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by blintz 5y ago
This is not a great headline. Side-channel attacks are possible on nearly any cryptographic or security-sensitive procedure. The paper doesn’t show some kind of general vulnerability of homomorphic encryption (or lattice-based encryption),
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by blintz 5y ago
I think this misses the cultural and social reasons to read the news. Anecdotally, friends that don't keep up with the news or are more politically disengaged (i.e. don't vote) seem to have a tougher time making friends, going on
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by blintz 5y ago
Similar experience with the battery and sleep on XPS devices. Constantly opening my backpack to discover a literal hot mess. At this point I’m fed up - what’s a better Windows laptop? Not interested in touchscreen/tablet modes and I’m
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by blintz 5y ago
I think I do this because it is more fun. Involving lots of other people, especially non-engineers, really can suck the fun out of programming for me. I'm not antisocial - I love to discuss what I'm doing and bounce ideas around w
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by blintz 5y ago
This is a nice idea, especially given all the work people have done recently to make in-language querying nicer (Spark comes to mind). My only gripe is the 'auto-generated' column names for aggregates. This seems like a recipe for
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by blintz 5y ago
I had a pretty good time setting up Katex ( https://katex.org/ ) on my personal blog. It’s fairly straightforward and supports most of the set of LaTeX people use in shorthand notes/blog posts. Having all the rendering h
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by blintz 5y ago
> Those insiders include venture capital firms like a16z and, incredibly, Coinbase’s own venture arm, which has a number of investments listed on Coinbase. As someone who is not as familiar with the day-to-day machinations of this field,
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by blintz 5y ago
This is so slimy and infuriating, and it increasingly seems like they will continue to ‘reset’ everyone’s opt-out until enough people get tired/miss the update. Is there a tech solution? How can we minimize the amount of data that they
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by blintz 5y ago
This is a bit outside of technical stuff, but if you like political/social commentary, I think ContraPoints has really entertaining and also fairly well-researched video essays. She is definitely part of the left, but I think people of
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by blintz 5y ago
Who titled this? Isn’t “streamers” almost exclusively used to refer people on Twitch etc.? This is in contrast to what most people would call a ‘streaming service’, which is what the article is actually talking about.
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by blintz 5y ago
No, I tried this, and did not observe a roll. We live on the corner of the building that is sinking the most, so I'm not sure why we don't see any tilt. Perhaps we need to be higher up to observe it?
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by blintz 5y ago
I live in the tower, kinda spooky to read/listen to this. I can’t say all the news about the accelerated sinking has made me feel amazing, but eh, I got a good deal. Glad I’m just renting and don’t own a unit here. There’s a pretty in-
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by blintz 5y ago
Cool! I like that it's zero config to start with, and that adding schemas can itself just be done with a request.
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by blintz 5y ago
This seems like a subtle way to announce a pretty significant change. It sounds like Japan’s regulator has insisted that reader apps be able to link to their own websites, and process payments outside of the 30% tax that Apple imposes. If i
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by blintz 5y ago
But relying on an algorithm staying secret is security-by-obscurity 101. You can rely on a cryptographic key staying secret; you can't rely on the design of an algorithm staying secret (I do agree there's a little blurring of th
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by blintz 5y ago
Honestly missed this. Is that security-through-obscurity? If the model and weights for the second hash function became public, then we could still construct a collision on both functions, right?
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by blintz 5y ago
I don't see how this is fixable on their end. Several people have suggested simply layering several different perceptual hash systems, with the assumption that it's difficult to find a colliding image in all of them. This is prett
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by blintz 5y ago
The simple summary is: NeuralHash is not a cryptographic hash function. It's a private neural network trained on some images. We have no guarantees of its difficulty to reverse, find collisions for, etc. The naming of it as a 'h
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by blintz 5y ago
Do you know how NeuralHash works? NeuralHash is not a cryptographic hash. Unless you're an Apple employee, you can't - the model is private and not inspectable.
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by blintz 5y ago
There's a great live conversation between Alex, Riana Pfefferkorn, and Matthew Green here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbYZVNSOVy4 . Has more details on the reasoning and a little debate on the issues from some real
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by blintz 5y ago
One disappointing development from a larger perspective is that many privacy-preserving technologies (multi-party computing, homomorphic encryption, hardware enclaves, etc) are actually getting used to build tools that undermine once-airtig
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by blintz 5y ago
> In a tragic example of the harassment that Defendants allowed to fester in their offices, a female employee committed suicide while on a company trip due to a sexual relationship that she had been having with her male supervisor. The m
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Despite the hype, iPhone security no match for NSO spyware(washingtonpost.com)
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by blintz 5y ago
I think this actually overstates the value of cryptocurrencies. The value of say, Bitcoin, isn't even connected to its value as a method of money laundering or extortion through ransomware. However morally objectionable these are, they
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by blintz 5y ago
>However hard it is, you have all the rights to run whatever you like on your device you purchased. This is patently false. Many entitlements are locked behind explicit, human approval from the Apple Developer Program; examples include N
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by blintz 5y ago
Yeah, the 'Settings > [Name] > Find My > Find My iPhone > Find My network' option will turn the collaborative tracking off. But yeah, it's buried, poorly explained, and an opt-out rather than an opt-in.
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by blintz 6y ago
Does anyone ever read articles like this and start to think that perhaps someday, not too far from now, we will view housing as a simple right? In the same way that basic heath care is a right in most countries that can afford to provide it
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by blintz 6y ago
As a layman, I'd imagine this is a death knell for the vaccine in the US, even if it eventually gets EUA, since there are plenty of alternatives without this disclaimer. That's of course more a read on the marketing/PR aspect
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by blintz 6y ago
> While these maxims were originally meant to describe how people intuitively communicate, they can be used to actively guide the way you communicate in various situations. This isn't something I'd endorse doing often. Grice wa
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by blintz 6y ago
The cynic in me is confused. Nvidia isn’t exactly known for making lots of things open source. What’s their angle here? Is the idea to take steam out of projects like TPU by making viable, open-source alternatives?

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