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by pat2man 7y ago
Couldn't Apple and Google just ship a client side model for detecting certain images and apps could use it to detect CSAM without leaving the device?
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by pat2man 7y ago
The larger issue here is that the wallet was built in a very similar way to many crypto wallets. They sort of sell the fact that private keys are not stored in a central DB as a silver bullet for decentralization. But since the private keys
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by pat2man 7y ago
You can append a note to a bitcoin transaction, and that node could be a file. This app scrapes those files.
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by pat2man 7y ago
When I moved to Rust the constant error wrapping or converting annoyed me. But after using it for a couple of years it turned out to be a huge blessing. Quite often I need to know exactly which error messages will be thrown so that I can do
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by pat2man 7y ago
It’s surprising considering how cheap SIM card chips are. It’s not hard to do secure elements these days, at least at scale.
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by pat2man 7y ago
You can transact off chain. You just have to calculate the likelihood that your transaction will go through, and adjust accordingly. The cost of a 51% attack for 24 hours is a lot higher than the cost for one hour, so if you want for 24 hou
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by pat2man 7y ago
Yeah. Is the part where they are convinced that is the actual double spend.
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by pat2man 7y ago
Yeah stores that accept crypto Currency need to understand this, or use an underlying abstraction that does. Of course for most chains this would make transactions very slow which is not good for commerce.
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by pat2man 7y ago
Yeah exchanges and all other external systems need to handle this. Effectively they should look at the possibility of a deep reorg and the potential cost to them and use that to adjust how many transactions they require until the risk is mi
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by pat2man 7y ago
If you are considering the recipient a human interpreting the results, then this is a failure of their wallet UI. The block chain is a tree not a log. The views that show it as a log are just showing you the statistically most likely outcom
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by pat2man 7y ago
They cannot rewrite history. But they can create multiple histories and switch between them.
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by pat2man 7y ago
It’s an eventually consistent system, so you can defraud people who don’t take that into account. But internally it will always be consistent.
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by pat2man 7y ago
As far as the block chain is concerned they cannot. No single branch can have a double spend. But of course with deep reorgs they can defraud exchanges or other parties who end up on the wrong branch.
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by pat2man 7y ago
Only of those blocks are accepted by the chain in the future. Zero transaction blocks or blocks with invalid transactions could easily be ignore by the next miner.
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by pat2man 7y ago
Since it took a while for me to understand this. A 51% attack doesn’t let you steal money from anyone. It essentially lets you block all transactions from making it to the blockchain. Nodes will still verify all transactions and ignore tran
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by pat2man 7y ago
Yeah but these apps are just html and JavaScript which is normally allowed.
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by pat2man 7y ago
Maybe Shopify’s growth is actually due to their shorter hours. Study after study shows this to be true, but for some reason the Bay Area can’t wrap their minds around that fact. In all likelihood Bay Area companies would be more productive
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by pat2man 7y ago
But Matrix is mostly built around chat rooms, not feeds like Twitter. I would assume any new system would take some parts of Matrix and some parts of ActivityPub but not the entire thing.
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by pat2man 7y ago
So https://steemit.com ?
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by pat2man 7y ago
From my perspective, it is a session cookie + some other verifiable attributes. For instance if you are using OAuth you can include the OAuth client ID in the JWT. Now you don't need to look it up each time.
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by pat2man 7y ago
That only describes why you shouldn't use them for sessions, not why you should not use them at all.
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by pat2man 7y ago
I can easily plug any USB device into my MacBook with a cable. I cannot however plug a firewire, thunderbolt or HDMI cable into a USB-A port. Yes I need to purchase different cables, but they are relatively cheap compared to something like
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by pat2man 7y ago
Sort of like the HomeKit pairing requirements...
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by pat2man 7y ago
Both CarPlay and Android Auto support wireless connectivity.
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by pat2man 7y ago
WeWork is really just a middle ground between a co-working space and a full blown office. Seems like a no brainer for someone to fill the space. If WeWork collapses I'm sure a dozen other companies will fill the space.
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by pat2man 7y ago
Safari continues to lead the path for privacy and security. WebAuthN is a welcome change although supporting the built in TouchID in Apple devices would have been nice. The new password change prompt is definitely a plus.
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USB4 Specification Merges Thunderbolt 3 and USB(macrumors.com)
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by pat2man 7y ago
I think the Cape Town water crisis is a good example of how we are likely to deal with global warming. Everyone knew it was an issue, and people didn't want to act. But eventually catastrophic felt inevitable and people finally did wha
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by pat2man 7y ago
We don't let websites access file:// urls, why should they be able to access http://localhost urls? Or http://*.local urls?
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by pat2man 7y ago
You are probably right, but home solar has a few advantages. You already have the space for it. And you don't need to transport the energy anywhere.

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