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by barathr 4y ago
Zero Trust certainly has its benefits over the old perimeter-based model, but it also requires new, and massive, trust in third-party cloud providers. A bit more on that: https://invisv.com/articles/zerotrust.html What
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by barathr 4y ago
I was hoping to see in the article -- but didn't -- an analysis of the CO2e per KJ produced from natural hydrogen. Water vapor is a greenhouse gas and it'd be important to do the math to see how much better it is vs. other alterna
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by barathr 4y ago
Someone needs to write an update to the classic book Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich. A short review gives the flavor: https://jech.bmj.com/content/57/12/928 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by barathr 4y ago
Klinenberg's book "Palaces for the People" is very worth a (quick) read. Talks about the importance of physical, "social infrastructure" (similar to the idea of "third places") in cities that enable people
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by barathr 4y ago
And this was known to be a problem a year ago and Merck kept pushing it forward despite its low efficacy and risk for driving mutation. Meanwhile Paxlovid is underprescribed despite its effectiveness.
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by barathr 4y ago
Classic paper on soil moisture sensors (from 2010!) -- the title says it all: "Mate, we don't need a chip to tell us the soil's dry" https://doi.org/10.1145/1858171.1858211
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Mathematician Explains Infinity in 5 Levels of Difficulty(youtube.com)
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by barathr 4y ago
It's been fascinating to see the collision of security and smart contracts. Smart contracts in some ways represent an idealized view of the law, of law as code divorced from the messiness of reality, and security and hacking has a way
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Kevin Mitnick Hacked California Law in 1983(schneier.com)
133 points by barathr 4y ago|86 comments
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by barathr 4y ago
Is there a good kid-friendly python book that would go with Thonny (doesn't have to specifically mention Thonny, though)?
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What they don’t teach you at STEM school(metarationality.com)
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by barathr 4y ago
@futurebird@sauropods.win -- science, math, entomology @librarianshipwreck@mastodon.social -- pithy critiques, cats @nomdeb@mstdn.social -- history and other random things @OkieSpaceQueen@scicomm.xyz -- science communications, conspiracy de
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by barathr 4y ago
We wrote a short paper estimating and analyzing this sort of thing, and the numbers don't add up: https://raghavan.usc.edu/papers/smartfarm-limits21.pdf Maybe there's something different in this specific tech
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Martin Luther King: The Three Evils of Society (1967)(youtube.com)
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by barathr 4y ago
It expands in the holes you make in the to-be-destroyed concrete, cracking it. You can haul it off in chunks at that point.
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by barathr 4y ago
It's also useful if you want to do concrete demolition yourself using only hand tools. You drill holes, pour, wait for cracks, and then use a pick and hammer to remove the remaining chunks. Often sold as "expansive grout".
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by barathr 4y ago
I think he was fairly skeptical but said the proof would come when someone tries to implement it; he now links to Aaronson's take in his original blog post.
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by barathr 4y ago
Yeah, this seems like something that is cheap and low-tech that does close to the same thing. And a wheel in the heel allows for more control for the wearer with fewer things that can go wrong.
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by barathr 4y ago
And Schneier's own post expressed skepticism while noting that this is something that should be check-able now.
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by barathr 4y ago
It's called Impagliazzo's Worlds Paper: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=14678868687868063... A classic paper that explores what happens if various scenarios come to pass. Would be worth exploring some o
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by barathr 4y ago
Yeah, I think this is a sign that while, as the post notes, it's not clear that this is a 100% airtight paper/algorithm, there are major advancements happening in this space.
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Breaking RSA with a quantum computer?(schneier.com)
259 points by barathr 4y ago|152 comments
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by barathr 4y ago
Ventura also broke DNS-over-TLS support and reliable blocking of domains using /etc/hosts. Some browsers are no longer able to use either on Ventura while other browsers do.
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by barathr 4y ago
FWIW, I'm not convinced that this piece will be right for more than a few years into the future. I think it's an interesting discussion piece, though. Context matters a ton and a lot of programming is understanding context and r
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The End of Programming(cacm.acm.org)
130 points by barathr 4y ago|155 comments
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by barathr 4y ago
Here are a few among many: https://mastodon.social/@b0rk https://abyssdomain.expert/@filippo https://ioc.exchange/@matthew_d_green https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza
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by barathr 4y ago
Global trends are happening there nevertheless -- we've seen a few happen already.
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The good thing is that many of these things are now happening at mastodon, among other places.
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Try https://techhub.social and then follow from there
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by barathr 4y ago
The mastodon server he's on is getting overwhelmed; here are a few decent options I shared elsewhere for HN folks: https://techhub.social https://infosec.exchange https://ioc.exchange

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