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That's a great writeup. Is it possible to create a really long passphrase whose hash can't be reversed easily? Perhaps a diceware passphrase with six randomly chosen words?

Cool project. I like to hide data in audio files with Deepsound https://deepsound.soft112.com/

Yeah and we have better training material for AI now. For example it could be possible to create a program that mimics Hackernews comments. There's more than enough training materi…

> I can understand what they mean if they use "shill" You kind of answered your own question. Many people never differentiate between bot and shill, instead preferring to lump thos…

All the so called 'neo banks' are still in their infancy which is good reason to avoid them at all costs. I'm waiting until these startups mature (and they are startups).

One thing I never got about premium password managers is the question of: If I stop paying for the subscription, do I still get to access my secrets? I imagine there is still some …

Also recently spotted as an avenue for attack in the wild: Magecart group uses homoglyph attacks to fool you into visiting malicious websites: https://www.zdnet.com/article/magecar…

I always loved the whimsy present in Unicode. For nostalgia, here's a HN post from 2010 pointing to the `Unicode Snowman for You` site (which is still up!) https://news.ycombinator…

https://www.w3fools.com/

It would be cool if MDN had a Stack Overflow question-and-answer style format alongside the main offering. Then Mozilla could take advantage of the gamification model where users e…

I was referring to the phrase 'cult of the free' which is poorly chosen language as it doesn't distinguish between freedom versus monetization.

That's your typical The Register hyperbolic headline for you. They're infamous for dressing up headlines with hyperbolic adjectives.

> Cult of the free This is poorly chosen language as it doesn't distinguish between freedom versus monetization. I think most users of free software know it's 'free as in freedom' …

So what if someone sleuths around in the e-waste dept. of Instagram and steals a few hard-drives with literally Terabytes of potentially very sensitive data? That's why I would hop…

Yes, and you could also queue files for deletion at a later stage by throwing away the encryption key for a large batch of files which have been queued for deletion.

I want to know if the photos are securely deleted. It's not enough that the mere reference to a file is gone. I want everything overwritten with zeroes, and the photo made properly…

I like to run `wpd` for clients[0] It gets rid of the programs that obtrusively weigh down the system, as-well as removing a lot of cruft the typical user doesn't need. Disclaimer:…

It's as if the author writes content to /please/ Google. There are other players in town that will spread my message wide, other than Google. Google is a single point of failure to…