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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Just because that prayer lead to a miracle in the past, doesn't mean you can demand that God grants the same miracle again in different circumstances. That's trying to treat God as something like an appliance rather than an agent
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> I'm suggesting they will use their regulatory teeth to compel USA companies... If there's one group that the government care more about the finances of than taxpayers, it's companies. Destroying the wealth of these comp
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> And it is not a client problem but more an account problem. That's interesting, thank you. For what it's worth, it looks like Matrix is going to become much more user-friendly in the coming months[0], and it will be worth ta
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> but we can't pretend Just watch me! Here's what I imagine: These ~three major organizations all get together and announce that from now on, if you register a new domain with an MX record, you have to also put up a bond whic
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> If all the servers have to be updated to do this, is it really that much more difficult to just switch to a new protocol entirely to be secure by default? The 80:20 solution here might be for the big email providers to declare a flag d
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> the only working federated protocol Even if you're going to discount HTTP, DNS, and IRC for failing to meet various criteria from some definition of "federated", I think we mustn't overlook Matrix here. Sure, you ca
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Users have conclusively voted for it to be this way. We know it's this way and we're still buying iPhones instead of Android. That's like saying that every voter in a democracy approves of every policy implemented by the
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
A government spending billions of taxpayer dollars on an attack which can be reversed in an afternoon with a new software update is more likely to be an existential threat to that government than to Ethereum. The sort of software update I&#
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> SecureBoot in itself also does not in any sense stop general purpose computing of unsigned code. It's true that SecureBoot isn't enough, but its current lack of ubiquity is the only thing holding back such a law. A governmen
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> But your "next step" is far beyond what even China does. And yet online services blocking access to non-SecureBoot devices is already the norm for industries ranging from online gaming[0] to fast food![1] Add in the fact that
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Green energy (except nuclear) ... the rare earth elements. These facts may interest you: "the [French Environment and Energy Management Agency] ultimately concluded that the renewable energy sector actually barely uses such materi
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Create a crisis, provide a solution. The problem with that simplistic analysis is that it relies on the unspoken assumption that if it weren't for those sneaky, all-powerful, conniving [members of whichever out-group is being blam
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> It'll be trivial to work around for anyone actually up to no good I never claimed they were motivated to actually stop these crimes. If the real ultimate goal is to prevent the spreading of "state secrets" (i.e. journali
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
How long until the bureaucrats start saying "These unregulated foreign VPNs are a danger to our private data / economy / national security / children"? I mean, if a jurisdiction is making people's phones spy on
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> The process buys EU and U.S. officials critical months to agree a new transatlantic data pact to replace the now-defunct Privacy Shield. Negotiators plan to complete a new deal within the first quarter of 2023. Burying the lede in the
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Norway wants Facebook fined for illegal data transfers(politico.eu)
2 points by dane-pgp 4y ago|1 comments
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Is this because GPT-4 is about to be released and they want to charge full price for that?
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
That also has the problem of making your identity dependent on a third party, unless the site accepts Self-Issued identities, which is an interesting extension to OIDC: https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-self-issue
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Or re-enabling the "boiling" functionality requires upgrading to their subscription plan, to help pay for their online service which checks that you are using official Acme branded water.
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No, what's at issue is whether Apple has the right to gatekeep the relationship between people who have bought one of their phones and developers who write software which is capable of running on those phones. The EU has decided that A
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Google makes a big deal about how the system is to do some degree interpretable, but there is no obvious way to integrate large language models with the kind of formal formal verification methods that are now routine in the design of m
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I'm not sure if "mitigation of uncertainty" is a concept that is any more rigorously defined than "intelligence", so although it might be helpful to link the two, it still leaves a lot of questions unanswered. To gi
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> If skills are programs, and intelligence is the ability to efficiently learn skills, then intelligence is, broadly speaking, programming ability. I can see that definition becoming very popular among certain groups of people.
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
So they've given up on the problem of making the news more accurate or having less partisan bias, and focused instead on the problem of... people being able to hold governments and corporations to account, and people becoming aware of
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> The solution may to be ensure that OIDC itself has a way to log people in based on presenting a private key Isn't that what the OIDC people are trying to achieve with SIOP (Self-Issued OpenID Providers)? The work on that extension
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
This looks like a really exciting year for the Matrix team, and it's such an important project (making secure communication available to everyone) that I wish them every success. I'm particularly interested to follow their progres
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Practically speaking, we don’t expect the gatekeepers to ... implement multihead messengers that also speak open protocols But isn't it reasonable to demand that gatekeepers' messengers support a local plugin API which lets p
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Currently, APIs are the norm for communicating with online services; however, APIs favor those with the ability to provide highly-available online services; they are ill-suited to peer-to-peer cases where the endpoints are not highly a
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DIDComm v2 reaches approved spec status(blog.identity.foundation)
1 points by dane-pgp 4y ago|1 comments
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Imagine the gasps in the courtroom when his lawyer walks in and people notice it's actually a prototype of his Optimus android, that somehow managed to pass an online law degree. Presumably it would then announce that it is an expert i

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