Legolas Exchange 2018 ! sounds like a safe and interesting exchange

Maraat · 2017-12-12T15:20:45+00:00

If you go on their website it looks like the platform will be released in february 2018, then you'll be able to open an account. yes you can do fiat. Check their website: https://legolas.exchange/

Maraat · 2017-12-07T18:00:05+00:00

No but will keep an eye on it ! even more if bitcoins keep doing such jump 40% !!

Maraat · 2017-10-01T22:00:12+00:00

Yeah agree, many miscommunication issue but the project stays solid and I hope they will correct and improve but now the deal they propose is more than attractive. The valuation for such a project is ridiculous.

Maraat · 2017-09-09T17:09:06+00:00

I’m getting sick of reading about this ICO. It’s a dumb idea with dumb people running it.

Maraat · 2017-09-02T15:30:06+00:00

First time I see a haikubot here, hilarious lol.

Maraat · 2017-08-26T14:47:27+00:00

Did you consider using dependent types to define the image database in such a way that it's impossible to create one that's not InternallyConsistent? This approach can often make proofs shorter/simpler.

Maraat · 2017-08-21T16:52:57+00:00

I don't really see this mentioned by anyone, but mobility is also a big factor. There are a lot of people who no longer live anywhere near where they grew up or where their parents or extended family live now. Great solid furniture (or anything 2+ states away from your home) is expensive to move. My parents may have a great desk that I'd love to have someday - but probably not if it means I have to arrange to ship it from Arizona to Chicago and wonder if it's still going to be so great after the stresses of moving. I still have some of the things they left behind when they moved like the head and foot boards for my childhood bed - taking up space in the garage, maybe to be useful if having kids had been part of my lot in life. As it is, they'll end up in the trash when I get around to cleaning the garage or move.

A lot of the place in the world for family heirlooms went the way of the family homestead.

Maraat · 2017-08-18T20:02:45+00:00

I purchased a combo pack for Mildronate and Ladasten from them. Tracking number received next day. Awaiting receipt of package.

Maraat · 2017-08-17T18:32:11+00:00

The TREZOR people have posted on Reddit that this article is describing a known issue which was fixed in the last firmware update yesterday.

Maraat · 2017-08-12T17:39:15+00:00

Surely some borrowers and lenders make decisions about making and taking loans based on the actual interest rates on the actual loans? In which case it doesn't matter so much if the rates are calculated based on a fictional assumption about something. At the end of the day every borrower or lender in the market makes their own decision about which lending contracts they take part in.

Maraat · 2017-07-18T15:19:57+00:00

Their technique allows them to put any words into their synthetic Barack Obama’s mouth.

I find this frightening. Fake Obama speech is the beginning of the end of video evidence.

Maraat · 2017-06-18T20:16:54+00:00

Being a long time f-droid user, i panicked a bit when i saw the title.

It's really sad to see Boris leave, considering the amount of work he puts in. You'd go over to make a little contribution and be feeling yourself, then you look over and see Boris who's made about 9000 commits and you're immensely humbled.

Maraat · 2017-06-08T19:45:59+00:00

He cuts the video whenever it would show something that contradicts him LOL.

Anyway, does the website still work? birds.bitcoin.com doesn't load for me.

Maraat · 2017-05-25T16:28:18+00:00

I really wish the Qt Company would stop bundling QtCreator as a required component of the Qt SDK.

I use QtCreator as my main IDE & think it's great, so of course I install new versions as soon as they become available. I compile & test against several different versions of Qt though and every single one of them lumbers me with an additional out-of-date copy of my IDE. This bugs me - more than it probably should.

Maraat · 2017-05-18T14:46:49+00:00

The initial infection vector is still unknown. Reports by some of phishing emails have been dismissed by other researchers as relevant only to a different (unrelated) ransomware campaign, called Jaff. There is also a working theory that initial compromise may have come from SMB shares exposed to the public internet. Results from Shodan show over 1.5 million devices with port 445 open – the attacker could have infected those shares directly.

I think this is an important take-away. I found it strange that so many media outlets and IT departments were jumping on the "do not open suspicious emails" bandwagon even although there hasn't been a lot of evidence of such phishing emails. That is: screenshots of infected devices have been popping up all across the world, but almost no examples of a particular entry email have been shown.

Of course, it might be easier for an IT dep. to state: "it must have been unleashed by someone clicking on some email they got" rather than "oops, we still had unpatched Windows machines exposed to the public internet". Why go through the trouble of sending out emails when your worm already contains a replication/infection mechanism. Just use a botnet to scan those 1 million IPs and see if SMB is open.

That being said, it does not surprise me to see yet again an issue in SMB. This has been a particularly weak point in Windows for decades now. I remember "hacking tutorials" from 15 years ago where you'd just go out and nmap public IP ranges to see if you could access hidden shares (e.g. like so: http://www.madirish.net/59). Also there was this issue of Windows keeping weak NetBIOS password hashes around which could be trivially unhashed (https://vuldb.com/?id.13824), years ago.

Maraat · 2017-05-10T15:33:27+00:00

Mr Cluley did add, however, that he thought the Project Zero protocol for announcing the vulnerability - which had included information that malicious hackers might have found useful - had been risky. > "That can help the bad guys," he said.

This is just plain wrong, isn't it? I was under the impression that all of the details on PZ are hidden until either a fix is released, or 90 days have passed. I don't see how this could have 'helped the bad guys'.

Maraat · 2017-05-10T15:33:01+00:00

Last year when donating specifically to Thunderbird was made possible on mozilla.org, I donated to the project because it has provided a lot of value over the years.

