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by cyphar 6y ago
Current CFR is closer to 3% globally not 0.3% (I don't know how people get this number consistently wrong -- it's on the first page of any CoVID tracking website). A reminder that 3% of the world population is more than 150 millio
542.
by cyphar 6y ago
I meant that it's too late to solve it for this particular censorship event. You'd need to add a UI for selecting bridges and configuring Tor, all of which is substantially more complicated than just adding support for custom sing
543.
by cyphar 6y ago
I know it's too late to engineer this at this point, but maybe Signal should consider adding a built-in Tor client. That way they can take advantage of the many thousands of existing Tor bridges, and Tor has been proven to be pretty ef
544.
by cyphar 6y ago
> > signal is not censorship resistant by itself. And we should criticise them for that because it was a warning delivered in a timely manner and never heeded. > I don’t believe Signal ever claimed to be censorship resistant to beg
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by cyphar 6y ago
Yup, I forgot to mention that dockerd will get the death event and clean up like it would if pid1 died normally. My comment was more about what a patch upstream would look like. And I'm glad to hear you plan on opening an upstream issu
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by cyphar 6y ago
Yeah, sending SIGKILL to pid1 of a container will insta-kill the whole thing. But the network resource stuff does also include removing iptables rules, so it's not something that you really want to be skipping. It feels like the networ
547.
by cyphar 6y ago
Because doing it that way will make building (and verifying) a deterministic build more difficult for users, while forcing the builds to be deterministic in the face of randomised non-determinism means that anyone can build the project and
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by cyphar 6y ago
> But it seems that the definition of negative evidence is telling the child "no" and then correcting them. The video goes through several examples from peer-reviewed studies, and several of them involve "repeating back th
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by cyphar 6y ago
The reason it was a DDoS was that every single Android Signal client in the world was retrying the API without an exponential backoff. If you intentionally try to DDoS the API yourself, then that's just a DDoS and you don't need a
550.
by cyphar 6y ago
Isn't [1] (one of) the patches fixing the issue? The solution doesn't need to be a server patch, in fact it appears it was a client-side patch to handle 508 errors properly as well as doing exponential backoff. [1]: https:/&
551.
by cyphar 6y ago
> 2. Child brains are different from adult brains, and it is likely that the ability to pick up a language in this way degrades significantly after a certain age. There is plenty of evidence which counters the latter part of this claim (
552.
by cyphar 6y ago
There is a fair amount of evidence that corrections (negative evidence) do not actually improve the grammar of children who are still developing their language skills[1], for two reasons: adults are bad at correcting mistakes consistently,
553.
by cyphar 6y ago
Because Signal has one (set of) servers which contain all messages sent through the Signal network. With Matrix if you are communicating with only a handful of people that either self-host or otherwise don't use Matrix.org then the lar
554.
by cyphar 6y ago
> By contrast, if I use a true P2P solution, I never need to do a DNS lookup. My chats in Signal can't be disrupted by a change in MX records. I don't disagree with your general premise but Signal is not decentralised at all, a
555.
by cyphar 6y ago
[1] is Moxie saying that he is against third-party clients using Signal servers (meaning third-party clients cannot communicate with Signal users). [2] is Moxie saying that he is also against federating with other Signal servers (and implie
556.
by cyphar 6y ago
Matrix is far closer to being "the email for instant messaging" -- Signal-like double ratchet encryption by default for private rooms, federated in a similar way to email servers (but much simpler to manage as an admin), much nice
557.
by cyphar 6y ago
Human rights exist regardless of the laws of any country. I said US because "the Bill of Rights only constrain government actions" (which is what GP was saying with slightly different phrasing) is a very common talking point from
558.
by cyphar 6y ago
Human rights as a concept exist outside of the US Constitution. Just because something isn't illegal (in the US) doesn't mean it's not morally wrong or something you should not encourage.
559.
by cyphar 6y ago
Spaced repetition is not the same as short-term memorisation. In fact I'd argue that you haven't fully memorised something with an SRS until the interval between reviews is at least a month or two -- which isn't really "
560.
by cyphar 6y ago
Spaced repetition is not the same as cramming, and spaced repetition (if applied correctly) leads to long-term memory formation. It's not perfect for every type of information, and there are some aspects of memory (most notably context
561.
by cyphar 6y ago
If you know everyone in the house is absent during working hours (a reasonable assumption) or that your target has children and they need to pick them up from school at a certain time, just reboot it during that window. Eventually they wil
562.
by cyphar 6y ago
That assumes you check whether the mute light is active on a fairly regular basis. If you just turn it off and don't check on it, the light is pretty much useless as an indicator.
563.
by cyphar 6y ago
I'd be far too worried about being incorrect when describing a derivation. I also studied physics not maths but the same goes for physics articles. I think post-docs are probably better suited for accurate explanations but at the same
564.
by cyphar 6y ago
That's not my point. My point is that to understand a fairly rudimentary topic using only Wikipedia you already have to understand post-grad mathemarics concepts because the derivation and terminology is needlessly contrived because
565.
by cyphar 6y ago
In order to understand most Wikipedia mathematics articles you need to already be well versed in the topic you're looking up. Even after finishing a Physics degree I struggle to understand the derivations of common physics equations be
566.
by cyphar 6y ago
GP probably meant logographic rather than ideographic (and kanji are a logographic writing system), because they were making a comparison to phonographic writing systems. I imagine most non-linguist nerds (myself included) would confuse the
567.
by cyphar 6y ago
Same transliteration because they are read the same. Romaji (Latin characters used to phonetically transcribe Japanese words -- "Satoshi" in this case) are based on the phonetics of the word. If two words have the same pronuncia
568.
by cyphar 6y ago
They were talking about escaping orbit (reaching escape velocity which is ~41% higher than the orbital velocity and requires getting more fuel into orbit), not degrading the orbit so that the satellite burns up in the atmosphere. As the art
569.
by cyphar 6y ago
If the added velocities of the debris were unidirectional (along the debris's orbital velocity) then increasing their velocity enough would result in them breaking free of orbit. But I doubt that you would be able to do either in r
570.
by cyphar 6y ago
You can download the APK from their site[1] and have been able to for several years, that's how I install it on my devices (and it does autoupdates). As for hash collisions, as far as we know SHA256 hasn't been broken yet and even

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