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Gargyle
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Comment #34128449
Complains about tracking, uses google assets.
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Comment #29221860
What an egregious mislabeling. Data -> Chats and actual Identity Metadata -> Who with whom and when from where,... They construe payment info, PII and similar except chat contents …
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Comment #29212532
Are there resources on the impact of Keybase being bought by Zoom? Zoom is out of question too because they discourage e2e and darkpattern you into installing their software despit…
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Comment #29211302
Cryptographic Trust /= Trust in persons motives. I guess we need better words.
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Comment #29211270
SSH tooling does not make that any better tbh. Things are being worked on. Watch Sequoia. Maybe some things regarding UX on my radar will surface in a range of <2 years.
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Comment #29211220
You might have gotten me having this too narrow to be broadly useful. Because we were already arguing about a detail and I concentrate just on this detail, not a general github pri…
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Comment #29210339
Right. They always use git@ instead of account@ and there is no further meta in the git remote url. (gut remote url is a funny typo)
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Comment #29210310
(Don't expect realtime/neartime messages. I'll write whenever I feel like it.) ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQCssSd91viJEmUQNx28L6JifYcGwTNEkLnmvZvdNxWxdTCrKwPEBVdlLooN90Qug…
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Comment #29210094
Maybe this needs more precise wording. Like ingress/signature key but more compressed instead of public key. Or peer key. Any nice ideas?
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Comment #29210066
The parents comment style is inherently advice.
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Comment #29210044
Can be configured in .ssh/config. Shortcut for that is to use subdirs or filenames for keys that arent searched automatically and not have a default-name-key.
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Comment #29210032
I am not sure actually because I do not have any persistent github accounts. I only do them in a throwaway fashion. (Of course Github is making that more annoying by the month, as …
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Comment #29209999
Its actually the same thing. A shared identifier. Of course email is another thing to separate for separate identities. But it is way more widely known that email adresses are used…
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Comment #29209980
I am just wary of flattery and "my friend". I am not especially suspicious of your motives but we don't know each other yet. If you want to have an interesting conversation with me…
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Comment #29209956
That happens as part of the ssh handshake. And is the basis of this whole scheme. No idea if there is tooling to.do.that for arbitrary messages.
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Comment #29209398
Attaching this to cryptoassets increases your operational (more mental overhead, doesnt work with simple keybearer devices, you assume people to be lazy and bad at key management) …
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Comment #29209366
Is that sarcasm?
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Comment #29209333
Then this is bad advice in general because its specific to a low trust expectation. Would be sensible to note that in your comment.
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Comment #29209298
The crowd that needs privacy is also the most high stakes and vulnerable crowd. They are the people that may save civil society with a structure built by thousands of small stones.…
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Comment #29209264
To shortcut a lot of this developing twister of why people should use different keypairs for different ssh hosts: Its a big privacy leak, not a big security leak. Your Pubkey can b…
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Comment #29129755
Nothing new. You can't install your own software without store approval.
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Comment #29129742
No source.
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Comment #29129407
When I got a coin everytime I watch people in newer SUVs being entirely confused why the damn thing doesn't start now completely stunned by the sheer number of stuff on the dashboa…
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Comment #29126556
I am used to US credit cards and moved to Germany a few years ago. In Germany credit card chargebacks are very cumbersome. I had 3 banks' customer service tell me at first that it …
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Comment #29089415
Because Chrome is already dominant as bad as it is. They are both equally detrimental to society.