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Category: Technology

  • Scaling Lightning

    Scaling Lightning

    Great new initiative to test and improve how the Lightning Network and its applications will react to shocks in transaction volume, channels, nodes, gossip messages, etc. A Testing Toolkit for the Lightning Network

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  • Phone Privacy

    Phone Privacy

    Looking for a hardened phone OS where Apple Google don’t know everything you do, including your financial transactions? GrapheneOS and CalyxOS work great on Pixel devices. Should You Use GrapheneOS or CalyxOS? Though – beware that some banking apps won’t run on these custom firmwares. You might need two phones if you need both.

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  • Storing User Data

    Storing User Data

    A wake-up call for everyone storing user data to make sure they store as little as possible for as little time as possible. PyPI was subpoenaed – The Python Package Index

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  • Password Nihilism

    Password Nihilism

    Password nihilism is understanding that sites have shit complexity requirements and shit password storage, and then not giving a shit because you recognize that none of it matters. Passwords, but make it nihilism

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  • Crypto is not easy

    Crypto is not easy

    Don’t trust, verify – especially when apps make incredibly claims. This time about encrypted messaging. Testing a new encrypted messaging app’s extraordinary claims

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  • Knuth about Chat GPT

    Knuth about Chat GPT

    Donald Knuth, Computer Science legend, looked into Chat GPT and concluded: I shall devote my time to developing concepts that are authentic and trustworthy. And I hope you do the same https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/chatGPT20.txt

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  • The Dark Side of Technology

    The Dark Side of Technology: I’m going to disrupt the Silicon Valley script. You know the one.  Every talk or article coming out of Silicon Valley follows the prescribed template: start with a dazzling description of awesome new digital technologies and then proceed to explore all the wonderful benefits and opportunities that these technologies will…

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  • Hadoop 2013 – Performance, Projects, Platforms, Players

    I earmarked this series for writing about it, just wanted to wait for part four to be published… and somehow totally missed it in my feed, until I remembered and decided to check back today… so without further ado, here you go! Hadoop 2013 – Part One: Performance Hadoop 2013 – Part Two: Projects Hadoop…

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  • The Google Cloud Platform Q&A

    GCE explained quick and dirty: The Google Cloud Platform Q&A: While the bulk of the attention at Google I/O last week, at least in terms of keynote airtime, was devoted to improvements to user-facing projects like Android and Chrome, the Cloud team had announcements of their own. Most obviously, the fact that the Google Compute…

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  • Interview With A Blackhat

    Fascinating interview with a (former) blackhat: One ‘blackhat,’ who asked to be called Adam, that I have spoken to a lot has recently says he’s decided to go legit. During this life-changing transition, he offered to give an interview so that the rest of the security community could learn from his point of view. Not…

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