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by kelnage 6y ago
Aviation database updating has apparently been hit by this [1], and pilots are mandated by the FAA to keep them up-to-date. Car navigation won't be significantly affected as long as the roads haven't changed drastically since the
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by kelnage 6y ago
Rumour has it that it's been caused by a ransomware attack (although Garmin hasn't commented publicly) - I can't think of much else that would cause such a long outage.
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by kelnage 6y ago
Dyson Eye 360: https://www.dyson.co.uk/robot-vacuums/dyson-360-heurist-over... Although the connectivity with their app is a bit rubbish half the time!
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by kelnage 6y ago
Alternatively, see "The Three Body Problem" by Cixin Liu [1] for an interesting take on what such anomalies could indicate! 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem_(novel)
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by kelnage 7y ago
My understanding of how these E2E products often do their (video) call encryption is not that they use a clever communication protocol like the one used in Signal to protect each frame/packet (which would likely introduce huge amounts
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by kelnage 7y ago
Yes, they took it. But my understanding is that only a small proportion that made it to China even got recycled and much of it ended up in Chinese landfill or being incinerated [1]. Hence they banned accepting it. 1. https://adva
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by kelnage 7y ago
Although if you look at the actual text on the UKUSA agreement document HW 80/2 [1], rather than the short synopsis from Wikipedia, it says very clearly that the UKUSA agreement covers only sharing of "foreign communications"
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by kelnage 7y ago
To me, this sounds a lot like a justification built upon an bias (i.e. of course the tool the start-up was trying to sell was what the potential customers needed, it must have been those darn data scientists preventing the sales). From my e
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by kelnage 7y ago
Better let Wikipedia know that then! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null-terminated_string
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by kelnage 7y ago
It so happens that I’m doing the man vs horse race in Wales mentioned at the bottom of the article this year - and although I’ll be giving it my best, I’m not exactly optimistic of my chances. Only two runners have ever won since the race s
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by kelnage 7y ago
But your statement is about purchases, rather than common use. Just because 4-6-0 locomotives were being purchased then, it certainly doesn't follow that you wouldn't see any 4-4-0 locomotives in 1870, does it? Especially since 4-
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by kelnage 7y ago
I assume you therefore would also go to a mathematician or a physicist for a medical diagnosis, over a doctor or chemist too? If not, why not? (And yes, there are Environmental Science departments - or at least that's what they're
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by kelnage 7y ago
The Morning Papers had its take on this paper: https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/10/28/interpretable-models/
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by kelnage 7y ago
I'm pretty sure neither manufacturer is really that worried about their Linux support. And, as far as my experience has gone with them both on Linux, they have both had their good years and their bad.
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by kelnage 7y ago
But such a back and forth that could go on forever. Many e-books vendors frequently reduce their value by limiting access to a specific app/reader, or limit how useful the functionality you describe can be. For example, search is very
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by kelnage 7y ago
If it's a US Federal Government service, you should point out to them that they are going against the explicit recommendation of NIST[1]. 1. https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html#sec5 , under 5.1.1.2 Memor
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by kelnage 7y ago
And of course there are still a lot of VGA-only projectors out there (especially the ceiling mounted ones in meeting rooms) - having a VGA port is a godsend when you come across them!
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by kelnage 7y ago
This paper may be relevant to your interests: https://cr.yp.to/papers/pqrsa-20170419.pdf TL;DR: yes, just moving from 2048 to 4096-bit keys will not suffice. But, if you make a composite key out of many 4096-bit keys (
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by kelnage 7y ago
This paper may be relevant to your interests: https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/04/08/how-bad-can-it-git-chara...
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by kelnage 7y ago
You're not wrong, but you've missed the main distinguishing factor between the Third Party Doctrine and the ECPA. ECPA is about unauthorised access (think tapping a phone line, but for the digital age) to electronic communications
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by kelnage 7y ago
Nor would it necessarily work (quickly) if the order of magnitude for any constants were sufficiently large (after all, a runtime of 2 * N and a runtime of (2^512) * N are both O(N)). If I remember correctly, in the semi-regular survey con
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by kelnage 8y ago
As someone who teaches degree level content to apprentices, I definitely think these tools have value. I know that until very recently my current institution has not bothered with such a tool and I saw with my own eyes that quite obvious (
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by kelnage 8y ago
I agree completely - there are FOSS licenses that are easier to make money with than others. One of the most frustrating things I regularly encounter on HN is the “MIT/BSD is best, don’t use anything else” mentality. I think some of th
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by kelnage 8y ago
Okay, I can see what you're getting at. I'm still not convinced that this move is the right way to go about it, as compared to simply keeping an FOSS license and setting up consultancy payments or similar (as they had previously)
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by kelnage 8y ago
Because commercial software companies never die (and take their IP down with them)? And are you seriously advocating that a lack of knowledge about a factor you have identified as being important (most commercial companies rarely tell you h
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by kelnage 8y ago
No, you really can’t. That’s a library for symmetric cryptography. The key distribution/exchange problem cannot be solved with symmetric cryptography alone - unless you are acting as a trusted party and conveying the symmetric key - in
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by kelnage 8y ago
Or, more importantly, how does key exchange work? You can’t really claim to be totally anonymous without explaining these details.
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by kelnage 8y ago
You may be interested in a Garmin smartwatch then. They are primarily designed for exercise, so have very good optical-based wrist heart rate sensors, and are designed to minimise battery usage - I can easily get a week and more out of mine
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by kelnage 8y ago
"Last but not least, every COI client app can offer a variety of end to end encryption options to keep your communication absolutely private." The fact I had to read quite so far down the page to find this snippet emphasises to me
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by kelnage 8y ago
The problem is that the amount you need to teach someone in order to explain all the intricacies of a complex subject like cryptography means that it is otherwise completely impenetrable without making some inaccurate simplifications. There

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