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oefrha
2y ago
> Your beliefs about some theory about Apple claiming something about "provable trust" or whatever are really probably unfounded and don't even make any sense. It's not something I made up, it's literally claim
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oefrha
2y ago
Trusted computing is a technical concept. People use Bitcoin because it’s provably secure against clearly outlined threats, not because they trust some vendor. Apple and a certain group of fans want to present iOS as a trusted computing pla
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oefrha
2y ago
Thanks, I missed this story. According to https://old.reddit.com/r/ipv6/comments/17yuqvp/til_capital_o... , the largest allocations by RIRs other than ARIN do not exceed /19, and those are for nation
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oefrha
2y ago
Well, local people probably care about economic development and don’t give a rat’s ass about astronomy. So the question becomes, who’s going to compensate for the loss of economic development? (By local I don’t mean strictly local, in case
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oefrha
2y ago
A big company assigns me a new account rep every ~six months, each time resulting in an email from the new account rep introducing themself and trying to schedule a call to “learn more about me needs” (read: upsell me). Not sure if they int
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oefrha
2y ago
> The government attempted to force them to write a new operating system Which they are absolutely capable of, but refused to that time. People in this thread keep talking about provable trust when the software is fully under Apple’s con
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oefrha
2y ago
See my response to sibling. Explain to me how you prove iOS software can’t be malicious.
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oefrha
2y ago
Provable how? iOS software is closed source and unverifiable. New code can be added to send any data anywhere at any point. Explain to me how you prove closed source software won’t send data under its control ever. And we don’t even need to
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oefrha
2y ago
> Cryptographers who design these systems do consider the threat of a malicious future iteration of the company and thus try to reduce the trust in a centralized authority. It’s no use. All the opaqueness to Apple relies on > This pri
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oefrha
2y ago
What conspiracy? CIA had spy pigeons among other animals half a century ago, which is public info by now.[1] They are very proud of it too. > While many of the animal programs studied by CIA were never deployed operationally—or failed fo
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oefrha
2y ago
And you’re usually not the first one to have brought it up, even though you think you are. So people are wasting time shooting down what they have shot down before, not a great way to introduce yourself.
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oefrha
2y ago
This tactic is more common than you’d think. It usually goes like <amount> off the first period, regular price afterwards. Wait you want to cancel? How about this <amount> coupon for your next <period> as well? I’ve seen t
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oefrha
2y ago
Often times your new ideas aren’t new after all. Been there done that, only realized my stupidity as I grew more experienced.
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oefrha
2y ago
I once used Google’s account recovery flow on an old dormant (for maybe three years?) account. Did everything asked and reached a state where they wouldn’t ask me to do anything else to demonstrate ownership but I’m still suspicious or some
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oefrha
2y ago
According to the unemployment is at historical low crowd, people apparently have more than enough to do. Never mind the puzzling reports from people actually looking for employment.
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oefrha
2y ago
Speeding also carries point penalties. Get caught a few times and your license is suspended. You can’t just pay to speed indefinitely (unless you also buy something like a get out of jail free card from the police union).
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oefrha
2y ago
If I lose my phone I don’t lose my passwords to begin with, because I have my most important account passwords written down somewhere, including the one for the email account used for recovery flows. Strings are an open system after all. TO
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oefrha
2y ago
> One article says the runway was equipped with EMAS, an Engineered Materials Arresting System. > https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202412300010 Nowhere in that article says Muan Airpot has EMAS, it says a local off
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oefrha
2y ago
> The one project cleared was a project containing obfuscated code, in violation of the PyPI Acceptable Use Policy. Interesting, I didn’t know that. While I haven’t released anything obfuscated on PyPI, I’ve certainly written Python proj
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oefrha
2y ago
Nice startup idea here. Lenny 2.0 to string alone salespeople who cold call/email for as long as possible. Doesn’t work for B2C spam emails unfortunately.
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oefrha
2y ago
It’s abandonware at this point. Even Windows Terminal is better now which is just embarrassing.
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oefrha
2y ago
I’m saying you gave a bunch of “citations” that don’t support your claim. And your original claim is TikTok the first party boosted content with tons of fake upvotes to appear more viral, which you seem to have modified to a much weaker “th
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oefrha
2y ago
Every single one of your supposed citation talks about third parties selling engagement, except some speculation in [2]. Even the AI answer doesn’t support your claim, and regardless it’s super ironic that you consider several AI agents giv
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oefrha
2y ago
> provably dangerous things When I use GitHub’s Copilot Edits I run into “Responsible AI Service” killing my answers all the time, no idea why, I’m just trying to edit some fucking boring code of web apps. Maybe log.Fatal? Anyway, provab
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oefrha
2y ago
Boasting is required in his line of work, that's how they build street rep, sell their products/services, and recruit people. (Contrast this to spycraft where the acceptable amount of boasting is zero.) What did him in was boastin
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oefrha
2y ago
The main takeaway for me is the following. Everything you post online will end up in a public archive. That includes everything you post to supposedly private or semi-private venues, like Telegram channels. Everything you posted when you we
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oefrha
2y ago
Switching to SHA-256 and switching to longer substrings of hashes for identification are basically orthogonal problems. The former is hardly going to help with the latter, except in the we already broke everything so why not take the chance
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oefrha
2y ago
Oh okay.
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oefrha
2y ago
I’ve heard this story quite a few times but it’s always hearsay without anything concrete enough to even begin to verify. Given that one account of mine got perma-banned on YouTube (for violating the “impersonation rule” with a bunch of scr
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oefrha
2y ago
Pretty sure it’s not default, and Cloudflare browser check and/or captcha is a way bigger problem than TLS fingerprinting, at least was the case the last time I scraped a site behind Cloudflare.
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