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it doesn't have to be and it actually never is: this isn't RSA, it's an elliptic curve algorithm. if you'd have read the article, you'd have understood this
Re:Timestamping a Giant Record of the Web on Saturday October 10, 2026 @01:55PM (#50035387)
Wait. If I want to save a web snippet as a part of a bookmark or a note to self, does this mean, instead of saving it locally, I can instead have them create a snapshot of that site and just link to it permanently in my notebook or app??
Re:More random home lab things I've recently learned on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @02:53PM (#45583447)
> Turns out, you don’t need an SD card at all↑ > What I didn’t know, however, is that Raspberry Pi 5s can actually support NVME drives!

...turns out you don't need local storage at all: if you already run a NAS you can bootp the RasPi over the network!

This also makes backups super easy.

Thank you for making this, @usernameis42: I was still looking for my 2025 "to sponsor" project. I'm donating to SomaFM now!
Question: any chance I can have this as a radio station in my Alexa??
As a German citizen, the amount of times I heard from the "Piratenpartei" can be counted on one hand. In the early 2000s that party suffered immensely from being hijacked by Neo Nazis, losing a lot of support from voters. Since the Nazis went off and joined the AFD, the Pirate Party is more or less silent.

The worst part was when they hardly commented on Edward Snowden and the NSA leaks!

I must have missed the Blockchain/Bitcoin printers
Re:Subdomain.center – discover all subdomains for a domain on Saturday September 16, 2023 @02:15AM (#37532431)
The subdomain explorer may be fun, but their Exploit Observer is really useful: https://www.exploit.observer/
Re:What’s New in Thunderbird 115 on Monday July 10, 2023 @10:31AM (#36667017)
The only issue I have with TB search is the setting for the results presentation: why is there not a preferences option to set if the results show as list or in the current default 'verbose' view?

switching to list view manually seems so inefficient

...that would void the warranty! ;)
...only in big cities. Rural areas including the suburbs of the 100k's still depend heavily on individual transport...
Re:Adventure game graphics with DALL-E 2 on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @01:32AM (#32492713)
I'm wondering what DALL-E would make out of the descriptions in classic text adventure games from the 1970s-90s like, for example the ZORK series?
Re:Car Seats as Contraception (2020) on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @01:07AM (#32492571)
View it like this: 8000 happy parents vs 57 grieving ones.
The question is: what good is a security system that tells me to "just allow whatever the problem is", once a problem comes up? Without being able to see the specifics of a request and blindly following the whitelisting I could end up allowing some hacked module access to critical files without knowing. Opening the system to exactly the dangers I'm seeking to stop.
What do you mean by "first device plugged in"? If I connect two devices with an USB-C cable, which one is the "first device" then?
Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to 1Password on Sunday March 13, 2022 @12:13PM (#30662612)
I keep my password database in a Google Drive directory. Clients exist on Windows, Mac, Android, IOS.
I don't think this is a good idea: when I'm searching on the web I want to get results with a high relevance to my search query. I don't care a lot about the presentation.
Read about forlater.email and learned about Ko.Fi. I love the web.
I just read "Black Ice" and it comes to my mind that William Gibson once more was way ahead of his time in 1984, writing "Neuromancer" ;)
apologies: I was watching the YouTube video that's in the bottom of this article, where graduates were asked "what causes summer and winter" that's what my comment above is about!.
But that's the problem with these students as well: their intuition tells them that when it's warmer the sun has to be nearer. the fact that the amount of sunlight throughout the day (timespan) causes warmer seasons is an indirection in thinking.

Of course they should know what causes seasons if they had payed attention in class.

I wonder how they reacted if you'd ask them about the hemispherical difference in summer/winter, e.g. how can the southern hemisphere have winter when the whole earth is nearer to the sun...

Re:TV Advertising Effectiveness and Profitability on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @04:08PM (#27976965)
... which is pretty convenient for you and guys, because if you look at it that long-term way, nobody can tell that your whole product is a useless scam
Microsoft OneNote on various devices (iOS, macOS, Android, Win) and a common sync via Cloud.

I used various apps and paper based means in the past. OneNote is the tool I use for 5(?) years now.

Re:Wikipedia is up (2001) on Sunday May 09, 2021 @03:48PM (#27099098)
It's still way better than the old times when lexica were a thing and you needed a printing press to convey knowledge.
Re:Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters on Friday April 02, 2021 @08:58AM (#26671055)
Take my uppestvote and Happy Easter for a while, Sir!
Re:Shitty Software Kills People on Sunday March 28, 2021 @12:05PM (#26611442)
Shitty Infrastructure kills people eventually.
Re:The tree-based approach to organizing documentation sucks on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @05:08PM (#26417017)
I don't get the author's dislike of Confluence, when it is just a different representation of.a Wiki. I actually like the way Confluence implements draw.io so I can quickly scribble an architecture or A flow.

What am I missing here?

Re:Ask HN: Always on low power home server on Sunday February 28, 2021 @07:57AM (#26293077)
I left the RasPi behind for a 2nd hand Lenovo m93p tiny for about $100. (An alternative HW would be the Dell Optiplex 9020 micro). You can upgrade the RAM on these and they use standard SSDs.

I'm booting the Proxmox VM environment and it's currently running a VM and a LXC container, with lots of future opportunities.

Proxmox allows you to reserve a vm's access to the USB ports, which comes in handy if you want to attach a Zigbee stick to a virtualized home automation server.

Re:Microsoft says it found malicious software in its systems on Friday December 18, 2020 @04:28AM (#25465364)
Here's the link to the NSA Cyber Advisory mentioned in the article: https://www.nsa.gov/News-Features/Feature-Stories/Article-Vi...