navyrain

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by navyrain 11y ago
Despite some well-publicized departures, I'm still bullish on Mozilla. As javascript becomes more capable, Mozilla's open-web mission becomes more attainable. Public awareness of widespread government surveillance increases the
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by navyrain 11y ago
7 years at any organization is a long time, and with so few rungs above him on the ladder, it is only reasonable that he'd move on to something else.
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by navyrain 12y ago
I think you're right that UX and good security are often at odds, but I wouldn't go so far as to say that they _must_. I view the current state of security in applications a a result of two forces: 1) The human dynamics of the rol
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by navyrain 12y ago
Have been using dokku on DigitalOcean since the 0.2.0, for personal projects. After bumping up against the poor quality of database plugins, I found "dokku-alt", which comes with pre-packaged well-functioning plugins for common u
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by navyrain 12y ago
What is omitted from the article is the difference in the _size_ of the tech industry during the last 20 years. In 1995, the year the author romances, he emphasizes that doing anything in tech was hard. Two decades later, the hard problem
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by navyrain 12y ago
When I see videos like this, or read other experiences of LSD, I wonder if I'm not missing out on something. LSD, uniquely amongst mainstream recreational drugs, seems to have the promise of an outright transcendental upside, with sup
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by navyrain 12y ago
It should be obvious that AT&T's "concerns" are simply a thinly-veiled threat to withhold high-speed access from the citizenry unless they get guarantees that they can manipulate said access with impunity. The thing is th
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by navyrain 12y ago
In addition to the egrigious complaints citizens could make, wouldn't telecoms and cellphone manufacturers have grounds to sue over this? It sounds like these boxes are actively disrupting or reducing cell-phone service reliability by
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by navyrain 12y ago
It is a tricky issue, but I can see a good argument for increasing the amount of traffic going through TOR, even if much of it was from users without proper OPSEC. As with all security, it is an education issue; just as "Private Mode&q
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by navyrain 12y ago
This sort of this is pretty exciting. Now that users are aware of NSA hijinks, and are familiar with the Privacy modes of their current browsers, I'd like to see Mozilla move towards a "Super Privacy" mode where they route o
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by navyrain 12y ago
When a petty law is frequently violated and overlooked, law enforcement officers can use it as a tool to confront a citizen who would be otherwise entirely innocent. Often other underlying suspicions motivate investigation of citizens, and
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by navyrain 12y ago
I've been using Freckle: http://letsfreckle.com , which is promoted primarily as a time tracking tool, but has good invoicing built in as well.
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by navyrain 12y ago
Until there is open source and deterministic builds, this is just as functionally "secure" as Skype.
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by navyrain 13y ago
The brief, insipid blurb does very little to incentivize me to register to see the rest.
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by navyrain 13y ago
Ruby is the lingua franca of devops; it is an entirely sensible choice for that purpose.
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by navyrain 13y ago
This is where the article starts to show its bias. Of course ruby can do everything mentioned as well. Python has a leg up in scientific computing and stats. Ruby has a leg up in web and devops. Saying one "can do" everything,
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by navyrain 13y ago
Privacy will be the hot topic of this decade, if not century. Now, when violent crime is at a historical low, is not the time to give law enforcement new and invasive capabilities.
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by navyrain 13y ago
If you are truly paying 100k for a 4 year (120 weeks) university education, then it works out to be $833 per week. My education at an in-state university cost far less than that. Claiming that "bootcamps" are superior in value o
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by navyrain 13y ago
There is a substantial difference between freely sharing knowledge to any inquiring mind, and sharing knowledge with only those people who have paid gobs of money, while receiving none yourself.
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by navyrain 13y ago
Coming from the webapp world: How do you work with a team of people committing to the same repository? How do you review code? How do you find solutions to problems when they're not being spoon-fed to you in a bootcamp? What makes a
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by navyrain 13y ago
These "bootcamps" delude students into believing they can be placed in a good job if they pay up. I've worked with graduates of these programs, and found them to be eager and optimistic, but woefully ill-prepared for profess
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by navyrain 13y ago
Education, like most things in the US, is supported by debt. Tuition for a single semester at Georgia Tech, for an out of state student like myself, would run $14,861: http://www.bursar.gatech.edu/student/tuition/
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by navyrain 13y ago
DNSCrypt is a cool utility, but somewhat of a mixed bag, since OpenDNS serves up responses for invalid DNS records, in an effort to send you to website-unavailable.com This hijacking (I am blanking on the technical term for it) really rubs
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by navyrain 13y ago
If AT&T is successful, it is the beginning of the end of an equal internet, where the little guys have little chance to disrupt the establishment. If AT&T fails, it will dissuade other ISPs from attempting the same. Companies, _espe
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by navyrain 13y ago
Relax; they credit it on the about page: http://earth.nullschool.net/about.html
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by navyrain 13y ago
Certainly any encryption system which cannot at least be publicly audited should not be trusted.
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by navyrain 13y ago
Certainly SoCla is tired of everything being a "ninja" by now?
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by navyrain 13y ago
It should be noted that all we can know about an arbitrary transfer like this is BTC was moved. We do not know if ownership of said BTC changed; people can own many bitcoin addresses.
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by navyrain 13y ago
I've mined bitcoins, and have made a reasonable profit (~20ish BTC or so?). I mined in the GPU days, and while I currently run a small ASIC miner (BFL Jalapeno), it will likely barely be profitable. The considerable risks and costs of
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by navyrain 13y ago
It seems pretty clear that the NSA engages in bulk collection of databases which _might_ someday contain something interesting, and only considers it "interception" when they query their own DBs. These creative redefinitions of seemingly be

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