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Comment · 4 years ago
This looks excellent - I outlined wanting something like a cross between Lua and Bash back in 2016, and at first glance, it would seem that this project by and large fits the bill: https://github.com/stuartpb/lash
Comment · 4 years ago
Recent versions of Lua use this trick as well.
Comment · 4 years ago
I tried to prototype my own implementation of `vidir` in Node.JS a while back (not realizing that it existed under this name in moreutils), and I ended up getting derailed after realizing how incomplete Node.JS's support was for getting the group / username corresponding to a G/UID: https://github.com/stuartpb/whomst
Comment · 9 years ago
This is what the Cluetrain Manifesto was saying... in 1999.
Comment · 9 years ago
That's what `vipe` is for: https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/
Comment · 9 years ago
No. See http://www.cluetrain.com/ - paid advertising is inherently unethical on a network where genuine mass interaction is free.
Comment · 9 years ago
> Other than DNA sequences I can't think of a good person key.
In theory, one could use 3D geoposition at time of birth, time of birth, and sibling order (for twins / triplets / etc delivered surgically), where said order is dictated by the parent(s) or ob/gyn present. Of course, the main problem with this in practice is that not everybody has this information.
I would have said you could do something via retinal imagery, but not everybody has eyes. If we had non-invasive neural imagery, would it maybe be possible to derive a key from a simplification of a person's physical brain topology?
Comment · 9 years ago
> But pretty much no one thought CMOS features could be made arbitrarily small.
Pretty much no one qualified, maybe. There are lots of laymen (including many True Believers in The Singularity) who operate under the impression that it's a fixed law of nature.
Comment · 9 years ago
While I first wrote an article about the absurdities of information security [in 2011][1], this specific extension is an idea I've had since [June 2015][2] - due to the absurd nature of the idea, I wanted to launch it on April Fools' Day, but that ended up causing it to be [dismissed as a joke out of hand altogether][3], so I figured I'd wait a day before posting it to Hacker News.
While the premise of the extension sounds like a joke, it's legitimately a good idea, and [one others have had independent of this][4]. I explain some of the thoughts and motivations behind NilPass's design here: https://nilpass.com/seriously/
[1]: http://www.cracked.com/article_18962_5-things-we-all-do-that...
[2]: https://github.com/nilpass/nilpass-branding/commit/6090b5cc9...
[3]: https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/62sgrp/presenting_n...
Comment · 9 years ago
I spent all of yesterday making an extension for this, and now HN won't let me post it as an article: https://nilpass.com/
Comment · 9 years ago
Though, of course, this still means trusting the compiler: https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...
Comment · 9 years ago
I made a similar app to this for Pebble at a hackathon in 2015: https://github.com/phoneyscape
We got an offer from Madrona Ventures for it that I never ended up following up on.
Comment · 9 years ago
He seems to have changed his tune now that he can't behind the "that's only an imaginary possibility" cover: http://marc.info/?l=git&m=148787047422954
> Do we want to migrate to another hash? Yes.
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/stuartpb; my proof: https://keybase.io/stuartpb/sigs/5uPpTu8U1RHc0QOZSnGyFYL4q8ol8keXdCdulvMGSus ]