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99% of people investing in cryptocurrencies have extremely limited knowledge of cryptography. However, a lot of innovations in cryptography these days come from cryptocurrency worl…

Excellent example. My first thought when I hear the word "camera" is a bunch of sensors on the back of my phone... so maybe sands will shift again, and we'll have "dedicated camera…

Language is an ever-shifting sand. Some years ago crypto meant cryptography, and "cryptocurrency" had to be used in full for people to understand. Now, positions have swapped. Cryp…

It somewhat decently identifies the object drawn, but fails badly to actually find the identified object.

This is a pretty good intro article: https://andrea.corbellini.name/2015/05/17/elliptic-curve-cry...

Facebook app, Instagram and Messenger are working for me.

I'd like to hear Microsoft's explanation for this "feature".

Despite benefiting tremendously from crpyto, I don’t believe this narrative. The article mentions the core problem: being your own bank is a HUGE risk. I can accept that risk and d…

For transfers, Smart ID displays both recipient and amount. So that part can’t be easily MITM’d.

I never thought about this, but yes, I think it can be MITM'ed exactly as you described. Same attack can probably be performed on the web, where Smart ID is also a sign in method.

Banking systems in Baltic countries use a unified 2FA system called SmartID[0]. When authenticating to bank via phone, they ask for two things: your user ID (which is not secret), …

It's also very simplistic. In subject matter, in character archetypes, sometimes in acting, and most annoyingly, in editing (how it never trusts the viewer to remember what happene…

The name wasn’t based on bees just because bees are respected. “Bičiulystė” (meaning friendship, using the same word Bičiulis) was usually a neighbor friendship with a particular p…

In many cases, "animations on the web" has become Lottie animations. Or, at least, Lottie raises the bar for animation expectations. I'd love to see two things: - A decent free or …

So, China is the worst because of censorship (strictly controlled information), and US is in a bad spot because of too much misinformation (too little control on information). I'm …

Initial Safari design was quite different from what shipped today (beta process worked!). The main differences were: all the buttons where crammed into the address field, dropping …

It's been a long, long time since I read an LATimes article. It looks like they finally allowed people from Europe to view their website, after years of blocking it completely due …

Current comments seem to be responding to the wrong topic. This article is not at all about energy use, but about mining hardware lifetime and resulting eWaste. Which seems like a …

Can’t agree more with this tweet. It was amazing fonts directed by Frere-Jones that created almost all the value for H&F-J.

Looks like we have a VPN duopoly forming: - Kape with Cyberghost, PIA and ExpressVPN - Tesonet with NordVPN, and allegedly a couple more most known, but there is no strong proof, s…

Apple specifically introduced BlastDoor framework to combat this, so NSO shifted their attacks around decoding, avoiding BlastDoor.

What if 3 US citizens said "fuck no", and it was someone on much shakier ground who felt the pressure to say yes? Not a given at all, just makes it more likely.

The way I look at this, the UI would be only to speed things up / simplify things a little bit. It wouldn't try to do full error validation before execution. It's the job of a comm…

Can be XML as well, but I think HTML is too complex. The goal, for me, is simplicity. It shouldn't be a hassle at all to convert a man page to a UI that speeds up actions and avoid…

It seems to me that a lot of these projects aim to deliver really "good" apps: native UI, table output, etc… Results are great, but the UI building complexity also becomes quite hi…