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by philips 6y ago
I wonder if there is an opportunity to make a mobile app that interpreted the results from these tests in a similar manner and sell tests that are app enabled.
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by philips 6y ago
I think a big step forward is for folks to pin versions of things. NPM and pip and many other systems let software depend on a semantic versioning of their dependencies which makes it impossible to know what will be installed. If you at lea
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Digital Pregnancy Test Teardown(threadreaderapp.com)
2 points by philips 6y ago|0 comments
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by philips 6y ago
My understanding is that you need re-regulation to protect folks with limited liability if they follow protocol and burn day guidance advice from local authorities. Here is a summary for Oregon for example https://www.oswa.org&#
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by philips 6y ago
My big takeaway from the article is it will require a big culture shift in the general public, two quotes: > “I’ve talked to many prescribed fire managers, particularly in the Sierra Nevada over the years, who’ve told me, ‘Yeah, we’ve sp
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We Know How to Prevent Megafires(propublica.org)
184 points by philips 6y ago|103 comments
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by philips 6y ago
> So-called "Binary Transparency" may eventually allow users to verify that a program they've been delivered is one that's available to the public, and not a specially-built version intended to attack just them. Binar
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by philips 6y ago
How would code signing be helpful? How would the key end up being trusted? I do think that content pinning/notarization of web apps could be powerful. We are building some of those ideas here but and I have an interest in how this coul
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Cryptography Dispatches: Registries Considered Harmful(buttondown.email)
3 points by philips 6y ago|1 comments
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by philips 6y ago
Relatedly I find it amazing that Planet Computers has found a niche and developed multiple cell phones with tiny qwerty keyboards. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/astro-slide-5g-transforme... https://stor
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by philips 6y ago
It is an anecdote but the NPR's Indicator did a recent interview of a woman who had been relying on the supplemental unemployment via CARES: https://www.npr.org/2020/08/13/902342278/when-600-goes-awa
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by philips 6y ago
I am only about 30 pages into my copy. I think this book has a strong potential to move the discussion on how and why open source works forward and the analysis thus far reflects many of my personal anecdotes as an OSS developer beginning m
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by philips 6y ago
A solution I am working on for these sorts of software supply chain attacks uses transparency logs. Take a look here (warning, alpha ): https://github.com/transparencylog/btget Essentially the binary transparency lo
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BadPower attack corrupts fast chargers to melt or set your device on fire(zdnet.com)
1 points by philips 6y ago|0 comments
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by philips 6y ago
I use readwise.io as something similar. Does this support adding quotations from books? I guess you could reference an ISBN database as a hack for the primary key.
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The dirty secret behind Ben Shapiro's extraordinary success on Facebook(popular.info)
2 points by philips 6y ago|0 comments
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by philips 6y ago
Via their (very good FAQ) Writing to PostgreSQL tables that are change-tracked by Splitgraph is almost 2x slower than writing to untracked tables (Splitgraph uses audit triggers to record changes rather than diffing the table at commit time
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by philips 6y ago
This is so cool! I have been looking around for databases that have any sort of cryptographic digest of data to ensure integrity. And this is the first time I have seen something do that. Could the snapshots and content addressability be us
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by philips 6y ago
Coming soon? https://9to5google.com/2020/05/08/google-duo-web-group-calls...
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by philips 6y ago
I recently have been learning how deadly Policing is in comparison to other jobs and it came as a surprise to me: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/01/28/chart...
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Charted: Deadliest Jobs in America (2015)(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by philips 6y ago|0 comments
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by philips 6y ago
Fisheries across Alaska are really struggling. It is striking how climate change affects the economy of Alaska today. Another article: https://www.npr.org/2019/12/08/785634169/alaska-cod-fishery-...
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Upbound Cloud Community Preview(blog.upbound.io)
33 points by philips 6y ago|6 comments
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by philips 6y ago
I love readwise. Having the Pocket integration is super helpful as well. They also have a full json dump that I periodically put into my notes git repo for grepping.
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by philips 6y ago
I built it initially on top of certificate transparency in a similar vain. However it really wasn't a good experience for users and hard to onboard projects since lots of folks have different formats and URL structures https:/&#x
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by philips 6y ago
Relatedly: Go’s module proxy uses a similar sort of Merkle tree and rsc has an open source sqlite backed version of that service up on GitHub: https://github.com/rsc/tlogdb I built a curl/wget like application rec
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by philips 6y ago
I found the idea of coaxing the generator with phrases that wouldn't be put into the final text interesting. It is like having the high level concept but leaving the artistic flourish to express that concept to the computer.
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by philips 6y ago
FWIW, CockroachDB uses and co-maintains etcd/raft not hashicorp/raft. https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/raft#raft-librar... Users: - cockroachdb A Scalable, Survivable, Strongly-Consi
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by philips 6y ago
FWIW, etcd uses a forked version of boltdb with bug fixes and features: https://github.com/etcd-io/bbolt
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by philips 6y ago
I still listen to most of my music in Spotify. But I will buy the album on Bandcamp to give the artist of albums in heavy rotation fair compensation. It is great Bandcamp has flac, et . But I don't enjoy going back to the days of manag

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