mortallywounded

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Ask HN: Does Microsoft pose a risk for private GitHub repositories?
1 points by mortallywounded 1y ago|2 comments
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by mortallywounded 3y ago
> "One family member in West Virginia told APBP they paid more than $400 in three weeks for tablet usage." Access to a tablet and messaging outside the prison is hardly a "basic resource" and it's likely an avenu
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by mortallywounded 3y ago
To all the 20 year olds, libgen.rs
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by mortallywounded 3y ago
Sounds like a skill issue. /s
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by mortallywounded 3y ago
Available in prisons, god forbid it be available to the public!
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by mortallywounded 3y ago
It sounds like you spent 4 years building a product before you even knew if anyone would use it. That's a terrible idea, but a good learning experience. I wouldn't give up (perhaps you need to give up on your current product thoug
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by mortallywounded 3y ago
I'll be blunt. 1. Take all of the side projects that are too niche and/or unsellable and polish up the code then open source it (add it to your portfolio/resume). 2. Take the projects that are sellable and publish them in pla
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by mortallywounded 3y ago
Maybe some day we'll have a PIR-based[1] search engine-- but then you couldn't harvest data on your users and sell personalized ads, so maybe not. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_information_retriev
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by mortallywounded 3y ago
It came after the first wave of SPAs and if we listed every SPA framework (or "library") we'd be here all day.
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by mortallywounded 3y ago
Coding is quite subjective. When I examined the early bitcoin code (the one Satoshi wrote and shared). The C++ code looked pretty sloppy and amateur-ish. The comments were odd and not standardized (randomly using four ///&#x2
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by mortallywounded 3y ago
^ I think you'll enjoy the paper's deep dive. It goes into the references deeply!
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by mortallywounded 3y ago
I believe Satoshi was a cypherpunk and a remailer dev. Cypherpunks had a history of doing things anonymously on the mailing list and even trying to out one another (a sort of game). Furthermore, as a remailer dev Satoshi was all too familia
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by mortallywounded 3y ago
Those are weak pieces of evidence. Meredith appears to be telling the truth. She didn't say Len wasn't Satoshi, she simply said to the best of her knowledge he wasn't. That doesn't mean he wasn't working on it cover
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by mortallywounded 3y ago
SPAs were a psyop by FAANG companies to gain a monopoly and mind-share of developer talent. Are you team Google (Angular)? Meta (React)? Are you a hipster (Ember)? From there things only went downhill faster.
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by mortallywounded 3y ago
That's why I hope the truth comes out. If say, Satoshi is Len, then Satoshi is no longer a god. He's a regular dude, that suffered like many people and tragically took his own life. There's a lot to unwrap there.
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by mortallywounded 3y ago
Here's Len's macbook as proof: https://www.flickr.com/photos/enochsmiles/449655745/ Fun fact, he was experimenting with email based image uploads on flickr. That was around the time Satoshi suggeste
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by mortallywounded 3y ago
Len was a Macbook user, but he would not have done Bitcoin on his personal laptop. It's much more likely he used available PCs in a computer lab on the campus he studied/worked at, which were likely Windows machines. It's als
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by mortallywounded 3y ago
Satoshi stepped away from Bitcoin in 2010 and handed over the project to the maintainers. Len started posting about Bitcoin in 2010 (post Satoshi handing the project over). It seems to me, if Len was Satoshi, he grew distant from the projec
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by mortallywounded 3y ago
I don't think it's a legal issue. People want to know who it was and credit where it's due. Satoshi didn't do anything wrong but distributed consensus was finally solved (or so it seems) and that's a big deal.
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by mortallywounded 3y ago
If you want a detailed look at all of the Satoshi evidence (circumstantial and others), check out this paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.10257v14.pdf If you want the TLDR; the meat is the "Candidates" section
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by mortallywounded 3y ago
https://twitter.com/kurtwuckertjr/status/1760734617152410017 ^ Original Adam Back emails that were never released before.
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Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Emails Revealed in Court(decrypt.co)
10 points by mortallywounded 3y ago|3 comments
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by mortallywounded 3y ago
Reminds me of the Marvel movies when they flash back to the 1940s.
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by mortallywounded 3y ago
Hold on-- Abraham Lincoln wasn't a black trans non-binary demi-human?
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by mortallywounded 3y ago
I had to build Skia once in order to build Aseprite from source... I gave up and bought Aseprite instead.
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by mortallywounded 3y ago
I've done this sort of thing and it does work well. The caveat is you usually need a cookie/token after logging in, so you still need to fake that part as well as manage the session state. It does work well, though some sites cert
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Ask HN: Best web scraping toolset for 2024?
14 points by mortallywounded 3y ago|11 comments
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by mortallywounded 3y ago
I'd say neither web or desktop are easy. Cryptocat was a great example. It started off as a web app and got a lot of heat. Was rewritten as a desktop app and still failed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocat#Hi
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by mortallywounded 3y ago
Isn't the main issue with e2ee on the web the fact that you're battling on three fronts? 1. You need to securely get the code and resources to the browser. A state level attacker can make this very hard. 2. You need to securely ru
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by mortallywounded 3y ago
Another coincidence happened in 2010. Satoshi secretly fixed the poison block issue within Bitcoin by locking the block size at 1MB. He discovered it and fixed it before anyone noticed. This makes it seem like Satoshi was actively poking ho

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