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See http://www.splitbrain.org

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/splitbrain; my proof: https://keybase.io/splitbrain/sigs/Mbzv7fAOd7WZxK43AkThLqUIz1tE-kUQneSsj3AQrHE ]

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splitbrain··on Simple solution to the password reuse problem
This! Also http://wijjo.com/passhash/

There are (Cross) Browser Extensions running the algo on your computer so can log in directly with your passphrase. You can have the JS code offline or in a Dropbox. There are apps using the algorithm on iPhone and Android. No need to rely on a single website. No need to type/copy'n'paste cryptic passwords. No need to rely on the Browser's password storage. So much better.

splitbrain··on The Tragic Beauty of Google+
There's plenty of discussion despite Google sabotaging it with every other update. :-/
splitbrain··on Introducing Feed Wrangler – Google Reader replacement
no trial. all I can do is paying and hoping the 14 day return-with-no-questions-asked policy with manual refund will work. no, thanks.
splitbrain··on Show HN: My one month project, Statsgram.com: Website Optimization Tool
Have the same problem for mine (www.splitbrain.org). It complains about unclean URLs which look just fine to me.
splitbrain··on 'Viking sunstone' found in shipwreck?
So it depends on polarizing the sun light, right? Could one build something like this from a typical polarizing camera filter? Would it need a linear or circular filter? I guess the former.
splitbrain··on I Can Detect Your Facebook Username, Using W3C Standard
Okay, maybe I was stupid but I couldn't find the link to the demo in the article. Author posted it somewhere here in the comments: http://homakov.github.com/fbdetect.html

So all this does is to check if my username matches with some preexisting username. Its no way you can detect my username if you don't already know it. Also even after I gave the demo my username, chrome simply blocked a popup and the whole thing failed...

Either I don't get it or this is a lot less impressive than the title suggests.

splitbrain··on Show HN: I built myself a friend.
Uhm, an Arduino with a single LED that switches on and off randomly? That's probably the first thing in any Arduino book. It's great you've found a friend but that's hardly news worthy, right?
splitbrain··on Cross-platform emoji solution
https://github.com/arvida/emoji-cheat-sheet.com/blob/master/... doesn't look good. All rights reserved is not an open license at all and makes me question the legality of that repository.
splitbrain··on Google Play
No. This doesn't work. At least not for the Humble Bundle games. The market shows an update available for Osmos, but when I click the update button it says it couldn't download the update because I haven't purchased the app.
splitbrain··on Show HN: Color.io == an intuitive social marketing / barter platform
I absolutely hate this. I will like something after I tried it and really did like it. Asking me to like something before I tried it is a sure way to lose me.
splitbrain··on Show HN: Pitchdeck Inspired Resume
Personally I'd go with a somewhat better photo. It doesn't need to be a standard resume picture with you in a suit. Just something that isn't clearly cropped from a random party snapshot.
splitbrain··on Glue is a simple command line tool to generate CSS sprites
Adding icons to links was just one example. If you're coding semantic correct HTML you very rarely have background images that are exactly the size of your HTML element. The way that glue generates sprites makes them only useful for when you're replacing img tags.
splitbrain··on Glue is a simple command line tool to generate CSS sprites
csssprites is much more complicated to use but will take image alignments into account which makes it the more useful tool.
splitbrain··on Glue is a simple command line tool to generate CSS sprites
This makes no sense to me. It assumes that I'll attach the icon to it's own HTML element because it sets the width and height explicitly. Adding icons to your links won't work this way.

Generating useful sprites is much harder than this guy thinks IMHO.

splitbrain··on Humanhash: Human-readable representations of digests
To make this useful, both parties verifying a key need to use exactly the same word list. So either there needs to be a standardized wordlist or the words have to be generated by the algorithm itself (eg. using syllables as others suggested). Standardizing an algorithm is usually simpler than an arbitrary word list.
splitbrain··on Microsoft team submits Redis patch to enable Windows support
A patch file in a gist instead of a pull request? sigh
splitbrain··on PHP.net breach: Concern over safety of source code
DokuWiki lead developer here. I've contacted the PHP guys but haven't heard back, yet. We have no details of the breach so far. The Google cache of the page indicates that it was an outdated DokuWiki version, but we simply don't know.

There are no known vulnerabilities in current DokuWiki. As soon as we learn about the nature of the problem we will release a security update if needed.

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