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lemonforeston Hacker News [keybase] proof just broke

not for extraplanetary applications. keymicrometeorites has known compatibility issues.

lemonforeston Hacker News [keybase] proof just broke

It's just a mental construct such that if you know frank is really real and frank knows jenny is really real, it's fair to assume that jenny, who is frank has vouched for, is who she claims to be. But you aren't forced to trust that jenny is really jenny either.

Wiki usually does a better job of explaining stuff but I can always use the practice... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust

lemonforeston Prosthetic memory system successful in humans

This is neat to hear about. I've had episodic and reference memory issues since my youth so it'll be nice if that's actually a thing that'll benefit others in the same shoes. I can tell you quite assuredly that it sucks.

lemonforeston Medieval Lucky Charms

I was hoping to see medieval cereal but charms against poison is even better. Also, I'd been doing it all wrong; knees and bones. Who'd've thunk?

lemonforeston Microsoft stops providing security updates to PCs with no Anti-Virus software

Supposed to just be a stopgap measure. Also, there's a Google sheet floating about showing av providers that don't want to take on the responsibility of potentially foobaring the system if it conflicts with a non-av product.

lemonforeston Stupid Patent of the Month: LLC Gets a Patent on Sending Texts

Approve-bot for the patent office or workers that haven't been outside for 20+ years?

How does this even happen? BoA awarded atomic swap patent this month as well I'd read.

lemonforeston Learn crypto mining and cross chain atomic swaps

I saw this thing a few days ago where BOA was awarded a patent for basically atomic swap. Tweeted komodoplatform when I saw it but not a response so still curious how that will play out. If BoA is going to say that atomic swap falls under their patent and if they are subject to royalties.

https://t.co/EQp6fVXepA

lemonforeston Mathematical model reveals solution to sloshing coffee

I found it (almost), low temp microgravity environment!

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0011227501...

lemonforeston Now You Can Literally Get Fucked by the Price of Bitcoin

I'm not sure if this makes me sad or if it's just another nail in the coffin for humanity.

Either way, it's an overwhelming WTF people. Think I'll go with sad because many someones will have installed this and gone out into the past-the-front-door world :(

and, digging deeper, I found this https://cdn0.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2017/12...