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Deathmax··on JWT (JSON Web Token) debugger
If you have concerns that the page might steal the tokens, leaving out the signature if you're not trying to debug it prevents a valid token from touching the site.
Deathmax··on Denuvo protected games are getting cracked on average after 74 days
The cheats make use of PCIe's ability to perform DMA. One example I found was https://github.com/EngineOwningSoftware/pcileech-webradar.
Deathmax··on Swedish ISP Protests ‘Site Blocking’ by Blocking Rightsholders Website Too
https://www.blocked.org.uk/ has a list
Deathmax··on Monzo, a U.K. challenger bank, raises £85M Series E
Starling is 0.5% for balances up to £2000, and 0.25% for balances up to £85000
Deathmax··on App-Only Banks Rise in Europe and Aim at Traditional Lenders
Monzo: https://docs.monzo.com

Starling: https://developer.starlingbank.com/

Deathmax··on Remote Code Execution on a Facebook server
Outside of the US, very few places use MM/DD/YY. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country
Deathmax··on You could have invented that Bluetooth attack
The author omitted the mod n, where n = 71 in this case. So 3136 mod 71 = 1716 mod 71 = 12.
Deathmax··on Someone Uploaded What Look to Be Apple’s Internal iPhone Repair Videos
I don't think they can do so for newer devices, but here's a video from REWA demonstrating the process: https://youtu.be/AYETzuYlEjE
Deathmax··on 66-way merge: “Christ, that's not an octopus, that's a Cthulhu merge”
Commit: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
Deathmax··on Avoid FIFA World Cup CDN Issues
Twitch has introduced low latency mode for a while now, and I've seen sub-2s latencies.

https://help.twitch.tv/customer/en/portal/articles/2935005-l...

Deathmax··on AMD Ryzen 7 2700X User Publishes Benchmarks and Overclocking Results
You tend to if you use a motherboard with an older chipset with a newer generation CPU using the same socket (and it hasn't already been updated at the factory).

Intel example: Using a 7th generation Kaby Lake CPU on a 6th generation Skylake chipset motherboard. Example of required BIOS update: version 1.F https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/Z170-A-PRO

Deathmax··on Cloudflare CEO: Why we’re switching to ARM-based servers
There is a blog post from CF a few months back with benchmarks. https://blog.cloudflare.com/arm-takes-wing/
Deathmax··on SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches
They were looping the fairing deploy. The "background image" you see is the inside of the fairing: https://www.instagram.com/p/Be3m_LNgOYY/?taken-by=elonmusk
Deathmax··on Intel Has a Big Problem
Microsoft has been demoing x86 emulation on ARM for a while now (https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2017/P4171)
Deathmax··on Nvidia’s New Policy Limits GeForce Data Center Usage
Except that they dropped the GeForce branding from the Titan V, and appear to be targeting the card for compute at developers/researchers [0].

[0] https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-titan-v-transforms...

Deathmax··on Twelve Days in Xinjiang: How China’s Surveillance State Overwhelms Daily Life
Or manually use FB's redirect:

https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/articles/...

Deathmax··on TransferWise announces $280M investment
For overseas ATM withdrawals:

Monzo (After 18th December): £200/month, 3% thereafter (https://monzo.com/blog/2017/10/17/atm-limits-announcement/)

Revolut: £200/month (£400 with Premium), 2% thereafter

Starling: No charge

Not sure about any of the other challenger banks, I've only used Monzo on a regular basis.

Deathmax··on Switching Your Site to HTTPS on a Shoestring Budget
Probably because the author was hosting on Github Pages, and you don't get to set your own certs.
Deathmax··on Darknet Messenger Briar Releases Beta, Passes Security Audit
The app hosts a Tor hidden service which other peers can connect to. No NAT punch through required as Tor will relay messages instead of a direct P2P connection.
Deathmax··on Show HN: Dply – Free temporary Linux servers
The other prepaid card company you're thinking of is probably Monzo.
Deathmax··on Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game
Are you sure Twitch is on HTML5? IIRC, the blog post you linked to only mentions the controls being in HTML5, not the player itself. The other component that switched from Flash to HTML5 was the chat player I believe.

Attempting to watch Twitch with Flash disabled on Chrome and Firefox on Windows displays the "You need Adobe Flash Player to watch this video. " message.

Deathmax··on No more time limits on Spotify
Malaysia is MYR 14.90, about USD 4.5.

Or with a data bundle with a mobile carrier, MYR 10, about USD 3.

Then again, many songs are unavailable due to licensing.

Deathmax··on Graph.tk
With the reason "Abuse and Copyright Infringement" no less. If you attempt to re-register the domain, it will either be unavailable or become a premium domain for which you need to pay.
Deathmax··on WeAreData - London
Its running on Flash.
Deathmax··on Leaseweb has wiped all Megaupload servers
The prosecutors already had copied whatever evidence they needed from the servers.
Deathmax··on A SimCity Update
Eventually someone will get around to reverse-engineering it. One good recent example is Diablo III, which had a semi-working emulator (most of the content was not yet implemented) by the time retail was released, but was shutdown following a C&D from Blizzard.

https://github.com/Eustachy/mooege

Deathmax··on Did Glee Rip Off a Jonathan Coulton Cover?
This makes for an easier comparison.

https://soundcloud.com/suudo/joco-vs-glee-baby-got-back

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