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by pona-a 11mo ago
This was merely a rhetorical exercise, holding a mirror to the initial argument. If you found it disingenuous, I hope you can see the thesis: "Wade into this arena and see for yourself" works equally well to justify opposite posit
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by pona-a 11mo ago
Why does the emotional intensity of the crime justify accepting massive collateral damage to innocent people? It's an appeal to trauma. Why can't we turn the tables on this? Have you been woken up at 3 AM by police battering down
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by pona-a 11mo ago
As someone born in a post‑Soviet country with rather many odd digital laws--including one requiring that any use of encryption be registered with the department of commerce and the secret service (meaning no TLS unless you get a permit)--I
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by pona-a 11mo ago
As much as I hate the cowboy cryptography of it, Telegram could do it. They are a 30 person team and maintain a web version, a first-class Qt desktop app, and native iOS and Android clients. I would wager that if they wanted to simplify coo
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by pona-a 11mo ago
I wish them the best. When I last tested it on fingerprint.com, the hash remained stable even with resistFingerprinting and letterboxing from a VPN, only changing between profiles. When I daily-drove resistFingerprinting (not reduceFingerpr
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by pona-a 1y ago
If your needs are this simple, you may be better served by an opinionated crypto library like Monocypher [0] or libsodium [1]. Just look at the latter's FAQ page and you'll see they're taking your approach targeting developer
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by pona-a 1y ago
What histories? Does archive.is take your email, phone, credit card, and passport pic when you want to read anything? The most there is is just an IP address in the server logs, for most users, rotated by their ISP on regular basis, easily
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by pona-a 1y ago
Someone needs to make a program that captures/replays your vim movements and another one that uses this to find the shortest path within every chunk.
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by pona-a 1y ago
Agree but it can definitely be redistributed. The overwhelming majority of users should better think about #936 than #538.
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by pona-a 1y ago
For me, eSIM was the only solution to a very real problem: being able to use virtual carriers without mailing a physical SIM. I can pay anonymously for a regional SIM from my MVNO at an affordable price, without giving a local carrier a cop
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by pona-a 1y ago
Oracle guided program synthesis. The user creates counterfactuals to the program output and the system tries to change its process to correctly process them.
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by pona-a 1y ago
If true ASI ever materializes, JVM bytecode.
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by pona-a 1y ago
To be fair, zoos don't usually feature the boring species, like insects, worms, and other tiny invertebrates.
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by pona-a 1y ago
Maybe Qualcomm hoped Mozilla had enough money to pay up in a bogus settlement? BeaconsDB is, as far as I know, just one guy.
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by pona-a 1y ago
At least in the case of United, we did see shareholders write angry letters when they temporarily became slightly less aggressive denying customers coverage. If that's the level of care for matters of life and death, why wouldn't
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by pona-a 1y ago
Why not even a PGP signature from the team? At least the public keys can be pinned so the possible compromise can be detected. I think Arch does something like that.
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Subverting Telegram's end-to-end encryption (2023)(tosc.iacr.org)
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by pona-a 1y ago
Fastmail's previous stance on implementing PGP in their clients was that it would be impossible for them to guarantee they couldn't send the user malicious JavaScript over the wire. Now that you have a local app, would you conside
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by pona-a 1y ago
If I said the Web Integrity API is incompatible with Free Software, would you read that as: a) Chromium would cease to be Free Software if it implemented it; or b) Web Integrity itself makes effective Free Software structurally impossible a
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by pona-a 1y ago
Freedom 1: The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish. The later half -- the freedom to change the program -- is meaningless in a world of attestation. Tivoization was explicitly forbidden on these
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by pona-a 1y ago
I’ll go a step further: if EU sovereigns claim the right to “lawfully intercept” their citizens' private communications, why shouldn’t every state enjoy the same privilege? Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Uganda will be exemplary cust
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by pona-a 1y ago
I haven't heard of it and I couldn't find the story by these keywords. Can you tell me more? I'm genuinely interested.
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by pona-a 1y ago
Have you heard of Depression Quest? It's a very similar idea: a text adventure about managing depression. It faced some controversy in its day. Do you think now is a better time for games like this?
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by pona-a 1y ago
The number of people in these threads defending involuntary bugging of every phone because you can devil-advocate it maybe might actually save the children is insane for a forum called Hacker News. Either the contrarian population has bee
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by pona-a 1y ago
Google Messages shows "This chat is now end-to-end encrypted" between compatible devices today.
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by pona-a 1y ago
And how are you supposed to exist as any sexual, gender, religious, or political minority when Gestapo's listening in on every phone? And also, we were talking about private conversations, not Reddit, not any less private than what is
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by pona-a 1y ago
This is a satire site. That doesn't make what it's based on any less weird.
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by pona-a 1y ago
Pegasus [0] and the like — commercial spyware updated with the latest exploit chains, developed in-house or purchased from markets like Zerodium, sold as terrorism-prevention tools to such trustworthy states as Russia, UAE, and Hungary. [0]
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by pona-a 1y ago
The 50s~70s are idealized by many as an American golden age, despite higher reported crime. Law enforcement back then did not have AI-powered surveillance camera networks, widely deployed IMEI stingrays, private data-brokers, or the ability
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by pona-a 1y ago
Maybe they wanted to say “with [JUPITER, Europe],” as in “CERN, Switzerland.” This would still be unnecessary and confusing, but that’s the most sense I can make of it.

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