billpg

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   by billpg 6y ago

   If only there was some way of telling if a system built using a block chain was unsound.
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   by billpg 6y ago

   Toilet paper shortages this year occurred in capitalist economies.
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   by billpg 6y ago

   Buy me a drink and I'll tell you about the time I investigated a service that, among other things, sent email with a Message-ID based on the date. (Not the time of day.) It was meant to send one email every day. Until it wasn't.
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   POP3 – UIDL is a required command(hackensplat.com)

   1 points by billpg 6y ago|2 comments
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   by billpg 6y ago

   My recollection from the day was that "disk" was a class of file storage that allowed random access, distinct from tape which needs to be positioned. (For example, "RAM DISK" which isn't at all cylindrical.)
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   by billpg 6y ago

   * n't
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   by billpg 6y ago

   https://billpg.com/qr.html (A little too long for twitter. Also, I could find a font that displayed these characters correctly.)
8. 458.▲
   by billpg 6y ago

   Exactly how terrified should I be right now?
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   by billpg 6y ago

   Cool. Maybe do milk next? Right now, we use unskilled labor (cows) to perform chemical reactions with biomass (grass) to produce milk. I find it surprising that we can't do the same but significantly cheaper and cleaner with vats. I&#x
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    by billpg 6y ago

    Then "artificial" adds nothing. Just call them diamonds.
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    by billpg 6y ago

    "Artificial" diamonds. Unless I've misread something, these are genuine diamonds. IE, carbon crystals. "Artificial" makes people think of moissanite and similar materials.
12. 462.▲
    by billpg 6y ago

    Does the badger one go out of sync with the audio if you leave it looping for long enough?
13. 463.▲
    by billpg 6y ago

    I hope I'll be able to choose where the ads appear in my own videos. Ads playing in the middle of a sentence are really annoying.
14. 464.▲
    by billpg 6y ago

    I'm surprised they didn't do this long ago. Hosting videos is expensive.
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    Company forced to change name that could be used to hack websites(theguardian.com)

    74 points by billpg 6y ago|22 comments
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    by billpg 6y ago

    I've purchased my phone and paid cash. My cell network is a SIM-only contract. Is the number of ways for anyone to say "Lock billpg's phone." and for my phone to get locked as a result, exactly zero?
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    by billpg 6y ago

    Will they be making one with an integrated monitor like a laptop?
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    by billpg 6y ago

    Cheers Boris!
19. 469.▲
    by billpg 6y ago

    Fair points. I'll accept the F2 interface only working on a standard keyboard with a basic monitor port and a restricted selection of USB devices. Needing to use it at all is an exceptional case that only techies need understand. Sound
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    by billpg 6y ago

    Just to clarify, I want to not even be able to upgrade the BIOS. The machine can't tell if I'm actually sitting there trying to push new code into the ROM or if some malware is doing it, so I want the machine to refuse any reque
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    by billpg 6y ago

    I want the BIOS (or whatever we're calling it now) to do as little as possible. Find the OS, load it, transfer control to it, stop. The most complex thing a BIOS should need to do is the user interface when I press F2 (or something) so
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    by billpg 6y ago

    How does that work with a population of 6 million?
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    C# designer Torgersen: Why the programming language is still so popular and(techrepublic.com)

    15 points by billpg 6y ago|8 comments
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    by billpg 6y ago

    When browsers default-trusted one CA, others companies, quite reasonably, wanted a piece of the action and asked to be included too. Time passed and we, the general public, are no longer part of the conversation about who should be default-
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    by billpg 6y ago

    The rot started when browsers started including root certs as trusted by default.
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    by billpg 6y ago

    It's 2020 and printer manufacturers still haven't settled on a standard printer interface. I remember once buying a mouse and having to install a driver for it. Then one day, the mouse manufacturers all agreed to use a single inte
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    by billpg 6y ago

    We are the dragon.
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    by billpg 6y ago

    I was surprised to find the converters I purchased were so big because of the electronics inside. I had imagined a converter would just need to be a micro-USB socket and a USB-C plug with some wires joining the two together.
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    by billpg 6y ago

    I may been a bit glib in my original post, but is there actually a website where ransomware gangs reputation are tracked?
30. 480.▲
    by billpg 6y ago

    Are those people who buy cheap cables in the wrong? Maybe I do need to buy those gold-plated cables.