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by paddlepop 1y ago
This. As a platform, where do you draw the line between offering a product vs not because a developer could do something stupid with it? edit: keeping in mind the use cases they are pushing in their documentation are for local development
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by paddlepop 3y ago
>> My question to those who support big brother any lawful but awful speech is - do you really think it won’t be used to silence any dissent of the ruling powers? My question to those that use this line of reasoning is do you really t
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by paddlepop 3y ago
I recommend you read the FAQ for the implications. And as homework for the reader, consider the banlist is a bloom filter
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MaxiBan: Putting the Block in Blockchain(github.com)
1 points by paddlepop 3y ago|2 comments
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by paddlepop 3y ago
>> Being decentralized means no single party controls it I suggest you have a look at how many people are allowed to merge bitcoins PRs in github
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by paddlepop 4y ago
I call this the "Vulnerability view" instead of a "Remediation view" and its something I feel a lot of Security people and tooling gets wrong when sharing information with those outside our bubble. It is dead easy to exp
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by paddlepop 4y ago
For project maintainers, yes absolutely Monero. But then either only ever use Monero for everything (like pre-2013 bitcoin), or exchanges will need the will to "proof" the source of funds aren't illicit.
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by paddlepop 4y ago
I think mainly that I do not envy the lawyer that has to make the service argument. We could get lost in the technical details of why it is or isn't a service but ultimately they only need to prove that x person of the project knew abo
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by paddlepop 4y ago
That's exactly what I mean, its the service that is getting sanctioned. The people that "knew and didn't do enough to stop it" will be arrested. My meaning of "code is just code" as a bad take, was just that th
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by paddlepop 4y ago
As someone else has stated elsewhere in this discussion, I don't think GitHub have much to worry about. Tornado Cash the service was sanctioned, and MS would choose to censor the repo out of an abundance of caution. In the same way tha
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by paddlepop 4y ago
Person that has worked on the defensive side of Money Laundering here. The Tornado Cash sanction has been fascinating to watch and my key takeaway has been that there are two camps: that TC is a Money Laundering service or a Privacy service
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by paddlepop 4y ago
This is a build deployment perspective. I for one do not miss hosts never being patched because all those slight modifications to systems files that were tweaked several builds ago and now everyone is too scare to touch. I won't miss t
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by paddlepop 5y ago
The only novel benefit, as you say, is "decentralized trust". The blockchain portion of the NFT in most cases is simple a pointer to the asset and the owner, with the actual asset being off-chain managed by a single entity that c
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by paddlepop 5y ago
I still don't understand why this needs to be decentralised? > without having to solely trust the company issuing the nft ticket For the transaction yes, but what about the thing you are buying? Perhaps I am not thinking creatively
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by paddlepop 5y ago
...and they are? I think the subtext that is implied with the no use case statement is really: "that couldn't be done with an existing technology (such as a database)".
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by paddlepop 6y ago
This is called the Ferber method and it worked very well for us as well. Note to others considering using it, the method is just as much about the ritual leading up to sleep (bath, reading a book, etc)
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by paddlepop 6y ago
A clinical consensus on whether addiction is a choice? Perhaps you are thinking of a clinical consensus on how best to treat addiction? This is often glossed over by the "addiction is a disease" crowd. The efficacy of treating add
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by paddlepop 6y ago
I will admit to not being a fan of FB also, but discouraged by the number of Slippery Slope arguments on this piece.
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Ask HN: Remote repos being used for C2 botnet, or VMS scan?
2 points by paddlepop 7y ago|1 comments
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by paddlepop 7y ago
MITREs response to this is a perfect example of the old-school security team mindset. If I had a nickel for every security team I've worked with that a) treat reporting as gospel and don't validate it, and b) don't talk to th
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by paddlepop 7y ago
This doesn't work so well for video games. Reviews come out saying its thin on content with a score to match and can kill a game before its had a chance to expand. Developers have started trying to do this more often lately with mixed
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by paddlepop 8y ago
From my experience the issues with this study have been well known for a long time. A first year Psychology paper I took over 10 years ago was at pains to point out the flaws in the study - not that this was unusual, a good lecturer will cr
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by paddlepop 8y ago
I highly recommend pentesterlab.com. The Web for Pentester course is a great intro for first timers if you read the PDF and play with the VM When training newbies I will start with this and get them to play around with google-gruyere.appspo
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by paddlepop 9y ago
I'm not sure what in that quote isn't covered in the parent argument. Unless you are suggesting that Apple have never been guilty of following others popular design trends.
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by paddlepop 9y ago
You may have had an auth token compromised. I used a dodgy third party Spotify Connect for Raspberry Pi library and had the same issue. Changing my password and expiring all current auth tokens returned my Discover Weekly back to normal aft
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by paddlepop 9y ago
The hype around rapidly increasing values on Pop Vinyls has largely gone, the market seems to have chilled and the reason it hasn't crashed likely to be because of the value attached to the licenses. The most interesting part of the wh
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by paddlepop 9y ago
From my understanding it was quietness that allowed lobbyists to pass the extension in 1998. I have been unable to find a great editorial I read a couple of years ago that detailed it, the only major resistance coming from a 1997 sized inte
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by paddlepop 9y ago
It feels pretty hard to argue that Apple products aren't overpriced when they are the most profitable company in the world by a wide margin. Sure they excel in supply and pipeline but its not like those cuts are making it to the consum
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by paddlepop 10y ago
You moved from a sub $200 entry-level phone to something that is (in my country at least) 4X the price and impressed by the experience? Not exactly a fair comparison.
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by paddlepop 10y ago
The vial of blood was only taken before the finger prick in the morning testing, in the afternoon testing the vial of blood was taken after the finger prick. While it would have been nice to have them mix up the before/after scenarios

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