ajconway

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by ajconway 5y ago
I stand corrected. Pretty close though.
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by ajconway 5y ago
> The device is not designed for that kind of computing in terms of battery size and thermal design Thermal design, maybe, but the iPad Pro battery has higher capacity than the on in MacBook Air, and they share the same SoC.
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by ajconway 5y ago
Matrix does have end-to-end encrypted persistent history.
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by ajconway 5y ago
It should be noted that this doesn't use any hardware-assisted virtualization acceleration.
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by ajconway 6y ago
> The fact that no one, in all time, has bothered to notice that the running code is different than the published code It’s client apps who verify (via attestation) that the code inside an SGX enclave is what they expect it to be, and cl
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by ajconway 6y ago
You can temporarily install your apps on your own device. They expire after 7 days, and you can't have more than 10 such apps installed simultaneously.
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by ajconway 6y ago
> In the same way an algorithm can never ever gain consciousness Not if consciousness turns out to be computable. In that case a brainfuck program could in theory produce conscious experience.
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by ajconway 6y ago
Actually, it has happened in the past. Windows Phone, a decent platform from the developer perspective failed to attract any significant interest. And that’s with all the resources of Microsoft and the recognition of Nokia.
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by ajconway 6y ago
No, people buy iPhones because they’re perceived as cool phones. And they are; the hardware is amazing, the software is ok, the freedoms... don’t concern a lot of users.
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by ajconway 6y ago
Is there a difference between private.sh and using a VPN?
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by ajconway 6y ago
> I also find it unbelievable to have so much code for a single app This point comes up in a lot of discussions about non-trivial software. My theory is that it's of the same nature as underestimating development complexity when pla
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by ajconway 6y ago
What is hope other than a symbol in our symbolic reasoning, bound to a set of specific emotions (that is, specific activations inside the brain)?
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by ajconway 6y ago
This comment is downvoted, but surprisingly it was the correct way to resolve the issue after attempting to "factory reset" an M1 Mac.
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by ajconway 6y ago
Words don't have stable definitions either. My point was that there is nothing special about emojis any more than there is about Chinese characters or Egyptian hieroglyphs.
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by ajconway 6y ago
Emoji are modern hieroglyphs. It's just an additional means of conveying meaning. > font designers now have control over the way I get to express my emotions This could have been a major issue, but media platforms recognized it and
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by ajconway 6y ago
> Only reason to get the pro if you want to keep complaining about the Touch Ba Also active cooling if you want to run CPU at full capacity for extended periods of time.
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by ajconway 6y ago
Using a VPN given to you by a service provider from whom you are trying to hide your IP seems to not achieve the goal. Letting users select their own VPN before using your service is too much friction. The advantage of Tor is that it's
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by ajconway 6y ago
Tor can be embedded into an application. Sadly, the service quality over Tor would be much worse than over a regular Internet connection.
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by ajconway 6y ago
The issue with pure p2p is that devices are not always online. Mobile devices usually forbid (or at least highly discourage) executing code in background which doesn’t help either.
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by ajconway 6y ago
What happens when a new client joins? Does it download the entire history of all transactions and replays them into the local database? Hot do concurrent modification get resolved (several clients try to modify the shared stage at the same
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by ajconway 6y ago
How do you deal with updating the local database when a client was offline for an extended period of time and missed a lot of transactions?
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by ajconway 6y ago
> Parallels Desktop Lite which to my understanding is a GUI to VF No, Parallels has its own hypervisor as a kernel module (mainly used pre-Big Sur) and can use Hypervisor Framework (mainly used with Big Sur). It also emulates a lot of ha
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by ajconway 6y ago
Because Apple users have done nothing wrong and deserve nice software too.
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by ajconway 6y ago
It’s easier to ban them selectively, achieving the desired level of censorship. You don’t need to shut down the entire public email network (although it’s possible to do with DPI). You would only need to ban the servers that are involved in
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by ajconway 6y ago
Correct, but so will the users until one of the sides gives up.
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by ajconway 6y ago
I don't see how this can be done without anonymization techniques like the onion routing. If you can think of one, please share.
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by ajconway 6y ago
Banning (or, more precisely, disturbing operation of) a decentralized service is much easier than a big, important centralized one. You just need to obtain the DNS names or IP addresses of the nodes the same way everyone else does — by part
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by ajconway 6y ago
There seems to be a kind of “network effect” here with CMake, considering how popular it is among C/C++ projects. Meson is more or less equivalent in the functionality it provides. There is also Gradle, but it doesn’t seem to have gain
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by ajconway 6y ago
Actually, it can be used to prevent that from happening in the future through facilitating security research that is not restricted to Apple-approved parties.
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by ajconway 6y ago
You're thinking business, but this is more like Teamspeak (or Discord).

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