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by dozzie 9y ago
I would rather not have criminals in US government and agencies access my personal data, thank you very much. This is much more important to me than this "figthing crime and terrorism", which can show only modest results at best a
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by dozzie 9y ago
Do you have GMP's API listed? Or glibc? Or OpenSSL?
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by dozzie 9y ago
It's not a "courtesy", it's pure marketing, and a gross attempt at that. If it was courtesy , the class would be playable, but it clearly is overpowered compared to virtually anything else.
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by dozzie 9y ago
No. Leaving landmines like an easily avoidable linear search in a loop is an antipattern.
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by dozzie 9y ago
> If you're allergic to Google offering free services that use your data for advertising, go pay for email. Google isn't a charity and you aren't entitled to a Gmail of your choosing. The problem is that Gmail is the most
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by dozzie 9y ago
xrandr -o left
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by dozzie 9y ago
Doesn't work for me. Changes the desktop to the bottom one.
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by dozzie 9y ago
But it's still whacking free-form text with regexps, which is wrong place for finding whom to ban on firewall.
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by dozzie 9y ago
The thing is, finding a nonce that with given payload gives a hash ending with predefined number of zero bits has only one purpose: so everybody is very slow in computing it, but everybody is very fast in verifying. You can trade it for any
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by dozzie 9y ago
> [...]it seems like people haven't realized yet that the distribution is precisely this small so the entire thing can run in RAM. I do the same with stock Debian. Not an achievement to simply run from RAM only.
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by dozzie 9y ago
Does it use the same dumb approach as in fail2ban? Hacking with regexps the stringblobs from logs?
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by dozzie 9y ago
> keep in mind that the potential length of career of a programmer is something like 40-45 years. It should not be strange to have a team with several people who have more than 20 years under their belt -- and yet it is often very strang
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by dozzie 9y ago
> Why aren't employees more loyal to their employers? Because employers are not loyal to their employees in the slightest. A minor financial bump leads to layoffs. A controversial opinion leads to being fired. A tasteless but otherw
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by dozzie 9y ago
> Containers didn't become a popular tool because they don't add value. The use case for them has been clear for over four years now Well, yes, they did become popular despite not providing anything substantially new. The main
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by dozzie 9y ago
Yeah, but what about the other word from the term? It's not well-defined and its definition varies vastly from person to person.
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by dozzie 9y ago
How do you define "modern devops"?
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by dozzie 9y ago
>> Https is better, but there are still valuable use cases for unencrypted web traffic. > Like what? Things like this: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/BIOSViaHTTPSen...
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by dozzie 9y ago
...and then there we are with professional programmers who can't run javac without fully-blown IDE, don't know that you can package class files to a JAR to ship a program, and think that you need two dozen different tools with the
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by dozzie 9y ago
It was a few years ago, so I don't remember the details, but there were things like lack of integrity protection for control messages sent between nodes or keys with a very long life time shared by all the nodes.
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by dozzie 9y ago
It's a cryptographic product. You have to assume he did a bad job unless proven otherwise.
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by dozzie 9y ago
Have you read the protocol and compared it with techniques used to build any widely used cryptographic transport? I did. Given that this is not point to point protocol, you cannot just assume that the author used stock protocol (TLS or IPse
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by dozzie 9y ago
I cannot fathom why people who want VPN keep using Tinc with its hand-rolled protocol riddled with cryptographic errors.
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by dozzie 9y ago
Left half of the book in one hand and right half of the book in the other hand, so the book doesn't close itself when I'm reading.
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by dozzie 9y ago
Android, bleh. Long time ago they had such a good operating system with readers that, among the others, supported ToC in PDFs and ePubs. Unfortunately they ditched that all for some underdeveloped software.
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by dozzie 9y ago
In addition to D10, as PeterisP commented, D30 is also doable. Then you can have barrel dice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_dice Wikipedia generally has quite good overview of non-Platonic dice: https:/&#x2F
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by dozzie 9y ago
> I would rather go bald then eat McDonald's fries often. So instead of being treated by what article describes, you prefer to get bald and then eat fries at McDonald? Did I got that right?
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by dozzie 9y ago
I'm an introverted man, and I want the world to accommodate me. Am I somehow worse than you that you expect everybody to put effort to make your space for you?
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by dozzie 9y ago
> I know how the blockchain works, in some detail (the consensus algorithm, [...]) This alone shows that you don't. There's no such thing as "consensus algorithm" in blockchain. Blockchain does not work with distribut
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by dozzie 9y ago
> So the bank of France partly is a centralized credit bureau. So going by that, it's actually more similar than different. Only by what data they gather, and this stems from what the data is needed for. There is vast difference in
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by dozzie 9y ago
> In this post, we will show examples of Python as a Domain Specific Language (or DSL) and explain how to do it well --and how to avoid doing it badly. Step one: define a language that is specific to some domain. Step two: write in Pytho

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