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by wfn 13y ago
fwiw, here's a rather relevant post: http://unhandledexpression.com/2014/04/07/revisiting-zookos-...
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by wfn 13y ago
> It makes fairly subtle references to writers non-Russians have likely never heard of (the brothers Strugatskie, Lev Gumilev, Griboedov), and so builds a large argument which can come across as vapid and pretentious. fwiw, I don't
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by wfn 13y ago
> But isn't it another idealogical exaggeration in a different direction? Yeah, probably! It's just.. an interesting angle, really! I'll quote from the second foreword to LotR[1] (written in 1966) (excerpt somewhere from t
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by wfn 13y ago
Somewhat related: "The Last Ringbearer": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ringbearer - "an alternative account of and an informal sequel to the events of J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy, The Lord of
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by wfn 13y ago
Obligatory link to a paper on arXiv analyzing the astrophysics of long and volatile winter seasons in Westeros (basically, can you have a system where you wouldn't be able to analytically solve/predict winters, etc.): http:/
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by wfn 13y ago
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1404.0/01331.html
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Cryptocat sticks to openness despite grief over audits(pcworld.com)
1 points by wfn 13y ago|0 comments
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by wfn 13y ago
Sorry, haven't looked into namecoin. But I would presume that as long as you already know the domain name, no MitM can happen, and no explicit trust has to be placed onto anyone. This is true for, e.g., Tor hidden services, wherein i
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by wfn 13y ago
Tor software has the public keys of Tor directory authorities built-in. But it needs to trust those directory authorities to provide true up-to-date information about the network (Tor clients download the public keys for all the relays whic
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Fourier transform for dummies(math.stackexchange.com)
141 points by wfn 13y ago|37 comments
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by wfn 13y ago
Good stuff, and a nice writeup/explanation! To impudently hijack the thread: for a very similar approach (jaccard similarity coefficient, ruby) which has a nice abstracted implementation for background workers, take a look at David Cel
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by wfn 13y ago
> But, as harshreality was getting at, if we used 'proof' that strictly, nothing outside of pure math and logic would be a 'proof'. True that. But isn't that an important part of the scientific method (at least i
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by wfn 13y ago
> As soon as there's a "good enough" P2P censorship-free and privacy-friendly alternative to Google, millions of people will move to it. On that note: does anyone have an opinion on YaCy? http://yacy.de/en&
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by wfn 13y ago
I'd further consider - downloading the pluggable transports bundle: https://www.torproject.org/docs/pluggable-transports.html.en... - and getting some bridges: https://bridges.torproject.org/ just
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Samsung Galaxy Back-door(redmine.replicant.us)
437 points by wfn 13y ago|93 comments
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Security Experts Call on Tech Companies to Defend Against Surveillance(eff.org)
2 points by wfn 13y ago|0 comments
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by wfn 13y ago
edit whoops, hit the reply link under the wrong comment. This was supposed to be a comment under "This is a prime example of a covert communication channel." If anyone is interested in having more fun with this kind of stuff, ta
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by wfn 13y ago
Also, python3 is the default in archlinux: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/python
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by wfn 13y ago
Not sure of readability, but this surely is a neat trick to avoid null pointer exceptions, etc. (and it can be extended to cover other, related cases..): String myString = null; if ("foobar".equals(myString)) { /* .
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by wfn 13y ago
I wonder if the balances revealed are concretely tied to wallet data, or rather simply are entries in a database. If the latter (and from what they said it seems to indeed be the latter), doesn't really mean much / doesn't co
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by wfn 13y ago
> What's the purpose of founding this kind of spying program? Do they expect to find Al'Quaida' sbire among the average joe? I would suggest to finally drop the premise implied in these kinds of questions / indignatio
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by wfn 13y ago
Along similar lines, personally I was fascinated with https://bridges.torproject.org/robots.txt :)
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by wfn 13y ago
His Earth Destruction article[1] is pretty well known indeed! iirc I first found the site via Everything2[2], a curious place where people do writeups about pretty much everything (from short technical articles to poetry.) I stumbled upon w
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by wfn 13y ago
* simulation, consciousness, cellular automata, artificial life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City (check http://libgen.org/ for preview/pdf) * more of sam's great stuff: http:
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by wfn 13y ago
For anyone who hasn't listened to Alan Watts (to his words and to his voice), I recommend a rather related talk of his (with video and everything!), 'Work as Play' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiEzxNqw6_0
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by wfn 13y ago
> I am lucky that about two months ago I moved over to Coinbase from both Mt Gox and BitStamp. I wonder now if Coinbase is going to start having issues. You mean something like this? http://www.reddit.com/r&#x2F
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by wfn 13y ago
Recursive simulation layers! it's good stuff. :) Perhaps also check out his "Fine Structure" http://qntm.org/structure (different kind of thing, but it's good scifi..) and perhaps the ongoing series &#x2
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by wfn 13y ago
* Greg Egan - Wang's Carpets - http://bookre.org/reader?file=222997 (not exactly in the same vein, but would very much recommend nonetheless) * if you like this, then two of his novels: https://en.wikipedia.
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by wfn 13y ago
Try hopping onto the official #mtgox support channel on freenode and asking ne0futur and/or others.
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by wfn 13y ago
Consider running a VPS (or just a router from home) and having sshd bind to port 80 perhaps? :)

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