HappyTypist

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by HappyTypist 11y ago
Uber is not receiving 'massive backlash' from users. It's receiving backlash from authorities and regulators. Personally, the more authorities want to ban uber the more I want to use it.
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by HappyTypist 11y ago
I question the value of CPUC wanting detailed historical operational data. It seems like an attempt by an outdated regulatory organization to shoehorn itself by flexing its authority, creating nothing but more bureaucratic inefficiency. W
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by HappyTypist 11y ago
I think IP + useragent + locale (which is sent with every HTTP request) is enough to pinpoint most users.
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by HappyTypist 11y ago
Noteworthy limitation [1]: > The only gotcha is that the FPGA onchip memory is OTP, so it should either be loaded by external CPU over SPI, or from external SPI Flash, in both cases the SPI pins are user defined IO after bootstrap. Or th
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by HappyTypist 11y ago
Google is reportedly paying 30% of ad revenue to the company behind Adblock Plus to get on the "acceptable ads" whitelist for Google search. I find this a despicable pracrice and encourage my friends to use another ad blocker. If
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by HappyTypist 11y ago
Yep. Please don't fall into the NIH syndrome for an app that requires the network effect to work.
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by HappyTypist 11y ago
If a browser blocks animated favicons, I can see that blocking sites that dynamically update the favicon with a badge to show unread messages / new updates / etc.
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by HappyTypist 11y ago
It's a footnote. I guess the author is going for a "stream of consciousness" around Apple watch pixels. (Don't get me wrong, I don't think this is a positive contribution to the article)
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by HappyTypist 11y ago
The sysadmins need to change the DNS to point to a status page, perform forensic dumps of the servers, and perform incident response 101 ASAP. There's no excuse leaving an attacker controlled message up for hours.
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by HappyTypist 11y ago
Every software is like this to some extent. The more external stuff they link, the more affected. Even if something doesn't auto update, eventually you'll have to update to the latest version because certain functionality will no
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by HappyTypist 11y ago
This has been implemented in Firefox for years.
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by HappyTypist 11y ago
Sure, but does it describe itself as shareware? The original benefit of shareware was that you could redistribute the installer to your friends. This is no longer a compelling benefit, and 'shareware' has serious negative implicat
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by HappyTypist 11y ago
Not at all. Just securely store a copy of all work keys on a non-networked, "cold storage" server and back it up for redundancy. Record keeping is preserved while you gain the full benefits of PGP.
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by HappyTypist 11y ago
All they'll get is the IP addresses of the swarm. They'll have similar luck cat'ing the access logs of their httpd.
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by HappyTypist 11y ago
Just a suggestion: Make signing up and signing in easier. Just have a username/password, don't ask for email and don't make the user repeat. If they make a typo when registering, they can make a new account. Your site is ver
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by HappyTypist 11y ago
The most popular Bitcoin paper wallet generator explictly tells you that it's very very unsafe to be running it remotely. It is the equivalent of wgetting a compiled executable, weakly signed with keys that may be compromised (HTTPS),
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by HappyTypist 11y ago
Most people took a little bit of time to get familiar with smartphone UIs, especially for someone who's jumping from no smart phone at all to the latest version of iOS and Android. I wonder if he has been slowly learning how to use a s
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by HappyTypist 11y ago
No, any block building on a invalid block is automatically invalid.
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by HappyTypist 11y ago
To clarify, the issue isn't SPV mining - the issue is not validating your mined blocks with the latest version when submitting. Even if the pools were SPV mining, their invalid chains would only be 1 block deep as the core client will
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by HappyTypist 11y ago
This is easily solved by an email service that makes creating aliases take 5 seconds, and offer a very large maximum number of aliases. Address exhaustion is a real issue though, so you will need to acquire many email-worthy domains for t
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by HappyTypist 11y ago
Absolutely. All these attempts at reinventing email into a new instant messaging service are fundamentally flawed, even if they only intend to use email as bootstrapping. I /don't/ want enter to send the message -- I want ent
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by HappyTypist 11y ago
The moral of this story is: Make sure your backups work. Practice restoring from backups before you need to. And of course, use a suitable version control system -- which would have prevented rm -rf * from impacting anything.
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by HappyTypist 11y ago
You can indeed buy anything less than ~$100 instantly with Bitcoin. Payment processors like BitPay and Coinbase accept zero confirmation transactions for small amounts, simply because the costs of double-spending 0 confirm are massive.
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by HappyTypist 11y ago
That's not true. While bitcoin mining is conducted through pools, what mining pools do is entirely public. Miners can easy choose another pool if one abuses their power. For example, in 2014 a pool named GHash.io was close to obtaining
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by HappyTypist 11y ago
This is a great talk for anyone managing communities. Reddit's current situation does bear many resemblances, especially with kn0thing's "Thank you for the feedback. I hope you change your mind about reddit, but if not, you&#
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by HappyTypist 11y ago
Marc Bodnick commented on why Victoria was fired: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CI9iYW7VAAAzzJN.png I consider him to be a reputable source and the claims are very plausible. Out of touch management never know how out
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by HappyTypist 11y ago
Sometimes local laws are not worth complying. Taxi medallions are one example - they artificially limit supply and break the market. The argument that a limit on taxis is needed to prevent congestion ignores the whole concept of 'suppl
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by HappyTypist 11y ago
The author of this article has a misconception that the marginal cost for processing a bitcoin transaction is "1.57 American household's yearly consumption". That's not correct -- the marginal cost is closer to the elect