Colin Percival
Person on 4 sites
FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.
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8 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
Who people, organisations and podcasts are, and how they connect, with sources.
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2 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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8 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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FreeBSD works well as a desktop operating system when paired with a graphical user interface. (opens korrents.com)
“Most people think of FreeBSD as being a server OS which is used only via the command line, but as anyone who has attended a BSD conference can attest, it works just fine with a GUI too.”
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End-to-end cryptographic signing of requests and responses is more secure than relying on transport-layer encryption like TLS alone. (opens korrents.com)
“With requests going over TLS it is obviously less critical now, but end-to-end signing is always going to be better than transport-layer security.”
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Eventually Known Consistency is a better theoretical model for distributed systems than plain eventual consistency, even though it's harder to reason about. (opens korrents.com)
“but I still think the model of Eventually Known Consistency is the better theoretical model even if it is harder for users to reason about.”
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FreeBSD works well as a desktop operating system when paired with a graphical user interface. (opens korrents.com)
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9 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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FreeBSD (opens rcmnd.app)
“On my laptop, I run FreeBSD 7.3 (I've been meaning to upgrade to 8.0 but haven't gotten around to it yet) and KDE 3.5.”
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Tarsnap (opens rcmnd.app)
“I do backups via Tarsnap, of course.”
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Konqueror (opens rcmnd.app)
“I use Konqueror as a web browser whenever possible, but have Firefox 3.6 installed for websites where Konqueror doesn't work.”
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FreeBSD (opens rcmnd.app)