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by diafygi 12y ago
I'm really liking how Square is trying hard not to change people's existing workflow with this and cash@square.com. I'm usually already emailing someone when money needs to change hands (Craigslist, splitting up last nights b
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by diafygi 12y ago
Sure! My startup, UtilityAPI.com, is an example of one that is targeting customer acquisition soft costs (10% of total installed cost). When you want to write a proposal for someone thinking about going solar, you need their utility usage a
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by diafygi 12y ago
My startup is in the SfunCube solar startup accelerator program[1]. So far, all of the entrepreneurs who have applied to the program are from within the solar industry (i.e. they previously worked at a solar company). Additionally, I organi
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by diafygi 12y ago
> See-Through Solar Is Tomorrow’s Threat to Oil > ...screens and windows that soak up light could power your home or your phone These two things don't compute. Oil is mostly used for mobile energy, and solar is mostly used fo
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by diafygi 12y ago
Please do!
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by diafygi 12y ago
Here's a live table of what parts of WebCryptoAPI your browser supports: https://diafygi.github.io/webcrypto-examples/
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A look at the PGP ecosystem through the key server data(eprint.iacr.org)
1 points by diafygi 12y ago|0 comments
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by diafygi 12y ago
https://UtilityAPI.com/ is making the Twilio for energy. Humans needs to switch 87% of our energy sources (~450 Quadrillion BTU/yr) from fossil fuels to other source in our lifetimes[1]. That's an unbelievably hug
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UtilityAPI: Automating the Customer-To-Solar Data Connection(greentechmedia.com)
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by diafygi 12y ago
When you release the keyserver, please make sure that CORS is enabled. I'd love to add it to PublicKey.js[1]. Even better would be for it to gossip to the SKS pool. That way, gpg --recv-key would work to get Yahoo users' public ke
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by diafygi 12y ago
You're in luck! There's a working group called "Subresource Integrity" that's developing a way to allow websites to restrict a resource (including javascript files) to a defined hash. http://www.w3.org&#x
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by diafygi 12y ago
Thanks for the reply! Just so I understand, the third party doctrine and pen register precedents are what these programs rely on? If so, why haven't they been defended on such grounds? The EFF, ACLU, and now Wikipedia have a whole bunc
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by diafygi 12y ago
First, thanks very much for replying. This the first time I've been able to get direct answers to these questions. I really appreciate that you took the time to reply. That being said, we do seem to have a significantly different inter
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by diafygi 12y ago
It also prevents the enemy from hurting your economy. The United States has a lot more to lose from compromising information security than to gain from it. Before 9/11, most of the time the NSA would help make security better for the p
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by diafygi 12y ago
I'm guessing because they just got shot down on a similar challenge, which they will likely be appealing. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/jewel-v-nsa-making-sen...
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by diafygi 12y ago
> I just wanted to say that people who support the NSA aren't hiding in fear. Unfortunately, that doesn't appear to be backed by evidence. Every single lawsuit challenging mass surveillance has been resisted by the Executive on
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by diafygi 12y ago
I work in the solar industry, and utilities are increasingly losing talent to the solar industry (my co-founder is one of them). The main reason people are switching is because they see themselves as having a more successful career in the s
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Germany pushes for widespread end-to-end email encryption(gigaom.com)
5 points by diafygi 12y ago|1 comments
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by diafygi 12y ago
I'm not wild about having non-FS options that a man in the middle could force a downgrade to. IE8 on XP isn't worth it.
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by diafygi 12y ago
Here's the how we get an A+ rating[1] for nginx on utilityapi.com: ssl on; ssl_certificate my_ssl.crt; ssl_certificate_key my_ssl.key; ssl_session_timeout 5m; ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2; ssl_ciphers E
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by diafygi 12y ago
What about pCells[1]? DIDO seemed like a really clever way around bandwidth sharing[2], but I haven't heard anything about it since mid-2014. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGAnDQEQJ_s [2]: http://www.
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Canonical Redirect Pitfalls with HTTP Strict Transport Security (2010)(coderrr.wordpress.com)
8 points by diafygi 12y ago|1 comments
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by diafygi 12y ago
Bingo, you passed the first test. This job entails a lot of figuring out what and how to find the things you need to solve a problem. The lack of a public key in the job posting is intentional.
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by diafygi 12y ago
Javascript Developer | UtilityAPI.com | Oakland, CA | daniel@utilityapi.com | Solar job ==Description== We are a white-label SaaS that is used by solar and energy efficiency companies to collect their customer's utility bill and usage
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by diafygi 12y ago
"We decided to write a detailed report about the encryption and how we use it and will publish the report soon via Twitter." That doesn't sound like releasing the source code...
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by diafygi 12y ago
It's great to hear there is now a PE test for software engineering! > 5. Avoid deceptive acts. Knowingly programming dark patterns into apps is breaking rule #5. If you're a chemical engineer and your employer tells you to put
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by diafygi 12y ago
Yes, most of those plugins were made after this test was created. This one just sets "media.peerconnection.enabled" to false in Firefox's settings. However, it means you have to disable WebRTC entirely, not just the STUN requ
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by diafygi 12y ago
Relevant Firefox bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=959893 My test: https://diafygi.github.io/webrtc-ips/ The main two issues are that a data connection doesn't require user consent
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by diafygi 12y ago
Fun facts about GPG's public key infrastructure: 1. The protocol used to gossip public keys in the GPG keyserver pool is completely undocumented[1]. 2. The protocol for uploading and downloading public keys from the pool only ever made
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by diafygi 12y ago
It seems that the biggest problem with encryption in general is that of incentives. Great UX takes lots of design and iteration, which means someone has to pay for all those designers and front end devs. However, when you want good encrypti

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