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by oconnore 3y ago
HTTPS is irrelevant here. You can send incorrect headers in either.
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by oconnore 3y ago
I think you misunderstand their suggestion. If you only gave service providers access to encrypted data (i.e. End-to-end encryption), then neither the service provider nor the leaker would be able to decrypt. Whether or not that is a genera
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by oconnore 3y ago
Is it getting worse? This is the first outage I remember in a while.
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by oconnore 3y ago
I think the two main ones are Rust and Zig. This may be controversial (but it seems very obvious to me) that: Rust is created in the same spirit that created and evolved C++: create a complex and featureful language that enables compiling y
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by oconnore 3y ago
I still use BluRays, but the cost/GB has not kept up with everything else.
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by oconnore 3y ago
That would be very useful. We sadly stopped innovating on optical media, but haven't really made the alternatives usable as a replacement. You used to have CDs / DVDs that were: 1. Completely immutable 2. Could not be maliciously
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by oconnore 3y ago
Usually the critical features are somewhat "air-gapped". For example, I can restart my Model X computer, the screen will turn black 100%, and many key functions still work. None of the computers that are required to drive the car
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by oconnore 3y ago
Would you actually want Signal to be cheaping out on the developers that are maintaining the cryptography software that protects millions of people? Someone with that level of expertise is going to be expensive.
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by oconnore 3y ago
The deal could just be: no phone number, but you have to pay $x/year (I guess this doesn't work with 501c3?)
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by oconnore 3y ago
I apologize if this seems blunt and incurious, but I think I can speak for MANY people when I say: absolutely not.
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by oconnore 3y ago
I will not eat the bugs, but I would eat fish or poultry that has been raised on insect protein. It's an interesting use case because fish farms (for common non-herbivore fish species) are traditionally fed on fish meal, which means th
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by oconnore 3y ago
Fires are started regularly by lightning strikes, and would burn if not for human activity to suppress them.
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by oconnore 3y ago
This reminds me of the microservices trend where the main justification is modularity —- which is of course perfectly possible to implement in a programming language using standard language constructs. Similarly: any separation of concerns
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by oconnore 3y ago
I'm not sure what your point is. It's important that reporting is accurate, and the judicial system has not even held a hearing on this yet, though you wouldn't know that by the title here.
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by oconnore 3y ago
, NLRB alleges
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by oconnore 3y ago
I think you could but it would further complicate the id scheme (would need some sort of a version mask to facilitate a rotation window).
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by oconnore 3y ago
A hash is not reversible, so you’d need a database index to recover the original efficient-to-index identifier, which misses the whole point ;) If you didn’t care about index clustering then just use UUIDv4
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by oconnore 3y ago
That would be the same as using a random identifier (UUIDv4, for example) with the associated indexing issues when stored in a database. The whole point here would be that you can expose something opaque externally but benefit from well beh
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by oconnore 3y ago
Given that a UUID identifier fits in a single cipher block, and the whole point is that these are unique by construction (no IV needed so long as that holds true), it seems like a single round of ECB-mode AES-128 would enable quickly conver
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by oconnore 3y ago
But assembly _is_ outdated, at least for the purpose of authoring large community software projects.
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by oconnore 3y ago
Set the trigger to add the primary key + change time to a separate table, then scan/truncate that table to poll changes.
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by oconnore 3y ago
On the contrary, I wrote this as a reflection on our tendency to focus on technology systems instead of social systems. Another way to think about it is that a social system is just a different type or level of technology that can exist ind
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by oconnore 3y ago
I think it's interesting to compare El Paquete Semanal to the response in the US to net neutrality and various social media scandals. When the threshold for action is high enough, the lack of open internet is overcome in Cuba without a
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by oconnore 3y ago
Anyone that has ever tried to use a fingerprint reader with greasy hands under time pressure will reject this.
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by oconnore 4y ago
"The medium is the message" wins again.
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by oconnore 4y ago
This is incredibly dumb. > The downsized companies, however, were outperformed consistently by the nondownsized ones during the initial two years following the downsizing. Can you think of any confounding factors in this analysis? How do
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by oconnore 4y ago
I think you need to consciously and continuously figure out where your time is best spent. There is a spectrum between situations where you can afford to let them make mistakes while figuring things out vs. situations where you need the tea
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by oconnore 4y ago
4 hours is sometimes not enough. I think that we can build a clean grid, but I think: 1) it is orders of magnitude easier if we include nuclear, and 2) even with a nuclear baseline we will need to build up caches of supplemental longer term
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by oconnore 4y ago
> showed that the battery had a charge densities of about 1,322 watts per liter of electrolyte and a discharge density of about 306 W/L Isn't the relevant measurement energy density (Wh/L) rather than power (W/L)? I g
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by oconnore 4y ago
Since I'm on a roll with truncated hashes: SHA2-512/384, and SHA2-512/256 are not vulnerable to a Merkle-Damgard length extension attack. Thus, a construct like hash(key + message) can be used similar to SHA3 [1] [1]: https:

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