j0hnM1st

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by j0hnM1st 8mo ago
AI slop is allowed on HN ?
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by j0hnM1st 11mo ago
Fundamental services like DNS, which was designed as distributed going down was the cause last 2 outages and really need to think of alternatives methods to ensure resilience. Shift left, design better.
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by j0hnM1st 4y ago
It will be worthwhile to use images from commons. I have found that my photography is used in the stable diffusion data set. What was funny is that they have taken the images from other URLs than my flickr account.
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by j0hnM1st 4y ago
Blockchains normally has a database and then an API. Many of the newer chains uses Rocksdb.
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by j0hnM1st 6y ago
> Token are unique and not interchangeable. There is absolutely no way ensure uniqueness. Any transaction on the blockchains can be called as a NFT if anyone says the transaction id makes the NFT unique. There is inherently no difference
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by j0hnM1st 6y ago
> I'm not sure how NFTs work, but are they proof of work or proof of stake? NFTs are nothing but a transaction on a blockchain (which can be proof of work or proof of stake). There will be unique transaction id (which proves nothing
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by j0hnM1st 6y ago
Arweave has production ready releases ?
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by j0hnM1st 6y ago
There are mistakes in the article. To begin with the first case was reported 3 months ago and to be precise on Jan 30th. While its difficult to findout the strain of the virus, the first patient was a medical student returned Wuahn.
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by j0hnM1st 6y ago
>India has been contact tracing like a greedy algorithm on steroids since case #1. Some states like Kerala is doing active contact tracing. Also the first case was reported 3 months ago and not 2 months ago. https://www.thegu
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by j0hnM1st 7y ago
well, Since I care about them so much that I am now taking backup of the Profile and shipping them across machines ...
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by j0hnM1st 7y ago
The biggest drawback with Multi-Account containers is that they don't sync with the Firefox Sync. I have an elaborate and carefully crafted set of containers. I even have one for TheGuradian where I am allowing ads but the moment a new
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by j0hnM1st 7y ago
anything facebookish trends.
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by j0hnM1st 8y ago
Privacy Law is in the draft status ...
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by j0hnM1st 8y ago
no - you will have to use a VPN or ToR
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by j0hnM1st 8y ago
In India people call this "Mitron" MITRON 1. A large group of unsuspecting people, about to be hit by something they will take a long time to recover from. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=MITRON
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by j0hnM1st 8y ago
Mitron
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by j0hnM1st 8y ago
> Actually if Apple, Goog, FB etc are forced to surrender the key--at the penalty of being excluded from 1.x billion people in India--math works only one way... They did that with Blackberry few years ago
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by j0hnM1st 8y ago
It just said monitoring and collection - there is no mention of tampering private owned properties and complete invasion into privacy.
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India on the way to complete survellience?(indiatimes.com)
2 points by j0hnM1st 8y ago|0 comments
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by j0hnM1st 8y ago
what about Fedora?
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by j0hnM1st 8y ago
Misleading title! Looks like a push to spread GM foods as opposed to any relevant issue. As someone who cultivates banana for real, TR4 is not an issue in Asian countries like the article says.
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by j0hnM1st 8y ago
also possible on STEEM blockchain along with Bitshares
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by j0hnM1st 8y ago
> There are plenty of consensus protocols that don't waste energy but I think it's important to understand why PoW relies on an unproductive algorithm. DPoS consensus used by Bitshares/STEEM & EOS seems to the most ad
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STEEM HF20 error – why and how to fix(steemit.com)
1 points by j0hnM1st 8y ago|0 comments
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by j0hnM1st 8y ago
https://www.keralarescue.in/ - This is the government portal to co-ordinate and rescue and co-ordination activities in the South Indian state of Kerala impacted by heavy rains and flood. Resuue operations are co-ordinated
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Help Kerala flood rescue and relief(github.com)
1 points by j0hnM1st 8y ago|1 comments
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by j0hnM1st 8y ago
>To prevent Sybil attacks, it uses a mechanism like proof-of-stake that assigns weights to participants in committee selection based on the money in their accounts. Isn't this already implemented by STEEM ?
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GitHub asks to change password(twitter.com)
1 points by j0hnM1st 8y ago|0 comments
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by j0hnM1st 9y ago
This is the same federal / central bank which has banned or demonetised their own currency and killed economy.
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by j0hnM1st 9y ago
Is it possible to extend and add support for other crypto-currencies ?

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