jwgarber

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by jwgarber 2mo ago
Finishing up my GSoC project with MalariaGEN. We're writing a new tool to estimate kinship coefficients between mosquitoes genomes and the project got a lot bigger than I initially planned haha. I'm going to tie up a smaller part
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by jwgarber 2mo ago
The last few days I've been using AVX-512 to optimize matrix operations in a bioinformatics project, and it's great! The bottleneck in most applications is reading the large dataset from memory, so rather than doing it multiple ti
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by jwgarber 3mo ago
I'm working on a project in malaria genetics this summer, and I was shocked to find out that the entire analysis toolkit is entirely based on math and statistics (and some non-trivial stuff too, e.g. hidden Markov models to predict CNV
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DNA Break Repair by Homologous Recombination [video](wehi.edu.au)
4 points by jwgarber 3mo ago|0 comments
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by jwgarber 11mo ago
Here's the origin of the outbreak: > Public health officials say it started when an international traveller attended a wedding in New Brunswick last October. New Brunswick's outbreak ended in January, but guests at that wedding
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by jwgarber 1y ago
Yes signatures would prevent that, but as you noted it isn't enabled by default so most people don't use it. Optional security features don't count in my book :) For the rebuttal you posted, I'll respond to one thing: &g
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by jwgarber 1y ago
For use with multiple devices you can copy the database file to each of them, a smarter approach using syncing is very complicated and not one I considered here.
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by jwgarber 1y ago
This article goes into some of the deficiencies of using GPG with pass. In particular, GPG uses asymmetric keys, so someone could encrypt a new password file with your public key and you wouldn't know. https://rot256.dev&#x2
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by jwgarber 1y ago
Pass is great, but GPG keys are complicated and add a lot of extra overhead if you don't have one already. Frankly I cannot recommend anyone use GPG today for any purpose. I wrote a much simpler CLI password manager instead that meets
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by jwgarber 1y ago
It's also an SUID binary so in theory the same thing could happen. However it's much simpler than sudo so the odds of a bug creeping in like this are much smaller.
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Blocking Sudo Exploits with Fapolicyd(jwgarber.ca)
2 points by jwgarber 1y ago|2 comments
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(In)Security of the "Pass" password manager (2021)(rot256.dev)
4 points by jwgarber 2y ago|1 comments
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The Crushing Complexity of the GPL3(jwgarber.ca)
3 points by jwgarber 2y ago|1 comments
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A Turing Machine that halts iff ZFC is inconsistent(turingmachinesimulator.com)
2 points by jwgarber 6y ago|0 comments
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by jwgarber 7y ago
> As usual, there was a lot of cleaning up going on, and there notably, a good chunk of this year’s Google Summer of Code project to clean out the issues reported by Coverity Scan is already in. Hey that's me! :)
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by jwgarber 7y ago
Alternative archive link https://web.archive.org/web/20190717062201/https://f-droid.o...
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Public Statement on Neutrality of Free Software(f-droid.org)
2 points by jwgarber 7y ago|1 comments
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by jwgarber 7y ago
Yup, they're working on coreboot support. If you're in Europe Tuxedo Linux is also working on coreboot, and the Purism laptops ship with it out of the box.
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by jwgarber 7y ago
I'm optimistic about the OLinuXino boards from Olimex. They're certified open source hardware by OSHWA, with all the bootloader code, schematics, and even CAD files on Github. I think the Mali firmware is the last holdout, but wit
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Aegis – A Secure OTP App for Android(github.com)
1 points by jwgarber 7y ago|0 comments
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by jwgarber 7y ago
I'd even recommend Aegis [1]. Also open source with encrypted backups, but has better crypto than andOTP (both devs talk a bit about it here [2]). Plus, it can do imports from other OTP apps for easy migration. [1] https://g
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by jwgarber 7y ago
I personally agree with the philosophy of the author: I think all software should be free, and in the perfect world, I would license everything I do under the GPL. However, not everyone in the open source world has this philosophy. A lot of
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by jwgarber 7y ago
I made a similar switch to Lineage about a year ago, and it's also been absolutely great. No regrets whatsoever. Also, AFAIK you can root your phone to fool play store checks, using something like Magisk if that's important enough
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by jwgarber 7y ago
> The success of Riemann’s project is strong evidence that the whole numbers – which we think of as static, unchanging quantities – are really some kind of shadow or projection of the Hegelian integers. The Zeta function reveals more bec
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OLinuXino – Open Source Hardware Boards(olimex.com)
1 points by jwgarber 7y ago|0 comments
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by jwgarber 7y ago
Hello! I am a fourth year undergraduate in pure mathematics, and have taken many of the classes in your list (especially in the first and third categories), so I'll try to give some advice. First of all, what you're about to do is