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by drvdevd 9y ago
Indeed. As an end user who browses behind Tor frequently Just Because, this is actually welcome news. Solving captchas to access sci-hub was a frequent pain point. As a developer, I'm willing to try and help sci-hub secure their netw
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by drvdevd 9y ago
It’s not a perk at all in 2018, IMO, except perhaps for some logistical issues you might personally have (eg dealing with your kids, etc). I speak from experience. If you are maintaining full-on focus, as you said, you’re only saving the
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by drvdevd 9y ago
Here's my morning sea change: I receive payments from my boss, client, friend, whatever - instantly - and I never talk to a payment processor again. I never open a banking app again. Hell, maybe I never even think about money again a
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by drvdevd 9y ago
This is strange, I’d never heard of this agreement. As I understand it, Intel x86-64 was actually based on AMD’s amd64 design originally. So in reality they are still two separate architectures in a sense?
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by drvdevd 9y ago
We now know there are many conspiracies in our industry wrt national intelligence but I agree with you- this is probably not one of them. Why ask for a bug when you can just sit back and wait for them?
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by drvdevd 9y ago
I think I see where you are coming from and had, I think, a similar feeling. This class of attack sits in that “uncanny valley” of: 1) possibly easy to spot when looked for in the right way [edit: to use the QC analogy: search for classic
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by drvdevd 9y ago
I agree. The cole memo was a real half-assed political approach in the first place, perhaps necessary at the time. This is a move coming at a time when this now state legal industry is gaining widespread popularity and acceptance and most i
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by drvdevd 9y ago
I’ve been wondering the same thing. I think it depends on how/if the hypervisor tries to “emulate” speculative execution on some calls or instructions. If it does and does so faithfully, then perhaps. My guess though is that such emul
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by drvdevd 9y ago
the MEMTHIEF bug
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by drvdevd 9y ago
I don’t know enough about Xen to be sure, but I know typically your dom0 is a Linux kernel even (or especially) with HVM. If it’s been patched and is performing any paging on behalf of the guest, this will indeed affect performance of bot
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by drvdevd 9y ago
but since the host still has to perform some paging (and possibly for the guest) in paravirt, it should affect guest performance. In this snippet I think that is paravirt guest code so page tables don’t need to be isolated twice. So I t
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by drvdevd 9y ago
So do you think they have strategies or technologies already in place to categorize traffic based on specific content types, eg DPI of some sort with machine learning? Or do you believe it will just be a sort of gateway tariff, eg hitting G
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by drvdevd 9y ago
even if taking your hypotheticals seriously: 1) which drug supply? what exactly constitutes a “drug”? (IMO this has been actually the worst part of the “drug war” - the linguistic confusion the very term itself causes within the general pub
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by drvdevd 9y ago
Although I take your points, I disagree that JavaScript is more auditable as-is. In either case I will need tools to unwind/flatten/de-obfuscate the code and audit it. I believe it would take me about the same amount of time in ei
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by drvdevd 9y ago
Sorry if this is a dead point that’s already been discussed but: if the code is sandboxed then what is the difference between arbitrary WebAssembly and arbitrary JavaScript other than speed? It all comes down to instructions executing in th
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by drvdevd 9y ago
also, isn’t luciferase (and other fluorescent/luminescent proteins) now trivially engineered into at least a few common plants?
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by drvdevd 9y ago
> your boss is not your friend I wholeheartedly agree. This is why you should be planning from day 1 on ways to make sure that your career is never dependent on a single individual’s or organization’s whims. They will be doing the same f
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by drvdevd 9y ago
now i’m curious if anyone has tried to write their own encryption routines to any common hard drive firmware stacks
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by drvdevd 9y ago
I think you’re correct about the average user not caring about philosophy - but I think there is now a great opportunity for the big players to screw up what they have by giving in to the money grab we see with the repeal of net neutrality.
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by drvdevd 9y ago
The more blockchain regulation I see, the more I have to question the technical competence of regulators or the actual policy and implementation goals they have in mind. Do they have technologists telling them, “yes we can track this.”
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by drvdevd 9y ago
This fits quite nicely with having less “net neutrality” doesn’t it?
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by drvdevd 9y ago
Arguably one of the ways “Bitcoin” protects from the select few with it’s adoption is by only being one such currency. Since the many can create a new currency to place their faith in with relative ease - at least in comparison to fiat -
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by drvdevd 9y ago
This is great! Thanks! What an excellent use of NixOS.
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by drvdevd 9y ago
The article also misses the point about intrinsic VS extrinsic motivation in software. Personally I think being motivated by money, careers, nice cars — whatever — is just fine. But I think the only way to know if you really want to stick
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by drvdevd 9y ago
It’s a game of cat and mouse for sure. See Tor plugable transports for some more circumvention ideas. I believe it is a game ISPs acting in bad faith will ultimately lose.
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by drvdevd 9y ago
This is really cool that you made a profit on this bubble, and if I were to take that point to heart and start investing USD in BTC, I guess I would just become part of that. As you say, I would just be out to get rich. But what about all
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by drvdevd 9y ago
The fungi appear to be especially good at exploiting this impulse :)
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by drvdevd 9y ago
Yes we should be looking for technical solutions even if they seemingly don’t exist. I know political solutions do ... but this is Hacker News. There’s always a way.
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by drvdevd 9y ago
If any positive effect will come from the rollback of net neutrality, it's that more people in the US may realize that ISPs are generally adverserial. They have been for a while.
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by drvdevd 9y ago
Sadly, the main reason IMO this isn't possible is not just that desktop software is designed for the x86 instruction set, but that it's designed for lots of RAM and CPU usage, when it could be slimmer.

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