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by ckcheng 2y ago
> maze vs. labyrinth was way more interesting The article says the Minotaur myth’s labyrinth was “obviously a maze”, but I doubt it. In the myth, Ariadne gave Theseus a ball of thread (a clew) on the advice of Daedalus, the creator of th
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by ckcheng 2y ago
I think open standard? Download is here? https://ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/st... MS made it open because... > More than a year after being asked by the European Union to standardize their Off
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by ckcheng 3y ago
Like Searle’s Chinese Room argument [0]? I think a challenge with the simulated-is-real math/calculator argument is that the simulation operates syntactically thru derivation without meaning. E.g. a simulation of ZF set theory cannot t
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by ckcheng 3y ago
It was surprising because previously we had: 'XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable."' [0]. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39877267 (811 comments)
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Apple lays off over 600 workers in California in first major post-pandemic cut(apnews.com)
1 points by ckcheng 3y ago|1 comments
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by ckcheng 3y ago
I was wondering why they didn’t extend their workaround (certificate cross-sign). Turns out they could but: - Android devices which needed the cross-sign compatibility dropped to 6.1%. - “dropping the cross-sign will reduce the number of ce
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by ckcheng 3y ago
> Let’s Encrypt, is discontinuing support for Android ... 7.1.0 and earlier. > beginning April 15, 2024, Android 7.1.1 will be the earliest supported Android OS for all OverDrive apps and websites, including Libby. This change was alr
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Why will my device lose access to Libby & OverDrive April 15, 2024?(help.overdrive.com)
54 points by ckcheng 3y ago|18 comments
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by ckcheng 3y ago
I only started reading into the Retool case because there was the claim above that sounded serious and scary: > Google Authenticator started syncing secrets to the cloud[0] which means that those secrets can now be accessed in new ways o
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by ckcheng 3y ago
That sounded scary, but after reading into the Retool breach (thanks for pointing it out), it doesn't sound like Google Authenticator is completely to blame. Retool points out the "attacker was able to navigate through multiple la
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by ckcheng 3y ago
To answer myself: I doubt it. The SOURCE property is optional and apparently more aspirational than real. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57380771/how-to-use-sour... https://www.rfc-editor.org/
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by ckcheng 3y ago
But does android or iOS support it and actually check for updates regularly?
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by ckcheng 3y ago
That’s the argument I think. Per that Wikipedia link: > Randall hypothesizes a plane of dark matter exists roughly on the plane of the Milky Way galaxy. As the Sun oscillates in its orbit around the center of the galaxy, it passes throug
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by ckcheng 3y ago
I wonder why Apple doesn't open up. Or else just switch to a Costco model where membership means they get to dictate what’s sold at what margin using which credit card network? Is the end game to force regulation on everyone (Google, e
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by ckcheng 3y ago
Discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39589483
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by ckcheng 3y ago
Apparently MFA in practice mainly protects against credential stuffing: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1705017600&dateRange=custom&...
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by ckcheng 3y ago
Another place this technique was used and discussed recently: Caches: LRU vs. Random (2014) (danluu.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39093109
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by ckcheng 3y ago
I hear working for oil and gas makes it hard to leave O&G because most companies have a hard time paying as well (aside from Big Tech, I guess), and maybe the ex-O&G engineer will go back to O&G for the higher pay sooner rather
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by ckcheng 3y ago
> actually choose a different browser, or are you choosing a different WebKit wrapper I understand the "WebKit wrapper" for iOS criticism and do want different rendering engines available (e.g. Firefox's) and yet... The wo
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by ckcheng 3y ago
For what it’s worth: “The Grid Alert ended at 10:12 p.m.”
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by ckcheng 3y ago
> We received an emergency alert yesterday night describing how the grid was nearly at capacity. Interestingly, there’s currently a grid alert (not yet an emergency alert to every phone, TV…). I think that’s the third evening time grid a
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The hard truth about AI? It might produce some better software(theguardian.com)
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by ckcheng 3y ago
PairDrop works: https://pairdrop.net/ https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/PairDrop Other alternatives: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38915909
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by ckcheng 3y ago
This is apparently a direct result of the "Gmail and Yahoo’s 2024 inbox protections" [1] [2]. I didn't see much comments regarding how "Mandatory DMARC basically breaks all e-mail forwarding services" [3] for everyo
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Important Changes to SFU Email Forwarding – alumni email will be discontinued(sfu.ca)
1 points by ckcheng 3y ago|1 comments
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by ckcheng 3y ago
> I wish I knew a site like this on every subject. For water heaters, this was helpful to me once: http://waterheatertimer.org It is not a pretty site (author only knows of HTML tables?), but for me it fulfilled the: > Som
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by ckcheng 3y ago
> Karpathy's TinyStories Did you mean Karpathy's tinyllamas? [1][2] Or did you mean Ronen Eldan and Yuanzhi Li's "TinyStories: How Small Can Language Models Be and Still Speak Coherent English?" [3][4] [1]: http
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by ckcheng 3y ago
Curious, did you run it in Safari on Mac?
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by ckcheng 3y ago
Still photo.
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by ckcheng 3y ago
Unfortunately, Lockdown Mode disables Live Photos from being received via iMessage... That's a pretty big iPhone feature to not work under Lockdown Mode!

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