mike_hock

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by mike_hock 3mo ago
What casual sniffing? It's a pipe. If you can sniff that, you can sniff all the traffic because the very first message is the key in plaintext.
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck Apparently that one is "notable" but Odin is not. "The rules" are on the hook to justify their existence by providing reasonable and desirable outcomes, they&
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
It's a bit odd that you have to query a filesystem-specific value to get simple memory usage stats.
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
Is there a valid reason to use any encryption at all if you generally can't sniff the traffic unless you can also sniff the key, and if the key is arbitrary and not verified against anything?
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
No, I just find the inconsistent syntax annoying, but it turns out most things have alternative Latex-style spellings. I just went by their examples.
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
> Reality does not have amount of details, it is infinite in all directions. [citation needed] It's unknowable whether this is true.
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
Selection pressure in general. It's not market forces that decide military viability of one empire over another but it's not biological evolution either.
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
Defensive checks are good and it's the compiler's job to optimize them away. A simple comment can tell future readers that it's not actually expected to be possible.
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
So there's \in, \subseteq and probably many others that are written just like in Latex. Notably \cap and \cup were also copied from Latex, which describe the shape of the symbol instead of its meaning. But not \to, \mapsto, \Vee and \W
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
Interesting hypothesis. What makes it somewhat implausible is the fact that he got lower-case j's. Also, echo '{"foo":"bar"}' | jq -r '.foo' | xxd -p gives me 6261720a (i.e. bar
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
Yes, but piping output containing newlines into wl-copy does not result in j's in the clipboard.
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
> but in ANSI newline delimiter is translated as "j" ?
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
> I like my cozy Plasma DE [...] clean, all free of ads and bad UI redesigns and AI injected into every corner. Plasma itself is an example of bad UI redesign (but a far cry from Gnome).
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
Or until you realize X11 is one giant escape hatch. You might not have (convenient) access to your files but the attacker does.
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
> until one considers the practical implications You failed at that step. The practical implication is that every other X11 app can also read your input even when it's not in the foreground.
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
No, the world's job is not to make itself safe for you if you don't give a crap. If you roll your eyes at the thought of having to manage credentials or refuse to learn how the internet works on a basic level, you're not fit
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
"Whistleblowing" does refer to disclosing morally bankrupt behavior that isn't technically illegal, and NDAs are nefarious if they cover anything other than trade secrets.
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
The irony is that a printout of a photo (well, "photo") of handwritten homework would be pretty easy to distinguish from genuine handwritten homework. (otoh it's also trivial to copy whatever ChatGPT wrote by hand without thi
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
I think you could simulate something that passes a sniff test. A writer would probably spot implausibilities in the simulation if they paid attention, but then we're back to square one, because you can spot that something was written
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
1. Upload data using conventional compression method (or uncompressed) 2. Spend orders of magnitude (literally) more on compute to run the LLM on the data than any compression algorithm would ever take.
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
There's the case of a kid printing a non-functional toy weapon. And then there's the case of years of consistent violent behavior, and even when the principal was advised on the day of the shooting that the kid was in possession o
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
Where are the oncoming lanes?
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
Farmers are desperately trying to milk (hah) as much monetary value as possible from their cows before packaged milk obsolesces them completely!
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
You should make one where you can play against the branch predictors of various processors.
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
That goes for superliminal influencers, but I'm pretty sure the campaign as a whole is smart enough to play different roles including pretending to be people "on the other side."
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
> the how people who survive are the ones who can still operate at the deepest layer when something genuinely hard breaks. How do you think the How people learn how to How at the deepest layer when something genuinely hard breaks?
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
> Ask a question. > Ask two follow-up questions. > Ask about a seeming contradiction between the original answer and the answer to the second follow-up question. > Get congratulated for raising such a great point and get parrote
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
Sneakily and silently removing a feature in a firmware revision is not acceptable, security or otherwise.
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
If the landing page is slop, just assume that the code is, too.
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
Maybe they're all over the place and have a technology that prevents us from seeing them, and the mushroom just interferes with that tech.

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