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Breaking the encryption scheme of the Moscow internet voting system(arxiv.org)
4 points by catwell 7y ago|1 comments
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by catwell 7y ago
AFAIK "female presenting nipples" is banned from Apple's App Store in non-17+ apps. A huge company such as Facebook could maybe fight it, Automattic certainly can't.
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by catwell 7y ago
You can focus on breadth or depth depending on what kind of programmer (generalist or specialist) you want to be. Matt Klein (of Envoy) had a good thread about that on Twitter [1]. He focuses on depth whereas I tend to focus on breadth. Of
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by catwell 7y ago
It's the first question that came to my mind, and as it turns out we're obviously not the first to ask it: http://www.climatefoundation.org/azolla.html
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by catwell 7y ago
Chilli | Full Stack Developer | Paris, France | ONSITE, fluent French required We are a very early stage startup (founded in 2019, 5 people so far) part of startup studio eFounders ( https://www.efounders.com ). We help SMBs &#x2F
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by catwell 7y ago
You are right, of course. Asking for comments is fine. I guess the combination of looking at the (very broad) contents of the list, past issues with crypto export and knowing Trump is in the White House made me overreact...
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by catwell 7y ago
I am looking at this from Europe, and when I read things like this I feel like the US have not realized that their standing on the international scene has changed in the last 30 years. Most of the research and advances in the technologies l
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by catwell 8y ago
- NKS (Wolfram), among other things for the idea that sometimes reasoning backwards from what you observe cannot work. - I read Brave New World (Huxley) when I was young, and it didn't have such a strong impression on me at the time, b
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by catwell 8y ago
Sailor is unmaintained and its main author (Etiene Dalcol) now advises the use of Lapis if you want to use Lua on the Web. (This is a pretty simplified version of the situation, see https://github.com/sailorproject/sail
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by catwell 8y ago
The LuaRocks website is pretty small. Lapis was born from https://itch.io (kind of like Rails was born from Basecamp). It is still the "largest" website I know using it. OpenResty itself has a similar story with Taobao
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by catwell 8y ago
This is almost what he said they block in the installer (downgrade attacks or replay attacks). The difference is there might still be an attack where: - User is at version N - Version N + x is vulnerable - Version N + x + y is latest - User
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by catwell 8y ago
I am not an expert on VLC security, but here are a few things I can say. 1) The reaction is due to the fact that VLC developers know very well it updates over HTTP on Mac. It has been reported at least 10 times in the past. 2) The comment m
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by catwell 8y ago
A French sex toy for women (Little Bird by B. Sensory) already won a CES innovation award in 2016. I can't remember if it was in the robotics category or not. We are already reading the arguments of one side here, I wonder what the act
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by catwell 8y ago
There are visible elements on top of YouTube videos. That's what this "empty div" is for if that's the one I think it is. It is the container for things like branding and annotations.
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by catwell 8y ago
No idea why this was downvoted. I don't have recent experience setting up something like this but 10 years ago BackupPC was the answer, and I guess it is still good. Does anyone have a different experience?
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by catwell 8y ago
Key man insurance policies explicitly exclude parachute jumps. I know because one of the founders of the company I work for used to jump, and he had to give up his hobby for that reason.
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by catwell 8y ago
Apparently you think you are average at everything, but it looks like at least once you were good at picking a successful tech company. If this sounds right to you, why not do it again? I would set the money aside (invest it like others sai
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by catwell 8y ago
Given recent news, I would be surprised if the future of IBM's cloud was not based on OpenShift...
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by catwell 8y ago
Glad to hear that. To be honest the only real corruption issues I had with LMDB in practice were dues to me using MDB_NOSYNC, and broken mmap behavior on some Android devices (on external storage).
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by catwell 8y ago
Things like closing DBIs, transactions and cursors in the wrong order, for instance.
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by catwell 8y ago
In case someone involved in this reads this thread: the document does not specify which LMDB version you tested. I suggest you run your tests with the `mdb.master` branch, i.e. the work towards a future 1.0, and not the stable 0.9 branch. T
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by catwell 8y ago
Same here! I blogged about it over 5 years ago (time flies) [1]! Amusingly, despite having done a ton of Computer Vision (I worked for an image recognition company for 4 years) I never used it for that purpose. The main practical use case I
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by catwell 8y ago
The talk that had the most influence on how I write software is Robert 'Uncle Bob' Martin's "Architecture: The Lost Years" [1]. Being a Ruby conference keynote, it helps if you know how Ruby on Rails works, but the
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by catwell 8y ago
This is super interesting. I would like to see a real (learning, à la AlphaGo) A.I. play on Showdown OU someday, without cheating (i.e. about the number of matches per day a real human player would play). I think there are a few challenges
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by catwell 8y ago
What do you miss in the Android app? I thought the same for a while, until I noticed tapping the body of an email changed the top bar options...
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by catwell 8y ago
> all their servers are hosted in the US Not true, they have a lot of servers in Europe (Amsterdam). That doesn't make the issue less valid though, since I think they have a full copy of all the data on both sides of the ocean.
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by catwell 8y ago
At work, I use Lua 5.3 embedded into a large-ish (a few hundred thousand LOC) cross-platform (runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android) C application as a way to extend it. We have bindings for a lot of the C functions and use Lua for pro
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by catwell 8y ago
I strongly second that. We are more and more former users of LuaJIT who either don't use LuaJIT anymore, or think it is not a good long-term solution, because of those two issues (and absence of support of recent Lua versions). In addi
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by catwell 8y ago
A few details: - Pallene is a friendly fork of Titan [1]. The reason for the fork is that the authors of Titan are iterating fast and adding many experimental features to it. The research group at PUC Rio needed a more stable code base and
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by catwell 8y ago
> As Sijbrandij stressed, while most people still look at GitLab as a GitHub and Bitbucket competitor [...] GitLab wants to be far more than that. It now offers products in nine categories So basically, instead of being a GitHub competit

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