Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) [email protected]
Hong Kong
Linux native since 1995. Working in Ruby, shell scripts, whatever gets the page up. Solving yesterday's problems tomorrow.
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Benjamin Cook at 2016-07-04T11:00:58Z via AndStatus To: Public
These struggles always confuse me. Why do dedicated fans work so hard to perpetuate an abusive relationship with a corporation that does not respect them? What more would it take to actually drive away these fans?[email protected] likes this.
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Ever since I heard of the concept Voice vs Leave, it seems to apply to everything. ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty ) -
Charles ☕ Stanhope at 2016-07-04T10:59:25Z via AndStatus To: Public
These conflicts between the corporations and the Star Trek fans who are taking ownership of aspects of culture that are important to them seem to be so much deeper than the corporations are capable of understanding. http://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2016/06/cbs-paramount-offer-rules-for-fan-film-makers-amid-axa...
These stories also lead me to wonder if people will stop investing time and energy into culture that corporations control, or if fans will always try to wrest control later. These fans are clearly capable of servicing their own desires for fictional content. Why wait around for the next corporate idea to be handed down to rally around? Why not build it themselves? How important is marketing in establishing the cultural value of these creations?
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These struggles always confuse me. Why do dedicated fans work so hard to perpetuate an abusive relationship with a corporation that does not respect them? What more would it take to actually drive away these fans?Benjamin Cook at 2016-06-27T15:09:16Z
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The only reasons fans do this is because of love. It's not reciprocated (nor does it have to be) but that's the whole onus for it in the first place.Craig Maloney at 2016-06-27T15:46:47Z
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fortunately, Star Trek is a franchise that is very tolerant of fan works (relatively speaking), so I can at least listen to audio dramas that "get" Star Trek.
As far as the relationship goes, there is the issue of Canon, fan produced works aren't Canon a and thus aren't official, for Trek this also applies to officially sanctioned books. Though the official status didn't help Star Wars expanded universe....
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Freemor at 2016-07-04T07:15:24Z via AndStatus To: Public
SnoopStopper is at:
https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=snoop&fdid=cz.eutopia.snooperstopper
It also lets you have the phone power off after X failed lock screen attempts..
Plucklock is also very handy.. locks th phone on sudden movement (like being yanked out of your hand)
https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=pluck&fdid=net.syntaxblitz.plucklock
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2016-07-04T05:51:17Z via AndStatus To: Public
Last night's dream, very cinematic: A bunch of penguins master telekinesis and use it to bring down an asteroid, causing a cataclysm which saves their planet's stagnating ecosystem (the cow herds start migrating again). Also the wave is really fun to surf.
Bonus epilogue: Batman needs to bring down the superhero team he created. Ends with a cliffhanger when he is just about to be captured outside their headquarters. -
Freemor at 2016-07-03T11:33:58Z via identi.ca To: Public , Avadiax CC:
Long story short.
- This technique allows off device brute forcing
So:
- use an app that separates lock screen and encryption passwords (like snoopStopper)
- Use a long, strong, password for your FDE password
There are many problems with FDE on Android. This is far from the worst.
Things like:
- Devices are on 24/7 thus decrypted
- Most people use lame lock screen passwords
- Back-ups not encrypted or not encrypted by default
- most people are far to permissive with their apps rather the denying apps access to contacts etc.
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- use an app that separates lock screen and encryption passwords (like snoopStopper)
Didn't find snoopStopper, but found https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=29468 , which mentions a command-line workaround. You can set the disk encryption separately after using the UI setting.
what if you set your screen password and encryption password, and then changed your screen password?
@[email protected] From what I've read, changing the lock password changes the encryption password, so you'll have to re-reset it if you do that. -
Tezos, Ethereum for adults? ;-)
2016-06-22T18:35:20Z via Puma To: Public
A guy with a background in formal methods (using Coq and OCaml) is working on a blockchain with a builtin consensus method to evolve the protocol. This is more interesting than Ethereum.
Smart contracts are at the sweet spot where proofs of code properties have huge value and the code size is small.
Short blurb:
https://tezos.com/In-depth interview:
https://epicenterbitcoin.com/podcast/136/How to contribute: Wait. They want a big bang beta to ensure momentum that will keep people on the one true Tezos blockchain.
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@[email protected] interesting stuff, marked for in depth reading laterMarcel van der Boom at 2016-06-22T18:46:21Z
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Meanwhile, the banks won't be public about their work...
He not only has a formal methods background, he also has a finance background. And he is doing distributed systems research. I'm pretty excited about this project.
