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by w8rbt 8y ago
If you think of CS as a distinct area (outside of math) then it is used there a lot. Especially in cryptography (RSA, etc.).
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by w8rbt 8y ago
I have been looking at saltpack to replace many of my PGP use cases. Has anyone else? https://saltpack.org/
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by w8rbt 8y ago
You can still read about this: https://evil32.com/
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by w8rbt 8y ago
Not to be confused with his little Theorem.
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by w8rbt 8y ago
It's not revolutionary to say that asking for user passwords is stupid and dangerous. Nothing good will come from giving your email account password to Facebook (or any company). It's also a basic human rights violation. We all ha
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by w8rbt 8y ago
Yes, they can always see the metadata. To, from, ports, bytes sent, packets, time, duration of the flow, etc.
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by w8rbt 8y ago
I find this to be largely generational. Younger people tend to be more visual. As long as the source of the videos is accurate and complete, I would not worry about it.
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by w8rbt 8y ago
I wonder if he took up walking after the injury? A lot of people I know who used to run walk now instead.
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by w8rbt 8y ago
It's like a free puppy.
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by w8rbt 8y ago
When n is guaranteed to be very small it does not matter. Even an exponential solution would be fine in these cases. The 'algo nerd' on your team ought to know this.
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by w8rbt 8y ago
If you have only ever worked a 9 - 5 work week this may come as a surprise, but in the real world in America, lots of highly paid people routinely work weekends and nights and 12 or even 24 hour shifts. Doctors, Police Officers, Morticians,
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by w8rbt 8y ago
Store your TOTP secrets PGP or NaCL encrypted. I have done this for years. You'd have to get my private key (off of a smartcard) and get my private key password (out of my head) to decrypt my TOTP secrets before you could use my TOTP g
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by w8rbt 8y ago
If you like oathtool, you may like oathgen and goathgen too (I wrote them years ago). They take stdin so you can store your secrets PGP or NaCL encrypted, etc. and pipe them: https://github.com/w8rbt/oathgen https:&#x
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by w8rbt 8y ago
Great uplifting article. It's awesome to see a geek get ahead in business by using his/her favorite open-source tech tools.
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by w8rbt 8y ago
Replying to myself... I think I could actually use nacl/box to accomplish this. I'd just have to take care and break the large files into smaller chunks and find a way for users to easily generate and manage keys. OpenPGP sort of
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by w8rbt 8y ago
Nine out of ten times, it's bad passwords.
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Ask HN: Open Source Self-Hosted FaaS Software
8 points by w8rbt 8y ago|2 comments
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by w8rbt 8y ago
Probably not. Security is full of the "We're Compliant" types (don't we have insurance for that?) and very few real technologists who know how to hack/break/abuse systems. Target was PCI compliant when their CC
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by w8rbt 8y ago
Keep G Suite, but buy your own domain (whatever.com) so you are in total control. If they ban you, just change DNS records to point to zoho or some other provider.
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by w8rbt 8y ago
I don't miss generics in Go and I have used generics in C++ a good deal. I think the whole generics argument against Go is largely parroted by people who may not even know what generics even are. C doesn't have Generics either. It
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by w8rbt 8y ago
Runs in any browser?
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by w8rbt 8y ago
Lots of questions about this. Some say it is old, stale data. I don't believe it is current. They charge 25 cents per 1,000 queries in AWS. Why give that away for free? See thread here: https://gist.github.com/chilts&#x
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by w8rbt 8y ago
I could not tell you the names of many of the AWS services, but I have lambda functions running in AWS (written in Go). They monitor my DB loads in RDS. I get email and text alerts when things are not as expected via SNS, but I can't r
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by w8rbt 8y ago
This is like having a car that you work on more than you drive. Great as a hobby but that's about it.
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by w8rbt 8y ago
I think AWS Lambda supports Go 1.x. Does GCF plan to stick to Go 1.11.x or broaden support to other Go versions in the future? What will happen to 1.11.x support when 1.12 comes out?
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by w8rbt 8y ago
They all log, and they all turn those logs over to police agencies when they get court orders to do so. These services are only intended to prevent ISP snooping on legal activities that may be personal or embarrassing, but not illegal. That
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by w8rbt 8y ago
Walmart does this really well.
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by w8rbt 8y ago
I wonder if this will impact the small Sears Home Town stores. These are great and I'd hate to lose them. http://www.searshometownstores.com/
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by w8rbt 8y ago
It's likely very rare. Most people are good, decent and reasonable.
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by w8rbt 8y ago
That happened to a Go repo of mine once as well (except it was a python script causing the misidentification). I fixed it by adding a gitattributes file to the repo. Here it is: https://github.com/w8rbt/netscan/blo

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