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by turblety 8y ago
But the deposit is a massive issue. If you put that deposit into stocks and shares (a diversified portfolio) you could (will probably) find that outperform the cost of your mortgage and maintenance together. If they could get rid of the dep
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by turblety 8y ago
Just a quick note to anyone who doesn't know what Enpass is. It's a closed source [1], proprietary app. No user can be sure what malicious backdoors, exploits or bugs are contained in this app. One who cares about their security a
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PARSEC: Asynchronous and Permissionless Consensus (by Maidsafe)(medium.com)
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by turblety 8y ago
Always exciting to see how active this community is. But I've tried several times to install and use it, and it's really just too much hassle. If you're using a modern macOS you're most likely not going to be able to get
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by turblety 9y ago
I'd say the primary goal is to remain anonymous and retain your privacy, not evade government legislation, and those two are completely different things. [1] The general public are finally realising more and more how much big companies
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by turblety 9y ago
Sorry @cyberferret. I previously listed Storj [1] but did a bit of research and it didn't actually look cheaper when you consider bandwidth cost. $0.015 per GB per month $0.05 per GB downloaded [1] https://storj.io/
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by turblety 9y ago
Sia [1] could be even cheaper, coming out at $1.10 for a TB [2]. Although this price might not be forever, and I'm still not sure about the reliability. In theory it should be more reliable, as it's decentralised and your data get
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by turblety 9y ago
Robert Baruch has a bunch of great videos and if you look at the website for his "Project 54/74" [1] he spends lots of time taking high resolution photos of decapped processors. Really, it's an amazing educational experi
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by turblety 9y ago
What a lovely article. Was interesting and learned about the comma operator, which is really awesome.
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by turblety 9y ago
I think this will be good in the long run. If VISA (and Mastercard) end up allowing Bitcoin affiliated payments through their platform, then merchants will end up not providing native support for crypto payments, as they can just use their
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by turblety 9y ago
Isn't that a feature of the CPU though? *edit sorry I am wrong. DMA seems to bypass the CPU [1] 1. https://www.csoonline.com/article/2607924/security/stop-snea...
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by turblety 9y ago
Remember all those components can't "talk" directly to other components. They must all go through the CPU. So if your graphics card want's to make an internet connection, it must go to the CPU which will then go to the n
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by turblety 9y ago
I think in a few years though people will stop referring to the currency in bitcoins and refer more to Satoshi's. A Satoshi could still be a spendable unit. Although with the fixed supply it could still be too expensive to spend. I&#x2
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by turblety 9y ago
Bitcoin is either worth nothing or worth a lot more than it currently is. I think most people agree that its current valuation is very wrong.
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by turblety 9y ago
The problem with root certificates is there are so many of them installed by default with your operating system. As of writing this message I currently have over 170 root certificates on my macOS. Some of them are from companies who are kno
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by turblety 9y ago
Great read. Ended up looking for examples of the gRPC stuff and found this very interesting: https://github.com/grpc/grpc/tree/master/examples/node/dynam...
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by turblety 9y ago
Does the US Army work with the NSA? Because I wouldn't be surprised if the reason they can't find staff is because a lot of techies are against the government spying on all it's citizens. They might not want to be involved in
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by turblety 9y ago
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by turblety 9y ago
Regarding rsync.net, I'm sorry but I won't trust any company to protect my data if they can't spend a few minutes to put an SSL certificate on their website. The rsync.net url just redirects to an http link with no SSL certif
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by turblety 9y ago
It's really so great to see Firefox actually competing with Chrome on performance. I had to stop using Firefox a few years ago, when visiting most websites would spin up my fans, use all my battery and still be slow. I've been usi
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by turblety 9y ago
Yeah exactly. No one who values their security or privacy should even consider buying one of these. Especially businesses/corporations as you have no idea what is running in that hidden operating system. [1] 1. https://libre
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by turblety 9y ago
Intel ME is a processor that runs the MINIX operating system. It's the operating system that connects to the network. AMT is a module that is run in the operating system, that uses the network functionality. Although no one really know
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by turblety 9y ago
Your understanding is incorrect [1]. Intel ME is another processor running the MINIX operating system. It is used on all Intel chips made since 2008 and can not be disabled. It even contains a JVM for running Java. Inside that operating sys
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by turblety 9y ago
Every day, more and more people are understanding just how little control they have over the processors that run in their Intel and AMD chips [1][2]. Maybe soon there will be enough people who care to stop giving Intel and AMD money and fun
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by turblety 9y ago
It's a nice thought, but I don't think it'll allow us to flash new firmware. We can already flash firmware on Intel chips, but the firmware has to be signed using Intels keys. The signing verification still happens on the mas
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by turblety 9y ago
You mean another one? [1] 1. https://thehackernews.com/2017/05/intel-amt-vulnerability.ht...
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by turblety 9y ago
OpenCV is licensed under the BSD license. [1] "BSD (unlike some other licenses) does not require that source code be distributed at all." [2] Looks like there is no legal obligation to provide their source code or changes. But I r
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by turblety 9y ago
ArchLinux really is great for ARM, and hobby projects in general. I've struggled to get even Debian running on my Chromebooks multiple times, but the first time I tried Arch it just worked straight out of the box.
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by turblety 9y ago
Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be how the computer industry works. Think of all the game, software, hardware companies that don't exist any more. How many of them have released their source code, hardware specifications or giv
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by turblety 9y ago
While the backdoor and surveillance arguments are good, and the chips are very likely backdoored (if not deliberately then by undetected bugs) there are other issues with this closed source firmware. Let's say another bug [1] is found

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