Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) clacke@datamost.com
Linköping, Sweden
Linux native since 1995. Working in Python, shell scripts, whatever gets the page up. Solving yesterday's problems tomorrow. https://social.heldscal.la/clacke https://viewer.scuttlebot.io/@iii/pg320nKa62v1ohHctlhrXYPmY5BzZ1dRjypd7Cg=.ed25519
George Standish at 2017-07-05T13:51:18Z via datamost.com Web To: Public, George Standish CC: Followers
00:51 < jxself> But if someone's going to be against the GPL then, in order to be logically consistent, they must also be against proprietary software which by their own standards must be even worse than the GPL is because it will have even more restrictions in it.
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I'm almost as old as Bruce Willis was when he did Pulp Fiction.2017-05-20T11:23:11Z via AndStatus To: Public
This looks really interesting. Good overview of distributed systems challenges. https://speakerdeck.com/caitiem20/distributed-sagas-a-protocol-for-coordinating-microservices /via https://lobste.rs/s/vhvkwr
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> “For the wise man does not consider himself unworthy of any gifts from Fortune’s hands: he does not love wealth but he would rather have it; he does not admit into his heart but into his home; and what wealth is his he does not reject but keeps, wishing it to supply greater scope for him to practice his virtue.”
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Ansible's config system is also a turing tarpit, and the tarpit is getting deeper and stickier
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EUCJ says streaming of unlicensed material maybe illegal now, or maybe it doesn't say that, who knows.
Swedish TT: "[Streaming now illegal]"
http://viewer.scuttlebot.io/%25vWJYkkoQuiR4zou1XvdYgBx%2FMNQh7JyKU%2BEqSlUZrnA%3D.sha2562017-04-27T04:49:33Z via datamost.com Web To: Public CC: Followers
e2fsprogs 1.43 was released last summer and includes the inline_data option. I tried it out for /gnu/store. Conclusion: Not worth it.
https://social.heldscal.la/notice/1924375
https://social.heldscal.la/notice/1924409
I saved ~4% of the /gnu/store space, while losing ~5% of the partition space to larger inodes (and anything else on the same partition would probably benefit less than /gnu did).
Will try it for my hundreds of thousands of git-annex inodes some other time. My hypothesis is that it will be better than break-even on space, because I only need 512-byte inodes to house the symlinks (I used 1kB inodes for /gnu), but it might also be worth it for performance.2017-04-27T01:49:05Z via datamost.com Web To: Public CC: Followers
Me at 4: "When I'm a parent, I will listen to everything my child has to say!"
Me near 40: "Man, toddlers are really bad at structuring a compelling narrative or argument."Charles Stanhope at 2017-04-25T11:01:40Z via datamost.com Web To: Public, Charles Stanhope CC: Followers
That's not a great picture, and it should probably be a video to properly appreciate my rotating, blinky light "hello, world", but I'll just go with what I've got. After way too much time, I finally had an opportunity to sit down and try to play with the Lattice Semi IceStick dev board. But instead of using the proprietary tools, I used Project IceStorm tools. It was an amazing feeling to sit down with just open source tools and go from Verilog source to a binary that is sent to the FPGA. This should be as commonplace as using GCC to compile a program for a CPU, but it still isn't. Anyway, it's a start, and I hope it leads to more things.Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠), joeyh likes this.
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Its technocratic optimism is at the core of my love for Hong Kong.
Fuzzier than I thought. The text says "Safe slopes -- save lives".
If you're out in a forest on a hill, walking along a trail, you will regularly see a sign along the lines of "This is registered slope AD-PQ123765. If you see anything wrong with this slope, please call district slope management at 1234 8765."The logo on the right is for the Civil Engineering and Development Department.2017-04-15T14:30:18Z via datamost.com Web To: Public CC: Followers
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git-ssb's permissionless model has an interesting consequence: anybody can push to anybody else's git repository. Coming from a GitHub background this probably sounds like madness, but folks on SSB have been using this model with good success.
