bpolverini

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by bpolverini 3y ago
The Government already has a monopoly on force and steals our money under the threat of imprisonment in the form of taxation: Now that money is supposed to be allocated into risky investments for abstract, unmeasureable benefits like "
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TPM-backed Full Disk Encryption is coming to Ubuntu(ubuntu.com)
61 points by bpolverini 3y ago|70 comments
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by bpolverini 4y ago
Very true and worth evangelizing to others. I have unknowingly violated -fstrict-aliasing in some part of my code only to discover later that it is benign at -O0 and metastasized at -O3. This freaks me out the most in networking code, where
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by bpolverini 4y ago
I buy the premise that Zig is better if you know you will have lots of pointer arithmetic going on. Having written a fair amount of unsafe C interop code in Rust, I feel like these critiques of the ergonomics are valid. The new #![feature(s
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by bpolverini 6y ago
Who do the Kachin, Karen, Rakhine, Shan, etc. support at this time? Are they siding with the NDL or the military?
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by bpolverini 6y ago
If you're interested in seeing an interesting off broadway twist on the Noise Protocol Spec, libdisco and strobe are really interesting: https://www.discocrypto.com/ https://strobe.sourceforge.io/ The
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by bpolverini 6y ago
That would be really cool, but I think enforcing that is undecidable. My gut tells me that having that language feature at compile time is the same as the Halting Problem.
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by bpolverini 6y ago
What if someone lives in Taiwan or the United States or Singapore or anywhere outside of the PRC? This is exactly the type of sociotechnical pressure the PRC wants to enforce over its diaspora.
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by bpolverini 7y ago
As an Italian-American, this explains why every time I go to a Buca di Beppo, I feel like I'm in some kind of merger between a mediocre Italian restaurant and a minstrel show. To those of us who grew up in this culture, it's ridic
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What if the 1917 Russian Revolution had been tweeted?(1917.rt.com)
2 points by bpolverini 9y ago|0 comments
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by bpolverini 9y ago
The dueling rhetoric is the same rhetoric that has been around for decades: Some people really feel type systems add value; others, feel it's a ball and chain. So which is it? The answer is probably "yes." We should all belie
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by bpolverini 10y ago
Why are we down voting this? Of all people in the world, Ray Dalio would want us to ask, "Why." Principle #1: Trust in truth. Whether I'm being facetious is an exercise to the reader.
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by bpolverini 10y ago
First thing I thought of when I read this was the article by Sam Altman where he calls businesses valued at $100M "really good airplanes." https://blog.ycombinator.com/navigating-mid-success/ Something is awr
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by bpolverini 10y ago
The personification of "Silicon Valley" into some giant evil blob-like entity attempting to consume innocent, creative counter-revolutionaries undermines a perfectly awesome, but 100% non-unique to SV opinion: Technologists (and a
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by bpolverini 10y ago
That video of the crying manager is what made me quit Bridgewater. The craziest part was that the manager who ended up crying became the one who would teach lessons to new hires on how to "diagnose" other employees. Totally psycho
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by bpolverini 10y ago
I can see Orwell was right already. "Terrorism" (the word) has become, by and large, a tool of nation-states and institutions like RAND to legitimize another horrific term: "extra judicial killing" (i.e. murder). The las
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by bpolverini 11y ago
There is absolutely nothing to root for. He's killed (and his cartel continues to kill) a tragic number of innocent people: women, children, and the poor, all across Mexico. He's a vulture.
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by bpolverini 11y ago
With an infinite supply of drug money and weapons coming in from the United States, what is PRI or the PAN or the PRD supposed to do? Mexicans are proud, and the notion of immediately extraditing him to the country that gave him power is an
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by bpolverini 11y ago
With or without "use asm", as hackcasual mentioned, we don't have the control we need, like one might have on some platforms in C. Some of the articles we reference in the top section of the blog post mention this about Javas
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by bpolverini 11y ago
Definitely right about that. The biggest reason was familiarity with the Skein NIST implementation--I've dug through it in the past in research and the like, so I wanted to leverage some experience there. We decided against just using
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by bpolverini 11y ago
You're right. To be honest, the reason why we don't use it the way it is described in the paper, is entirely out of fear of misconfiguring the Skein context. The NIST reference implementation for Skein doesn't provide a simpl
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by bpolverini 11y ago
Yeah, it is. We use the optimized 64bit version through JNI in our backend.
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by bpolverini 11y ago
Skein -- interesting choice. I always liked the ARX construction in skein, and it's cool to see it in Javascript through emscripten.
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by bpolverini 11y ago
Partly, but it is primarily to bring those living in rural areas into an urban context as a mechanism for modernizing the economy. Right now, under the hukou system ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukou_system ), you can
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by bpolverini 11y ago
Bingo.
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by bpolverini 11y ago
All the more reason why client-side encryption needs to become part of our daily interaction with software and cloud services.
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by bpolverini 11y ago
This is bomb. Interesting to see someone borrowing a page from microkernels to bring the networking stack into userspace. Hopefully, technologies like this create a renaissance for protocol design. ZT does the heavy lifting in terms of secu
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by bpolverini 11y ago
One can only imagine what kind of Faustian bargain Cloudflare had to concoct in order to make this all legal. Once Baidu and the PSB have managed to extract enough useful intellectual property from Cloudflare, it will only be a matter of ti