cvwright

33 ms·

481.
by cvwright 6y ago
This is the MSC you mentioned? https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/rav/proposal/r... I love the idea of using public keys as identifiers, but to be honest the current proposal does NOT gi
482.
by cvwright 6y ago
I used Silence as my primary SMS app for several years while I was on Android. Overall I had no complaints. Beware though, they seem to have been booted out of the Play Store at some point, so you might need to install through F-Droid.
483.
by cvwright 6y ago
Apparently Amazon is offering a hosted version of Cassandra now too.
484.
by cvwright 6y ago
> But the difference between the stupidities cherished by the Idiocracy set injecting fish cleaner, and the ones pushed in places like the Atlantic, is that the jackasses among the “expert” class compound their wrongness by being so sure
485.
by cvwright 6y ago
There's the UV4L project that will let the Pi connect to Jitsi Meet. https://www.linux-projects.org/uv4l/tutorials/jitsi-meet/ Not sure if there's a way to hook it up to Zoom.
486.
by cvwright 6y ago
Conversely, is there any evidence in the other direction, ie that those who have recovered have NO protection? Remember the other famous WHO announcement at the beginning of this outbreak: “No evidence of human-to-human transmission”
487.
by cvwright 6y ago
True, but is this information actionable ? The point of flattening the curve is to keep the healthcare system from being overwhelmed, in order to avoid a catastrophic death rate. With a vaccine still 18-24 months away, we're all going
488.
by cvwright 6y ago
It doesn’t help that the experts started 2020 by downplaying the threat and telling people not to wear masks.
489.
by cvwright 6y ago
> Are we not greater than that as a civilization? Are we so great that we have totally conquered disease? That we can keep everyone alive forever? Certainly not. To assume otherwise shows an astonishing level of hubris.
490.
by cvwright 6y ago
What do you have in mind for usability in this context? Things like robustness against nonce reuse?
491.
by cvwright 6y ago
The contention is not that lockdowns let the virus run rampant. Rather that the slower spread is attributable to milder measures like closing schools and canceling concerts and sporting events.
492.
Lockdowns Don’t Work(thepublicdiscourse.com)
5 points by cvwright 6y ago|6 comments
493.
by cvwright 6y ago
> The mention of double ratchet is confusing and maybe worrying in the sense that it feels as though they don't understand what they're doing here. I'll start this by saying that I recognize your username from lots of good
494.
by cvwright 6y ago
Oh no, it’s the whole “IceWeasel” fiasco all over again. Maybe they could call the new 2.7 interpreter IceSnake.
495.
by cvwright 6y ago
Or grab a little short scale bass like an Ibanez Mikro Bass. Cheap and a dream to play. The scale length on the Mikro bass is only about 28-29 inches so coming from a “real” bass guitar it feels barely any bigger than a Stratocaster. I ca
496.
by cvwright 7y ago
Sometimes these idiots have posted on Facebook about their planned attacks. And we still did not manage to stop them.
497.
by cvwright 7y ago
Here's something that a colleague passed along to a group of CS profs. It's written by a music professor and geared toward using Zoom for music, but several of us Zoom newbies found it to be helpful more generally. He mentions th
498.
by cvwright 7y ago
Headsets are definitely in short supply. I bought a mid-range Jabra in March for about $150-160. The same model on Amazon is now over $200 and has increased by $10 since the last time I checked just one week ago.
499.
by cvwright 7y ago
Yeah you have to wonder: Did they just not know about counter mode? The implications of that are frightening.
500.
by cvwright 7y ago
> As long as you believe that you will never ever under any circumstance send the same video chunk twice under the same key Yes, that is the question here, and it's a really fascinating one. How often do you send two identical 128-
501.
by cvwright 7y ago
Note that I was asking specifically about deterministic modes. Those include SIV mode [1] but not the more common CBC, CTR, etc. Any deterministic encryption relies on entropy of the plaintext for security [2]. This is not unique to E
502.
by cvwright 7y ago
Is ECB any worse than any other deterministic encryption? Deterministic encryption can be ok if the data that you’re encrypting is already really random (high min-entropy). Compressed audio and video streams have a decent amount of entropy
503.
by cvwright 7y ago
Welcome to the club. The over-the-top reactions to events like this are what's going to get this guy re-elected.
504.
by cvwright 7y ago
Ugh, USAA's 2-factor solution is such a pain in the butt. You can get a login token from their mobile app, but it's not very easy to find. I really wish they would just support U2F or FIDO.
505.
by cvwright 7y ago
I do what the GP describes as well. It’s not that bad. When you want to enable some limited sharing, it helps to create a new group for all your user accounts. For files and directories that you want to share, just set the group to your ne
506.
by cvwright 7y ago
Nice work! Thanks for sharing.
507.
by cvwright 7y ago
Hmm, sounds like I need to give it another shot. It’s definitely failed for me during the current school year (2019-20). Usually the audio fails to come through, or one side of the call gets booted off as soon as the other side joins. It w
508.
by cvwright 7y ago
Hangouts/Meet hardly works for me at all, and definitely not in Firefox. It's like the old days when "DOS isn't done til Lotus doesn't run". It's too bad, too, Hangouts used to be a nice platform.
509.
by cvwright 7y ago
I think you mean February break. Winter break usually refers to the break that includes Christmas and New Years Day. In Massachusetts they instituted a second break in February, in addition to spring break in April, in order to cut the flu
510.
by cvwright 7y ago
Until today, European airlines were flying empty “ghost” planes because they had no passengers, but they wanted to keep their landing slots. Yesterday I talked to a colleague who relayed the story of a transatlantic flight this week, where

More ›