Confiks

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by Confiks 8y ago
I use 2Do with a keyboard shortcut for a new task set to Ctrl+Alt+Cmd+T, so I can instantly note anything down and forget about it. That lands into an inbox I can process later. If it's an actionable thing I then categorize and schedul
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Scuttlebutt's pubs are only dumb caching pipes, whereas a Mastodon server is actually the source of your content. That's the fundamental difference between the two. As every Scuttlebutt node is equal to every other node, that make
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by Confiks 8y ago
> meaningfully The comment you replied to didn't include that condition, and I'd be reluctant to state some arbitrary percentage – as you conjure up 5% – to be 'meaningful'. A larger keyspace is strictly more secure a
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> Speaking furthermore, I do find it highly concerning just how much of an echo chamber this place is in regards to this notion of "Chinese colonialism" and Chinese "debt - traps". Most African countries still owe far
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by Confiks 8y ago
You fail to make a coherent point, because you try to differentiate a set (in)permissible actions only by assigning them different names (lying vs. marketing) without defining them or relating them to examples (of others). As you clearly do
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by Confiks 8y ago
I came across a tool that will generate a bit-for-bit identical Debian container [1], using Debian package snapshots. [1] https://github.com/debuerreotype/debuerreotype
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There is no coherent point being made in the article, which is instead filled with vacuous weasel words like "many on Twitter [called out Dorsey for being tone deaf]". It's sad to see this popping up in the NY Times. You coul
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by Confiks 8y ago
> there's not much there What's missing? More: Workshop on Building Open Source Secure Enclave, with little information about what was presented [1]. The Google slides are superficially interesting: https://keystone-
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by Confiks 8y ago
Great television programme, in Dutch, about using ketamine in the treatment of depression (and additionally, about using GHB in the treatment of narcolepsy): https://www.npostart.nl/dokters-van-morgen/30-10-2018/AT
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by Confiks 8y ago
I was wondering, quite unrelated to the article, if anyone knows if CockroachDB would be suited for small databases (and comparably modest computing/memory resources). I very much like its distributed properties, but only have a simple
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by Confiks 8y ago
> its like saying sftp is delta transfer because you don't have to send your entire disk image every time I see your point, but the comparison to sftp seems really off. Overlay2 [1] indeed works on whole file differences, just as sf
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by Confiks 8y ago
Video about the MONIAC here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVOhYROKeu4
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Everyone may decide for themselves what 'the point' is, but I explicitly responded to the quote I included in my post.
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> it presents me with an obviously fake "processing request" screen You may argue about the (efficiency of the) implementation, but that processing screen isn't a fake; it sends out a large amount of HTTP requests to URLs
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by Confiks 8y ago
A lot of people in here reference Black Mirror, but it also made me think of ST:VOYs Critical Care [1] (which has plot holes you can just as well drive through). [1] http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Critical_Care_(epi
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by Confiks 8y ago
Yes, indeed. Thanks for correcting that.
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by Confiks 8y ago
On the subject of RAM encryption, there's even an kernel modification that (ab)uses the x86 debug registers to store are AES key and transparently encrypts / decrypts RAM; Tresor. > That [encrypted memory] in itself isn't
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by Confiks 8y ago
To copy a comment from a Github issue [1], comparing the different implementations: - CRONTO, PM-Code and HCCB and AuthPaper are proprietary. CRONTO has attracted some usage mainly by banks, PM-Code looks like vaporware, AuthPaper seems ina
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JAB Code – A high-capacity 2D color bar code(github.com)
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by Confiks 8y ago
This must be one of the greatest examples of the Dunning-Kruger effect [1] in action that I've seen on HN in recent times. Pretty much everything in your analysis is misinformed, and you even explicitly mention in an aside that you are
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by Confiks 8y ago
I think the main avenue for exploration in Medium are the article recommendations at the bottom of the page, above the comments. I personally rarely click on them, but I can imagine some titles can be hard to resist. That make interaction-d
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by Confiks 8y ago
Indeed, but for that specific case of the Van Gogh Museum in The Netherlands, the same principle from Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp. was reached in the Van Dale/Romme arrest [1] and has been upheld in other cases. [1] https:&#x2
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I'm glad they state on their website that the images are in the public domain. In a similar thread on HN some time ago, I was very surprised to learn some museums (and commenters) think that they own the copyright to high-resolution di
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by Confiks 8y ago
It is addressed above: > This effect didn't happen with in the TCP world, since most applications don't run with enough privileges to speak TCP without the kernel's involvement. The argument is that while kernel developers
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by Confiks 8y ago
You are forgetting to explain why the technology is preferable, apart from expressing that the technology is well-supported. I know little about SCPT. Why is it preferable?
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> My next step is to make a personal website with some contact details and a scraper script for the links in the HN top 30-40 that I can run as a cronjob. About a year ago I was 30 minutes into creating exactly such a script, and then I
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by Confiks 8y ago
Preventing screenshots and showing up in the active apps list is an option within the Signal preferences. So Signal provides a precautious default, but allows you to turn it off.
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by Confiks 8y ago
As for a fully open-source Photoshop alternative, Krita [1] goes a long way. It does however have some major UX problems in minor areas. For example, yesterday I tried updating the font size of an existing text layer, and just couldn't
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Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18382975
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Are you sure the introductory post is a valid link? This is what I get using go-ipfs: > ipfs object get QmccRaHCrUKZwZpjdJFiTTdgp8FG3ALFDZQexaYgit3NCF > {"Links":[],"Data":"{\"name\":\&quot

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