neuropie

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by neuropie 10y ago
At a guess it's to sandbox the Steam ecosystem? There was a Steam bug in the past where it would delete all contents of the user's home folder. I guess also Steam and its games are all closed source and people might not trust them
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by neuropie 10y ago
It's very interesting that he asked the media to send coins to one of Satoshi's Bitcoin addresses, and that he would return them. All of Satoshi's original coins are Pay-to-Public-Key, whereas the BBC's money was sent Pa
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by neuropie 10y ago
The proof contains some strange bash commands, using & instead of &&: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11610192
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by neuropie 10y ago
The use of & instead of && here means that openssl start running at the same time as the base64 decode command. This means that openssl could start reading from an old version of the signature file before base64 starts writing t
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Craig Wright's proof isn't valid because he uses bash background instead of &&(imgur.com)
5 points by neuropie 10y ago|2 comments
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Tor support in Facebook on Android(facebook.com)
10 points by neuropie 11y ago|1 comments
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by neuropie 11y ago
The script downloaded over HTTPS then downloads further scripts over HTTP. Watch out.
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by neuropie 11y ago
It is until you look at the script it downloads, which downloads further scripts over HTTP.
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by neuropie 11y ago
It all seems a bit similar to Red Star OS.
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by neuropie 11y ago
I wonder how Canonical feel about Elementary making money off an operating system that receives updates from archive.ubuntu.com