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by markhahn 1y ago
This! Scalability is the crux of why encryptions must not be infringed. The claim that LEOs need to break encryption is based on laziness: they want to easily obtain access to communication, and at scale. They've always been able to
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by markhahn 1y ago
The problem is LEOs (and associated industry) claiming that enforcement is impossible without the ability to obtain cleartext. This is a lie: obtaining cleartext just makes enforcement vastly easier and more scalable. If crims have encrypt
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by markhahn 1y ago
Which were you thinking of? I can imagine Iran has some effort to discourage use of VPNs, though of course everyone does. I thought China simply made it easy to stay within the Great Firewall, and moderately difficult to get out.
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by markhahn 1y ago
I think it's more of a principle: if it looks like someone could charge money for it, they think that would make the country stronger, because all they understand is first-order profit. Trump's ethics is "get away with whate
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by markhahn 1y ago
I'm curious by what means you think Trump can be bargained with. Do you mean things like handsfull of like-minded countries selling t-bonds? No one in the R party has any leverage, and it's not clear that even a few US billionair
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by markhahn 1y ago
"tariff as wunderwaffe" often comes to mind these days.
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by markhahn 1y ago
it might be ignorance; it might be malice. it might also be deliberate: that they actually don't think the government should be involved in this sort of thing. after all, someone could be making a profit on this, and that seems to be
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by markhahn 1y ago
Trump stupidity hurts the country and world. But maybe this is an opportunity to do CVE better.
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by markhahn 2y ago
Why is this not simply disqualifying?
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by markhahn 2y ago
I think he, like many, overemphasizes the phenomenology of creativity. But he's right about the predictability of the pastiche. And after all, isn't it precisely pastiche that gen AIs are built for? Yes, directed pastiche, somet
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by markhahn 2y ago
if you think the national security infrastructure is untrustworthy, you need to fix the national security infrastructure. getting elected doesn't mean you get to create your own private government - we call that a revolution, not an e
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by markhahn 2y ago
sshd was compromised, and it doesn't access private keys. (well, probably the host key.)
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by markhahn 2y ago
not to be persnickety, but you don't have to pay for cellular service. the trackability you're criticizing is not inherent to the smartphone concept.
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by markhahn 2y ago
isn't this "telephone book" just what the databroker industry does (and has been, and will continue to do)? I'm not even sure there's any bright line distinguishing databrokers from the ad-personalization industry,
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by markhahn 2y ago
Understood - but is it actually realistic to expect pseudonyms to protect expression (in the face of bigdata correlation), or to expect the "right to be forgotten" to actually work?
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by markhahn 2y ago
I guess I have two questions: - do you think it is so hard to track people by their other behavior? that is, do pseudonyms actually work? - isn't harrassment by realnamed actors a failure of the (out-of-band) legal system?
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by markhahn 2y ago
yes, realnames depends on out-of-band harrassment being illegal and suppressed. but it also means responsibility, which acts in the opposite direction. a realnames policy doesn't preclude also offering pseudonyms for sensitive cases. t
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by markhahn 2y ago
I don't follow your logic - surely communicating from behind a mask encourages rudeness, no? Your comments seem to focus only on the recipient's authenticity or maskedness. Are you assuming that the author's own identity wil
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by markhahn 2y ago
very peculiar incident. it's a stretch to construe this as "opinions not same as state" though. I can see on the one side that police should only ever investigate crimes, not non-crimes. and that "a member of the publi
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by markhahn 2y ago
that strikes me as odd. I don't see scam ads, ever (you mean like embedded in web pages?) I also don't see much spam anymore, mainly because gmail does a decent job of it. But I still run a few narrow email servers - spam is ou
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by markhahn 2y ago
Can anyone provide comments on LOCKSS? I found https://www.lockss.org/use-lockss/how-lockss-works but it's really written for library/RDM types, not sysadmins/architects. https://github.com&#
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by markhahn 2y ago
there are a couple tape makers, regardless of how many companies rebadge the product. afaik, there are only 2-3 drive makers too. but don't forget that tape doesn't make much sense (in its market) without the robotic library. the
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by markhahn 2y ago
I'm not sure you can distinguish those. It is IBM, and IBM has a preference for who its customers are. So do enterprises, who like the sound of "no one ever got fired for..." And it's also because the market is pretty sm
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by markhahn 2y ago
Non-MAGA republicans gave up; they are now extinct.
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by markhahn 2y ago
As an American, I'm disgusted. Not only does Ukraine deserve respect and support, but the US's elected crazies are damaging the country. Soft power is real, and smart, power
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by markhahn 2y ago
Ugh, this is horrible writing. For instance, "Data centres cause pollution through high eletricity use" - high relative to what, residential housing? Aluminum smelting? It's fine to be skeptical of the AI bubble, but this ar
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by markhahn 2y ago
"better safe than sorry" is the definition of a slippery slope. but I'm curious: what event do you think taught us that? IMO, there's far mode damage being done to the world by, say, mercury in batteries than by nuclear
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by markhahn 2y ago
moore's law is just the observation that chips are 2d: linear shrinks produce exponential benefit. I can't see anything like a linear/square relation in fusion reactor design (even accepting that ML's premise of shrinks
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by markhahn 2y ago
motivated reasoning is the main problem.
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by markhahn 2y ago
egads. stephen miller is another festering embarrassment to the country.

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