Confiks

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by Confiks 8y ago
Another comment [1] indicated that "this isn't the internet Time Warner (...) this is the entertainment Time Warner". Is that correct? (I'm not familiar with the US broadband market) [1] https://news.ycombinat
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An insightful comment linked to from that issue: https://lobste.rs/s/gokjbo/gitea_1_1_0_released#c_dg9pwe
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There is already a Javascript implementation [1], but it is not feasible to setup a full IPFS node in every browser tab that loads an IPFS resource. Instead you can use ipfs-companion [2], a browser extension that lets you easily load IPFS
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Your post is a clear example of an ad hominem and whataboutism [1], an invalid argument, where you cite the usage of a link to Vox to completely dismiss the parent as untrustworthy. [1] http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/What
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It's quite a comedy that this feature has not been implemented for at least 6 years, solely because the raw git:// protocol's parameter handling was severely broken, and feature detection by disconnecting and retrying [1
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The introduction of the article itself reads as an advertisement for shorting "adtech". What stock would you propose that would be?
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Yeah, I went a bit overboard in my amazement that this exploration into building integrated circuitry with affordable tools was so well documented. Such practical information and experience is hard to come by in world where the manufacturin
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> The whole point of Asylo is to provide a hardware abstraction layer to make applications portable across different enclaves; it's the opposite of reinforcing Intel's position. Yes, I shouldn't have conflated Asylo and SG
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"Confidential computing" might seem to refer to homomorphic encryption, but has nothing to do with it in its usage here. After searching around a bit, I suspect that Microsoft Azure first used it in 2017 to refer to code running w
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Have a mini-course into maskless photolithography[1][2], and find out how an old DLP projector combined with some advanced optics can yield this: http://sam.zeloof.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/IMG_2917-
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> Don't ask someone else to DDoS your competitors, even in jest, especially not in writing. Besides being in bad taste, this can come back to bite you. I'm sure there's inspecific biting precedent about using an overabunda
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I use https://hckrnews.com/ to get a view of everything that has been on the frontpage. Stems all FOMO that allows me to review posts once per so much time, usually about every day.
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> Suddenly another, even higher ranking person, deleted all the comments and locked my answer, noting that the discussion had stopped being productive. After that, my answers were left alone with no more meta criticism. I can't see
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by Confiks 9y ago
Full paper can be found here [1], and the MIT press release with a much more reasonable title here [2]. I've been wondering for some time how one would make a practical DIY electromyography (EMG) device, for example to measure hand mus
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by Confiks 9y ago
Another beautiful example of a procedural city generator is that of the Subversion game once in development by Introversion software, makers of Uplink, Defcon and Darwinia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR9xI0GgrBY It was
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A later project with excellent videos, "Shadershop", is definitely also something to marvel at: http://tobyschachman.com/Shadershop and http://www.cdglabs.org/Shadershop
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The video links somehow have the domain removed. If you add them in, you'll end up here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juwvwu3Z5HI
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> I put the article text on pastebin to make it actually readable: Which is kind gesture, but this has already been automated. It's called an ad-blocker.
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by Confiks 9y ago
(this was posted as a subcomment, but deserves to be a top-level comment) Another explanation/hypothesis which is rarely talked about is rising CO₂ levels: https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/09&#x
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by Confiks 9y ago
If some rich and complex learning material doesn't immediately 'click', that doesn't mean it is ineffective. You might just be laying the groundwork to understanding those complex ideas later, for example when they are c
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by Confiks 9y ago
There are a few well documented methods to counter that penalty: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en . The easiest method is probably to configure your webserver to start sending 'rel=can
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The 'solution' of adding random data to hide these "steps" is a common misunderstanding of the theory behind preventing bandwidth side-channel attacks. It'll probably work in practice as long as the amount of ra
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Please try to be more substantive in your replies. I would love to hear why you think this is such outstanding material, or what your own connection to the subject is.
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If you (re)read the blog post I'm referring to, you'll find that your concerns are very much addressed. I actually chose to refer to 'feudal security' as coined by Schneier (at least in the context of computer security),
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To repeat an earlier comment, this scheme encourages a centralization of trust into a private key managed by processor manufacturers. You might say that by integrating SGX mechanisms into your security model, you create a set of 'feuda
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The answer is quite obvious. You could start off with a grayscale 2D image on one side, and a pretty dotted 3D object on the other side. You'd then read the coordinates of the 3D object in a specific color space to obtain color values
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by Confiks 9y ago
The main problems I see with P2P browsers for the existing web are: 1) Most websites are actually web applications which have to maintain state via cookies over a TLS secured TCP connection. This means that any indirection must involve tunn
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by Confiks 9y ago
Before an entire bikeshed discussion arises over the misused term "zero-knowledge", know that the author is sensitive to this issue and will likely correct it soon [1]. [1] https://github.com/zboxfs/zbox/
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by Confiks 9y ago
Native DOM support might come later, but there's nothing stopping you from importing/exporting Javascript functions to WASM. Cheerp does this for example [1]. [1] https://www.leaningtech.com/cheerp/index.html

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