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by pdkl95 7y ago
> Someone who can get pop-culture’s attention needs to do a fucking Ted Talk and explain why this is usually a bad idea. Tom Scott made a good attempt recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leX541Dr2rU
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> it reveals to eavesdroppers what DNS servers you're talking to Yes, they (probably the ISP) can do traffic analysis - which is a significant risk - but they are prevented from learning the contents fo the query which puts a limi
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> There is an assumption by many that DNS encryption requires DNS centralization. A lot of the discussion recently, like this statement, conflates "DNS encryption" with "DoH". Encrypting DNS does not require central
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by pdkl95 7y ago
In addition to the exploration of using "AI" for counseling, Eliza also features an interesting ethical investigation; you play as the lead programmer who wrote the AI, left the company three years prior to the game's event
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> If you want to trust it you have to be able to audit its workings. This is the fundamental problem; we provably cannot even know if the black box will even halt [1], we obviously cannot audit any it for behaviors far more complex than
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Darts in Higher Dimensions (With 3blue1brown)(youtube.com)
4 points by pdkl95 7y ago|0 comments
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> and there are no adverse effects Who gets to define what counts as an "adverse effect"? > if there are they are overridden by the benefits Benefit to who? You? Society in general (by what definition of "society")
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> this does not increase that probability very much That depends[1] strongly on what question you are asking. Matching an unknown sample against a small number of suspects is a very different question than searching a database with milli
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by pdkl95 7y ago
My name is Homo Sapiens , hominid of hominids. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvbTFwXagdQ
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by pdkl95 7y ago
[re: upfront parsing - a PSA about validating input] > A lot of the software ... don't validate upfront They almost always should be validating all input up front. Deferring validation tends to become many different pieces of code
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by pdkl95 7y ago
LOL... from "Reverse emulating the NES to give it SUPER POWERS!"[1] (which is insa^Wbizza^Wa very creative hack): "The cartridge is the dual of the Nintendo." [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar9WRwCiS
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by pdkl95 7y ago
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsPUh22kYmNCLrXgf8e6n...
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by pdkl95 7y ago
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-esni/
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> Why are DNS records set with such low TTLs? The author seem to be missing one of the big reasons ridiculously low TTLs are used: it lets passive eavesdroppers discover a good approximation of your browsing history. Passive logging of H
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> The perceived impact is much less noticeable Especially after the data is laundered with machine learning and other opaque algorithms.
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by pdkl95 7y ago
It's not the user's responsibility to justify why thy don't want you eavesdropping on their property . Even if you manufactured the device, its not your property after you sold it. It's your responsibility as the manufa
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> Obfuscation may be our best digital weapon. From Dan Geer's talk "Cybersecurity as Realpolitik" (which everyone should hear[1]/read[2]): >> There are so many technologies now that power observation and identif
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> to provide a pop-up notification? The fact that you can easily describe what their modifications do as a new feature (w notification) that wasn't part of the original work is stro9ng evidence that their modifications were transfo
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by pdkl95 7y ago
Regarding actual damages, popups about data limits that appear to come from my page can easily damage my reputation or give the false impression that I have so9me kind of relationship with Comcast. Since they are making a new derivative w
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by pdkl95 7y ago
This is copyright infringement. >> 17 U.S.C. § 106 ...the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following: (2) to prepare derivative works based upon
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by pdkl95 7y ago
While PG&E is responsible for a lot of things; their past decisions to not adequately inspect/maintain transmission lines makes them responsible for a lot of the expenses and damages caused by the resulting blackouts. However, cell
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by pdkl95 7y ago
Amplitudes were needed to easily describe wave-like behavior. To produce an interference pattern, we need something like a probability that can be negative to represent the negative half of a wave. Amplitudes are like probabilities that c
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by pdkl95 7y ago
When you plot the "importance" N(n) of the positive integers, where N(n) = The number of occurrences of n in the OEIS an interesting anomaly appears[1]. The "importance" of the integers fall into two clusters, s
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There Is No Algorithm for Truth(youtube.com)
6 points by pdkl95 7y ago|0 comments
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by pdkl95 7y ago
Simply using cat to dump a single file to STDOUT is technically a misuse because cat is theoretically intended to concatenate files. This 'misuse' is 'solved' by bat because bat seems to be primarily intended for its
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by pdkl95 7y ago
Judge Chamberlain Haller: Uh... did you say "utes"? Vinny Gambini: Yeah, two utes. Judge Chamberlain Haller: What is a ute? ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu8tX2BAD1k )
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> Can't this be said about any benchmark? Maybe it should be? The "dieselgate" talk[1] at 32c3 suggests engineering has gotten very good[2] at "teaching machines to the test". [1] https://media.ccc
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by pdkl95 7y ago
(sorry for the late response!) > This is a strange definition of decentralization. DNS is - by definition[1] - a distributed database. Name servers store a distributed database consisting of the structure of the domain name spa
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YouTubers Must Unionize, No Matter What Google Says(wired.com)
3 points by pdkl95 7y ago|1 comments
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> I don't see DoH really impacting this issue in any clear direction. See my other posts[1][2] about why DoH explicitly requires centralization. > you have centralized DNS (based on your ISP) You might, I don't, because DNS

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