chexum

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by chexum 1y ago
The bit shifts were my first idea too where this would break down; but actually, 1-8 bit shifts would be just fine, and they can be encoded in 3 bits. 0 and 9 are special cases anyway (nop and full nonyte/nyte) for the programmer&#x2F
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by chexum 1y ago
In the UK, similar situations are common when “someone” flags any transaction to or from you as suspicious, at which point they need to freeze it, report it to an appropriate branch of an organisation, and… wait. That organisation most of
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by chexum 3y ago
I think the pathological cases should be made impossible before anything like that is considered for a world with humans. Y’all underestimate the number of people with enough money to screw someone (or everyone) over just because they can.
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by chexum 4y ago
What I hate the most about this is that “is this you” is triggered apparently on a browser version change, which can be up to two times a week. On top of that, with apple private relay, an iPhone’s IP address changes quite frequently. Anoth
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by chexum 4y ago
IMHO it is clearly a wrong assumption on the side of any such sender. A verification link should have clear definite actions for the user receiving it: - It's me, let me confirm my address - I never signed up for this heap of diamonds
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by chexum 4y ago
I'm quite confused, the article is supposed to be an advocacy piece, but it is just being all defensive about where the use cases are. With TCP/IP, or packet switching, they did have an idea that it will be useful, but noone could
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by chexum 4y ago
http://bootstrappable.org perhaps?
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by chexum 4y ago
Are you trying to repeat Bill Gates's Open Letter TO Hobbyists? You're still missing "Most directly, the thing you do is theft." I think the past 46 years have proved, that free software works, no matter how many Bills w
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by chexum 4y ago
pass is great for availability, I think I have several friends even in other countries (if a VPS wouldn't be sufficient) that would lend me space with a shell account for a "pass git push". Of course, the gpg key is an issue,