MallocVoidstar

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by MallocVoidstar 4y ago
You're referencing fake tweets.
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by MallocVoidstar 4y ago
"Elon Musk (parody)" as a display name is very visible and yet apparently violates Twitter's rules.
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by MallocVoidstar 4y ago
Unmentioned in the article is that accounts parodying Musk, clearly labeled as parodies, are being suspended and banned: https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1589499887900819457 https://twitter.com/
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by MallocVoidstar 4y ago
You can't even name yourself "Elon Musk (Parody)" - you'll get suspended. https://twitter.com/xor/status/1589402790732128256
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by MallocVoidstar 4y ago
Musk replied to a tweet saying "investigation needed" with "yup", he didn't say "Yes, they sold verification."
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by MallocVoidstar 4y ago
A nitter instance should work: https://nitter.kavin.rocks/lisabloom/status/1588359669843513...
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New Twitter Blue verification checkmark has no ID requirements(twitter.com)
14 points by MallocVoidstar 4y ago|2 comments
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by MallocVoidstar 4y ago
Crypto people are generally not in favor of providing your government ID for things. "Pay $8 in crypto and also give us your identification documents" will not be popular.
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by MallocVoidstar 4y ago
Will they actually be doing ID verification? Binance is one of the investors, so it might just be "if you can pay $8 you can be whoever you want, at least for a while".
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by MallocVoidstar 4y ago
Pretty sure he's replacing the notability-based verification system with "pay $8/mo to get a checkmark".
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by MallocVoidstar 4y ago
> Meanwhile it can be assumed that anyone that doesn't verify is likely pushing false information. Or they're in a region where $20 is a significant portion of their monthly income. Of course, their government will be able to a
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by MallocVoidstar 4y ago
* Fixed two buffer overflows in punycode decoding functions. A buffer overrun can be triggered in X.509 certificate verification, specifically in name constraint checking. Note that this occurs after certificat
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by MallocVoidstar 4y ago
He started buying Twitter before the poll.
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by MallocVoidstar 4y ago
A lot of big name people will add small notes about important announcements to their display names (new book out, stuff like that) so preventing name changes entirely would be very unpopular.
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by MallocVoidstar 4y ago
>The link says "my friend got this", so even the person who authored that post isn't claiming to have received this notice. This is a second hand report, at best. For all we know, their friend received this notice years ag
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by MallocVoidstar 4y ago
>It's 761Mbps, which probably accounts for some overhead/latencies (f.e. downloading many pieces of a torrent or many articles of an NZB). Hetzner tracks outbound bandwidth only, the relevant servers are uploading, not download
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by MallocVoidstar 4y ago
>"anything not illegal is allowed" sounds decent to me; if you want stuff illegal, make it illegal. Twitter is based in the US, the 1st Amendment protects hate speech such as explicit support for genocide. I don't consider
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by MallocVoidstar 4y ago
Sisvel's AV1 patent pool is intended to stop AV1 from being royalty-free
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by MallocVoidstar 4y ago
It may also be Sisvel, based in Luxembourg and has been trying to use patents against AV1.
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by MallocVoidstar 4y ago
I gave cjxl a 16-bit depth PNG, told it to use lossless encoding, and it gave me a 16-bit depth JXL. Seems so.
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by MallocVoidstar 4y ago
Both of the cited tweets were made after he was informed about the article. The journalist did not report this because of those tweets.
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by MallocVoidstar 4y ago
Here's the post where the CEO said R2 can serve video/image just fine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28682885
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by MallocVoidstar 5y ago
Do you have a source for this? Every page on Mullvad I've seen says you need to have the VPN active: https://mullvad.net/en/help/socks5-proxy/ > If you configure your browser, for example, to use the
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by MallocVoidstar 5y ago
Mullvad's SOCKS proxies are only accessible if you've got the VPN active; they're an additional layer, not an alternative.