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cheiVia0··on Tiled: fee, easy to use and flexible tile map editor
Yes, too late to edit it though.
cheiVia0··on Cops Have a Database of 117M Faces
and Facebook have a database that is many times larger.
cheiVia0··on Phasing Out SHA-1 on the Public Web
What about git? It also heavily uses SHA1
cheiVia0··on Introducing Nomulus: an open source top-level domain name registry
The one used by the New Zealand registry:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/dnrs/

cheiVia0··on Google Flights will now tell you when fares will increase
I like rome2rio.com for their ability to search more than just flights.
cheiVia0··on Google Pixel: the Android iPhone you've been waiting for
Do you trust yourself to store things safely without data loss (even in the face of theft, house fires and natural disasters) more than the multi-level redundancy employed in the cloud?

Is data loss less important to you than possible leakage of your photographs?

These are the tradeoffs the GP made choices in.

cheiVia0··on Doudou Linux – For children from 2 to 12 years old
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/doo-doo
cheiVia0··on Caddy – HTTP/2 Web Server with Automatic HTTPS
Matt, please, add proxy policy path_hash (path sans host).

That would enable content optimized caching for things like IPFS gateways with multiple backend nodes.

cheiVia0··on Netflix hammers cross-border watchers and there may be no way out
Connection sharing economy - the next billion dollar idea to disrupt the streaming service business!
cheiVia0··on Numerai – A hedge fund built by a global community of anonymous data scientists
Things I do not understand:

* How does a logloss relate to earnings?

* They only receive predictions based on old data (by definition) and not the models, how do they just the predictions them to make trading decisions?

* How can I invest in this hedge fund?

cheiVia0··on Pokemon Go, Security, and Obsolescence
Some related posts:

https://cascardo.eti.br/blog/GNU_on_Smartphones_part_II/ http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2012/12/03/debian-mobile/ https://wiki.debian.org/Mobile

cheiVia0··on Pokemon Go, Security, and Obsolescence
Debian is shipping one Linux kernel build that runs on a bunch of different ARM devices that are supported by the mainline version of Linux:

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel/ARMMP

Unfortunately most mobile devices are not supported by mainline Linux (N900 is best supported, but not fully), usually only server/desktop/laptop vendors have any incentive to mainline their drivers.

cheiVia0··on How the Textsecure Protocol Works
Now you are the selected recipient of modified source code.
cheiVia0··on GitHub censored my research data
http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0046.html http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0039.html
cheiVia0··on Guile security vulnerability with listening on localhost and port
Not if you have noscript and the ABE protection turned on.
cheiVia0··on Flynn: open source PaaS
No, because of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12703121
cheiVia0··on What $50 buys you at the Huaqiangbei electronics market in Shenzhen, China
The amazing thing for me is that you cannot choose what operating system you are running on your official iPhone.
cheiVia0··on How do blind people play (computer) games? [video]
Slides:

https://delysid.org/rmll2010/games.html

cheiVia0··on What are malicious USB keys and how to create a realistic one?
He forgot the electrical attacks; fry your motherboard with a malicious USB device.
cheiVia0··on Blockchain-Based Gold Settlement Is Coming to London
Failing startup trying to pivot?

http://www.coindesk.com/itbit-exodus-populating-startups-blo...

cheiVia0··on Stali: A new static Linux distribution
Gentoo is dynamically linked, so you only recompile if there's an ABI break - a major version - not a patch/minor release. And, you only recompile the stuff that directly links to it.

With static linking, you literally need to recompile everything that uses the library in any form, for every single change. So of there's a security fix in openssl and LibreOffice uses openssl, you need to recompile LibreOffice. If QEMU uses libssh2 which uses openssl, you need to recompile QEMU, even though it doesn't use openssl directly. With Gentoo you just recompile openssl and that's it.

And if there a fix to glibc, you need to recompile EVERYTHING because everything would be statically linked to it.

cheiVia0··on Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS
It's in your own quote - it was on a prototype, without any power management features. Once power management features are enabled, it will last longer.
cheiVia0··on Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?
There were a few of them in mid-2000's. Lindows/Linspire is the first that comes to mind [1]. SuSE also had paid versions [2] (the free download was delayed for some time after major releases).

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20030207074123/http://www.lindows...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20040803022103/http://www.suse.d...

cheiVia0··on New Mozilla logo concepts
Eye of Sauron was what I thought.
cheiVia0··on Japanese writing system basics
I see you haven't gotten to the 4th paragraph of TFA...

"口" = mouth, not crate

"品" is a stack of mouth characters

cheiVia0··on Plugging in Kindle is crashing Windows 10 after summer update
I have one of those small keyboards with a touchpad for killing the VM (I mostly launch in snapshot mode so I don't need to shut it down :)

Another popular option is Synergy (https://github.com/symless/synergy) but I never used it.

cheiVia0··on Emperor Akihito of Japan Raises Possibility of Leaving Throne
Actually, that's the factoid.

According to Wikipedia [1]:

> The term was coined originally in 1973 as a neologism by American writer Norman Mailer to mean a "piece of information that becomes accepted as a fact even though it’s not actually true, or an invented fact believed to be true because it appears in print." Since its creation in 1973 the term has evolved from its original meaning, in common usage, and has assumed other meanings, particularly being used to describe a brief or trivial item of news or information. So it is a factoid that "factoid" means something that is true.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid

cheiVia0··on Ireland jails three top bankers over 2008 banking meltdown
> Did you make a ton of money betting against the housing market? If not, why not? Or if you were too young/poor, then do you know anyone who did?

Considering there was no product to bet against the housing market, your options are:

(1) Be a hedge fund manager of a large enough hedge fund to enter a custom derivative contract with a bank, to create the product (which is what those funds that made a ton of money betting against the housing market did)

(2) Have a few million for the minimum to investment in one the said hedge funds

So I'd say the answer for most people is "were too poor".

cheiVia0··on Russia’s Creaky, Old Aircraft Carrier Is Up to Something Strange
> Admiral Kuznetsov has never seen combat, nor would she be of much practical military use.

As a Russian speaker, I find this sentence grating. Is it normal to refer to a ship with a male name as "she"? Would this be right?

> USS George Washington has never seen combat, nor would she be of much practical military use.

(For those that don't know, Russian last names are slightly different depending on the gender. So Admiral Kuznetsov's wife's last name would be Kuznetsova.)

cheiVia0··on moreutils
didn't

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sed

http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/sed.1

http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?sed++NetBSD-current

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