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thisacctforreal··on Toddler Password – Get a secure password generated by a toddler
Note that a it’s an entirely different story with a “real” kdf like scrypt or bcrypt.

MD5 and SHA are specifically designed to be fast to compute, they shouldn’t be used for passphrases.

Figured I’d bring it up in case there’s still PHP floating around with the once-typical practice of MySQL + MD5.

thisacctforreal··on Temperature Conversion: Mental Calculation (2014)
FWIW iOS Search (swipe down from the middle of the Home screen) can do conversions too.

https://i.imgur.com/16AAqDG.png

thisacctforreal··on Show HN: Red pepper chef – distinguish parts of a red pepper to keep vs. discard
This is really cool, nice work.

Pairs nicely with the end-user programming post earlier[0]; maybe training neural nets will someday be possible from a spreadshet.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19469912

thisacctforreal··on Essential Image Optimization
AKA Canadian standards.

https://www.macleans.ca/society/technology/canadas-almost-th...

My grandfathered $140/month mobile plan has 14GB of data; 320MB is 70% of a day's bandwidth, or 2% of the month's.

If I wanted to add another GB I could accrue $100 in overages ($0.10/MB), or pay another $25/month. But Bell will charge for another month in advance if you change the current month's plan.

Strangely enough it was only $5/month to up it from 13GB to 14GB :<

All this despite being able to download at 7MB/s; I could blow my cap in half an hour, and another half hour would cost $1,400 if I didn't up the plan.

Edit: I use my cellphone's data heavily, but 20, 40, 50GB cable internet caps are common with a lot of people not understanding what that means for streaming video / downloading pictures.

thisacctforreal··on AirPods Are Disposable and Hard to Recycle (2016)
disposable != short lifespan
thisacctforreal··on x86 Bare Metal Examples
Ah, this guy! I found him through his stack overflow maybe a year ago, definitely cool.
thisacctforreal··on Nvidia's $99 Jetson Nano Is an AI Computer for DIY Enthusiasts
It would be good to know what bus the Ethernet talks on; with the Pi it's shared over the USB bus and it hampers the performance considerably.

For this reason I went with an Odroid for a small network storage system.

Edit: it has PCIe so it shouldn't be a problem.

thisacctforreal··on Vim Anti-Patterns (2012)
FWIW this article specifically is mainly for common traps (e.g. spamming arrow keys) in vanilla vim.
thisacctforreal··on Apple Watch detects irregular heart beat in large U.S. study
A fitbit might be a good match, my girlfriend's Alta HR lasts a handful of days between charges.

I bought it for her primarily for the hypnograms.

thisacctforreal··on Addressing Spotify’s Claims
I think it's somewhat frequent to have app submissions denied, but I haven't heard of Apple banning future submissions in the same way that I hear of Google permabanning developers.

I agree with Android it's slightly different because side loading is at least possible, but I doubt many people are going to find your widget if it's not on the play store.

thisacctforreal··on Elon Musk Tried to Destroy a Tesla Whistleblower
He talks about it very briefly at the end, but basically says it doesn't pass Occam's Razor: there are better ways to implement the hack which can't just be detected with visual inspection.
thisacctforreal··on Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox
I don't know, to me it doesn't seem like he's stopped regarding his users as dumb fucks.
thisacctforreal··on Facebook blames a server configuration change for yesterday’s outage
Wait, the law firm talks about their dealings over Facebook?
thisacctforreal··on Extracting Bitlocker Keys from a TPM
Ah I see, they can successfully protect asymmetric crypto but not symmetric.
thisacctforreal··on Extracting Bitlocker Keys from a TPM
Honestly it feels like splitting hairs, unless I'm misunderstanding something.

What is there to gain "cracking" the TPM itself, if you can get the keys fine by sniffing?

Apple's Secure Enclaves aren't vulnerable to sniffing, as the AES keys used for encryption live only in silicon, with access to use them granted to the Enclave.

The keys never exist in a software-readable form, even to the coveted Enclave firmware. Do TPMs offer this functionality, and Bitlocker needs to take advantage of it? Or do TPMs just not protect their keys against physical access?

thisacctforreal··on Google has added DuckDuckGo as a search engine option for Chrome users
Banged, shebang is #!
thisacctforreal··on U.S. to ground Boeing 737 Max 8
The idea of there being a layer of software between the pilot's intentions and the aircraft's control input freaks me out.
thisacctforreal··on Compiler Basics: LLVM
Is there any sense in compiling human-readable LLVM IR, like many compile-to-C languages aim to do?

I imagine doing so wouldn't have much value, as nobody programs in the IR.

thisacctforreal··on Tesla to raise prices and keep more stores open
Would love links to 11 year articles out of curiosity.
thisacctforreal··on Downsides of Freelancing
Are you saying parent is not doing his own thing, or that the people who think he's a sucker aren't doing their own thing?

I agree with the latter :)

thisacctforreal··on If Lyft can't keep its drivers as contractors, it may never be profitable
That was a shitty response to someone dying in their vehicle.

Tesla's autopilot marketing is extremely poor.

https://tesla.com/autopilot

thisacctforreal··on China's GDP Growth Pace Was Inflated for Nine Years, Study Finds
Downvotes usually settle over time.
thisacctforreal··on Older GPS devices are facing their own mini Y2K bug next month
Your use of parens in the first sentence made it difficult for me to parse.
thisacctforreal··on Fixing Unix/Linux/Posix Filenames: Control Characters (Such as Newline), 2009
This isn't a problem if you properly use double quotes in your scripts.
thisacctforreal··on Facebook Still Tracks People on Yelp, Duolingo, Indeed
I'm as anti-tracking as anyone, but people generally only open their wallets for things they view as a fair deal, barring extortion.
thisacctforreal··on Prototype iPhones That Hackers Use to Research Apple’s Most Sensitive Code
There is a hard limit of 80ms per attempt, from the number of PBKDF2 iterations tuned for the secure enclave.
thisacctforreal··on U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says
If it is 15M US users, that's 4.5% of the US population.
thisacctforreal··on Ask HN: How to create a service similar to Patreon?
Decentralization would require the streamer to have enough bandwidth to upload to each viewer. Uploading one stream to a CDN is ideal.
thisacctforreal··on Serverless collaborative editor using CRDT
Like this: https://owebio.github.io/serverless-webrtc-chat/
thisacctforreal··on Dord
Cute. An editor meant to add "D or d" as an abbreviation for density, but it was interpreted as dord. Likely because of how typewriter whitespace was used.

My question is how the ô was decided and made it in.

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