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Re:Binance.us opens for US customers today on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @09:58PM (#21012503)
That's 26% of US states, but potentially much more than 26% of the US population (have not computed, but Texas, New York, Florida and, to a lesser extent, Washington all have large populations).
FWIW - Keystone is going to be one of the core components of the Oasis project [0].

[0] https://www.oasislabs.com/

Check out David Mellis (of Arduino fame)'s "IDE" for collecting and training classifiers on gestures:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nDCG4vkFP0

Re:Hy – A Lisp-flavored Python on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @04:45PM (#14914461)
As @jwr says, there are different paradigms in Lisp, such that you would never really write code like this.
Re:Someone had set up a Wikipedia page about me on Sunday March 19, 2017 @02:59AM (#13905715)
> Ringleader of this fierce and foul-mouthed circus — one of them called me ‘a k * * b’ —

I'm American. What does k * * b refer to?

Will this also apply to data URIs? Thinking of the recent data URI phishing exploits [1]

[1]: https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/01/gmail-phishing-data-u...

Re:One in five of us may 'hear' flashes of light on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @12:36AM (#13424278)
Hi, I experienced some auditory sensation for a few videos. The police sirens were particularly vivid - I imagined a series of rising tones quite involuntarily. The description of this sound as coming from "inside your head" is particularly apt - it is not an auditory hallucination, it's more like something I am imagining involuntarily. Interestingly, what I imagine is the same every time I watch the video.

In retrospect, I have experienced this phenomenon everyday, but never thought much about it.

Re:Encrypted messengers: Riot, not Signal, is the future on Thursday December 22, 2016 @03:35PM (#13240159)
> The most important concern is that Signal is a silo [...] you have to connect to OpenWhisperSystems servers to communicate with other users.

You can run your own private Signal service with OpenWhisperSystems' tools [1].

It's also worth noting that Signal - as a protocol - could easily be federated. (As others have mentioned, Moxie has chimed in on why the app is centralized [2]).

If confederated messaging is important, why not use the existing Signal protocol implementations, (including the X3DH key exchange, ratcheting protocol, etc), which is all F/LOSS, and has already been widely reviewed (as the article mentions)?

[1] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/libsignal-service-java

[2] https://whispersystems.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

Re:The Signal protocol for Node and browsers on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @10:19PM (#13182118)
I find the following in Chrome:

> window.crypto.getRandomValues

// getRandomValues() { [native code] }

> window.crypto.getRandomValues = function () { return "aloha" }

> window.crypto.getRandomValues()

// "aloha"

Not sure if this is the case in all browsers. `window.crypto` certainly should be read-only.

Re:DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS on Friday October 21, 2016 @03:02PM (#12763522)
Reposting imglorp's comment on the root of the comment tree, as it's buried currently. This should restore service for those desperately needing to access Github etc ;)

> ....point your machine or router's DNS to use opendns resolvers instead of your regular ones: 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220

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