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Syrup-tan

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Feel free to reach me at ~ syrup+hn at denpa dot moe
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Syrup-tan··on How a car works (2012)
There are also some great animations on how a 4-stroke engine works from animagraffs.com;

http://animagraffs.com/how-a-car-engine-works/

Syrup-tan··on Japan’s New Satellite Captures an Image of Earth Every Ten Minutes
I wrote a script which downloads the latest image in a large resolution[0]

If you can set your wallpaper from the commandline, or have the wallpaper refresh from an image on disk, you could use it for a live wallpaper.

I'm also going to have the scraper check if the image has changed every 10 minutes and have it update at [1] if it has, but the image will only be in 1,100px x 1,100px resolution.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9867655

[1] https://denpa.moe/~syrup/himawari8.png

Syrup-tan··on Japan’s New Satellite Captures an Image of Earth Every Ten Minutes
I wrote a simple shell script[0] to scrape and output the latest image.

It uses the tiles from their online satellite map[1], and can output images in increments of 1x1, 2x2, 4x4, 16x16 tiles (each tile being 550px by 550px). Here is an example with 2x2 [2]

If you have any suggestions or bugfixes, feel free to fork or comment.

EDIT: Also works for a single tile[3], also clarity.

[0] https://gist.github.com/Syrup-tan/1833ba1671c7017f0d59

[1] http://himawari8.nict.go.jp/

[2] https://denpa.moe/~syrup/himawari8.png

[3] https://denpa.moe/~syrup/himawari8-single.png

Syrup-tan··on CSRF protection bypass due to Google analytics and weird server cookie parsing
I wonder which party should pay the bounty in this case. He seems to have reported it to Twitter, however wouldn't it be Google's responsibility to fix this?

Seeing as how it's a combination of an issue in the web server parsing cookies, and the client setting malicious cookies, I'm not sure which party should be responsible for the bounty.

Syrup-tan··on Grooveshark Shuts Down
I hope playlist data wasn't part of the settlement, and that we will be able to recover it.

It would be detrimental to the artists to have some of their fans not be able to find them again, right? Perhaps record companies care less about the artists which are forgettable in the first place.

Syrup-tan··on Grooveshark Shuts Down
The site is just an image with small text, so I've transcribed it here;

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Dear music fans,

Today we are shutting down Grooveshark.

We started out nearly ten years ago with the goal of helping fans share and discover music. But despite the best of intentions, we made very serious mistakes. We failed to secure licenses from rights holders for the vast amount of music on the service.

That was wrong. We apologize. Without reservation.

As part of the settlement agreement with the major record companies, we have agreed to cease operations immediately, wipe clean all of the record companies’ copyrighted works and hand over ownership of this website, our mobile apps and intellectual property, including our patents and copyrights.

At the time of our launch, few music services provided the experience we wanted to offer - and think you deserve. Fortunately, that’s not longer the case. There are now hundreds of fan friendly, affordable services available for you to choose from, including Spotify, Deezer, Google Play, Beats Music, Rhapsody and Rdio, among many others.

If you love music and respect the artists, songwriters and everyone else who makes great music possible, use a licensed service that compensates artists and other rights holders. You can find out more about the many great services available where you live here: http://whymusicmatters.com/find-music.

It has been a privilege getting to know so many of you and enjoying music together. Thank you for being such passionate fans.

Yours in music, Your friends at Grooveshark April 30, 2015

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Source at https://denpa.moe/~syrup/grooveshark-notice.txt

Syrup-tan··on Project Oxford – An evolving set of APIs for natural data processing
The ``Adult Score'' and ``Racy Score''s seem to work rather well on drawn content[0][1]

[0] https://imgrush.com/26f8ec00a4b0

[1] (NSFW) https://imgrush.com/be7c4078c7a0

Syrup-tan··on Tesla Plans to Open Car Doors to All Hackers This Summer
Adding on the idea of a specific frequency; what if the car also sends a few ``honeypot'' signals at different frequencies, near the real frequency.

If the attack tries to amplify a given range, the honey pot signals will also be amplified, and the car can refuse to be opened.

Syrup-tan··on Developer attempting to monetize /r/thebutton by selling click script
The link was posted on /r/thebutton

https://www.reddit.com/r/thebutton/comments/32ss28

Syrup-tan··on NGINX Open Source: Reflecting Back and Looking Ahead
That's not how I read his comment, though re-reading his comment I see how you read it that way.

I read it as a list of hi-lights from the article, and I assume that's how he meant it to be read;

  - interesting things will move to the premium version
  - JS VM to power future versions
  - pluggable module API coming
Syrup-tan··on HTTPS Everywhere Version 5: Sixteen New Languages and Thousands of New Rules
There would have to be an exception for *.onion addresses in TBB, as they are already end-to-end encrypted over HTTP.
Syrup-tan··on Scaleway: Bare metal SSD ARM servers
Online Labs[0] turned into Scaleway.

There's a blog post about it at [1]

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[0] http://labs.online.net/ [1] https://blog.scaleway.com/2015/04/02/from-online-labs-to-sca...

Syrup-tan··on These Are the Top 20 US Accelerators
But YCombinator was mentioned, albeit as "Y Combinator" instead of "YCombinator" (Making search a bit painful)

>Notably absent in this year’s list are Y Combinator and RockHealth–both programs now classify themselves as seed funds rather than accelerators, and asked us to respect their evolution into a new model.

>This, of course, is not a statement about efficacy of those programs – based on the 2013 data submitted to the rankings team, Y Combinator would still have topped the list if they had not transitioned models.

Syrup-tan··on Git Hunt - Product Hunt for Github
I actually sent the developer an email about this with a patch.

I find it quite frustrating when this doesn't work.

Syrup-tan··on 42 as a Service
I'd like to see a Unikernel implementation, if we're going for lower level.

An FPGA with a full-blown TCP/IP stack would be cute, too.

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