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No slip up here. "Which?" is a consumer information and testing organization in the UK. https://www.which.co.uk/

When I have seen time estimates, everyone is referring to Mosca's Theorem. This is the idea that "store now, decrypt later", combined with the estimated time until a working quantu…

Dammit. This was also my first thought. Might consider it, if customs doesn't make it too expensive.

That sounds too negative. How about that: "The prize-winning Excel service is in high demand right now. We apologize for any delay this might cause. Do you want to become an 'Excel…

I don't understand what you mean. Half of the article is using jq.

It's mentioned and linked in the article. And "[i]t’s made by the same people that maintain Postgres.app."

I read on and on to find where the interesting, eye-opening, mind-boggling part started. Then the article ended.

> These are email companies. ProtonMail and Tutanota, yes. Threema does secure messaging, Tresorit encrypted file hosting. > With or without EU's snooping what is more likely to ha…

I paid €0.80 for the app in 2014. Yes, that was a temporary discount, normal price was €2.99, I think. It is €3.99 now, single payment. I still wouldn't call that expensive.

I think one of the main problems protocols like XMPP and Matrix have to solve is the combination of good crypto + decentralization + offline-capability.

Most of my contacts (tech-oriented, Europe-based) are using Threema and I am most happy with it, especially because I do not have to share my phone number (or complete address book…

Many years ago, I made that mistake two or three times, rebooting the wrong machine. Since then, I use molly-guard on all my remote machines. Never happened again.

One example, unfortunately not very scientific: Years ago, I had a bunch of Web comics I visited daily. To make this more efficient, I had a script on one of my servers which scrap…

/* XPM */ static char * treachery_xpm[] = { "10 10 1 1", " c #0000FF", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " "}; X Pixmap format. Save as treachery.xpm. (Made using Gimp, …

That is a good argument, and I should have mentioned it, yes. For a one-off job, web scraping will probably be the best choice, and maybe even the fastest to implement. I have done…

I admit being a bit disappointed that a well-known disadvantage of web scraping was not mentioned: Web scraping is fragile! Web sites change, web frameworks evolve, and just some s…

I absolutely agree with you. I have more trust into my local European ISP than into Google, Cloudflare and such.

Same for me. From Kromtech's article I deduced that this only happens when a docker daemon (or kubernetes interface) is exposed to the Internet and an attacker uses that to downloa…

I like the included http://perldoc.perl.org/perlpacktut.html .