malaya_zemlya

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by malaya_zemlya 6y ago
when it comes to password strength, the number you are really interested in is something like probability of the password being generated by a naive human. Measuring raw entropy basically assumes that the only one non-random thing a user c
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by malaya_zemlya 6y ago
according to Snowden, they did: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-nsa-webca...
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by malaya_zemlya 6y ago
I was just recently shopping for a fridge and I can report that it was surprisingly difficult to find a fridge without wifi. Sometimes it's only for remote service and maintenance, not for anything "smart", but it's ther
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by malaya_zemlya 6y ago
fwiw Apple also bans any 18+ channels on iOS and MacOS, so Apple's censorship of Telegram is not a new development.
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by malaya_zemlya 6y ago
absolutely this. Back in the early 2000s quality assurance was insane. A release is was working on (aaa title from a major studio) was blocked because players' eyes were rendered incorrectly and you had to really zoom in to even see th
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by malaya_zemlya 6y ago
"Another topic is derived from things which are thought to happen but are incredible, because it would never have been thought so, if they had not happened or almost happened. And further, these things are even more likely to be true;
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by malaya_zemlya 6y ago
you start working through an established escrow service, and gain positive feedback on darknet platforms. You can also do what above-ground companies do and promote yourself via ads, branding and so forth. At the very least that signals yo
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by malaya_zemlya 7y ago
That would also cause a divide by zero at a 90 degree heading
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by malaya_zemlya 7y ago
try performing all calculations mod 10.
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by malaya_zemlya 7y ago
My favourite glitch in Translate happened around 2008, where in the en/ru pair it translated Bush as Путин (Putin) and Putin as Буш (Bush). The reason was apparently that in the training corpus, where the English version said somethin
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by malaya_zemlya 7y ago
In Russian, the word is визит-эффект ( https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%8... )
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by malaya_zemlya 7y ago
Bellingcat most certainly watches 8chan: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2019/08/04/the-el-p...
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by malaya_zemlya 7y ago
Some indirect evidence comes from historical perfume recipes. They really liked strong stuff back in the day. King Lear: "Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination: there's money for thee" Now, Civ
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by malaya_zemlya 7y ago
here's an account of one person who've done this: https://news.bme.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/pubring/peop... Not for the faint of heart
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by malaya_zemlya 7y ago
This is travel document checking by a TSA agent. They don't technically require you to show a passport, but most other acceptable forms of ID are very US-specific. https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening&#x2F
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by malaya_zemlya 8y ago
increasing the number of capital crimes might actually to increase the number of murders. If you are committing a capital crime, you have a strong incentive to get rid of the witnesses.
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by malaya_zemlya 8y ago
at t -> infinity, the total amount of bitcoins in circulation tends to 0 because there is always a positive probability to lose any private key.
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by malaya_zemlya 8y ago
If you don't want to install any third-party apps, you can do much the same by spinning up an AWS box and using SSH remote port forwarding ssh -NT -R 0:localhost:80 youraccount@yourbox.amazonaws.com I also do an extra step and
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by malaya_zemlya 8y ago
"Fatal System Error" by Joseph Menn
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by malaya_zemlya 8y ago
For those who've missed it: there's a link to the original PC demo of Lemmings on the first page, behind the screenshot: http://www.javalemmings.com/DMA/files/OriginalLemmings.zip
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by malaya_zemlya 9y ago
They are blocking links to FBPurity.com right now.
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by malaya_zemlya 9y ago
It was technology acquired from a Russian company called ParaGraph.( http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1993-07-26/business/93072... )
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by malaya_zemlya 9y ago
I wonder why North Koreans haven't yet started a darknet market of some sort. They have the skills, the means and it's not like they have moral qualms about that sort of a thing.
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by malaya_zemlya 10y ago
"The horse raced past the barn fell" still trips it.
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by malaya_zemlya 10y ago
Yandex.Weather relies heavily on deep convnets for short term forecasting.