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I think you did enough due diligence by putting the random part first, but I suppose one way to stop someone from putting in a real BIP39 mnemonic would be to use a completely diff…

Many of the things the author accuses Amazon of doing are troubling, but the logic the author used in the Chris Brown music buying example to tie it all together shows of a lack of…

This is a great point because it presents the question of the relationship between one's perspective/emotional approach to a task and whether or not an act is intrinsically "playfu…

> And yet... if you don't have fun, it will never get done This was actually accounted for by the system of thought the parent comment is discussing. Since virtue is the median bet…

The Japanese slang terms for the NES/SNES are "Famicom" and "Sufami" respectively. HAL Laboratories may not have felt that those terms would make for a good protagonist name, espec…

Large websites, large skyscrapers. Still private property.

On the contrary, that is exactly why it was created. Dog lovers forums aren't supposed to be compelled to allow cat lovers a platform to voice their opinion on the dog lover's priv…

I'm glad people are realizing that all this social distancing is merely a pause button on the virus. Once we press play on society, exponential growth will happen again and we will…

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The comments in the reddit post from professionals stated that the sprinklers were not very useful for that purpose and advise against it: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/5y…

One of the more frustrating aspects of some clients like Gajim is that you can be in a multiparty chat, but there's no way to tell why OMEMO isn't working. You're probably missing …

You can start your own! https://repaircafe.org/en/start/

Regarding #2, there's some circumstantial evidence that there was an attempt to hide emails either through deleting them or not turning them over: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-ema…

That may work, but then you're in the same workflow as the more traditional IRC clients with their .txt logfiles and needing tools external to the IRC client. Ostensibly the point …

Quassel is awesome, and has a really interesting idea in wanting to store logs in an sqlite db for better searching, but ironically in the current client implementation this seems …

> Isn't "the way computers actually work" at a fundamental level about electrical engineering, or at least about machine instructions? I agree, which is why sometimes I think perha…

Since the company seems to be a hardware company, I'm curious, is any of the software open source?

btw... whatever plugin that was, it was also disabling page up/page down from working

As someone who grew up in the 90s where GIFs became popular for their use in looping animations, I don't understand why these files became popular for this kind of use case of step…

Now that vim is on github, I think it'd be cool if eventually the vim logic/model could be abstracted into a library that could then be used by any text editor to instantly provide…

The page seems to only say 10/100. Is there a correction somewhere else?

The page mentions that it only responds to the first push until the order is delivered, but you're right, you could still end up with unwanted orders. "Billy, did you order 1 of ev…

If I understand correctly, the DRM system consists of a special ink on the lid of the cup. Therefore, some people have figured out that you can simply cut off that piece and tape i…

If he says they were anonymous people who set it up, what guarantees are there that the money would actually go to him?

Wouldn't it still be susceptible to replay attacks?