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by countermeasure 2y ago
He's the reason I asked :)
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Ask HN: Who's working on/at DOGE and what do they say about it?
5 points by countermeasure 2y ago|4 comments
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Questions for Australia amid reports US could ban TP-Link router sales(abc.net.au)
3 points by countermeasure 2y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Do you or those you know have US election contingency plans?
13 points by countermeasure 2y ago|26 comments
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by countermeasure 3y ago
I've found a few articles and some discussion about this on social media from 2021, but not much since then. Any idea whether that project in Ethiopia is still alive?
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by countermeasure 3y ago
It sounds like "private blockchain" means very few copies of the blockchain, or even just one? If it does, why was it decided to use a blockchain rather than a traditional database?
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by countermeasure 3y ago
How?
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by countermeasure 3y ago
Thanks for the links to examples. These voting and real estate securitisation projects look to be quite small-scale, but they also seem to be real-world and not prototypes, so they are what I asked for :)
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by countermeasure 3y ago
Okay, that's cute :)
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by countermeasure 3y ago
I can see that IPFS is decentralised/P2P, but I don't see how a blockchain is part of it. Am I missing something?
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by countermeasure 3y ago
I hadn't heard of LBRY before. A quick look at it has me thinking that it's a content distribution platform, and the blockchain element is that it has its own token that can be used to pay content creators. Does that sound right?
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by countermeasure 3y ago
I've always used Google Camera on GOS for this reason. It's the one Google app I use. I believe I have it sandboxed effectively, although I'll admit that I'm not knowledgeable enough to really confirm that. Installing Go
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by countermeasure 3y ago
Good call. I've been using GrapheneOS for the last three years, and I recommend it highly.
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Ask HN: What have you bought or sold using a cryptocurrency?
6 points by countermeasure 3y ago|8 comments
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by countermeasure 3y ago
Okay, NFTs, fair enough :) They often run off the Ethereum ledger, am I right?
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by countermeasure 3y ago
HN seems like the ideal place for this question to me. Your assumption that I'm not hoping for good-faith answers is incorrect and unfair.
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by countermeasure 3y ago
I have, but looking at their website doesn't get me closer to an answer to my question. They describe themselves as "Enabling developers, enterprises, and organizations to collaboratively build, share, and enhance blockchain frame
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by countermeasure 3y ago
Even though I use it every day, I'd never thought of a Git repo as a blockchain before. But each commit chains to the one before it though, so I suppose it is. Thanks for this new perspective!
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Ask HN: Name a non-cryptocurrency blockchain project in use in the real world?
16 points by countermeasure 3y ago|44 comments
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by countermeasure 5y ago
Looks like this might be the app's website: https://www.anom.io And their "law enforcement guidelines" are here: https://www.anom.io/articles-news/law-enforcement-guidelines I couldn't s
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by countermeasure 6y ago
Elemental co-author here. GeneralStrike and I are not the world's most talented programmers, and we wanted a Selenium wrapper which even we can add to and extend as the need arises. We've worked really really hard to make sure t
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Amazon's deal will let spy on you through your electricity meter(abc.net.au)
3 points by countermeasure 6y ago|1 comments
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by countermeasure 6y ago
For a secure and private OS which doesn't need root you can try GrapheneOS: https://grapheneos.org/ No need to "harden" it after you install because things are locked down by default. I've been using it
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by countermeasure 6y ago
You're welcome! I used to have a pretty lukewarm relationship with TODOs too, but since I settled on this approach things got a lot better. Now I can't imagine using them any other way.
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by countermeasure 6y ago
I had trouble finding a consolidated set of best practices for using TODO comments in code, so I thought I'd try to produce one. As I was working on it I hit on the idea of likening TODOs to sticky notes as a way to sum up in just a fe
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TODO Zero: Write more robust code by treating TODOs like sticky notes(redandblack.io)
4 points by countermeasure 6y ago|3 comments
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by countermeasure 6y ago
I'm worried about how humans will treat non-biological intelligences -- what we currently call AIs -- in the future. If and when consciousness emerges in non-biological intelligences, I'm concerned that humans will be slow to reco
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Artificial intelligence is a dangerous term. Here's why we need to stop using it(redandblack.io)
2 points by countermeasure 6y ago|2 comments
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by countermeasure 6y ago
I'm not sure how it would suit your workflow, but you could try out PROMPT_COMMAND. https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/bash/manual/bash.... It's executed just before the PS1 prompt is p
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by countermeasure 6y ago
It looks like zsh can handle updating the time in the prompt quite simply and elegantly.

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