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qz3on Show HN: NoKey, a Distributed Password Manager Without a Master Password

I love the Idea, and I think it's pretty smart. When I'm doing work on my laptop, I always have my phone nearby. I think it's unlikely that both of them are compromised or stolen simultaneously.

Also, the Android app requires no device permissions, haven't seen that in a while.

qz3on SourceForge's GitHub Importer

You're obviously very frustrated by how people see the service, but you can't blame them.

The GIMP incident made pretty big news, and for many people, the name "SourceForge" will stay equivalent to a malware-injecting host. Anyone who decided to keep the name should have anticipated that.

qz3on Godot gets a brand new animation editor with cinematic support

Yes, it really is. Although I had absolutely no intentions of creating a game, I tried it out a few months back just because it's such a well-made project with an active community.

qz3on I’m Nat Friedman, Future CEO of GitHub. AMA

An online toolchain would be a nice concept in theory, but at least on my laptop, performance is still an issue.

Online IDEs still eat up a lot more resources.

qz3on Performance Reviews Are a Waste of Time

It may be increasingly hard to find because employees see things differently now. It's a job market. My employer wants me to put in overtime and go out of my way to improve the company? Great, let's go. But I demand appropriate compensation.

I think that's a reasonable position. My company treats me as a human resource, I treat my company like my client who writes checks for the work I put in.

qz3on Caffeine dosing strategies to optimize alertness during sleep loss

What I find interesting is that people who like those mate drinks are quite brand loyal (at least in my experience).

I've tried at least 10 different brands since I had my first Club Mate 15 years ago, and I hated every single one of them. A few friends hate Club Mate and only like a single other brand.

qz3on Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigate energy efficiency

Let's hope this takes off and leads to regulating the oceans.

For example: industrial, unregulated fishing destroys coral reefs every day. They are thousands of years old and won't come back.

qz3on An Open Licensing Organization for Open Source Software

I'd like a dead-simple and globally accessible way of donating.

Like github/gitlab/etc allowing to easily deposit money via CC, Paysafecard, Google Wallet et al. The projects could have a "donate" button by default.

I often clone and browse projects and absolutely wouldn't hesitate to donate a few dollars here and there if it's just a click away.

qz3on An Open Licensing Organization for Open Source Software

Godot engine has hired full-time developers through Patreon backing.

https://www.patreon.com/godotengine

qz3on Brussels says new GDPR law doesn't apply to EU

The burden of compliance lead to many businesses scrambling to meet the deadline or else they would pay fines up to £17.5million (€20million).

I can't hear this anymore.

qz3on Building a YouTube MP3 Downloader with Exodus, FFmpeg, and AWS Lambda

Downloading YouTube files is ridiculously simple.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XxXxXx&layout=mobile&ajax=1

There you have all stream files in a nice json format, which means opus and m4a for audio files.

I have a python project which is very quick to gather metadata, because I wanted to have a responsive YouTube app without using the browser. Had no time for it recently, though.

qz3on GDPR: US news sites unavailable to EU users over data protection rules

And how can be a business sustainable in this way?

By not building their entire business around ads and tracking.

qz3on Giant predatory worms invaded France, but scientists just noticed them

> A colleague once tried to put a flatworm in his mouth, Justine recounted. The man still describes it as “one of the worst experiences of his life.”

You just gotta love scientists.

qz3on GDPR: Removing Monal from the EU

Is safety a real concern here? I would have never viewed Kinder Eggs as dangerous in any way.

I haven't found a single case of a child getting hurt in Germany. Only news reports about them being unhealthy (big surprise).

qz3on The .app domain is now availiable

I'm willing to invest if you also incorporate a neural network. HMU

qz3on China smartphone market suffers hard-landing, shipments decline 21% in Q1 2018

I think it depends on the income. But, considering many people buy regular watches costing 20 times more, I wouldn't see an Apple watch as a status symbol either.

qz3on Seven Puzzles You Think You Must Not Have Heard Correctly (2006) [pdf]

Very interesting, but incredibly complex. I'm tempted to make a python implementation to play around with for better understanding.

qz3on MrWint's GBC Pokémon: Yellow Version “Arbitrary Code Execution” (2017)

There was a time where is discovered the speedrun and tas communities and binge-watched everything it has to offer. I was constantly amazed by what the players achieved, and I especially liked the ones where the gap between tas and human player closes.

SethBling made an elaborate, frame-perfect glitch exploit run of Super Mario World where he warps from the first level to the end credits - absolutely unbelievable.

https://youtu.be/14wqBA5Q1yc

qz3on 7-Zip: From Uninitialized Memory to Remote Code Execution

Yes, they are. I just removed p7zip from my arch box for now. Looking at the project, I think it may take a while to get up to 18.05

qz3on I've spent the last two years building a new email client

On a desktop app, you can see what kind of request the program makes and which servers it contacts. With a webapp, you'll never know what the app does.

qz3on Oh GDPR, what have you done

Well, it's his fault, because he apparently doesn't understand how the GDPR works.

qz3on Illegal prime

I always felt that that "illegal numbers" is a misunderstanding of data.

There are no illegal numbers. But if you provide context, they can become illegal data. Let's take child pornography for an example, because that's universally accepted as illegal. I could come up with a formula which translates a huge number into a bitmap. I could post the number (i.e. the input for the formula) online, because it is absolutely meaningless to anyone else. But when I publish my formula, it is no longer a number. It's data which can be interpreted as something meaningful, an image.

Everything is just a number without context.