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cmeerw

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  • Introducing SMTP Smuggling: A novel technique for spoofing e-mails

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  • Not sure how many get the joke in "Figure 23: Typical Austrian reaction after receiving a spoofed e-mail":

    OIDA

    😂

  • Is Ubuntu deserving the hate?

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  • There is no reason to “hate” Ubuntu but there are better choices.

    What are those better choices then (for those who currently use the non-LTS Ubuntu releases and don't want to move to rolling releases or LTS-only releases)?

  • Is Ubuntu deserving the hate?

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  • I still think Ubuntu is the best option (particularly if you want to use the non-LTS releases)

    Having said that I do hate snaps and also dislike flatpaks. So what I do is just use the Firefox deb package from the PPA and the chromium package from Linux Mint. Oh, and I have actually replaced ubuntu-advantage-tools with a no-op dummy package.

  • Can one recover from an accidental rm -rf of system directories by copying those files back in from a backup?

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  • Only issue is they’re stored in my server as belonging to the server user (I assume everything in those directories should belong to root and I can just use chown?) But I also don’t know if they retain the same permissions when backed up.

    Not everything will be owned by root, and some of the binaries will be setuid or setgid, some might even have extended attributes (e.g. ping will usually have a security.capability attribute). /var will also have a lot of different owners.

  • XMPP Server?

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  • Gitea launches cloud service to provide a secure alternative to GitHub and GitLab

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  • "secure alternative"? Others are not secure?

  • What's the biggest change you would like to see in computing/tech?

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  • Pretty much anything that's only available via an app store. The difference with web apps is that I can also use them on a laptop/PC and I have a bit more control about tracking (by using ad/tracking blockers).

  • What's the biggest change you would like to see in computing/tech?

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  • not being forced to have an Android or Apple smartphone, so more open standards and just Web apps instead of proprietary apps

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    What phone do you use with what OS?

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  • replaced it myself - it's not actually that difficult to do

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    What phone do you use with what OS?

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  • I actually replaced the display twice already (got a replacement from Aliexpress for around $16) - first time because the touchscreen failed and second time because I smashed it.

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    What phone do you use with what OS?

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  • Sony z3c with FirefoxOS and a Samsung A5 with Tizen

  • The Paperweight Dilemma: Original Pinephone might lose future kernel updates if devs can't pay down tech debt

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  • And mainline Linux and a Linux Desktop is still struggling today with power management. Like getting chat messages while it’s asleep.

    And the really sad thing is that the power management improvements devs have been working on for the PinePhone are really very specific to that particular device and don't help mobile Linux in general (so it's basically wasted effort).

  • std::embed - All the Details

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  • Best free/cheap web host for DIY email

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  • I use them as IMAP storage for a few mailing lists I am subscribed to (but not for my main emails), but they do reject legitimate emails from time to time (not often, but it does happen - and those emails don't show up in "Spam" or any logs).

  • Please repeat yourself: The noexcept(noexcept(...)) idiom - The Old New Thing

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  • similar thing with requires requires { ...

    and you can nest it even further: requires requires { requires ...

  • Best free/cheap web host for DIY email

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  • Can the government decrypt your WhatsApp chats?

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  • Only public keys get exchanged via Meta's servers, those keys don't help you with trying to decrypt any messages (you need the corresponding private key to decrypt - and that private key stays on the device).

    Sure, they could just do a man in the middle, but that can be detected by verifying the keys (once, via another channel).

  • Can the government decrypt your WhatsApp chats?

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  • Maybe so, but in this case the point was that the protocol used by WhatsApp hasn't changed in that time and it's still what they describe in their security whitepaper. If you want to use that software as is or maybe reimplement it based on that is up to you.

  • Can the government decrypt your WhatsApp chats?

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  • Governments, if they want, can decrypt any chat

    Any source for that claim?