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mikemokaon Twitter's Brand Toolkit?

not a really thought out rebranding apparently

mikemokaon Muse: Text-to-Image Generation via Masked Generative Transformers

Here is an available implementation:

https://github.com/lucidrains/muse-maskgit-pytorch

mikemokaon The world must cooperate to avoid colliding satellites and space debris

an interesting take:

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/05/26/solving-space-junk...

mikemokaon The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company

OT but always related to a more universal access to medicines:

an opensource covid-19 vaccine is now in progress (supported by Harvard University and the Government of India)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25915546

mikemokaon Open Source Covid Vaccine

Supported by the Harvard School of Medicine and the Government of India, they seem to be close to launching multiple phase 3 COVID-19 vaccine trials

More information here:

https://www.ospfound.org/open-source-covid-19-vaccine.html

https://consano.org/projects/openvax-open-source-vaccines-fo...

https://theconversation.com/covid-19-vaccines-open-source-li...

mikemokaon Paradox-free time travel is theoretically possible

what if he goes back in time to the moment before leaving and disintegrates the time machine?

if selfconsistency is right it makes me wonder if a time traveler can actually be interacting with the past around him

mikemokaon Bill Gates-Backed Carbon Capture Plant Does the Work of 40M Trees

"they release pure carbon dioxide which can be stored underground or used to create products like...fuels"

sounds really smart indeed

ps. they address this issue citing that they would need more federal funding to bury more co2 underground instead of using it for making fuels carbon neutral..it's so hard to see that for 100$ now we would sacrifice our very own life if somebody doesn't pay us $150 to do otherwise

mikemokaon FBI agent accidentally reveals own 8chan posts

All those Putin memes you might find are not accidental either and came earlier..Russia has a long history of this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_web_brigades

mikemokaon Darling – macOS Translation Layer for Linux

for reference a link to the previous conversation is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12854895

mikemokaon Smartphones, Electric Cars and Child Labour

The project https://www.fairphone.com/en/ looks like is trying to tackle the issue of sustainability of materials at least in regards of the mobile industry

mikemokaon Show HN: Nevod is easier and faster than RegExp

regex is quite powerful and free anyway, I would consider some of these opensource tools to tackle its complexity:

http://regex.inginf.units.it/ http://buildregex.com/ https://regexr.com/

mikemokaon Web Brigades

more interesting information on the russian wikipedia page:

https://goo.gl/f51mer (automatic translation)

mikemokaon Darling – MacOS translation layer for Linux

I hope more visibility can help, you can try to highlight more the need for contributions in the project homepage and in the github readme maybe

mikemokaon The No More Ransom Project

About prevention there is something more that I am not sure has been mentioned, some tools are taking a new, broader approach to the problem, which is to constantly monitor for encrypted files and stop the associated processes, this way often limiting the loss to a few files, these are the links:

Criptostalker https://github.com/unixist/cryptostalker

Ransomwhere (macOS) https://objective-see.com/products/ransomwhere.html

Some theoretical information on this approach:

http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~traynor/papers/scaife-icdcs16.pdf

mikemokaon How Ransomware era might finally end

all the links in a clickable fashion:

Linux/Windows: https://github.com/unixist/cryptostalker

OS X: https://objective-see.com/products/ransomwhere.html

Paper: http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~traynor/papers/scaife-icdcs16.pdf

mikemokaon Did Google Manipulate Search for Hillary? [video]

episodes like this are the most evident reasons why we need a distributed internet search engine in our future

mikemokaon TTIP Documents Revealed

"A random Company invests in a country, sets up a nice subsidiary starts doing business, everything is legal. But the country (the State) sees that it's taking up the market, uh-oh,"

when this has been done and when it has happened not in the interest of public well being? on the other hand here is an example of what some corporations actually do in the present https://youtu.be/6UsHHOCH4q8?t=6m54s

mikemokaon Webtorrent – BitTorrent over WebRTC

"a browser-based WebTorrent client or "web peer" can only connect to other clients that support WebTorrent/WebRTC"

until every torrent client supports it is not as useful as it could potentially be

mikemokaon XcodeGhost Q&A

So Apple users are supposed to be safe because Apple uses just static analysis tools to review the apps before publishing?

mikemokaon Security researcher claimed to hack, control plane in flight

an exaggeration? that's what I thought at first but read the comments...

mikemokaon [dead]

I think we have a name probably, beside the press release the domain www.teslaenergy.com is owned by Tesla Motors ( http://whois.domaintools.com/teslaenergy.com ) and it redirects to teslamotors.com as of now.

mikemokaon Virtually all TV comedies, from Seinfeld to South Park, follow a simple formula

there is no question a framework of reference might be used, it has been used for fairy tales as well actually http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Propp

mikemokaon Wifi: “beamforming” only begins to describe it

Steve Perlman's take on MIMO:

http://www.rearden.com/DIDO/DIDO_White_Paper_110727.pdf

as cited also in this talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QxrQnJCXKo

mikemokaon Why the Security of USB Is Fundamentally Broken

yes I agree that this looks like a good step, vendors should also probably release some tools to verify the integrity of their firmwares if possible.

mikemokaon Snabb Switch – A toolkit for solving novel problems in networking

this is a very interesting remark, it would be nice to find some more explorations of this concept applied to current web servers

mikemokaon [dead]

I have spotted this brand in Google Cardboard's presentation, the project is quite interesting actually..

mikemokaon Show HN: Instant confirmation via Bitcoin payment protocol

Hi Lawrence,

probably that is the right step toward solving the transaction speed,albeit by a slightly more centralized workaround,it reminds me of a comment I made almost a year from now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6130813

great job ;)

mikemokaon Drop Dropbox

Dear everyone,

I think we should not forget about this slide: http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/PRISM-...

so basically this move, in my opinion, just means that dropbox has been added to that very list and there is no point in using other providers shown as an alternative (e.g. google) or even just hope that dropbox will care more about privacy after she steps down eventually.