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Globz

251 karma · joined August 7, 2013

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Globz··on SHA-1 collider: Make your own colliding PDFs
Damn that didn't take long to go from $100K to carry out this attack to a single day to offer a website for SHA1 collision as a service...
Globz··on Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory
I was planning on moving my website over DigitalOcean and I now http://www.doesitusecloudflare.com/?url=www.digitalocean.com is telling me that they are affected by cloudbleed, I guess I should wait it out...
Globz··on Fasting leads to stress resistance, self-renewal, and regeneration (2014)
I have been doing this since forever...never knew it was called fasting! Ok sometimes I will eat after 8pm on rare occasions.
Globz··on Google fixes a problem with AMP, lets you view and share publisher’s own links
Most of the time if the main site is already crippled to death I am positive you won't see an AMP version and they probably don't care about performance at all by cramming a thousand ads/JS files in a single page.

Most decent website are already fast on mobile, I really don't get all the fuzz about AMP when in reality the small margin you gain from using it is almost non comparable to the real website.

What is considered fast or slow at this point? I can barely see the difference so why go through all this hassle just to please Google?

Its not that I hate it but their approach to page optimization is just wrong but lets just keep feeding the beast.

Globz··on How Discord Stores Billions of Messages Using Cassandra
I love Discord and use it on a daily basis, one of our main concern with my gaming group is the voice latency compared to TS, Mumble or Ventrilo but this is mainly due to the inability to host your own server.

One of the big missing feature we would like to have in Discord is the ability to assign special permission to our groups leader so they can communicate over voice chat to other other group leaders in other channels (global voice chat).

When we play PVP MMO's and have 40+ users all in the same channel calling shots its impossible to coordinate properly.

What we normally do is split the group in 4 so 10 players in 4 different channels and each group leaders are calling shots independently BUT can also communicate via voice chat to other group leaders. Basically there's a global voice chat for group leaders that no one else can hear but them.

Other than that Discord is amazing!

Globz··on PSA: LastPass Does Not Encrypt Everything in Your Vault
Its a bit of extra work to get my passwords but my entire "internet identity" is stored there so I don't mind the paranoid security.
Globz··on PSA: LastPass Does Not Encrypt Everything in Your Vault
I put my keepass in a veracrypt container and sync it over dropbox, then you can retrieve it on your phone.
Globz··on PSA: LastPass Does Not Encrypt Everything in Your Vault
They can, I don't see why they chose the current implementation over this one, somehow this small leak can let them build a database of browsing habits and target users who use x website...hmmm
Globz··on The Impacts of Video Games on Cognition (2015) [pdf]
F2P is a different approach to gaming where you play the game for Free so no monthly fees and most of the time no need to buy the game, this way you can attract even more player.

Here's a quick example for an F2P MMO with PVP and the difference between both models :

You can have F2P (free to play) games where there's no P2W, meaning the progression is EQUAL for paying and non paying players, the only difference is that you can buy aesthetic items which change how you look, buy extra storage space,etc but give no real advantage other than looking cool or giving you very small benefits.

In P2W model, the way to progress through the game is that you can purchase in-game currency with real money and unlock special items , stronger powers, blessed items (if you die in PVP you won't lose everything), experience booster while leveling your character,etc these items give you an edge over non paying players, so if you stack all the paying items you basically win every fights against non paying players. Therefore no matter what you do in this game you MUST pay to compete.

