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Re:Cheap PCB story on Friday February 19, 2021 @08:10AM (#26192733)
I can't recommend JLCPCB enough - tiny PCBs, good prices, quick turnaround.
Re:Online classes are not worth cost of full tuition on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @11:38AM (#23918150)
I couldn't disagree more. Connect is written in Flash and has serious stability issues. For better or for worse Zoom is stable and intuitive for adult learning.
I just ordered a bunch of these, yesterday, from Farnell.

I've received fake electronics from 3rd party Amazon sellers and eBay.

For testing a PoC I will buy knowing there is a risk it's likely fake - but once I've validated a design I'll go to Farnell.

Re:OpenTTD 1.10 on Friday April 03, 2020 @05:46PM (#22774236)
Ooof never before have I instantly lost 3 hours from one HN link. Awesome blast from the past!
Re:Spreadsheet Horror Stories on Friday February 28, 2020 @04:36PM (#22446624)
Not that the authors would claim any differently, but I am going to go out on a limb and state that RDBMS Horror Stories are more frequent, and with higher overall impact.

Purely from a SQLi point of view we have: https://codecurmudgeon.com/wp/sql-injection-hall-of-shame/

Re:Halmak – AI designed keyboard layout on Saturday November 02, 2019 @02:01AM (#21426146)
From https://github.com/MadRabbit/keyboard-genetics

"I used a series of articles from various online media. I don't have copyrights to provide them with this project, so you will have to use your own source."

and

"Create the text folder and fill it in with *.txt files which you'd like to use as the test data source. "

It would be interesting to see what a layout full of source code/terminal history would generate - although you'd have to take into consideration all variety of autocomplete functionality (tab key usage) in text editors to get accurate input data, not to mention window switching shortcuts etc.

Re:The 2018 Olympics Cyberattack on Saturday October 19, 2019 @05:42PM (#21300954)
TL;DR - it was the Russians (GRU)
You are confusing E2EE encryption with encryption in transit/rest in the commerce example. The majority of transactions today are encrypted in transit and (you would hope) encrypted at rest so that the bank and selected parties can access the data (including the customer). There is no bank that would encrypt financial data using E2EE so that only the customer and merchant could access it, which is the analogy here on E2EE with messaging.

Sure, now we are looking at tokenization which reduces the risk merchants store your details insecurely, but commerce will always require a bank to store your information and share it with legislators for anti money laundering purposes etc.

Re:Google Dataset Search on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @03:34PM (#17921165)
Here you go: http://bfy.tw/JkG7
No, 51% refers to the active mining pool (who package and validate transactions) vs 51% of the currency itself.
To your point of "out of sight out of mind" I wonder how much this impacts recycling programs. E.g. I'll just throw everyone in the trash because it's gone vs I'll recycle plastics etc separately which reduces "smelly" garbage.
Re:What Is Ethereum? on Friday July 07, 2017 @10:42PM (#14723771)
Hats off to attempting to explain a deeply technical topic to a variety of audiences, acknowledging different learner needs. A lot of posters here would probably benefit from taking a humanistic approach to explaining what they do to non-hacker news readers!
Re:Explore the “NSA”'s hacking arsenal on GitHub on Saturday April 08, 2017 @12:40PM (#14067753)
There is a decent amount of python code in there if you look around :)
The password is legit, but watch out for the double quotation marks. It should read CrDj"(;Va.*NdlnzB9M?@K2)#>deB7mN
Re:What is Congress browsing? on Monday April 03, 2017 @02:03PM (#14025347)
How useful to now have a list of most popular OS/Browser versions to maximize (spear)phishing attacks.

> from House (PC / Windows 10 / Edge 14) > from Senate(PC / Windows 7 / Chrome 56)

Will be fun to do some analysis after a while and see if there are any obvious trends (House vs Senate, where do outdated browser/OS combos visit the most).

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