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mortalkastor

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About mortalkastor

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/mortalkastor; my proof: https://keybase.io/mortalkastor/sigs/IDITSPwM3fSZnb6Y2QWo8rVmbGI3q6immNurP-i--r4 ]

Recent public activity

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    Comment #43364819

    This is nothing new. Up until ~5 years ago, hacking U2F to make it pass (smuggle?) arbitrary data was exactly how hardware wallet like those from Ledger and Trezor were communicati…

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    Comment #42327479

    Because brave has a questionable business model where they, on one hand, block third party ads and trackers, and on the other inject their own ads, tied to their BAT cryptocurrency…

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    Comment #36773592

    I switched to Orion[0] as a test, discovered the awesomeness of superbly integrated, native, tree style tabs, and now I'm stuck with this browser where sites I need for work are ha…

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    Comment #36055851

    An unsuspected (to me!) place for good kid friendly games, free of ads and in-app purchases or other predatory patterns, is Apple Arcade on iPad. My 5 y/o is having great fun with …

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    Comment #18844722

    You can still use the Ledger Nano X via USB, like a Nano S. If you're not confortable using Bluetooth, you can disable it on the device itself.

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    Comment #18844678

    Absolutely.

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    Comment #18844249

    Disclosure: I'm a dev at Ledger working on the desktop and mobile apps. I'm not in the hardware team nor the security team. > all the bluetooth, screen and button IO goes through a…

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    Comment #14966645

    The "Bibliothèque nationale de France" (national library of France) did the same kind of thing with hundreds of thousands vinyl records from their archive, including international …

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    Comment #8432057

    There's no Android phone, Google Now is running on an iPhone 5(s).

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    Comment #8167907

    > This is how the PS2, I think, was sucessfully rooted/unlocked/made-linux-run-on-it. This was the PS3, actually. Technical details here : https://web.archive.org/web/2012082923222…

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    Comment #6022411

    Fortunately, there is a userstyle, aptly named "startpage clean & minimal", for fixing the ugliness. http://userstyles.org/styles/85728/startpage-clean-minimal

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    Comment #5491300

    I, somehow, missed the news about the new Blink rendering engine and thought this was about Opera supporting the tag. Phew.

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    Comment #5393513

    The site appears to be down. I was able to retrieve the content but not the CSS, so I made a mirror with no stylesheet (but with working comments) here : http://jsbin.com/apanuw/1

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    Comment #5337279

    On Android, the foss client Twidere let users change the tokens in the options. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mariotaku.... The Chrome app Hotot too. https://ch…

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    Comment #4539095

    I read that as UnlikelyTech.com

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    Comment #4511665

    I'm appalled by the comments here. The consensus seems to be that the terrible working condition of the people making our favorite gadgets doesn't matter and shouldn't get coverage…

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    Comment #4510853

    Not all medications decrease libido, and depression by itself does. Thus you may actually see an increase with drugs.