XMPPwocky

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by XMPPwocky 5y ago
"Not to mention you will never--and I mean never--get people of a certain temperament to go along with an ever-changing set of rules designed to inflict zero emotional distress." Why not? Because they'll throw tantrums, whini
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by XMPPwocky 5y ago
For folks who have actually set up srsRAN for anything besides a trivial configuration w/ one eNB and manual management of most things (and even then), the value-add of having Amazon worry about most of that stuff is clear. It's,
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by XMPPwocky 5y ago
"This is valuable work in the economy because you want [...trimmed...] people who are good at running businesses to do that once it has roots." In my experience, things tend to get dramatically worse for users when a business is a
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by XMPPwocky 5y ago
"Is there a footgun here that doesn't have an equivalent in GCM?" Maaaybe- if you're doing the composition yourself. You have to differentiate between the AAD and the ciphertext somehow, and you can screw that up (e.g. n
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by XMPPwocky 5y ago
"LibreJS is a good example in order to kill any potential Spectre/Meltdown attack. There is no attack when no code is being run." If attackers who cannot add a comment to their exploit are in your threat model. Personally, I&
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by XMPPwocky 5y ago
probing silicon is just hard and expensive, not impossible! - though those might be similar enough for most purposes
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by XMPPwocky 5y ago
While ECC memory is probably important and probably better than nothing, if there's one thing we've learned about Rowhammer it's that the obvious mitigations that "should" stop or detect it often fail to a clever at
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by XMPPwocky 5y ago
"As long as it's better than the average driver, it's an improvement." Careful- this is true if interpreted juuust right, but it's subtle. Ultimately, you care about, roughly, the net decrease in Bad Things (injuri
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by XMPPwocky 5y ago
"Imagine being in Minecraft, then walking your avatar through a portal that takes you into Roblox. Or more likely just hitting a button and being there." Microsoft has actually been experimenting with this technology for a while -
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by XMPPwocky 5y ago
The second half of that summarized: if you want to do cryptographic voting, OK- but print out paper ballots too, with both the votes in human-readable format and a QR code or something containing a hash of the protocol transcript or somethi
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by XMPPwocky 5y ago
Right - it seems like at most what you want is a Merkle tree published at the end of the election, with all counted votes (in a coercion-resistant way, using the mechanisms described). Need to order events to support a more complicated prot
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by XMPPwocky 5y ago
> A simple approximation for environmental damage is the cost in $. Neglecting externalities seems like the exact opposite of what you'd want to do in a discussion about environmental impact.
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by XMPPwocky 5y ago
Except that: 1. difficulty calculations only happen every 2 weeks - so this would result in a comically bad UX where your transactions confirm dramatically faster or slower depending on the weather 2. the network security provided from mi
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by XMPPwocky 5y ago
This is untrue, of course. 51% attack resistance requires that mining be resource-intensive and have significant opportunity costs. Otherwise - if mining is not costly and wasteful- it's not costly for an attacker. If electricity price
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by XMPPwocky 5y ago
I don't think it's entirely unreasonable to feel weird about watching old DVDs of the Cosby Show, for example. With the "benefit" of context, the vibes are sort of irrevocably off.
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by XMPPwocky 5y ago
To be clear, most of the folks doing this sort of security research are probably worse programmers than your average senior dev, or at least not noticeably better. It's a distinct skillset. To whatever extent they might build softwar
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by XMPPwocky 5y ago
Paying somebody to write buggy code on purpose is a bit like pissing into the ocean.
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by XMPPwocky 5y ago
"I work on ads at Google" why?
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by XMPPwocky 6y ago
If your only selling point is lower fees, why don't I just make a site that takes 0.9% and eat your lunch?
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by XMPPwocky 6y ago
So they'd have to be socketed? That means no HBM, which seems unfortunate. (If you mean just replacing the entire card... why not replace the entire console? All you'd be getting from the host system would be power (probably as 12
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by XMPPwocky 6y ago
Aren't you just suggesting "big Tegra"? If the host PC isn't providing anything but maybe storage and networking...why not just buy a console?
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by XMPPwocky 6y ago
None of those questions seem to be relevant to whether or not there was some sort of smart device involved.
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by XMPPwocky 6y ago
> They advocate immediate disclosure of zero day exploits found by government How do you think governments find these vulnerabilities? Accidentally, under the couch cushions? What you actually seem to be proposing- in practice- is a ban
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by XMPPwocky 6y ago
Your article seems to directly contradict the idea that any sort of IoT / "smart" device was involved: > Fazio Mechanical Services just issued an official statement through a PR company, stating that its “data connection w
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by XMPPwocky 6y ago
> Most people would want to know a backup is corrupt before they started the restore, not partway through it. Yes, which often makes OpenPGP a bad choice, because of how it has to authenticate things (requiring multiple passes). Many imp
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by XMPPwocky 6y ago
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by XMPPwocky 6y ago
> Bro hardware with improper software can break or kill. To be fair, this doesn't seem to have stopped Tesla before.
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by XMPPwocky 6y ago
Why does it matter how well-written it is? Shouldn't it just matter if the points are valid or not?
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by XMPPwocky 6y ago
Ignoring the fact that the value of the use of atomic bombs against Japan is heavily debated to this day... Can you think of anything that might have changed from 1945 to 1981 in terms of geopolitics, such that the use of nuclear weapons by
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by XMPPwocky 6y ago
What would you estimate the ratio of, say, the highest award ever granted in the US for damages due to personal injury to the CIA's annual budget is? Scientific notation is OK.

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