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somedude11

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    Comment #25108869

    Lack of proper RDP-like experience is also a dealbreaker for me.

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    Comment #25038152

    I'm not advocating hosting your own server. Just buy shared hosting from hetzner, OVH etc. and your done.

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    Comment #25025375

    Don't shift the goalpost please. We are talking about forgetting password for your email account. Now the part about attacking your email/domain: If somebody transfers your domain …

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    Comment #25024748

    You are the paying customer, contrary to Google experience you can just call support and regain access. You can even contact domain registry directly and transfer your domain to ot…

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    Comment #25024133

    Buy your own domain and hosting so you can always regain access to it. It's hackernews so it astounds me that most people posting here use some free email instead of paying few buc…

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    Comment #24907057

    https://www.haskell.org

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    Comment #24847213

    C++ has GCC, CLANG, MSVC, all of them being major, and a dozen of less popular ones used in specific places like Intel C++ Compiler.

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    Comment #24665529

    USB Redirector or USB Redirector RDP incentivespro.com

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    Comment #24530601

    If it would "fail" and there would be no consequences so I could't tell if it failed or not - would it make a difference?

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    Comment #24515050

    Packet managers on pretty much every Linux distribution use GPG for verifying packages.

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    Comment #24513963

    Key management is a burden in every cryptosystem. I'm using KeePass and can recommend it, it works well.

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    Comment #24513559

    Yet it's the best we got right now.

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    Comment #24513513

    Backup, archivization, password managers, the list is long. Duplicity has many users: http://duplicity.nongnu.org Pass is also pretty popular on HN: https://www.passwordstore.org B…

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    Comment #24507952

    Thanks, saved me some time.

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    Comment #24491966

    Unless you want your built in cellular modem to work properly.

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    Comment #24447590

    Encrypted email is almost a marginal usage scenario for GPG compared to other uses. It does everything. It is everywhere.Yes it is big, nobody has to use all of it. Just like C++..…

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    Comment #24447533

    >obscure your security posture as much to yourself as to adversaries Almost barfed from sheer intensity of tech corpobabble. Its for blocking 0-days dummy!

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    Comment #24446128

    The same with "GnuPG is bad" mantra on hackernews. There is nothing better that GPG currently for all its functionality and the only answer you get when asking for substitute is do…

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    Comment #24406224

    SHA2 is hardware accelerated on many new CPUs, Blake family not so much.

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    Comment #24382511

    So much this. Don't make this another unreliable toy wasting space in somebodys drawer.

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    Comment #24377605

    Simply not true. Defaults are cryptographically strong.

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    Comment #24377525

    Can't wait for new major version that includes changes listed in RFC4880bis, new curves, AEAD methods EAX and OCB and many other improvements. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draf…