nieve

7 ms·

31.
by nieve 4y ago
You're thinking of Snaps which are a Canonical thing, RedHat has been heavily into Flatpak.
32.
by nieve 4y ago
Since the actual value of a never released console is zero that does make it easy to do the "many times" part.
33.
by nieve 4y ago
Doesn't look like a happy ending on the 3AC side: https://archive.ph/20oUJ A British Virgin Islands court ordered the liquidation of Three Arrows Capital Ltd. after creditors sued the cryptocurrency hedge fund for fail
34.
by nieve 4y ago
And breaks down if they're not doing enough to have good statistics on false matches. That's one of the classic problems with DNA evidence.
35.
by nieve 4y ago
I'm not sure if they still do, but the FBI used to put people on the list when they thought they were close to catching them as a PR exercise.
36.
by nieve 4y ago
Discord let someone sign up with my gmail email address, sent an email verification link, and before I saw either the "welcome to Discord" or "please verify your email" links they'd already let the person in as me.
37.
Random Ultima Online anecdote #2 – Horses inside players (2014)(raphkoster.com)
205 points by nieve 4y ago|113 comments
38.
by nieve 4y ago
Has there ever been a prosecution for theft of crypto via phishing/draining?
39.
by nieve 4y ago
FIrefox used to ask, then it would ask if you set the right preference, and then it stopped asking entirely. I was very disappointed in them.
40.
by nieve 4y ago
Why are you assuming it isn't better, just Musk's relentless promotion and exaggerated claims?
41.
by nieve 4y ago
Somewhat hilariously he agreed to a contract waiving due diligence. I suspect that his lawyers were drinking heavily after that one.
42.
by nieve 4y ago
It sounds like you're saying that prioritizing new sales over current owners is not a problem because it makes more money. Their inability to manage repair part stocks shouldn't be owners' problem.
43.
by nieve 4y ago
The article actually focuses on storage which is an entirely different market. It's doing NVMe over Fibre.
44.
by nieve 4y ago
They said they couldn't run certain things again, I assume they were explaining why they couldn't.
45.
by nieve 4y ago
In fact some of the cases documented so far haven't been men who have sex with men and it's not uncommon in Africa, so encouraging people to believe they're safe if they're not MSM is potentially damaging. It's much
46.
by nieve 4y ago
Man pages are divided into sections as follows (GNU & Linux): 0 Header files (usually found in /usr/include) 1 Executable programs or shell commands 2 System calls (functions provided by the kernel) 3 Lib
47.
by nieve 4y ago
It seems like what worked for you was having a source who was paying close attention, not the branding at all.
48.
by nieve 4y ago
But with cryptocurrency (the investments in question) volatility is quite high.
49.
by nieve 4y ago
I know this is probably driven by Apple's opposition to anything that looks like dynamic code execution in extensions, but it seems weird for a company that's not completely dependent on ads the way Google is.
50.
by nieve 4y ago
One of the things that uBlock Origin does and Google is trying to kill is detecting and blocking ads based on content & display attributes, not just urls.
51.
by nieve 4y ago
If you're suggesting billionaire investors are never bond holders I'm confused where you got that impression.
52.
by nieve 4y ago
I cracked up at "NIST researchers traveled to downtown Boulder, Colorado, to test their model" because I used to live in Boulder and NIST to downtown is 2.7 miles including the tangle of roads at NIST itself. https://ww
53.
Every ISP in the US has been ordered to block three pirate streaming services(arstechnica.com)
20 points by nieve 4y ago|26 comments
54.
by nieve 4y ago
"After looking at the statistics from this Thursday, the ranking for Facebook has fallen so much that its new position sits at number 41!" 18 versus 41 is a pretty big difference.
55.
by nieve 4y ago
Don't you mean ascii null, not zero?
56.
by nieve 4y ago
The NamesDB "surveillance capitalist service designed to coerce naive users to submit sensitive information about their friends" claim is kind of weird since fundamentally it was less so than Facebook & most other social netwo
57.
by nieve 4y ago
Unfortunately there are some people who'll harm others for a reasonably small amount of money even if they've already got plenty. I've encountered people who'd do this even if they were comparatively well off.
58.
by nieve 4y ago
The Google Search team officially considers -, "", and so forth to be optional signals from the user. I find Google ignoring - with pretty high frequency.
59.
by nieve 5y ago
This is presuming that the cost of bitcoin mining are sustainable over the course of a hundred years. What kind of value do you see for BTC that makes mining profitable in 2122?
60.
by nieve 5y ago
As far as I can tell the coiner standard position is that the person who you transferred it to is the rightful owner and you shouldn't have options. They've latched onto a huge flaw and declared it a common good.

More ›