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by madars 6y ago
It is the original reporting for this story. Paywalls are explicitly OK https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and in any case uBlock Origin's default configuration seems enough for WaPo's paywall.
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by madars 6y ago
Nice concept, love the aesthetic! It was too CPU intensive for me on a laptop so I sourcedived to find the list of svideos which appear to be the following https://rentry.co/txqrq . I personally use mpv --no-video --v
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by madars 6y ago
If you are looking for native PDF interface, the paper appears to be https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00174
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by madars 6y ago
SGX enclaves can attest to the code they are running, so you don't exactly need to take Signal's word on faith.
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by madars 6y ago
Signal explicitly disallows third party clients https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
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by madars 6y ago
I think it was https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/report-sa... where the source document was https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6884792-MACE-E-PAI-C...
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by madars 6y ago
Oh! When I first read the headline, I thought of Windows 98 (codename: Memphis), and got excited this is gonna be something retro about an elite UX design.
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by madars 6y ago
ECM will easily factor 160-bit numbers https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/interfaces/sage/i...
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by madars 6y ago
uBlock origin exposes this via https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-ru... . In particular, https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/blob/master/filters&
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by madars 6y ago
https://ftp.sunet.se/mirror/archive/ftp.sunet.se/pub/simteln... and the ZIP files in there seem to work for me
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by madars 6y ago
Signal PIN currently serves a different purpose: it enables registration lock, which is a defense against number porting attacks. https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059792-Si...
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by madars 6y ago
I tolerate systemd as I want to use a popular distro for desktop use, but given the project's dismal security record (and attitude!) I can't trust systemd explicitly handling cryptographic secrets. No thank you; there are better o
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by madars 6y ago
Allegedly, just change the time on your computer https://twitter.com/Tasselfoot/status/1349023841754996739 .
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Zebra: A consensus-compatible implementation of the Zcash protocol in Rust(github.com)
1 points by madars 6y ago|0 comments
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by madars 6y ago
In https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/kpqmrh/rust_is_now_ov... /u/Saefroch writes: Some years ago I submitted an n-body implementation that used the crunchy crate to unroll the inner loop.
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by madars 6y ago
Wow! https://preview.tinyurl.com/examplezoom really shows https://zoom.us/j/123456789 link whereas Chrome network inspector confirms the viglink.com redirect. uBlock origin blocks the latter via Dan Po
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Dava Newman Named Director of MIT Media Lab(news.mit.edu)
105 points by madars 6y ago|29 comments
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by madars 6y ago
As many people can attest, popular Linux distributions (like Ubuntu or Fedora) work just fine on select hardware, like ThinkPad X series, or Dell XPS. But Linux on desktop is fundamentally a tinkerer's OS: great if you like tinkering a
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by madars 6y ago
Probably worth updating the link to https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/10/business/visa-mastercard-... or similar as Visa joins the suit: “We are instructing the financial institutions who serve MindGeek to
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by madars 6y ago
Viewing keys are standard in privacy-preserving cryptocurrencies, and are required for payment detection without spend authority. CryptoNote derivatives like Monero also have them. We absolutely need to fight against misuse of this feature.
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Zcash Open Major Grants(zcashomg.org)
52 points by madars 6y ago|47 comments
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Platypus: With Great Power Comes Great Leakage(platypusattack.com)
35 points by madars 6y ago|2 comments
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by madars 6y ago
At least for background blur the latency there is enough to make it almost unusable: easily over 100ms. This is with latest stable Chrome on a relatively recent Ryzen/Nvidia system. Maybe background replacement will do better once it r
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by madars 6y ago
It looks like this is the corresponding PR: https://github.com/github/dmca/pull/8142
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YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git(github.com)
1098 points by madars 6y ago|315 comments
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by madars 6y ago
Reading "Heroes of CRISPR" [1] it sounds like that, after Cell rejected the paper, they shortened the claim but it was still very much known to them: > Finally, Siksnys showed that the system could also be reconstituted in a se
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by madars 6y ago
There are two unpublished rules. DHS rule that you mention ( https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection/2020-22347... ; goes in effect in 60 days) and DOL rule establishing the percentiles ( https://w
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by madars 6y ago
Mark Zuckerberg is smart and does the same https://twitter.com/topherolson/status/745294977064828929
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The Netherlands brings MH17 case against Russia before ECHR(government.nl)
2 points by madars 6y ago|0 comments
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by madars 6y ago
Full list of subreddits banned today: https://www.redditstatic.com/banned-subreddits-june-2020.txt (with "blurring" after top 10)

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