Nitramp

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by Nitramp 5y ago
Yes, that's the problem. I think there should be a law organizing how big companies need to deal with high value (to the user) customer accounts. Unilaterally taking away hundreds of euros, irreplacable memories, etc., then putting the
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by Nitramp 5y ago
One might wonder: how is this legal? And I think the answer is simply it is not, at least not in Europe. I suspect the companies just do what they can get away with and what's cheapest to implement. When challenged in court they won&#x
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by Nitramp 5y ago
Dude, you recently had a right wing mob storm your parliament in an attempt to overthrow a democratic election in favor of a leader with clear fascist tendencies. Come on.
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by Nitramp 5y ago
Here's a probably truly unpopular opinion: I think it's reasonable policy to enable police, after a judgement by an impartial judge, to surveil suspects, encryption or not. This has worked reasonably well for decades, in Europe&#x
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by Nitramp 5y ago
I think this is a good list of interesting papers. But it also highlights how situational or context dependent such lists are, maybe necessarily so. Note how this list has little on program correctness, performance (big O or real world), di
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by Nitramp 5y ago
If you want to stress that [a certain crime] is already happening, I do not think it's an acceptable form of expression to commit [a certain crime] yourself, on unwitting victims.
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by Nitramp 5y ago
> I had sort of a similar reaction to this but then I thought that the artist here seems to have done this only to show people they are being surveyed or that hidden surveillance is easy. If you want to make an art piece exposing how muc
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by Nitramp 5y ago
FWIW, fissible material that's used with current technology is actually running out, with a similar timeline to oil. Fission is not an infinite energy source, despite appearances to the contrary. It's also not an cheap as one migh
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by Nitramp 5y ago
In Germany: 300/100 MBit for 40 €.
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by Nitramp 5y ago
> High Security organization (banks) Hahahahahahaha. Good one.
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by Nitramp 5y ago
Concealing doesn't work if you communicate in public or semi-public settings (e.g. a WhatsApp group). I think that's a deal breaker for many if not most people.
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by Nitramp 5y ago
> You mean, you'll bet money that a government can eventually technically defeat any cryptography? Or do you mean that a government will do an end-run around E2EE? Hard crypto is hard, no debate there. My point is that the governmen
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by Nitramp 5y ago
> the government itself routinely engages in unconstitutional and illegal covert surveillance of citizens. This must be the subject of legal and political debate, right? Otherwise people would sue in the Supreme Court (or have already do
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by Nitramp 5y ago
Right, but it's not that black and white. There are exceptions for law enforcement, and details as to where it is applicable. My point is that the solution is in politics and law making, to regulate these details. Case in point: in my
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by Nitramp 5y ago
> I am speaking from the perspective that all governments are corrupt, and as history shows, all governments can and one day will betray the trust of their citizens. I think it's worth being carefully about not falling into absolute
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by Nitramp 5y ago
I'm skeptical whether E2EE is the right lever here. We've seen that a sufficiently motivated government will figure out a way - exploiting security holes, backdooring personal devices, all the way to physically tapping fiber cable
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by Nitramp 5y ago
What's interesting to me on a meta level is that this appears to be a very hotly contested topic in the United States. Meanwhile it's not even making news over here in Germany, outside of "Americans are discussing odd things&
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by Nitramp 5y ago
My father related this story of a German farmer in the northwest of Germany, who it turned out, was Dutch. Apparently somebody incorrectly mapped the border line of 1648 after the 30 years war, and so this family had (barely) lived in the N
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by Nitramp 5y ago
I think they reference a "standard daily use"? But even if that's not strictly quantified, I think the manufacturer position is justifiable, in particular when advertising to consumers.
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by Nitramp 5y ago
I don't follow, I think? The tests that you link to suggest that SSDs meet and exceed their manufacturer's durability claims as measures in petabytes written. The problem appears to be that manufacturers want to translate that num
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by Nitramp 6y ago
My experience is that validation quickly becomes surprisingly complex, to the point of being infeasible to express in a message format. Not only are the constraints very hard to express (remember that one 2000 char regexp that really valida
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by Nitramp 6y ago
The article linked explicitly cites a study that disproves that assumption. People cannot tell liars apart better than chance even when watching videos of murderers' interrogations.
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by Nitramp 6y ago
> The code in question did sscanf("%d", ...), which you read as “parse the digits at the start of the string into a number,” which is obviously linear. I think part of the problem is that scanf has a very broad API and many fea
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by Nitramp 6y ago
- do not implement your own JSON parser (I mean, really?). - if you do write a parser, do not use scanf (which is complex and subtle) for parsing, write a plain loop that dispatches on characters in a switch. But really, don't.
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by Nitramp 6y ago
John Steinbeck arguably did that for your first image: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grapes_of_Wrath It's not really apples to apples of course. Steinbeck describes much more, but also takes much more time t
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by Nitramp 6y ago
Assuming a message is 200 bytes or so, searching millions of messages is trivially doable on your phone (200 MB full text index). Billions is pushing it a bit, but you can work around on the app level (e.g. only index the last month in high
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by Nitramp 6y ago
I understood the original poster as saying a system providing only key/value storage is not the same as a file system. I'd think that's something we can all agree on?
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by Nitramp 6y ago
I read the opposite - producing mRNA fragments at scale is supposedly cheaper than producing the inactivated vector viruses with the correct payload.
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by Nitramp 6y ago
A Unix file system is not only a map from paths to inodes to bytes. Unix file systems support a host of additional apis, some of which are hard to implement on top of something like s3 (eg atomically renaming a parent path). Even if you dro
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by Nitramp 6y ago
> Such a world never existed, does not exist, and will never exist. Politics are a center of power. You can ban money all you want, but all you'll accomplish is create a 'black market'. I posit that you do not want to live

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