RL_Quine

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by RL_Quine 5y ago
You literally explain in your comment that you’re mad that you can’t continue to use a known vulnerable system which has been out of vogue for years. I’m confused.
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by RL_Quine 5y ago
By the same token, I’m pretty upset that MySQL doesn’t actually involve elephants or dolphins. A name is just a name, I doubt anybody could be fooled into thinking that this has anything to do with quantum computing.
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by RL_Quine 5y ago
Surprisingly, they actually are blue dies with red phosphor. Keeping all the colours the same forward voltage makes driving them a lot easier, as well as having all the colours in the same production process.
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by RL_Quine 5y ago
> No, it's not. Although as many other scientific facts it is often being stretched beyond the extreme in order to use it to legitimize crazy theories and/or sell products. That is a very common practice. As far as I've
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by RL_Quine 5y ago
Frying.
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by RL_Quine 5y ago
PC104 has a connector that simply nobody has, is giant, and routes a bunch of signals nobody wants. It's a very very old world way of doing this.
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by RL_Quine 5y ago
They implemented end to end encryption in iMessage to collect more data? There's a vast array of technical instances where apple has gone above and beyond to implement privacy preserving technology, even when they weren't talking
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by RL_Quine 5y ago
This seems extremely petty, does the author actually think that this reflects well on them? It really doesn't.
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by RL_Quine 5y ago
What do you expect it to be "encrypted" with? Unless the user is entering a password every time they start the browser, there's nothing unique to a system that other malware can't just extract and use to decrypt the data
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by RL_Quine 5y ago
It's pretty clear from the design and marketing that what they are producing is not supposed to be a versatile device, or the best device for any task, or the most state of the art device. It has well defined artificial limits in terms
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by RL_Quine 5y ago
If the website is "hugged", nobody can reach the page with the javascript to make WebRTC connections. People tend to close the window after they're done watching anyway, which sort of negates the whole concept.
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by RL_Quine 5y ago
Evil company decides not to take a loss on hosting probably zettabytes of video? It's really hard to paint youtube as the villain here and keep a straight face.
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by RL_Quine 5y ago
It's pretty hard to imagine what people think they gain by "switching" to PeerTube. Beyond idealism, there's not a whole lot going for the platform technically; it isn't peer to peer meaningfully. It would be better
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by RL_Quine 5y ago
Some systems do have two parity bits but obviously there’s efficiency loss there.
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by RL_Quine 5y ago
It says to email abuse@matrix.org to get “unblocked”, what control do they have to do this?
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by RL_Quine 5y ago
Like in medical gear, avionics also has a lot of redundancy and "useless" circuitry to allow for assurances. I've opened some hardware designed for unsafe environments that was absolutely packed with fuses, for seemingly no p
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by RL_Quine 5y ago
I can’t tell if this is satire or not.
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by RL_Quine 5y ago
It has small signatures, small key sizes, and is fast. Nobody ever claimed that ecdsa/eddsa was quantum safe, it obviously isn't.
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by RL_Quine 5y ago
<@root> Anyone who needs a bnc bnc.freenode.net 6697 nickname:pass (nickserv nick/pass) Vendetta? Competing offering.
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by RL_Quine 5y ago
The "safety number" also encodes both participants phone numbers (the verifier and the person to be verified). So you would be a little foolish to publish it in say, a blog post if you weren't intending those phone numbers to
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by RL_Quine 5y ago
50/60hz requires a large transformer core. Switching power supplies rectify to DC, then drive the transformer at potentially megahertz which increases efficiency and substantially reduces the size and weight of the core. For similar re
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by RL_Quine 6y ago
Yep the date matches perfectly, they hid the signal-server repository explicitly to keep their MobileCoin integration secret for a year. This is bad even for them.
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by RL_Quine 6y ago
Author: Moxie Marlinspike <moxie+github@signal.org> AuthorDate: Thu Apr 2 12:45:24 2020 -0700 Commit: Moxie Marlinspike <moxie+github@signal.org> CommitDate: Wed Apr 22 12:32:53 2020 -0700 Support
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by RL_Quine 6y ago
Google Cache shows that as of Apr 6, 2021 00:16:05 GMT the source had not been updated since 2020, so it happened within the last 6 hours. https://i.imgur.com/r1Y0Wgz.png http://webcache.googleusercontent.com&#x2
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by RL_Quine 6y ago
This is a change that's very recent, perhaps even in response to this article in particular. https://web.archive.org/web/20210311053716/https://github.co... As of earlier this month, the repository
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by RL_Quine 6y ago
> "Moxie, as an individual, is a paid technical advisor to MobileCoin" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26715013 This seems incompatible with the spirit of the quote in the article.
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by RL_Quine 6y ago
Mastodon, Matrix and others suffer that issue greatly. You can't really run single-user instances without running a gigantic installation, when a minimal implementation of their protocols should have no footprint to speak of.
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by RL_Quine 6y ago
On some level, they can't prevent you from just using the backend. Unfortunately just maintaining a fork with different branding is essentially a full time job, I used to do this so that I could use a work and personal number in two in
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by RL_Quine 6y ago
> Signal chose MobileCoin because nothing else met their performance and privacy standards. Signal has obvious financial connections to MobileCoin, something that frankly nobody else has ever heard of before today. I find it really dif
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by RL_Quine 6y ago
"Moxie, as an individual, is a paid technical advisor to MobileCoin"

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