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Hiring filters
2016-06-22T05:55:34Z via Puma To: Public
I used to believe in http://paulgraham.com/pypar.html – and I still do from a certain angle. The github filter, the programming language filter and the cultural fit filter, they probably work pretty well and they are cheap. Hiring from a large pool is expensive, and almost any filter helps.
I used to work for a client that was working on removing these filters in the financial job market. Investment banks don't know how to evaluate someone's potential, so they use the heuristic “did you complete studies at a prestigious university?“. My client was working on a series of automated skill evaluation filters instead, to allow talented, hard-working and diligent students of community colleges to enter the investment banking world.
Just like in investment banking, if you shun developers with a PHP background, with a Java background, you may find some of the greatest developers, but you're missing a whole bunch of potentially great developers, who don't have the time, energy and money to work a full-time job and develop skills and knowledge in their spare time. And you're contributing to hacker monoculture.
That said, I'm a hypocrite. When I market myself, I emphasize that I was programming in primary school before I had a computer with a Pascal compiler, that I know the hacker culture shibboleths, that I installed Linux in the 90s on a computer that is now a retro curiosity, and we didn't have package managers back then and oh you kids get off my lawn. Because people have those filters and I play on my filter-compatible strengths.
And because to some extent, these things are relevant, even if only as proxies for real qualities like problem-solving experience, low-level understanding of the machine and the network, ability to absorb knowledge of new languages and libraries, etc.
That's why they are so difficult to give up. I usually argue that worse is better, in the straight sense. And maybe it is for you. Filter, get a great-enough developer, move on. But for society and for filtered individuals, better would be better.
And if you believe inclusion activists like Sumana Harihareshwara and community inclusionists like Pieter Hintjens, maybe better can be better for you too. You will have a unique edge over competition doing traditional hiring, that's for sure.
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Rediscovery of the week: Scott Sigler
2016-06-17T15:24:55Z via Puma To: Public
I lost my audio feed collection a few months ago, so I'm remembering and re-adding a new audio feed about once a week.
Now I just re-added Scott Sigler's Audiobooks and yay! I'm 13 installments behind on the sequel to the awesome “Alive”: “Alight”.
Going to be so hard not to binge on this. Scott is an evil evil author with a cliffhanger every week. That's why I love him. But I'll try to keep it to maybe two eps a week, so the withdrawal shock isn't too harsh once I catch up.
Audio feed: feeds.feedburner.com/scottsigler
Scott's site: scottsigler.com
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Identi.ca remains down...
Stephen Sekula at 2016-06-14T20:42:02Z via AndStatus To: Public
identi.ca has been down for days now. @Evan Prodromou - are you still the primary admin for that site? I've lost track of recent pump.io community activities and responsibilities... #pumpiverse
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Have @sazius email e14n.com or you can to, fmrl.me was down for days. I emailed twice then sazius did and finally someone got to it.
This lack of responsiveness is frustrating to me. I understand homes are being sought for servers so that Evan does not need to administer them, because he has other priorities (a paying job, for example), and that's all good, but is there a timeline?
All I can see is occasional extended downtime for major servers with no signs of progress. If that perception is accurate, maybe it's time for me to find a new host or bail. And that's fine too, no worries. The problem here is not knowing.
>> Douglas Perkins:
“This lack of responsiveness is frustrating to me. I understand homes are being sought for servers so that Evan does not need to administer them, because he has other priorities (a paying job, for example), and that's all good, but is there a timeline?
All I can see is occasional extended downtime for major servers with no signs of progress. If that perception is accurate, maybe it's time for me to find a new host or bail. And that's fine too, no worries. The problem here is not knowing.”Amen to that. I get that he's super busy with fuzzy.ai, but I wish the transition to community support was more... hastened... to recognize that fact.
And now I'm just whining. Sigh. I'll quit here, and take @lostson's suggestion.
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Stephen Sekula at 2016-06-14T20:41:28Z via AndStatus To: Public
TIL the phrase "Turing Tarpit" as it applies to a programming language. Everything is possible, and everything is difficult.
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2016-06-14T16:19:05Z via AndStatus To: Public
Intriguing. This piece of software works with libc6-i386 on Ubuntu 15.04, works with libc6:i386 on Ubuntu 16.10, but segfaults with libc6-i386 on the same Ubuntu 16.10. Did you catch the nuance there?
Cross-compiling i386 binaries with binutils-multiarch and libstdc++-5-dev:i386 doesn't Just Work. Annoying. -
Testing testing 3
2016-06-13T20:08:53Z via Impeller To: Weather Bot , Public CC: Followers
Forecast for Linköping, Sweden.
