Osmium

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by Osmium 13y ago
Maybe his information is encrypted such that it requires multiple parties to decrypt; i.e. his consent is a necessary but not a sufficient condition to decrypt his data, so that it wouldn't be revealed even under torture. https:/
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by Osmium 13y ago
Completely off-topic, but oh-my-god if the Guardian mobile website doesn't look so much better on a desktop browser than their non-mobile website... I thought they'd had a redesign for a moment.
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by Osmium 13y ago
I don't know. Apparently Syria's Assad used iTunes: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/14/assad-itunes-ema... I imagine it'd be an easy way of finding the IP addresses of the devices
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by Osmium 13y ago
Don't forget there are only ever going to be more unix newbies in the world. It's not like they're a dying breed. There are more people than ever who have never been exposed to unix tools who might benefit from them (myself i
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by Osmium 13y ago
I don't find Windows 8 too bad as is -- I have it set to the true display resolution on my MBPr, but with font scaling (150%?). Works for most apps while some have tiny text but it isn't too bad. Everything's crisp at least,
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by Osmium 13y ago
Huh. I hadn't actually thought that the protocol itself could protect you (I only left my comment based on what I'd read elsewhere; I don't know anything about it otherwise). So hypothetically speaking, if the protocol did pr
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by Osmium 13y ago
There are lots of good guides online on how to protect yourself from this (disable password-based auth, or use 2-factor auth, Fail2ban etc.), but there's one piece of advice that crops up a lot that is probably a bad idea, and that&#x2
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by Osmium 13y ago
There are two problems with this: 1) There's not good broad support for 3D views in PDFs; I imagine it won't work on most things other than Adobe Reader. What does it fallback on if it doesn't work? etc. And in any case, it&#
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by Osmium 13y ago
Lucky you! I agree, though, that the problem isn't as severe as the OP suggests, but it does exist. You see it especially in papers that aren't that great, where the author obfuscates what they've done because the reality isn
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by Osmium 13y ago
Also as someone who has strong opinions, I concur that PDFs are great, especially for archiving purposes. As a distillation of important information, I think they're ideal. That said I think we need something else in addition to PDFs,
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by Osmium 13y ago
That's really very interesting, and quite concerning. I saw that talk was only presented in May. Any new info since then?
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by Osmium 13y ago
Hmm, I didn't know that. It seems you may be right: http://www.frameloss.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Lion-Mem... Though apparently there was a company offering a commercial solution for getting F
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by Osmium 13y ago
Regarding [2], it's not clear yet what Apple does here: it looks like they bruteforce the iPhones when requested by the relevant authorities (possibly using a custom bootrom) and specifically not via a backdoor. If there was a backdo
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by Osmium 13y ago
Not impossible, but some smart people have been looking, at least for Apple's FileVault 2: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/08/an_analysis_of... Paper here: http://eprint.iacr.o
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by Osmium 13y ago
Thanks -- I hadn't thought of that. I have read recently that there's a push away from Bayer filters, e.g. http://www.43rumors.com/detailed-panasonic-colour-splitter-s... But I imagine that's a long way off f
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by Osmium 13y ago
That's really interesting. Thanks! Very impressive to see that in a phone.
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by Osmium 13y ago
If I remember rightly, they actually say in Practical Cryptography that some of the worst crypto they've seen comes from people who've read Applied Cryptography and then decided to roll their own. Which is presumably one of the da
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by Osmium 13y ago
Presumably the individual pixel size is smaller though? So where's the true advantage here vs having fewer larger pixels which would presumably have less noise anyway.
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by Osmium 13y ago
Or (in Alfred) just type: >ssh [host] If you keep your ~/.ssh/config up to date and can remember your host names, I find it quicker to do that than bothering with the workflow.
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by Osmium 13y ago
Really? I know someone who got a PhD position by doing just that. Talking to a professor directly seems like a great idea as long you're sure you're not wasting their time (i.e. that you're a suitable candidate). Even if you
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by Osmium 13y ago
> If you're looking to do work with some research group, people want to know your grades. If you want to get into certain graduate schools, you'll most likely end up competing with people with high grades. As a counter-point to
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by Osmium 13y ago
I think it may be a percent or so higher now, depending on subject. That said, I find it interesting that even though Cambridge still has damn hard exams, they still haven't escaped some grade inflation: I remember seeing a graph showi
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by Osmium 13y ago
> The idea of getting 80%+ in college would be absurd in the UK. Indeed; that's the bias I was referring to in my comment above (I'm from the UK and I think, in this particular aspect at least, our system works better).
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by Osmium 13y ago
Title could almost be from The Onion. But it's true. It is hard, but that's okay. The whole point of the grading system was to acknowledge subtlety; that it's okay if you don't have an A, because it doesn't mean you
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by Osmium 13y ago
I absolutely love Soulver, but I think it's trying to achieve a subtly different aim. Soulver is a lot more focused, and definitely more a calculator (albeit one re-designed for the modern era) than a text editor. What I'd really
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by Osmium 13y ago
> large volume of lower cost panels produced in China which are flooding (allegedly being dumped in) the market Would it be illegal for these German companies to just buy up all the panels as they enter the market, to resell later? If th
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by Osmium 13y ago
Is there a decent numpy/scipy equivalent for Go yet? By which I mean an easy way to manipulate matrices, complex numbers perform discrete Fourier transforms and the like.
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by Osmium 13y ago
I'm paying for Fastmail anyway, so I don't think it's that unreasonable for a paid service.
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by Osmium 13y ago
I've recently converted to Fastmail.fm, which seems great and they have a nice web interface too. They're now owned by Opera, so I assume their data retention policies must be consistent with EU law, though I think they have serve
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by Osmium 13y ago
I think this looks great, but it does strike me a bit of re-inventing the wheel, i.e. if we take this to its logical conclusion, we'll have just reinvented the GUI ;)

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