ghoul2

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by ghoul2 11y ago
I have actually done a lot of development on a very similar device, based on the Spreadtrum 6821 (the famed $25 firefox phone). Its a pretty neat device - 128MB RAM, 256 MB Flash, support for upto32GB microsd card, dual SIM (EDGE only), Blu
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by ghoul2 12y ago
yes, please!
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by ghoul2 12y ago
does anyone know if Google Compute Engine also had to do unplanned reboots to patch the recent xen vulnerability, like AWS and Rackspace etc did? I did not hear anything about it. Does google use Xen or something homegrown? I my mind, googl
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by ghoul2 12y ago
Thank you, that was quite cogently expressed. I can't help but wonder if "voting with your dollars" is another one of those things which has been drilled into the citizenry with - as you put it - "...that money gets use
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by ghoul2 12y ago
Kinda unrelated, but I have come across this "vote with your dollars" thing way too many times, always by USians. I ask this out of genuine curiosity - no criticism intended: In a democracy, the most disproportionate power a regul
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by ghoul2 13y ago
I have a (WIP!) fork which fixes this exact problem here at: https://github.com/abgoyal/password-store2 Take a look. I am using it personally, Its not in a release-able state yet, though. I have had no time to work on
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by ghoul2 13y ago
eh. not including Google in a list of big data companies is of similar kinda ridiculousness as not giving the Nobel Peace prize to Gandhi. It doesn't take anything away from Google/Gandhi, it just marks the list/prize as farc
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by ghoul2 13y ago
""" Ben Wizner <snip> remarked at SXSW that problems with the no-fly list aren't going away; the world we're facing will look more like Kafka than Orwell. <snip> Wizner said: And I worry about a world
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by ghoul2 13y ago
a while back i wondered about the same thing ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2787770 ). It did occur later to me that S3/Google Cloud Storage and Archive/Backblaze are really not the same thing. S3/GCS
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by ghoul2 13y ago
Whoa, fancy seeing you here. pass is pretty much the ONLY password manager I have actually found useful, and I have tried a LOT of them. I wrote about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7175888 Also, I have a per
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by ghoul2 13y ago
Does anyone know which is the cheapest phone that can be hacked to run Firefox OS? As in, is there a port to any of the , for example, the chinese Mediatek SoC-based phones - some of those sell for less than $50, retail. Vast majority sell
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by ghoul2 13y ago
I went with using a small truecrypt volume mounted at .password-store.
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by ghoul2 13y ago
I agree. As a programmer/admin, my password storage needs are different than that of an average enduser. Security of my passwords, keys, etc is also significantly more critical and failure cause much more damage. So while KeePass/
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by ghoul2 13y ago
Well, I always have guake running, so for me doing it all on the command-line is WAY faster and more convenient. I forgot to mention that "pass" also has command line completion - which makes retrieval trivial. I would also be sur
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by ghoul2 13y ago
I have tried pretty much every one of the well known password managers (that are open source and work on linux), but never found any of them very convenient to use. Until I came across this: http://www.zx2c4.com/projects&#x2
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by ghoul2 13y ago
Also from India, a scammy journal: http://www.ijma.info/index.php/ijma/index Someone had posted a link to a paper in the latest issue of this journal, here in HN a couple weeks back. It was titled "A Novel Sc
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by ghoul2 13y ago
Is there a way to pre-download everything downloaded by the Dual boot installer app? My connection is too unreliable for a large direct-app download like this to ever work.
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by ghoul2 13y ago
Sorry, you are right, of course. Here, I used "chargeback" as a shortcut for saying I asked the bank to not pay out. My banks dispute form - a simple 1-pager - essentially leaves very little room for confusion in the nature of the
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by ghoul2 13y ago
A lot of value of stolen credit cards comes from the reluctance of businesses and law enforcement to go after the users of such stolen cards, as the transactions are "small" - sub-1000$. Last year, I had four fraudulent transactio
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by ghoul2 13y ago
I think I am beginning to get the picture here: 1. Mozilla is the only browser that has no legal way to provide integrated H.264. Every other major browser is backed by a corporation and can afford the MPEG LA fee. 2. While Google probabl
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by ghoul2 13y ago
They can't "supply". Cisco has the patent license with MPEG LA, not Mozilla. As per the announcement, each firefox user will have to download the blob directly from Cisco.
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by ghoul2 13y ago
Actually, on second thoughts - yes, you are right. This could work - partially. But the other way around. Mozilla could build the blobs, sign them and then send them to Cisco who would then provide the download infrastructure. It still wo
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by ghoul2 13y ago
How will Mozilla guarantee/verify that each blob being downloaded by the users of Firefox is built from that same source code?
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by ghoul2 13y ago
I __really__ __really__ don't get the mozilla stance here. It just doesn't make any sense to me. Mozilla has been resisting Googles libre codecs even though they come with full source code and a patent pledge. Google has already
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by ghoul2 13y ago
I understand that is a concern in many situations. The problem here though is that you don't get the "streaming" benefits in any case: you still have to include the length-in-number-of-items of the compound type and the lengt
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by ghoul2 13y ago
There is one significant problem I see: the length field for compound types (arrays and maps) specify the length in "the number of items", not in bytes. This means while processing, If I need to skip a compound type, I actually ne
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by ghoul2 13y ago
Same here. The ZX manual that came with a list of Z80 opcodes was how I learnt assembly/machine code programming. I lived in a real backwaters, and getting the ZX Spectrum as a gift from a distant uncle changed my life. Had no other bo
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by ghoul2 14y ago
Oh, the big one: The entire country of India, with all its 1.2 Billion people, is on +5:30
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by ghoul2 14y ago
Is there a time limit within which I can use the 80GBP credit? i.e., if I only run the server part of the time, can I use the credit over the period of say, a year? or does it expire after a certain time has passed?
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by ghoul2 14y ago
I am sorry, but I have to ask. Why ship bulky non-de-flatable balls from their manufacturing in China (presumably) or North America all the way to Sudan or Rwanda? All this is being run with donations anyway, right? Why not setup a ball-m

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