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paraxisi

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Full stack developer for a cryptocurrency startup.
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paraxisi··on Amazon Shipped Fake Nvidia 3090 for Prime Day Special
Interesting but 18 minutes long? Sheesh.
paraxisi··on Ask HN: How to Finish a Side Project?
This is what worked for me:

Allocate a certain amount of time per day eg. 4 hours in my case. Regardless of what happens, do your absolute best to hit that amount of time daily. Whether that's researching problems, applying fixes, or just writing code, do as much as you can. I used a time tracking app, and this helped me push forward and get some of my side projects done and launched.

Good luck!

paraxisi··on GTA GeoGuesser
Here's yet another for old school runescape https://www.osrsguessr.com/
paraxisi··on Ask HN: Does Twitch have a means of selectivley muting any background music?
There's a fairly common method in most streaming software now to split out the audio into different feeds so that the music is streamed but not saved into VODs.
paraxisi··on Consumer Reports Security Planner (via Citizen Lab)
The actual link is https://securityplanner.consumerreports.org - www was added in there.
paraxisi··on Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal announces major reorganization
https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2021/private-i...
paraxisi··on Ask HN: Strategy games that positively push your cognitive boundaries?
Not exactly strategy, but it'd be a disservice not to mention Zachtronics (EXAPUNKS, SHENZHEN I/O and TIS-100 are my personal favorites.)
paraxisi··on Reddit Shuts Down AMA from Former NSA Technical Director Bill Binney
IMO if you're not familiar with the story, this alone makes it worthy of deeper inspection:

"Would you like me to post the last modified times for all of the 35,813 emails? And include the Podesta email last modified times for comparison? Because the Podesta stuff was hacked."

Again, in my opinion, but there are major inconsistencies.

paraxisi··on [dead]
Renowned scientist is Craig Wright, of course.
paraxisi··on Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone
Quite a nice idea, well done! Very minimalist and clean as well. Few pieces of feedback after playing with it for a few minutes-

Not sure if I'm getting unlucky or the results are cached but quite a few of the streamers who popped up were offline. Using the twitch api under the hood I assume?

paraxisi··on Ask HN: Why is Mac still easy to backdoor?
Physical access is (nearly) always game over.
paraxisi··on My Old Version. Sometimes your old PC seems to run better with an older version
This really rubs me the wrong way.

Please don't do this. There are entire classes of vulnerabilities that have come out and matured in the time since half of these were originally published by their authors.

Yes, I know you can find them if you do a little bit of digging, but curating a list and passing them off as 'safe' is disingenuous at best.

paraxisi··on Results of the LoRaWAN vs. Haystack Indoor RF Challenge
https://medium.com/@patburns/new-the-haystack-vs-lorawan-ind... is the correct link
paraxisi··on Show HN: Browser MMORPG 7 years in the making
Congrats on shipping! Although I don't have time to play right now, a perusal of your rules has me scratching my head... why allow people to have alt accounts if they can't do anything with them besides level another character? Some of these rules seem really awkward for an mmo eg. having a moderator remove your ability to trade if they don't like the price? Come again?
paraxisi··on Disputed NSA Phone Program Is Shut Down, Aide Says
Yep, this carries just as much credence as "No sir, not wittingly."
paraxisi··on Alleged Coinomi exploit shows how easy it is to have Bitcoin stolen
The video in the article essentially shows nothing; the claim is "Google stole my coins."

Possible? Sure. Likely? No.

The corroboration with the two users from Reddit is useless because they didn't use a seed phrase.

edit/ To clarify: Yes, this is a stupid practice. You should be doing this locally or ideally not at all. But thinking Google is stealing your coins is a pretty big stretch.

paraxisi··on Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffled by updates
Updates make using windows 10 AT ALL a pain.
paraxisi··on PureBoot, the High Security Boot Process
I cannot vouch for "better" but there's also croustini.
paraxisi··on Activision Blizzard staff reportedly bracing for layoffs
A large portion of the people I've talked to over the past 5-6 years have the same sort of feelings about Blizzard games. It's no longer about balance and great game design. They're basically coasting on the reputation they had from the Starcraft / Warcraft era.
paraxisi··on Show HN: A rap song about squashing bugs in production
Keep it up, these are great!
paraxisi··on Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Accident
How is this video "better?" This is clearly somebody holding a camera recording a screen and seems to have much more artifacting and brightness changes.
paraxisi··on A320-X DRM: What happened
Sent base64'd to a non-secure endpoint with open RDP... ouch.

https://www.fidusinfosec.com/fslabs-flight-simulation-labs-d...

paraxisi··on [dead]
I don't disagree about the headline but the tool comes from Steve Gibson of GRC/Security now, not from them.
paraxisi··on Alibaba is leading a $27M investment in MariaDB
Here's the actual interview less the blogspam http://archive.fortune.com/2006/05/31/magazines/fortune/mysq...
paraxisi··on Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence
>I feel someone who had no knowledge or suspicion of wrongdoing and no intention to just reveal wrongdoing does not count as a whistleblower. Pretty simple.

Intelligence analyst, no knowledge or suspicion... uhhhh what?

paraxisi··on Ask HN: Is SteemIt a scam?
This is also in the new queue right now: https://medium.com/@BlockByBlock/the-ugly-truth-behind-steem...

Seems pretty self explanatory.

paraxisi··on Ask HN: Know a good tool to purge all posts/likes/photos from Facebook?
I feel like this is a very naive way to look at this. As kpcyrd said, you're simply adding to their data, not 'corrupting' anything you've previously shared. If anything, you're sending up a big red flag from suddenly changing your gender, location, etc all at once.
paraxisi··on Do nice guys come second?
What ever happened to fail gracefully?
paraxisi··on Researchers find tattoos on 3,000-year-old remains of Egyptian woman
Why the scare quotes around modern? Maybe elaborate why you feel that way?
paraxisi··on SSD Failures in Datacenters
It's less opaque - there's an abstract, references/citations, etc. Also, I suspect I'm not the only one who doesn't want to be directly linked to things like PDFs that have a history of causing security issues.
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