exo762

15 ms·

181.
by exo762 6y ago
Witches are fantasy. Communists are real, and some of them were acting on orders from Stalin's USSR. It's not the same thing.
182.
by exo762 6y ago
IANAL. Statistics sound like a compilation of facts. Facts are not copyrightable by themselves. Compilations are, but compilation were not authored by players, but by someone else. I really hope they will lose. Also, paywall.
183.
by exo762 6y ago
Both Wikipedia and StackOverflow have a problem of retaining new contributors. I always had my pet theory on possible solution for this problem, and I wonder what do you think about it. I see it like that. New contributors come to contribut
184.
by exo762 6y ago
AFAIK The real problem is lack of new blood. Old editors who become masters of wikipedia rules-fu are to blame.
185.
by exo762 6y ago
If you are worried about your ability to validate DKIM signatures tomorrow on emails you own today, you can work-around this by timestamping the emails via something like opentimestamps.org. This would prove that those emails and their DKIM
186.
by exo762 6y ago
I wonder how one can test if the amount of UV light reflected from the surface is dangerous? Alternatively, determine what is the percentage of the UV light absorbed?
187.
by exo762 6y ago
> failures caused by adding the extra layer of abstraction and complexity I perceive nix as a tool that removes a layer of abstraction and complexity - the FHS. Having an app working is easy. Having multiple apps share the same FHS is co
188.
by exo762 6y ago
On the night of election. How is this defensible?
189.
by exo762 6y ago
And in the same time, some infrastructure provider has discontinued contract with Bitchute. https://twitter.com/bitchute/status/1323741461972594688 On the day of election.
190.
by exo762 6y ago
The thing is - google makes more per user than users are willing to pay for google services. Also, their totaling vertical integration makes things hard to disentangle. If Google were to introduce paying subscription tomorrow (just shooting
191.
by exo762 6y ago
Ability to write an explanation like that is a sign of a great understanding of a topic. If you can write something like that - you've achieved such understanding.
192.
by exo762 6y ago
That's a distinction without a difference. Why would anyone run closed-source clients for federated networks when there are open-source clients readily available? One could imagine a scheme where endpoints run some kind of zksnark-wrap
193.
by exo762 6y ago
Please don't implement HTTP/2 and HTTP/3. Unless you are working on Firefox or some other thing that should compete with Chrome. Complicated protocol, unfriendly to hackers, offering huge corporation some millisecond savings
194.
by exo762 6y ago
Equality/Inequality and Freedom/Serfdom lie on two different although not fully independent axes. One can be a rich slave - by not having any political freedoms.
195.
by exo762 6y ago
Technically, it's not the first p2p game with hidden information (there are implementations of p2p poker), but definitely the first generic one, where cryptography is not handcrafted for minutia of particular game rules.
196.
First P2P computer game with hidden information(blog.zkga.me)
3 points by exo762 6y ago|1 comments
197.
by exo762 6y ago
Protests in Belarus are way more civilized than recent protests in both Portland and the rest of USA. The difference is stark, shocking, and puzzling.
198.
by exo762 6y ago
On seeing the title my mind immediately jumped to prediction markets as a tool that should replace scientific papers' reviews . Which is a bad idea because of tiny amount of specialists in any scientific field and resulting minuscul
199.
by exo762 6y ago
> The lengths wealthy people go to outdo one another are just absurd. Have you heard of "luxury beliefs"? [1] [1]: https://nypost.com/2019/08/17/luxury-beliefs-are-the-latest-...
200.
by exo762 6y ago
> But as a solution for the institutional failures it still is not a replacement I don't think one can call PayPal an institution. As for an ability to transact - I don't see why shouldn't we replace institutions that prev
201.
by exo762 6y ago
> We blame politics, journalist but at least they sign their articles. Don't you think they receive death treats all the time ? 1. They are professionals. SSC is a hobbyist. 2. No, I don't think they receive a lot of threats. T
202.
by exo762 6y ago
May I ask you to elaborate? AFAIK the only thing they are leaking about you is "is this phone number using Signal?". A single bit of information.
203.
by exo762 6y ago
> No servers; nowhere for metadata to accumulate (other than the clients, of course). If the network itself is controlled by adversary, you leak more metadata passing data directly. If data goes through honest server, attacker needs to d
204.
by exo762 6y ago
Oh, the talk that made me learn systemd. Must see.
205.
by exo762 7y ago
They were on a good trajectory of being put of the business by Youtube. But than "authoritative sources" came.
206.
by exo762 7y ago
Could that be caused by the fact that compilation authors are clearly on Dem side? Trump's travel ban was called racist by whom? (I'm also an outsider.)
207.
by exo762 7y ago
Talking about stretching terms - how about "zero knowledge" encryption marketed by cloud storage providers? Taking a cool sounding term from cryptography space and misapplying it to describe end to end encryption.
208.
by exo762 7y ago
It happens in Russia a lot. It happened in the past in Ukraine. Vote buying is not a theoretical problem.
209.
by exo762 7y ago
Transition from this: > Multi-device E2E requires ONE device be the source of truth for the private key. To this: > That's why for WhatsApp Desktop to work, you need your phone to be connected. Is just an implementation detail. S
210.
by exo762 7y ago
USA is a plutocracy. Source - this study: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...

More ›