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thinkMOARon A tale of two bubbles, the dot-coms and Bitcoin

If you read the source code of bitcoin, considering all the technical issues, you will not put your full trust in bitcoin.

Your bitcoins can be confiscated, government can seize all your property for <reason they will come up with when they want to>. If you no longer have your private key, good bye wallet.

thinkMOARon Ask HN: Which crypto would you invest a small amount of money in?

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/einsteinium/#markets

Apparently yesterday into einsteinium.

*small amount to invest, best option many coins for little money, so if it goes up, it goes up X fold the number of coins you bought, and not just the X percent that one 0.0002 btc would have increased.

thinkMOARon 3 reasons fast databases will never be fast enough

In my opinion the three points described in the article boil down to one, data volume.

thinkMOARon How to Build a City That Doesn’t Flood? Turn It into a Sponge

and imagine what happens when a freeze comes by and what it does to the sponges' life

thinkMOARon Show HN: Misocoin – A barebones Bitcoin-like protocol implemented in Python 3.6

Sounds a lot like me so horny, mi so coin... just the name already, oozes trust... </sarcasm>

thinkMOARon How I've captured all them ssh passwords

"logs out" did you mean, 'logs' or 'lock out'?

thinkMOARon Strongbox: a secret manager for AWS

neat, so the invoice already leaks about the number of secrets stored?

thinkMOARon DRM’s Dead Canary: How We Lost the Web, What We Learned, and What to Do Next

As long as there is a moment where you properly show content to a user, there is a moment he can copy what he sees perfectly too, therefor DRM will never work.

thinkMOARon Formula 1 e-sports now more exciting than the real thing

yaaay for something that covers the winter stop :)

thinkMOARon Cortana is really bad

I don't think its that weird?

Photoshop most started application so it offers it at 'pho'

yet you keep typing another char, so apparently its not photoshop you search for, maybe its the number 2 app that is required, lets offer photo booth.

Ah wait the user keeps typing, well i only got two proper options, let suggest option number 1 again.

thinkMOARon Mozilla does not revoke trust in Dutch State Certificate Authority

I personally think if the certs are signed by the government, it's for government service. And they can eaves drop at application level (decrypted) anyway...

thinkMOARon Samsung DeX

indeed it doesn't do more then fullHD, but im pretty sure the box says 4k. A colleague of mine got one few weeks ago, and we noticed that.

thinkMOARon IBM Quad9 – A free security solution using DNS to protect against cyber threats

And i think thats perfectly normal. People basically demanding free public services and the operator of that service can't log anything.. thats what i have problems with :)

thinkMOARon IBM Quad9 – A free security solution using DNS to protect against cyber threats

heh i hope you are kidding :) of course they log.. edit perhaps not YOUR ip address, but enough to identify users. AS number + extra data is almost as good as IP.

"When an entity or an individual is using the Quad9 infrastructure, their IP address is not logged in our system. We, however, log the geo-location of the system (city, state, country) and use this information for malicious campaign and actor analysis, as well as a component of the data we provide our threat intelligence partners. "

Not logged in 'our' system, reads to me, it is still logged somewhere. And the 'data we provide our threat intelligence partners', seems a little too vague for my likings.

thinkMOARon Keeping a Lab Notebook [pdf]

It would require carbon paper and a 2nd notebook at least to cover 'backups' and in that sense, I highly prefer electronic note taking.

thinkMOARon November Workshop: Running the Pi-hole Network-wide Ad-blocker, and more

Do note that the sources for the list of Steven Black receive little to no scrutiny and are just merged from random sources on the internet. An in my opinion, better approach would be to add proper egress filtering with apps like on little snitch, net limiter etc instead of pointing some fixed blacklist which will never have the latest entries and you will still be leaking information to parties using new urls etc.

thinkMOARon Show HN: /usr/bin/htop

whats new since the Show HN of 99 days ago?

thinkMOARon Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology

Alexander said to be inspired by https://www.mediagazer.com For their new site.

That new site hurts my eyes :)

thinkMOARon Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology

Not sure if you are Dutch, but if you follow dutch news then you'd known the soap bubble 'blendle' has burst already... Afaics they are at the brink of bankruptcy, and needed multiple financial injections to 'survive' and papers like NRC, FTM and recently the telegraaf have already pulled their publications.

Today the people behind blendle launched a new product, Medianieuwsbrief.nl To me another pointer that blendle is no longer viable and they are looking for new products.

They are what others describe causing brand erosion, as they collect articles from lots of sources, readers will forget/not know who actually wrote the article, which newspaper the good articles come from etc.

thinkMOARon An ode to pack: gzip’s forgotten decompressor

This could be achieved of archiving the source tree of the compression software/version used to create the backups, or at least a version note. Nowadays with version control every can checkout and revert to older versions when they need to.

I'm not convinced it's the compression software author responsibility.

thinkMOARon Students learn more effectively from print textbooks than screens, study says

Nothing about not being able to run other apps/multitask with a book? When i read a book, i cannot turn to page 123 to see who is online or get notifications that i received an email.

Less distractions, more focused, more effectiveness; doesn't really require a study in my opinion.

thinkMOARon The Depression Thing

Hmmm okay, was just wondering, thanks.

thinkMOARon Symantec CEO says source code reviews by foreign states pose unacceptable risk

The irony.. Installing Symantec software, they pose an unacceptable risk.

thinkMOARon The Depression Thing

So if i understand it you were quite overweight and this was the primary source of your depression?

thinkMOARon Please take care of my plant

The pi could use a little speaker and play some music for the plant? :)

thinkMOARon Firefox Send: Private, Encrypted File Sharing

lol no.. my point was that it wasn't as fast as i would expect a service from mozilla to run and broadband connections here are a lot faster. Second, it wasn't a complaint, just an observation.

And if you really think one 'https' enabled webserver software on a home subscriber cable/dsl connection is much faster then the other for a single download, then i will have to inform you that you are mistaken.

And setting up a simple webserver to exchange files isn't that hard at all. To say file sharing is cumbersome is a bit stretching the truth.

thinkMOARon Firefox Send: Private, Encrypted File Sharing

You must be great at parties. Software is irrelevant imo. Indicating same protocol as FF send is imho more relevant.

thinkMOARon Firefox Send: Private, Encrypted File Sharing

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thinkMOARon Firefox Send: Private, Encrypted File Sharing

Just my experience/test: it takes longer to upload the file to mozilla then it would have sending directly to DSL of a friend..

edit- Download tested now too, not bad, though nothing to write home about.

thinkMOARon Social media has become a direct threat to democracy

Or except when that money is used to make people talk about something on social media, and influence that way.