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It does seem odd though when you consider one person with 40x may have a completely different net than another.
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After you haven't heard from us since August, we are calling you with some news today. It is with a heavy heart that we have to announce that we have stopped working on the Wiretrustee CM4 SATA board. It was a very exciting time for all of us in the team during which we received a lot of support from all of you. Almost 10,000 followers of our Crowd Supply page show that we were not completely wrong.
But in the end, we don't see any improvements in the current situation of the global electronic components supply chain. So far, there's no telling when we might be able to offer you the board at an acceptable price.
To offer you at least something, we have decided to open-source all the design files that we created so far. You will find them soon on GitHub under the following link: https://github.com/wiretrustee/cm4-sata-board
In the meantime, we have fully dedicated ourselves to another project and further expanded the P2P network developed for the board. We will now continue to pursue this with full force and extend it with further functionalities to a full open-source alternative for traditional VPN.
We would be very happy if you support us in this project and leave us a star on GitHub. https://github.com/wiretrustee/wiretrustee
There are some protein/spike characteristics of this variant which alarm scientists who think it might evade vax-generated antibodies better--i.e. alpha/delta-targeting vax antibodies may provide less resistance to this one.
So on the one hand it //could be// worse than Delta but I am personally waiting for more data to flow out (esp. beyond SA).
Did pseudo "dry brine" by salting it lightly 48h before it's molten bath. Came out juicy and, more importantly for the skin lovers, crackly.
(from the announcement) in case you were wondering if this was some "simple" torrent usage or what...
> "In furtherance of its scheme, the Sparks Group fraudulently obtained copyrighted DVDs and Blu-Ray discs from wholesale distributors in advance of their retail release date by, among other things, making various misrepresentations to the wholesale distributors concerning the reasons that they were obtaining the discs prior to the retail release date."
[0] Full title being ``Ruhlman's Twenty: 20 Techniques, 100 Recipes, A Cook's Manifesto (The Science of Cooking, Culinary Books, Chef Cookbooks, Cooking Techniques Book)``
[0] For the uninitiated: https://cryptopals.com, which is of the parent's and collaborators' creation!
Ninja edit to add: This is all in good fun, recognizing that cryptopals focuses on real-world crypto that actually is used today!
[0] https://status.coinbase.com as of 13:51 UTC status was "intermittent downtime" and "delayed withdrawals"
ETA: this is based on the open source code which may be modified, userland daemon status, /dev/tap usage... Portability... etc.
In any case - tinc is excellent
Interesting observation, in any case.
I do not know.
Apparently today we consume 100% of our energy (hah!) for GWP of 78 trillion (nominal) [1]. So 2% for 2 trillion would actually appear to be more efficient. But again, I am not sure if this definition is even real, nor does this math apply.
Maybe this is up there with bitcoin "market cap" or "price to earnings" terminology... :|
There are certainly patterns in the environment (maybe marketplace) which are repetitive and reminiscent of the early days. Confusion around price is one. Two viscerally opposed schools-of-thought is another.
One thing I think, though, that has suffered is the availability of information assessing the market structure or environment on it's merits/deficiencies without bias. This is likely hard to achieve, in general, but these days you cannot find reliable news without being sucked in to the swirl. Coindesk is pulling a CNBC-of-crypto, articles flying out every hour with opposing themes. I totally understand the model, captivating the audience, but it makes it hard to observe what's happening fundamentally (without having a grasp on the core narrative).
I continue to follow, in a casual way, but as I said continuously impressed by how the environment remains young -- trends from '13 persist to '17 and probably '18 (still young!).
Although, in some ways, we've been here for a while. Maybe less-so for individuals but for corporations, whom the law generally treats with a degree of "individual" rights (IANAL), it's long been that an indictment is worse than a conviction. After an indictment, clients turn away -> revenue flees -> shutters.
What's scary is an indictment is, in theory (under fair application of the principles of law), is more severe than a simple arrest. If we're living in a system (US) where a simple arrest results in a database entry which can result in the end of your productive life, we're living in a... [up to the reader to determine the severity]
Ultimately, the power of gov't to drop charges after such a consequence (firing) is powerful and unfair to the individual. Indeed.
Further, I suppose, there's an argument for counterfeiting of bills being legally interpreted simply as their production even without the misrepresentation bit. This'll lead me on a merry chase, I'm sure.
But long-term, ordinary Canadians living in these properties stand to make out alright (indeed - assuming this is not a long-term depression in prices). They get their utility out of the property (if city rents are 2-3K/mo for a 2 bedroom, that's 480K over 20 years in "cost of renting the space" which they don't end up incurring).
I cannot speak for Vancouver, but scenarios in the US where cities saw non-trivial % declines had those % returned in-kind within a decade. So we're seeing short-term losses, it will impact folks selling today or tomorrow, but not in 10 years (as I've caveat-ed along the way: probably).
