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Re:SUBLEQ and DawnOS (2017) on Monday April 12, 2021 @02:16AM (#26776477)
For what it's worth, the author got banned from the OSDev forums in record time.
Re:Hedy – A Gradual Programming Language on Sunday April 11, 2021 @02:23AM (#26767912)
Congratulations on the release!

It would nice to be able to see some examples on the homepage.

Re:What is an NFT from an artist’s perspective? on Saturday February 27, 2021 @03:17PM (#26287771)
Bitcoin is my favourite non-fungible token.
Re:Implementing the Elo Rating System (2020) on Friday February 12, 2021 @07:28PM (#26120286)
If it's BSD licensed, how do they limit it to non-commercial use?
Just reported them via ico.org.uk - probably best not to flood them with complaints though, I'm sure they have enough to deal with already.
The NYT article reminds me of that terrible Bloomberg article on Supermicro hardware being backdoored. Nice to see that Jetbrains have a response out quickly :)
Re:Second Swiss firm allegedly sold encrypted spying devices on Monday November 30, 2020 @03:08PM (#25258302)
> I've read about random number algorithms that mix the results of many randomness sources so that one compromised source cannot compromise the result.

You might like djb's article "Entropy Attacks!": https://blog.cr.yp.to/20140205-entropy.html

Re:Ethereum 2.0 – Minimum deposit reached on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @07:32PM (#25215818)
You could have 99% of the Bitcoin hashrate and start mining blocks that give you double the reward, but every other miner and node on the network would just ignore you because you aren't following the rules.
Re:Ask HN: What is to Reddit, as Reddit was to Digg? on Sunday November 22, 2020 @05:51PM (#25181877)
An alt-right cesspit filled with ads, spam, and scams.
Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @10:40AM (#24980600)
>I can do that a little bit with DO. What are my options with OVH?

OVH have datacentres in multiple countries just like DO.

ZCash is barely used, the shielded transactions even less so. Monero is the way forward.
Blockchains are totally useless without a token as an incentive to mint new blocks.
You can just clear your cookies for Medium (or just always block them).
Re:Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @01:40PM (#24779331)
If you get banned from the Steam community for spamming/harassing/being awful your game library is still there. Even if you get banned for cheating in a game, you only lose access to that game and not the rest of your library.
Re:We scaled Nginx and saved the world 54 years every day on Friday October 09, 2020 @02:57PM (#24733177)
Alternate title: We scaled Nginx and saved the world by MitMing a bunch of websites with the world's biggest honeypot.