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by y7 6y ago
While the Tweakers system might be nicer in some ways, I think the problem of new comments having no visibility still applies to the site in practice. Maybe that's less of an issue because it's a news site, but still. Sidenote: wh
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by y7 6y ago
Is there a Python SDK that supports encryption well yet? I have a simple command line script to send a message to a Matrix room. About three months ago I tried to add encryption, but apparently the old matrix-python-sdk is deprecated in fav
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by y7 6y ago
I'm assuming this works by streaming your keyboard/mouse inputs to the VM, then it runs the game and then streams high-res video and audio back to you. What's the total latency with this approach? And the required bandwidth f
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by y7 7y ago
> Q: Wouldn't this list be insanely long? More so if it doesn't have any concept of location? I don't think such a list would be that long: 1. It's not unreasonable to have some approximate concept of location (e.g. &
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by y7 7y ago
This effectively puts proximity data in the hands of the government, violating points 3, 5, 7, 8, and 9. > When you are close to another phone running TraceTogether, both phones use Bluetooth to exchange a Temporary ID. This Temporary ID
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by y7 7y ago
This is not an all-or-nothing scenario. The choice is not between an app that saves lives and compromises privacy, or no app and lives lost. Privacy preserving technologies exist, and now is the time to use them. There is an additional tech
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by y7 7y ago
Note that Wire only supports video conferences for up to 4 parties. https://support.wire.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001019225-Star...
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by y7 7y ago
This used to be called GNU Ring. Wikipedia has some info on features: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jami_(software) I'd be really curious if this is a viable option for videoconferencing for say >10 people.
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by y7 7y ago
My Zoom client even has a little green lock with an "E" in it in the upper left side that says "Zoom is using an end to end encrypted connection" when hovering over it.
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by y7 7y ago
> Ioannidis says: “If we assume that case fatality rate among individuals infected by SARS-CoV-2 is 0.3% in the general population — a mid-range guess from my Diamond Princess analysis — and that 1% of the U.S. population gets infected (
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by y7 7y ago
I read that here in the Netherlands the testing capacity is limited by a shortage of little plastic slabs that hold ~90 test samples at a time. One tactic to increase capacity is to not test the samples until the slab is full, which also de
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by y7 7y ago
Sure, if you have plenty of money flowing in (whether it’s VC funds or paying customers) it’s relatively easy to provide good working conditions and benefits. Is it sustainable though? Investors will push for an exit, and once you get bough
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by y7 7y ago
It's especially ironic taking into account how imgur came to be: as a simple image hosting website for reddit without ads/fluff. Now it's the polar opposite.
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by y7 7y ago
They're different things, indeed, and can both be used for public-key crypto. ElGamal uses intractability of the discrete log, RSA uses the intractability of integer factorization. Both are broken by Shor's algorithm on quantum co
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by y7 7y ago
> Now, to support multiple processors on a single machine reading and writing from the same memory in a coherent way, only one processor on a machine can have exclusive access to a given cache line. Does this also apply when multiple pro
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by y7 7y ago
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML41g0hb7hM nneonneo already posted some highlights. Another one (2m50s): "[Public key crypto] depends on one simple math equation. It is prime_1 times prime_2 = composite number.
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by y7 7y ago
Maybe for Stack Overflow, but for more scientific Stack Exchange sites with smaller communities I find the username to be really useful.
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by y7 7y ago
If you're into this music, be sure to also check out other interpretations of this piece, such as one by Lugansky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L6CxUpBZlY&t=1291s
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by y7 7y ago
This is all rather disingenuous (the bit on anti-vector campaigners, which is probably the point of the entire blog post). > Do they seriously believe that Intel and AMD and ARM have all screwed up by supporting vectorization? The benefi
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by y7 7y ago
I also use a lot of macros. I just learned that macro registers are the same as regular registers, so you can actually paste the contents of a macro and examine it or save it to a file (e.g. "xp after recording your macro).
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by y7 8y ago
Aren't snap and AppImages trying to do exactly what Mac OS app bundles have been doing for ages?
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by y7 8y ago
I don't think this is about trust. As long as there isn't a competitor that builds a better product, people won't switch. I don't like Apple at this point, but I'm struggling to come up with a better alternative t
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by y7 8y ago
I use beancount [1] for double-entry bookkeeping. It's similar to ledger/hledger, but it enforces correctness of your ledger a bit more, and it's written in Python which suits me well. You keep a ledger in a plain text file (
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by y7 8y ago
I'm glad that Spotify is taking this stance. Apple and Google Play together have an effective monopoly on the mobile device app market, which is worth about 70 bln USD per year. Cost of entry and network effects make it essentially imp
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by y7 8y ago
Wow this author sounds smug. > Most of the harm of unemployment is psychological, not material. Holding income constant, the employed are much happier than the unemployed. This doesn't factor in that employed workers might be much
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by y7 8y ago
The code uses CFB mode, so fixing the IV results in a constant first block, which gets XOR'd with the first plaintext blocks to make the first ciphertext blocks. So knowing one plaintext gives you access to all first plaintext blocks.
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by y7 8y ago
I have not confirmed it, because building it on MacOS seems to be a bit of a pain, but by glancing at the source code it looks like this encrypts passwords separately but with the same IV, trivially breaking security (even at rest).
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by y7 8y ago
Misleading title. The article doesn't substantiate the claim and just points out a coincidence. It even says so: > Still, it’s hard to pinpoint exactly how much streaming has contributed to the recent shortening of songs. The length
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by y7 8y ago
In this case the pressure mostly comes from the submission deadline for the NIST competition, I think.
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by y7 8y ago
Easiest way is to do it on the client. The client has the plaintext password anyway.

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