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i336_ commented on Chuck Thacker has died cacm.acm.org/news/218536-... · Posted by u/mpweiher

i336_ · 9 years ago

I apologize, That wasn't my intention.

I completely understand how what I wrote could come across this way now I reread it. I guess today is one of those days I'm not able to articulate what I'm thinking (happens a lot sadly).

i336_ commented on Chuck Thacker has died cacm.acm.org/news/218536-... · Posted by u/mpweiher

i336_ · 9 years ago

Headsup to anyone who wants to reply:

While the black bar is not a "banned topic" or anything, bringing it up tends to produce heated disagreements, and at the worst possible time too (since the conversation ends up in the thread of someone who's no longer with us).

Devolving into meta flamewars is quite disrespectful, and creates extra work for the moderators as as well.

I suggested opening a dedicated thread the last time it was brought up, and that's here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14119519

Here's the last time the black bar was discussed in a thread it was used. You'll need showdead turned on to see all the offtopic discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14118290

i336_ commented on Money can be stolen from an Uber account unlikekinds.com/t/your-mo... · Posted by u/unlikekinds

marcosdumay · 9 years ago

> This sounds like yet another example of why SMS is not a good second factor.

You know, that name is becoming customary, but this is not two factor authentication.

Two factor authentication requires that you successfully authenticate on both of two separated channels to gain access. That SMS crap companies keep doing require that you authenticate on any one of two channels to gain access.

i336_ · 9 years ago

I think it's because I'm tired, but I'm not following.

I login to $app with my password. $app bounces me to SMS. I then go back to $app with the SMS code.

So I needed my password with $app and the code from the SMS.

i336_ commented on ‘Low End’ Means Good Enough lowendmac.com/2017/low-en... · Posted by u/protomyth

coldtea · 9 years ago

>Are there any hacks that can convince macOS (or the older versions of OS X described in this article) not to treat the display as HiDPI? Yeah, I realize the machine will abruptly feel like it needs a magnifying glass to use, but in a pinch (laptop on lap <2ft from eyes) it might work for some (insert standard disclaimers here about eyes being non-replaceable and needing to last the distance).

macOs already supports several resolutions higher than the standard 1/2native which is what Retina uses (half the native pixels at each dimension for twice the resolution).

IIRC, already the "default" resolution on newer MBPr with the touch strip is higher than the 1/2

native (that used to be the default on retina laptops).

There are also apps like: https://www.thnkdev.com/QuickRes/ and http://www.madrau.com/ for more flexibility and full-native resolution even.

That said, the full native retina resolution on something like a 15" screen doesn't make any sense to me except for some special circumstances (maybe 4k movie viewing, but doesn't that already use the full resolution?).

>The late-2015 21″ iMac is ~$1.5k+, and "has a multi-core Geekbench score of 5623." Then the late-2011 17″ MacBook Pro which is ~$1.3k checks in with a "9240 Geekbench score". Is there some datapoint I'm missing here?

Yes, one is a GeekBench 3 score, the other is a GeekBench 4 score. Scores of 3 and 4 editions of the GeekBench suite are not comparable.

i336_ · 9 years ago

> Yes, one is a GeekBench 3 score, the other is a GeekBench 4 score. Scores of 3 and 4 editions of the GeekBench suite are not comparable.

Ah, that's what I was missing. Thanks.

i336_ commented on ‘Low End’ Means Good Enough lowendmac.com/2017/low-en... · Posted by u/protomyth

i336_ · 9 years ago

Question. There are several mentions of $gigantic_resolution either providing the same or less display area than $smaller_resolution.

Are there any hacks that can convince macOS (or the older versions of OS X described in this article) not to treat the display as HiDPI? Yeah, I realize the machine will abruptly feel like it needs a magnifying glass to use, but in a pinch (laptop on lap <2ft from eyes) it might work for some (insert standard disclaimers here about eyes being non-replaceable and needing to last the distance).

Also.

The late-2015 21″ iMac is ~$1.5k+, and "has a multi-core Geekbench score of 5623."

