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by buildzr 7y ago
Sorry if it wasn't clear, I meant his addresses being visible on both the input and output of a mixing process but being discovered via separate means, one via tracing where the codes were sold, one via tracing his bank activity after
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by buildzr 7y ago
Isn't it also reasonable to think that people consider the information they take in? Testability is key to most strong beliefs and I like to think that the majority of the population is not so firmly rooted that they refuse to update t
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by buildzr 7y ago
That's true of anyone who believes something with the utmost conviction - but we're talking about the general population here, not just those already into flat earth.
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by buildzr 7y ago
This is off topic as we're talking about flat earth here, but I'll engage it anyways: Are you suggesting that a lack of access to such information is the only thing stopping such genocides from occurring? You think this is a reali
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by buildzr 7y ago
> the most sophisticated system of disinformation ever created in the history of mankind The exact same system is used for spreading that information too. Adding your personal bias into the system is not a "fix" for disinformat
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by buildzr 7y ago
> but that it actually gets a disproportionate amount of bandwidth. I get the impression that people are merely overreacting to this, so I'm curious about this - do you have any source to back this up? We must also consider that pe
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by buildzr 7y ago
That's a complete and utter misrepresentation of what I said and I have no interest in engaging it.
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by buildzr 7y ago
> I'm a little tired of this constantly coming up Perhaps then you shouldn't have made it into a political position by suggesting that they'd all vote for a specific candidate. > This is relatively easy to prove, but
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by buildzr 7y ago
I suppose when you put it that way, it's basically a conspiracy version of "Reflections on Trusting Trust". https://www.archive.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p7...
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by buildzr 7y ago
That's their choice then. We have to have believe that a majority of our fellow citizens are by and large capable of overcoming such views otherwise democracy itself is a failed concept. Censoring their content to bias their political
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by buildzr 7y ago
> BTC mixers will not protect you. Correlating one single wallet with you will make it possible to them retrace the entire history. It's also possible they both knew the address which was paid out to buy the stolen merchandise and t
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by buildzr 7y ago
That's fucking awesome, on the other hand, Rust code is running live in production in Firefox, exposed to the internet and actually offers a much higher degree of safety than many comparable languages - these questions they should have
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by buildzr 7y ago
Okay, so after some reading: Sia uses Reed-Solomon coding in a 10 of 30 configuration. This means that as long as any 10 out of the 30 hosts you upload to are available you can download your files. There's a quite high failure rate for
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by buildzr 7y ago
That's fair I suppose, the difference being that there's a lot more ways to screw up instruction backdoors and make them extremely visible than RDRAND, where the output is claimed to be unpredictable. In the end it's a defens
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by buildzr 7y ago
For virtual systems it shouldn't be, Virtio has an RNG provider that's able to use host entropy: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Virtio_RNG For embedded systems, many have inbuilt RNGs, have a lo
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by buildzr 7y ago
Very disappointing to hear that Debian and some other distros enabled CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. I'd rather not be relying on Intel hardware to do something so important correctly.
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by buildzr 7y ago
> Data is uploaded to Sia (per-default, it's configurable through the API) in a 10-of-30 scheme using Reed-Solomon coding, which means that each piece of data is held by 30 hosts, and out of those 30 hosts any 10 of them are suffici
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by buildzr 7y ago
Of course, I'm talking about using the system to host personal and small business backups like I do with B2. I backup all the important content off my home RAID nightly. Definitely a good warning to put out there though.
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by buildzr 7y ago
Depends largely on your bandwidth usage if that's beneficial, for me personally I'm talking home/small business backups where the additional reliability of B2 is great and the price actually works out better than putting that
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by buildzr 7y ago
I'm trying to understand the reliability story better. I'm currently looking at this page: http://siastats.info/contracts_status Does that mean for every individual hoster-renter contract, of ones that were establ
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by buildzr 7y ago
> Do you trust the storage nodes to not be making copies of your data? No, I trust the cryptography to, I sure as hell wouldn't trust Backblaze, let alone Amazon not to do that either. I use Restic when using such services to encryp
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by buildzr 7y ago
> or less costly They're definitely less costly. I could host over 10x the amount on Sia for what I pay for B2 at the moment, B2 is already one of the cheapest providers, plus that's just in storage, ignoring all bandwidth cost
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by buildzr 7y ago
The idea with Sia is you upload to not one, but several people, you pick the level of redundancy you want and if you can't get the file you want from any given one of them, they pay the price and you get it from someone else.
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by buildzr 7y ago
Is there any reason we can't just rip podcasts from these, post them in RSS feeds and have the non-owned apps list them for free - thus making them far superior by giving them access to all content?
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by buildzr 7y ago
> should have called pass secr. instead. Even if you used a pre-hashed (well, preferably key derived using scrypt, argon2, etc) password, the problem is that if an attacker dumped your database they can still login to every account on yo
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by buildzr 7y ago
> but it absolutely requires public key crypto to be done correctly It actually doesn't, have a look at how the Firefox Account Login protocol works, essentially using only hashing and KDFs: https://blog.mozilla.org&#x2F
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by buildzr 7y ago
Congratulations, if I'm not mistaken you just defeated the entire purpose of hashing passwords. The point is that the server doesn't store what's used to verify directly, it needs to provide something that can generate it. Th
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by buildzr 7y ago
Does that actually work? I must be old school, I always delete such IDs before searching, but then again I used Google back when it actually did what you told it instead of misinterpreting everything for you.
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by buildzr 7y ago
Are you seriously suggesting that the removal of basically every compound in tobacco found to be cancer causing and the addition of ones with a much lower likelihood of harm that have already been in use for well over a decade is going to b
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by buildzr 7y ago
Quiting vaping is quite likely to be easier for actual chemical reasons - Tobacco contains not only nicotine but an MAOI which seems to add quite a bit to it's addictive effects. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed&#x2F

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