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by cyphar 4y ago
Miso soup is not drunk with a spoon in Japan. Here's a cooking channel video which shows the host eating the soup using chopsticks (but if you watch any media where Japanese people eat miso soup, you'll see the same thing): https
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by cyphar 5y ago
I wrote a tool for this[1,2], though it's still a work in progress (all the features work but I still need to finalise the QR data format and work on user-friendly interfaces). [1]: https://github.com/cyphar/paperb
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by cyphar 5y ago
That's probably a better way of explaining the behaviour. My point was more that this pattern is a very common way of getting a pointer to a primitive type value (since you can't just do &5 in Go). It seems likely that Go woul
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by cyphar 5y ago
While the article focuses on lost stars, they also lost a lot of repository watchers. This is pretty significant because lots of downstream users and distribution maintainers use the watching feature to get release and security advisory not
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by cyphar 5y ago
Go has escape detection, so any returned pointer to a stack allocated variable becomes heap allocated. The code posted is a fairly common way of taking a stack allocated primitive type and turning it into a heap allocated one.
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by cyphar 5y ago
Various Shinkansen lines average that much or higher for long stretches. To be fair, there isn't a 1000km line in Japan, but ~500km at those speeds should indicate that it's possible. Sanyo runs at near maximum operating speed (30
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by cyphar 5y ago
> This seems to be the #1 complaint about him. Honestly, so what? Since when is Twitter serious business? His Twitter account is actually listed as a source of material information in a 2013 10-K Tesla SEC filing -- so his Twitter accoun
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by cyphar 5y ago
> I think "entropy" is used to mean "unpredictable in principle", which would exclude chaotic processes like CPU jitter. Chaotic processes like the weather are predictable in principle; but they are so complex that in
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by cyphar 5y ago
This doesn't work for news channels. It is impossible to watch any non-MSM channel mentioning the news without the next recommended video being one of the major American news channels. The only solution is to use browser extensions whi
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by cyphar 5y ago
Yes, you're quite right -- sorry for not being precise enough. However my point was that the fact that we cannot see beyond the CMB and the uniformity of the pattern both point towards a Big Bang-esque explanation.
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by cyphar 5y ago
That's not what the CMB is. The CMB is an incredibly uniform pattern which appears to have been formed by a very hot plasma at some point in the past. It's difficult to imagine an explanation other than the Big Bang (or some kind
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by cyphar 5y ago
That reduces your anonymity almost to the point of being useless. It means that any middle node connecting to a "Twitter" exit node would know you're almost certainly connecting to Twitter (effectively making the three-hop To
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by cyphar 5y ago
As you say, it's because WebAuthn is by design tied to the origin and onion sites are a different domain. There's been attempts to standardise a way to indicate that site XYZ.onion is actually the same as ABC.com through the Alt-S
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by cyphar 5y ago
You can have a "layer" build system using a snapshot-style approach. The fact that Docker files and build scripts are written in a layered manner doesn't mean that our storage format needs to be using layered tar archives tha
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by cyphar 5y ago
Hello. I was surprised to see someone post this so long after I wrote it. We had several design discussions about this at the time but we struggled to come to an agreement about how we might migrate and various other issues. Tycho and I wer
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by cyphar 5y ago
You can do verification with either emoji or QR codes. Honestly I think the emoji version is far better for cases where you're verifying identities without meeting in person (one person says what the first 4 are, the other says the las
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by cyphar 5y ago
No eInk tablet has Android certification. As far as I understand, one of the issues is that the screen refresh rate is too low to get certified. It is very easy to set up Google Play on the Onyx Boox tablets. You just press a button in sett
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by cyphar 5y ago
Indeed, that is one of the more practical problems with any kind of approach like this. But the general point is that even if you could hypothetically "ban encryption" it still wouldn't achieve the goals the politicians pushi
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by cyphar 5y ago
With tools like alass[1] (using it to synchronise against the original language subtitles) it is about as close to solved you can get. All of the attempts I've seen of using audio information to synchronise subtitles have been awful. O
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by cyphar 5y ago
If you change Netflix's interface language you'll get access to more languages for both subtitle and audio tracks. I suspect there's some estimation going on to figure out what languages someone is most likely to know given a
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by cyphar 5y ago
> when the alternative is a government backdooring or banning all encryption. That is not the alternative because the mathematics of encryption is already very widely known. In the scenario where all encryption is outlawed, there will be
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by cyphar 5y ago
Unfortunately it's difficult to translate sentences between languages in a way that preserves word order and is grammatically correct in the translated language (your example is a pretty good example of this). Different languages have
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by cyphar 5y ago
The DMCA was introduced in order to ratify the WICO Copyright Treaty[1]. Every signatory of the WIPO Copyright Treaty has similar laws on the books. Though really you could argue that the Berne Convention already covers the most obvious cop
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by cyphar 5y ago
The .torrent file is separate to the torrent metadata which you need to fetch for magnet links. This is mentioned a bit later in that section: > The .torrent file size is not smaller for a v2 torrent, since it still contains the piece ha
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by cyphar 5y ago
Multiformats is not really cryptographic agility, it's just adding a small tag that indicates what type of data something is (what kind of encoding, what kind of hash, what kind of binary payload, etc). The benefit is that the tags are
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by cyphar 5y ago
In case you wanted the number in flag form (a-la AACS): https://imgur.com/a/EX8RWXM .
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by cyphar 5y ago
Case insensitivity and "what human brains do" becomes incredibly complicated outside of English. There are also many other things which human brains recognize as the same thing but would be unreasonable to implement in filesystems
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by cyphar 5y ago
Aside from all of the other issues mentioned, for some languages it's not clear what language something is purely based on codepoints. For languages that have Latin-derived writing systems, it's not uncommon to use English letters
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by cyphar 5y ago
I suspect that would last longer, the issue is that it'd be harder for someone to practically use it because they'd need to pay a programmer to implement the algorithm for them -- while if we embedded a Python script (for instance
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by cyphar 5y ago
Also every commit has binaries built and uploaded via a GitHub Action[1] (though for some reason the x86 binaries aren't statically linked even though I'm using the musl toolchain). [1]: https://github.com/cyphar&#

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