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by Phemist 3y ago
This is another hot take, the word factor is overloaded (by marketing people) to be really confusing. The three factors of auth are categories / types. TOTP, password-entry into a form, biometric presentation, etc are _measures_. Somet
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by Phemist 3y ago
Argh. Passwords are amazing. I loathe many of the attempts at replacing them simply because the _average_ user has proven to be unable to manage them. The three factors of authentication are a thing because they all protect against somewhat
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by Phemist 4y ago
It is likely recording the whole time - e.g. also while the person is moving their iris in view of the camera. So, I would expect them to have captured a seriously significant AND deduplicated (through the iris) database of faces as well.
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by Phemist 4y ago
>(And yes, I do sideload apps -- including one I've written myself -- on my Android phone. So this isn't a theoretical "don't take my freedom" type concern.) Over the years I have built several very small, very s
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by Phemist 4y ago
This was done out of an abundance of caution, I'm sure.
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by Phemist 4y ago
not copyrighted, but trademarked.
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by Phemist 4y ago
> If you are using our ECDSA or Ed25519 keys, you will not notice any change and no action is needed. How is this true? AFAIK, A MITM with the github priv key will be able to do an SSH downgrade attack...
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by Phemist 4y ago
Yes, but 1) you would not be using their data, and 2) you are not bound by their ToS if you never signed up to their service right..
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by Phemist 4y ago
IANAL, but wouldnt feeding the training data into alpaca and then having it output similar text not construe new data that is not copyrighted by stanford/openai/facebook? (It would be a significantly creative and novel worm to get
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by Phemist 4y ago
So, assuming that this "mismanagement" is not just happening in the crypto space, but across the board in other spaces too, they are missing out on short-term money, but are more valuable for the searches that users are now doing
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by Phemist 4y ago
I see a resemblance between the question whether this AI is truly decoding brain activity into images, and Scott Aaronson's philosophical waxing about whether waterfall truly compute functions (answer: no, because the algorithmic compl
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by Phemist 4y ago
I agree with the GP. Why would selling it solve the issues with the product? How much of the product can be salvaged? They have a well-known brandname, but it is arguably radioactive now. The product as software can be rebranded, but why go
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by Phemist 4y ago
And as was predicted, clippy will rise again.
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by Phemist 4y ago
It's not such an issue when it's lying on its back, as the camera sticks out slightly and I guess adds enough friction that it doesn't start to move. The front is the issue. My current case is a hard plastic case that lifts u
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by Phemist 4y ago
Without a case, my samsung A51, when lying on the screen-side, simply slides off the table after a while. Any table. Not sure what the mechanism of action is here, but I guess it's too smooth?...
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by Phemist 4y ago
>The brain, or parts of it, are great at producing "explanations". I think that it was part of the more established and reproducible results of psychology that our brain first decides and acts, and only then produces some (ofte
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by Phemist 4y ago
YYMV: I'm on an OnePlus 8 using the Microsoft Authenticator App. OS update changed the PIN pad, which in turn soft-broke the M$ authenticator app's PIN lock security, rather than presenting a PIN pad to enter my PIN code, it now p
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by Phemist 4y ago
Yeah.. but luckily the add-on is simple enough that a source-code inspection is feasible (which I did). There's nothing weird going on in the add-on, but please do your own due diligence :)
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by Phemist 4y ago
Some time ago, a nice fellow HN user @boriselec wrote a browser plugin for, in the end, my personal use (as barely anyone uses it), that redirects all video links to their /embed variant. /embed links are meant to be embedded in o
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by Phemist 4y ago
Im jealous! To me, from the sidelines, people working on SAT are like the experimentally-focused particle physicists of computer science.
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by Phemist 4y ago
Aha! I have edited my post. Thanks for the correction! Beautiful work, looks like something I'd like to play around with as well :)
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by Phemist 4y ago
I, unfortunately, cannot find an online copy currently. Knuth's TAOCP's latest published part, Volume 4 Fascicle 6, on Satisfiability contains a number of visualizations that really are amazing and worth just buying a copy of the
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by Phemist 4y ago
Meanwhile, UK Gov project One Login will use cloud services architectured by Experian: https://www.publictechnology.net/articles/news/government-pl...
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by Phemist 4y ago
In continental Europe (not the UK afaik), grad "students" are considered proper employees of the university. In my home country, they have been traditionally called "Assistant in Training", much akin to a paid apprentice
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by Phemist 4y ago
so in essence there is an additional constraint, that each touching edge has to be of a given minimal size. Each contiguous "blob" with a given circumference of N * this minimal size, can only connect to at most N other blobs.
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by Phemist 4y ago
aha, so infinities are not allowed. Fair enough, in that case the gray pixel needs to be filled with one of the colours and the two colours connected to that specific one become interchangeable.
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by Phemist 4y ago
https://blog.artsper.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/escher-2... Consider the gray pixel in the center a placeholder, much like Escher's place holder in the above image (because he couldn't thin
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by Phemist 4y ago
This is btw equivalent to a graph with 5 nodes, where all nodes are connected to every other node, which would quite obviously be impossible to colour with just 4 colours.
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by Phemist 4y ago
https://imgur.com/a/WJKb9fT I have always wondered about this sample. Consider the possible 4-colours to be red, blue, green and orange, as in the image. We need to determine the colour of the black square. All 4 colou
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by Phemist 4y ago
Code golfing is the act of finding ever and ever smaller, but functionally equivalent, expressions of a specific piece of code. Usually involves a lot of tricks specific to the language the golfing is done in. So yes, it would contain the P

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