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www.else.how 2y ago

Why aren't co-ops everywhere?

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www.else.how 2y ago

The Language of Command

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www.else.how 2y ago

Why Dream?

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www.else.how 3y ago

Attacker and Defender

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www.else.how 3y ago

What Cybersecurity Is and Why You Should Make It Your Life

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www.else.how 3y ago

Why I've Been Offline

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www.else.how 3y ago

Mondragon: Lessons for DAO DAO

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www.else.how 3y ago

Interchain

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www.oecd-forum.org 3y ago

The Internet during world war

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www.else.how 3y ago

What (and why) is DAO DAO?

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theconversation.com 4y ago

Fight for control threatens to destabilize and fragment the internet

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nickmerrill.substack.com 5y ago

Strength and vulnerability in the network of submarine Internet cables

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nickmerrill.substack.com 5y ago

The threat of ransomware is that it makes life unpredictable

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harpers.org 7y ago

Machine Politics: The rise of the internet and a new age of authoritarianism

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www.bloomberg.com 7y ago

Bezos Parents May Be Worth Billions

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www.lrb.co.uk 7y ago

Putin's Rasputin (2011)

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makezine.com 9y ago

Common Garden develops open source agriculture

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github.com 9y ago

Defend against the new data URI link attack

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people.ischool.berkeley.edu 9y ago

The Signal protocol for Node and browsers

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blog.cosmopol.is 9y ago

Are national election betting markets efficient against state-level odds?

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gateway.ipfs.io 10y ago

Shrinkwrap your npm dependencies to IPFS

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people.ischool.berkeley.edu 10y ago

Test your “free will” at the Aaronson Oracle

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github.com 10y ago

A low-elegance starter pack for front-end live-coding in plain JS

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coolworld.me 10y ago

Small modules are not the problem

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coolworld.me 10y ago

A real-time conversation with the WebKit Speech Recognition API

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That's 26% of US states, but potentially much more than 26% of the US population (have not computed, but Texas, New York, Florida and, to a lesser extent, Washington all have large populations).

Hi, I experienced some auditory sensation for a few videos. The police sirens were particularly vivid - I imagined a series of rising tones quite involuntarily. The description of this sound as coming from "inside your head" is particularly apt - it is not an auditory hallucination, it's more like something I am imagining involuntarily. Interestingly, what I imagine is the same every time I watch the video.

In retrospect, I have experienced this phenomenon everyday, but never thought much about it.

The most important concern is that Signal is a silo [...] you have to connect to OpenWhisperSystems servers to communicate with other users.

You can run your own private Signal service with OpenWhisperSystems' tools [1].

It's also worth noting that Signal - as a protocol - could easily be federated. (As others have mentioned, Moxie has chimed in on why the app is centralized [2]).

If confederated messaging is important, why not use the existing Signal protocol implementations, (including the X3DH key exchange, ratcheting protocol, etc), which is all F/LOSS, and has already been widely reviewed (as the article mentions)?

[1] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/libsignal-service-java

[2] https://whispersystems.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

I find the following in Chrome:

window.crypto.getRandomValues

// getRandomValues() { [native code] }

window.crypto.getRandomValues = function () { return "aloha" }

window.crypto.getRandomValues()

// "aloha"

Not sure if this is the case in all browsers. `window.crypto` certainly should be read-only.

Reposting imglorp's comment on the root of the comment tree, as it's buried currently. This should restore service for those desperately needing to access Github etc ;)

....point your machine or router's DNS to use opendns resolvers instead of your regular ones: 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220

how does the webtorrent team respond to criticisms of sequential downloading in torrents?

while i personally believe folks should mirror & seed torrents regardless of how others consume these torrents, i'm curious about the developers' perspectives on this issue

in any case, this desktop app looks very slick, thanks webtorrent team for all work pushing webrtc and torrenting forward