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Re: RedditStorage

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Post by pavel_lishin » Fri, Jun 05, 2015, 4:12 PM UTC

cmdrfred wrote: post #45

dragontamer wrote: post #25

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> who would suspect reddit as a command server Everyone who used IRC as a command server from years past. It turns out that things useful for human communication tend to be useful for computer communication. Usenet, Email... hell... I'm sure BBS would have been used if modems were popular enough back in the day.

Every time I see an api for sending and receiving any type of file or text, I think botnet/building a secret chat system on top of it.

I'm toying with the idea of building a client for Hipchat that would allow people to use encryption. Sorry, boss, the "offtopic-no-suits" room means what it says.

Re: RedditStorage

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Post by pavel_lishin » Fri, Jun 05, 2015, 4:17 PM UTC

zatkin wrote: post #132

zedadex wrote: post #84

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The mini-saga embedded in the presentation was pretty funny > Concluding Remarks >  Off probation at the end of this semester!

I got put on probation for redirecting my ~/.bash_history to /dev/null and removing my `finger` information with `chfn`. Universities can be pretty ridiculous with their disciplinary actions.

Why... why would redirecting your .bash_history to /dev/null be a punishable offense? I assume it's so they could check for evildoing on your part, but that seems like a ridiculously idiotic way of doing it.

Re: RedditStorage

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Post by delluminatus » Fri, Jun 05, 2015, 6:12 PM UTC

archagon wrote: post #168

daveid wrote: post #157

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I think Markov chains would be a bad idea for the use case of passwords because some words always follow certain words.

Ah, true — I was thinking more along the lines of "part of speech" Markov chains, if that's even possible. (As in, just an endless stream of "article noun verb adjective noun adverb conjunction adjective noun verb adjective noun conjunction adjective etc." that could then be mad-libbed by diceware.)

It is possible (and, I think, a rather clever idea).

You could, for example, use a part-of-speech tagged corpus (a large collection of text where each word was tagged with its PoS by a grad student). Just train a Markov model on the parts of speech instead of the words themselves, and you would be able to generate English-like mad-libs.

Re: RedditStorage

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Post by vivab0rg » Fri, Jun 05, 2015, 6:55 PM UTC

adrian_blx wrote: post #136

namwen wrote: post #39

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Yeah, I wrote something that stores data to Flickr last summer: https://github.com/namwen/hoardr . I kind of had a reason but it was more for the enjoyment of getting it to work.

There is also hyperglobalmegastore https://github.com/adrian-bl/hyperglobalmegastore All data is encrypted and you can even mount your flickr 'drive' using fuse.

This project needs more stars!

Re: RedditStorage

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Post by PostOnce » Sun, Jun 07, 2015, 10:06 AM UTC

cmdrfred wrote: post #113

joliv wrote: post #109

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Wikipedia is a bit more vigilant with banning than abandoned blogs are :)

A single user storing a reasonable amount of data though might get away with it... I know what I'm doing this weekend.

Abusing one of the most important, non-profit resources on the internet?

Just because we can doesn't mean we ought to.