Why yes it does. If it's been working well so far, I'd attribute that to the fact that not many people know about git-ssb. This is probably something that will have to become an option in the future.2017-04-12T23:18:46Z via datamost.com Web To: Public CC: Followers
The demoscene is a sub-epoch of the anthropocene.2017-04-11T01:35:26Z via AndStatus To: Public
Ten minutes in Hong Kong, still in airport terminal with A/C. Already starting to sweat. Yup, this is how it's going to be now.
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A minute of silence at an international airport is quite a powerful thing.
Also, quite a lot of very visible nice men and women with automatic rifles here today.2017-04-07T19:12:16Z via datamost.com Web To: joeyh, Public CC: Followers
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YouTube is such a treasure trove. Another live Mike Oldfield performance I haven't seen/heard before. I love his meticulously edited and engineered studio albums, but once you know them by heart it's also cool to hear what they can and can't reproduce live, and what variations they make on them.
Ommadawn live at the Gateway Theatre Edinburgh in 1980 (incomplete)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvNt4D2eB9I2017-04-04T15:02:35Z via datamost.com Web To: Public CC: Followers
Here's what zero-knowledge is.
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/11/27/zero-knowledge-proofs-illustrated-primer/
It's an amazing and very specific cryptographic model where I can, say, prove to you that I have transfered 1 coin out of my Zcash wallet, without telling you what my wallet is and how much I have left:
https://z.cash/support/faq.html#what-is-a-zero-knowledge-proof
SpiderOak? Not zero knowledge. ZK does not mean "We don't have your keys". And SpiderOak even has your keys sometimes, if you ask them to. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/17/edward-snowden-dropbox-privacy-spideroak
"Grow your ideas together with shared documents while Zero Knowledge technology secures your privacy; even from us."
https://cryptpad.fr/
Raaa! Not ZK. #cryptpad doesn't have your keys. That's it. It's completely unrelated to zero-knowledge proofs, it's just an edit sequence on a blockchain, secured by a symmetric key that you provide in the fragment so it never reaches the server. Buzzword compliant. Just not that buzzword.
Hacker News has more information on why cryptpad.fr shouldn't use a blockchain, because other buzzwords would be more applicable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13735814
No wait, actually it isn't a blockchain either. Wrong buzzword again. No proof-of-work, just an append-only log of operational transforms with some way of disambiguating who has the best log, and others will have to rebase on that.
And don't get me started on #javascriptcryptography. Maybe if you use this with some #unhosted model where the code is on #ipfs (and you access that through your local node, not through someone else's gateway) with a known signature, or you host the code yourself and load it over https, or you have a browser plugin that won't change under your feet. That would be something.
Yes yes, it was written by cjd of #cjdns, and #hyberboria is probably awesome. I almost tried it out. And cryptpad does have a load of interesting ideas. Try it out, play with it a bit.
But ultimately, the state it is in now, it's an interesting toy. Not a tool to protect you from the NSA. Not if you have anything of value to protect.
#zk #zeroknowledgeRebuttal: Language changes and get off your high horse and this is so zero knowledge.
Also consider your acting forces and attack scenarios. Which is fair, I guess.
https://blog.cryptpad.fr/2017/03/24/What-is-Zero-Knowledge/Still, if you are in Iran or China ... No matter how ethical your provider, that https connection with your javascript crypto can be MITMed at any time.2017-04-04T08:12:45Z via datamost.com Web To: Public CC: Followers
I wrote a long post on OStatus at http://viewer.scuttlebot.io/%25RrX2XQXg5VemP3txbK%2B3CvMiZ6cablCRohp5n8MdJaU%3D.sha256 in response to http://viewer.scuttlebot.io/%257dM2WU45jYchvv9royGNx%2FM0kECsBqhYYpa3STvIHPc%3D.sha256 .
