twicetwice

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by twicetwice 6y ago
Thanks, good to know!
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by twicetwice 6y ago
If you're talking about the kernel's filesystem cache, wouldn't that cache the compressed files? As far as I understand it userspace caching is necessary to cache uncompressed blocks, since the decompression is (presumably)
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by twicetwice 6y ago
The one we wrote for the class :) Well, sort of. The first assignment was to write a bootloader in x86 assembly. For the second assignment we were given a bootloader and a partially-implemented kernel, and we had to finish the kernel by wri
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by twicetwice 6y ago
I think the idea was that if an attacker sophisticated enough to overcome your reasonable defenses protecting your local network and potentially hack your Home Assistant installation or whatever else, then they're probably sophisticate
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by twicetwice 6y ago
Oh, this is very interesting—I just finished the Virtual Memory assignment for my Operating Systems class. (We had to use Bochs, and it was slow.) Why is emulating an MMU particularly painful?
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by twicetwice 6y ago
My understanding is that the US got free unlimited texting long before Europe did -- so Europeans were still paying by the text when WhatsApp/etc arrived and they jumped on that, but since they weren't/aren't paying per
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by twicetwice 6y ago
These comments are making me feel a lot better about having "Philosophy major" on my resume.
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by twicetwice 6y ago
Did you mean Wirecard instead of Wireguard?
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by twicetwice 6y ago
I did the same. It works really well for hole-punching through my stupid Comcast router! And I anticipate it will continue to work really well as I add more devices on my parent's, sibings', etc networks. It's cool to not hav
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by twicetwice 6y ago
Where/when did you learn formal logic, if you're comfortable sharing? I ask because I feel like it's rare that I see someone using the Lemmon style of writing/displaying proofs rather than the Fitch style.
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by twicetwice 6y ago
(To the best of my understanding; I'm not a rocket scientist; etc etc) You really, really need on-orbit refueling to make this work though. Because if you match the orbit of a satellite, push it out of orbit, well, now you're not
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by twicetwice 6y ago
I agree that if you have state in two places you're doing it wrong. That's why I keep all my state client -side (the only thing in session storage is your user ID if logged in). My server is basically just a thin wrapper around m
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by twicetwice 6y ago
Maybe a noob question, but why do you need a dedicated firewall appliance? What is it doing for you that just closing all ports and then selectively reopening as needed (my current solution) won't do? What kinds of threats is it protec
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by twicetwice 6y ago
I can't replace/reconfigure the router I'm behind right now, so I set up a Wireguard VPN. A $5/mo DigitalOcean droplet is the "hub", which then has point-to-point connections through Wireguard to each of my dev
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by twicetwice 6y ago
I'm not really conerned about that scenario, to be honest.
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by twicetwice 6y ago
I've thought about this a lot—I'm very interested in both security and privacy, so I wouldn't want to do this if I thought it would compromise either. My current solution is that the device has three functions: encrypt/s
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by twicetwice 6y ago
Well, lost or stolen hopefully wouldn't happen if it's embedded in my hand—that's the point of embedding it in my hand! To protect against damage—which is a very real possibility, of course—I'd put identical chips in eac
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by twicetwice 6y ago
I want a private key embedded in a chip, that never leaves that chip, so all encryption and decryption happens on that chip—similar to how chip-and-pin credit cards work now. I'm identified by the corresponding public key. Then I want
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by twicetwice 6y ago
Yet—as soon as they do, I'll probably jump to them. I'm using Zoho right now. That's the nice thing about having your email address at your own domain—I can move freely from provider to provider while using the same address!
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by twicetwice 6y ago
Same. I could probably de-Google pretty quickly—my primary email is on my own domain now—were it not for Google Voice, which I rely on daily. And since I have to rely on it, might as well use the rest of Google's services, since they&#
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by twicetwice 6y ago
Why Microsoft over Facebook and Google? Recently I've been thinking that MS is the FAMGAN/whatever that I'd be most willing to work for, so I'm interested to hear your case.
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by twicetwice 6y ago
Did you mean relativity? It seems to me that the comment does imply moral relativity is true.
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by twicetwice 6y ago
I think that the idea is that developed countries have no "need" for it, while developing countries could and will benefit from maximally exploiting their natural resources to develop as quickly as possible. There's a good po
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by twicetwice 6y ago
I've been slowly moving that way for years. I started dual-booting Windows and Ubuntu, Ubuntu for coding and Windows for everything else -- but over time I've been spending more and more time in Ubuntu, until I looked up one day a
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by twicetwice 6y ago
What about a B2C app that solves a real problem for real users in a new or better way than existing apps? That seems like an easy way you can deliver real value. That's what's gotten me moving on all my personal projects so far—th
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by twicetwice 6y ago
Many countries are reciprocal to the US—ie, US citizens are made to face the same restrictions/difficulty entering country X as country X's citizens face entering the US.
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by twicetwice 6y ago
HTTPS is great for users, but I'm annoyed that it will let companies get around this sort of thing. I want to control the traffic on my network.
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by twicetwice 6y ago
There was another approach to the same problem posted on HN just yesterday[0], which took a very different route! Very interesting to compare/contrast the two appraches. That one doesn't do video, just gets you a terminal. (Not su
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by twicetwice 6y ago
Unfortunately I can't fiddle with the router I'm behind, so I think the wireguard route is the way to go. I also like the wireguard approach because as far as I can tell it should be completely portable -- if I move to be behind a
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by twicetwice 6y ago
I was planning to do exactly that! I already have a Digital Ocean droplet with Nginx on it (serving a couple of very-low-traffic apps) ready to go, I just haven't had time to dive into the problem yet. Glad to hear it worked for you! I

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