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by joosters 7y ago
There's not much to spy on. It's not like LetsEncrypt generate your private keys and give them to you. They sign a request that you send them (and they don't get to ever see your actual private key). So an evil CA won'
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by joosters 7y ago
Unreliable storage, unfortunately. My Pi never seems to survive a reboot, so I have to take regular backups to prevent data loss.
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Hundred Year Mistakes(ericlippert.com)
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by joosters 7y ago
They have 1-4GB of ultra-fast soldered storage already! Just don’t skimp on the battery backup...
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by joosters 7y ago
Thanks for the link! He says that there have been door to door testing of temperatures, and I'd nitpick by saying that's not quite the same thing as testing everyone for the virus, but it is better coverage than I had realised.
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by joosters 7y ago
Reference for that, please?
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The problem is, from the very first paragraph, this website doesn't come across as anything close to impartial either. So I'd suggest you find some more sources before you criticize the judge.
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by joosters 7y ago
I'm pleased to see they have a 'Mr Plow' in there, for the Simpsons reference!
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by joosters 7y ago
I would imagine almost all IoT devices in the home are using IPv4 at the moment, you can’t rely on IPv6 working properly with many ISPs. They don’t have to use public addresses, so scarcity isn’t a problem.
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by joosters 7y ago
':' works fine in MacOS file names for me.
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by joosters 7y ago
Smart meters in themselves don't do anything to save energy. However, they make your energy consumption level more visible, which in turn might encourage you to use less electricity.
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by joosters 7y ago
Because it makes no sense? For all the uses of 'mainland China', it would be simpler to just say 'China', with no loss of clarity. Adding pointless words just for the sake of it, especially when it seems that the author(
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by joosters 7y ago
So is Hainan!
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by joosters 7y ago
You could count the number of deaths by date 'n', compared to the number of recoveries by date 'n+14', say, picking a date related to the average recovery time?
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by joosters 7y ago
I'm curious about a rather immaterial point in the corona virus reporting: Why does everyone discuss 'mainland China'? What are they trying to clarify by putting that 'mainland' word in? It surely can't be Taiw
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by joosters 7y ago
Would it be possible to solve this by creating a proxy between the xlib application and the X server? This proxy could re-issue failed requests, or reroute them to a different server. Basically, it would be the error-handling layer, so that
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by joosters 7y ago
The use of 'Web 3' is also plain stupid. Who declared the current web 'version 2' anyway? Did I miss an upgrade from 1.0 ?
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by joosters 7y ago
Great, what the world really needs is a hideously inefficient set of distributed DNS servers that are permanently eating 100% CPU to do their proof-of-work blockchain mining crap. The page hand-waves this away by claiming (with no good reas
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by joosters 7y ago
As others have said, you could just tweet it (or a hash of it). Or post a video on youtube, or email it to a mailing list, or whatever. There's countless ways to publish information with a timestamp that's very difficult to fake.
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by joosters 7y ago
What does that prove? The person can tamper with the recording before publishing it on the blockchain. The limiting feature of blockchains is that they cannot integrate with real world (i.e. non-blockchain) data without trusting the data pr
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by joosters 7y ago
Do you even need a blockchain for that? Can't you just encrypt a message detailing your discovery, and publish the result? Then at a later date, you can prove it was you by decrypting the message.
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by joosters 7y ago
Apparently you also have to trust all the other anonymous users of the exchange. From their risk disclosure: Trading the Futures exposes you to credit risk. This is the risk that one or more of your counterparties have deposited insufficie
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by joosters 7y ago
I've been working full time on 'wc' for only the last five years, since being promoted from full time working on 'cat'. Once I've wrung every last drop of performance out of wc, I can move on to the next larges
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by joosters 7y ago
So? There's about $544 billion dollars worth of gold dissolved in seawater, but it's completely impractical to extract it.
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All true, but it is exactly what happened in this latest attack! And yes, reportedly exchanges have increased the number of confirmations required to confirm a deposit as a result. But it's too late for the ones who got ripped off by t
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by joosters 7y ago
You can do much better than that! The simplest way to profit from a 51% attack is to send some coins to a crypto exchange, wait for the required 'n' blocks to confirm your deposit, then 51% attack the chain to remove your original
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by joosters 7y ago
It was a fork! That's how the double spends work. The attackers generated a new chain of blocks from just before their transaction, and produced their chain so fast that it became longer than the 'real' chain, causing miner
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by joosters 7y ago
This could be due to the focus of the kernel developers involved. At some point in the 2000s, companies such as IBM invested heavily in Linux, working on making the kernel scale well on 'big iron' machines with tens of cores and N
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by joosters 7y ago
Perhaps Linux should do more 'special-casing' of broken/older apps? In the email thread, Linus points out that GNU make has a bug in its concurrency code, which was only hit when newer kernels added some optimizations. As a r
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by joosters 7y ago
It might have worked for Travis Kalanick, but can we really say that it worked for Uber?

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