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by nybble41 5y ago
End-to-end encryption only means something if you and whoever you intend to communicate with control the endpoints. With an iOS device, you don't: Apple controls the endpoint. You may have paid for the device, but Apple has exclusive c
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by nybble41 5y ago
> SSNs should only ever be used for your employer knows how to report who paid what taxes to the IRS. If someone else wants to use my SSN to claim that they paid my taxes, fine with me! That could go the other way, with someone else fili
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by nybble41 5y ago
Sure, static linking and the like make the initial deployment much easier. On the other hand, it also means that any bugs in the dependencies are baked into each application , and fixing those bugs (which may be critical security issues) r
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by nybble41 5y ago
> The chance of a match being CSAM is not almost certain, though. Not according to Apple. They're publicly claiming a one-in-a-trillion false positive rate from the automated matching. Either that's blatant false advertising or
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by nybble41 5y ago
I'm aware of how the system works. Those are still your private files which were supposed to be encrypted and which were revealed (either partially or fully, makes no difference) to another party. That fact that this review process is
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by nybble41 5y ago
There is a difference between moderators manually identifying illegal content in a stream of mostly-legal material and a process where content which has already been matched against the database and classified as almost-certainly-illegal is
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by nybble41 5y ago
That's too little, too late. By the time any human reviewer can evaluate whether the images should have been in the database the encryption on the backups has already been circumvented and other parties have already been given access
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by nybble41 5y ago
I was addressing your first point about how the data is displayed in hex editors. But the rest IMHO is just fixating on one particular operation ("multiplying by 256" by prepending bytes without regard for the data format) which d
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by nybble41 5y ago
> A brute-force attack capable of testing 2^128 keys can break any AES-128 key with certainty. One minor caveat: You have to be able to recognize when you've found the right key. If the message is short (less than the key size) then
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by nybble41 5y ago
If you write right-to-left and use little-endian writing order then you still write the least significant digit first, so the one's places line up along the right edge. The advantage is the same.
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by nybble41 5y ago
> Some merely use spaces to separate bytes visually, others actually group the bytes and parse them as integers, swapping them as needed to read like human writing. In other words, your problem is that your hex editor is incorrectly assu
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by nybble41 5y ago
There is no scarcity of open source Minecraft imitators/clones, but Minetest seems to be among the most thoroughly developed. Veloren has some interesting demo videos, for example, but its modding interface is barely a sketch at this p
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by nybble41 5y ago
While it's not quite Minecraft, there is an open source game (or rather, game engine) in a very similar style named Minetest[0] with a diverse community and a variety of game designs and mods to choose from. [0] https://www.
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by nybble41 5y ago
> There's no circumstance where it is considered acceptable to hit a pedestrian, no matter how difficult the predestrian is being… Obviously drivers are not permitted to simply run into pedestrians either deliberately or negligently
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by nybble41 5y ago
> Users may assume that IPv4 and IPv6 address queries for localhost names will always resolve to the respective IP loopback address. Is the RFC assuming that there is only one loopback address for each protocol? That may be true for IP
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by nybble41 5y ago
Hm. That doesn't look anything like the window I see when I type Win + . while connected to my Windows 10 PC at work. (All my own systems run Linux, so I can't test it locally.) That could be due to version differences, enterprise
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by nybble41 5y ago
Interesting. That was not my experience. I could type to search, but pressing enter just showed a message about copying the emoji to the clipboard. This was over a Remote Desktop connection, so perhaps that affected the behavior? Or it migh
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by nybble41 5y ago
The Win + . sequence opens the Emoji selector window, which as the name implies can only be used to select emojis. It's also more disruptive since it opens a separate window where you must navigate to or search for the desired emoji, s
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by nybble41 5y ago
Irreversibility in the core protocol is a feature, and a necessary one at that. If you start with irreversible payments and you need payments to be reversible with some kind of review/appeal process you can add reversibility through es
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by nybble41 5y ago
It's the infrastructure bill itself that contains the poorly considered provisions which (arguably) require miners and unhosted wallet developers to collect and report transaction information to the IRS. The competing proposed amendmen
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by nybble41 5y ago
> One other thing to keep in mind is that lenses aren’t especially cheap, and in this case you’d rather have too wide of a lens rather than something too tight, so people might go for the 16mm instead of the 20mm. If that's the issu
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by nybble41 5y ago
The issue isn't that the signature is based on a computed value—the input would always be computed at some point. The issue is that the signature checking code interprets the document one way and the code using the document interpret
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by nybble41 5y ago
> That is the whole point of decentralization...if one or two large pools (Ethermine and Sparkpool) get too big then they can sway proposals almost single handedly… If the pool operators don't actually own the mining hardware then t
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by nybble41 5y ago
Yes, and the rate depends on the amount of ordinary income you have (including short-term gains) and the amount of long-term capital gains. The capital gains rate is 0% under $40k (for single individuals) but ordinary income is calculated
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by nybble41 5y ago
I should think that it would be obvious that you don't put in 1.24 BTC and then take out 1.24 BTC later. Someone trying to hide the source of their funds via a mixer or Monero or whatever would put in 1.24 BTC and take out 1 BTC + 0.2
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by nybble41 5y ago
> by this tax This isn't actually a (new) tax, it's a surveillance framework intended to support stricter enforcement of existing taxes. So far as that goes it's an added expense (mostly externalized) and not likely to pay
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by nybble41 5y ago
Regulations always amount to a seizure of property to some extend; the degree depends on how much the value of the property is reduced by the regulations. Ownership of property consists of the right to decide how that property is used. If t
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by nybble41 5y ago
> We don't really know how much memory Java needs on this benchmark. The JVM will use as much memory as you give it. ## /usr/bin/time java -Xmx48M -cp build/java Main2 ... 90.14user 1.36system 1:29.07elapse
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by nybble41 5y ago
> No one is saying these need to be city owned properties. … Regulation can but restrictions on developers and force them to build affordable housing that would still be profitable just not the absolutely most profitable option. That&#x2
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by nybble41 5y ago
It sounds risky but what's so terrible about offering paying work to people who appear to need it? It's not like they were compelled to accept.

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