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by patrickmn 9y ago
Metadata leakage aside: If you run a parser on unauthenticated input, bugs in your parser can be exploited. This is partly why mac-then-encrypt is a bad idea (you have to decrypt to verify the MAC.)
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by patrickmn 9y ago
> The idea of Ikea plus internet security together at last seems like a pretty terrible one, but having taken a look it's surprisingly competent. For what it's worth, hacking is a big part of Swedish culture.
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by patrickmn 10y ago
"Science talks about very simple things, and asks hard questions about them. As soon as things become too complex, science can’t deal with them… But it’s a complicated matter: Science studies what’s at the edge of understanding, and wh
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by patrickmn 10y ago
We really are on a fragile blue ball doing loop-de-loops through space!
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by patrickmn 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-addressable_storage
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by patrickmn 10y ago
That reminds me of http://multivax.com/last_question.html
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by patrickmn 10y ago
This right here is why machine learning--although very exciting--is an incredibly frustrating endeavor compared to software engineering. It's statistics at its "worst." At the risk of glorifying AI, a good analogy might be th
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by patrickmn 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apache_Software_Founda... http://incubator.apache.org/projects/ Many successes (most of which are "enterprise") and many failures.
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by patrickmn 10y ago
Working link: http://web.archive.org/web/20161003094237/http://www.marclai...
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by patrickmn 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_in_depth_(computing)
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by patrickmn 10y ago
The de facto excuse to use when you get hacked these days. Who could possibly defend against an entire nation? And it's incredibly easy to "prove" that some Russian IP accessed your system at some point, therefore Putin is di
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by patrickmn 10y ago
Related interview with Natalia Shakhova from the International Arctic Research Center: https://youtu.be/kx1Jxk6kjbQ?t=9 Very ominous.
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by patrickmn 10y ago
It's painful how much I agree.
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by patrickmn 10y ago
I don't know if we will ever have tools that are that safe and as easy to use as the alternatives.
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by patrickmn 10y ago
Reddit live thread: https://www.reddit.com/live/x9gf3donjlkq
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by patrickmn 10y ago
One of your examples was eight and a half years ago with one upvote... calm down :)
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by patrickmn 10y ago
Not exactly, but close: https://nixos.org/nix/
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by patrickmn 10y ago
Yes, run Quassel Core on your server/VPS and connect to it from your desktops with Quassel Client.
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by patrickmn 10y ago
Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jsonview/chklaanhf...
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by patrickmn 10y ago
Yes.
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by patrickmn 10y ago
Related: https://justgetflux.com/research.html
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by patrickmn 10y ago
Same idea: https://github.com/patrickmn/sortutil Wish it was easier without reflection.
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GHC 8.0.1 is available(ghc.haskell.org)
190 points by patrickmn 10y ago|36 comments
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Go 1.5.3 released to address security vulnerability(groups.google.com)
202 points by patrickmn 11y ago|61 comments
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by patrickmn 11y ago
Related: Why Innocent People Plead Guilty (written by a U.S. federal judge) http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/11/20/why-innocent-peop...
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by patrickmn 11y ago
Conservation of energy: you can only become something else. Death is the opposite of birth, not of life. And indeed, we are the cosmos contemplating its own existence.
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by patrickmn 11y ago
Written by Robert Harper, a major contributor to Standard ML.
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by patrickmn 11y ago
"just"
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by patrickmn 11y ago
RedPhone and TextSecure
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by patrickmn 11y ago
That's how the movie Gravity starts.

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