mrswag | 9 years ago | on: Norway to become first country to switch off FM radio
FM works, and doesn't need any addition when you increase the number of listeners. I don't get it. Why throw away millions of perfectly fine radios?
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mrswag | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What current companies have the best software engineering culture?
I'm genuinely wondering: is pair programming better, compared to doing the design in pair, going to work on your own, then reviewing each other's code?
As an introvert I don't think I could handle the "pair all day" approach.
mrswag | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Excluding WordPress, what is your favorite for blogs or small stores?
Thanks, exactly what I was looking for!
mrswag | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Excluding WordPress, what is your favorite for blogs or small stores?
`python -m SimpleHTTPServer` for the local server (or if you prefer the python3 variant, `python3 -m http.server`), aspell for the spell check, and OptiPNG for PNG compression.
I didn't found something (yet) for JPEG.
mrswag | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Excluding WordPress, what is your favorite for blogs or small stores?
Bad wording on my side, sorry. My grief is mostly against some prominent themes that weight 5 MB a page, and feature jQuery to animate the menu.
mrswag | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Excluding WordPress, what is your favorite for blogs or small stores?
I generate static webpages from markdown in a < 100 lines bash script. It's just a for loop using sed, pygments and markdown, hosted on github.
It has a local webserver, spell check, optional image compression, and minimal dependencies.
I don't get the need of Jekyll or Hugo. They're bloated and it's a pain to customize so called "themes". I'm OK with 'boring' HTML and CSS.
mrswag | 9 years ago | on: When You Fall in Love, This Is What Facebook Sees (2014)
The graphics are misleading, the Y axis is stretched to make the change look big.
mrswag | 9 years ago | on: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released
It has a nice GUI frontend with useful presets, understandable for the layman. Very good tool for the people not too versed in CLI and/or video formats.
mrswag | 9 years ago | on: QuickCheck: A Lightweight Tool for Random Testing of Haskell Programs (2000) [pdf]
Does a coverage-guided QuickCheck exists, à la AFL? AFL is really good at finding deeper code path that the randomness only approach might not find.
mrswag | 9 years ago | on: Things I learnt making a fast website
The bottom line is the power consumption. A big fat i7 (desktop) can draw 91W, while a fanless, battery operated smartphone can pull from 5 to 10W.
Power optimization come at a performance cost.
mrswag | 9 years ago | on: Pokemon Go, Security, and Obsolescence
It's cheaper than that. A HackRF and some sort of better clock and you're done.
http://www.rtl-sdr.com/cheating-at-pokemon-go-with-a-hackrf-...
mrswag | 9 years ago | on: GitHub censored my research data
This censorship show that you don't even begin to understand the problem.
This list could prevent people from getting their card skimmed, and you take it down.
I'm moving away from gitlab.
mrswag | 9 years ago | on: GitLab Master Plan
I use a simple bash script[1] to paste together html headers and markdown files processed by python-markdown.
The resulting .html is pushed with the source to the github repo. This setup, while not very sexy, doesn't even need a CI.
mrswag | 9 years ago | on: Experiments with disabling the ME on Sandybridge x230
It's theoretically possible, provided you have a small trusted circuit. It's an active research area. The basic idea is to use multiple separate, untrusted chips and have them do multiparty computation, coordinated by the small trusted circuit.
With testing amplification, you can then set an upper bound on the probability that the chip will run a backdoor.
mrswag | 9 years ago | on: A bite of Python
It's in their threat model under 'Module injection':
> The mitigation is to maintain secure access permissions on all directories and package files in search path to ensure unprivileged users do not have write access to them.
mrswag | 9 years ago | on: A bite of Python
Some points are valid, but come on, if an attacker has write access to your code, you can't recover from that, ever.
mrswag | 9 years ago | on: Running a Tor Exit Node for Fun and E-mails
Assuming you pay for your hosting in whatevercoins and only connect to it over TOR, you aren't at risk, right?
mrswag | 9 years ago | on: Micro v1.0 – a terminal-based text editor written in Go
All go binaries are statically linked. It's supposed to be one of the selling points of the language.
mrswag | 9 years ago | on: How I Used and Abused My Tesla – What a Tesla Looks Like After 100,000 Miles
Once you factor in the environmental cost associated with production, I'm not sure it's as clear cut. Batteries are nasty.
mrswag | 9 years ago | on: Dropbox prompts password resets
Yes, but it happens only the first time, if you update the stored hash with newHash(plaintext_password)
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