thisacctforreal

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Comment · 7 years ago

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.

Comment · 7 years ago

FWIW iOS Search (swipe down from the middle of the Home screen) can do conversions too.

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

Comment · 7 years ago

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

Comment · 7 years ago

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.

Comment · 7 years ago

disposable != short lifespan

Comment · 7 years ago

Ah, this guy! I found him through his stack overflow maybe a year ago, definitely cool.

Comment · 7 years ago

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.

Comment · 7 years ago

FWIW this article specifically is mainly for common traps (e.g. spamming arrow keys) in vanilla vim.

Comment · 7 years ago

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.

Comment · 7 years ago

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.

Comment · 7 years ago

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.

Comment · 7 years ago

I don't know, to me it doesn't seem like he's stopped regarding his users as dumb fucks.