elmindreda's comments

elmindreda | 13 years ago | on: Julian Assange: Cryptographic Call to Arms

The Pirate Bay people didn't create the Pirate Party. There isn't a lot of overlap between the (publicly known admins of) the Pirate Bay, the (no longer existing) Pirate Bureau that gave rise to it and the Pirate Party. This is true both in terms of people, and also frankly terms of politics, beyond the basic realisation that the status quo is untenable.

elmindreda | 13 years ago | on: Mail in 2012 from an admin's perspective

SRS was the missing piece for me when I tried setting up SPF the last time. I'll talk to my ISP about this.

elmindreda | 13 years ago | on: Rob Pike: The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got.

Very good advice. Even when I use a debugger or print statements to locate and fix the bug, I sit down afterwards and make sure I understand why the bug occurred and why the fix is correct.

elmindreda | 13 years ago | on: Ecuador grants Julian Assange asylum

Sweden doesn't have the best of records wrt extraditions in cases where the US has an interest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repatriation_of_Ahmed_Agiza_an...

elmindreda | 13 years ago | on: ToS;DR — TL;DR for Terms of Service and Privacy Policy

Yay! This I have been waiting for.

elmindreda | 13 years ago | on: Valve Source Engine Running Faster on Linux than Windows

nVidias argument for not opening up the Linux driver is that it shares a lot of code with the Windows driver. I'm not saying that this argument makes sense, but it's the one they use.

elmindreda | 13 years ago | on: Ubisoft "Uplay" DRM exposed as rootkit

Thank you for expanding the list of games I should never buy.

elmindreda | 13 years ago | on: John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review

His reviews are what got me interested enough to Switch back in 2002.

elmindreda | 14 years ago | on: Towel Day - Don't forget your towel

I always carry at least one towel in my backpack. It has indeed proven to be massively useful over the years.

elmindreda | 14 years ago | on: DNA used as rewritable data storage in cells

Obligatory Dresden Codak link: http://dresdencodak.com/2009/07/12/fabulous-prizes/

elmindreda | 14 years ago | on: Gatekeeper's Dialog

It's good to see that Apple is getting more open about being an enemy of software freedom.

elmindreda | 14 years ago | on: Why do self-respecting hackers use Gmail & Co?

Judging by the replies, it seems to be a combination of preferring webmail and having poor ISPs.

Personally, I have run my own email server for several years now and have found this to require almost no maintenance. On the server side I use Postfix and Dovecot on Debian, and on the client side I use Thunderbird. For security, I only allow local IMAP connections and tunnel IMAP and SMTP from my laptop over SSH tunnels set up when I log in, and the server only accepts public key authorisation for SSH.

IMAP means I get any email within seconds and Thunderbird automatically sifts away 95% of what little spam I receive. The server is under my desk and the only downtime I have is for kernel upgrades and problems on the ISP end, which are both rare.

elmindreda | 14 years ago | on: Maddox - I hope SOPA passes

That's true of every issue that has succeeded without the backing of a powerful lobby. The same thing can happen here.

elmindreda | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Raspberry Pi coming soon. What's going to be your first project?

One as a web server and one as a toy.

elmindreda | 14 years ago | on: What future space combat would really look like

My favourite space combat scene is the one on the way to Home in Protector.

elmindreda | 14 years ago | on: Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin

I don't see Cygwin as a file manager but as another (better) interface to Windows. A Linux VM wouldn't let me natively run and debug Windows software, which is the entire point of me being in Windows in the first place.

elmindreda | 14 years ago | on: Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin

Being able to use a real shell with all the tools I'm used to when developing on Windows.

Cygwin in combination with MinGW and the Windows native version of GVim lets me have almost exactly the same environment as I do on Linux and Mac OS X.

elmindreda | 14 years ago | on: Richard Stallman on Steve Jobs

I agree with rms on a lot of things, but this was truly tasteless and disrespectful.

elmindreda | 14 years ago | on: Earn money in your sleep

This has its downsides as well:

http://dresdencodak.com/2006/10/07/summer-dream-job/

elmindreda | 14 years ago | on: New Tax Rate for Millionaires

Uhm, no, millionaires are people who have at least one million dollars in some form. The article is about people making at least one million dollars per year; a much smaller group of people.