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I was cleaning up some stuff on an old but still pretty important prod server and not paying enough attention on that day. Turns out in retrospect that accidentally deleting ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the main user account was not a good idea.

As the panic was starting to sink in, I managed to find out that an unprivileged user account was still available for SSH login. Once I got a hold of it, I then tried my hand at running several privilege escalation exploits... until one of them worked (what a relief) and I could finally restore proper SSH access on the main user account.

It was both a proud and a pretty embarrassing moment.


You can pay with Bitcoin or cash apparently, though the latter will require contacting the ProtonMail team & arranging terms. https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/payment/


Okay, now try to.

You need an existing account, which you can't get if you:

- disable javascript

- don't verify with a phone number

- get stuck in captcha hell

verify with a phone number is notorious for blocking google voice number blocks and detecting devices that aren't pinging cell towers


If I was that concerned, I'd get a burner phone with a prepaid SIM card and create my account from a public computer while covering my face.

Plus, as somebody else already said: having JS enabled seems pretty much mandatory if you want to be able to decrypt your emails client-side.


> If I was that concerned, I'd get a burner phone with a prepaid SIM card and create my account from a public computer while covering my face.

In the EU countries, it has (by law) become very hard to obtain an anonymous prepaid SIM card.


In _some_ EU countries. That's not true for them all.


> disable javascript

How do you want to decrypt your data client-side without running a software to do just that?


For comparison purposes, tuition fees in a French public engineering school were around 700€/$800 per year when I was there about a decade ago, and I wouldn't expect this to have changed much.


This is without considering students whose parents have low revenue, thus getting access to financial help from the government. This was my case. Technically, I was paid to go to University, with 3600€ per year for being one of the top students.


For more comparison, tuition feeds at my alma mater (a German university) were 500€ per year. Most of that was for the semester ticket, that allowed me to use public transit completely for free across the entire state (Saxony).


2012-2015 was still 700€/year at Centrale - I'll let you guess which one.

Don't forget though that housing, food, "Sécurité Sociale", library, etc. weren't included.


Yes but food and housing is not included either when attending a private school.


Not sure about France, but in the Netherlands now it's 2000 euros. Though I believe people are trying to lower that again.


For comparison purposes, tuition fees in a French university were around 0$


And if you're the best of the best, they pay you to attend (X, ENS)


No they don't. The chaussette has to be repaid...


In the University where I teach, fees are below €500 a year, AFAIK.


There is indeed: I tried the same way as in Sublime Text and hurrah, it works.

Go to Preferences > Edit Settings, then add a new setting to the dict: `"dpi_scale": 2.0` (or whatever float value works for you)

I think you need to restart Sublime Merge then.


2-3k miles. Not 2-3 miles.


Or if you're on Linux (Debian/Ubuntu), switch to one of the default virtual terminals with Ctrl-Alt-F1 (and Ctrl-Alt-F7 to switch back to your X server console on my machine) to experience the delight of low latency keyboard-to-screen typing.


Arguably, A Hard Day's Night's opening chord is the most iconic of theirs.


Not everyone who voted for Trump is anti-intellectual, but if you are, it's very likely that you voted for him.


Finally read them a few months ago. A fantastic read.


What precisely did you like about it ?


To me, the main difference is that you know about Google's automatic parsing of your emails upfront and it can therefore be a factor in your subscribing/unsubscribing decision.


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