Cyphase

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Colophon(susam.net)
4 points by Cyphase 1y ago|0 comments
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by Cyphase 1y ago
> People have been lying about their experience for literally centuries. Millenia. Just ask Nanni what happened when he trusted Ea-nāṣir. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-n%C4%81...
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by Cyphase 2y ago
https://genai.owasp.org/ https://genai.owasp.org/llm-top-10/
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by Cyphase 2y ago
Vibe coding is not looking at the code, essentially. See what Simon Willison has written about it (the original term was coined[0] by Andrej Karpathy): https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/19/vibe-coding/
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by Cyphase 2y ago
https://www.paulgraham.com/mod.html > There are two distinct ways to be politically moderate: on purpose and by accident. Intentional moderates are trimmers, deliberately choosing a position mid-way between the extremes
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by Cyphase 2y ago
That badge is from Not By AI: https://notbyai.fyi/about
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by Cyphase 2y ago
> it seems to me that with only 600 accounts losing an average of ~$800 each From the article: > AustralianSuper, the country's largest fund managing A$365 billion for 3.5 million members, said that up to 600 member passwords had
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by Cyphase 2y ago
A bunch of NET SEND stories in this old thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28844101 As I said there, back in the day I wrote a C++ program that was basically an IM interface on top of NET SEND. Fun times.
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by Cyphase 2y ago
Leslie Lamport gave the closing keynote at SCaLE 22x this year, talking about formal methods and TLA+. He mentioned some previous work Amazon has done in that area. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsSDvflzJbc > Coding is
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by Cyphase 2y ago
The costs their parent mentioned are the costs now, not back when the system was originally built.
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by Cyphase 2y ago
This is not the same as, but reminded me of, patio11's writing on how banks have side channels for the professional-managerial class. https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/seeing-like-a-bank/ > As a sophi
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by Cyphase 2y ago
> In ideal world, we wouldn't have any business. Said every security company ever. :)
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by Cyphase 2y ago
Wordfence is pretty cool. Heard about it and your security research for years before I ever used the plugin, then started using it with a client in the past couple years. My time with it is ending shortly (see my comment elsewhere on this
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by Cyphase 2y ago
Not too short or it's too easy to guess. The app might be stateless right now (I haven't checked); if it is, adding a URL shortener will break that.
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by Cyphase 2y ago
Myself. Been a freelance dev for years, now going on "sabbatical" (love that word) shortly. Planning to do a lot of learning, self-improvement, and projects. Tech-related and not. Preparing for the next volume (not chapter) of lif
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by Cyphase 2y ago
Random tangent: The Bitcoin address linked to in the README holds ~0.2 BTC, worth ~$17,000 at the moment. The last transaction was in 2015 when Bitcoin was worth much less. All transactions are receiving, not sending. Only one of the transa
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by Cyphase 2y ago
https://usebottles.com/
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by Cyphase 2y ago
I believe there are reasons this isn't a solution for everybody, but I just use the mobile website. Works for me, and probably a lot of people. I'd rather not have the app on my phone anyway.
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by Cyphase 2y ago
I've heard tell that some software out there will refuse to operate on Windows Server because of licensing, like perhaps they want you to get a business license. I have no evidence at hand, but something to look into.
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Nixbook – user friendly, lightweight, durable, autoupdating OS built on NixOS(github.com)
4 points by Cyphase 2y ago|0 comments
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by Cyphase 2y ago
There are some things available, and people are working on it. Coincidentally, one of those people is Russell Keith-Magee of Django fame, who founded the BeeWare project. https://beeware.org/ https://beeware.org&
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by Cyphase 2y ago
Awesome, I hope this work continues. I got to put my hands on a One a few weeks ago at SCaLE 22x[0], where the Software Freedom Conservancy was the "Network Sponsor"[1] and the WiFi was being provided by a bunch of Ones. [0] http
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by Cyphase 2y ago
Previously: OpenWRT One Released: First Router Designed Specifically for OpenWrt - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42285689 - Dec 2024 (144 comments)
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by Cyphase 2y ago
That "Two" will hopefully retail for around 250 dollars. The full sentence: > "Two" will (hopefully) be in the 250$ region with yet again a portion of that being donated to the project.
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by Cyphase 2y ago
Apologies for the mistake. I'm running a Signal fork called Molly[0]; the feature I mentioned seems to be unique to that fork, based on a search of the code. However, it shows that the data is being provided to the client by the server
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by Cyphase 2y ago
This doesn't invalidate your point, but FYI, you can open your contact's info in the Signal app and see the number of linked devices they have. If someone is concerned enough about this, they could ask their contact to unlink all
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by Cyphase 2y ago
This: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/26/us/pedophile-... > Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral
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by Cyphase 2y ago
What's your point/goal with this and your cousin comments? Yes, of course at some point you need to trust a binary or verify yourself. I'm technically correct and you're technically correct. What are you getting at? Do y
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by Cyphase 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal
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by Cyphase 2y ago
It does matter that it requires compromising the device instead of the server being able to read all messages. All cryptosystems are vulnerable to compromised devices and $5 wrenches.

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