asterius

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by asterius 8y ago
There is some interesting Q&A at the end of Pascal's talk. My schoolboy French is not fast enough to do a proper translation unfortunately. He was asked about parallel (software) decoding and I think the gist was he thought it woul
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by asterius 9y ago
I'm not sure how battle hardened Mastodon is, obviously they don't have the resources of Twitter or Facebook. Probably easy to DDOS an individual server. However, it might be possible for other nodes to transparently cache updates
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by asterius 9y ago
Oblique to the predictable Slack XMPP decision, but relevant to federation: Mastondon is a facinating federated social network. It addresses the identity/reputation issues without embracing fb-fascism or one-site-to-rule-them-all nonse
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by asterius 9y ago
Doh, you're right. I looked at the site earlier and forgot to click on the red triangle and click "re-enable warnings". Mea culpa. I checked firefox and it works correctly too.
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by asterius 9y ago
Unlikely to be extradited for an extra-territorial claim. But the members of the executive and the board might not want to strike Germany from their list of travel destinations forever.
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by asterius 9y ago
I tested going to a https link via gmail. On desktop chrome, it immediately opens the link (and hence passes the link parameters). On mobile it pops up a privacy error, "Attackers might be trying to steal your information" (NET::E
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by asterius 9y ago
It seems grandiose to call that 'certificate pinning' when it is just hard coding, e.g. a self-signed CA cert or (worse) a particular server cert. Makes me suspect that a lot of client side validation is happening with mobile apps
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by asterius 9y ago
Certificate pinning is going away: http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-chrome-is-backing-away-f... I think we can be confident that sites that don't even use CSP won't be implementing Expect-CT any time.
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by asterius 9y ago
If you look at https://track.emirates.email you will see that it isn't emirates either, but a service provided by Mandrill, an add-on for MailChimp, and the cert is valid for https://mandrillapp.com . Surely they
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by asterius 9y ago
@minimaxir for your list: - Not possible to downvote some posters, as the authors have extreme karma (e.g. >10,000, though I don't know the exact number), even if you have >>500 karma. It is notable that HN does not support b
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by asterius 9y ago
You know you can get a support contract right? Where you pay the experts at Qt and they help you?
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by asterius 9y ago
Maybe this was the case with Qt4, but Qt5 (that is, QML) is a dream.
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by asterius 9y ago
You really think the memo was "starting a meaningful conversation"? Did you even read it?
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by asterius 9y ago
That memo was never intended to remain private correspondance. And I'd hope that Google would have terminated his employment in any case.
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by asterius 9y ago
They might not have paid for a source code licence. or they did, but they never made sure they had a copy, just left it with the developer. Surprsingly common for companies to get a big binder of paperwork, an installer disk, and consider i
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by asterius 9y ago
The real benefit from this work is not exfiltrating from airgapped computers, but from code running inside Intel SGX or similar isolated computation modes.
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by asterius 9y ago
Projector fiddling has been replaced with VTC fiddling. I hate Polycom/Skype with a far greater passion than any printer.
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by asterius 9y ago
There is no particular reason to expect that qemu has any greater security that vbox. All of these systems have a significant amount of very critical code; I particularly sceptical of the hardware emulation part. AWS recently started moving
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by asterius 9y ago
The investors didn't want standard returns, the valuation was based on them growing rapidly for years, which means new markets. They could have made money from their drone product line by diversifying beyond 'toy'. But that w
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by asterius 9y ago
No one who cares about latency even has 10GBASE-T hardware, because it introduces a vast amount of coding latency. It is also very power inefficient.
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by asterius 9y ago
Well, Colin Furze can make it in his garage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soxxPyaAT1k
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by asterius 9y ago
As well as being higher pitched, contra-rotating designs also produce more noise. The sound field is non-uniform (mostly axial), and there are claims of being able to reduce it through special phasing of the two rotors, using different numb
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by asterius 9y ago
All that is missing is mention of blockchain.
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by asterius 9y ago
You are correct, much better lift, speed, economy from a single large slower moving rotor (or a pair of counter-rotating blades, cost/benefits described in other posts). The reason all the cheap drones use 4 or more engines is that the
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by asterius 9y ago
I'm almost sure this is a champion satirical comment.
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by asterius 9y ago
Autorotation is often taught after only 8 hours of training. It is very feasible to have an AFCS that will do an autorotation, but it is harder to find a place to land.