silur

I'm a big fan of RISC-V but HiFive completely ruined the whole point. I was excited for a _proper_ open ISA because it would open up super low cost hardware development. But looking at the $35 raspberry pi with a license-bound ARM ISA and a supposedly open source board for $1000 it looks like HiFive is playing by intel's or ARM's rules. No chance for risc-v adoption with this ridiculous overpricing

It's not. The "author" simply stole towel.blinkenlights and wrapped it in golang. I bet he updated himself to senior go engineer on linkedin after this. None of the "cool" stuff in this is martinraison's work.

I call censorship and unrestricted control over my funds a form a fraud :)

Elliptic curves are even more vulnerable to known quantum algorithms

radare2 - https://github.com/radare/radare2/ More GNU than actual GNU sources, more UNIX than the linux kernel. Huge codebase but extremely easy to get involved with, orthogonal design with no compromise on speed. Best codebase I ever encountered

this is like....the harder half of a whole blockchain project :D super interesting

"Why would you eat an orange when you could drink a coffee instead?"

Yes there are heavy mathematics behind the structure of both types of network, and it's true that without centralization the network itself can't reach a certain limit. But this is a double-edged sword, this is only true to the whole system's perspective and it's completely different on the node (user) level graph-theoritically. Also, the article forces certain needs on the users. There are lots of us who DON'T want to magically find anyone or be found magically with a keyword, nor interested in "trends" - this is heavily misleading for we still don't have proper metrics for it and won't have one for a while because the problem implies building fault-tolerant reputation networks (that are decentralized by the way)

you call this cryptanalysis?

Great to hear that you kill ME but I'll still stick with puri.sm or alpha.store because systen76 machines are just too freakin overpriced. They talk about freedom and FOSS yet their machines can cost 1.5 times a macbook, with free OS and rebranded chineese 200$ clevo cases. Available price is an essential part of FOSS and OSHW phylosophy, greed never had any place in this community

you can interpret this as a problem and as a solution too. Yes, ztransactions will could dye your money so no exchange will accept it because you are a terrorist and the US can ban the usage of ztransactions. In my opinion it's better like this, since the overall goal is to not rely on exchanges and regulatory thirdparties. In a P2P economy (which is this technology is meant to lead us) fungibility problems are not a thing beacuse there is no relative central party to make a standard.

accusing a chaumian crypto violating the satoshi vision is like ranting about windows not being POSIX enough

What exceptionally new technique that we totally didn't know from like.... the '80s. Welcome to shellcoding kiddo. -.-

how are these for advanced users and hackers? A REAL advanced/hacker entry setup would be: Internet: -Lynx -w3m Office, text editors, TODO list, note keeping: -Vim -Emacs Dev tools: -vagrant (headless) -git -language setup of choice (gcc, python javac ....) Security: -GPG -pass -openssl clu Multimedia: -mplayer Graphics: -imagemagic Games: -nethack Productivity: -i3 -xclip -xterm

This one stinks. Top 2 drug market disappear and a new search engine with fairy tale like timing shows up, with google analytics included, SSL by GlobalSign? Nope nope nope

sigh another one p2p e2e crypted messenger of the week released

I did freelancing at age 16, sometimes had to lie a little but elance (now upwork) is a good way.

An opensource, non-licensed, low-cost embedded processor -> sifive sells it for 600.000$ minimum.

okay, why does it hold any news relavance?

gratz you now have a closed-source CHIP with less features

Well it is indeed a point that it is yet to be reviewed by an acknowledged security company, and toxcore's last commit was in 2015. I'll search for one of these threads though

The encryption is both super-fast and well-tested, stream ciphers are more suitable in the era of internet voice and video calls, where you don't always know the length of the data to be encrypted, and using block ciphers will cause a (I know, negligible but...) latency because you have to wait for X bytes to fill a block.

It is. I've tested, overviewed the code and packet-sniffed several self-claimed anonymous and secure chat apps, tox was in a tie with signal and telegram with security, and first place for me with anonimity. The toxCore philosophy (isolating the protocol tools from the client) is a big plus too, you can create your own client or integrate tox to your app however you like. The sodium crypto library is really trusted and easy-to-use (less control but it's more failproof than openSSL primitives), it's based on the NaCL library written by the creator of Salsa20/Chacha20 encryption Daniel Bernstein.

"oh my god, using native code is faster than interpreting, such exciting and revolutionary news"