) being compromised.

mnbvkhgvmj··on Coinbase: Responding to Firefox 0-days in the wild
Docker is not intended as or very useful for security isolation - especially for GUI applications. I would suggest a VM if you want to isolate your browser.
mnbvkhgvmj··on Coinbase: Responding to Firefox 0-days in the wild
Banking malware has existed for a while.
mnbvkhgvmj··on Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source
This really has not been my experience with SEO people in the 2010s. They have focused on page load, no errors, good redirect schemes etc
mnbvkhgvmj··on Microsoft's Linux Kernel
Wayland... Try Fedora?
mnbvkhgvmj··on Show HN: I wrote a book on GNU grep and ripgrep
Surely using cat like this is more in line with the unix philosophy?
mnbvkhgvmj··on Back in the Day: Unix, Minix and Linux
ytwj your comment has been killed for some reason and I don't have enough karma to vouch it.

There was some BSD code for the network stack in Windows 95. This was all legal and license compatible. I'm pretty sure it was gone by the next windows version.

mnbvkhgvmj··on Xubuntu 19.04: The Exhaustive Update
Xubuntu has existed for at least 8 years not. Possibly much longer.
mnbvkhgvmj··on The Terrible Secret (2011)
There are several inaccuracies and inconsistencies in this.

- Elrond knew of Tom Bombadil.

- Tom Bombadil had heard about Frodo's journey from both elves and hobbits. I.e. He was known to and communicated with both.

- Was there not a hobbit song about him?

As to why the hobbits had little to do with Tom Bombadil...

- A character of his power could easily have chosen to wipe the hobbits memories. Maybe this was his usual approach to hobbit intruders?

- Another possibility it that given Hobbits extreme social taboo about adventures and their fetish for respectability it is quite possible that many hobbits had interacted with Tom Bombadil but few talked about it (e.g. Farmer Maggot).

mnbvkhgvmj··on Coc.nvim – Intellisense Engine for Vim8 and Neovim
The OP's config files are probably synced across all the servers and workstations they work with.. This is probably done using a familiar tool the OP already knew.

The IDE's config might be synced. If it is it probably uses a proprietary server.

mnbvkhgvmj··on BBC podcasts on third-party apps
AntennaPod is a great app. Open source etc but it feels like a paid app in terms of polish/attention-to-detail/UX.
mnbvkhgvmj··on Essential Image Optimization
This looks like dupe of https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/o...

EDIT: I am not an expert on licensing but it does look like everything is in order from a licensing perspective (the original content is CCA3 and to me it looks like things are credited properly).

mnbvkhgvmj··on In a study of senior CS majors, U.S. students are tops in skills
I wonder if the translator fully understood the questions.
mnbvkhgvmj··on In a study of senior CS majors, U.S. students are tops in skills
That question first and foremost tests English reading abilities. Many mathematically gifted non-native speakers (and indeed native speakers) would miss-understand the "different".
mnbvkhgvmj··on 25M Brits would struggle in a cashless society
Aren't Windrush citizens still being deported? Have any of the deportees been allowed to return yet?
mnbvkhgvmj··on The Secret to Becoming an Annoyingly Productive Early Morning Person
Isn't green tea quite high in caffeine?
mnbvkhgvmj··on U.S. to ground Boeing 737 Max 8
This depends upon where you are doesn't it? In the UK the grounds for arrest are "reasonable suspicion" in the US isn't it "probable cause"? I think that "reasonable suspicion" is similar to 10% certainty and "probable cause" 25% (c/f with "beyond reasonable doubt" which should be 95% certainty)...

I am not a lawyer. If anyone is in doubt I suggest speaking to a lawyer!

mnbvkhgvmj··on Researchers find trapdoor in SwissVote election system
The UK counts all their votes by hand. Overnight.
mnbvkhgvmj··on Kdenlive: an open-source video editor
Why would KDE host their git repos on Microsoft's propriety on-top-of-git service?
mnbvkhgvmj··on Proton Technologies awarded €2M from the EU
It takes very little effort to provide a cert these days. Even a landing page should have a cert. Especially from a company with a reputation for security and privacy like protonmail's.