So, in 2016 dollars we're talking $5bn for their core web business vs. 50bn+ (2016 dollars) for the 2008 MSFT offer.
As I am a student... The hours can be very weird. I can walk around my room aimlessly, repeatedly, not capable of doing a single thing for entire hours. But then I sit down at my desk and churn out a few hundred lines of code and write up a report that uses the results of that code. "In-the-zone" can be anything from 3 hours to 6 consecutively, and what triggers it I do not know.
Some of my compatriots feel the need to fool themselves into working 12+ hours a day on their assorted homework/code-work... I try not to do this, and generally I'm very low-stress, because I know when I need to be I crank out pages upon pages of (hopefully high quality) empirical work (assuming I have the data). It's much less frazzling than "omg I can't see my friends or chill for even an hour for coffee... Because I have an exam on Monday". An hour never killed anyone :D
Just my 0.02
You may not have had blurry vision... But your attitude may have been as if you did have blurry vision. Oh there's no big colorful button? X. Oh this sight is monotone? Boring. X.
His points are prescient, if exaggerated.
If you have conviction BTC will be back then of course you'd get in now. But people thought getting in at 600 was a deal at one time... Look where we are. Those people aren't too pleased if they had conviction it was going to 1000 again.
If volatility has taught us anything, it is to be wary. Volatility means up-swings and down-swings. Perhaps the past year was just an up-swing and we're doing some mean-reversion. It's foolish to make blanket statements.
But alas, it is not a technical reason. Nor even a product oriented one. It is a political statement regarding the head of the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation. So he made a mistake. Once. Maybe many times. That's his personal dealings, and while one may dislike Eich personally for this, and one may be inclined to not vote for Eich in, say, a public election, I find it absurd to protest a product that has but a tenuous connection to the man.
Firefox is, has been, and probably will be for a long time into the future (we hope) a product of many hardworking people, perhaps the least of which is the CEO, so far removed from the product we all know and (some) love. The speed, the engineering... Has nothing to do with Eich. He drives the overall vision of the foundation, naturally, as CEOs do. Does his personal preference/mistake mean he's going to destroy Firefox? No. Does it even mean he will destroy Mozilla with his personal viewpoint on social issues? Probably not. Does it mean he a "bad" guy? Well, on the whole one is inclined to say no, although it will and is argued he has a character flaw, this may be true.
The philosophy of dropping one of the most widely use browsers (outside of corporate environments) simply due to one man's one-time view... Seem absurd.
(I've tried my best to avoid putting my own opinion on his viewpoint in here, but perhaps he's made a mistake or two in the past. Given the amount of criticism recently, this much is clear, now.)
But I can outline the two they discussed. The first is a "complex attack", which basically consists of doing things that make the server overload itself (repeatedly handshaking SSL, etc.), and that would be mitigated to some extent by reducing the complexity of the site (i.e. you can't SSL handshake with a server that only knows HTTP). Similarly, dynamic content could be an attack surface, so static content would make it more difficult to use such a complexity attack.
The other type of attack, a simple bandwidth attack, doesn't care if your server is a top-of-the-line quad-chip Xeon server or an RPi in your basement, because all it does is exploit the bottleneck that is bandwidth. This attack just pumps packets like mad in your direction, and your network will likely become congested (and eventually fail) at some level other than your server (i.e. router level, firewall can't handle 100 Gb/s so the packets never even make it to your server).
So, in light of the second there, DDoS'ing static content is just as easy as DDoS'ing dynamic content sites, as long as you're using a bandwidth type attack.
I encourage you to read the blog post when the site is back up, it's definitely worth a read!
He's just shifted over to a new platform, as you likely would've understood from reading the article. And he explicitly states, as quoted, that comments will be back... Unsure how irony computes in this circumstance.
You'd need to basically never transmit the data, transmission automatically implies there is something there. If you didn't transmit, just used the data locally... And it appeared random, you'd have a pretty solid case for "they can't know". But if you slip up just once it's all over. They know.
This would emphasize the need to always be cautious in your use of cryptosystems, since you cannot simply claim "oh my data is Truecrypt'd". That will not save you from everything by itself. But if you look into the documentation, Truecrypt itself warns you about using it, and the threat model is very careful in defining what steps you need to take to adequately protect your data with Truecrypt.
It's one of those things where for most people, just a file-volume (the simplest kind where it's just a file that can be mounted as a block device), will do fine. The write-to-disk wouldn't happen very often, and to lose your data to a thief would require both the unlikely "OS dumped the memory to disk" (meaning the OS doesn't respect the flags TC puts on that memory), AND on top of that "a thief stole your laptop/desktop/external". If your adversary is organized crime, a law enforcement agency, or some other state-like actor with heavy-duty resources and specifically wants y-o-u... Then you'll need to be very careful and use a full disk encryption solution, or rather just not use a computer.
Know your tools. Know your adversary. Sleep a little easier knowing both. Or turn paranoid.