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by loup-vaillant 5mo ago
> TPMs are great. TPMs are a fucking mess. TPM 2 at least, I’ve worked with it for a few months. I love me some hardware security module, but I want to control it. And if it must be a standard, please please to something like the TKe
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by loup-vaillant 5mo ago
> You don't have to compromise anything. So… I don’t have to compromise the ability to run any program I want on my machine, and I don’t have to compromise the ability to be root on my machine. Right? And of course, when I say &qu
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by loup-vaillant 5mo ago
The problem is not that the OS can’t attest the app is secure. The problem with cheating is that the game servers cannot attest the client is genuine in all aspects that matter: non-modified client, running in an environment where there i
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by loup-vaillant 5mo ago
> these developments still fill me with a terrible sadness. I wish they filled you with anger instead. It’s not too late. You’re not alone.
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by loup-vaillant 6mo ago
I'm not sure they're complying even with the letter of the law. Many cookie banners I see, require several clicks to deny anything but those they don't have to ask me about. And in most other cases, the accept button is sign
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by loup-vaillant 6mo ago
> I don't think we're going to start seeing most people keep their phones for 7-10 years. I do. I lasted more than 15 years on 2 phones, and the only reason I'm at my fourth right now, is because the third was stolen af
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by loup-vaillant 6mo ago
> this law will force phone manufacturers to compromise the things that most people want in order to provide something that most people don't want. Okay, you're claiming two things: (i) replaceable batteries will compromise s
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by loup-vaillant 7mo ago
Simply put, they don't get it.
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by loup-vaillant 9mo ago
> What you get by using Unity or Unreal Engine is that a big team already worked through all this overhead. Obviously, given the low-level subject matter, this post wasn't aimed at turnkey engine users. In fact, people interested
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by loup-vaillant 9mo ago
I've heard just today of England trying to hit messaging apps with mandatory image scans — ostensibly to avoid the transmission of unsolicited dick pics, which more than one teenage girl have been the target of, but in practice may h
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by loup-vaillant 10mo ago
Here's the thing though: they're not killing entertainment — at least not in general. They're killing communication.
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by loup-vaillant 10mo ago
Do note thought that X25519 and Ed25519 were designed so they wouldn’t need those checks at all. It’s only when you’re trying to design fancier protocols on top of Curve25519 or Edwards25519 that you can run into subgroup issues. And for t
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by loup-vaillant 10mo ago
There’s a simple (but radical) solution that would force GPU vendors to settle on a common, stable ISA: forbid hardware vendors to distribute software. In practice, stop at the border hardware that comes from vendors who still distribute s
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by loup-vaillant 11mo ago
> Which is why most people seek — by your own admission — officials to lord over them instead. I don’t recall saying that. On the contrary, I believe people are forced to let officials rule over them, in part by lack of time and othe
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by loup-vaillant 11mo ago
> When the government has access to unlimited labour and military via robots, why do they need citizens anymore? Wait a minute, didn’t you just assume Western countries are not democracies? I’ve noticed how fashionable it is in the U
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by loup-vaillant 11mo ago
It is also on track to be nearly as… impactful as the Permian extinction. That stuff cuts both ways unfortunately.
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by loup-vaillant 11mo ago
> of course, however big a problem chat control is, climate change is a much bigger issue Not quite "of course" in my opinion. An even bigger problem than (and a major cause of) climate change is how information flows to peo
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by loup-vaillant 11mo ago
> I'm baffled as to why you would want to use macros to emulate c++. I like the power of destructors (auto cleanup) and templates (generic containers). But I also want a language that I can parse. Like, at all. C is pretty easy
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
Wait, if I recall correctly, covariance has long been established as a mistake. I would guess that if TypeScript had adopted contravariance the problems you mention would go away. We could then argue that TypeScript does need subtyping (l
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
As was said above, don't just add a number from 1 to 6. You want your ciphertext to be indistinguishable from random, so in this case (assuming only letters and no punctuation nor space), you need to add a number from 0 to 26. And you
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
Foreign function interfaces aren't that scary. Any competent $lang developer ought to be able to read the docs and roll their own wrapper.
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
Dammit, the video doesn’t explain why we have 4 twisted pairs in our cables instead of just 2! One for Rx, one for Tx, but then why did they keep the other two? Surely they didn’t have 4 dead wires just because of legacy? So why the addi
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
I don’t. 2GB ought to be enough for everyone. The only reason it may not is if apps are ludicrously memory hungry.
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
Then the malware is hiding in the system space, which for some reason takes over 70% of all my available memory. I’ve heard that as systems update, they keep the old stuff around until you run out of memory. I haven’t checked, and I have ye
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
> When was the last time you felt your smartphone really couldn’t cope? Every day since a couple years now. > I struggle to recall the last time an app jerked and juddered into life. I don’t. But here’s the thing: it wasn’t that w
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
My SO is left handed, and here’s her trick: slant the paper . If you write with the same positioning we teach to right handers, the hand hides the writing, and if you use a fountain pen you just smear the writing before it has a chance to
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
> This was the basis for users to think the system was secure? Seriously!?! Charisma and similar flavours of "trust me bro" works more than reasonable people would anticipate. See every pseudo science and conspiracy theory e
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
How any group of one thousand people could be truly safe? Of course they would get infiltrated. Groups who want to survive being hunted kinda have to either be smaller, or divide themselves into cells.
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
"Nothing someone says before the word 'but' really counts".

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