Ajedi32

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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
This is a debate I've seen many times now on HN. I sympathize with what you're saying, but the flip side is that many users seem to prefer a free ad-supported funding model over a paid, ad-free model. If a site is going to be serv
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
Agreed, this can't be worse than what it's replacing. Still, the author has some interesting points I hadn't considered before. I guess from the advertiser's perspective this standard could be a concern, because the loss
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
Sort of. Cookies track you as an individual with a unique identifier. The conversion report only tracks anonymized aggregate statistics that can't be used to identify you as an individual.
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
> You either want it to be unedited or you don't. You want it visually identical but not necessarily bit-for-bit identical. Compression and transcoding should not cause validation to fail unless the compression artifacts are particu
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
Isn't it illegal for publicly traded companies to hide such information from their shareholders? What do you mean by "obfuscated"? The numbers are disclosed, but you think they're unclear somehow?
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
And even in the ones that don't, having to wait until the project executes to begin its attack is a minor inconvenience for malware.
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
That's why adding your user account to the docker group is a separate step that explicitly does not happen as part of the installation: https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/linux-postinstall/ > Wa
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
In my opinion that would do little to solve the core problem, which is that adjuration is extremely expensive. It would just pass that high cost on to taxpayers and probably simultaneously 10x the demand because you just made it "free&
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
You correctly identify the problem as an over-complicated legal bureaucracy in your first paragraph, and propose more government as the solution in your third? The solution here should be to simplify the legal system so legal adjudication
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
That wasn't an analogy, it was a counterexample to your assertion that "If something happened due to your unprovoked action, it's your fault." That's simply not true when the "something" that happened is a
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
Okay, you're right, I'm overstating my case. Realistically though, in the vast majority of cases where that tag is used it's used for porn. Trying to re-purpose such a tag to label all content that isn't strictly kid fri
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
Perhaps that could work in certain situations, but you don't even necessarily need digital signatures for that. A link to a reputable news site claiming they've verified the footage as real would be good enough in like 95% of case
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
Synthid is a watermark which indicates the video is AI-generated, not a digital signature indicating it's real. Completely different use case and threat model. I'm not aware of any secure digital signature schemes that don't
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
For pure entertainment maybe, but in the case of a history video how do you know whether the history you're being presented is accurate, or even has any basis in reality for that matter?
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
Who posts raw output from cameras anywhere? This doesn't seem useful outside some niche use-cases (like security camera footage). At a minimum just about every recording is going to be re-compressed for streaming.
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
There's no web standard for labeling content, so "subscribe to a whitelist" today means crappy page or network-level content blocks implemented by a third party tool that has no understanding of the actual content on the page
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
Yes, but a 3 of 4 SSS is not possible with the linked web page. It's also not user-friendly to expect non-technical users to manually go through multiple rounds of SSS in order to restore the original secret. Ideally it'd just be
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
That's incorrect. The existing RTA header is for marking porn as porn.[1][2] (In case English isn't your first language, "adult website" is a euphemism.) An actually useful standard would need to be much more granular, a
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
Once you have a content label header it's pretty easy to build more complicated systems on top of that. Like the site could send "compliant with x regulation" in the content labeling header, and then that would tell the kid&#
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
Again, RTA header doesn't work because it's a blacklist, not a whitelist, and also because it's only granular enough to say "this is a porn website" and nothing else.
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
The standard OP is describing doesn't exist. So whether it "fails to achieve most of the social goals" is yet to be determined. Blocking unrated content seems like a pretty desirable feature to me. Why wouldn't that be o
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
Maybe certain headers could be cryptographically signed. So like if your movie is rated PG by the MPA the MPA itself could sign a statement to that effect. Or a government could issue a social media company a license they could use to sign
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
Realistically, I don't think most people think that way. ("Don't build that apartment! The resulting increase in the local supply of housing will decrease my property value.") It's more that they don't want to
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
Higher household income doesn't necessarily have to mean higher property prices. It's a factor, but that's only one half of the demand/supply equation. Long term, the price of housing is driven by how much it costs to bu
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
This is my favorite one yet, very user friendly. I only wish it was a bit more configurable. Ideally I'd be able to set up something like: 3 of 4: A B C D - OR - 2 of 3: E F G - AND - 1 of 1: H Or any similar combi
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
GP is saying E2E encryption implies encryption in transit, because by definition "in transit" is not an "end". I would agree with your definition that E2E means "operational intermediates cannot read it", but I
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
And if you want to get really exotic, antimatter is about 83.2 billion times more energy dense. We're not going to be running into fundamental physics limitations for energy storage anytime soon. Though maybe it's a little unfair
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
> Just, write the _breakthrough_ article then, please. When exactly though? When the price of the "new" breakthrough technology that's been around for decades at that point drops from $101 per kwH to $100 per kwH? I totall
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
Anarchism as "an extension of nature" certainly does mean that, as least assuming you've got more guns/muscle than the other guy. If you want to use a different definition of anarchism that includes a legal system and po
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
Basically any system other than anarchy? In every civilized country I know of if your neighbor kills you then afterwards they'll be on the run from the law, not selling your house on Facebook marketplace the next day.

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