cyphar

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by cyphar 6y ago
Matrix is a decentralised e2e-encrypted chat protocol (similar model to email) that you can self-host and is all free software. Encryption is between devices so the homeserver doesn't see the contents, but if you self-host then only th
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by cyphar 6y ago
> Despite this, if the embedded tweets do not contain primary evidence or quality secondary evidence, it would become more difficult for it to gain real traction in other news outlets, no? I'd suggest you read Manufacturing Consent.
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by cyphar 6y ago
There are two types of "static linking" being discussed: * Linking with system libraries (what GP mentioned). * Linking with Go packages (what you're talking about). Yes, Go doesn't really support -buildmode=sha
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by cyphar 6y ago
There are (I2P being the main competitor), but .onion is entirely Tor-specific. I2P's equivalent of onion services use the .i2p "TLD".
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by cyphar 6y ago
Go programs are not (generally speaking) statically linked, unless you're explicitly doing CGO_ENABLED=0, -tags 'netgo' and the whole variety of other tricks needed to coax static binaries out of the compiler. Try running &qu
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by cyphar 6y ago
GPL is the example GP used, which is why I referenced it. It's not really important what free software license it would be (though GPLv3 does have an entire section (s11) which is all about patents -- that's why it's compatib
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by cyphar 6y ago
While they are patent-encumbered in the strictest sense of the word, they are not as aggressively licensed as H.266 -- which is what GP was lamenting. Licensing H.266 under the GPL(v3) wouldn't erase the existence of the patents and it
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by cyphar 6y ago
> The dirty secret of video codecs is that you can't make a modern video codec that isn't patent encumbered The existence of Theora, VP8, VP9, and now AV1 seems to contradict that theory. You could argue that they infringe on s
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by cyphar 6y ago
Rice cookers are also covered vessels (though they have a small vent), so even if you are cooking rice on the stove evaporation would have a similar impact. One way to check might be to try to cook the same mass of water as though it were r
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by cyphar 6y ago
If you're using distribution packages for WireGuard (whether they're in the official repos or not), they should be rebuilt with each kernel upgrade and so you shouldn't be having any issues with stability. But yes, if you upg
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by cyphar 6y ago
A lot of people have strong views on the right ratio of water to rice (and I will admit this post is a bit hypocritical given how long it is), but ignore that while their ratio may work when cooking X cups of rice it often doesn't work
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by cyphar 6y ago
> Keeping all those different bridges running over time is difficult. The issue is that most of the services Matrix tries to bridge to are basically hostile entities (except IRC and Slack). I'm honestly shocked how well Matrix bri
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by cyphar 6y ago
Unfortunately, generic sanity checks are often not enough. You immediately run into problems where very file-specific concepts (owner, RWX permissions) aren't sufficient to handle certain types of represented-as-files objects (such as
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by cyphar 6y ago
That Linux table is quite a bit out-of-date -- it's at least older than Linux 3.14 (2014) based on sched_setattr's absence from the list. [1] is a much more modern table (and is updated more frequently), but it's probably sim
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by cyphar 6y ago
Especially in a country where 2/3rds of the adult population are overweight or obese and likely already have elevated blood pressure.
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by cyphar 6y ago
I first want to point out that neither you nor I know how widespread that behaviour would be. You might argue that a large portion of people would prefer to not work, while I might argue that generally people want to do something fulfilling
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by cyphar 6y ago
> Someone still has to work to produce the food that UBI wastrels consume. Please, explain to me why we should feed everyone for free? What gives them the right to commandeer someone else's labour while they languish? Right now, ten
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by cyphar 6y ago
Given the plethora of downgrade attacks against TLS that have been found over the decades, I'd really hope that there is a better poster-child for cipher agility. If the canonical example of "cipher agility working as intended&quo
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by cyphar 6y ago
You don't have to rewrite everything though. The rest of Git doesn't need to be rewritten if you change hash functions, nor does the rest of WireGuard if you change encryption or key exchange constructions. Newer constructions of
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by cyphar 6y ago
I'm not sure how you got "Mozilla should run all the Tor exit nodes" from my comment.
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by cyphar 6y ago
It's disheartening that Mozilla is continuing to actively avoid partnering with the Tor project for problems like this, despite the fact that the Tor project has contributed to Firefox for many years (mostly related to fingerprint resi
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by cyphar 6y ago
Would you have held the same opinion if you were around in the US in the 1930s and discovered that IBM was developing a new-fangled census system for the newly-elected German government[1]? Or after the news of the death camps was made publ
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by cyphar 6y ago
I highly doubt that 95% are using it for despicable purposes, so I have no ethical concerns with running a Tor relay at home, using Tor regularly, and financially supporting the Tor project. Why? Well, the most obvious "usable for desp
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by cyphar 6y ago
And who writes the laws of the land? Slavery and Jim Crow were also laws at certain periods of American history. I'd hope it's pretty uncontroversial to say that those laws were also very divisive political issues at the time.
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by cyphar 6y ago
My problem with this argument is that it (if applied uniformly) means that you couldn't hold IBM culpable for their role in the Holocaust. After all, "all they did" was help create a computerised census system for the democra
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by cyphar 6y ago
> If Amish are allowed to opt out of social security, why can't Libertarians? The Social Security opt-out is only possible for members of certain groups, most of which were special carve-outs added when Social Security was first imp
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by cyphar 6y ago
If someone sells you insurance, they are taking a bet that you will (on average) not cash out any more money than you put in through your premiums minus any profit margin. So you could argue that in the casino analogy, the insurance company
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by cyphar 6y ago
That's not really so much a Simpsons bit as it is a reference to the Amish and Mennonites, who both consider insurance to be immoral because they see it as a form of gambling. As an aside, this is why they are generally exempt from Soc
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by cyphar 6y ago
It would probably be a bad idea to apply the criminal justice theory from A Clockwork Orange to the real world.
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by cyphar 6y ago
Another system that had similar goals and was developed quite a long time ago (between 1997 and 2000) was rubberhose[1] by Julian Assange, Suelette Dreyfus, and Ralf Weinmann. It had the additional goal of being designed so that if you were

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