Then the late-2011 17″ MacBook Pro which is ~$1.3k checks in with a "9240 Geekbench score".

Is there some datapoint I'm missing here?

i336_ commented on Please Make Google AMP Optional alexkras.com/please-make-... · Posted by u/tambourine_man

macspoofing · 9 years ago

>The same for WebAssembly: use it if you like, but please don't make your actual content unnecessarily dependent on the use of services from these multinationals.

WebAssembly is an open-standard.

i336_ · 9 years ago

It's EXEs and JARs for the Internet.

Sure, it has a text format, but it's the equivalent of Lispified Java bytecode. (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly/Underst... (uninformative but current), http://loyc.net/2016/lesv3-and-wasm.html (2016, from when wasm wasn't finalized, but has some good concrete examples that look like the wasm in the first link))

With this being said, it may actually be easier to figure out wasm than frameworkified JS since you can apply IDA-style reversing to it.

Open question: what existing tools and research are good at inferring the high-level behavior of stack machines? Eg, research papers, or (preferably open source) tools for reversing eg Java code. I want links I can throw at Ph.Ds.

i336_ commented on Area code 710 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are... · Posted by u/raldi

i336_ · 9 years ago

Unsure if you can answer this, but this info is not utterly impossible to find by trial and error, so it's not concretely private.

Are you saying there's more than one 710 number? [Just Y/N]

i336_ · 9 years ago

Someone posted a reply to my comment a few minutes ago then deleted it. Proof: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14531411 / http://i.imgur.com/HcU8NgS.png - yes, looks like Arc completely hides newly-posted-then-deleted comments, very probably for aesthetic reasons.

In a nice bit of timing, HN Replies (my HN notifier) grabbed the comment before it was deleted! It was interesting, so I'm anonymously adding it below:

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> I have seen first hand a large VoIP carrier reach out to an ITSP because one of their end subscribers was scanning the 710 number space either manually or not. And it was within a few minutes after the scan started. This type of activity (and others too) will set off all kinds of alarms at phone providers.

i336_ commented on Stripe and Coinbase apparently can't find my Bitcoin blog.perennate.com/201706... · Posted by u/perennate

SadWebDeveloper · 9 years ago

> Unfortunately, for transactions between two Bitcoin addresses that are on the Coinbase network, Coinbase will perform an internal transfer of funds. The transaction is never pushed to the blockchain, avoiding the need to pay Bitcoin fees, and making payment confirmation instantaneous.

Wait... what? how does this work? didn't the wholepoint of using Bitcoin is that there is a public ledger for every move? Looks like Coinbase find a way to act like a real bank on the bt network.

i336_ · 9 years ago

I came here to say exactly this, and before doing so thought to ^F first. Heh.

The other two comments I see in this subthread are practical and pragmatic, but I also agree with your view as well. I would far prefer to pay the fees and have all transactions processed via the blockchain.

Although at the end of the day, pragmatism makes money...

i336_ commented on Area code 710 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are... · Posted by u/raldi

kijeda · 9 years ago

I have a GETS account that uses this area code. You are given a credit card sized reference card with your PIN number to activate it.

There is also another service called WPS for cell phones where you get priority just by prefixing your number with *272, the only catch there is your specific phone needs to be enrolled.

i336_ · 9 years ago

Unsure if you can answer this, but this info is not utterly impossible to find by trial and error, so it's not concretely private.

Are you saying there's more than one 710 number? [Just Y/N]

i336_ commented on Visual Cryptography Kit cl.cam.ac.uk/~fms27/vck/... · Posted by u/sr2

i336_ · 9 years ago

  data:text/html,
  <style>img { opacity: 0.5; position: fixed; left: 0; top: 0 }</style>
  <body><img src="https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~fms27/vck/share1.gif">
  <img src="https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~fms27/vck/share2.gif">

Of course, I did this via the domtools^Wdevtools before experimentally trying the above, which happily works as well.

I think the reason the images loaded was because I was on a data: URI? Or am I misinterpreting CORS?