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aspensmonster

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About aspensmonster

Electrical Engineering student. Currently working as support staff for a web hosting company. edit: Nope. Full-time student now.

edit2: Graduating in May of 2014. Finally.

edit3: Yeah. Finally graduated. Now about those student loans...

edit4(2021-01-03): Loans long done. Haven't been here in... six or seven years?

http://aspensmonster.com

aspensmonster@riseup.net ; public key on keys.openpgp.org (a Verifying Key Server (VKS)).

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/aspensmonster; my proof: https://keybase.io/aspensmonster/sigs/bqotMpja1fdMryld2TzXlGiEXPE73DVxIM2znHtLHWc ]

This is an OpenPGP proof that connects my OpenPGP key to this Hackernews account. For details check out https://docs.keyoxide.org/advanced/openpgp-proofs/

Keyoxide: https://keyoxide.org/79895B2E0F87503F1DDE80B649765D7F0DDD9BD5

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49053411

    Isn't basically every package in Debian an upstream project?

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    Comment #48151274

    >This article is about statistics and government policy. For Nazi analogies in internet discussions, see Godwin's law.

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    Comment #47740846

    Squircles[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squircle

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    Comment #46939381

    They still exist. Surprisingly, most folks aren't interested in letting every newsletter and promotion know that they were seen. So a surveillance arms race ensues instead.

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    Comment #43046925

    >Very true, but again, the RFC describes a completely different threat model with much stronger guarantees. The Kagi threat model: > >- Does not provide Issuer-Client unlinkability…

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    Comment #43045878

    >3. CLIENT uses it's identity to request token from ISSUER/ATTESTER The ISSUER and ATTESTER are different roles. As previously quoted, "Clients explicitly trust Attesters to perfor…

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    Comment #43044368

    Seeing as I'm not getting any traction in the fediverse ( https://tenforward.social/@aspensmonster/113999217587309328 ), maybe I can ask here instead. =============================…

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    Comment #41597035

    The old EE in me got excited for a second there, thinking someone had made a Rust port of [SPICE]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPICE ).

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    Comment #41141568

    >The signatures on the Actas are digital, not ink. Yes, each acta has a digital signature, gathered ahead of time. It is there to compare against the inked signatures signed by the…

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    Comment #41126384

    Long time no see, HN! As a techie-turned-communist I'm vested in this story, so I decided to follow along: https://x.com/aspensmonster/status/1818859550516129814 I was able to foll…

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    Comment #37947285

    I turned it off as soon as it was debuted.

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    Comment #26684767

    Impressed with SmashStash by iNSANE.

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    Comment #8008169

    And it seems I'm still slowbanned/hellbanned :D I'm thinking that something like /r/undelete for HN could be really useful.

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    Comment #8008152

    I come back a few weeks or months later, and find that HN is still silently killing NSA stories. This was near the top of the front page, until I refreshed and it disappeared, rank…

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    Comment #7607672

    Edit: So this comment is already "autodead" ; This is exactly the kind of shit I'm talking about. >The majority of HN users are thoughtful and nice. It's clear from the data that t…

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    Comment #7607670

    Yes. That is what they do. Or used to do.

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    Comment #7596677

    >An hour at the helpdesk can help you discover great product ideas, feedback and suggestions - a gold mine when you're chasing product-market fit. An hour with your front line supp…

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    Comment #7580661

    >Most of them are stingy, demanding, greedy bastards. I'd go so far as to say "nearly all of them."

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    Comment #7565015

    The typeface and layout are beautiful! As is the work itself. I love it!

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    Comment #7563175

    As of starting to write this comment, there are more comments on this submission bickering about Tesla's PR than there are about the actual merit of the matter: * "Aren't people st…

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    Comment #7552216

    Between Squirrelmail, Horde, and Roundcube, I always liked Roundcube the most. It was more polished than the others, at least, and was far easier to support end-users with. Glad to…

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    Comment #7541527

    I'd say Google has its own share of responsibility for the lack of adoption of APNGs. Chromium doesn't support them out of the box.

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    Comment #7541493

    Awesome! I'm still waiting for other sites like imgur to get with the program :D Edit: Thread 2 (Yeah, 4chan, possibly probably nsfw, etc): http://boards.4chan.org/g/res/41215438#p…

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    Comment #7513625

    Glad to see this finally making it on the front page. I'm particularly impressed with the actors' ability to capture the subtle facial expressions and other mannerisms that the var…