Darkstryder

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by Darkstryder 4y ago
Slite is a SaaS company providing tooling for remote work and is a fully remote company itself, all of that since well before the pandemic. So I think calling the article a "hit piece against remote" is unwarranted in this case. D
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by Darkstryder 4y ago
For the specific topic of cryptography: every professional cryptographer I know not only started with a master in mathematics, but completed it with a PhD in cryptography afterwards. Trying to do it professionally with neither diplomas feel
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Spring4Shell(github.com)
2 points by Darkstryder 5y ago|0 comments
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by Darkstryder 5y ago
I did that for a side-project a few years back. This was very elegant to implement: I was happy not having to store any password hashes (which is a dangerous thing to store as password reuse is prevalent) while still ensuring that my users
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by Darkstryder 5y ago
September 24th, 2014. To know the date of publication of a given xkcd comic, go to https://xkcd.com/archive/ , search for the title you're after, then the date of publication is displayed in the mouse-over text.
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by Darkstryder 5y ago
Cinematography is a hobby of mine and I got gifted the "Ron Howard teaches Directing" Masterclass a few years back. I did not check the other Masterclasses, although I've considered watching a few others. I've really enj
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Intel SGX is getting deprecated(bleepingcomputer.com)
14 points by Darkstryder 5y ago|2 comments
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by Darkstryder 5y ago
Thank you. I was fearing/expecting someone to mention ADHD. I have never been formally diagnosed but everything I read about it feels suspiciously similar to the way my brain is wired. I might have to look into it more seriously. I’m c
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by Darkstryder 5y ago
Something Dan is not talking about at all but is at the core of my personal productivity troubles is energy level management. There is a world of difference between my average productivity and my peak productivity as I tend to work in short
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Spy agency taps into undersea cable (May 2001)(zdnet.com)
9 points by Darkstryder 5y ago|0 comments
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by Darkstryder 6y ago
With regard to the specific topic of communicating through a crisis, I've found Masters of Disaster: The Ten Commandments of Damage Control by Christopher Lehane, Mark Fabiani and Bill Guttentag to be pretty interesting. The author
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by Darkstryder 6y ago
Lindy Hopper from France here! Looking forward to dance again... someday.
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by Darkstryder 6y ago
AFAIK a practical quantum computer would not enable any practical attack against SHA256.
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Jeff Dean about Timnit Gebru and Google's approach to research publication(docs.google.com)
8 points by Darkstryder 6y ago|2 comments
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by Darkstryder 6y ago
Unfortunately the bias against negative results in scientific publications cause a lot of scientific dead-ends to be non-public as well. A lot starting researchers (such as PhD students) that are left without adequate supervision are likely
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by Darkstryder 6y ago
I'm glad Greg Baugues started blogging again. I discovered his blog all the way back in 2013 with one of my favorite articles of his, "Autoworkers of our generation" [1] and I've been reading his blog religiously until h
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DNA of a Password Disaster (2014)(olivernash.org)
1 points by Darkstryder 6y ago|0 comments
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by Darkstryder 6y ago
Thank you for the very relevant advice. All of these suggestions are certainly feasible but taken together they do amount to a non-negligible cost in infrastructure and development velocity though. Where I live I've yet to find an empl
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by Darkstryder 6y ago
> the recommendation at places like Google is to rollback first and investigate the problem later I always have the same question regarding this advice: how are you supposed to handle data corruption? When a buggy new version creates las
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by Darkstryder 6y ago
As a PhD student my main topic was the period of time just after the disclosure of a vulnerability. This is the most threatening stage of its life cycle as mitigations are not disseminated in the community yet (a patch may be available but
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Inside NSO, Israel’s billion-dollar spyware giant(technologyreview.com)
19 points by Darkstryder 6y ago|0 comments
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by Darkstryder 6y ago
It is possible. Encrypting a piece of data requires the public key but not the secret key. Therefore you can give your public key to all of these multiples entities, they encrypt data and do computation on it, and only you can decrypt the r
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by Darkstryder 6y ago
To give an answer a bit more technical than the others, theoretically a encryption scheme is considered fully homomorphic if it can support an arbitrary number of additions and multiplications on its inputs (bits or integers). In a lot of
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by Darkstryder 6y ago
In France the acronym that stuck was GAFA, or GAFAM if you want to includes Microsoft. I always prefered GAFA / GAFAM to FAANG. However GAFA probably sounds better to the ear when pronounced the French way than the English way. This ma
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by Darkstryder 6y ago
Steal this idea: a Shazam of mathematical notation. In an app you would draw (or take a picture) of a mathematical symbol you don’t recognize and get a link to the appropriate Wikipedia page. My biggest pet peeve with mathematical symbols i
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Adevinta acquires eBay Classified Groups for 9.2B$(adevinta.com)
2 points by Darkstryder 6y ago|1 comments
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by Darkstryder 6y ago
I should stress that it is not the side-projects themselves that got me the jobs but the knowledge I acquired while working on them. I usually do side-projects on topics that interests me, and usually apply on jobs that also interests me, a
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by Darkstryder 6y ago
In the past five years, I've had several side-projects that were never "finished" in the literal sense, but taught me important things that helped me ace job interviews, getting me two jobs that I probably wouldn't have
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Status as a Service (2019)(eugenewei.com)
1 points by Darkstryder 6y ago|0 comments
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by Darkstryder 6y ago
The first section of this article is called "How To Use This Document" and it immediately reminded me of: https://xkcd.com/1343/

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