joshumax

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   How Torch broke ls and made me vulnerable(joshumax.github.io)

   183 points by joshumax 9y ago|36 comments
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   by joshumax 9y ago

   Yeah that's the one... my job requires me to port the Linux kernel to various embedded devices and architectures (let's just say I frequent elinux.org a lot) so work often overlaps into my personal hobbies...
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   by joshumax 9y ago

   I use it on my cable box with < 64MB RAM! Got a minecraft server up and running on it too!
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   by joshumax 9y ago

   I loved using screenhero with my team... waited forever for a Linux build to come but was sad when Slack bought them out and the port was never brought to fruition.
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   by joshumax 9y ago

   Now I feel bad for doing this exact thing with Tinder to create a data-set for determining age based on facial features... At least I didn't publicize it after and removed it when I was done
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   by joshumax 10y ago

   Whats up Whats upp Whatsupp Whatsapp
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   by joshumax 10y ago

   So you were the person who posted that link ;)
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   by joshumax 10y ago

   Even if it's not recommending a juice cleanse, whenever I see the word "Toxin" in an article without context I assume that the post was most likely written for the layman and as such probably sacrifices accuracy for ease-of-c
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   MP3 for Image Compression (2006)(keyj.emphy.de)

   344 points by joshumax 10y ago|96 comments
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    by joshumax 10y ago

    I think one of the major driving factors initially was that Ubuntu didn't follow the long package tree freezes that Debian stable/testing was subjected to after a period of time. Debian stable still tends to contain older packages
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    by joshumax 10y ago

    So, the web was created to freely distribute unhindered by geographic position or social class... But apparently people are using it to do bad stuff Better censor it, that can't go wrong /s
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    Encoding Tor traffic over real-time-strategy video games(trac.torproject.org)

    1 points by joshumax 10y ago|0 comments
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    by joshumax 10y ago

    Aw man I used his wonderful guides and examples all the way from middle school up through uni; I owe him a lot of my success to this day!
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    by joshumax 10y ago

    > At the very least, it could become an interesting science fair project for some enterprising kid As that "enterprising kid" who couldn't wait until the SCiO was completed, and who was fed up with his 3d printed visible l
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    by joshumax 10y ago

    > Notification channels: Android O also introduces notification channels, which are new app-defined categories for notification content. FINALLY. I talked to a Google dev about this idea >1 year ago to enthusiasm but I never thought t
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    by joshumax 10y ago

    Looks like a good alternative for GNU/Linux to Little Snitch and RadioSilence (both MacOS only), recently displayed on HN.
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    by joshumax 10y ago

    My friend discovered an interesting way to visualize prime numbers on an integer grid a while back. I whipped up a quick visualizer for it: https://codepen.io/joshumax/full/rOrBPz/
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    by joshumax 10y ago

    Something to note: More times than not, asking a liberal arts major about how quantum mechanics works is usually more valid and reputable than the preprint arXiv
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    by joshumax 10y ago

    I think Ubuntu touch got it right with convergence; phone when you want it to be, "desktop" when you need it to be. Now if only I didn't have to bring a billion cables and a keyboard with me
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    by joshumax 10y ago

    As soon as I publish it I will ;)
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    by joshumax 10y ago

    Funny how I just finish my Thesis on automation and its effects on globalization and the workforce the day before this comes out...
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    by joshumax 10y ago

    Actually, licenses like the GPLv3 have been actively trying to prevent this in certain cases [1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization
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    by joshumax 10y ago

    > I can rent a VPS and connect through it using "Always-on VPN" option... Still though, you have to worry that the hosting provider is taking adequate measures to protect your data, as well as also not secretly spying on you. I
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    by joshumax 10y ago

    Did you check out the Openmoko Forerunner GTA04? Golden delicious just started early production!
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    by joshumax 10y ago

    Well at least I finally managed to get out of real mode and onto cooperative multitasking...
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    Lenovo Phab 2 Pro – The World's First Tango-Enabled Smartphone(shop.lenovo.com)

    5 points by joshumax 10y ago|0 comments
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    by joshumax 10y ago

    Any thicker and we'd have to start cutting it into bars and marketing it on a shiny over-designed website.
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    by joshumax 10y ago

    Off topic, I'd actually be very interested in a cryptographer's guide to zkSNARK...
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    by joshumax 10y ago

    Sure, the base is just https://github.com/joextodd/chirp.io/blob/master/chirp.py , nothing too fancy...
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    by joshumax 10y ago

    For anyone interested, there is an app called Chirp by Animal systems that attempted to make data transfer over audio a relevant form of communication. It actually works quite well to push links from my computer to my phone on Airplane mode