piracykills

From what I've read, a single drink is usually good for sleep, 2 or 3 is too much and will do more harm than good. Wikipedia currently agrees with me, but the reference is from 1980, so not sure that's the best available information these days...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_use_and_sleep#Alcohol_...

How they do this is basically to send google.com in the TLS SNI then when they get to the HTTP level send

Host: signal.org

This will only work with compatible servers. In Signal's case they use AppEngine which is behind Google's network and the servers for google.com are able to connect to their app servers when given the appropriate Host header.

I don't think so - over-prescription of opioids and more common usage of fentanyl seem to the be the key factors in the death increases. Nothing to do with underlying socioeconomic conditions nor societal problems. I don't understand how you're making that leap - care to elaborate?

That some tiny portion of the deaths in your country are from opioid overdoses? People voluntarily injecting themselves with drugs and fucking up? Why exactly does this concern you so much? It's hard to see it as representative of a larger systemic problem beyond the American drug enforcement and medical systems resulting in over-prescription of opioids and fenantly entering common usage. Not much beyond that, is there? I don't see a larger trend to extrapolate from that.

I'd advise reading the article I linked, the increases are far from modest in many cases.

I'll agree with you on the environmental issues, but I think we're well on the way to solving those too and largely via the same mechanisms, Chinese solar is close to pushing coal out of business on price. That's not to say there's no role for regulation in the environmental direction though, I certainly think there probably should be, but how to do so globally and fairly is a bit of a catastrophe.

That's a very niche problem in comparison - we're talking hundreds of millions of people leaving poverty across the globe compared to under hundreds of thousands dying of opioid overdoses. Perhaps it's because I'm not American, but I just don't find it that concerning when put into the larger picture.

There was a whole push for netbooks like the Asus EEE PC that happened around the same time as the original XO.

I don't think so, reading real statistics on this kind of thing instead of alarmist and politically slanted headlines paints a very different picture of how the world is doing.

https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty

Stupid clickbait.

Yeah, I managed to miss a digit when I ran the numbers myself so I was off by an order of magnitude when I wrote my post. Glad you checked it. Fucking hilarious what these guys will say - of course, I think that's a goal, to shock anyone remotely reasonable or who even tries to do back of the envelope math out of interest in it.

Are suspicions really enough to put you into illegal territory here?

If so it'd be a very hard crime to prosecute as unless you were working for them or something it's very hard to prove you aren't just another victim.

> >6-7% annual returns

I wouldn't say quite that low, even S&P averages are often higher than that.

But 48% monthly is going to be something like a >1000% yearly interest rate. You really don't get much more of a dead giveaway than that, at that point you're either a fool or you're gambling and hoping you get out before a greater fool does.

They've already managed to use CRISPR to give color blind primates their full vision back...

http://www.neitzvision.com/research/gene-therapy/

They might just be looking for some way to differentiate themselves on iOS given Apple's policy of not allowing 3rd party rendering engines.

How widely deployed is that display stream compression?

Looking for a way to do better remote access to Linux boxes - Microsoft's RDP completely nails it on Windows, I used to quite like NX, but don't hear much about it these days, how do you find x2go, particularly from a server configuration perspective?

Fun fact - "DivX ;-)" was a cracked version of the Microsoft MPEG4 decoder which was originally restricted to only play in ASF containers and has nothing to do with DivX the company which came later.

For more history on this, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DivX#History

> My hosting provider eventually took it down, because URL redirectors can be used for phishing.

What provider was this? I'm going to make sure to never use them. That's not a valid reason at all to take someone's site down, even if it's being actively abused you notify them first and notify them many times before even considering booting them as a customer.

I think about 3 times a week I get emails from a new cryptocurrency upstart that I've never heard of but which is using either the hacked Mt.Gox or BTC-e list.

The practices these people are using are scummy as fuck.

Doesn't scrypt suffer from much of the same parameter selection issues? I know I've had to choose some fairly obtuse values when using scrypt for login in a webapp.

In fact, taking a quick look again I find Argon2's "memorySizeKB" and "iterations" make much more sense to me than scrypt's "CostFactor" and "BlockSizeFactor" parameters as it's a lot clearer what's being impacted. I agree with the i-vs-d confusion, but in most cases I think using argon2id as you mentioned should resolve the contention as is already the suggested default in the IETF draft.

I suppose you're right, not necessarily between the two parties but between US citizens and each other, for which the parties are sometimes used as a proxy - you see lots of promotion of black rights groups with fringe views and far-right groups with thinly or completely unveiled racist views. Just little tricks that will hook a small number of people, but make the overall picture you see on TV look much worse than it is on average.

I'm under the impression Argon2 is at least marginally better than scrypt as it has heavily analyzed side channel mitigations and such. Is scrypt better in some other way?

Much of it seems to more be designed to sew discord between the parties than to directly influence the election.

Mission accomplished I guess.

Curious - why is argon2 still second to scrypt on this list?

I'd also question the backup solution, I think Restic is a better option due to its flexibility, I can do cheap backups to B2 and fairly reputable people seem to be approving of its cryptography:

https://blog.filippo.io/restic-cryptography/

If anyone sees a reason why Tarsnap would be better (other than Percival's brand), I'd be quite interested.

If you read the details of that decision, they're pretty interesting - they only did it because people were claiming CloudFlare were supporting their ideas.

Matthew Prince basically said "this is dangerous" and a month or two later that exact decision was being used against them in court to take down a copyright infringer.

Not saying one way or another about it being a good or bad decision, but they definitely knew they were setting a scary precedent when they did it.

Not so sure, I saved over $1200 this year in about 1 hour of research and 1 hour of phone calls and live chats... my time is definitely not worth $600/hr.

Sure, you can sync to your own drives or to several commercial storage providers, but it's not as cheap as it should be. We're talking geographically distributed storage on an open marketplace, cryptographically enforced for extremely cheap prices.

Wasabi and B2 are pretty much the only commercial services which could even attempt to compete on price with something like Sia today (Filecoin and others in the future potentially), but they're only in single DCs and if they lose your data you have no one to go after. In the cryptocurrency-based systems, this is all automated.

For as many incredibly stupid and useless applications of blockchains as there are, this isn't one of them in my opinion. It may not be unique, but it's actually something that could have a competitive edge over a centralized service.

Yeah, I mean it only makes sense. It's about price discrimination - they don't want to give you a discount if you're willing to pay full price, same reason companies send out coupons or mobile app offers. They want to offer discounts only to bargain hunters and those who otherwise wouldn't be able to afford the service because that's where it's worth spending the money for them.

If you're not already, find yourself a local deals site - it can really help you avoid getting screwed over by stuff like this. You can also wind up staying if you're willing to call your current provider back and say "here's what they're offering, beat it or I'm leaving".

There are brushes that don't use bristles. For example: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/B073VHLQNW/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?ie=U...

It's likely quite profitable, they don't buy bandwidth from Amazon, they get a few colo'd machines or dedicated servers in many DCs - you can get dedicated gigabit lines in several DCs for a few hundred a month. Most subscribers only use the service occasionally and won't place that much load on it.