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by Confiks 9y ago
Thanks for linking to OpenSCAD. I'm very interested in how you're using this in your math classes. What level are you teaching? Could you offer an example on how you're using this in your classes?
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If one feels so inclined to make a single-sentence reference to some obscure play, care can be take to make the reference just a little off , so to nudge the reader into questioning the sentence's plain meaning. That being said, I app
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by Confiks 9y ago
Does anyone know if Intel ME being compromised and the recent Tanenbaum letter have anything to do with each other? For example if the researchers discovered the use of Minix through this compromise. The articles referenced in Tanenbaum&#x2
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And "recent" here doesn't only mean "the 1970s". TIL: "In 2016, the British government denied the right of the Chagossians to return to the islands after a 45-year legal dispute". [1] Also, in 2009 an atte
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by Confiks 9y ago
Probably by tapping the 'o' key one time too many.
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You pin a public key (of which the private key signs the leaf certificate, the sub-CA or the CA) with HPKP, not the certificate. With the default settings, LetsEncrypt re-uses the keypair for a new certificate.
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I understand 'euthanization' may be a sad process, and it might have very negative connotations especially in American culture. It is however sometimes the best available choice to make, as it probably was the best choice to end t
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by Confiks 9y ago
It's not client-side only; it requires a server component of which a possible / proof-of-concept implementation can be found here: https://github.com/tls-n/nss-tlsn It's a modification to NSS, which isn&
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by Confiks 9y ago
I've been thinking about non-repudiation in TLS for archival and decentralization of public websites for a long time, but this has never been possible without modifying the server. [1] explains really well why not even non-ephemeral DH
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by Confiks 9y ago
I'm completely ignorant about any iOS music player, having only every seriously used Android, but didn't the first iPhone have such a feature already? Such as showcased in the famous reveal video: https://www.youtube.co
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by Confiks 9y ago
They're all an impression of a tangram puzzle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangram
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by Confiks 9y ago
It's not so rare for older but well-written articles to show up multiple times on the HN frontpage. It's somewhat rarer for a 'product' such as Sci-hub to show up multiple times, but considering that the HN crowd is pret
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No. In fact, initially I put "unintuitive" there, but the spelling-checker marked it as an unknown word while it is perfectly valid English.
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It's an interesting game, but I was immediately put off by level two, which sinks you into the limitations of the robot API by making you introduce a counter that needs checking. That would be totally counter-intuitive for beginners.
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I think the point of GP is rather that VPS shared hosting is ubiquitous, i.e. "host on a shared machine, get hacked sooner or later".
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The blog post doesn't explain it very well, but I believe the tool code-generates the assembly at runtime, and not at compile time, so LLVM is not involved in code generation for the JIT.
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by Confiks 9y ago
You might want to try to stop telling people what they may or may not do. You want to stifle possibly valid criticism with dogma by comparing the healthy and informatve discussion here with 'anti-vaxxers'. Adding to that, nobody i
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I understand that you will have to trust the CPU to do any computation. In a sense, it indeed shortens the 'trust stack', and as said in another comment "now, you need only trust that Intel hasn't backdoored their hardwa
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by Confiks 9y ago
I don't really understand why this is an improvement on the existing architecture. In the current contact discovery implementation you need to fully trust the server, namely the open source component that is the contact discovery servi
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> And this is how you do SEO-oriented content marketing, kids. And this in turn, kids, is how you assume bad faith without any reservation or doubt.
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by Confiks 9y ago
As a daily Firefox for Android user, I have little idea about what's so awful about the scrolling behavior. Works like any other app for me. Comparing it with Chrome now for the first time, Chrome scrolls up a lot of the page with even
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by Confiks 9y ago
While security by obscurity might be a valid security layer in some systems [1], it rarely is considered a good one when designing cryptosystems; Kerckhoff's principle [2] is usually adhered to thoroughly. [1] https://daniel
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by Confiks 9y ago
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15258547 I have nothing to do with Confluence or Kafka, but I really hoped there would be some more discussion then. Therefore the repost.
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by Confiks 9y ago
Is there anyone here running Kafka in production as primary data store for an web application backend? Did you write a very custom integration (or indeed a ES architecture), or did it just fit into existing (MVC) frameworks? I appreciated t
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It’s Okay to Store Data in Apache Kafka's distributed log(confluent.io)
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Shots fired indeed, although the 132-character argument is a bit of a straw man; the original argument was that using ARX operations in cryptographic primitives makes it harder to analyze the primitive, regardless of whether the actual weak
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by Confiks 9y ago
It seems that the article is really careful to never show "those weird armbands sitting between his wrist and his elbows". Would anyone have an idea what kind of sensors it would require to measure signals traveling through motor
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You may guess right ahead without putting any effort into explaining yourself, but I'm pretty sure the team behind TFA hasn't ventured into your stray path considering the number of publications made, cited here: https:/&#x2
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by Confiks 9y ago
Okay, so, what about the New York Times: https://www.confluent.io/blog/publishing-apache-kafka-new-yo...
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by Confiks 9y ago
Is there anyone here running Kafka in production as primary data store for an web application backend? Did you write a very custom integration (or indeed a ES architecture), or did it just fit into existing (MVC) frameworks? I appreciated t

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