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841.
by pronoiac 13y ago
What does it take to reverse engineer the silicon? I thought I'd seen an project for automating it, but I can't find it.
842.
by pronoiac 13y ago
It's called "memory diamond." I'm aware of it thanks to Charlie Stross[1], who credits the idea to Eric Drexler. [1] http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/05/shaping_...
843.
by pronoiac 13y ago
It has to be grounded to properly act as a Faraday cage, doesn't it?
844.
by pronoiac 13y ago
When did "polyfill" replace "shim," I wonder?
845.
by pronoiac 13y ago
I had the terrifying thought that this could apply to HTTPS or SSH sessions. That's alarmist, though, right?
846.
NSA can retain encrypted communications of Americans possibly indefinitely(pcworld.com)
91 points by pronoiac 13y ago|46 comments
847.
by pronoiac 13y ago
It's an interview with Jon 'maddog' Hall, and the title quote is mangled: it's "where the next Albert Einstein of computer science could come from." Smartphones are a good market for Linux.
848.
by pronoiac 13y ago
Reasons given: * Avoiding things like the supernode crash from December 2012.[1] * Supporting the growing mobile share, which can't contribute as supernodes. [1] http://blogs.voxeo.com/voxeotalks/2010/12/
849.
by pronoiac 13y ago
I expected to see more about Twine.[1] It's really simple, but it lets you build a "Choose Your Own Adventure" story easily. People who haven't programmed before have picked it up and done interesting things with it. I
850.
by pronoiac 13y ago
Oh, that's funny. Shit Reddit Says is a sub-reddit that calls out offensive comments on Reddit. They've been called the PC Police and the like, and they appropriated "fempire" after people got sensitive about being calle
851.
by pronoiac 13y ago
Hah! I've been playing with Jekyll and Pelican and other static site generators, and one of the thoughts I had was "if Geocities were still around, I could host pages there."
852.
by pronoiac 13y ago
So, it's a desktop client, that runs in a browser. This feels like the worst of both worlds; you have to leave it on if you don't want to miss anything, you can't access it from elsewhere, and you're constrained to a web
853.
by pronoiac 13y ago
Don't get hung up on the word "monopoly" here. The relevant issue being discussed is centralization vs decentralization.
854.
by pronoiac 13y ago
I'll quote it here. "A number of users have noticed that Facebook is blocking connections from the Tor network. Facebook is not blocking Tor deliberately. However, a high volume of malicious activity across Tor exit nodes triggere
855.
by pronoiac 13y ago
Fighting spam based on the content is a great idea. I don't think it's sufficient for the web. Specifically, email spam and spam on the web have different characteristics: with email, you try to send more, so there's a tenden
856.
by pronoiac 13y ago
I may be misreading this, but I think there's a big difference between "being readily accessible to the NSA" and "taking a judge to make it available."
857.
by pronoiac 13y ago
I found the various NV apps to be far quicker to pick up and use than Org-mode, though YMMV.
858.
by pronoiac 13y ago
Simplenote is an iOS app that syncs with this. It's a joy to use. http://simplenote.com/
859.
by pronoiac 13y ago
I think they wanted hardware support, which means that much of it is set in stone.
860.
by pronoiac 13y ago
They didn't. To quote: "(of course I made this user id up -- you can edit it to whatever you choose it's of course not self-signed)"
861.
by pronoiac 13y ago
I've tried a few ways of capturing and sorting information. I tried the Hipster PDA [1], but without review, sorting, and copying onto my computer, I had issues with finding notes, and ever-growing stacks. I tried Org-mode by using MobileOr
862.
by pronoiac 13y ago
Passwords produced are only ten or eleven characters long - pretty good, but they could be longer. Edit: A recent Ars Technica article[1] suggests an 11-character minimum. Ending with 0 or ! like this doesn't really add a whole character to
863.
by pronoiac 13y ago
You didn't seem harsh. In retrospect, I should have made that as a top-level comment instead of a reply.
864.
by pronoiac 13y ago
The article isn't as judgmental as the headline makes it sound. It notes that in practice, it only sends three segments across the wire, and that's what I'd expect from telnet, too.
865.
Machine pareidolia - when computer vision "sees" faces(flickr.com)
3 points by pronoiac 13y ago|1 comments
866.
by pronoiac 13y ago
Machine pareidolia! http://www.flickr.com/photos/unavoidablegrain/sets/721576288...
867.
by pronoiac 13y ago
I think it has to complete the cloud sync first before it syncs across the local network. It will take advantage of the LAN, but not as immediately as you'd like.
868.
by pronoiac 13y ago
The maker replied to me in a comment below - it won't work in Mobile Safari, but now it only sends the first frame, so the page will finish loading and it won't eat up bandwidth.
869.
by pronoiac 13y ago
Edit: There's a torrent: http://linuxtracker.org/?page=torrent-details&id=ce423ed... I'm stopping and editing out my own torrent because this one's already up and running.
870.
by pronoiac 13y ago
Bummer - iOS 6 wants to load the whole file before switching to the second frame, so this won't work there.

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