Confiks

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by Confiks 8y ago
Unfortunately, your intro article (and a user created post) doesn't seem to be loading properly. It makes a lot of connections to bootstrapping servers at libp2p.io (and specifically exchanges 10+ kbps with ws-star.discovery.libp2p.io
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by Confiks 8y ago
Your comment is too short, information-free and only implicitly makes a point; it doesn't argue why this title would be sensationalized by the EFF. The article proposes that while "recently, developers of major browsers have sta
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by Confiks 8y ago
Can the URL be changed to the Signal blog post at https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender ?
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by Confiks 8y ago
Your reply is unnecessarily combative and short. Assume good faith in grandparent's reply, and preferably try to find out yourself and report back your findings. Meanwhile, have a bit to read on the ethics of placebo-controlled clinica
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by Confiks 8y ago
Conversely, it's frustrating that you reference some definition instead of just stating it. Are you referring to stateless (web) applications? Wouldn't that also exactly fit your other "ephemeral storage" definition? You
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by Confiks 8y ago
This doesn't address your main point, but you might appreciate an easy workaround for this problem: access the video at /embed/$videoid
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by Confiks 8y ago
Your comment seems to be to be touching on the ethics of "eradicating" insect pests ("that is not a bar cleared"), rather than the ethics of advancing genetic engineering in general (or specifically of reproduction capab
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by Confiks 8y ago
I wonder if any of the genetic control strategies used with the Aedes aegypti mosquito [1] could be used in this case. The obvious difference would be that males would also be harmful to the environment in this case. The strategy could also
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by Confiks 8y ago
It's awesome people are working on this. Their progress is unfortunately is pretty hard to follow or even support. Their low-tech process steps: https://github.com/libresilicon/process/raw/master/pro
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by Confiks 8y ago
The current address of SciHub is https://sci-hub.tw/ , and the DOI of the paper is 10.1126/scirobotics.aat1853. As for the actuators: "One of the implementations used pneumatic actuators integrated into an elastome
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by Confiks 8y ago
Does anyone know if and what concrete changes have been made to Core NFC, beyond the speculation beforehand [1]? I understand there has been a beta of iOS 12 for a while now. The documentation still shows information for iOS 11 [2] [1] htt
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by Confiks 8y ago
This is a new category of clickbait: adapting a chapter from a book with a very alarmist title.
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by Confiks 8y ago
EA has publicly stated that there will not be lootboxes [1] or even DLCs [2]. I'm especially content about there not being DLCs that divide the player base so much that there are only enough players available to play the base maps. If
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by Confiks 8y ago
I don't see that transparency at all, nor in the previous analyses linked to in the article. In fact, the articles seem to explicitly be on the side of their methods being definitively able to identify "the author behind New York
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by Confiks 8y ago
I think it's a mistake to legalize cannabis and continue to treat it like any other consumer product, opening the floodgates to gratuitous advertisements and dubious health claims. Instead, the sale of cannabis (and perhaps other drugs
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by Confiks 8y ago
There was a talk about this on the Decentralized Web Summit. Unfortunately the (livestreaming) version uploaded to Youtube is (still) borked, but they have reuploaded the videos to the IA directly: https://archive.org/detail
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by Confiks 8y ago
I don't know anything about SpiderOak, except occasionally having browsed their front page, but they do seem to have some clue about security and secure software. If that is true, they must have known from the outset that once you de
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by Confiks 8y ago
I gave up on the redesign and am now using a browser extension[1][2] that always redirects to the old design. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re... [2] https://chrome.
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by Confiks 8y ago
The comparison is indeed pretty thin; it certainly doesn't come anywhere near the miscommunication and whiffs of NIH that are present in the Dep case. It still made me think of it, because in that thread there is a domain expert which
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by Confiks 8y ago
The discussion about the original post can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17623023 This response is a long one, of which the ending deserves special note: > I hope this story serves as a warning to o
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by Confiks 8y ago
The article title and introduction is pretty misleading, as only halfway the article it is revealed that "the plastic waste washing onto Montesinos Beach comes from the Ozama River". So while this is obviously an example of plasti
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by Confiks 8y ago
So the article is portraying 4k blu-ray as the raison d'être for Intel ME on consumer devices, but isn't for example Netflix HD which uses HDCP 2.2 somehow also tied to a trusted execution environment within Intel CPUs, or is th
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by Confiks 8y ago
> Would you like newspapers (e.g. that very NYT) be governmentally regulated because they are "too important for society"? It's dangerously close to the late Soviet Union. I can agree with the first part of your argument,
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by Confiks 8y ago
I really don't understand your comment, and all subsequent responses along the same line. The digitized van Gogh paintings are perfect copies of the original public domain works. For the US, Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp. [1] mak
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by Confiks 8y ago
While I can't say anything about GP's post, the Gjenge organization doesn't seem to be scammy per se. It pretty interesting to scroll a bit through their Facebook timeline and see another world [1]. One which seems to be heav
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by Confiks 8y ago
Another interesting environment to explore related to Minecraft is an open-source clone of that game: Minetest [1]. It allows extensions in the form of Lua scripts. There is an extension [2] that opens up a TCP socket which can be used to m
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by Confiks 8y ago
GP argues that they have no incentive to offer a non-ad-subsidized TV at a higher price, because consumers will for the large part not notice ad-(preference-)subsidization or otherwise consider it a factor in the decision to buy such a TV.
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by Confiks 8y ago
I am as shocked as you are are, but apparently they exist: https://www.cookmellow.com . A bit like a remotely-programmable slow cooker, but then for the limited amount of ingredients a sous-vide will cook.
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by Confiks 8y ago
More specifically: Juggalos figured out how to beat facial recognition tech trained on normal faces and trying to recognize normal faces. While the black and white paint does seem to negate a lot of natural contrast human faces have – and o
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by Confiks 8y ago
I was viewing the video this comment [1] mentioned, and found another video which shows what happens to the circuit boards inside the motor when when you submerge a Tesla, like the case in TFA: https://www.youtube.com/watc

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