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by est31 8y ago
Indeed, it would be great to have something like this for non-business customers as well. Right now it's very much targeted at large businesses atm and seems to want a beefy computer, so you can't really install it on your RPI. h
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by est31 8y ago
> they won't be motiviated to fix until those old versions are cut off server-side and their implementation suddenly stops working. I've never used one of these products, so I might be wrong, but as far as I understood it, the
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by est31 8y ago
Creating a correct implementation of a protocol is one thing, creating one that is indistinguishable from another implementation another. E.g. for TCP/IP you can find out the OS just from the additional information even though impl
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by est31 8y ago
> reverse engineer network requests and write a more raw client People already have done that. The most famous example is the yowsup [1] python library. The problem with these client implementations is that WhatsApp is banning any number
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by est31 8y ago
Reactors can be used to breed nuclear bomb grade material. Building a dirty bomb is trivial if you can build normal bombs. For upgrading that to a nuke the main difficulty is finding nuke grade material.
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by est31 8y ago
> Th problem so far is that the nuclear industry is really secretive. Why is that a problem? Do you want to make it easier for countries to figure out how to build nuclear bombs? Generally I'm a big fan of open source and so on, but
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by est31 8y ago
This is weird. Some people claim that Firefox's dev tools are better, others claim that the Chrome dev tools are better and that Firefox doesn't even compare. I wonder who is right. Is this like comparing different car brands wher
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Update on Article 13(juliareda.eu)
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by est31 8y ago
This is very important, especially given that we are starting to store more and more sensitive data. In germany for example, there's a discussion around storing health data in the cloud but it seems that most solutions are severely la
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by est31 8y ago
Versificators already existed in the 1984 story. This is some kind of brave new world-ish version of them, giving individuals control but still staying distopic. A device that can precisely read your brain's moods would probably be rea
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by est31 8y ago
That's a very nice way to put it IMO. See also this commit strip comic about the same topic: http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/25/a-very-comprehensiv...
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by est31 8y ago
I don't think that's what stefan_ wanted to say. I think it's rather that RISC-V isn't effective enough (yet) to be suitable for scenarios where the main thing you optimize for is something other than cost (like heat dis
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by est31 8y ago
Yeah, we are using the current crypto algorithms as if they would continue to be strong in 20,30,40 years. So many secrets encrypted "only" with current-industry-grade crypto. This is better than not encrypting at all but overall
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by est31 8y ago
This phenomenon even has a name. Dancing pigs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_pigs
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by est31 8y ago
In general, in the USA, anything that the US federal government makes is public domain copyright wise. For the NSA, there are obvious laws on secrecy for most of what it's doing, but they are different to copyright. Also, sometimes the
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by est31 8y ago
Yes, Facebook is mercurial based to my knowledge. Google is using its custom solution called piper I think: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor...
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by est31 8y ago
There aren't good monorepo solutions out there (yet). Git LFS is great for few large files, but it doesn't help with tons of smaller files. Git submodules are crap when it comes to usability, and have been for a long time, it&#x27
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by est31 8y ago
You might be able to use it to prevent BadUSB like attacks. Something looks like an USB stick with data on it, you plug it in. The device tells the computer that it's a keyboard and sends keypresses to install some virus or something.
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by est31 8y ago
This thing is so bulky because the API that TwoWaySearcher has is so bulky. You could also have a very simple API that just takes a string literal. It's less a problem of Rust and more of that TwoWaySearcher struct.
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by est31 8y ago
The lazy_static macro (provided by a third party crate) allows you to create static (global, basically singleton pattern) variables that get initialized on first use and then are being reused over and over again. The "lazy ref" is
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by est31 8y ago
It's worth to point out that there is a great focus on Disney lobbying and Mickey mouse and so on, and of course these were major factors in getting the Sonny Bono passed, but originally one of the motivations was to harmonize the US c
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by est31 8y ago
I know a little about two of the big open source Rust projects, Servo and the Rust compiler. For integration tests, both the Rust compiler as well as the Servo web engine have written their own test runners with an accompanying set of tools
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by est31 8y ago
That's a social/political problem and needs a political solution. I rather find myself in a situation where we have the means to improve everyone's lives but don't do it yet than in a situation where we don't have s
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by est31 8y ago
In principle I think that we should consider doing germline edits in humans. In general, if we have the ability to improve ourselves, we should absolutely do it. However, in this specific instance, I think being strict on the scientist is o
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by est31 8y ago
Filtering apps by license is a great filter for intent. There are many reasons people write FLOSS licensed software for, but the fewest include wanting to get your data. For economically thinking professional data collectors who e.g. put so
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by est31 8y ago
Cool. Does it include your newly designed spline? https://raphlinus.github.io/curves/2018/12/21/new-spline.htm...