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Re:PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @07:10AM (#45260665)
So they've finally found a way to make a wrapper around a blockchain with a database, nice.
Already out of stock?
Re:Safe Superintelligence Inc. on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @02:00PM (#40730751)
This won't age well.
Re:Why, after 6 years, I'm over GraphQL on Thursday May 30, 2024 @08:18AM (#40522808)
If only developers/managers had their own sense of using the proper tools for the job instead of just swallowing everything the Big Tech shoves down their throat...

But when you see those job ads with all these "great new technologies" it's hard not to fall into the trap.

I've used to use an app (there are many) which measures angular velocity using accelerometer and displays RPM (you place the phone on the turntable). I can't see why would anyone need something other than that.
Re:Open Sourcing DOS 4 on Friday April 26, 2024 @05:13PM (#40174367)
It was something like: find "74", change it to "75" lol
Re:The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @10:35AM (#40065257)
When he says "internet" he actually means "US intranet" right?
Looks like someone important didn't like that Apple placed a blatant backdoor in their CPUs.
Re:Leadership is a hell of a drug on Thursday March 07, 2024 @04:36AM (#39627007)
In your leadership team's defense, they are all probably on blow.
Re:Spot Bitcoin ETF receives official approval from the SEC on Thursday January 11, 2024 @04:15AM (#38949724)
I've got a newsflash for you... US IS NOT THE WORLD. Stocks (companies) are US based and Bitcoin isn't. So while you are not entirely wrong, you missed the most important difference between stocks and Bitcoin in your comparison.
Re:Psytrance Guide on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @06:47AM (#37926964)
Transdimensional is the best album ever made
> An IP or MAC based rule does not prevent a malicious device from exfiltrating data

Care to elaborate?

These ip cameras have 2-3 different backdoors, which are even easy to discover. Probably more not so easy ones. If you have this in your home disable outgoing connections at router level, and you're safe.
I had problems with manjaro in regards to package updates and kernel management. As I understood, manjaro uses pacman in a weird way by wrapping it with pamac. Pamac was unable, at least for me, to update/install a single specific package without updating the whole system first. This made daily usage a living hell, because packages that are built from source can make a "htop" installation last 30 mins. On the other hand, yay is by far the best package manager I've ever used.

EDIT: Also, supposedly, Manjaro team has some management issues.

EndeavourOS does the same and is miles better. I switched a while ago, never looked back.
Re:UK Blocks Microsoft’s $69B Activision Deal on Thursday April 27, 2023 @07:56AM (#35726698)
I'm pretty sure they have employees from at least 20 countries. That means any one of those countries could block the deal?
Re:UK Blocks Microsoft’s $69B Activision Deal on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @12:54PM (#35716722)
How come the UK is the one that blocks this? Aren't those US based companies?
Re:Bing Chat now has Ads on Thursday March 30, 2023 @08:00AM (#35371285)
Is this what it all comes down to? Is human prosperity actually revolving around one thing, and it's ads?
Re:Run 100B+ language models at home, BitTorrent‑style on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @08:41AM (#35260125)
How do you calculate computing capacity? What is the output - AI gibberish? What guarantees that its generated by the official model?

This only works with maths - that is SHA-256 or other hash algorithms in a Proof of Work manner. The only thing that can't be spoofed is maths.

Re:Run 100B+ language models at home, BitTorrent‑style on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @02:09PM (#35250088)
It's a pretty naive idea (web3). Impossible to implement.
Re:GPT-4 on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @05:24AM (#35165748)
just wait till it gets it's hands on some crypto, and starts ordering hits on the dark web
Re:I just learned: Docker edits firewall rules for you on Sunday February 19, 2023 @12:41PM (#34859836)
You can also add `iptables: false` to docker's daemon json and docker will stop messing with your iptables conf.
Re:Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users on Sunday January 29, 2023 @10:16AM (#34568814)
My wild guess (without opening the link of course) would be that they didn't overengineer their product.
Re:Show HN: Pashword – Hashed Password Calculator on Friday January 27, 2023 @11:45AM (#34548163)
Yes but if I use a proper secret key, you won't be able to brute force it. You can't brute force anything 20+ chars in a billion years (inaccurate approximation)
Re:Show HN: Pashword – Hashed Password Calculator on Friday January 27, 2023 @05:02AM (#34544407)
I like it, many people use a single password for every website, this could keep them safer. Maybe make a browser extension?
Re:Show HN: Pashword – Hashed Password Calculator on Friday January 27, 2023 @05:00AM (#34544384)
Wdym "just brute force master passwords"? You use password + secret key to generate a password. Hardly brute-forceable.
Go to college and have fun. You are too young to waste your best years working.
Re:Staring into the abyss as a core life skill on Thursday December 22, 2022 @01:29PM (#34096671)
A footnote is nice, but you can't really take a well known phrase and just redefine it according to your needs, while clickbaiting a bunch of people.
Re:Ask HN: Will AI put programmers our of work? on Sunday December 11, 2022 @06:25AM (#33942282)
I'd say it's more likely to impact legal industry or any kind of data based job. Programming is more on the compute side.

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