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by ryacko 7y ago
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-india-wheat/as-crops-rot-... >Every day some 3,000 Indian children die from illnesses related to malnutrition, and yet countless heaps of rodent-infested wheat and rice are ro
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by ryacko 7y ago
Convergence was a project to have multiple notaries to vouch for a TLS certificate instead of a chain of CAs. There are way to decentralize the internet, but there never will be much interest for it.
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I’m surprised that Wikimedia doesn’t have links large enough to absorb common DDOS attacks. https://www.peeringdb.com/net/1365
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That is the difference of being in a position of authority versus the opposite. When people look to people in authority, there are expectations, that they are somehow responsive to an organization’s needs, that they make the best possible d
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In rural America, some families share an entire email account. Poor communal cultures can be like that. The bizarre thing about this piece is that usually the focus isn’t on the person, but on the impact they have through their job? This se
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by ryacko 7y ago
There are several ways to approach the matter. Negroponte took the worst possible way to approach it after Ito made a long speech. >“I told Joi to take the money,” he said, “and I would do it again.” That statement implies he doesn’t car
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That’s called powered steering.
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My current ideal is a VM, with Firefox multiprocess disabled, auto play disabled, various container extensions, Adblock, etc.
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Corporations don’t like advertising imperfection, partially because many people have the wrong expectations (except for the cases where you have already purchased the product).
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Maybe your comment is based on thinking about a recent conversation instead of replying to my comment. You make a few good points, but keep in mind that software development is both a centralization and planning problem. And exercising plan
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Cookie + IP Address + Fingerprint + URL Referral + Social Media It’s possible to be anonymous if you only log into websites with proper privacy policies, delete cookies & cache every day, and hide behind carrier NAT. Adding a random fon
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I don’t think a serious study of the issue can be done. Code review is the most difficult part of the development process (and a major advantage of open source), and businesses want to code the MVP as fast as possible without the competitio
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Mozilla can go a full year without revenue currently (their financials are public). I wish more of their meeting minutes were public though. https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2017/mozilla-fdn-201...
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Cash is for liquidity. I don’t know what you define as very short term, but emergency funds should be in cash, so should money set aside that is meant to be spent in a few months.
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Yes, there is a such thing as reporting licenses, it is ad money.
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Oh, you must use an Amazon product, they sync wifi passwords across all your devices.
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They could still require redistributions to include a copyright notice. I think the real issue is that Intel might engage in product binning without changing the source code.
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The only way to disprove the argument is to have evidence that the sanctions block access to machinery or services that Venezuela could not obtain elsewhere. Which is improbable since both Iran and North Korea bypass sanctions to the extent
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Millionaires buy products, billionaires buy society.
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Layer 1 or even Layer 2 encryption would prevent interception of metadata outside of an endpoint.
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For a RNG, the maximum run length of same values would be the period length divided by the output size (in general). The blog post is horrifying, it feeds the output of the Mersenne Twister into another function to reduce the run length of
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Blocking fingerprinting can cause anti-fraud to think you’re a bot. As it turns out in recent news, credit card companies sell weakly anonymized information about cardholder purchases so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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It all comes down to generating deterministic permutations instead of purely random numbers, since the intent is to avoid bad luck. The most common permutation used is the AES S-Box, commonly available through various ISA extensions. There
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>to defend against large-scale, automated disinformation attacks. I realize cable news has become entertainment without even trying to correct themselves the next day, but if it was really viable to automatically generate a quasi-ARG exp
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Everyone Googles for the problem or uses some monolithic tool. Even notepad’s documentation has gotten worse over the years. In Windows 8.1, notepad doesn’t even mention the “.LOG” automatic date/time add feature.
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Layer 1 encryption doesn’t involve message integrity.
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You don’t need PAC if you disable scripts in Safari. Besides, baseband/browser/iMessage vulnerabilities are in the same price range. [i] It also isn’t difficult to infer what a “code signing bypass” is, so I guess being arrested i
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The interesting thing about Electron was that it was produced by a group independent of Google. If Mozilla spun off XULRunner as a subsidiary and allowed them to make decisions on marketing, there’d be actual competition. (There’s also not
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More significantly, (as far as I know) there is not much open discussion about Chromium’s goals or roadmap. The reduction of Adblock blacklists in Chromium was announced, there wasn’t some public mailing list where a flame war began over it
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Still doesn’t explain why layer 1 encryption isn’t used for oceanic cables. Edit: I mean this from a timeless perspective, and slightly from the present day.

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