Hacker News: steckerbrett

New comment by steckerbrett in "Phineas Fisher's account of how he took down HackingTeam"

steckerbrett — Sun, 17 Apr 2016 03:49:18 +0000

> Obviously you have pay anonymously, with bitcoin, for exaple (if youuse it carefully)

Bitcoin is anonymous? Time to go to jail.

New comment by steckerbrett in "iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta"

steckerbrett — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 22:54:29 +0000

Yes.

New comment by steckerbrett in "Bose's new beat"

steckerbrett — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 20:34:02 +0000

I've been wearing mine for 5 hours (since I got up) without noticing them at all.

New comment by steckerbrett in "Comodo “Chromodo” Browser disables same origin policy"

steckerbrett — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 19:39:38 +0000

> I noticed their scan process is not using ASLR

You can be pretty sure that none of their software is fit for purpose if they're not using basic protections for a process which runs as a super user and parses every file it can find.

New comment by steckerbrett in "Comodo “Chromodo” Browser disables same origin policy"

steckerbrett — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 19:32:51 +0000

Ah the old, break the PoC to make the researcher stop complaining move but don't fix the underlying insanity. Classic.

New comment by steckerbrett in "Project Natick: Microsoft's Underwater Data Center"

steckerbrett — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 03:15:23 +0000

I don't think that's possible, it would be sheathed in extremely thick steel and not something you can just splice onto.

New comment by steckerbrett in "Project Natick: Microsoft's Underwater Data Center"

steckerbrett — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 03:09:55 +0000

For marine gear you either use a material which won't readily corrode, or you use sacrificial anodes which are galvanically consumed rather than something you care about.

New comment by steckerbrett in "Project Natick: Microsoft's Underwater Data Center"

steckerbrett — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 01:58:51 +0000

No, but it's a harder proposition to have fibre runs to a server which is in the ocean. You can throw a normal server somewhere silly and connect to it wirelessly, this is just the one remarkable exception.

New comment by steckerbrett in "Project Natick: Microsoft's Underwater Data Center"

steckerbrett — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 01:47:44 +0000

> 50% OF US LIVE NEAR THE COAST. WHY DOESN'T OUR DATA?

It's corrosive, expensive to get things to and from it for replacement, leaks destroy the hardware, it's not close to power generation, internet access needs cables because RF doesn't penetrate water, everything is going need watercooling which is rather expensive.

New comment by steckerbrett in "The Secret Feature of EM-DOSBOX on Internet Archive"

steckerbrett — Sat, 30 Jan 2016 21:30:21 +0000

Depends on the browser but there's usually a 1k character limit which isn't a great deal of state. Perhaps that's counted badly so you can get 1000 char * 4 bytes for unicode, but I wouldn't bet on it being handled the same in different browsers anyway.

New comment by steckerbrett in "Build a Bitcoin-Payable HTTP Proxy"

steckerbrett — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 04:37:36 +0000

Do you realize it's tens of millions of dollars to spin an 18nm ASIC? They're not doing additional revisions, the (at their websites admission) loss-producing miner is as good as it gets.

New comment by steckerbrett in "Build a Bitcoin-Payable HTTP Proxy"

steckerbrett — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 04:30:06 +0000

They went to all the effort of getting it FCC certified and had injection molds made at considerable expense, this is the final product.

It's all about the miner! Which is useless.

It's all about the software! Which is closed source, and has no documentation.

You'll need one to develop with us! Why?

You can buy and sell services with our network! Only to other people who have $400 to drop on a Raspberry Pi.

New comment by steckerbrett in "Build a Bitcoin-Payable HTTP Proxy"

steckerbrett — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 04:20:11 +0000

Pity there's absolutely no documentation for any of it.

21.co ($110M+) – Setup Your 21 Bitcoin Computer

steckerbrett — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 04:04:49 +0000

Article URL: https://21.co/setup

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10585848

Points: 1

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New comment by steckerbrett in "Build a Bitcoin-Payable HTTP Proxy"

steckerbrett — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 02:45:49 +0000

The setup guide involves a serial console and not putting it on a metal surface because the exposed bottom of the raspberry pi will short out.

https://21.co/setup

New comment by steckerbrett in "Nasdaq to develop blockchain services in Estonia"

steckerbrett — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 09:13:36 +0000

Why bother with it at all? Authenticated database sounds like.. postgres.

New comment by steckerbrett in "Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say"

steckerbrett — Sat, 14 Nov 2015 03:33:36 +0000

Technically finding illegal drugs would make you a criminal.

New comment by steckerbrett in "StarCraft: The past, present and future"

steckerbrett — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 13:03:55 +0000

Running games in a VM is always a totally crappy experience, running it in wine is better but still not completely perfect. With Yosemite there's some graphical glitches which make it effectively unplayable, most of it runs at about 2 FPS.

New comment by steckerbrett in "StarCraft: The past, present and future"

steckerbrett — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 13:00:35 +0000

It was originally released with PowerPC binaries on the disk, and then later re-released with Intel OSX compatible binaries, the only reason it doesn't work now is the requirement of 256 colour mode which was removed in like, OSX 10.5 or so. Starcraft 2 was released on OSX, same as all Blizzard games I'm aware of. This is a Cider wrapped OSX binary so not truly native, but works well enough that nobody seems to complain.

New comment by steckerbrett in "StarCraft: The past, present and future"

steckerbrett — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 12:50:34 +0000

It's unfortunate how much the original game has rotted, the online servers are up but the program itself is becoming more are more unplayable. The OSX versions have been dead for a long time, on windows it seems to be getting harder and harder to run as well. The recent job posting hopefully indicate they're interested in de-breaking them, couldn't care less for a HD remake, just a version that actually works again.

Impressed that Blizzard still runs the IRC servers necessary for that part of Battle.net though, far more modern games have lost all of their multiplayer within a couple of years let alone two decades on. There's third party remakes of the server daemons but you need a hacked up client to use them, or at least you did last I looked a decade ago.