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721.
by wiml 8y ago
Or just… executables? My shell is "dynamically linked" to every executable on the system. Git is "dynamically linked" to my $PAGER. My IDE is "dynamically linked" to my compiler toolchain (which is itself compo
722.
by wiml 9y ago
It doesn't have access to the host keys, so it can't do very much unless you intentionally bypass the "someone is intercepting your connection" error your ssh client will give you in that case.
723.
by wiml 9y ago
There's Plan9.
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by wiml 9y ago
Nope. Switched outlets are pretty uncommon in the US. (I've seen them, but not recently.)
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by wiml 9y ago
There are several smart bulbs that people have reverse-engineered enough to put open-source firmware on them. They'd still be using wifi, but you could use firmware that doesn't require any "cloud" or external connection
726.
by wiml 9y ago
You can reasonably efficiently find the nearest rational number whose numerator and denominator fit in a given sized type. This means your rationals are imprecise, just like floats; the sparse subset of numbers they can represent exactly i
727.
by wiml 9y ago
Also (as feikname points out in another comment) because if you're relying on your NAT for security, your security boundary becomes your network, not your machine. If you read post-mortems of security breaches, it's really common
728.
by wiml 9y ago
I've seen a couple of suggestions for ways we could theoretically catch it. One is high-Isp rocket motors, which I think would have to be nuclear-thermal like NERVA. If we had one of those already lying around, it might be possible to
729.
by wiml 9y ago
The "implicit it" is called anaphor in Lisp (though using that term for a programming language feature I think only goes back to the 1990s; the idea itself is older). (The word "anaphor" here comes from the study of gram
730.
by wiml 9y ago
I have to agree — I was excited about Keybase, but my interest vanished as soon as they became yet another place to have an account rather than being a way to discover and semi-trust existing identities.
731.
by wiml 9y ago
You could include it on the care instructions tag in tiny tiny print.
732.
by wiml 9y ago
On Scott and Scurvy: http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm
733.
by wiml 9y ago
I'd been thinking about this technology recently as well, but hadn't gotten any further than perusing data sheets a little. My impression is that quartz crystals as found in oscillators are so brittle that it's hard to use th
734.
by wiml 9y ago
Just from looking at my own mail servers and mail headers, Gmail will happily both send and receive mail over IPv6, and has for years. Same with Outlook. Oddly, despite Apple's push for IPv6 support, iCloud doesn't seem to have an
735.
by wiml 9y ago
The idea that any rational/game-theoretic civilization ends up rabidly genocidal, or close, has become an increasingly well known premise in SF. Modern use maybe dates to "The Killing Star" by Pellegrino & Zebrowski? It p
736.
by wiml 9y ago
RFC 2142 gives a nice snapshot of "standard" email address conventions as of almost exactly 20 years ago. There's no real need for a "noreply" address to be standardized or conventional, though. Nobody except someon
737.
by wiml 9y ago
This is one of the things that's made me hesitant to deploy client-cert-based user authentication. I'm looking forward to TLS1.3, though.
738.
by wiml 9y ago
MQTT is a simple protocol for publishing/subscribing to events (over a network if you like). The Python clients on https://github.com/mqtt/mqtt.github.io/wiki/libraries look like they all have examples o
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by wiml 10y ago
Installing new roots on Macs, iOS, and Android devices is really easy. It's mildly inconvenient on Linux desktops.
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by wiml 10y ago
Ah, but a person with preëxisting good luck might be preferentially randomly selected into the nose-touching group, amplifying the effect and making it hard to measure its size.
741.
by wiml 10y ago
Point of trivia: Mussolini didn't even make the trains run on time.
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by wiml 10y ago
I think this order's authority probably comes from the fact that Trump is the head of the Executive branch, not from any legislative power. That is, they're in a boss/employee type relationship.
743.
by wiml 10y ago
There were a good many of those in the early '00s before Google rose to dominance. Either integrated into the browser or "meta-search engines" which simply merged the results from a number of other search engines.
744.
by wiml 10y ago
Rijndael (which is better known by the name AES) was developed by Belgian cryptographers, working in Europe. I think the same team developed Keccak (SHA-3).
745.
by wiml 10y ago
> the right people can probably replicate them pretty well They can be fooled reasonably well (well enough to fool an iphone) with pretty simple techniques. For details, search for a bunch of articles from 2002 referencing Tsutomu Matsum
746.
by wiml 10y ago
They address this a bit. Their CPU supports device virtualization and the default OS install dedicates a VM to just the USB ports, and the USB data lines are electrically disconnected from the HCIs when the machine is in locked mode. I&#x27
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by wiml 10y ago
The webpage says it zeroes the key material when the battery runs low. So it'll fail "secure" in that case, presumably.
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by wiml 10y ago
You can hash the password in a way that allows the server to verify but without providing the server or an interceptor with the ability to impersonate. SRP/PAKE and SCRAM are examples.
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by wiml 10y ago
We're closer than we used to be. I think Apple is the only remaining major holdout that doesn't handle name-constraints.
750.
by wiml 10y ago
In the US at least there is ARES/RACES, and many cities/areas have some kind of liaison, periodic net checkins or drills, lightweight training, etc., so that hams can work effectively with the local incident response.

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