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by tuxxy 7y ago
Come on, it's incredibly disingenuous to suggest that all folks living paycheck-to-paycheck don't have a valuable skill set. It's also incredibly offensive and elitist, too.
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by tuxxy 7y ago
This. That entire period should be examined as a lapse in judgement, not a time when things were better. Because of our state-of-the-art security, we're now able to do more things online in less secure environments. A secure, distribut
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by tuxxy 7y ago
I've been reading a lot on focused work and this sounds like the exact opposite of what's supposed to happen. I can't recommend Cal Newport's book "Deep Work: Rules for focused success in a distracted world" en
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Request for Public Comments on Stateful Hash-Based Signatures (HBS)(nist.gov)
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by tuxxy 7y ago
There is absolutely _not_ too much tolerance of anonymous corporations. If anything, there's not enough. The majority of them are likely used for lawful reasons. What an absurd, anti-privacy statement.
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by tuxxy 7y ago
They're not. People in SF act like SF streets are literally shit stained all over. In all likelihood, it's probably pretty comfortable to not wear shoes in an office haha.
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by tuxxy 7y ago
Is there anything keeping this out of the anti-encryption debate? Is it possible that AG Barr could say, "We will go after you for anti-trust issues _unless_ you agree to weaken your privacy tooling", etc?
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by tuxxy 7y ago
You cited the actual Signal app, but provided no citation that Signal works in China. Can you please provide evidence of that? Furthermore, just because it works in China doesn't mean that it won't cause your encrypted traffic to
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by tuxxy 7y ago
I can write about it on my personal website. Maybe I'll submit it here some time. I'm afraid it's not that interesting other than the emails of me trolling them. I wish more people took them to court. It was not difficult to
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by tuxxy 7y ago
I took Equifax to small claims. When that didn't pay up, I appealed and removed to higher courts. I continued doing this until it wasn't worth it for me. I think I cost Equifax a total of at least $20K USD. They had to keep flying
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by tuxxy 7y ago
> The symptoms were consistent with human consumption of rat poison, and when the tainted meatloaf was finally tested, the results found that the blue-green pellets visible in the meatloaf were brodifacoum, the active ingredient in roden
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by tuxxy 7y ago
I feel like if you have to say, "It's only creepy if you don't know how the software worries" you're on the wrong side here. Regardless of how the software works, it's still incredibly creepy.
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by tuxxy 7y ago
I also have a x1 Carbon 5th gen. It's been my favorite laptop I've ever owned. I run Arch Linux on it and it runs so nice and easy, charges super fast, has all the ports I use. I can definitely recommend everyone who has been disa
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by tuxxy 7y ago
There's no need to be dense here... There are privacy implications _outside_ of User communications to this website. Arguing that there is no expectation of privacy on HN is a complete non sequitur.
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by tuxxy 7y ago
But you're widely ignoring all the privacy issues that come with cleartext traffic. Why would you give up this clear win for consumers and users and relegate them to easily trackable, non privacy-preserving techniques? Do you not see t
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by tuxxy 7y ago
I made a comment on here not too long ago that said HAM operators are the equivalent of tech tattle-tales. This comment is exactly why I say that. > What you're proposing amounts to the total abandonment of all the principles that h
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by tuxxy 7y ago
> I'd argue that HN doesn't require encrypted data transfer at all I guess you're okay with sending your passwords in plain, then.
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by tuxxy 7y ago
I hate to be that blockchain guy, but using Ethereum might be fun for this. Stake some amount of ETH for an issue and when it closes you get it back. If it goes over some time period, the staked ETH begins to burn. Just a thought. Could mak
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by tuxxy 7y ago
Linus himself has expressed his opinion several times that signing every commit is useless. His posts here explain it a bit: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/GPG-signing-for-git-commit-t...
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by tuxxy 7y ago
Solving the discrete log problem would require that your factorization algorithm have the capability of being adapted to DLP. Some factorization algorithms can do this, but, IIRC, some cannot.
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by tuxxy 7y ago
Why are hams the closest thing to the equivalent of tech tattle-tales? Any time I see someone doing something neat and legally grey on radio, some ham operator has to come in, quote their understanding of the law, and chastise everyone. Wha
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by tuxxy 7y ago
This is a bit different, in my opinion. If you're interacting with someone over text message or phone call, things are very different in comparison to interacting over Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. In one case, you're directly
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by tuxxy 7y ago
Smartphones and social media have begun to represent this weird post-modern phenomena of the destruction of social relationships. So few social experiences happen through a non-cybernetic medium now. The average number of interactions a per
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by tuxxy 7y ago
This is pretty ignorant of the capabilities of the nuclear triad. At some point, any missile defense system is going to have to estimate damage and pick some targets, but leave others. When there are multiple vehicles,.you're pretty mu
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by tuxxy 7y ago
No idea why you're getting downvoted... It's not like modern nuclear reactors can only fail catastrophically, much less a predictable failure case that engineers are actively monitoring to ensure the safe operation of said reactor
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by tuxxy 7y ago
What is this weird notion of "respecting sensitive issues"? Is that just a polite way of saying, "I don't discuss human and civil rights violations." Why should I respect a person's desire to not hear about the
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by tuxxy 7y ago
It's hilarious to me how many people from San Francisco think America revolves around their overpriced 47 square mile peninsula.
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by tuxxy 7y ago
I've always been curious about initiatives like this. What happens if there becomes resource exhaustion and similar problems? How would the safety of the inhabitants be ensured in events like that?
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by tuxxy 7y ago
> Have you been to China lately? Amazingly safe. Never once seen a broken car window anywhere there. There is no such thing as smash-and-grab there anymore and carjackings are unheard of. Used to be a lot of petty crime, not anymore. Cam
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by tuxxy 7y ago
I'm happy to see this, but it's not really going to stop the inevitable rise of the police state. They _will_ find other methods that aren't using facial recognition technology. I hear that gait recognition is quite accurate.

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