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by octopoc 5y ago
If I may ask, what are your thoughts on BuildZoom? If I go through them can I be more certain about quality work? I have heard many horror stories of people who had houses built and the builders made terrible mistakes. The person having the
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Git-Secrets: Save sensitive files in Git repositories securely(github.com)
1 points by octopoc 5y ago|1 comments
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by octopoc 5y ago
Are there are unsalted passwords in the leak though? I haven't downloaded any of it and the description doesn't mention this.
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by octopoc 5y ago
There are tons of people coming into the hospitals in my part of the US who are completely asymptomatic but panicking. The solution to this isn't for everyone to wear masks, the solution is for the hospitals to redirect those people to
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by octopoc 5y ago
There is some activity in the donations: https://crowdfunding.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/projects/servo
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by octopoc 5y ago
Comparing tech specs for Windows 10 vs 11: they doubled RAM requirements from 2GB to 4GB. They tripled storage requirements from 20GB to 64GB. Minimum CPU speed stays the same. That's comparing 64-bit vs 64-bit, the increased specs are
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by octopoc 5y ago
I'm so sorry. Thank you for sharing your story.
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by octopoc 5y ago
I mean if you used an SDR in your consumer product. Let's say you make a dual purpose LoRa / WiFi radio to put in vehicles for a fleet management solution. If you use an SDR, you'd have to lock it down with DRM to prevent end
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by octopoc 5y ago
One of my concerns with using an SDR is that the FCC basically requires DRM[1]: > ...importers and marketers should ensure that [two-way radios] are properly certified and labeled as FCC-compliant and cannot be easily modified to operate
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by octopoc 5y ago
I think it's pretty easy to make circuitry to shift a radio's frequency. If you did that with LimeSDR you'd still get the same bandwidth but it would be shifted into a different range.
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by octopoc 5y ago
This is fantastic! Client/server architecture is easier than peer to peer at small scales. Huge internet companies are moving back distributed architectures, albeit distributed in the cloud only. But the kinds of problems you run into
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LimeSDR(limemicro.com)
122 points by octopoc 5y ago|126 comments
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It seems like hardware could benefit a lot from more standardization. One of the big problems with a hardware project like this is that parts aren't fully interchangeable and therefore redesigns are necessary for minor part changes. If
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by octopoc 5y ago
> The word "ownership" is in part defined by the ability to exert control. If we were to upgrade the saying "possession is 99% of ownership" to the digital ream, it would be something like "control is 99% of owne
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by octopoc 5y ago
I saw a post on social media awhile ago about dumb TVs available here: https://www.sceptre.com/TV/4K-UHD-TV-category1category73.htm... I haven't investigated fully but they don't mention WiFi or YouTube suppo
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CSS Grid Layout(developer.mozilla.org)
2 points by octopoc 5y ago|0 comments
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by octopoc 5y ago
Public service announcement: stop voting for presidents who start wars. Here's the pattern since Johnson in 1964: - Lyndon B. Johnson escalated the Vietnam War throughout 1964 and the Gulf of Tonkin resolution was passed just before hi
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by octopoc 5y ago
How about whole disk encryption with Duplicati backing up to Sia[1]? This will let you do automatic backups to a decentralized version of S3 where you pay cryptocurrency (Siacoin) for the storage. That way here's what you need to prote
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Swivel: Hardening WebAssembly Against Spectre(usenix.org)
1 points by octopoc 5y ago|0 comments
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by octopoc 5y ago
This is really cool. I wonder if you could use it to generate images instead of this SSH message: > The authenticity of host 'mint.phcomp.co.uk (78.32.209.33)' can't be established. RSA key fingerprint is 6a:de:e0:af:56:f8
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Introduction to Capability Based Security(skyhunter.com)
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WASI IPC Module – Issue 49 – WebAssembly/WASI(github.com)
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In Defense of Dumb TVs(community.frame.work)
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by octopoc 5y ago
So you can upload the colliding images to iCloud and get yourself reported for having child porn. Then after the law comes down on you, you can prove that you didn't ever have child porn. And you can sue Apple for libel, falsely report
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by octopoc 5y ago
That would be weird if that's what she was wanting, but I don't think that's a fair assumption. Nowhere in the article does it say she's trying to force the city to throw the homeless out. It does say: > Todd’s lawsui
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by octopoc 5y ago
VirtualBox on the Mac is extremely slow. Also Parallels has much better integration with the Mac host (automatic shared folders, syncing program shortcuts between the host and the guest, etc.).
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by octopoc 5y ago
It's a big red flag when a dev makes something really cool that is (according to them) 90% done, then hands it off to someone else to finish. It's a sign that they: 1. Can't finish what they started 2. Are going to rewrite st
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by octopoc 5y ago
I switched from Firefox to Brave for two reasons: 1. Brave is building new tech like IPFS, BAT, and Brave Search that are really compelling reasons to use it. Firefox's main selling point is that it simply exists as an alternative to C
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by octopoc 5y ago
Can't she sue the movie producers of Stillwater? Even if the movie producers didn't officially acknowledge inspiration, Vanity Fair mentions it: > This new film by director Tom McCarthy, starring Matt Damon, is “loosely based”
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Goodbye Xamarin Forms(itnext.io)
71 points by octopoc 5y ago|38 comments

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