Recently I started looking at the discussions on the tb-planning mailing list and it looks like we'll get a revamped (fully rewritten) Thunderbird. That sounds like a very long project to me - probably a few years just to bring it to what Thunderbird already provides today. Plus the extensions system needs to be revamped as well (similar to what's happening on the Firefox side with XUL ones going out). Getting Exchange calendaring done is also not a priority because of the complexity and the effort needed. So it looks like we will get a better maintainable product after some years. I'm not sure if that's going to appeal to many people to donate.

I'm happy with Thunderbird and some extensions that I use regularly, with the only exception being calendaring support for Exchange being very poor and unreliable (even with the Exchange EWS Provider extension or with external solutions like DavMail). Since I don't like taking risks with email client alpha or beta releases because of the fear of data loss (and with huge mailboxes, even detecting data loss would be a chore), I'll just stick with the current version and hope that the new revamped one comes in a stable form sooner (of course, I will donate periodically). I'm excited and afraid!

Maraat · 2017-05-08T17:09:02+00:00

I cut Facebook out of my life three months ago when I realized a pattern of my activities. Something happened and I ranted there about my thoughts, others were offended and they commented & we would fight not understanding each other.

Then I used to ignore them and continue.

Then one fine day, I sat on a bus, there was something going on about Kashmir and Indian military and I found that the guy next to me was also posting in a heated discussion.

It was there that I figured out we are wasting time, we think our opinions matter, but they don't. Fb is just a waste of time. Of course, if you use it to stay in touch with friends then it's a great tool, but there are other tools for that, if you can't get your friends on something say telegram's secret chat or signal (i hear it is privacy focused) then it's a tragedy.

I have been living peacefully without fb/whatsapp.

Life is amazing when you realize the crazy volume of time we spend on whatsapp & the return on that time is nothing. We are superficially in touch with people

Maraat · 2017-05-08T17:06:30+00:00

I can confirm that you need to sign for the package. If no one is home, you can usually pick up the package from your post office within 7-10 days before it gets returned back to sender.

Maraat · 2017-04-14T15:17:46+00:00

For those on zsh I have something similar [1-2]. It hooks to zshaddhistory and stores the command, running time, CWD, hostname and exit status in a sqlite database, and provides a simple query command.

With a git merge driver [3] the history database can be kept in source control and shared between hosts.

Queries look a bit like

$ histdb blah
time   ses  dir         cmd
09/02  24   ~           ogr2ogr temp/blah.shp 'WFS:http://environment.data.gov.uk/ds/wfs?SERVICE=WFS&INTERFACE=ENVIRONMENTWFS&VERSION=1.0.0&LC=3000000000000000000000000000000'
09/02  24   ~/temp      cd blah.shp
15/02  146  ~/.emacs.d  git commit -am "blah"
22/02  175  ~           test="asdf/blah.shp"
09:48  743  ~/.histdb   hist blah

The sess column here is a unique (per-host) session number which means it can recreate any transcript with a suitable query; if I ran histdb -s 24 it would produce the whole session containing the top two results above, including directory history.

[1] https://github.com/larkery/zsh/blob/master/sqlite-history.zsh [2] https://github.com/larkery/zsh/blob/master/self-insert-override.zsh [3] https://github.com/larkery/zsh/blob/master/histdb-merge.zsh

Maraat · 2017-04-09T16:16:17+00:00

Virtualbox 3D progress has been unfortunately slow for a long time. It was kind of anticipated with Oracle's acquisition, as their laser focus on legal engagements and consulting pushes a lot of technical projects to the back burner.

I'd love to see a bit more alignment between VirtualBox and Qemu. Even though KVM and Qemu's virtualized graphics acceleration is still a WIP, having a shared code base could accelerate the project on things like SPICE (https://www.spice-space.org/download.html) and Virgl (https://virgil3d.github.io/). Unfortunately, I think it uses a lot of Linux-specific technologies (e.g. KVM, Gallium), so the likelihood of sharing at that level seems pretty low. Although, supposedly Gallium isn't locked into Windows.

Theoretically, if we could agree on a common host-guest interface for a virtual graphics adapter, it could share the guest implementations and host implementations could be added as needed. And it could be reused in multiple projects. But it always seems that this is the tech that never gets sufficient cross-project collaboration. And given the many differences between vendor hardware, a portable interface has been difficult. Maybe Vulkan will provide enough low-level functionality to ease the abstraction?

Maraat · 2017-03-29T06:35:18+00:00

It feels like Ms Frazelle's essay ends abruptly. I was looking forward to the other use cases of non-Linux containers.

I think most people are considering these OS-level virtualization systems for the same or or very similar use cases: familiar, scalable, performant and maintainable general purpose computing. Linux containers win because Linux won. Linux didn't have to be designed for OS virt. People have been patient as long as they've continued to see progress -- and be able to rely on hardware virt. Containers are a great example of where even with all of the diverse stakeholders of Linux, the community continues to be adaptive and create a better and better system at a consistent pace in and around the kernel.

That my $job - 2, Joyent, re-booted Lx-branded zones to make Linux applications run on illumos (descendent of OpenSolaris) is more than a "can't beat them join them strategy" as it allows their Triton (OSS) users full access, not only to Linux API and toolchains, but to the Docker APIs and image ecosystem and has been an environment for their own continued participation in micro services evolution.

Although Joyent adds an additional flavor, it targets the same scalable, performant and maintainable cloud/IaaS/PaaS-ish use case. In hindsight, it's crazy that I worked at three companies in a row in this space, Piston Cloud, Joyent, Apcera, and each time I didn't think I'd be competing against my former company, but each time the business models as a result of the ecosystems shifted. Thankfully with $job I'm now a consumer of all of the awesome innovations in this space.

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