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by __alexs 6y ago
I don't buy this. There are millions of anonymous Twitter accounts and forum posters. Literal children have figured out opsec well enough to save themselves them embarrassment of having to share their love of anime with the wrong frien
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by __alexs 6y ago
I honestly don't understand this perspective which seems central to a lot of pgs writing lately: "the customs protecting free inquiry have been weakened" Can anyone explain it? We are, right now, posting on the most expansive
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by __alexs 6y ago
Maybe he should get a real job again then? Might help him get back in touch with reality.
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by __alexs 6y ago
Great piece. I frequently find myself withholding opinions about inequality because they'd get me in trouble. The orthodoxy really has the debate on lock down, glad the Trump situation has really got the debate moving again though.
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by __alexs 6y ago
> China puts their own citizens in concentration camps. Is putting other countries citizens in concentration camps somehow morally superior? > They're using machine learning to generate social scores. America also has this they
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by __alexs 6y ago
The thing is the "cookie banner" is not required simply because you use cookies. Consent is required for any processing of PII regardless of the technical means through which you get it. I don't know if "privacy" is
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by __alexs 6y ago
Slightly off topic: Plausible claim that their cookieless tracking is GDPR compliant but this seems a bit shaky to me. Unless they are doing something that isn't specified in their docs their fingerprinting seems reversible which would
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by __alexs 6y ago
https://theintercept.com/2020/03/18/nypd-misconduct-body-cam...
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by __alexs 6y ago
It's a WebGL clone of Counter-Strike 1.6 that can even load original maps.
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by __alexs 6y ago
Intel have no 10nm parts so how would we know if it's better? TSMC are shipping millions of working 7nm parts today.
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by __alexs 6y ago
Oh yes, I forgot they've entirely lost this console generation.
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by __alexs 6y ago
Nvidia probably collaborated on the Epic demo but also they are aimed at two entirely different sets of customers. Nvidia's news cycle is data center updates in May, consumers/gamer updates in September.
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by __alexs 10y ago
Looks a lot like https://www.electricsheep.org/
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by __alexs 11y ago
I've usually assumed that when people say "software development is not manufacturing" they usually are referring to the "Western" model of manufacturing that the first half Goldratt's book Critical Chain spends
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by __alexs 11y ago
> where one of the most popular grocery chains is a co-op Their parent groups also runs a bank, electrical retailer, funeral directors, travel agents and solicitors.
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by __alexs 11y ago
I implemented much the same thing for Python a few years ago. Accuracy on real programs is actually quite good but ultimately Python and Ruby don't really make it easy to get accurate results. This is mostly caused by (perhaps unsurpri
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by __alexs 11y ago
> 15% fewer bytes per image makes for a much more responsive experience. I wonder how they measured this. Seems like perceived speed gains would be sub-linear with file sizes to me. Particularly as actual transfer speed is often too once
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by __alexs 11y ago
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/1180240... Fatal lift accidents are not unheard of.
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by __alexs 11y ago
One instruction set computer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_instruction_set_computer
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by __alexs 12y ago
> that doesn't seem an unreasonable assumption to make in this case Not that I don't agree with you but I find it a common failure mode of HDs to just never reply to things. I guess it's also a common failure mode of netwo
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by __alexs 12y ago
Is this still a major problem for (EC)DSA? I thought it was generally agreed that deterministic nonces (e.g. RFC 6979) were the way to go these days?
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by __alexs 12y ago
I attempted to do something like this when figuring out our build problems but it didn't really work for me. It doesn't solve the problem of actually getting configuration into the build very well because it still relies on Docker
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by __alexs 12y ago
It really has been one of the worst parts of deploying Docker in development actually. I would have gone into more depth on that but every error feels like a personal suffering. We have quite a few developers and many are off site and have
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by __alexs 12y ago
LibreSSL is lacking features such as ALPN and they've removed many constants, changed function definitions in subtle ways and modified header include dependencies. The result of this is that it definitely isn't a drop in replaceme
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by __alexs 12y ago
We already know that these agencies carry out real mitm attacks on users regularly. We already asked them pointed questions as to why they do this. The reality is that they don't care yet. They have near complete legal freedom to carry
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by __alexs 12y ago
Opportunistic encryption without authenticated certificates is basically useless. Actively decrypting and re-encrypting the entire current internet at line speed can be achieved for only a few million dollars. It's neither a technical
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by __alexs 12y ago
If by their own you mean one of numerous other cable companies that they purchased then yes. There used to be a plethora of small cable companies in the UK. Now there is only Virgin. The widespread availability of high quality ADSL does see
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by __alexs 13y ago
They have. http://www.ablogtowatch.com/bathys-hawaii-cesium-133-atomic-...
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by __alexs 13y ago
OpenSSL has pretty good support for HSMs in the form of their ENGINE API. It seems like it would be possible to use this layer to move all key handling and crypto operations out of the process that was dealing with TLS. Process isolation se
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by __alexs 13y ago
You can't even reliably use the version number defined in openssl.h because RedHat decided that they will never change it ever again during RHEL 5. They just endlessly patch some ancient version of 0.9.8. Fortunately 0.9.8 isn't e

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