octoberfranklin

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by octoberfranklin 8mo ago
I don't think it has anything to do with LLMs. I think the big cloud companies (AWS) figured out that they could scrape compute-intensive pages in order to drive up their customers' spend. Getting hammered? Upgrade to more-expen
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by octoberfranklin 8mo ago
Can we? Hashicorp is a devops company, not a cryptography company. The "hash" in their name bears no reference to cryptographic hashing. If the implementation came from DJB, or RSA corporation, or the OpenSSH developers that woul
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by octoberfranklin 8mo ago
That's not an elected office.
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by octoberfranklin 8mo ago
The 600hp (Kia!) EV6 GT has paddles too. Been trying to figure out how to repurpose them.
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by octoberfranklin 8mo ago
That's why I put black tape over my front-facing camera.
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by octoberfranklin 8mo ago
No, because they won't do it in a web browser. It'll be a smartphone app that only works on bootloader-locked devices (iPhones or Google SafetyNet for Android)
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by octoberfranklin 8mo ago
This is the big problem. We used to have a balance of power between the huge megaplatforms: they were the gatekeepers, but the worst punishment they could impose was forcing you to make a new account. Because they couldn't reliably te
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by octoberfranklin 8mo ago
Term limits for congress.
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by octoberfranklin 9mo ago
Yeah sure, you need good air filters. But bag filters are cheap. Even at the small scale of a $5m datacenter the cost of good air filters is a rounding error.
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by octoberfranklin 9mo ago
Reed-Solomon is error correction, not encryption.
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by octoberfranklin 9mo ago
Shamir Secret Sharing is notoriously difficult to implement correctly, and even the smallest most subtle bugs result in total compromise. Consider whether you really need this. Doing 7-choose-5 separate multiparty encryptions is way harde
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by octoberfranklin 9mo ago
This reads like an advertisement for Anthropic, not a technical article.
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by octoberfranklin 9mo ago
> apply the scientific method to investigate it. Great where do I find a spare identical copy of the CIA to use as the control group?
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by octoberfranklin 9mo ago
Cryptocurrency mines have been doing outside-air cooling in desert climates, at ungodly scales, for a long time now. At least a decade of that "long time" involved ordinary servers stuffed with GPUs (not ASICs) -- first for Bitcoi
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by octoberfranklin 9mo ago
Plenty of politicians are very proud of doing that.
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by octoberfranklin 9mo ago
> a handful of people, sometimes only one or two. If I could only ignore them, the computer conferences were still valuable. Alas, it's not always easy to do. > This is what killed Usenet, You've got to be kidding! The fact
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by octoberfranklin 9mo ago
We like self-checkout because there's hardly ever a line. An idle self-checkout machine costs the store almost nothing. An idle cashier costs the store wages. So the stores will always skimp on cashiers, leading to lines, wasting my
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by octoberfranklin 9mo ago
> Payment with a card is even less secure here in US. This is not even remotely true. Credit card chips do real cryptography. It's been a decade since I saw a card terminal without a chip reader, except for parking meters and soft
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by octoberfranklin 9mo ago
Bitmessage is/was awesome, but it fundamentally doesn't scale. Every user has to attempt decryption of every message sent by any sender. Later they cobbled on some kind of hokey sharding mechanism to try to work around this, but
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by octoberfranklin 9mo ago
Ricochet (chat via Tor .onion circuits): https://www.ricochetrefresh.net/ Tox (if you're addicted to phones): https://tox.chat/
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by octoberfranklin 9mo ago
Free speech.
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by octoberfranklin 9mo ago
They get political clout from it. They're keeping the people corralled into a payment system that politicians can easily influence. Jamie Dimon is the most popular banker in Washington because Chase has (by far) more retail depositors
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by octoberfranklin 9mo ago
Yeah 25 years ago people said stuff like that about fingerprint scanners, and then they got hacked by literal gummy bears: https://www.theregister.com/2002/05/16/gummi_bears_defeat_fi... For 2020's-era p
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by octoberfranklin 9mo ago
Wear an NFC ring on your finger. Unlike your palmprint, you can get a new ring with a new private key if yours is compromised.
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by octoberfranklin 9mo ago
Asinine Idiocracy
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by octoberfranklin 9mo ago
Hrm HN seems very triggered by this reasonable suggestion.
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by octoberfranklin 9mo ago
Resisting involuntary biometrics. If you're in the USA, your credit card company captures your biometric voiceprint without consent or even notification when you call customer service. This technology makes that pointless.
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by octoberfranklin 9mo ago
They had Google Earth long before Google did...
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by octoberfranklin 9mo ago
Finished exploits (for immediate deployment) don't have to be maintainable, and they only need to work once.
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by octoberfranklin 9mo ago
preventing normies from accessing Anna's Archive is what they care about Seriously? Anna's Archive hosts ebooks and scholarly journal articles. Not the kind of stuff your average Instagram Influencer (TM) is into. I'd be ut

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