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by ewindisch 10y ago
What this does and doesn't do: This bill effectively makes it illegal for US companies and persons to build or use secure enclaves / TPMs and to publish cryptosystems without either including backdoors or retaining and storing key
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by ewindisch 10y ago
This is not true. The bill would only apply to encryption mechanisms provided by Microsoft or a third-party application installed by Microsoft as part of the operating system. Interestingly, this bill covers vendors and presumably US person
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Show HN: Dockaless – containers as lambda functions (composable, parallelizable)(github.com)
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by ewindisch 11y ago
I knew someone, an American, whose wife was (I believe) Chinese and they did not give their baby a name for one year. They lived in California where it was legally required to assign the name in the first year, I'm not certain if they
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by ewindisch 11y ago
Cheap wine is presumed, right? I also presume it's not expensive coffee. The most expensive coffee in the world, that made from Black Ivory beans, is $374 per 12oz bag, or $49.50 per 750ml of brewed coffee (the size of a bottle of wine
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by ewindisch 11y ago
HDMI amplifiers, DACs, and audio extractors (which give a clean digital bitstream on SPDIF) provide an HDMI output. The output HDMI will continue to carry the video portion of the signal and usually (if not always) the audio stream as well.
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by ewindisch 11y ago
I haven't poked at the underlying system at all, but I have noticed that giving these cheap tablets a fast SD card considerably improves the performance. It might be memory contention and the tablet using the card for swap, or simply p
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by ewindisch 11y ago
While data isn't encrypted-by-default on AWS, this plants a flag in the ground on where Amazon stands in a way that does not sit well with me. Given Amazon's stance here, I am disinclined to running infrastructure on their cloud.
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by ewindisch 11y ago
The RPI can do great audio out of the box without USB, just don't use the 3.5mm jack. Instead, remember that HDMI does uncompressed bitstream audio! You can connect the RPI to a dac/amp with HDMI input or a digital audio extractor
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by ewindisch 11y ago
The developers knew of Linux but did not necessarily design with any intention of a port or plans in regard to the Linux VFS or kernel design. When it was a Solaris kernel feature, it was clearly not derived from Linux. The modifications to
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by ewindisch 11y ago
Torvalds indirectly made a strong case for ZFS being a not-derived work all the way back in 2003: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/401977#40... He states: "having been developed totally
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by ewindisch 11y ago
This could be HPPD[1] or related. There seems to be uncertainty as to if hallucinogens cause some of these effects directly, or if they simply help train the mind to notice what was already there. For instance, is visual snow there already,
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by ewindisch 11y ago
> shaming irresponsible webmasters that keep default status pages with comic sans MS. Until they have a filesystem failure that results in the server unable to locate the custom pages, and defaults to rendering the Comic Sans page? Even
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by ewindisch 11y ago
Right, this is a matter of the rule of law. Criminals may do quite a number of things that law enforcement cannot because criminals do not follow the law. Rulings like this could drive us even further into a surveillance society where the F
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by ewindisch 11y ago
Right. We had an extensive discussion about this at BarCamp Philly this year. The discussion was on machine ethics and we spoke largely about these scenarios of driverless vehicles. I made the argument that machine ethics aren't a real
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by ewindisch 11y ago
Update: I just noticed that in the past few months, Azure has eliminated this weird DNS thing with the introduction of a revised API and are phasing out the old service as "classic". I'm actually looking at moving some of my
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by ewindisch 11y ago
Yes, they do, but Azure beat them to offer first-class support and did so with their own Docker-API compatible endpoint. This was back around the first Dockercon in 2014. Rackspace had a similar integration at the time, but I was definitely
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by ewindisch 11y ago
My experience has been positive. Their team has been doing good work. For example, Azure had the first/best Docker integration of all the cloud providers. What they had was superseded by docker-machine and swarm eventually, but they we
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by ewindisch 11y ago
Running a hosting business is hard work, I did it for over 10 years. It's under-appreciated, users complain about everything, nobody wants to trust you, and many of the customers you do remain want to bleed your support dry. Some of th
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by ewindisch 11y ago
Reportedly, the P.T.C. system had already been scheduled for a 2015 installation. This accident is likely speeding up the installation on other tracks, but I'm not certain that the Northeast Corridor really got this upgrade much faste
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by ewindisch 11y ago
I've written larger apps in TCL, but it was painful. I must admit to being guilty of using it solely as an embedded language these days.
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by ewindisch 11y ago
There are a couple languages I write code in that are less popular, notably TCL and bash shell. Throughout the 2000's I wrote a lot of Perl, but it's now been a while. Most of my development these days is in Go, Python, or Javasc
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by ewindisch 11y ago
The worst offender I interact with frequently is Hulu.com. This is a high-profile site with millions of users. It's one of those tell-tale signs as a consumer where I really can't say I trust them with my data. I really wonder, o
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by ewindisch 11y ago
It's easy, you just do everything on the remote machine(s). I've taken this to such an extreme that I've given up on the Macbook and moved to a far less expensive and more secure Chromebook.
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by ewindisch 11y ago
I'm happy for this article because it does hit some points on the head. Other points are deeply entrenched in Bryan's biases, but I can't really fault him for that. In particular, I am suspicious of the idea that unikernels a
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by ewindisch 11y ago
It's been argued that the deal structure of companies, particularly unicorns, has begun to look like debt[1]. Low interest rates and easy money has created debt. Massive bubbling amount of debt. Crashing debt bubbles is not fun, just a
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by ewindisch 11y ago
> It's rare to see a kernel-bug that can't be worked around in some way other than patching. While it's true that most critical bugs I've run into with the kernel can be workaround in some way, it's at the detrim
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by ewindisch 11y ago
For the single other ChromeOS user (how many of us are there?), note your SSH client is also based on OpenSSH. Add '-o UseRoaming=no' to your arguments. Watch this repo for updates (or submit a PR?) https://chromium.goo
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by ewindisch 11y ago
Big Buck Bunny is from a number of films by the Blender Foundation. They also made the live-action movie Tears of Steel, which can be downloaded uncompressed: http://media.xiph.org/tearsofsteel/
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by ewindisch 11y ago
A far more simple solution is to require both SSH key and password. Something you have (a key) and something you know. You can even store your ssh key on a Yubikey, if you'd like.

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