vixsomnis

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Story of a File (2007)(flud.org)
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Economics of investing in information security(en.wikipedia.org)
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by vixsomnis 11y ago
It's a bit reminiscent of the purported ancient Rome thumbs-down (or thumbs-up).
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by vixsomnis 11y ago
Fountain lets me screenwrite like how I code, which is awesome. I use Goyo[1] and capslock.vim[2] to reduce distraction and make the capitalization easier. Git in Dropbox works well when only one person is committing. 1: https://
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by vixsomnis 11y ago
That is only an issue if we throw out the current system altogether. What do you think of embedding IPFS links within html? Secure content can be directly loaded from the central server, content that only needs to be checked for integrity
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Ted Turner (2004) – “My Beef with Big Media”(washingtonmonthly.com)
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How the way you type can shatter anonymity–even on Tor(arstechnica.com)
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by vixsomnis 11y ago
And here's the actual site where you can try it out: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~graves/handwriting.cgi?text=
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Computers Can Now Replicate Handwriting(tomshardware.com)
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by vixsomnis 11y ago
I think the web (www) won't change much at all, but that doesn't mean the way we interconnect with others won't. This seems ultimately shortsighted. Human "progress" (increasing interconnection -- such as urbanizati
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by vixsomnis 11y ago
It's like grocery shopping and coupons, however. If you shouldn't be calling the function, then even a 99% reduction is not useful in that context. Would you rather call a slow function, a fast function, or skip it altogether? (A
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by vixsomnis 11y ago
I found this project a while back. I started putting TODO files and .topydo (config) files in my git repos while I work on them. Much better than having your todo list in your README. alias pydo='topydo'
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A better command line tool for the todo.txt format(github.com)
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by vixsomnis 11y ago
Would proguard be able to prevent (or at least make much more difficult) this kind of reverse engineering?
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by vixsomnis 11y ago
If there's no manual override, then it would be trivial to stop the car and threaten the passenger. According to the LA Times [0], Google is trying to make their autos fully autonomous, without any user controls. I'm not sure if t
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by vixsomnis 11y ago
I can't find it. Is it not in the options GUI?
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by vixsomnis 11y ago
As someone who hasn't worked in the software industry yet, stories like these are beginning to horrify me. Is the bar really this low?
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by vixsomnis 11y ago
The Windows Live Family Safety filter that was installed on my first internet connected computer taught me how to kill processes and manipulate startup entries on Windows. Oddly enough, my only experience with OpenDNS is from me convincing
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by vixsomnis 11y ago
Are you looking for interns? This looks like an incredible product (and I'd really like to see how it works).
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by vixsomnis 11y ago
Providing an option for manual forwarding for power users or the slightly paranoid would be nice. I use a paid email service (Fastmail) to minimize data mining, so I can't just make a new account for online shopping. I'd have to e
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by vixsomnis 11y ago
Bookmarked this. This looks seriously useful (has vim support!).
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by vixsomnis 11y ago
Yes, the search results aren't that good, but they're good enough. A single search almost always gets what I'm looking for on the front page or the entries immediately visible, which is impressive considering how little DDG k
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by vixsomnis 11y ago
It's not just the UK: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
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by vixsomnis 11y ago
Micropayments are not an option right now due to the friction: no one is going to give you their payment information. It requires a large amount of trust. One particular advertising model I like is internal advertising. I've been brain
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by vixsomnis 11y ago
For anyone who has wanted to switch to KeePassX (to avoid mono dependencies, for instance), but needed the integration with keepasshttp, this project is active: https://github.com/Ivan0xFF/keepassx I haven't switc
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by vixsomnis 11y ago
I don't have a background in ML (I'm still somewhat early in my CS Bachelor's degree, and I'm not focusing on ML anyway), but this is very interesting, regardless that I had to look up nearly every term you used. I was i
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by vixsomnis 11y ago
Took only a minute to try: English -> Filipino (Tagalog) -> Chinese-simplified (Mandarin?) -> English I remember reading an article about a year ago (NSA) to identify the user, based on how they are written, vocabulary, s
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by vixsomnis 11y ago
That paper is exactly the sort I was looking for. Thanks. I'm surprised there isn't any open source effort in this area yet (I couldn't find any either). It's just as important as TOR and other anonymity services, since
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by vixsomnis 11y ago
I'm less interested in analyzing the meaning of the text than the privacy implications for identification. The way I see it, textual fingerprinting is similar to facial recognition in that it's next to impossible to avoid in publi
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by vixsomnis 11y ago
I did the bottle exercise. Very interesting. I see the term I was looking for was LSM (language style matching). That should help me do more research. Thanks for the link.

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