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by zahllos 5y ago
As I understand it yes. That line had nothing to do with the atlantic slave trade and everything to do with the barbary one. At the time that song was written, the Royal Navy did not in fact rule the waves at all (we were latecomers to the
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by zahllos 5y ago
The only thing I would change: I would use Caddy and not thttpd. This way the actual binary doing the serving is memory-safe. It may well require more disk space, but it is a worthwhile tradeoff I think. You can also serve over TLS this way
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by zahllos 5y ago
> I would suggest they probably reached a last-minute deal with VISA rather than blinking of their own accord. Yeah. I honestly wonder how that worked out. I suspect Amazon account for a not-insubstantial amount of payments so you have t
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by zahllos 5y ago
I don't think Amazon UK ever stopped accepting VISA entirely. They threatened to, and then I think they blinked at the last minute. It was also only specifically VISA Credit, not Debit cards, which continued to work. I'll be hones
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by zahllos 5y ago
Not in my opinion no, and I don't mind people asking me simple questions either. There are quite a few people who simply don't understand basic concepts and cannot actually write code. Higher qualifications are usually weakly posi
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by zahllos 5y ago
I mostly agree. C++ is mature, has standards and a whole array of production ready libraries. If I wanted to build a production cross platform GUI app today and not use electron (vomit) I would likely use Qt for it. Rust has nothing that is
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by zahllos 5y ago
No it isn't the entire issue. Or more precisely on your average desktop system this isn't really a problem. The jitter dance will suffice here. The clue is in randomness seed files. You won't have one of these on a PC because
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by zahllos 5y ago
Looks like I fired off a bit too hard as I saw peer to peer and... That means something specific. Sorry about that. There's far too much 'zero knowledge encryption' on the internet, eurgh. Seems WhatsApp does use noise pipes
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by zahllos 5y ago
I dunno how to say this but Noise is really a set of possible handshakes with various security guarantees (or, more like, aims, which we are reasonably sure are met), which kinda followed on from X3DH/Signal Protocol. I'm unsure h
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by zahllos 5y ago
Yes I agree. It also costs money to make money. Minting coins isn't free: you need the right cupronickel mix or whatever they're using so that the coin matches specifications. This is an industrial process like any other. Also not
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by zahllos 5y ago
Aside from electronic waste, if you ever happen to be in South Wales you can visit the Royal Mint and it is quite fascinating. They strike coins not just for the UK but also quite a few other nations. They also make the precursor alloy mixe
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by zahllos 5y ago
I would disagree on brexit. Am British and brexit sentiment predated the campaign by quite some time. Also many people eligible to vote for this and holding such anti EU positions were elderly, so if the Russian influence campaign was entir
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by zahllos 5y ago
Dual EC DRBG is the known backdoored curve. You have the links to the high level story in a sibling comment. I would also like to add, however, that the possibility of a backdoor was patented by Scott Vanstone I think, and raised in NIST st
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by zahllos 5y ago
This is a terrible idea, or one might say, not at all cogent thinking. I deplore what Putin is doing in Ukraine. This is a war of aggression undertaken because he is scared of the democracy in Ukraine making its way to Moscow (i.e. Russians
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by zahllos 5y ago
Rather than write crypto, what I'd actually recommend is to break it. Schneier put together a block cipher cryptanalysis course a long time ago and while I don't usually recommend his crypto books these days, the course is good:
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by zahllos 5y ago
Another point to consider is the IPv6 global routing table for internet routers. Suppose you decided to give end users /120s instead and those /120s were all routable on the internet. That means there are 120 bits of addressing ju
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by zahllos 5y ago
Agree. While I can't help but feel the timing of this announcement is deeply cynical given the appalling behaviour of number 10 staff and Boris, I also feel the BBC's editorialising has gone too far. A good place to see this is ac
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by zahllos 5y ago
I think you probably already have the answers you were seeking (yes, ideally you should) but I'd like to add some points: Ideally, it would be nice if the code has a professional-level quality to it, but I think everyone involved in ev
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by zahllos 5y ago
The main argument in favour of age is that it only does one thing: encrypting files, and does it 'well' in the sense there is no need to edit your gnupg config file to exclude all the crypto from the 90s that your version of gnupg
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by zahllos 5y ago
It makes no sense, but this: > In many parts of the world (including the US & U.K.) the idea of central government holding an accessible database of everyone’s identifies, and mandating participation, is cultural and political suicid
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by zahllos 5y ago
I did some digging, because every time I have heard of ChatControl I have seen all this talk about what the EU plans to do and no evidence. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE...
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by zahllos 5y ago
In Switzerland the insurance system has various deductibles you can choose from per year, and then a monthly premium that varies per deductible. If you can't afford to pay this for genuine reasons, then the cantons will step in as part
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by zahllos 5y ago
Also if you do commute to work every day by train, it probably makes sense to buy a GA (a yearly ticket that gives you unlimited travel on all swiss public transport for that year) for 3800chf. Almost anyone I know commuting some distance d
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by zahllos 5y ago
I'll second this. I am very familiar with latex. I have even done similar things to my neovim configuration (I use ultisnips) and have a few custom latex 'sty'les to include various commands to do stuff I do frequently but is
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by zahllos 5y ago
User mode code is a different scenario. There are three possibilities: - unsigned code pops up with a big warning 'your pc will explode' or something like that when you try to run it. - signed code does not need a cross signed cer
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by zahllos 5y ago
That's really good news and I'm glad they decided to do that.
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by zahllos 5y ago
There are two sides to this coin. Firstly there's the hardware vendors who make firmware, who decided to incorporate UEFI presumably because intel pushed it hard (original efi booted itanium and is also found in older Macs). But it was
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by zahllos 5y ago
The article mentions Process Explorer. Since Sysinternals were bought by Microsoft many years ago and the tools are distributed directly via Microsoft, such tools are unlikely to have an issue being signed. A brief history of the process fo
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by zahllos 5y ago
Slight nitpick I know but decrypt here is the not quite the right word. The communications are still encrypted in flight but they are necessarily decrypted (by WhatsApp) on the end (your device). This unencrypted file is then provided to dr
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by zahllos 5y ago
A maintenance window doesn't necessarily have to mean downtime either, it could just mean time you can make changes where people are on hand to fix it if things go wrong. To extend your analogy, it might be a terrible idea to start doi

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