Roujo

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by Roujo 6y ago
Yes, but there's still an increase in the attack surface - it's a lot harder to convince a registrar to turn over gmail.com than <my domain>, for most values of <my domain>. It's not a deal breaker, of course, but
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by Roujo 7y ago
Oh wow, and here I thought having clients check that record was the whole point, as a layer of defense against rogue CAs. Thank you so much, I hadn't realized. =)
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by Roujo 7y ago
CAA DNS records aim to make that more difficult, actually, but otherwise AFAIK you're right. =) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_Certification_Authority_Au...
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by Roujo 7y ago
> To say they don't have any way of MITM'ing a connection is wrong even if it's unlikely. I totally agree, it's why I qualified it with "just by virtue of them being the one validating the cert for a certain webs
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by Roujo 7y ago
As I understand it, a CA doesn't have a way of MITMing connections just by virtue of them being the one validating the cert for a certain website. You don't share the private keys of your certs when you generate them[0], you just
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by Roujo 7y ago
Wow, the visualizations on that article are really well-made. I live in Montreal so it's a very interesting read, thank you for sharing it! =)
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by Roujo 7y ago
I agree with the similarity but as you're saying there was always the possibility of leaving town. It wasn't a convenient solution, and you might very well repeat the same actions wherever you go, but at least you could get a chan
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by Roujo 7y ago
Presumably a Satoshi, the nickname given to the current smallest fraction of a bitcoin that is recorded on the block chain - 0.00000001 BTC. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Satoshi_(unit)
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by Roujo 7y ago
> The only thing I didn't like about Suica/Pasmo when I was in Japan was that, unlike a credit card, there doesn't seem to be a way to get a statement so you can see where you spent all your money I use Suikakeibo [0] for
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by Roujo 7y ago
That's exactly it! I've bookmarked it for future reference, thank you so much! =)
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by Roujo 7y ago
> So what is this DRM supposed to achieve? It's a good point, but I believe DRM isn't just about piracy. It's also about control. I read a good article about this once, but I can't find it anywhere right now so I&#x27
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by Roujo 8y ago
On Android, you can put a file called ".nomedia" in those folders to achieve this.
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by Roujo 8y ago
As I recall the idea was to promote looking for a Pixelfed instance with a community that fits your needs and interests, which in turn makes the network stronger by distributing the userbase over a variety of servers. Keeping registrations
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by Roujo 8y ago
Looks like the URL is mangled by being repeated, that's odd. It seems to work when I de-dupe it, though. ^^ https://alt.org/nethack/trd/?file=https://alt.org/nethack/us...
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by Roujo 8y ago
These rules work for me, using uBlock Origin: stackoverflow.com###hot-network-questions stackoverflow.com###feed-link
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by Roujo 9y ago
Yes, is does. However, the amount of electricity used isn't directly correlated with the number of transactions on the network. It instead follows the number of miners validating those transactions. A empty block validating no transact
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by Roujo 9y ago
> Instead of filling the stream and having a constant stream size, you could just code the drone do add random bursts of data, making any prediction from the observer useless. If it's actually random, wouldn't the average bitra
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by Roujo 9y ago
Ah, good to know. At least the title isn't wrong, even if it's not reflected in the content of the article. Thanks!
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by Roujo 9y ago
I feel like the title might be jumping to conclusions. From the article, emphasis mine: > With this strategic shift, Disney will end its distribution agreement with Netflix for subscription streaming of new releases , beginning with the
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by Roujo 9y ago
IMO, Occam's Razor is only meaningful when there are two competing hypothesis, one of which is markedly simpler than the other. Mentioning it in a context of "surely it can't be this complicated" without pointing towards
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by Roujo 9y ago
> So it seems worse than both of those? That was a single model (40% Bethesda + 30% Valve + 30% Creator), not two separate models from Bethesda and Valve.
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by Roujo 10y ago
> there are therefore an infinite number of finite sequences in Pi Sure, but this doesn't answer the question: Do we know that every possible finite sequence is present? You can have the former without the latter being true. For exa
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by Roujo 10y ago
To quote Spivak higher up in the comment chain: > It's not perfect, but at least you would know you're being investigated.
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by Roujo 11y ago
It does, actually. I've been using it since last week, with the SourceTree update issues and all.