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by msm_ 10mo ago
I thought you're joking, but then I opened https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknot.htm
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by msm_ 10mo ago
Come on, editorializing the post title is against HN guidelines, but making it illegal is a bit too harsh.
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by msm_ 10mo ago
This page - a bit of barely styled text on a plain background - also doesn't work without JS at all. Even though this is not a SPA, the essay text is just there in HTML response. I know I'm yelling at the clouds here, but I find t
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by msm_ 10mo ago
>EDR/AV is basically unnecessary, when you only mount things either writable or executable Sounds good, except: * scripting languages exist. The situation is even worse on Linux than on Windows (because of the sysadmin focus). You n
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by msm_ 11mo ago
Yeah, I don't get it. Tor browser alone, with no additional configuration and basic hygiene, is enough to stop any fingerprinting and tracking. The only problem is that it's too private, and tor traffic is often associated with
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by msm_ 11mo ago
Occam's razor. Either: * There are solutions to poverty, which the individual person can follow, but (even though poverty is hell) people ignore them and prefer to stay poor * The solutions to poverty you think about actually aren&#x27
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by msm_ 1y ago
Is AES-256 more quantum resistant? It still has 16byte block size, so intuitively it should be equally vulnerable to Grover.
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by msm_ 1y ago
>your phone or electrical provider don’t monitor your speech not yet.
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by msm_ 1y ago
From experience, it's not overstated. Running your own email server is pain, and even if you do everything right you may get delivery problems. And if you want to improve your chances, you have to do whatever big tech wants you to. And
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by msm_ 1y ago
As a devil's advocate, there are also criminal groups, right now, that do actual crime, that operate on discord. 99% of criminals likely don't have enough knowledge to maintain proper opsec, so spying on chats could in principle h
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by msm_ 1y ago
Everyone on hackernews is well aware that C makes it relatively easy to create buffer overflows, and what buffer overflows are. You're still not responding to GP question.
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by msm_ 1y ago
>I am involved in Lightning and run my own node - it is pretty much private enough for all sorts of micro payments for content creators. Not private enough for organized crime to move large sums, agreed. I don't get it. It's li
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by msm_ 1y ago
Wouldn't repeated block size increases lock out "normal people" from participating too? Hosting a local BTC node is already hard, and completely impractical on a mobile device.
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by msm_ 1y ago
I guess the only solution is to self-host. I've even been migrating my dedicated server to a homelab I'm slowly building. But that's a very time-consuming option, has a high chance of breakage, and not even available for 99.5
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by msm_ 1y ago
Including governments (except maybe US gov? But even that is not sure).
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by msm_ 1y ago
What is the threshold? If two people accounts were unjustly frozen (and they have to do some work to unlock them), and at the same time two hundred people life savings were saved, would that be OK with you? I don't know about them, but
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by msm_ 1y ago
>it's too easy To be honest, in my country I can also transfer all my liquid money (not countings stocks etc) with just my phone. The difference is that i'm not afraid of being kidnapped (it's safe here). And anyway, how m
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by msm_ 1y ago
I agree, with exception of housing. Most people can't buy home with cash, and for many this is a necessity. But homes are an appreciating asset, which cannot be said about cars or food - this is an investment, actually. But for everyth
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by msm_ 1y ago
Who are you shouting at? Going back to the topic of the discussion, making sudo more resilient prevents a whole class of possible bugs (see CVE-2021-3156). You may not like sudo, but it is very commonly used to manage access, prevent accide
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by msm_ 1y ago
Sorry. I just wanted to link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_Belarus . But it's pretty obviously politically charged, as in "White Russia" strongly suggests a Russian heritage and maybe even im
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by msm_ 1y ago
>White Russia Careful. The literal meaning would be "White Ruthenia" (Ruthenia != Russia). In general this etymology is complex, and politically charged[1], but deriving it from "Russia" is most certainly wrong. But I
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by msm_ 1y ago
But of course there is. Imagine the following compression scheme: 0-253: output the input byte 254 followed by 0: output 254 254 followed by 1: output 255 255: output 10GB of zeroes Of course this is an artificial examp
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by msm_ 1y ago
First sentence in that (made up) story: >Rent's due today, thank heavens I just got paid. I assume the "last minute" wasn't entirely their choice.
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by msm_ 1y ago
>Legally, saying that you took someone else's code as "source of information" would probably be seen as copyright infringement Not necessarily. There are ways to work around that, for example white box reverse-engineering[
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by msm_ 1y ago
Since Evernote died, I've been looking for a thing to replace it with. I've tried dozens (not exaggregating) note-taking solution. Right now I've reverted to the good (?) old "plain markdown files in a git-synced reposit
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by msm_ 1y ago
I'm not trying to be argumentative, but by saying: >Subdomains are archaic You presented a bit different argument. Also I disagree - maps.google.com is a fundamentally different service, so why should it share a domain with google.c
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by msm_ 1y ago
Do you have a source for that? I hear that sentiment expressed often by Americans I meet here, but I never saw anyone explicitly saying "yes, I/we value blind loyalty". Is blind loyalty something Trump followers officially id
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by msm_ 1y ago
It's already here by the time you wrote - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43668292 .
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by msm_ 1y ago
Anecdote unrelated to programming - when climbing (on a climbing wall or bouldering) I was significantly stronger compared to my peers. Because of this, I was the best (or one of the best) in my group for the first year of two. But then I h
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by msm_ 2y ago
The 13 year old ISIS supporter is a different person than the 24 year old plutonium science nerd. You're discussing a different person than TFA was about.

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