octoberfranklin

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by octoberfranklin 6mo ago
Money is great at thwarting spam/Sybil attacks. You don't have to raise the price very much to make them fail. Honestly I think "this person is real" is the wrong goal. You'll never accomplish it without a central
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by octoberfranklin 6mo ago
I hate to break it to you but it is really easy to get anonymous visa/mastercard cards.
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by octoberfranklin 6mo ago
This project is authored by the guy responsible for the Mt Gox fiasco. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Karpeles It is not his first fraud.
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by octoberfranklin 6mo ago
This is my litmus test. If AI is really as wonderous as everybody says, why didn't all the employees of all the AI companies simply type "Claude, file my taxes for me" as a prompt and walk away?
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by octoberfranklin 6mo ago
How do they know that the "you" accessing the site is the same "you" they previously banned? Face-scanning? Iris patterns?
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by octoberfranklin 6mo ago
> Github project data is easy to export: https://docs.github.com/en/issues/planning-and-tracking-with ... Only the project owner can do that.
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by octoberfranklin 6mo ago
This answer can be applied to pretty much any social question. If it were so easy, we'd do this all the time. We already do it a lot, and there are heaps of examples where it goes wrong.
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by octoberfranklin 6mo ago
The funding for tor project is nowhere near what is needed to develop an entire browser. Mainly because the web has become such a bloatfest, not because of any wrongdoing by tor.
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by octoberfranklin 6mo ago
djbsort is constant-time. Because most post-quantum cryptosystems need this primitive. https://sorting.cr.yp.to/
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by octoberfranklin 7mo ago
Same here with github.
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by octoberfranklin 7mo ago
> produce at least a small nuclear explosion The Manhattan Project scientists actually did this before anybody broke ground at Los Alamos. It was called the Chicago Pile. And if the control rods were removed and the SCRAM disabled, i
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by octoberfranklin 7mo ago
WTF is a "subprocessor"? They should just be honest and say "data loophole".
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by octoberfranklin 7mo ago
Yeah after seeing what tiny DIY "racing quadcopters" can do I am really amazed that we haven't seen a swarm of them used for a non-state-actor ("terrorist" or otherwise) attack. These things are way faster and mor
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by octoberfranklin 7mo ago
> Calm down, it isn't quite that bad. Why would it be bad? Making it not-bad is exactly why IOMMUs exist. They've been around for decades.
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by octoberfranklin 7mo ago
Fair enough, but the wiretap laws are all phrased in terms of "conversation participant" -- a listener who every speaker is aware is listening. Some states require consent of all participants, others require consent of one partic
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by octoberfranklin 8mo ago
Of course not. Zscaler will simply block all ECH connections.
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by octoberfranklin 8mo ago
It is unlikely that any browser will ever require ECH without a fallback to non-encrypted ClientHello. If the CDNs come under pressure, they can stop allowing ECH, just like they stopped allowing domain fronting. Unlike fronting, they can
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by octoberfranklin 8mo ago
How many humans do you know who can recite 6000 books, word for word, exactly?
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by octoberfranklin 8mo ago
let a thousand flowers bloom
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by octoberfranklin 8mo ago
I think it's nuts how nobody seemed to care about this mass surveillance tool until it fell into the hands of the red party. "Just keep electing the blue party" is not a convincing security posture.
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by octoberfranklin 8mo ago
Hardware driver bugs frequently manifest as concurrency flakiness or heisenbugs. AI is notoriously bad at dealing with bugs that only cause problems every few weeks.
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by octoberfranklin 8mo ago
That AI was trained on the GPLv2 Linux source code, which does have a driver for your Wi-Fi. How is this not copyright laundering?
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by octoberfranklin 8mo ago
Couldn't install, requires iOS 26
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by octoberfranklin 8mo ago
Anonymous hit piece. DJB, like RMS, has proven over decades that he is swayed only by principles. When these people sound the alarm, you should listen. Even if they are nerdy folks.
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by octoberfranklin 8mo ago
Actually you can! After all, TLS lacks the deniability features of more advanced cryptosystems (like OTR or Signal). The technology for doing this is called a Zero Knowledge Proof TLS Oracle: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024&#x
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by octoberfranklin 8mo ago
Really surprised that 1stproof.org was submitted three times and never made front page at HN. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=1stproof This is exactly the kind of challenge I would want to judge AI systems based on. It required
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by octoberfranklin 8mo ago
Unfortunately that's ending with mandatory-BYOK from the model vendors. They're starting to require that you BYOK to force you through their arbitrary+capricious onboarding process.
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by octoberfranklin 8mo ago
"trust the platform" yeah stop doing that.
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by octoberfranklin 8mo ago
It would at least be diverse .
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by octoberfranklin 8mo ago
They're rotating through huge pools of residential IP addresses.

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