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ta95846893

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    Comment #24371224

    Wouldn't Watt hours (or Joules) be a unit that more accurately represents the amount of work being done, and the cost of running the physical server?

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    Comment #24360608

    Sounds like you'll end up with a couple of qr codes per frame in the end, which would probably survive compression

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    Comment #24360584

    One reason age is beneficial is that it will generate a sufficiently long password for you when encrypting a file, This is a good idea if you're using a transmission protocol witho…

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    Comment #24360542

    gpg symmetric encryption just derives a key from the password so theres no forward secrecy. Using bittorrent in particular opens you up to the risk of third parties getting ahold o…

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    Comment #24360517

    > AFAIK this isn't really true. If the adversary captures the initial key exchange plus all the data (ie the full transaction), then later discovers your PSK, they'll be able to de…

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    Comment #24360116

    I think syncing is done with a Firefox account (Firefox Sync) and i can't find implementation details, but I did find: "Firefox Accounts uses your password to encrypt your data (su…

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    Comment #24349589

    My understanding of pocket recommendations is that it gets a list of articles from a server every day and uses a local algorithm to match them to your browsing history so your hist…