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by minitech 6y ago
> There's no good UI to make the key stronger: you can either use, say, "--code-length 16", which makes the receiving code ridiculously long So you want short, high-entropy keys in a restricted alphabet? That might be toug
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by minitech 6y ago
(The Emacs thing, not the Kubernetes thing.)
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by minitech 6y ago
(And this is the default in all major browsers!)
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by minitech 6y ago
Are there semantic dual chords that can be used to hide information?
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by minitech 6y ago
You mean the first sentence that they quoted in order to disagree with?
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by minitech 6y ago
Is your comment intended to be rude? Maybe more importantly: is intended to have a point?
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by minitech 6y ago
The answer at that Stack Overflow question is seriously incomplete (and even it doesn’t say there’s no cache). Browsers today will, for the most part, cache CDN responses, not need to revalidate them, and share that cache across sites (thou
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by minitech 6y ago
It’s an explanation of why complaints are being directed at DuckDuckGo (privacy is their raison d’être) even when Google is worse (privacy is not their product – or, in wording that’s more ambiguous in isolation, Google don’t sell privacy).
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by minitech 6y ago
> Verkhoyansk holds the record for both the hottest and the coldest temperatures ever recorded above the Arctic circle, with 38.0 °C (100.4 °F) and −67.8 °C (−90.0 °F) respectively. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verk
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by minitech 6y ago
> I was under the impression that the time it takes to access any element in a JavaScript Array is constant. It’s O(1), like the equivalent structure in other languages, but individual timings are influenced by other factors, like cache,
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by minitech 6y ago
The goal is to get a new line only when not currently at the start of a line, so the number of spaces doesn’t depend on where the cursor is.
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by minitech 6y ago
You can sarcastically toss out a list of uncontroversial useful or true things that have been said by literally anyone, no matter how often they’ve otherwise been wrong or harmful. It’s not a refutation.
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by minitech 6y ago
What does Firefox do w.r.t. X11 that’s less secure than other browsers?
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by minitech 6y ago
> If you don't want brilliant jerks, you are inherently negating their brilliance. ??¹ > A simple chain of logic, extrapolating from that headline, would lead to "if they truly were all around brilliant, they wouldn't a
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by minitech 6y ago
> There are "No" brilliant jerks? Absolutely none? What evidence is that based on? "No" here is used in the sense of "no pets", "no solicitors", "no outside food or drink beyond this point&quo
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by minitech 6y ago
This blog has a looping, resized background video with a CSS blur filter. For anyone else experiencing performance problems because of it, I recommend reader mode.
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by minitech 6y ago
> If sharing a password-protected private key is perfectly safe, why bother having them? Why don't PGP users just password protect everything? What’s “sharing” here? You “share” an encrypted private key with Keybase so you yourself
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by minitech 6y ago
> a private key encrypted with a password is not cryptographically different from a plaintext private key It is different. Keybase could update the app to steal your key, but that’s a visible attack that can’t be done retroactively. >
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by minitech 6y ago
Did you come from the Nock 4K thing seen in https://urbit.org/docs/tutorials/nock/definition/ but without the rest of the stuff on that page? It’s explained in words there: > / (slot) is a tree a
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by minitech 7y ago
It was an oversight. They had HTTPS support. Going by the bug report, the client checked for a redirect to HTTPS, but didn’t check that it was to the correct domain.
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by minitech 7y ago
What does “detecting malleability” mean? Misuse by forgetting to check the zero?
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by minitech 7y ago
Slowness and complexity, it looks like! Unlike a prefix of zero bytes, the MAC has to be compared in constant time; there are more moving parts; it seems like there might be a birthday problem problem where two ids with colliding IVs (50% c
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by minitech 7y ago
> Bad idea but not "rolling own crypto bad" - misusing cryptographic primitives is one way of rolling one’s own crypto - ECB really is that bad
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by minitech 7y ago
> No, not exactly. It looks like I need to be more explicit, here goes: Remember, an arrow function's BODY shares the same scope with its parent function Exactly like a non-arrow function, then? I don’t mind if you don’t have the en
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by minitech 7y ago
> Looking at your comment history, seems like anyone who technically differs with you gets downvotes, I'm sure that's not how it supposed to work, bring it on anyway. Probably a side-effect of what I usually choose to comment o
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by minitech 7y ago
> For example, an arrow function accessing variables outside its scope is much slower That doesn’t sound true. Do you have any evidence? (Under an uncommon JavaScript engine?)
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by minitech 7y ago
I think they’re referring to passwordless login with physical keys. One unphishable factor that can’t be brute-forced or cloned and doesn’t require typing and password management.
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by minitech 7y ago
Sarcasm critique: I think a quote would make it clearer: > > iCloud isn't some separate entity from iMessage. It's all Apple. > Got any sources for that? Sounds a lot like FUD.
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by minitech 7y ago
> So do you agree with [goto11 that] ""this" has lexical scope just like regular parameters" and "Nevertheless, scope wise it behaves like an implicit parameter with lexical scope"? Yes. > Explain just h
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by minitech 7y ago
When people say it behaves like an implicit first parameter, they’re not claiming it literally is a parameter/variable. Of course it’s a keyword. Of course you can’t assign to it. You’re writing long rebuttals to made up arguments. Y

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