Hizonner

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by Hizonner 8mo ago
This is a really frustrating topic, because there are so many layers of wrong. First you have people running around claiming that systems are "anonymous" and "privacy preserving"... meaning that they're anonymous i
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The argument is that the mechanisms in use in the German IDs (and others like them) rely on trusted parties and/or trusted hardware, and therefore don't adequately assure anonymity. And this is in fact true; the trusted parties ar
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When the government threatens the private sector into doing something, the result is not entirely private sector.
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No reasonable person could argue that the system you describe should be allowed to decide that.
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Well, then, you'd better make sure that's what your bureaucrats are actually keeping off the air. I'm sure the process allows for any citizen to review all of the rejected material in full, right? And you've done your pa
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Baronet: a sort of lesser baron. Baroness: a female of rank equivalent to a baron. Baronette: what the fuck?
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> Christ, I don't get the step relative thing, It's not a "step relative" thing. It's a relative thing. Sticking "step" in the titles is a dodge.
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If SEO works, that's a Google problem.
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Nobody wants to be fucking "engaged with" at your bakery. Give me my order, take my money, and let me fucking go.
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Lot of unsupported "impossibles" in there.
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> Clearly a large number of programmers have a bent [...] Perhaps programmers have a clear idea of what's given up when you do things your way. I'm not sure you do.
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If the actual bank app does that, or is even easy to fool into doing that, then the bank should be responsible. That's the world "regular people" want and it's the world as it should be. If random malware the user chos
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by Hizonner 8mo ago
Yeah, "memory" just means "context pollution", at least for the general chat interface.
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You have to trust someone to verify age. You don't have to trust somebody not to track how the resulting credential is used. And that is what "zero knowledge" means. It means that after you finish the protocol, nobody has lea
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IPFS doesn't even try to do any kind of anonymity or censorship resistance. In a practical sense it's probably worse than BitTorrent, although neither one of them is up to the task. Actually resilient data distribution is hard ,
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> Government can track all salts for your tokens, site can collect all salts, they can compare notes. That is not zero knowledge. Given that actual zero-knowledge systems are well understood, the only reason to deploy a system that all
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"Society" isn't demanding anything. A vocal minority of idiots, unfortunately overrepresented among the kind of people who tend to run for office, is demanding things, 95 percent based on stupid delusions and childish prejudi
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You're assuming that that "message" would persuade anybody. It'd be more likely to make more people do it.
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by Hizonner 8mo ago
You know what's really cheap and scalable? Not doing such moronic shit at all.
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Colorado is cordially invited to eat shit.
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Ever occur to you that it's good for Google if there's some public visibility of what Google is being forced to do?
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> I'm not aware of any such thing, especially anything "indiscriminate". You are wilfully unaware. > For sure there are causalities when protests go from speech to violence or directly interfere with the ability of la
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> Since the fertility problem is worldwide Slowed population growth, or even population shrinkage, is worldwide. The fertility "problem" is only inside some people's heads.
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I am pretty sure nation states hire people smart enough to use whatever works. What the hell is more effective than getting root with a trivial MITM? Not only is it effective, it's stealthy , in that it doesn't out you. It's
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Apparently it's also outside the scope of their bug fixing program, despite being trivially remotely exploitable to get privileged code execution. Man in the middle attacks may be "out of scope" for AMD, but they're st
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Difficulty: the "populace" is everywhere. If you own everything, and you bomb the populace, you bomb your own stuff. If everybody works for you, and you bomb the populace, you bomb your own serfs. And those faceless individuals wh
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by Hizonner 8mo ago
> apart from which website you logged on and when Which is the whole damned problem, obviously. > This quite literally the standard of Signal [1]. Yes, Signal is weak in a similar way. Although there is a difference between having t
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Then what, exactly, do you mean by "employment mandates"? You're the one who suggested that. Nobody "mandates" work to survive right now. But we do have a system where everything is owned by somebody, and ownership
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I'm sure Think-o-Tron 9000 will find some kind of use for Thiel. I can't think of one myself, but then I'm not a superintelligence.
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> through employment mandates Be careful not to create a permanent future of mandatory makework.

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