tlrobinson

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by tlrobinson 5y ago
> shifts to a soft blue at night for mood lighting Blue at night might not be the best choice https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/blue-light-ha...
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by tlrobinson 5y ago
One way to look at it: advertisements are trying to influence your thoughts and behavior. At least micro-transactions are (or can be) a simple and honest exchange of money for a service.
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by tlrobinson 5y ago
I'd rather have onboard USB serial. No more trying to find a USB serial cable laying around, or enabling SSH and hunting down the IP address. It already has the USB port for power, surely they could have gotten Broadcom to include USB
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by tlrobinson 5y ago
I agree with most of what you said, but I’d consider ads to be just as hostile to users.
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by tlrobinson 5y ago
FYI your city’s travel immunization clinic (if it has one) might have rabies post-exposure prophylaxis shots. I know San Francisco’s ( https://www.sfcdcp.org/aitc/ ) does because I got them after getting scratched by a s
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by tlrobinson 5y ago
Kind of like “port knocking” but for HTTP.
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by tlrobinson 5y ago
I used to use Basic Auth for small personal/internal services, but these days I prefer a proxy like Traefik/NGINX with a simple authentication service like Authelia or Traefik Forward Auth. It’s a little more work to setup but not
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by tlrobinson 5y ago
> Isn't a hardware wallet airgapped? No, most of them connect over USB. The important thing is reducing the attack surface to a bare minimum with simple protocols and implementations. I think at a minimum it would need to emulate a
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by tlrobinson 5y ago
IP addresses shouldn’t be portable, that would be a disaster for routing table sizes. It’s a bit like saying your street address should be portable. On the contrary, addresses and phone numbers should be like domain names. It sure would be
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by tlrobinson 5y ago
Cool, great start, but something Yubikey sized would be more practical.
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by tlrobinson 5y ago
Given we’re likely stuck with passwords for the foreseeable future, I’d like to see two things in a password manager (maybe these exist?) 1. “hardware wallet” level security, with good UX. Maybe a USB/Lightning dongle, but I really wis
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by tlrobinson 5y ago
Well, regulations don’t work 100% of the time either.
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by tlrobinson 5y ago
Libertarian types are actually not opposed to lawsuits. They are seen as a possible substitute for many government regulations, e.g. maybe you don’t need a bunch of regulations on the safety of things like lithium ion batteries when the thr
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by tlrobinson 5y ago
Presumably if it happens enough times their insurance premiums will go up.
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by tlrobinson 5y ago
I doubt that was where the impact was if the car was turning right from Cushing onto Freemont, since it’s 2 lanes over from the turning lane.
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by tlrobinson 5y ago
“as mining is more economical” Mining doesn’t use a fixed amount of energy. As it becomes more economical more people will mine.
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by tlrobinson 5y ago
While not always the intention of the creators, I see esoteric projects like this as a good way to gather like-minded people to work on interesting things.
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by tlrobinson 5y ago
Sure, if you only trust certain enforcers (which obviously you should) then it’s federated, not fully decentralized. I think a blockchain can still be useful in federated systems.
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by tlrobinson 5y ago
Any physical jurisdiction? Probably not. Digital “jurisdictions” like Twitter are starting to support displaying “verified” NFTs though: https://cointelegraph.com/news/bragging-rights-twitter-previ... The next step in
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by tlrobinson 5y ago
Soooo the obvious question... when does the NFT of the “The Billion Dollar Torrent” drop?
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by tlrobinson 5y ago
I assume you're referring to the rule prohibiting "messages encoded for the purpose of obscuring their meaning" (e.x. encryption). I don't think it's particularly limiting, as you can still use cryptography for purp
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by tlrobinson 5y ago
Can you elaborate on “photonic override”? Googling that phrase pretty much just returns more HN comments and tweets by you :)
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by tlrobinson 5y ago
> missing out on facial expressions Give it a few years and every new VR headset will have facial expression sensors.
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by tlrobinson 5y ago
When people talk about VR experiences in the context of “the metaverse” I assume it’s implied there’s a shared space connecting those individual experiences.
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by tlrobinson 5y ago
I almost want to buy one and get a landline just for the nostalgia of it. I’m sure there are still some dial-up BBSes out there. A couple years ago I came across a post about someone who runs a packet radio BBS in San Francisco: https:&#x2
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by tlrobinson 5y ago
> I'm not sure I want Facebook to own it. I know I don't. It's a dystopian nightmare for an advertising company to be building "the metaverse". I hope all the other players in this space band together and form an
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by tlrobinson 5y ago
I don't know anything about Worldcoin specifically, but you could argue a case for an initial period of semi-centralized "fair" distribution, after which the protocol would (verifiably) cease to allow minting of new coins.
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by tlrobinson 5y ago
I black-holed news.ycombinator.com on my work computer by adding it to my /etc/hosts file, but my subconscious compensated by going to news.google.com often enough that now ‘n’ + enter takes me there.
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by tlrobinson 5y ago
“Are reposts ok?” “If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.” https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
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by tlrobinson 5y ago
So you’re saying 2021 is the year of Linux desktop?

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