XorNot

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901.
by XorNot 10mo ago
dgit handles the whole affair with very little fuss I've found and is quite a pleasant workflow.
902.
by XorNot 10mo ago
Are all the attendees of a Linux conference Linux developers? Are all the people who attend CCC penetration testers?
903.
by XorNot 10mo ago
I literally only use Windows for games. And I guess now RealityScan which is gaming adjacent. If I had the confidence that I could play a new release on Linux day 1 without trading an enormous amount of performance, I wouldn't need Win
904.
by XorNot 10mo ago
On the one hand I'm impressed but 800 is really super low . I was losing about a kilo a week at the peak of my diet eating double that.
905.
by XorNot 10mo ago
Most developed medical technology doesn't have "a cost". That's puritan morality theater masquerading as wisdom.
906.
by XorNot 10mo ago
The word itself is just insufferable at this point. The media collectively went bonkers for it while describing COVID vaccine delivery.
907.
by XorNot 10mo ago
That's what GLP-1 drugs are doing? Like...this is the premier argument as to why they work.
908.
by XorNot 10mo ago
A meaningless statement if you aren't going to introduce any points of comparison. But I would hardly call 735 conference participants a huge conference. Like, that's big but there are lot more then 735 theoretical physicists.
909.
by XorNot 10mo ago
Except this is how electrons actually go, and it has real testable consequences. The question I'm aware of (because it related to my degree in nanotechnology) was: are metals conductive at different dimensionalities? Because at the n
910.
by XorNot 10mo ago
You write this as though reality is a 4X game and we're obviously wasting time not clicking on the other item in the tech tree to optimize the build.
911.
by XorNot 10mo ago
There is not a "huge chunk" of the theoretical physics community working on string theory, and their never was. For one, it is far less common a topic of research now then it was earlier when it was more popular, but even then &qu
912.
by XorNot 10mo ago
This hardly disproves the point: no one is taking this topic seriously. They're just making up a hostile scenario from science fiction and declaring that's what'll happen.
913.
by XorNot 10mo ago
There are plenty of Nobel laureates who well, do rest on their laurels and dive deep into pseudoscience after that. Accomplishment in one field does not make one an expert, nor even particularly worth listening to, in any other. Certainly i
914.
by XorNot 10mo ago
Or more likely you're just not that important and will be imprisoned without cause because close enough is good enough. People always seem to imagine tyranny worries about a standard of evidence. Tyranny has arrest quotas, evidence opt
915.
by XorNot 10mo ago
For the average paranoid person who is wasting their life on it, sure But large organizations like defense are all about distributed trust anyway - even if you could verify the hardware, the guy you order to do it is going to be a whole com
916.
by XorNot 10mo ago
For me everything goes in Keepass. And the only thing I want in life is the ability to change a password from Keepass in a standardized way. Instead we've got Passkeys and the general promise by omission that I will be banned from us
917.
by XorNot 10mo ago
It's the fact that there's no physical artifact that's the problem - there's no file. You can't back up your passkeys and wind up with something you put in a safe on a USB key or something and vendors have been aggr
918.
by XorNot 10mo ago
3 technological devices which I can't validate by checking if the physical piece of paper is still legible in a safe.
919.
by XorNot 10mo ago
The point of translation is to translate. If both parties wind up comprehending what was said then you've succeeded.
920.
by XorNot 10mo ago
Getting byte exact text isn't the point though: even if it's different, I as the original writer can still look at roundtripped text and evaluate that it has the same meaning. It's not a lossy process, and N round-trips shoul
921.
by XorNot 10mo ago
Translation AI though has provable behavior cases though: round tripping. An ideal translation is one which round-trips to the same content, which at least implies a consistency of representation. No such example or even test as far as I kn
922.
by XorNot 10mo ago
Not really? In 1984 you were made an active participant of the oppression. The thought police and 5 minutes hate all required your active, enthusiastic participation. Brave New World was apathy: the system was comfortable, Soma was freely a
923.
by XorNot 11mo ago
Which is still protecting secrets at rest. What are people not getting about this? The point of a shared keyring is to enable applications to share secrets. My git tokens are shared between git, my IDE, various scripts etc. This discussio
924.
by XorNot 11mo ago
> Should American owned or controlled companies be banned in other countries? This is hardly the "gotcha" you're framing it as. Building sovereign capability has shot to the top of a lot nations priority lists. In a lot of
925.
by XorNot 11mo ago
Discovered this recently when I wanted to set my perfect retro feeling company logo onto the MOTD of some hardware so we'd have it on the serial port.
926.
by XorNot 11mo ago
All of that is about protecting secrets at rest on the device. It is of no protection at all if an application simply asks the secure-whatever for them and then proceeds to email them all to someone else. The secrets in the keyring of my se
927.
by XorNot 11mo ago
Most people disable that. The reality is no one wants to be prompted everytime for a password. They want it to auto fill. In complaining about this people are setting the boundary at the wrong place, and in proposing solutions assuming user
928.
by XorNot 11mo ago
Where do you think those secrets are going to be stored otherwise and how are you planning to authenticate to them? If you're not entering a password at some point, then they're in memory and available to all anyway. If no system
929.
by XorNot 11mo ago
It's also an asymmetric process: getting setup for less pure ore is capital intensive, but once you are the available abundance of your new feedstock can push prices lower then they were before.
930.
by XorNot 11mo ago
This hits the nail on the head exactly.

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