crazyhatfish | 8 years ago | on: Piknik – Copy and paste anything over the network
I think sneak means Piknik doesn't.
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crazyhatfish | 8 years ago | on: TeaVM – Ahead-of-time transpiler of Java bytecode to JavaScript or WebAssembly
If you look at how much their demos in their gallery downloads, it's in the hundreds of kilobytes on average. Granted these are not full web apps but even still it's roughly on par with the latest web app framework's demos.
Performance is not too shabby either
crazyhatfish | 8 years ago | on: A wall of lava lamps helps encrypt the internet
It is, the author is just saying that even without it they still have enough entropy in the system to be secure enough.
Any old image doesn't have pretty strong random number generators in it.
crazyhatfish | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you feel about web scraping?
Actually, I don't think they state that is the only way they find content. I've had plenty of sites with obscure domain names for development and they always seem to find their way on to Google some how.
I imagine in addition to public URLs they also use URLs entered into Chrome (which isn't that public) and since they host DNS they probably crawl domain names requested through them too.
Legally I'm not sure what they stand on to do that but they're big enough now so I guess they don't worry too much about that nowadays.
crazyhatfish | 8 years ago | on: Cloak and dagger – a new kind of attacks for Android
I seriously doubt that. Some sources have use of WinXP at 7 percent, it should be zero, and there are plenty of open, unpatched exploits for WinXP.
crazyhatfish | 9 years ago | on: The Internet Isn’t Making Us Dumber – It’s Making Us More ‘Meta-Ignorant’
They're already doing this, although for good currently.
[https://theintercept.com/2016/09/07/google-program-to-deradi...]
crazyhatfish | 9 years ago | on: Cello – A library that brings higher level programming to C
Do you use Python in production? It uses setjmp for its exception handling.
crazyhatfish | 9 years ago | on: Symantec found evidence of Longhorn against 40 targets spread in 16 countries
Its Symantec, they run AV on thousands of computers across the globe. All the events generated from these computers get sent to them. Removal/cleaning procedures would be one of those events, probably for this very reason (i.e creator gets sloppy, installs and then uninstalls on their own machine).
crazyhatfish | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: Develop your Python applications easily in clean Docker environments
Although I'm not sure I would use this, this is the kind of stuff I've been waiting for. Where nice clean containers are used as part of an active dev cycle rather than just the production push.
The ultimate dream of the end user using a desktop comprising only of containers seems to be still a bit far off yet...
crazyhatfish | 9 years ago | on: Opera 12.15 source code
They say in the takedown request that they want the uploaders IP and email to them down
crazyhatfish | 10 years ago | on: WebUSB API: draft spec to safely expose USB device services to the web
Have you experienced it? If so, where can I?
I'm not saying its a bad idea, just that this direct path in implementation is.
There are many other (better) ways of implementing it, like the Mozilla light sensor API. If that doesn't satisfy you, you should create a new spec for light sensors combined with a practical implementation and then push W3C to use your spec over Mozilla's.
crazyhatfish | 10 years ago | on: WebUSB API: draft spec to safely expose USB device services to the web
At the moment, nothing in a browser is direct access. Everything is abstracted, which includes the filesystem and geolocation. This provides a layer of security against massive horrible bugs in the OS. With WebUSB there seems to be very little abstracting, all the values you pass to it are then sent on to the device. Small bugs once protected by numerous layers of security usually requiring superuser abilities are now made massive as they are connected to one of the largest fuzzers there is, the internet.
crazyhatfish | 10 years ago | on: WebUSB API: draft spec to safely expose USB device services to the web
I don't think direct access to USB devices like your suggesting is a good step forward if for nothing other than practicalities. Think about how many individual USB light sensors your websites would have to support to enable this small feature and the amount of low-level code in such a high-level language. Abstractly thats a great idea but could as easily be added with an addon or browser extension.
crazyhatfish | 10 years ago | on: GitHub doesn't show search field unless you sign in
Search inside a repo is still available just append /search to the url.
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