falien

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by falien 8y ago
That just added the ability to save a copy of the encrypted database. It did not remove the encryption.
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by falien 8y ago
Correct. That is often referred to as literally a "Source available" license which is common from entities such as Microsoft. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Source_Definition for what qualifies as
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by falien 8y ago
No they wont (and don't) but it's possible they will choose to not sign these extensions, probably depending on their lawyers.
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by falien 8y ago
The blog post this was based on ( http://www.matthewjockers.net/2014/06/05/a-novel-method-for-... ) which is from 2014 was widely panned when it was first publicized, and some of the many problems with the meth
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by falien 8y ago
It's a fig leaf they can point to when lobbying to avoid stricter regulation in any jurisdiction that hasn't yet enacted new rules.
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by falien 11y ago
Thanks. I figured it was likely in the app, but for an experiment like this, that appeals to many of the ideals of an open source philosophy, I'm less likely to bother installing it if I'm unaware that it's an open source pro
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by falien 11y ago
This seems buried. Is there a reason it's not mentioned or linked on the kloak page? I actually went looking for the code and couldn't find that repository.
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by falien 14y ago
IE8 has the 32k limitation. I don't think anything else does.
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by falien 14y ago
Additional data point for all the people arguing about it deeper in comments: Firefox 3.6 had its last security update 9 months ago (2012-03-13) and hit official end of life from Mozilla a month later.
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by falien 14y ago
I prefer to let people read into the original as much as they choose, since it is fairly clear by the third introductory paragraph that the reporter misrepresented what was at issue in the case.
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by falien 14y ago
>That’s being challenged now for products that are made abroad and if the Supreme Court upholds an appellate court ruling it would mean that the copyright holders of anything you own that has been made in China, Japan or Europe, for exa
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by falien 14y ago
(not associated in any way with tent.io) 1. Just because it is allowed by the protocol doesn't mean any given client needs to pay any attention. Just like email, I can filter out any messages from people not in my contacts. I may choose not
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by falien 14y ago
Your blog post suggests using MsgPack as a drop in replacement for JSON for client-server communications. In that context every encode/decode operation on the server would be matched by one in the client browser. The <5% gain in perform
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by falien 14y ago
My point was that you can't install a c extension in a browser. I assumed that all the MsgPack libraries would be C or equivalent performance-wise. As to text vs binary, I'll just leave this link here: http://catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup
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by falien 14y ago
But you can install a c extension implementation for ruby (or pretty much any other language that doesn't already have native JSON built in) on your server fixing that performance gap. That's exactly what you can't do on the browser JS si
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by falien 15y ago
You are reading it correctly. This is a horribly link-baiting title.
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by falien 15y ago
This is against many consumer ISP ToS and they can/will arbitrarily start blocking traffic on certain default ports depending on how draconian they are about it. I agree that hosting on a home server is an option (even a good one) for some
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by falien 15y ago
I disagree with your interpretation. The collection of expressive elements such as icons seems copyrightable in aggregate as much as any of the individual elements. What that decision says is not copyrightable is an organization of data (in
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by falien 15y ago
um, that is not what that decision says. It says the interface may be covered by copyright to the extent that it contains expression. That would seem to me to have a large overlap with look and feel patents.
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by falien 16y ago
Yeah, but by then we'll be able to build everything with 3d printers, so all they'll need is the specs.
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by falien 16y ago
I wonder if anyone has actually attempted this and seen how dense you can pack it and reliably recover. I imagine you would need measures to counter small misalignments when rescanning and imperfections in the physical media.
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by falien 16y ago
Even if its not well liked in the most tech forward circles that may be the most desirable audience for google, there should at least be familiarity with it. And I don't know about you but I can't think of any even halfway decent and plausi
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by falien 16y ago
My point was that your substitution changes the meaning too. Special interest is a well understood term, and Nation in this context is defined. While its true in this scenario some special interests could end up being nations, nations are a
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by falien 16y ago
I didn't blip over your argument, I rejected your premise. Economies of scale mean it works better the bigger it gets (up to a certain point in most cases which I already said, whether that point in this case is greater than a state or less
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by falien 16y ago
Now you're talking. Do you have a newsletter I can subscribe to?
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by falien 16y ago
Imagine if, as soon as someone started robbing a bank, the police showed up and stopped them. The second one I like to an extent. Its true if you have a government whose objective is to protect its citizens and nothing else. Democrats want
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by falien 16y ago
>what benefit would there be to them becoming "ACLU Nation"? I don't think there is one. The idea is to get far more people to join something similar and get them engaged (which I see as the biggest problem. Shallow engagement requiring
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by falien 16y ago
The problem I see with this entire notion is that groups have to do something to make themselves a political force. AARP is powerful because it has a huge audience of high turnout voters to wield. Likewise for certain unions in particular a
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by falien 16y ago
I'm pretty sure the promised savings were over private health care options. And the reasoning was that despite their incredible expense, the existing government systems for limited classes are more efficient than the private companies are.
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by falien 16y ago
Only 22 states have more than 5 million people. They have even fewer households. The whole idea of economies of scale is that they work better the bigger they are. Depending on the application there will usually be an equilibrium point, but

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