What a bunch of corrupt, useless idiots.
Readit Newsfaraggi commented on GOP omnibus bill would sell off USPS's EVs washingtonpost.com/busine... · Posted by u/dabinat
faraggi commented on EU Eyes Ditching Microsoft Azure for France's OVHcloud euractiv.com/section/tech... · Posted by u/doener
Є in the title of the HN submission is not the Euro symbol.
€ is.
Also, the € symbol is a suffix to amounts, not a prefix like $.
faraggi commented on I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs nyanpasu64.gitlab.io/blog... · Posted by u/fanf2
sigh, I have been struggling with this issue for a while, but this did not seem to work either. I have documented it here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=302440
Any further insight you might have on these Aorus wakeup issues? In particular, it seems the wakeup in my case is coming from `.../devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/device:45/wakeup/wakeup6` which does not really mean anything to me.
I had this issue and this MB for years I eventually solved it by physically removing a crappy USB C PCIE card I'd bought because my case didn't have any USBC ports.
(Additionally I also previously disabled PCI wakeup buses and haven't touched it again since it's working)
hope that info helps.
faraggi commented on French police free kidnapped Ledger executive moneycheck.com/french-pol... · Posted by u/ilamont
I've been thinking for a while that the current security methodology for wallets is not great. YES, that statement is extremely obvious on the face of it. But, I mean, think of some of the basic measures people take. This hardware wallet crap, okay great, your keys are kept somewhere safe and there's offline signing, but so what? Boop the users head until they give up the wallet. H4xt funds. We should be able to designed a robust threat model for cryptoassets using smart contracts that resists many kinds of attacks (including kidnapping.) This is hacker news so I guess people will want details on how this might work.
I would probably start with how people use their money. If people have t funds, they usually aren't going to move it each day. So start with a fixed, daily spend limit. That's simple, to start with. Then past the spend limit, you might have extremely large, outlier transactions. This is an interesting phase because with actual non-shit-tier security you could have a secondary layer of confirmation. This could be based on different panic codes. Some could indicate that the transfer is being made under coercion and to notify law enforcement, some could indicate to accept the transfer and notify, and so on. You could outsource this to a third-party. Do you see what I mean? All this shit is easy to do with cryptography and actual good design. But no ones done it. I thought of this in the time it took to write this shitty post.
Provable deniability schemes can be done to make it look like a wallet only contains a certain amount, too, using various private transaction schemes. This is nothing new. These attacks of being forced to do reveal keys and so on are things cryptographers have thought of for a long time. It's why you had Truecrypt have the fake volume. There is other stuff you can add to the security scheme. Giving different persons a key and making them sign their portion. Co-signing by third-parties (already a thing -- the scheme I like best is keys.casa). Many different ideas to allow for funds to seem like they've been "sent" then allow for revocation later on. You could have all different enhancements to high value, anomalous transfers like forcing the incumbent of transfers to take longer and have a clearing phase and so on. I'm sure there are plenty of ways to improve it even further. Just some ideas for how to stop attacks like this.
Whenever I see headlines about hacked exchanges, hacked wallets, lots keys, broken transfers, etc... I just think that we're still at the stage where there's a fractal of shit and we have to do better. Make everything work flawlessly and without even thinking about it.
Many or all of these already exist- look up smart contract wallets.
...and they wouldn't have helped in this case, see other comment about that.
"I’m certain he wouldn’t be rude to my face, but he might quietly discriminate against me, say no thanks. He might not even think of it as discrimination, only that I don’t have what it takes."
This resonates pretty strongly (and depressingly) with me being an immigrant academic in Europe who came originally from a third-world country. Even though I am one of the most productive researchers in my department, even though I studied in the best university in my country (which is mind-blowingly better than the one I'm currently in), even if I say yes to almost everything, and even if I work easily 150% what an average native colleague does, none of this matter at all. Every morning I wake up there is a new knife on my back. Opportunities just vanish transparently; pressure amounts over pressure amounts pressure; there is always that quiet, mute side look that says (without words) "if you don't like it, why don't you leave?".
And what really makes this ten times worse is that the country I'm in has this almost ethereal reputation for begin some kind of paradise where everyone is super polite and calm and rational, so whenever I complain about anything it feels like I'm some kind of spoiled child. Half the time I even convince myself of that.
Do you happen to live in Switzerland?
faraggi commented on Show HN: Pixeltune, a nicer chiptune and VGM player pixeltune.org... · Posted by u/tomaspollak
Hey Tom!
This is fantastic project, I see myself using it daily. But the best part of it all is your dedication to preserving the midi culture and the art form itself.
(game) Music back then was truly on another level and I'm glad some people are archiving the songs and their chips.
I just had to check some really rural places and went to some random village in tibet. As there is no information about trees or buildings there, just roads, it surprisingly doesn't work - it just shows some shadows based on terrain heights in middle of empty village road grid.
So as expected, if the site has height information it can draw shadows but definitely not for "every building" etc that the title claims.
well... of course?
faraggi commented on Modern iOS Navigation Patterns frankrausch.com/ios-navig... · Posted by u/felixbraun
are we the baddies??
open your eyes.