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by nikcub 10y ago
I'm going to wait for the 1070 benchmarks as in other series the x70 models had a better price/performance ratio: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html#value The 1080 is $599 while the 1070 will be
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by nikcub 10y ago
The main difference is architectural. Chrome is sandboxed while Firefox isn't. There is an effort to re-architect Firefox now: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Sandbox The second difference and a large advantage
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by nikcub 10y ago
RAINN say[0], based on DOJ/FBI data, that ~30% of rapes get reported and only ~4% lead to a conviction Ridiculously low rate of conviction [0] https://rainn.org/get-information/statistics/reporting-rates
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by nikcub 10y ago
Chromium for security - for privacy it isn't great because aside from the WebRTC issue[0] it also doesn't respect proxy settings. You need to run it in a VM in an isolating proxy setup to avoid the privacy issues. For privacy the
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by nikcub 10y ago
Actually you're right - it's malware #1 and then password resuse somewhere down the line. The reuse issue was just fresh on my mind because i've been dealing with it the past few days with the MySpace and LinkedIn dumps.
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by nikcub 10y ago
Everything related to this story has been flagged off the front page and it's a shame
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by nikcub 10y ago
I completely agree re: password managers. Lots of options and competition but nobody has yet really, really nailed it. I eventually got many not-so-technical family members and friends to adopt Dashlane - which is easy to use and provides
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by nikcub 10y ago
> Curious, who is "compiling KeePassX for Linux themselves" when it's in the Ubuntu and Debian repos? It's in the OP: "I highly recommend using KeepassX as a password manager, secured using a key file and not a p
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by nikcub 10y ago
Distilling tips down for regular users who don't use SSH or are intimidated by compiling KeePassX for Linux themselves, my tips would be: 1. Use a user-friendly password manager like Dashlane or 1password with a long unique password an
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by nikcub 10y ago
Firefox exploit similar to the 2013 attack[0] The zerodium price list has Firefox 0day at $30k[1] a pop - compared to $100k+ (today ~$1M) for Chrome The long term solution for Tor Browser is to build on Chromium + Containers/VM + Isola
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by nikcub 10y ago
Yep - get more people using the same setup and have a larger crowd to hide in. Altho I think the new security slider in Tor Browser effectively breaks that crowd out into those groups plus any individual whitelisting the user allows I think
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by nikcub 10y ago
Along with a number of other people I've been advocating bundling uBlock Origin by default in Tor Browser[1]. There were some fingerprinting and upstream support issues but most of these have been resolved, and some were philosophicall
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by nikcub 10y ago
Thiel is also apparently financing Shiva Ayyadurai's lawsuit against Gawker. He is the guy who claims to have invented email as a 14 year old. Both Techdirt[1] and Gawker[2] wrote about his nonsense claims, but Shiva and Thiel are suin
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by nikcub 10y ago
I find the logic that freedom of speech only applies to journalism you agree with baffling. It's straight out of the 21st century authoritarians playbook - nobody is dumb enough to admit that their actions are against the principles of
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by nikcub 10y ago
He isn't only funding lawsuits - but is asking to be judged by the standard of a philanthropist who supports libertarian values, freedom of the press and justifies his actions against Gawker as so. That part is clearly bullshit.
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by nikcub 10y ago
It is only a matter of time before the end of Windows only for those apps - the new Microsoft under Nadella is operating system agnostic. Losing out in the mobile space forced the abandonment of "devices and services" and vertical
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Tech and Poverty Collide in San Francisco's Tenderloin(wsj.com)
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by nikcub 10y ago
I was about to buy some WD Red's for my home NAS but may reconsider for the Hitachi NAS edition. Ayone have experience with the later? edit: just found this: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/2y12
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by nikcub 10y ago
He could have bet on Apple purely on fundamentals that fit his thesis: well-known brand, moat/protected market, solid management, nothing complicated on the books, solid investor returns/dividends, 40% ROE, in a bit of a dip (both
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by nikcub 10y ago
recommending a product from a company you work for without disclosing it is icky
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by nikcub 10y ago
> What's the end game? Where's the pile of money he's after? He made multiple tax refund claims to the Australian authorities - including one for $54 million as part of a program where 45% of each dollar invested into R&am
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by nikcub 10y ago
I saw the post within a minute of two of it going up and also read it as a suicide note. I reached out to everyone I knew and heard back indirectly through someone else that he's ok. He's also updated his homepage in the last few
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by nikcub 10y ago
Here it is as a Greasemonkey script: https://gist.github.com/nikcub/b8cf72f564cde9000875be798e883... Most people don't know this but Chrome supports GM scripts natively - just save the file as `whatever.user.js` a
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by nikcub 10y ago
OP here. After discussing this with a few people I updated the post to lay out some other possibilities. It is true that Electrum verifies locally, and in this case it was simply used as a replacement for running openssl or an alternative.
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by nikcub 10y ago
I don't believe this for a second - and i'm more interested in figuring out how he duped two Bitcoin developers and some of the most notable news outlets in the world. When the link to Wright was first reported in Wired[0] and Giz
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by nikcub 10y ago
Kuro5hin ran a block-all in their robots.txt[0] so this is more historic internet content that will dissapear into the abyss. Anyone know of a mirror or an effort to mirror and host the site? [0] http://www.kuro5hin.org/robo
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by nikcub 10y ago
> Vague claims about economic interests loom large in such discussions, but attempts to pin them down to concrete realities are generally ignored. There have been two defense white papers in 3 years, they're both about 200 pages lon
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by nikcub 11y ago
The subs are an insurance policy for our heavily trade-dependent economy. We need to be able to project monitoring and intelligence gathering over a very large part of the world - including the key trade routes near to us that no less than
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by nikcub 11y ago
> but that's really established by the market. It isn't really, tho. It's established by the compensation committee that is convened by the board and comprises of board members. Starboard bitched about the compensation com
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by nikcub 11y ago
This story is being misreported, a little. Here is Yahoo justifying her compensation in their latest annual filing: > It’s important to understand that Ms. Mayer’s performance-based equity award values in the Summary Compensation Table r

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