Confiks

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   by Confiks 11y ago

   I'm using Disconnect from https://disconnect.me , which is working alright for me. While not marketed as an ad-blocker (but rather as a tracker-blocker), I effectively see no ads at all. As far as I know, it doesn't tra
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   by Confiks 11y ago

   I think publishing code would be in conflict with parent's message; by using your own hand-rolled mess, you at least don't have to depend on other people's mess. I must agree that my own mess is far more comprehensible that
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   by Confiks 11y ago

   > Solar Panels. In the UK, the government pays you per kWh generated. Needs an upfront investment (...) It also required upfront confidence in the sustainability of the government subsidy. In The Netherlands a lot of now-solar panel owne
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   by Confiks 11y ago

   I've posted this before, but I'll say it again: A fun thing about Blendle is that it is open source. At least, the front-end is, and probably unintentionally. They left their Webpack source maps on the server [1]. Chrome automatic
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   by Confiks 11y ago

   Fascinating. Thanks for the explanation!
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   by Confiks 11y ago

   So how are they breeding these "800,000 genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes per week" if they by design cannot produce offspring? Through a virus?
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   by Confiks 11y ago

   I'm inclined to agree with the author about the legitimizing effect that sponsorship can have. In the case of Palantir it looks like a clear conflict of interest. I appreciate the deconstruction of the 'multi-stakeholder conferenc
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   by Confiks 11y ago

   The amendment to provide €500 million to open sources encryption project (initially only OpenSSL), was done by D66's Kees Verhoeven. He has a history of asking question about the Snowden revelations and other issues around computer sec
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   by Confiks 11y ago

   It is indeed a statement that "we can't do this right now". You don't need the implication you're making; it can literally be found in the 'cabinet's standpoint' (see below for a translation). I have
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    by Confiks 11y ago

    I've seen multiple 'operating systems in Javascript', but this one is exceptionally well made. The only thing missing is a web browser so I can load the OS in the OS (in my OS).
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    by Confiks 11y ago

    Here is also a very interesting talk about reproducible builds and trusting compilers given at the Chaos Communication Congress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pAen7beYNc They also talk about using multiple and very old c
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    by Confiks 11y ago

    Is there someone else who consistently reads 'Elliptic Curve Cryptography' and is disappointed by the subject of the article?
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    by Confiks 11y ago

    The whole piece is a straight 'wat' for me. For example: "Elixir systems can achieve nine nines stability. Five nines is about 5 minutes of downtime per year and would be considered extremely good to anyone in the finance ind
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    by Confiks 11y ago

    Okay. So this is a chat application surrounded by a 'not so' elaborate hoax concerning floppy drives someone supposedly found in a vacant lot. It's made pretty obvious though; a screenshot of an Instagram photo with over nine
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    by Confiks 11y ago

    Another fun thing about Blendle is that it is open source. At least, only the front-end, and probably unintentionally. They left their Webpack source maps on the server [1]. Chrome automatically unpacks the source map into a directory struc
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    by Confiks 11y ago

    I hope that more companies come to understand that a problem analysis like this one inspires customer confidence instead of bringing failure to light, reducing confidence.
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    by Confiks 11y ago

    I recently hacked something together that's using Tabletop and React to render 'products' that can be entered into a 'database' using Google Forms: http://jsbin.com/zaberiqami/1/edit?js,out
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    by Confiks 11y ago

    Looks good. One bug I found though: I have my Firefox window on OSX positioned on the left half of my 2560x1440 screen, and I could complete the first level fine, but when I got in the shop, the screen turned totally black after getting a m
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    by Confiks 11y ago

    As with my comment above: you trust the content that is ultimately (up the hierarchy) signed in an IPNS object with a valid signature. And there must indeed by some central authority giving 'ultimate trust'. This is Zooko's t
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    by Confiks 11y ago

    I don't really see how your 'competing for resources' scenario would work. New peers that try to fetch the new content at some IPNS name would see a new IPFS object hash, and search the DHT for that new hash. Nodes that have
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    by Confiks 11y ago

    There is a function that will guarantee to give you a unique 'hash' for every input value, and that is the identity function. Be sure to use a differently subscripted function for every input size though, as the fixed-length prope
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    by Confiks 11y ago

    As for your first point, you should really first learn more about how IPFS handles content addressing. If you look at section 3.5 the paper[1], you see that a IPFS object consists of a free-form data field, and an arbitrary amount of links
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    by Confiks 11y ago

    In my view Maelstrom instantly disqualifies itself because it's kept closed source. I really don't understand how BitTorrent (the company) can take itself seriously preaching about "truely neutral" networks. I've wo
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    by Confiks 11y ago

    When I'm in a good environment and haven't slept all too recently, I can also easily get a 15-minute 'cat nap' with full on dreaming. I sometimes wake up from them multiple times in a mild dream-state panic, but I don&#x
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    by Confiks 11y ago

    This article describes such a person; might shed some light: http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/02/what-its-like-to-need-h...
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    by Confiks 11y ago

    Yet this is exactly what babel-runtime will do for you: include all the polyfills. If you're not targetting IE8 and you don't care about Intl won't actually be that much code. If you're using webpack you can use the code
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    by Confiks 11y ago

    If you're using Webpack there is also a great and simple loader module here: https://github.com/deepsweet/autopolyfiller-loader Works like a charm
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    by Confiks 11y ago

    Completely offtopic, but the site loads 1.1 MiBs worth of a grinning man at a resolution of 2446x2446, which is then rendered as an icon at 91x91 pixels.
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    by Confiks 11y ago

    Yep, those two references being turned into hyperlinks is effectively putting Streisand's effect in effect. I would probably not have known about this leak, if it weren't for the 'investigation on suspicion of treason' n
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    by Confiks 11y ago

    Thanks for mentioning JSPM/System.js. It's really cool; it runs ES6 compilation with Babel (or Traceur) in the browser, and is able to download arbitrary versions of dependencies off a CDN. I'm still fiddling a bit with hotlo