sarahj

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How to Become the Best in the World at What You Do(medium.com)
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by sarahj 11y ago
Grab the source, compile it and get it running...after that...whatever you find interesting. Some ideas: * Trace the execution of one of the user land programs (e.g. ls) to see how it uses the syscalls. * Add a new syscall - there are a few
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by sarahj 11y ago
xv6 is an amazing teaching OS - it is very simple to dive into and play around with. A while ago I wanted to explore some filesystem/permissions stuff and use xv6 to play with some concepts (see http://sarahjamielewis.com&#x
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by sarahj 11y ago
One of the reasons for the relative expense is the heavily-subsidised corn (and a few other) industries which pretty much all goes to animal feed. That being said, my food costs were easily cut in half when I went vegan (and now, they are a
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by sarahj 11y ago
> Maybe you can explain to me then how it is that this makes a significant difference in global warming. The carbon that is released by cows and humans after consumption of plant matter was derived from said plant matter. The carbon in t
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by sarahj 11y ago
One of the (many) reasons I went vegan was to cut my impact on the environment. I don't own or use cars. Where I can I walk, where I can't I take public transit. I've made considerable changes to what and how I buy, to source
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by sarahj 11y ago
No it isn't accurate for hidden services. See https://www.torproject.org/docs/hidden-services.html.en - hidden service communication some some level of encryption end to end (whether that is sufficient or requirin
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by sarahj 11y ago
Pinning necessarily has to restrict the times a certificate can be changed because otherwise we have to solve a different problem "How can I tell this new certificate is a good certificate". You have proposed a solution to that se
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by sarahj 11y ago
A few ideas from a quick brainstorm, none of them are perfect, but neither is the centralized server solution: 1. Bookmarklet - In a similar vein to the way some password managers work you could construct a bookmarklet that the user can cli
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by sarahj 11y ago
Some of the technical points of this article are simply wrong... > The exit node IP address of the user was easily obtained using the two different methods discussed briefly above. This is really not a vulnerability but simply how tor, a
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by sarahj 11y ago
For private browsing check out Tor: https://www.torproject.org/ If you want to dive deeper then there is Tails: https://tails.boum.org/ - an OS which is designed with privacy in mind. https://pri
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by sarahj 11y ago
For the record, I am logged in over Tor - so if there is a block it appears to be inconsistent.
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by sarahj 11y ago
I remember reading about Bitcoin a couple of years ago and expressing disbelief that many of the major advantages being heralded were little more than fantasy, these were: * Micro-transactions. * Replacing practically everything related to
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by sarahj 11y ago
They gave permission to Google to store, parse, tag and understand 16 years worth of family photos of themselves and others so that Google can more accurately present them (and by extension the other people in their photos) with adverts tha
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by sarahj 11y ago
This is great news. With the fall of advertising publishers will have to find new ways of paying for content production and selling produced content - there are a few options in this area - subscriptions are one, micropayments are another,
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by sarahj 11y ago
Reading over some of the specifications - I really like this approach - I think this is probably the closest I have seen to a truly distributed approach to IM at the protocol layer. If anyone would like to try the chat interface my address
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by sarahj 11y ago
> Sound and rational means peer reviewed paper "My doctor has told me I should not take in as much potassium as I have been so I am reducing my consumption of legumes" and "I have an ethical objection to killing sentient c
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by sarahj 11y ago
I will agree that there is much ignorance in the world surrounding what we eat and in science in general - however, as I said, when I talk to people who have dietary restrictions they tend to have a sound, rational basis for them. > That
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by sarahj 11y ago
> It seems like every single young woman has bizarre food taboos that are based on no rational basis. I'll ignore the blatant sexism. As a young woman, although admittedly not single, who happens to be vegan I really don't unde
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by sarahj 11y ago
The message here is avoid low-level crypto - if you find yourself having to mess around IV's or choosing modes and padding then you are far more likely to screw something up. NaCl/libSodium provide higher level interfaces where th
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by sarahj 11y ago
> Even RSA which has stood the test of time since 1977, is only considered 'safe' in so far as there's no algorithm better than brute force for factoring products of large primes https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by sarahj 11y ago
> Really? In the Judeo-christian framework? Which, like-it-or-not, has to be considered the base reference for the definition of marriage. Why? Marriage was around a long long time before Christianity or even Judaism. There were hue port
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by sarahj 11y ago
Defined by who? when? The problem with the argument you have presented is it lacks any kind of historical accuracy. There are plenty of records dating back centuries to millennia which encode a whole Smörgåsbord of unions man and woman, man
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by sarahj 11y ago
I do, it is mostly for me to record thoughts and document projects - I generally don't expect people to visit it, which is a shame I think. In my opinion websites display the true intent of the web, decentralized spaces for people to e
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by sarahj 11y ago
I have run an ad blocker for at least the last 6 years, probably longer - it has been a staple in my browser setup for so long I cannot stand browsing without one. The author linked to a tweet which I think requires further examination &quo
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by sarahj 11y ago
It used to say something like "Failure of the Security Industry".
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by sarahj 11y ago
My guess is that for the most part the vendors wouldn't care - which would mean that every update cycle you would have to spend a day patching the platform to cope with whimsical proprietary format changes. Actively hostile vendors cou
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by sarahj 12y ago
I have spent a large portion of my adult life finding and reading and understanding scientific papers. The advice offered in the tweet is good, so I won't restate it - but I will offer a couple of my own: * Print the paper out and make
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by sarahj 12y ago
I am still a firefox user...but I don't want to be. I will admit the whole Eich thing, when we was promoted I quickly lost my attachment to Mozilla - they clearly were not the organization I thought they were. But aside from that Firef
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by sarahj 12y ago
Initially I capture it in a notebook/text editor. Then I go through an editing process and then use Wikis to capture an edited condensed version.

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