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I've recently been talking to some first-time angel investors in my F&F network — and realized that there are no interactive tools explaining the whole mechanics. So I vibe-coded o…

The "as much of an art project, as an applied cryptography exercise" take resonates a lot! Just earlier this week I've released https://github.com/kirushik/paternoster (and even wo…

Well, Minich's return to MS tech oddly coincides with MS Germany moving their HQ there (and the ruling party change in the city); it's of course hard to explicitly call backroom de…

In my (limited) understanding, running your source code using a GPL-licensed interpreter to run the code is not considered _linking_, and thus GPL would not infect the code in ques…

Disclaimer: I am not a legal professional (in any jurisdiction), and this is not any form of an official advice. But I've happened to work as "engineer in licensing and copy activa…

I'm curious if that's US vs Europe thing? For me in Europe, Google Maps coverage quality can be best described by this personal anecdote. I used to live in Nürnberg, which is in to…

Yeah, and I failed to even find an option to open a local HTML file on mobile Firefox (for Android) just now. That's a shame — things were definitely different in 2019 when I built…

Yeah, that's right, thanks for the pointer. We probably shouldn't even bother recommending browser-specific offline modes; I've created an issue in the project's repo to reword tha…

Hmmm, that's new; thanks for bringing this up. Would it be too much to ask for you to open an issue in Github for this? Things I'd be interested in the most would be details about …

OK, since we're pitching our SSS implementations here in comments, I welcome everyone to check out BananaSplit, https://bs.parity.io Not sure about year 2023, but at the time I wro…

Well, this clearly references this wonderful article: https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2021/05/02/theres-no-such-th... The idea is that our taxonomy selects a group named "trees", b…

Does this imply that GPS satellites are a legitimate military target for Russia right now? (I'm pretty sure GPS is used for guidance of drones and missiles pretty heavily there.) O…

Grimmsc version is a bit weird then, because there is a plausibly-sounding "freundian" interpretation of the most common folklore version, in which a frog turning into a prince aft…

Well, `mix release` ( https://hexdocs.pm/mix/Mix.Tasks.Release.html ) exists to address this very issue. It still has limitations (the biggest one is the requirement for the os&arc…

Fun fact: Russian translation of Dancing men is legitimately solvable, with messages being _in Russian_! The translators had to butcher the characters' names and twist the deductio…

If this [0] is not legally-actionable and formal way of stating one's data access request, then I don't know what is. ---- [0] https://ruben.verborgh.org/facebook/emails/2019-11-16…

I've wrote https://bs.parity.io/#/ exactly for this; it also tries to avoid the most obvious opsec mistakes, like trusting your printer too much =) BananaSplit is of very experimen…

Judging from the discussion in [1], the "going down this road" already started to happen about half a year ago. Please notice how everyone in conversation seems to implicitly under…

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