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It might be some kind of play on Warren E. Buffett.
Re:A Small London Company That Makes Beautiful Globes on Sunday May 15, 2016 @02:28AM (#11699767)
Roughly figuring, that would be about a 1mm deviation for a 30cm globe.

I don't think anyone would notice, especially on a "bumpy" globe. It might be less than manufacturing tolerances.

Re:Tutorial On Designing/Building A PCB (Using FOSS) on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @06:13PM (#11671114)
Fun project!

I watched the Building Blinky video.

You could improve the video if you hold a loupe in front of the camera lens when trying to zoom in for fine detail, like when you were trying to show us a bridge on two pins.

> One thing I did to test this, is just using a different private key.

Absolutely. I just don't want to upload another key on keybase and have my correspondents start sending to a different key for me. I didn't think it was worth it to download and recreate the scene in your video of just testing to myself, rather I was thinking about trying it for a week or something.

Are you aware of any similar efforts that I can compare this to?

> Be willing Copy & paste private key into application

I understand this is a prototype.

This is a hard boundary for me to cross when you have already stated it is a prototype and there are several vulnerabilities. Because of this, I haven't installed your app to try it out but I did watch the video.

In your video you show two users on a web chat application encrypting their conversation after typing directly into the site's input control. The chat site may have been recording the input you typed in. I think Gmail will do this, for example. How about changing the model so you only type into your app?

Interesting way to use keybase. Still seems to be a bit too much friction for the end-user. I would probably accidentally send the message without encrypting it.

What is your vision of where this could lead? How will you make it easier to use?