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by cowtools 4y ago
or perhaps just increased computing power
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by cowtools 4y ago
The solution is to use a locked-down co-processor? Whoop-de-doo. This is just a shameful re-marketing of "remote attestation"
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Modern “Freedom” Means Being a Slave to Impulses(lukesmith.xyz)
4 points by cowtools 4y ago|3 comments
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by cowtools 4y ago
On an inter-national basis?
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by cowtools 4y ago
I am surprised that it survives twitter's image compression. I'm not familiar with JPEG format, but I'm familiar with PNG. I guess it's using some zlib-compressed EXIF-like metadata field, seeing as ZIP also uses DEFLATE
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by cowtools 4y ago
I don't think it's that scary. I mean it's basically spam isn't it? The only thing new is the volume in which you can produce surface-level-indistinguishable spam. It is now cheaper to produce lots of flowery, meaningles
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by cowtools 4y ago
Net neutrality is about regulating ISPs to provide the same delivery service regardless of the content being sent. What you're describing is just a single implication of net neutrality involving self-bias of ISPs. >The net is not po
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by cowtools 4y ago
He seems to be hosting it himself, it's just that his counterparts on the other end of political extremism have campaigned to yank the cables out from under him. The internet is built on peering relationships at the end of the day. Ali
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The Commodordion(linusakesson.net)
519 points by cowtools 4y ago|65 comments
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by cowtools 4y ago
>people won't be paying for their coffee on-chain (assuming inflation doesn't do crazy things to the price of a cup of coffee!). Okay, but those LN transactions clearly depend on the security of their multisig channels without
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by cowtools 4y ago
>you will always reach an equilibrium point where it will be profitable. That is my point- that equilibrium point will eventually be low enough that 51% attacks, selfish mining attacks, etc. become feasible and highly desirable to execut
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by cowtools 4y ago
>so far, by-and-large, the proportion of block profit coming from transaction fees has increased, as expected: of course it has. I am not talking about the proportion of block profit, I am asking how you expect the total block profit to
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by cowtools 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%27s_final_warning
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by cowtools 4y ago
Why do you expect transaction fees to increase?
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by cowtools 4y ago
The solution is monero's tail emission: https://localmonero.co/knowledge/monero-tail-emission
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by cowtools 4y ago
Yes, that's the other outcome, which is the industry getting GPL'd to death for using this. But I don't think there is an established precedent when it comes to this. I don't know much about AI/SL but I think the lo
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by cowtools 4y ago
Of course it is cherry picked. The idea is that it allows you to INTENTIONALLY void any copyright you want. So let's say I obtain an illegal copy of microsoft windows' source code. Under this precedent, what stops me from just (ov
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by cowtools 4y ago
It strips GPL, or any license.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Sort of, but not really. It is a very nuanced probabalistic attack. The problem is fundamentally that you need others to use your outputs as decoys in order to have plausible deniability.
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by cowtools 4y ago
I doubt it. Bitcoin was simply the combonation of two well-understood things: hashcash and cryptographic signatures.
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by cowtools 4y ago
The fees increase with demand, but throughput does not. Bitcoin's current incarnation cannot scale. If it is cheap to transact now, it is only because the demand for its use as an actual currency has been reduced since the last fee exp
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by cowtools 4y ago
It's irrelevant
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by cowtools 4y ago
No, This is incorrect
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by cowtools 4y ago
privacy through voluntary swaps is not sybil-proof
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by cowtools 4y ago
I suspect chainalysis is describing some "poisoned output attack" with respect to monero. See: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iABIcsDJKyM The problem is a well-understood but innate limitation to all sender-obfusca
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by cowtools 4y ago
I am going to make a robot that burns your house down. You might think this is unethical, but what you expect me to do? Implement an oracle to the US court system? You might think it's unreasonable to build such a house-burning robot,
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by cowtools 4y ago
The problem here is that copilot explots a loophole that allows it to produce derivative works without license. Copilot is not sophisticated enough to structure source code generally- it is overtrained. What is an overtrained neural network
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by cowtools 4y ago
Seems like one might be able to use emscripten_wget or something. Emscripten can expose a unix-like filesystem
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by cowtools 4y ago
What field? the field of time-wasting technology?
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by cowtools 4y ago
When will they learn? When will they learn... THAT THEIR ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES

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