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New comment by Whatitat90 in "Decentralized Proofs"

Whatitat90 — Fri, 08 May 2020 17:16:01 +0000

The sample page is more interesting: https://metacode.biz/openpgp/key#0x6A957C9A9A9429F7

Here's the source: https://github.com/wiktor-k/openpgp-proofs#openpgp-proofs

New comment by Whatitat90 in "230, or not 230? That is the EARN IT question"

Whatitat90 — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 07:20:37 +0000

This only illustrates the point that centralizing server infrastructure and operations in one jurisdiction can quickly backfire.

New comment by Whatitat90 in "Babashka: A quick example"

Whatitat90 — Sat, 22 Feb 2020 18:55:20 +0000

That's what I was looking for, thanks!

New comment by Whatitat90 in "Babashka: A quick example"

Whatitat90 — Sat, 22 Feb 2020 17:57:12 +0000

Why do you think asciidoc is better than Markdown? Serious question as quick skim over the homepage (https://asciidoctor.org/) and it looks just like Markdown with different sigils.

New comment by Whatitat90 in "Babashka: A quick example"

Whatitat90 — Sat, 22 Feb 2020 17:54:06 +0000

Arch Linux, AsciiDoc, git - sounds great! But why keybase? (Serious question, I wonder if it's for communication or sharing encrypted data or...)

New comment by Whatitat90 in "Dino: An open-source application for XMPP messaging"

Whatitat90 — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 07:28:12 +0000

I'd advise checking the server at: https://compliance.conversations.im/old/

New comment by Whatitat90 in "Visual Studio Code repository is open again"

Whatitat90 — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 21:45:07 +0000

It seems Santa struck back the original issue author: https://github.com/Christian-Schiffer/servicelayer.chat/issu...

New comment by Whatitat90 in "Are We Wayland Yet?"

Whatitat90 — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 10:58:40 +0000

> only VLC player can make use of VAAPI

And mpv with "hwdec=vaapi" in ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf

New comment by Whatitat90 in "Lunar Eclipse: An Email to a Daughter and Son-in-Law"

Whatitat90 — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 09:12:46 +0000

If you've already signed to Google but your session is stale it automatically redirects to login screen.

In private window it just works but still I consider the design of checking login on a page that doesn't require it quite bad.

New comment by Whatitat90 in "The PGP Problem"

Whatitat90 — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 08:47:12 +0000

The post is well-written and summarizes I think most major pain-points with PGP.

Comparison of all these tools to GnuPG is valid and it clearly shows not only implementation problems but design ones as well in gpg.

What I fear is future riddled with all these incompatible tools. Even if they're written by brilliant engineers and cryptographers they are not standards (e.g. IETF standards). Why is that important? For example rewriting libsignal from scratch (for example to publish it under permissive licenses) can be problematic [0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12056673

New comment by Whatitat90 in "Lunar Eclipse: An Email to a Daughter and Son-in-Law"

Whatitat90 — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 10:37:46 +0000

Having to log in to Google just to read a message on a mailing list always creeps me out. Every time I see it it looks like a phishing attempt :-/

New comment by Whatitat90 in "SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack"

Whatitat90 — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 19:04:35 +0000

> I have my own domain, so maybe OPENPGPKEY record in my domain as well

> DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) Bindings for OpenPGP

WKD has some benefits over OPENPGPKEY - it keeps the request confidential (as WKD uses plain HTTPS). WKD is just easier to get right, that's why it's more broadly supported. GnuPG, that supports both of them, defaults to WKD. If OPENPGPKEY request is made it seems GnuPG doesn't even validate DNSSEC signatures: https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2011-December/...

New comment by Whatitat90 in "SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack"

Whatitat90 — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 19:01:42 +0000

> Part of the reason I changed my email is because I had in the past submitted a few keys to the sks network which I lost the private keys to, they were also submitted with an infinite expiry. I was a stupid kid.

That's why most recent versions of GnuPG automatically create keys with expiry set to 2 years.

New comment by Whatitat90 in "Einstein, Symmetry and the Future of Physics"

Whatitat90 — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 09:12:45 +0000

> She was asked by David Hilbert to work on the problem of invariants in General Relativity, came up with one of the most important theorems in physics, and then moved on to other (extremely important) mathematical work.

Interestingly I just read about this in a Lawrence M. Krauss book [0] where it was described that David Hilbert insisted on hiring Noether by the university but was overruled by the male majority that didn't like the idea that a female would teach male students. Hilbert commented that "this is university, not a bath-house!" [1].

[0]: I think it was "The Greatest Story Ever Told—So Far"

[1]: I'm writing that from memory so excuse some inaccuracies.

Keys.openpgp.org – Launching New OpenPGP Keyserver

Whatitat90 — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 17:12:34 +0000

Article URL: https://keys.openpgp.org/about/news#2019-06-12-launch

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20166907

Points: 16

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New comment by Whatitat90 in "Linux distros without systemd"

Whatitat90 — Mon, 20 May 2019 13:52:08 +0000

SystemD definitely spurred some controversies years ago but is it that bad in 2019?

All major distros adopted it and even some that are listed there as "no systemd" in reality just give you choice (e.g. Gentoo).

I'd gladly hear the opinion of distro maintainers why did they switch to SystemD if it's as bad as it looks like in people's perception.

New comment by Whatitat90 in "Signal, a fast, secure and simple messenger endorsed by Snowden"

Whatitat90 — Sun, 12 May 2019 22:26:04 +0000

There are also these kinds of slip ups: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18234849

New comment by Whatitat90 in "Signal, a fast, secure and simple messenger endorsed by Snowden"

Whatitat90 — Sun, 12 May 2019 22:21:16 +0000

For those who want to know why it still should be federated: https://gultsch.de/objection.html

New comment by Whatitat90 in "A free XMPP server powered with green energy"

Whatitat90 — Sun, 12 May 2019 22:18:30 +0000

It's interesting that you compare Riot with Conversations as Conversations feels and looks much better to me (native UI) while Riot for Android always gave me the webapp feel. But Riot works consistently on all OSes while Conversations (in my opinion the best free/federated messenger to date) is available only on Android.

New comment by Whatitat90 in "ProtonMail now offers elliptic curve cryptography"

Whatitat90 — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 13:32:16 +0000

That means their servers cannot be directly accessed but since they're based in Australia the company can be compelled to install decryption software without notifying anyone.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW-OMR-iWOE