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PSA: Please be cautious because this is an excellent opportunity for taking over packages and injecting malware by malicious people. Example: https://www.npmjs.com/package/duplexer…

This is truly great as proof of concept and also as a reminder that in software development building 80% of perceived* functionality usually takes only tiny fraction of total devel…

Yup, my provider is quite easy to find, I don't mind. I just didn't want to make this info to be googleable with their name, to respect that they never publicly wrote about it. No …

Protip: If you use paid email, ask your email provider how to hide your IP while sending via SMTP. I asked mine and it turned out that they run a separate SMTP port which you can u…

> The app doesn't auto-update favorites yet. For now you can manually update via pull-to-refresh. Just to let you know: I favorited a song (using menu bar) and then pulled to refre…

This is a summary of my understanding of their method after a very quick scan of their docs: They assume working as a malicious/selfish pool having less than 50% of hash rate, but …

This should be a feature on the NSA website.

This is nice if considered a programming exercise but it's actually pretty useless for real world use. This data is static, that is it very rarely changes. The whole dataset is als…

Current Matchbook offer seems quite humble. Publishers will be naturally reluctant to sell their $22 books for $2 but I hope they'll understand very soon that this isn't actually a…

For anyone like me interested in which new gTLDs were introduced but was surprised that their names were not included in the blog post: شبكة (xn--ngbc5azd) — Arabic for "web/networ…

At today's Apple, both software and hardware are means to sell 3rd party software. They earn so much on their ecosystem that it's more profitable to give OS updates for free and pr…

This actually looks shady. If you're not going to charge me, then why the hell do you want my CC number?

You are correct and I'm not saying that I described the Holy Grail of detecting porn in a single paragraph. I'm just pointing to another direction. No solution to a very complex pr…

Wouldn't testing for skin colors produce far too many false positives to be useful? All these beach photos, fashion lingerie photos, even close portraits. And how about half of mus…

So one day you get an email that you got $100 and all you need to do as a recipient is to click on a link and enter your full credit card details? Sounds like a phishing paradise.

What happens when your private key is compromised? Someone is able to read all your messages and send messages impersonating you and you can't stop that, as the address is a hash o…

Regardless of what you use the level for, 2.7 degree matters a lot! I can detect something being off by 45 degree using my bare eyes. It's values like 2.7 degree which require to u…

If he had a $1m car and the FBI wanted to seize it, would it legitimize cars as a currency?

With this reasoning, one should never consider BBC as objective as it's owned by the British government. Yet it has been perceived for years by many as one of the most objective an…

Except that before we reached some kind of protection coming from governments, we lived through thousands of years where governments, kings and lords of any kinds were the masters …

“According to his calculation, one such satellite is able to supply a third of total energy needed by humans.” I'm just commenting on what they wrote and I see nothing about a farm…

Taking aside feasibility of this, having a single source of power delivering 33% of world's energy is a terrible idea. Especially if it would not be quick to fix or replace if it'd…

Wouldn't work with most drivers that I know, who usually keep their phones in holders mounted to the center console or front window.

Taking aside misunderstanding of the issue by most people commenting in the article what the judge said (“that a person sending text messages has a duty not to text someone who is …

Just tell that you run a business. Most people who you don't want to be confused with (who actually don't do much and are business wannabes) wouldn't tell that about themselves. Th…