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by marksomnian 6y ago
Had a play with the Colab and it's quite good indeed. The authors claim "100x real time speed", which is mighty impressive, but I'd be more interested in seeing a "Try Really Hard" mode, trading off quality and
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by marksomnian 6y ago
> Then again, I guess a chip reader doesn't stop people from putting in a skimmer that just reads the card number as usual through the magstripe. I'd imagine it would do though, as many chip readers only need you to insert your
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by marksomnian 6y ago
log2(1/100)
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by marksomnian 6y ago
This also means e.g. ensuring that their recovery email address and phone number are separate, as Google has in the past linked accounts via them and shut down all linked accounts.
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by marksomnian 6y ago
The difference being that in the Apple/Google implementation, the app only sends anonymous tokens, with nothing tying them to anyone the infected met. Then their contacts download the full list of these tokens from the cloud and match
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by marksomnian 7y ago
It's because the first two are actually not a comparison. The first image is a screenshot of author's first attempt, while the second is a designer's (maybe the author's?) mockup. For an accurate comparison, compare the
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by marksomnian 7y ago
> So it breaks the entire linux philosophy of using input and output streams to pipe data between different modular applications? Not really. To use your analogy, the way that X works - every application being able to read the framebuffe
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by marksomnian 7y ago
From the article: > Public Health England had started tracing people she had had contact with, and the department and her parliamentary office were closely following its advice. So that will probably happen within a day or two.
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by marksomnian 7y ago
Not an uncommon practice, Jeff Atwood calls it "hellbanning": https://blog.codinghorror.com/suspension-ban-or-hellban/
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A Guide to the GitHub Code Vault(github.com)
2 points by marksomnian 7y ago|0 comments
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by marksomnian 7y ago
If you're a Node/JavaScript developer, you might want to keep code in Dropbox, but putting node_modules in there will tank it.
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by marksomnian 7y ago
cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System
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by marksomnian 7y ago
Nowadays in UK train stations most bins are simply plastic bags on a hoop - I presume this is to make it easier to spot explosives?
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Telegram Reproducible Builds(core.telegram.org)
4 points by marksomnian 7y ago|0 comments
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by marksomnian 7y ago
I'm fairly sure Google's search crawler already uses a masked UA, to detect when pages serve it different content than they do to users.
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by marksomnian 7y ago
Key part: > We’ll continue to maintain separate brands, develop new products for each brand, and enhance our existing offerings. As a Mailgun customer, you aren’t likely to notice any change, except for new features and functionality com
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by marksomnian 7y ago
We already have this situation though - the people who control DNS resolvers already have total control. ISPs have already been known to abuse this power [0]. This proposal doesn't solve this problem. Rather, it solves the problem of e
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by marksomnian 7y ago
I'm with Starling Bank, and along with the usual Mastercard numbers (card number, expiry, CVV etc.) it has the account number... though not the sort code, strangely. I guess you could look it up if you wanted to, but you'd need to
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Mozilla Specification Positions(mozilla.github.io)
2 points by marksomnian 7y ago|0 comments
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by marksomnian 7y ago
Microsoft's DNA is Enterprise with a capital E. Google has always had the startup pretense (or rather, the pretense of still being a startup, even when they're not by any stretch of the imagination), meanwhile in almost every Fort
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by marksomnian 7y ago
When the attacker has your keys and your phone, you have bigger problems.
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by marksomnian 7y ago
It's probably their CS Twitter client that's coded without proper awareness of threads (likely only letting staff reply to the original message)
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by marksomnian 7y ago
Surely she meant decentralisation, though? Visa is anything but decentralised.
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by marksomnian 7y ago
Luxembourg has had it for people aged under 20 for a few years now, and next year it's becoming free for everyone: https://www.mobiliteit.lu/se-deplacer/titres-de-transport/gr... [in French]
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by marksomnian 7y ago
For this exact reason, the image of the cone on the NHC website [0] has the following disclaimer on the top: "Note: The cone contains the probable path of the storm center but does not show the size of the storm. Hazardous conditions c
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by marksomnian 7y ago
Yeah, that seems like the best bet - either hardware key or TOTP (because, although hardware keys are better for security, not all users will have one - cf. myself), and then store your backup codes in a password manager.
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Intent to Ship: Move Extended Validation Information Out of the URL Bar(groups.google.com)
1 points by marksomnian 7y ago|0 comments
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by marksomnian 7y ago
Discussion in mozilla.dev.security.policy (mailing list to discuss TLS implementation in Firefox/NSS): https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.security...
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by marksomnian 7y ago
Discussion in mozilla.dev.security.policy (mailing list to discuss TLS implementation in Firefox/NSS): https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.security...
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by marksomnian 7y ago
Copyright as an idea is fine - as in, how it was described in the Constitution: "securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries", emphasis on "limited ti

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