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by barsonme 5y ago
It’s because they use FCM for sending push notifications and you need Google Play Services to use FCM. And Signal uses push notifications to know when to wake up and fetch data. Otherwise, it has to poll and do other ugly stuff which drains
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by barsonme 5y ago
That’s true if you’re talking about, like, Burger King or something. But even places that treat their workers well are even having problems. Not everything is black and white.
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by barsonme 5y ago
Except the EU can’t enforce GDPR against NSA, so who cares? And, realistically, the EU can’t enforce GDPR outside the EU. If somebody in the UAE, for example, were to hoover up all the EU citizen data they can get their hands on what is the
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by barsonme 5y ago
All that proves is he’s got an interest in explosives. Believe it or not, explosives are a legitimate hobby for some folks. Unless there is other evidence, you’re just blindly speculating as to his intent.
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by barsonme 5y ago
Counterpoint: SipHash. Also, in general I disagree. For most people, safe defaults like hash tables with safe hashes and CSPRNG for random numbers are fast enough. And they have the important property of keeping people from shootings themse
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by barsonme 5y ago
> Do you mean intended for store manager and applied to store managers only, or intended for store managers and applied to everyone (because template/boilerplate [0])? The latter. My guess is that (for non-managers) it was boilerpla
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by barsonme 5y ago
That’s the whole point. Cryptography tools should do one thing and do it well. Most of PGP’s problems stem from it including the kitchen sink. If you need signatures, use minisign.
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by barsonme 5y ago
FWIW that was only intended for store managers, who are (or at least were) flown to Champagne, IL for multiple weeks of training. Having worked at JJ’s, I don’t think they were taught anything remotely with a non-compete. I think they just
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Disclosing Shamir’s Secret Sharing Vulnerabilities and Announcing ZKDocs(blog.trailofbits.com)
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by barsonme 5y ago
FWIW, my comparison was against a one year old MBP. I’ve had a range of MacBooks (2013, 2016, 2020, 2021) and it just isn’t a competition. The M1 is head and shoulders above the other models in battery life.
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by barsonme 5y ago
I go about 2-3 days without charging it under moderate (regular) use. While developing (compiling, lots of tabs, etc.), I’ll use about 80% in a day. For reference, the last zoom call I was on (2 hours) with nearly max brightness only draine
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by barsonme 5y ago
That’s great for Ubuntu!
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by barsonme 5y ago
Stick a knife in the base of the lobster’s neck. Literally.
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by barsonme 5y ago
Insane credit card fees? What? Most cards do not have a fee. And for those that do, it’s very easy to recoup much more than the fee in rewards. For example, Chase Sapphire is one of (or actually the ) the most expensive cards at $550/
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by barsonme 5y ago
> most people will do their day to day spending on debit because the rewards we get aren’t worth the faff of paying for things a month later, when you are less “flush” This sort of thinking misses the point that even with credit cards yo
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by barsonme 5y ago
How come scale (“ten million”) makes it a policy problem? There are a whole heck of a lot of poor parenting practices out there, manny practiced at scale.
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by barsonme 5y ago
I've been to plenty of transport hubs, tourist attractions, capitols, etc. in the US, too. Or maybe I've been fortunate in that all the police in all the high-visibility places I've visited in the US don't patrol carryin
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by barsonme 5y ago
Ditto. In nearly 30 years of living in the US I can only ever recall seeing police officers patrolling with long guns twice: once when I visited the US capitol, and once at a big festival/parade thing in Bellevue, WA. Seeing the office
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by barsonme 5y ago
My guess: since overflowing int is UB, and the only value of n that stops the recursion is zero, the compiler assumes that n must be zero and checks accordingly. That doesn’t explain why it uses test dil, 1 instead of test dil, dil or cmp 0
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by barsonme 5y ago
A blockchain is "just" a fancy hash chain, or a hash chain with rules. Take your pick. Blockchains provide a cryptographic ordering of events, or cryptographically agreed upon state, which is a useful property. It's certainly
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by barsonme 5y ago
The article misquotes Steam’s rules. Here is what Steam says: > Applications built on blockchain technology that issue or allow exchange of cryptocurrencies or NFTs. And the article: > Games that use blockchain technology or let users
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by barsonme 5y ago
This is true for pretty much any VPN provider, though. Like, somebody could compromise your company and start forging OpenVPN client certificates.
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by barsonme 5y ago
> And I understand that most of my reports spend most of their time doing that kind of work. So I wouldn't push them to go back into the office; remote work is the right thing for the team overall.
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by barsonme 5y ago
They explicitly said it’s benefiting them in a way they care about. Similarly, when I put my user hat on (as opposed to my SWE hat) I appreciate the curation, at least compared to the Wild West of downloading applications off the internet.
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by barsonme 5y ago
The key aspect of a blockchain is that each block contains the hash of the previous block. That provides integrity guarantees that you don't get simply by using a central entity.
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by barsonme 5y ago
That’s a very optimistic opinion :) And just to nitpick about blockchains, ledgers, etc.: they don’t need to be world-readable. You can protect them the same as you would a regular database.
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by barsonme 5y ago
The thread is about somebody storing ciphertext in a blockchain.
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by barsonme 5y ago
If AES is broken in your lifetime, you're going to have _way_ bigger problems than somebody decrypting your blockchain ciphertext. And if you're not encrypting data with AES (or one of a handful of other algorithms), then you shou
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by barsonme 5y ago
Is there a way to read the statement without a Facebook account?
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by barsonme 5y ago
The paper uses IP addresses as a proxy for location. They’re not sharing (fuzzy) coordinates unless you enable location sharing. The only way to prevent that is that is to never make network requests. That’s probably a reasonable expectatio

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