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corv
10y ago
Even if this won't replace current input methods, I think this is clever and a surprisingly intuitive way to type Chinese characters.
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corv
10y ago
There are a lot of reasons a consumer wouldn't get a bank account in the first place.
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corv
10y ago
Even the table they presented it on looks like it was lifted from an Apple Store...
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corv
10y ago
Generating the transaction does seem to be very resource intensive! "On a quad-core benchmark server, generating a private transaction consumes ~3.2 GB of memory and ~50 seconds of compute time. On a 32-core Amazon EC2 server, compute
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corv
10y ago
Good link! In summary, Zcash ships with a magic number, essentially a public key whose corresponding private key is able to counterfeit ZEC. In order to mitigate the risk developers shard the keypair generation, such that only one participa
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corv
10y ago
The ability to use pkg made customization much easier. They are both good.
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10y ago
I'm using a Qotom based OPNsense router. Its 4 Intel GigE do Multi-WAN admirably. HardenedBSD and LibreSSL let me sleep well at night. It's not more expensive than a high end consumer router and significantly more capable. It'
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corv
10y ago
You might want to exchange for Bitcoin in order to preserve your purchasing power because the BoJ is printing Yen. You can't pay online with gold.
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corv
10y ago
Is geolocation still using Google Location Service or has that been replaced with a different provider?
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corv
10y ago
Ouch
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corv
10y ago
Is resumable ZFS send/receive included?
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corv
10y ago
http://brew.sh
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corv
10y ago
As opposed to how Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex and Baidu text search are not collecting personal data?
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corv
10y ago
Interesting
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corv
10y ago
Python on iOS?
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corv
10y ago
People paid for this rant?
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corv
10y ago
Great decision unifying PC-BSD under TrueOS. The real innovation lies in SysAdm: A new way to manage your Server, Desktop or Cloud-based system. By exposing an API via encrypted REST or WebSockets, it is now possible to remotely control all
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corv
10y ago
"This rocket was scheduled to launch the Amos-6 communication satellite, which among other functions included the capabilities for Facebook to spot-beam broadband for Facebook’s Internet.org initiative" Bad karma
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corv
10y ago
That song[0] brings a smile to my face. Keep up the great work OpenBSD! [0]: http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song60a.mp3
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corv
10y ago
Back when I tried them Online.net's international network was significantly worse than OVH. Their support was responsive but ultimately unable to do anything.
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corv
10y ago
I wouldn't recommend it to replace Dropbox. There are superior open source tools that are specialized for file sync.
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corv
10y ago
Glad I deleted my account a while back. Hopefully all these clouds will pass over and we can get back to personal computing.
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corv
10y ago
Email is too important to simply give up and hand the keys over to a half dozen organizations that may or may not have your best interests in mind. Granted it's still too difficult for Joe User but initiatives similar to Sandstorm may
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corv
10y ago
Is VNET going to be in the kernel by default?
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corv
10y ago
Doesn't look like it has encryption. I prefer using ssh or openvpn for a more permanent installation.
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corv
10y ago
Yeah, I must be getting old...
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corv
10y ago
I highly doubt none of these three will be disturbed in the near future. For one, ad blocking is on the rise.
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corv
10y ago
I can't confirm that. By virtue of being very minimal out of the box I've found BSDs boot very quickly. systemd has arguably made Linux bootup faster than before but I would expect a default BSD to be quicker than a bloated Ubuntu
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corv
10y ago
Linux is fine for ordinary computing and many specialized tasks but some areas are better served by BSDs. If you require the integrity guarantees offered by ZFS and still want the efficient resource allocation of containers you will not get
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10y ago
In day to day use I agree, although it is harder to get exotic software to work on the BSDs.
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