sexmonad

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by sexmonad 12y ago
I don't see the parallel as intended to put Napoleon down, but instead to attribute the same force of personality to Hitler. As someone who never met either man (perhaps that's obvious :), I'm not sure the connection works wi
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by sexmonad 12y ago
Can you list some of the boards that are both cheaper and more capable?
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by sexmonad 12y ago
Why do BitFury and Petamine use a pool at all? At their scale, wouldn't they have low enough variance through solo mining? Or perhaps P2Pool?
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by sexmonad 12y ago
That video is just auto-complete after the first letter...
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by sexmonad 12y ago
I use Linux basically everywhere - Arch Linux on development machines, Ubuntu or Debian on servers. I use Windows for gaming maybe 5-10 hours a week.
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by sexmonad 12y ago
Can someone explain to me how the US has jurisdiction over Credit Suisse? I see how they could have gone after the individual tax fraudsters (American citizens), but how can they police foreign banks?
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by sexmonad 12y ago
We really ought to completely skip over Chip and PIN to something like Google Wallet or another NFC system...
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by sexmonad 12y ago
Yes, this is the NSA's job - foreign SIGINT. If you don't like this, you need to use encrypted communications.
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by sexmonad 12y ago
I take this sentiment a bit further - unless it's throwaway-cheap, the reviews and word of mouth are stellar (they're usually not for any but the biggest hits), or the concept immediately clicks for me, I will pirate the game to t
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by sexmonad 12y ago
No. If I shut down my laptop, my hard drive is encrypted and keys are no longer in RAM (modulo a cold-boot attack, but that is only really useful for <30 minutes after shutdown without preparation).
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by sexmonad 12y ago
The obvious solution for this would be for Android to expose "derive random numbers from image frame" as a permission. But this is unnecessary, because they can just seed /dev/random from this source at boot (or if the d
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by sexmonad 12y ago
https://www.tindie.com/products/ubldit/truerng-hardware-rand... But I'll give two cautions: 1. This device has received less auditing than linux's software crypto. And some HWRNGs are quite bad: https:&
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by sexmonad 12y ago
I use "lvh.me" - it has a wildcard DNS record to redirect any subdomain to localhost. So I'll use something like "example.com.lvh.me" to test.
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by sexmonad 12y ago
StartSSL's default usage mode is to generate private keys on their website. Yet another horribly insecure system. I'd much rather that people used self-signed certs (and browsers had certificate pinning) by default, and could then
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by sexmonad 12y ago
That bug affected OpenSSL as well. Admittedly, it was caused by the Debian maintainer, but still, OpenSSL's poor design is partially to blame.
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by sexmonad 13y ago
Update to 1.0.1g, redo all crypto. That is, revoke certs and keys and regenerate.
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by sexmonad 13y ago
Each hex character represents 4 bits. That means that a 7 character string is 28 bits. That's about 268 million possibilities. On average, it would take around 134 million commits to get one that started with "badc0de".
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by sexmonad 13y ago
>sha1sum putty.exe >google "44ac2504a02af84ee142adaa3ea70b868185906f" >see results are mostly "putty.exe" Three steps, all relatively painless.
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by sexmonad 13y ago
My favorite thing about tarsnap is how damn reliable and trustworthy Colin is. If I see tarsnap start to move towards whatever fad all the other SaaS platforms are following today, I'll probably assume that they're trying to be th
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by sexmonad 13y ago
Deduplication. And like any other SaaS or cloud model, not hosting it yourself.
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by sexmonad 13y ago
What is <insert technology>, and why do I have to learn it if <insert worse technology> is sufficient?
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by sexmonad 13y ago
This is my question too. Tarsnap is cool, and Colin deserves to get paid for his hard work, but the cost differential is far too much for me to use tarsnap right now. If they cut their costs in half, I'd be able to afford to use them o
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by sexmonad 13y ago
I'm curious how it compares to the average quality of upbringing with three parents.
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by sexmonad 13y ago
Yes. http://sks.pkqs.net/pks/lookup?op=vindex&fingerprint=on&sear... http://sks.pkqs.net/pks/lookup?op=vindex&fingerprint=on&sear...
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by sexmonad 13y ago
It's true. The blockchain is at best pseudoanonymous. If you are careful about how you get your coins, and use a high latency mixer (which don't exist as far as I know, but can be faked by multiple runs through a low latency mixer
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by sexmonad 13y ago
You can also use something like blockchain.info for slightly better security than coinbase. They do client-side encryption and decryption of wallets. Of course, if you forget your password, your coins are gone. And blockchain.info could alw
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by sexmonad 13y ago
Twitch shooters, at least, definitely do _not_ have built in latency, and 250ms is unplayable.
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by sexmonad 13y ago
I'm not sure if it's a certain way to tell, but try running a traceroute. If your traffic seems to go into Level3's network, that's a good sign that it's not getting rerouted. Here's what I see from my DigitalO
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by sexmonad 13y ago
It's still hijacking, but they're under no obligation to provide service.
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by sexmonad 13y ago
Anecdotally, at my last job, we had used them on several of our internal file and VM servers (because they were cheap), and they had a nasty habit of falling off the bus overnight, causing the RAID controller to go berserk.

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