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The (almost) only problem that's left is the requirement of having the webcam on. Regardless of the client-side software that you can't trust, there are also third-party servers th…

> If the merchant wants to receive funds via the gateway then funds need to be locked in a payment channel between the gateway and the merchant. If I keep the scenario where the me…

Well if a merchant doesn't want to spend or lock anything, it doesn't have to. Consumers and gateways can open channels to the merchant and that's enough for them to pay the mercha…

Is it really "locking" when putting bitcoins on LN actually make them easily spendable with very little fees? Imo, all of those are outdated claims. For consumers, it's easy to ope…

I've experienced the opposite: a lot of what Symfony gets wrong, Laravel gets it right at the moment (also imo). Exactly, both contribute towards a common goal and they can easily …

On a similar fashion (centralized alternatives to crypto ideas), there is Etleneum[0], which is a centralized smart-contract platform built on top of Bitcoin (lightning). [0] https…

I used to watch livestreams of Øfdream making his music. Me and my friends felt close to him at the time because there wasn't a lot of viewers and we could easily talk. Feels bad i…

> I wonder if the people who run LE ever travel via the same means Afaik, the LE team is distributed across the globe. > If somebody took them out all at once, would the web's secu…

In France (at least), all swimming pools are protected by a fence. If you own a pool and don't put a fence around it, you can be held responsible for a child drowning into it. It i…

Looking for a 3-month internship (or a 3-month job contract) OUT of France between April and November 2021. I currently work as a fullstack developer and I learn about networking, …

It's more complicated than that: using unbound is basically trusting your ISP with your DNS data (it's not encrypted so it can MITM). Using an upstream resolver doesn't necessarily…

> a SSL connection is transient and you can't replay it to show that Google's certificate digitally signed that email in GMail. Actually, there the TLSNotary[1] protocol that allow…

I would use this in a security context. I want to use a one-time pad with a friend. That requires generating a fully random file that I then need to send to my friend (physically).…

Hey, I wanted to use your library to send data from computer A to computer B, but I don't speak Go yet. How easy would it be to implement a txqr reader for desktop? Piping zbarcam'…

It's interesting to compare this model to the Lightning Network on top of Bitcoin. Essentially, the Lightning Network uses this kind of "friendships" (payments channels) with the e…

I run my own DNSSEC-validating DNS server for my whole local network (also on the road with DNS over TLS on my phone) using Pi-Hole (DHCP service + blocking ads) and unbound (local…

>We’re a net importer from China Ok, one more guy writing "we" as is everyone were from the USA... Why are "you" guys always so self-centered ??