spacenick88

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by spacenick88 8y ago
Interestingly at least in my experience this seems to be changing rapidly in just a few months since more girocards (which have much lower fees than credit cards) have gotten RFID. Suddenly it's so much faster at the checkout (no pin b
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by spacenick88 8y ago
Because it adds no value
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by spacenick88 8y ago
I'm not talking about copyrighted or otherwise shady stuff pushed to GitHub. My concern is what's supposed to happen when a GitHub user requests GitHub to delete their entire account and all the personally identifying information
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by spacenick88 8y ago
I don't think it's really that simple. especially the deletion requirements. There are just so many IT systems that really don't support deletion. An absolute worst case I can imagine is GitHub being asked to delete an accoun
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by spacenick88 8y ago
But my SSH already uses Public Keys and ChaCha20/Poly1305 so that's really the last protocol I worry about sending through hostile territory
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by spacenick88 8y ago
Also in many (sensible) configurations the PGP key will be locked when not reading encrypted mails and will need a fresh password entry
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by spacenick88 8y ago
Which can be achieved with authenticated encryption by generating a new key and deleting it afterwards
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by spacenick88 8y ago
It really also just shouldn't support unauthenticated encryption at all. And with authenticated encryption I mean something like chacha20-poly1305 or AES-GCM that gives you authentication on small chunks so it can give the "BAD ME
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by spacenick88 8y ago
I think the really broken thing is not using authenticated encryption ever. In 2018 no one should be using a non-authenticated cipher for anything except teaching about bad ideas.
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by spacenick88 8y ago
Sounds like this has been handled absolutely terrible both by the original researchers and EFF. The researcher then trying to shush the directly affected GPG developers on Twitter, evidently just for the sake of a stupid no-prior publicatio
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by spacenick88 8y ago
And even then the worst that can happen from leaving an electric car turned on in your garage is your battery getting drained. Even keeping the lights on this will likely take days when fully charged.
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by spacenick88 8y ago
Yes and researchers shouldn't release incomplete teaser facts just to promote their publication and then cry wolf when their stupid paper embargo bullshit isn't adhered to.
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by spacenick88 8y ago
I for one who would rather sit on top of a rocket being loaded but have a LAS ready to go than going anywhere near a loaded one with no way to escape within a few seconds.
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by spacenick88 8y ago
Switch to Kubuntu then, all the ease of Ubuntu with the customizability of Plasma/KDE
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by spacenick88 8y ago
I really don't think changing the script while keeping the language is all that difficult. At least as long it has a somewhat similar glyph count. In my teens I learned about runes and was able to write my native language in runes with
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by spacenick88 8y ago
I wonder if since this is a pure script change there will be such a clear and simple transliteration that it's possible with a finite state machine. I.e. regex replace
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by spacenick88 8y ago
It almost covers German except for ä, ö, ü and ß all of which have a very easy transliteration ae, oe, ue and ss. Similarly it almost covers Italian, French (accents can be dropped), Spanish and a couple more
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by spacenick88 8y ago
But if that mutation needs majority (from miners or stake holders) how is it any worse than a democratic country deciding to change a law or print money or whatever?
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by spacenick88 8y ago
They do need a stable internet connection though that can't be super slow, so I'd assume it could always be upgraded with fiber. The stable and plentiful power on it's own will be very interesting.
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by spacenick88 8y ago
I don't think this really matters, it's not the computers that would be reused but the infrastructure. These are essentially buildings with good ventilation and plenty of power and an internet connection that can likely be upgrade
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by spacenick88 9y ago
Well a RPi gives you a standard Linux with proper init system, tools like docker, proper headless support using SSH and so on. From a software point a RPi runs exactly the same stuff as any other Linux server out there. An Android phone on
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by spacenick88 9y ago
It's kind of funny how DeepLearning mirrors and even directly competes with the CryptoCurrency world for computing power. First everyone was using graphics cards and then few very strong players started doing ASICs and everyone else is
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by spacenick88 9y ago
Would you say it's a correct description of Matrix to call it "Jabber/XMP without the whole XML mess and over HTTP"?
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by spacenick88 9y ago
Interesting, so since it is/was used primarily in South Africa and Afrikaans has its roots in Dutch I'd guess that's actually the root of the derogatory use as well. As in "people traded with coin".
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by spacenick88 9y ago
disturbingly
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by spacenick88 9y ago
So for me the really big question in all of this is "Are threads really too heavyweight?". This obviously needs the constraint "on a sane, modern OS". For me the most sane C (non-datagram) networking model at least on Li