Kay & Dimi off on adventures yet unknown
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Opening links in Google Play Music Desktop Player
I use Google Play Music Desktop Player to play music on my laptop, and I keep forgetting the shortcut to paste a shared link in there, so posting it here for my own (and your) future reference: ctrl+shift+g Found that very useful nugget of info here: https://github.com/MarshallOfSound/Google-Play-Music-Desktop-Player-UNOFFICIAL-/issues/3095#issuecomment-382584747 Source for the player on Github: https://github.com/MarshallOfSound/Google-Play-Music-Desktop-Player-UNOFFICIAL-/
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PGP EFAIL
I am not going to rewrite this well written post, but since I am using and promoting the use of PGP I do need to draw you attention to EFAIL: https://efail.de/ The EFAIL attacks exploit vulnerabilities in the OpenPGP and S/MIME standards to reveal the plaintext of encrypted emails. From the same post: Here are…
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Keybase.io – Crypto for Everyone.
I have been talking about online security and encryption and PGP to anyone who wants to (or doesn’t 😉 ) hear it for quite a while now. One of the main things stopping people from adapting it is ease of use (IMHO). Keybase.io has been trying to do something about that, their slogan is “Crypto…
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Kik about to launch Kin token cryptocurrency
The Kin token was mentioned in this article on Forbes as one of the new cryptos that uses Ethereum instead of Bitcoin, meant as an example of how Bitcoin is failing in attracting new use cases and losing momentum. I’m always quite skeptic when reading about new ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings, launching a new crypto…
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Forbes article on the Bitcoin soap
I recently posted a bunch of links about what I called the Bitcoin soap opera, now Forbes wrote an article outlining the same issues: Bitcoin Is At An All-Time High, But Is It About To Self-Destruct? Definitely an interesting read if you are at all interested in Bitcoin, Ethereum, cryptocurrencies or just want to understand…
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The Bitcoin soap opera
For those unaware of the politics behind Bitcoin as a protocol / software (as opposed to as a currency, which gets a lot of attention every time the Bitcoin price soars), here are some links to get you started on Bitcoin blocksize debate, Bitcoin Core, SegWit (segregated witness), UASF (user activated soft fork), and AsicBoost:…
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Moving to Digital Ocean
This website is currently hosted with Greenhost in Amsterdam. I am very happy with their service, but since I have moved to South Africa and am earning Rand instead of Euro, I need to cut costs. So I’ll be moving to Digital Ocean, who offer a comparable VPS, with more storage, for about half the…
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Website downtime
If you tried to visit this site in the last month or so, you saw the WordPress Error establishing a database connection screen, which is never a good thing. It took me a while to figure out, but a table in the DataBase of the website was corrupted. Luckily StackOverflow came to the rescue: mysql…
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Using ProtonMail
I’ve started using ProtonMail with the new e-mail address: dimitri.dhuyvetter@protonmail.com. For now I haven’t switched my existing e-mail address to Proton, but I might in the future. If you have ProtonMail, please use the new address if you are using ProtonMail. Or if you want to try it out, the basic account is free: ProtonMail…
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