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asymptotically3 | 4 years ago | on: Preventing Crypto Mining Abuse on Gitlab.com SaaS

https://github.com/tevador/randomx-sniffer

asymptotically3 | 4 years ago | on: SUBLEQ and DawnOS (2017)

For what it's worth, the author got banned from the OSDev forums in record time.

asymptotically3 | 4 years ago | on: Hedy – A Gradual Programming Language

Congratulations on the release!

It would nice to be able to see some examples on the homepage.

asymptotically3 | 5 years ago | on: What is an NFT from an artist’s perspective?

Bitcoin is my favourite non-fungible token.

asymptotically3 | 5 years ago | on: Implementing the Elo Rating System (2020)

If it's BSD licensed, how do they limit it to non-commercial use?

asymptotically3 | 5 years ago | on: Man to pay £25,000 ($34,000) damages over negative TrustPilot review

Just reported them via ico.org.uk - probably best not to flood them with complaints though, I'm sure they have enough to deal with already.

asymptotically3 | 5 years ago | on: Jetbrains reply to the story from The New York Times regarding Solarwinds breach

The NYT article reminds me of that terrible Bloomberg article on Supermicro hardware being backdoored. Nice to see that Jetbrains have a response out quickly :)

asymptotically3 | 5 years ago | on: Second Swiss firm allegedly sold encrypted spying devices

> I've read about random number algorithms that mix the results of many randomness sources so that one compromised source cannot compromise the result.

You might like djb's article "Entropy Attacks!": https://blog.cr.yp.to/20140205-entropy.html

asymptotically3 | 5 years ago | on: Ethereum 2.0 – Minimum deposit reached

You could have 99% of the Bitcoin hashrate and start mining blocks that give you double the reward, but every other miner and node on the network would just ignore you because you aren't following the rules.

asymptotically3 | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is to Reddit, as Reddit was to Digg?

An alt-right cesspit filled with ads, spam, and scams.

asymptotically3 | 5 years ago | on: Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground?

>I can do that a little bit with DO. What are my options with OVH?

OVH have datacentres in multiple countries just like DO.

asymptotically3 | 5 years ago | on: Danish military intelligence uses XKEYSCORE to tap cables in co-op with the NSA

ZCash is barely used, the shielded transactions even less so. Monero is the way forward.

asymptotically3 | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are real-life useful use-cases for blockchain (not currencies)?

Blockchains are totally useless without a token as an incentive to mint new blocks.

asymptotically3 | 5 years ago | on: How I generated incomes as a web developer without working as a freelancer

You can just clear your cookies for Medium (or just always block them).

asymptotically3 | 5 years ago | on: Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account

If you get banned from the Steam community for spamming/harassing/being awful your game library is still there. Even if you get banned for cheating in a game, you only lose access to that game and not the rest of your library.

asymptotically3 | 5 years ago | on: We scaled Nginx and saved the world 54 years every day

Alternate title: We scaled Nginx and saved the world by MitMing a bunch of websites with the world's biggest honeypot.