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by rys 12y ago
I've always wondered if there was a way to transmit the public key in the SMTP envelope, to make it easier to share keys.
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by rys 12y ago
It's safe to assume that the vast quantities of documentation he liberated have enough newsworthy material in them to last those with access a very very long time.
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by rys 12y ago
Software comes in many shapes and forms. That it has to be a kernel extension in this instance seems a bit of an odd thing to complain about. I'd be much more concerned if Karabiner couldn't exist in a future OS X. That you can ha
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by rys 12y ago
They can't do that without resigning it on your behalf, which would probably be bad.
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by rys 12y ago
Just on point 3, it's not really a matter of getting device vendors to use it. I think it's pretty clear today that incumbent platforms live and die by the quality of their apps and the app delivery and discovery mechanisms. By ex
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by rys 12y ago
The Cortex-A7 is also faster per-core, per-clock than the old ARM11 processor, and the clock is higher. So with 4x the amount of cores, some multiplier for the per-core, per-clock stats, and 1.28x the clock, 6x makes some (marketing) sense.
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by rys 12y ago
He's just funnelling people into his preferred method of communicating. They can still leave him a voicemail if they prefer.
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by rys 12y ago
I believe they're NetBSD-based.
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by rys 12y ago
https://www.startssl.com/ $60 one off payment to be verified, then you can issue unlimited wildcard certs for any and all domains you control. i.e., the certs themselves are free, you just pay for verification.
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by rys 12y ago
Objective-C interop.
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Privacy under attack: the NSA files revealed new threats to democracy(theguardian.com)
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by rys 12y ago
The thing that stood out for me is that over a billion unique people use the service. Does it really underpin that much of the modern Internet?
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by rys 13y ago
I bought deadmansswit.ch a couple of years ago and started building something similar to this, at least in terms of the "do something useful when a period of time with no contact had elapsed", but none of the "do something us
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by rys 13y ago
Oh come on, there's a lot more nuance and depth to the issue than one thing he did, and free speech. To distill it down to that is what's truly mind-boggling.
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by rys 13y ago
The way it's supposed to work, and I guess does work today otherwise we'd have heard about it, is that your passphrase doesn't actually get sent anywhere. Instead, it all happens client-side. So today they don't have you
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by rys 13y ago
You're right, I didn't think about the connection between exact BTC amounts and those being visible on the blockchain in plain sight.
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by rys 13y ago
The full leak contains a back office administration tool used by Mt.Gox, and what looks to be complete trade logs up to and including November 2013. The leakers haven't included any personally identifiable information. If it means anyt
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by rys 13y ago
If anyone from The Guardian web team is reading, the link to beatbullying.org at the bottom doesn't work because of a malformed anchor.
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by rys 13y ago
It's not something that can be taught. It's an instinct.
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by rys 13y ago
Crikey, over 7 years since I did the investigation (basic email, didn't try that hard) for that article. Time flies!
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by rys 13y ago
While the approach from the recruiter is demonstrably bad, I find the shaming to be in as much poor taste. Especially the part where you state the recruiter hates their job and is just in it for the money. Why sprinkle that in without possi
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by rys 13y ago
There are two small very straight lines on the lower right of the object that hints that it's man-made. Really looks like something just fell off of the rover, rather than was knocked there from the ground nearby. There's almost n
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by rys 13y ago
If you're serious enough to want to target 5.1, you'd get a device that supports it. They're pretty trivial to come by at bargain prices.
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by rys 13y ago
Helicopter.
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by rys 13y ago
I wonder if this is the same thing that causes Bitcoin-Qt to fail on modern OS X.
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by rys 13y ago
The screenshots in the wiki are broken, looks like the URLs for them went bad. Going to give it a try regardless!
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by rys 13y ago
There are myriad exchanges other than Mt.Gox. that let you cash out quickly and easily.
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by rys 13y ago
The bootstrap for RVM 2.0 is something we're thinking about very seriously, to make sure it's handled properly and isn't brittle. As an rvm maintainer, one of the most frustrating things about working on it is how untestable
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by rys 13y ago
There is a lot of proprietary IP in a modern GPU driver: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6176498
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by rys 13y ago
I find it really difficult to care about the Nexus 4 when it doesn't run iOS apps. For me, personally, that's worth paying extra money for, discounting all other differences at the hardware level, and it seems to be worth it for m

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