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12721.
by api 11y ago
https://balboa.io/ is this, but commercial.
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by api 11y ago
For the past few years I've increasingly started thinking that 'free' can be pathological. The problem is that it's a lie. Everything takes effort to produce. Nothing is actually free. Sure you can give something away--
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by api 11y ago
But if you care about privacy or security, you do care where they are located. If they're located on your property, then they're protected by 200+ years of case law (in many countries). If not, then you have no protection save t
12724.
by api 11y ago
Now with more ads, spyware, constant logging of everything you do to Microsoft, and telemetry! No thanks. I guess MS wants to cede the entire high-end market to Apple and Linux and re-position themselves as a bargain basement low-end vendor
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by api 11y ago
IMHO we are in fact facing a choice: make it easier for criminals to communicate, or live in a glass-house panopticon. I don't think there's a middle ground. There's no way to weaken or break crypto... without weakening or br
12726.
by api 11y ago
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil" is like "don't ever roll your own crypto." It's "talking down" advice intended for programmers considered less knowledgable than the advisor. Personall
12727.
by api 11y ago
Part of the issue is that the dragnet activity the NSA/FBI have been conducting -- and their new moves to share this data with local law enforcement in violation of previous promises -- has destroyed anyone's trust in the social c
12728.
by api 11y ago
The problem is that surrendering encryption would not restore the old pre-encryption status quo. It would give government and state-linked actors absolutely unprecedented ability to observe, surveil, and monitor our activities now (and in r
12729.
by api 11y ago
Lizard people. I knew it. Now it all makes sense.
12730.
by api 11y ago
Policy wise Obama is close to a Rockefeller Republican. What people say during elections is entirely disposable.
12731.
by api 11y ago
There was a thread around here a few days ago about armed micro drones. What happens when you can build an autonomous assassination device and launch it from a mile away for under a thousand dollars? Soon politicians may be unable to ever a
12732.
by api 11y ago
There's an Atom theme called Hacking the Kernel that does some minimal bolding of keywords but is otherwise monochrome. I use it at times but never thought about whether I was faster with it.
12733.
by api 11y ago
Robust distributed systems that cross trust boundaries are impossible without crypto. That creates quite a lot of value.
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by api 11y ago
I look for paid apps on the Play store with high ratings. Those are usually decent, and you can return them if they aren't. Free apps on Android are like 90% borderline malware.
12735.
by api 11y ago
I guess MS wants to concede even more of the high-end desktop market to Apple. Shrug.
12736.
by api 11y ago
Is the information public? Equity investments are visible in SEC filings, but can this even be quantified from public data?
12737.
by api 11y ago
What if the problem is not diagnosable from logs? In a perfect world production and development would be identical, all production issues would be easy to reproduce in development, and logging and error handling would be sufficient to diagn
12738.
by api 11y ago
A lot of consumer IoT feels forced. It feels like I am supposed to want these things. What am I? A luddite? It's The Future(tm)! Of course I should want a less reliable, more expensive, shorter life span, more complex security/pri
12739.
by api 11y ago
For our app the killer was storage costs. Of course our app is probably different from your app. For us we are doing real-time network testing and diagnostics of a bunch of distributed networks and dumping the data into a series of tables f
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by api 11y ago
You're right and wrong. To the extent that such suppression is happening on campuses that is also an example, but it doesn't excuse Trump. Your argument amounts to "but those people are also a-holes!" Well okay, sure,
12741.
by api 11y ago
These days everyone smart and educated wants to be a 'no-BS' skeptic type person. That means categorically rejecting anything that smells like certain kinds of "low-brow" thought. What I wrote trips the "conspiracy
12742.
by api 11y ago
Off topic but: while I do sympathize with Sanders a bit and I agree with most of what you wrote, I also think his popularity is being driven by the same populist wellspring as Trump. That makes me a bit afraid that we might end up with some
12743.
by api 11y ago
Meanwhile the leading Republican presidential nominee is a right-populist (a.k.a. fascist), and the Democratic presidential nominee was almost a left-populist (socialist). We are literally one economic crisis or major terrorist attack awa
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by api 11y ago
What we're headed toward is ultra-fine-grained algorithmic McCarthyism. In the future it will be possible to establish, with the aid of big data and machine learning, profiles of "normal" (a.k.a. desired) human behavior and t
12745.
by api 11y ago
Laws are so complex that chances are you are breaking some law at some point in your life. If you do anything "interesting" like activism, entrepreneurship, alternative religious practices, DIY maker stuff, etc., you are probably
12746.
by api 11y ago
What's with "the cloud" here? That's the holy grail of any type of programming on any type of computing device at any scale. If that were possible it would be just as useful on a phone or a PC or a personal server.
12747.
by api 11y ago
This project should be named Bob Ross.
12748.
by api 11y ago
But it was on AWS, so it was enterprise.
12749.
by api 11y ago
If these things become commonplace I could see a second amendment challenge against the illegality of counter-drone weapons.
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by api 11y ago
The big error of the 90s digital utopians was over-estimating how much the Internet would change society and under-estimating how much society would change the Internet.

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