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bykmike
2024 @05:51AM
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Attached to: DuckDuckGo's Browser Adds Encrypted, Privacy-Minded Syncing and Backup
Not really. The service as described by DDG strongly reminds me of old Mozilla Weave/Sync 1.1, which had a very sensible design from the security standpoint - your own encryption key never left your device, everything to be backed up was encrypted with it before being sent to the Mozilla servers, thus making your backups not readable to Mozilla. However, in Sync 1.5 and later they "upgraded" the service by integrating it with Firefox accounts. Your encryption key is stored on Mozilla servers now, as a part of your account. New Firefox Sync doesn't have anything in common with older, more private (and secure!) Mozilla Sync 1.1
I only hope this DDG service doesn't follow the Mozilla lead.
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bykmike
4 @06:50AM
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Attached to: How Does FreeBSD Compare to Linux on a Raspberry Pi?
With one substantial difference. Android doesn't present a shell environment, unix utilities and services, compilers and other development tools. OS X provides a complete BSD environment with all the trimmings where the user can interact with it.
But every Android system has a shell and a number of Unix utilities and services, albeit hidden from plain view. You can install any terminal emulator to run a shell where you can interact with system utilities. The shell is also available remotely via "adb shell" if you enable development mode and plug your Android system into a PC.
Compilers and development tools are not available, but that's completely understandable as storage is a precious resource on a phone.
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bykmike
0 @02:09AM
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Attached to: Google Patched an Actively-Exploited Zero-Day Bug in Chrome
Attached to the Freetype bug case:
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bu...
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bykmike
@01:28AM
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Attached to: India's First CPUs Are Ready For App Development
Russia does not really count because Baikal's home-grown core is an ARM core. it wasn't *designed* in Russia, although it was taped-out on a Russia fab.
Wrong. Baikal-T1 uses MIPS: http://www.cpu-world.com/news_...
Though you can rightfully argue it's not fully Russian as it uses a commercial core. "Elbrus" line of CPUs, however, is fully "home-grown": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I guess "Elbrus' does fall under "designed in Russia", right?
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bykmike
2016 @09:14AM
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Attached to: Receiving Real-Time Imagery From Russia's Meteor-M N2 Satellite
Is this it?
http://meteor.robonuka.ru/gall...
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bykmike
2015 @01:42PM
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Attached to: Surgeon: First Human Head Transplant May Be Just Two Years Away
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
"Scientific links" section contain a link to the film about similar experiments on the dogs in Soviet Union.
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bykmike
014 @02:31AM
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Attached to: The Future According To Stanislaw Lem
What's the story title?
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bykmike
@02:57PM
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Attached to: Malaysian Passenger Plane Reportedly Shot Down Over Ukraine
"Ukraine admits it shot down Russian airliner"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
Now your turn, eager to hear your "rumors in certain circles".
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bykmike
2 @11:34PM
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Attached to: Journalist Arrested In Greece For Publishing List of Possible Tax-Evaders
I have a vague recollection they are now sharing some USA citizens' account information with USA.
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bykmike
@07:42AM
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Attached to: Facebook Loses Users, Satisfaction Higher at Google+
That's because the numbers from Compete do not correspond to reality. Compete.com is tracking some preselected panel of people, which in no way could represent the entire site usage. And then they stretch and inflate that data, and call it the "site profile".
For the reference, here's another such Google+ profile, from Alexa, which shows no "dramatic growth" whatsoever:
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/plus.google.com
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bykmike
12 @02:40PM
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Attached to: Demoscene: 64k Intros At Revision Demoparty
While demos from that era looked nice, they had the problem of not having to worry about AI, an interface, asynchronous audio and video...
I present to you.. .kkrieger!
A 3D FPS in 96KB.
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bykmike
@02:22AM
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Attached to: MIT Institute's Gloomy Prediction: 'Global Economic Collapse' By 2030
The MIT report cited in the "article" is from 1972. Enough said.
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bykmike
11 @02:08PM
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Attached to: Is the Earth Special?
And in his Robots and Empire, the Earth is special because of the relative abundance of the radioactive elements like uranium in the Earth crust.
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bykmike
011 @12:17PM
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Attached to: Opera's Haakon Wium Lie On CSS, Web Standards, and More
Hear, hear!
I absolutely agree. It feels like an elaborate thought experiment carried out for the sake of experiment, and artificially handicapped by many limitations to the boot. I'm surprised a more sane thing wasn't proposed at the time.
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