Globz··on Loading Chrome Extensions in Brave
Why Brave does not enable DNT by default?
Globz··on Battery with inbuilt 'fire extinguisher' developed
If only they could do this for 18650 batteries which goes into vaping device that would be great, so many careless users blow up their face while vaping because they have no knowledge of battery safety or ohm law when building their coils.
Globz··on Uber’s self-driving cars start picking up passengers in San Francisco
What happen when you are the first on the road with no tracks to follow from previous cars and suddenly it turns into a blizzard/zero visibility? I am guessing the car can pull over and turn on emergency flasher...I don't know but to me I believe a Human will always have to take over at some point because you never know what mother nature will throw at you, keep in mind I am talking about a future where we aim for 100% autonomous car.
Globz··on Uber’s self-driving cars start picking up passengers in San Francisco
As a Canadian, I wonder how anyone in this industry can create an autonomous vehicle that can safely drive during winter?
Globz··on Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator
I have the same problem with the word dépôt it will render as dpt instead.
Globz··on Microsoft Kills off ISVs by Foisting Its Own Products That Are No Better
I have been running MBAM (free version, scan only)/MSE for years without ANY issues, not a single virus on any of my windows machine.

I can't understand the need for bloatware aka "anti-virus", if you take the time to educate the users and train him to stop clicking and installing whatever pops up in their screen then they can pretty much rely on MSE and have a clear mind.

Obviously MSE might not detect EVERYTHING but basic education on how to treat spam/advertisement/phishing goes a long way.

Globz··on Desktop Notifications for console logs in browser
Great job, really useful!
Globz··on How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016
Damn I feel so far away from reality..I am still using vanilla JS (plain old JS not the framework) & JQuery....yet I have no problem.
Globz··on [dead]
Yeah I believe this is the best approach, in my case I would have never seen the warning from the console, the only way I would have known that this is no longer valid in Chrome is for Google to stop serving my version of JQuery + my fail over failing on me for using a bad practice.

Thank you!

Globz··on [dead]
So this is no longer valid ?

    <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <script>
       if(!window.jQuery) {
            document.write('<script src="../lib/js/jquery-2.1.1.min.js"><\/script>')
         }
    </script>
Globz··on Computer Vision Syndrome
Flux + EyeLeo is the way to go for me, I know my job already damaged my eyes but this helps reduce head aches and dry eyes.
Globz··on Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘record’ cyberattack
At this scale it must also cost a ton of money to carry out this attack, I wonder if there's a vulnerability that we don't know about that let them do this so easily?
Globz··on Why are Adults so busy?
Trello is life and it is my goto to-do list!
Globz··on Falcon – a Chrome extension for full text browsing history search
Very nice work, this will be useful in my day to day browsing for sure!
Globz··on Show HN: OverThrown – A multiplayer turn based strategy game
I recommend a game mode where you can check a box and send a notification to the server that you completed your turn. If all 50 players checked their turn then automatically update the server move on to next round.
Globz··on Show HN: OverThrown – A multiplayer turn based strategy game
Very nice game, I just started on game 46, I can't wait to get further into it.

Also great job on the UI, everything is smooth and easy to understand.

Globz··on You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video]
Great video, it actually reminded me of CTRL+D!

One of my many assignments at my job is to work with excel on a weekly basis exporting data dumps from MYSQL to excel ranging from 50k to 100k rows.

At first it was a daunting task but once I learned how to build some solid templates then all I had to do was to dump the data set into a tab and let the formulas do the work, everything was already formatted so I could just start validating the data then email it to the sales team for further analysis.

If you take the time to analyze your data sets and get to know how to handle each type of data then you can build some really solid template in a fairly short amount of time.

I try to avoid using excel as much as possible but this damn thing is so deeply rooted into the "business analyst" world that you can't really escape it so this is why I told myself that I would be better off mastering it and build solid reporting templates instead of trying to change their mind about using alternative software.

On a side note we started using WebFocus... that's another monster to tame...

Globz··on How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension featuring 24k+ users
I get this error when I try to sign-up : Error fetching data. Please try again later.
Globz··on Show HN: I made a site that searches and compares travel info of 230+ countries
This is awesome and filled with awesome tips!! Very nice!
Globz··on FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems
Publishing guidance around best practice should be mandatory when dealing with government infrastructure, these election systems are not "low level" target they can potentially influence the course of history if they are rigged.
Globz··on FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems
They could at least provide help to properly secure the state election systems instead of reacting after a breach. Why not try to secure the systems to a higher standard and be proactive?
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