homakov

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A year-long journey to native English fluency. New Year's non-resolution(mxgrn.com)
11 points by homakov 4y ago|5 comments
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I started taking English classes at the age of 46(mxgrn.com)
124 points by homakov 4y ago|109 comments
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by homakov 5y ago
> Your proposal isn't trustless anymore not black and white. I didn't say to drop collateral channels to have credit, but to use credit in addition to collateral on receiving side. Also, on ETH those credits are enforceable (as
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by homakov 5y ago
I was a 100% bitcoiner 2014 to 2020, but after exploring defi and L2 projects in pipeline, i decided this time is different and converted to eth. That's just my opinion.
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by homakov 5y ago
This is true, but that's not the only post I had on the subject, just the earliest one. Anyway, I gave up on btc and now implementing xln on eth https://github.com/homakov/xlncontracts/blob/main/cont
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by homakov 5y ago
It's better explained in solidity: https://github.com/homakov/xlncontracts/blob/main/contracts/... it is withdrawn from a special intermediary "reserve" balance OR a Debt is created o
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by homakov 5y ago
Payment channels, in traditional sense, are fully collateralized credit. I suggested to leave collateralization ratio up to users themselves. Some could have 100% collateral, some 0%, some 50% etc. Rejection reason: unclear, doesn't fi
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by homakov 5y ago
Bitcoin dominance is fading this year only because it has bet on LN with fundamental inbound capacity problem. LN rejected my proposal to solve it and extend channels with credit lines: XLN https://medium.com/fairlayer/
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by homakov 6y ago
Also many of these design attacks still work http://sakurity.com/oauth
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by homakov 6y ago
I don't agree with calling flash loans loans. Money isn't borrowed, as you don't posses them even for a second. Instead it's more like "offer me an atomic transaction that will make me money, and I will run it with
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by homakov 6y ago
> set of UTXOs as collateral, and the moment any of them move, which is easily monitored not possible. Once collateral is moved, it's moved. You can't even call it collateral if the other person can easily take it away in fron
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by homakov 6y ago
>There are some protocols emerging which lets you keep ownership of your coins and still lending them out. how is it possible? When you lend your assets, someone can give it to other person. You cannot keep ownership of something others
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by homakov 6y ago
Why didn't npmjs/rubygems just check failed lookup requests for "shopify-cloud" etc and block those for a while to prevent damage, and notify the companies (doing their best)? Seems like low hanging solution.
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by homakov 6y ago
You never need to download 300gb, starting with 3gb snapshot is just as secure.
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by homakov 6y ago
any estimation when is it out? should i wait or get 13 inch version now?
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by homakov 6y ago
It was really that easy. Kudos. Others should follow
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by homakov 6y ago
I see many people in this thread dread existing auth scene and ask for a better solution. Client certificates, but usable and no hardware - https://github.com/sakurity/securelogin this is the only sovereign answer to
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by homakov 6y ago
This can also protect the server from attacks if it runs all sessions in isolation. All you can is click and type, no more sqli or xss that require messing with params or API. So it could be useful either way.
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by homakov 6y ago
No, no one should own a yubikey. It's an entirely useless device. All you need is a pw manager that saves you from non-malware attacks (email compromise aside). Yubikey cannot save you from persistent malware, which makes it useless in
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by homakov 6y ago
still have to care about Safari, where one man can prevent all communication to localhost for years. with no real reasons, breaking the spec. https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171934
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by homakov 6y ago
Timing attacks, never saw a real world exploit working for them. Even in my local tests without web server latency the results are indistinguishable. Did anyone ever show a working timing attack for a web service? Even assuming no DoS/
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by homakov 6y ago
Do not have business with any company that pays taxes in Belarus. We must deprive Lukashenko of money. Many IT companies are attracted to Minsk because of the low cost and here we are.
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by homakov 6y ago
What happens in Belarus is absolutely disgusting. Something you would expect from a mexican narco cartel not a european country. What’s even more disgusting is lack of any tangible help from the US/EU. No sanctions for Lukashenko they
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by homakov 6y ago
Berlin airport, haha
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by homakov 6y ago
In context of the US maybe it is different. Mine is 200mbit/s no caps $7/mo connection - common in Moscow - and I don’t remember caring about traffic or speed ever. Any torrents with 5+ seeds is like whoooosh and it’s done.
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by homakov 6y ago
Okay than just my two cents. I use torrents a lot and never had a problem finding what i needed, and i would certainly not pay a dime for some obscure per-bite streaming. Not in torrents.
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by homakov 6y ago
Something in Outer Wilds style of exploring, would be epic
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by homakov 6y ago
This is so cringeworthy though
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by homakov 6y ago
Didn't experience this problem much. If not found on any tracker, such a material is probably too rare for anyone to care about. Even with some monetization model in place, it would be unrealistic to keep all sorts of "rare"
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by homakov 6y ago
What happened to traditional definition of state channels? It used to be just like payment channels, but with a bigger scope and more fancy state operations. The trick with avoiding multiparties was called "virtual state channels"

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