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by ohazi 5y ago
They had some people use the thing for a while, and concluded "Hey look, it doesn't seem to quote verbatim very often. Yay!" There is nothing in there that describes any sort of mitigation. The three sentences about an attrib
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by ohazi 5y ago
That kind of bullshit phrasing can only get you so far. It's like if some corporate PR department told you "we're aware of the halting problem, and are taking steps to mitigate it." You would rightly laugh them out of th
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by ohazi 5y ago
Nat Friedman explicitly stated that it shouldn't regurgitate [0]: > It shouldn't do that, and we are taking steps to avoid reciting training data in the output He's being woefully naive. To put it bluntly, we don't kn
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by ohazi 5y ago
I think the fact that there's no way to delete the data in question without throwing away the entire model is a feature... The strategic goal of a GPDR erasure request would be to force GitHub to nuke this thing from orbit.
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by ohazi 5y ago
> Most of the time the system works for people who have good coverage. I'm sorry, but I just can't see how this is true. Do you only go to the doctor for a yearly checkup, or something? I've had "good" coverage
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by ohazi 5y ago
> having insurance yet filled with invisible asterisks. "Invisible asterisks" captures the reality perfectly. The asterisks are invisible and infinite. I think even Kafka would be horrified. We've turned medical billing in
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by ohazi 5y ago
If you trust the recipient, but there's a chance that they will be threatened and asked/forced to reveal the message that you sent them, they may appreciate a mechanism that gives them plausible deniability. Obviously a recipien
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by ohazi 5y ago
Yeah I know that this is how it works, I just think it happens to be the worst possible way for it to work. If anything, pointing to the upstream manufacturer should be the end of it. The fact that someone can sue me over some proprietary i
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by ohazi 5y ago
The lawsuit is decidedly not referring to dynamic memory allocation. There's no way to "request" a runtime-specified amount of memory dynamically here. The memory in question is a tiny, fixed-size block of RAM inside the ch
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by ohazi 5y ago
No, I completely agree with you. I'm nitpicking about a nitpick, and I feel kind of bad for derailing the conversation, because the patent assertion is completely ridiculous. I just think that Nathan shouldn't have made the jab
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by ohazi 5y ago
Eh, shrug . I don't think so. In any case, the fact that SparkFun doesn't even do semiconductor design makes this whole lawsuit even more ridiculous. They put chips onto boards, they don't design ALUs with special configur
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by ohazi 5y ago
This line appears to suggest otherwise. > Dynamic ram? Can I poke fun at them for not knowing what RAM is? Yes I can. He's trying to nitpick about the term "dynamic" in this context, which he has misunderstood to mean &quo
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by ohazi 5y ago
> > The cost is further reduced by employing only static or dynamic ram as a means for holding the state of the system. [...] > Dynamic ram? Can I poke fun at them for not knowing what RAM is? Yes I can. > The above paragraph
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by ohazi 5y ago
The only theoretical value I see in Secure Boot is if you're trying to build a tamper-resistant laptop. You'd have to only run Linux, you'd have to disable everything except your own signing keys (rather than using the shim
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by ohazi 5y ago
This is a BIOS vs. UEFI thing, it has nothing to do with Windows or Secure Boot or the TPM requirement. When you do an initial OS install today, you have to boot the computer in the mode that you intend to use (Legacy BIOS / CSM mode
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by ohazi 5y ago
> A lot of this discussion is comparing apples to oranges. I agree that wooden houses are not comparable to reinforced concrete bridges. But the part I'm trying to highlight is that being able to easily inspect a structure is a crit
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by ohazi 5y ago
Maintenance of steel reinforced concrete is an all-or-nothing affair. You either get it right and seal everything perfectly and monitor everything perfectly and repair tiny cracks before they allow moisture to get in, or you're sunk. I
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by ohazi 5y ago
The problem isn't the programmers, it's the specs. Most specs are terribly written, and are hundreds or thousands of pages longer than they need to be. Go read the latest USB Power Delivery spec. Or the BLE spec. Or the HEVC&#x2
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by ohazi 5y ago
Neat. I remember wanting something like this years ago when a friend and I were on the same flight but we're sitting ~10 rows apart.
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by ohazi 5y ago
Okay, that's fair. I was confused and responded in frustration. Maybe glibc vs. musl would have been more clear than "GNU/Linux" vs. "Alpine". I still think only referring to it as "Alpine" and not o
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by ohazi 5y ago
The distinction that's being characterized as "GNU/Linux" vs. just "Alpine" is confusing. Is Alpine using some new kernel? No, it's a Linux distribution that uses the Linux kernel, albeit with some unusual
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by ohazi 5y ago
Thanks for writing objdump! I'm probably one of those people. The most recent thing I did with objdump was use it to patch in a signature that needed to be computed over the text/data/bss segments after compilation. This was
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by ohazi 5y ago
This is great. I wish every binary format had a visualizer like this. Or maybe even a generic tool that can take in descriptions of binary formats to create new annotations on the fly (like Wireshark). I've seen similar tools to annota
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by ohazi 5y ago
This is not as suggestive as one might imagine given the title or the discussion here so far. It's not "Turing machine but the tape is limited to 1024 cells" - i.e. you don't get 1024 units of memory and a conditional br
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by ohazi 5y ago
This seems conceptually similar to the 2019 CCC card10badge. schneider has a great overview of some of the challenges of (barely) getting that project out the door on time: https://twitter.com/schne1der_/status/123
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by ohazi 5y ago
"Automatically update the programs I currently have installed when new versions are available, with a flag to disable this behavior" vs. "Arbitrarily install new programs from scratch via a separate mechanism that doesn&#x2
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by ohazi 5y ago
WTF does Supplyframe actually do? Various bits from their website [1]: > Only Supplyframe’s Design-To-Source Intelligence (DSI) solutions deliver actionable insights that drive better decisions across new product development initiatives,
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by ohazi 5y ago
To add a bit more to this: In my experience, when chips are expensive (for non-supply reasons), it's usually for one of three reasons: 1. There's nothing else like it on the market, so the manufacturer can charge whatever price th
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by ohazi 5y ago
> FTDI does quite well on their chips [...] and are still winning at it. You are making a guess. FTDI is a private company, and unless you are an insider or have done original research, you have no way of knowing whether the company is d
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by ohazi 5y ago
> Do you want to say we should abolish free market? Don't build a straw man. FTDI has every right to charge whatever they want, just as I have every right to call them greedy bastards who would rather play dirty games with their dri

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