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Oh, and WeatherBot was written using Python 2.7... which, like all Python 2.X, is NOTORIOUS for its poor handling of unicode. I really need to up my programming to Python3. This might be motivation for that!
Stephen Sekula at 2016-06-13T20:16:15Z
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OK, so I sent this to WeatherBot:
Forecast for Linkoping,SE
I stripped the unicode and changed to the country abbreviation. That worked.
Hehe, I think my followers are not easily annoyed. I wanted to see if it would reply in public too.
Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) at 2016-06-13T22:35:33Z
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>> Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠):
“Hehe, I think my followers are not easily annoyed. I wanted to see if it would reply in public too.”
Oh, yeah, it should reply in public... unless I messed up the pypump code... which is always possible...
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Testing testing 2
2016-06-13T20:05:08Z via Impeller To: Weather Bot , Public CC: Followers
So, Weather Bot, tell me about the weather in Linköping, Sweden.
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Avadiax at 2016-06-13T09:59:34Z via AndStatus To: Public
Stop using short PGP key ID ... collisions are being detected in the wild. http://gwolf.org/node/4070
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Diane Trout at 2016-06-12T19:21:29Z via pump.ghic.org To: Public , Stephen Sekula , Stephen Sekula
@[email protected] somewhere I found a story about how all the mathematicians were buying out all of the remaining high end chalk as the last manufacturer was going out of business.jrobertson , Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) like this.
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@[email protected] I can believe it. I prefer blackboards and I am an experimental scientist. That said, I cannot WAIT for my classroom to get technology from THIS century.Stephen Sekula at 2016-06-12T07:28:14Z
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Creepy WiFi
at 2016-06-12T12:30:32Z via AndStatus To: Public
For months/years, I have seen a WiFi network called Totally not the NSA.
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Nice way of trying not to have it cracked xD
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Danc at 2016-06-12T12:14:55Z via AndStatus To: Public
when your shower uses github more than you
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xDD
I log on so infrequently it took me a while to get it
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Video upgrade
Douglas Perkins at 2016-06-07T10:16:41Z via AndStatus To: Public
If you can be replaced by a video, you should be.
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A simple rule =)
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What You Can Do To Increase Cell Phone Security
Kete Foy at 2016-06-06T04:28:08Z via AndStatus To: Public
“To avoid bugging, keep your phone in your control as much as possible. If you are forgetful, try duct taping it to your hand. ”
http://www.howtovanish.com/2010/01/cell-phone-security-mobile-phone-taps/
“Actually, the problem revolves around the entire concept of the "Smart Phone". First off, most people DON'T NEED ONE. They're nice, and convenient, I grant you, but they're TOO SMART. You don't NEED the equivalent of a 5 year old desktop computer in your pocket to make a few calls. You don't NEED internet access in your phone. You don't NEED the $100+ per month charges. You don't NEED a device with the ability to monitor your every move and word. You don't NEED the $2500+ total cost of that fancy phone over the 2 year contract period. I would suggest we return to the old, reliable feature-phone, perhaps with a QWERTY keyboard for texting, and maybe a camera, but with a removable battery. None of us, except maybe some corporate customers, have any real need for a "smart phone" in any form.”
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No problem.
Bear in mind that if your phone has malware that is recording voice conversations it could just wait till it has signal to exfiltrate them so wrap it in foil and put it in a drawer. beside a viberator running full bore. With a transistor radio blasting elevator music. :)
This article is giving BAD advice.. even old feature phones have a full computer in them just not as advanced. But still advanced enough to run J2ME apps.
Dig out your olf feature phone.. install bitpim.. go exploring.. Full file system with lots of interesting bit.
I know from experience that Cell providers could easily reach into Feature phones and change things in the file system. So how hard is a J2ME app that hot mic's the phone. Also some of these phones had the E911 emergency mode.
They are still computer.. just not ones they let you play with much.
>> Freemor:
“This article is giving BAD advice.. ”
Good to know—I take my battery out when I travel with my phone, but I don’t know what good it does. Many municipal police stations have a Stingray to “fight terrorism” (although they get abused for much more), so that could demonstrate how someone could tap into a cell phone perhaps even without a battery or as some say, access recorded data once the phone goes back on the network.
Physically removing the battery does == dead phone. The problem is most new phones you can't.
Stingray can't work with a dead phone.. so that is good.
But yes you're gonna put the battery back in at some point and then all bets are off.
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