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no you autist

>>58477443
explain how it's not

>>58477449
Explain how it is

Something something maki something something :^)

>>58477119
Clearly, D < 32

>>58477119
Maki's voice a shit.

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>>58477061
>I don't like cocks but I suck it from time to time. Fuck.

>>58476923
Windows > GNU/+Linux

>>58477099
But we are not talking about malwares

>>58476840
It not only has a future, but will likely over take wired connections at some point. I have worked for large companies with a fairly large network footprint and they lean heavily on wireless connectivity for mobile devices and quick deployment for satellite offices.

It is a lot easier to set a vpn to one wap for a small office using laptops then it is to set up a switch, make sure the wiring in the office still works, and then set up an edge router to act as firewall and vpn access point.

You must have older customers who think wireless = insecure because they don't understand WPA2/ RADIUS authentication. The business world is starting to heavily lean on mobile devices, which I have no problem with since wireless is easier to manage imo.

Either that or muh WeeFee sickness

Libreoffice

>>58476839
this is bait

A real man has a secretary to do that shit.

>>58476816
It's fine if you're writing something for personal use, but good god is it hard to read someone else's Ruby, just a little bit shy of Perl's unreadability.

I typically do my scripting in Python, even PHP sometimes, and I was recently tasked with taking over a Ruby project at work, it is a complete fucking shitshow

>>58476816
Flavor of the month, and associated with web development?

I dunno, if you have to use Ruby at work its not like you have a choice. People become very dogmatic about programming languages, and it always leads to someone trying to re-invent the wheel with some new programming language that has its own problems: like Ruby.

>>58476816
It's barely more readable thn than Perl.

>>58476769
You're not alone. All I do is browse /g/ and watch videos.

Then I think to myself "shit I should do something productive", and then I return to do nothing. This has been the last few months for me.

I speak from experience here - you are lazy because you've never had to defend yourself in any aspect of your life. Do you work out? If not, why don't you? Do you think you would begin to take martial arts classes and start lifting if you had someone push your shit in?

Do you think you would start learning to cook once you have a bad experience at a restaurant?
Would you learn to cut your own hair unless the barber was patronizing in his attitude, leading you to never come back?
Would you pay someone to fix your PC when you can do it yourself?

I know this isn't particularly deep, but its really this simple. At least, it was for me. You will not have the incentive to get up off your ass until you either have something happen to you, or have to fork over money for something you wished you knew how to do yourself.

>>58476769

dont be a slave to whatever it is youre rebelling against, rethink your life

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>Under normal circumstances, when communicating with a contact who has recently changed devices or reinstalled WhatsApp, it might be possible to send a message before the sending client discovers that the receiving client has new keys. The recipient's device immediately responds, and asks the sender to reencrypt the message with the recipient's new identity key pair. The sender displays the "safety number has changed" notification, reencrypts the message, and delivers it.

>The WhatsApp clients have been carefully designed so that they will not re-encrypt messages that have already been delivered. Once the sending client displays a "double check mark," it can no longer be asked to re-send that message. This prevents anyone who compromises the server from being able to selectively target previously delivered messages for re-encryption.

>The fact that WhatsApp handles key changes is not a "backdoor," it is how cryptography works. Any attempt to intercept messages in transmit by the server is detectable by the sender, just like with Signal, PGP, or any other end-to-end encrypted communication system.

>The only question it might be reasonable to ask is whether these safety number change notifications should be "blocking" or "non-blocking." In other words, when a contact's key changes, should WhatsApp require the user to manually verify the new key before continuing, or should WhatsApp display an advisory notification and continue without blocking the user.

If you trust a man with that nose you deserve to be lied to.

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>Given the size and scope of WhatsApp's user base, we feel that their choice to display a non-blocking notification is appropriate. It provides transparent and cryptographically guaranteed confidence in the privacy of a user's communication, along with a simple user experience. The choice to make these notifications "blocking" would in some ways make things worse. That would leak information to the server about who has enabled safety number change notifications and who hasn't, effectively telling the server who it could MITM transparently and who it couldn't; something that WhatsApp considered very carefully.

>Even if others disagree about the details of the UX, under no circumstances is it reasonable to call this a "backdoor," as key changes are immediately detected by the sender and can be verified.
The reporting

>The way this story has been reported has been disappointing. There are many quotes in the article, but it seems that the Guardian put very little effort into verifying the original technical claims they've made. Even though we are the creators of the encryption protocol supposedly "backdoored" by WhatsApp, we were not asked for comment.

>Instead, most of the quotes in the story are from policy and advocacy organizations who seem to have been asked "WhatsApp put a backdoor in their encryption, do you think that's bad?"

>We believe that it is important to honestly and accurately evaluate the choices that organizations like WhatsApp or Facebook make. There are many things to criticize Facebook for; running a product that deployed end-to-end encryption by default for over a billion people is not one of them.

>>58476694
AUR

>>58476694
im comfy in mint kde

Not trolling, it's the most Just Werks distro you'll find.

That's the actual reason Arch users us it.

Source: use Arch

Possible, but unlikely and laggy due to OS memory allocation restrictions (assumption based on how console OSes traditionally work). Oh and install gentoo!

>>58477791
couldnt we just realocate some of the memory if were reverse engineering the software interpreting layer?

>>58477806
Not by traditional home brew,maybe if it's a commonly used OS with a heavy customization layer and it's possible to achieve root privilege (install gentoo in it)
Only time will tell what's possible

>we
Fucking idiot you can't even write coherent English

first for AB not cabal

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2nd for 2nd tier

yay! I'm early this time

>Linux will never be free of systemd
But it is. Devuan exists.
>Linux will never be free of X
But wayland works well with GNOME
>Linux will never be free of Pulseaudio
But it's fine
>Linux will never be free as in freedom
linux-libre

>>58476399
But a lot of those actually are free even by Stalin standards.

>>58476423
>devuan
>common user
does_not_compute.tiff
>But wayland works well with GNOME
Gnome is absolute trash, and literally everybody shuns it, because it is an uncustomizable piece of shit that also hogs RAM

cfdisk /dev/hda && mkfs.xfs /dev/hda1 && mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/ && chroot /mnt/gentoo/ && env-update && . /etc/profile && emerge sync && cd /usr/portage && scripts/bootsrap.sh && emerge system && emerge vim && vi /etc/fstab && emerge gentoo-dev-sources && cd /usr/src/linux && make menuconfig && make install modules_install && emerge gnome mozilla-firefox openoffice && emerge grub && cp /boot/grub/grub.conf.sample /boot/grub/grub.conf && vi /boot/grub/grub.conf && grub && init 6
<@insomnia> that's the first one

>>58475850
carefully

Just follow the wiki. Not hard, just a little time consuming. With a modern processor compile time isn't even that bad.

You strike me as someone who doesn't leave the house very often.

No, it doesn't have a clit mouse. Get a thinkpad.

>>58475742
It's a good laptop

>>58475668
I can't really think of a phone without a DAC anon...