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Finishing up my GSoC project with MalariaGEN. We're writing a new tool to estimate kinship coefficients between mosquitoes genomes and the project got a lot bigger than I initially…

The last few days I've been using AVX-512 to optimize matrix operations in a bioinformatics project, and it's great! The bottleneck in most applications is reading the large datase…

I'm working on a project in malaria genetics this summer, and I was shocked to find out that the entire analysis toolkit is entirely based on math and statistics (and some non-triv…

Here's the origin of the outbreak: > Public health officials say it started when an international traveller attended a wedding in New Brunswick last October. New Brunswick's outbre…

Yes signatures would prevent that, but as you noted it isn't enabled by default so most people don't use it. Optional security features don't count in my book :) For the rebuttal y…

For use with multiple devices you can copy the database file to each of them, a smarter approach using syncing is very complicated and not one I considered here.

This article goes into some of the deficiencies of using GPG with pass. In particular, GPG uses asymmetric keys, so someone could encrypt a new password file with your public key a…

Pass is great, but GPG keys are complicated and add a lot of extra overhead if you don't have one already. Frankly I cannot recommend anyone use GPG today for any purpose. I wrote …

It's also an SUID binary so in theory the same thing could happen. However it's much simpler than sudo so the odds of a bug creeping in like this are much smaller.

> As usual, there was a lot of cleaning up going on, and there notably, a good chunk of this year’s Google Summer of Code project to clean out the issues reported by Coverity Scan …

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Yup, they're working on coreboot support. If you're in Europe Tuxedo Linux is also working on coreboot, and the Purism laptops ship with it out of the box.

I'm optimistic about the OLinuXino boards from Olimex. They're certified open source hardware by OSHWA, with all the bootloader code, schematics, and even CAD files on Github. I th…

I'd even recommend Aegis [1]. Also open source with encrypted backups, but has better crypto than andOTP (both devs talk a bit about it here [2]). Plus, it can do imports from othe…

I personally agree with the philosophy of the author: I think all software should be free, and in the perfect world, I would license everything I do under the GPL. However, not eve…

I made a similar switch to Lineage about a year ago, and it's also been absolutely great. No regrets whatsoever. Also, AFAIK you can root your phone to fool play store checks, usin…

> The success of Riemann’s project is strong evidence that the whole numbers – which we think of as static, unchanging quantities – are really some kind of shadow or projection of …