CapacitorSet

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Fast Geodesic Approximations with Cheap Ruler(blog.mapbox.com)
2 points by CapacitorSet 7y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Fingerprinting TLS Clients with JA3(jwlss.pw)
1 points by CapacitorSet 7y ago|0 comments
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by CapacitorSet 7y ago
Arguably, point 2 is the only real concern about releasing the source code - 1 and 3 are optional responsibilities that people take to a varying degree, with "Works On My Machine (tm) - no documentation - here be dragons" being a
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
To me it feels like it's less of "nobody [in the industry] knows who's responsible" and more of "everybody takes responsibility for the earnings and nobody for the evils".
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
Why can't pi be used as a PRNG, and why does converting each digit to its parity lose a possible PRNG property? Sure it removes a lot of entropy, but it does so by destroying information, not from creating/overwriting memory.
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Firefox Screenshots will no longer offer online storage(screenshots.firefox.com)
1 points by CapacitorSet 8y ago|0 comments
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
The uniformity argument becomes rather silly when applied to other constructs. Would you ditch switch-cases in favor of if-else chains (leaving aside fallthrough/Duff's/etc for a moment) because the latter is uniform with exi
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
Think of a filter as an electronic circuit that has a voltage input and a voltage output. In control theory a filter is described by how it reacts to an "impulse", which is essentially a brief peak followed by zero voltage. Finite
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
It's not a dependency that I expect of browsing devices. I expect to be able to use eg. a TV, a radio or an ebook reader entirely without relying on the vendor, save for technical support maybe.
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
It's worth noting that although at a first glance the face looks extremely realistic, there are some details that don't quite make sense and hint at a randomly-generated face. This is what I got: https://i.imgur.com&#x2
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
Pointing your MX records to Mailinator is a one-time small effort, then it's just a matter to sending mail to whatever@yourdomain.com.
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
Intelligence agents are by far some of the most infamous people.
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
This isn't any different from many download procedures. Consider that even a general-purpose package manager like Pacman uses HTTP, because there's little point in using transport-level security when the payload is cryptographical
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
void 0 !== b && //node testability hack (b.tcg = c); >I'll be blunt, I can't work out what this does, but I don't believe it's significant in the browser. If a node person wants t
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
You can achieve the same effect by reusing the profile, though I've heard it can be buggy due to forwards/backwards compatibility issues esp. in add-ons. It requires a bit of technical effort (launching firefox with the -P flag to
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
Did anyone else get the impression that this is a shallow post? I expected some detail about eg. the issues of transliteration, but instead it presented a couple of facts about idempotency in UX.
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
>Finally someone has the balls to call out what is a total & unequivocal anti-mankind force. That would be nice, but it's not the case of China. As the article mentions, the crackdown merely affects independent churches.
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
It's mildly surprising to see countries of the "free world" ask Apple for user data much more often than some authoritarian governments or dictatorships - compare UK, US, AU, DE, FR, ES with HU, RU, CN, TR.
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
So, a fine-grained representative democracy.
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
We really do live in a dystopia.
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
You can use `ab`. I'll post an issue about that.
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
Unsurprisingly, an inverse-square mechanism can't replace a linear one over a wide working range.
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
I feel like "gatekeeping" is a more appropriate term, but yeah.
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
The matter is that he is specifically denouncing Jews in their link with the USSR, that's what makes him worthy of being called antisemite. It's not merely a coincidence (i.e. he denounces a specific social group which happens to
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
It's an old trick of antisemites. If you lurk antisemite pages or speak with antisemites, you'll find that a common talking point is the importance of Jews in the birth of communism (and the supposed link between Jews and communis
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
Solzhenitsyn is an anti-semite, and blames atheism for the existence of the Soviet Union and the problems in the modern world in general. It is a great thing that he isn't being listened to - and yet, he is receiving more attention tha
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
That's curious. The article made me think of an anecdote recounted to me about four 20-something boys figuring out they identified as girls in rather short succession, where the witness also hypothesized there was a social effect.
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
She just needed bananas¹. ¹ A blood panel and potassium supplements
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
>Why do we keep selling weapons to such a repressive regime? To a government, £1 billion and the approval of the arms industry are worth much more than a mild disapproval by the public opinion.
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
We can't know for sure whether they are counter-productive - would there be more islamists without the Chinese policy of repression? Would there be more attacks? We can only conjecture.

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