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by pseudo0 4y ago
It seems reasonable to define the "main Fediverse" as the set of servers that most other servers federate with. There are distributed blacklists of servers like https://joinfediverse.wiki/FediBlock , and I would no
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by pseudo0 4y ago
Canada has one of the worst housing markets in the world, mediocre pay for software engineers, and a slowly collapsing public healthcare system (and private healthcare is illegal). Many of those issues are exacerbated by Canada's ridic
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by pseudo0 4y ago
So they sued the guy claiming the conspiracy existed, not the government, because the government would have mounted a real defense? That trial sounds like a farce, as the two parties were in agreement and just wanted that conclusion on the
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by pseudo0 4y ago
He is alleging that is exactly what happened: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603190155107794944
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by pseudo0 4y ago
If stochastic terrorism is speech that makes violent acts against an individual or group more likely, isn't ElonJet engaging in stochastic terrorism by making it easier for a radicalized crazy person to find Elon and harm him in real l
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by pseudo0 4y ago
If some random user joins my E2EE groupchat, yes, my expectation is that some unknown actor is now reading my messages... It would be no different than some rando getting added to a Signal group. At least in the groups I'm in, that wou
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by pseudo0 4y ago
I have used Element, and new users joining a room are displayed as an event in the timeline. The paper confirms that in section III-A, and based on the context I'm 99% sure that they mean pre-fix, not post-fix. With III-B, they can add
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by pseudo0 4y ago
You can decrypt all future messages in a noisy way that alerts all the users that something weird is going on. > While the Matrix specification does not require a mitigation of this behaviour, when a user is added to a room, Element wi
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by pseudo0 4y ago
My background is more in the applied end of things, not research, so I suppose that colors my perspective. But let's say I'm playing red team, and I get root on the box where my target is running their Matrix server. Practically,
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by pseudo0 4y ago
It has been a bit since I read the paper, but my recollection was that the attacks weren't very practical. It's great that they responsibly disclosed issues and that Matrix tightened up the spec and implementations, but requiring
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by pseudo0 4y ago
We are talking about a country that just traded an infamous arms dealer for a WNBA player...
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by pseudo0 4y ago
There are fairly stable web UIs now, and you can be up and running in about five minutes: https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui Tweaking and installing new models will take some additional effort, but
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by pseudo0 4y ago
Feel free to have whatever opinion you want of Elon Musk, but SpaceX has been wildly successful by just about every metric. In terms of cost, they are launching payloads at 1/44th the cost per kg of the Space Shuttle and at a fraction
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by pseudo0 4y ago
But that's a "safety risk", so for your own protection OpenAI will ensure that this technology remains safe in the hands of "trusted experts".
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by pseudo0 4y ago
> It's not impossible for people in NZ to see these materials; academics, journalists and so on can apply for permits to obtain and possess the material. Absent that, possession is, as I understand it, a crime, but one with a very l
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by pseudo0 4y ago
If the Democrats had wanted the paid sick days to pass, they would have bundled it with the bill forcing the railway workers to accept the contract, making it all or nothing. Splitting it off was just a way of killing it without taking resp
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by pseudo0 4y ago
Sure, but the median software engineer in South Africa is making around $20k USD ( https://www.payscale.com/research/ZA/Job=Software_Engineer/S... ) compared to around $90k in the US. Multiply that $16 by 4.5 a
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by pseudo0 4y ago
It's pretty common among middle or upper-middle class software engineers, at least based on the number of my coworkers who employ such services. Biweekly cleaning and gardening might run you $100 a week, or significantly less if you ca
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by pseudo0 4y ago
Not really. Rainbow tables are inflexible TMTOs that are slow to construct and have been made largely obsolete by advances in GPU cracking and more widespread use of good salts. Your WPA2 example doesn't hold up in the real world, wher
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by pseudo0 4y ago
Restaurant delivery is a $40 billion market in the US alone [0], that seems like plenty of revenue to sustain a software dev team. The issue right now is that there are 3+ players in each market, each shovelling VC money into promotions, di
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by pseudo0 4y ago
Well their assets were frozen on Nov 10 by the Bahamas' securities regulator, so I hope you withdrew any money that you needed. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-10/ftx-com-a...
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by pseudo0 4y ago
Haven't they effectively admitted to stealing billions of dollars of FTX exchange customer funds to try and prevent Alameda from going under? Alameda blowing up would be one thing, its investors knew they were making a risky bet, but F
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by pseudo0 4y ago
And then you donate the art to a foundation or charity and pocket a fat tax credit, thus avoiding the problem of having to actually find a sucker to pay $1 million. Some jurisdictions have cracked down on this, but for a long time it was a
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by pseudo0 4y ago
I believe that is what they are actually banning people for, "impersonation", as they are using a verified account to do a more convincing impersonation of another verified account. The easiest option in my opinion would be to for
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by pseudo0 4y ago
The issue is impersonation and confusion, not parody. A significant fraction of the population, especially infrequent Twitter users, are not aware of the display name vs. handle distinction. So if someone has a blue check, the same profile
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by pseudo0 4y ago
I saw one of the Ethan Klein tweets, and it was not immediately apparent as parody without clicking through to his account. Someone scrolling through their timeline can't see a user's bio or banner picture, it just looked like an
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by pseudo0 4y ago
An AI ethics team isn't going to catch promotion of violence or genocide in Myanmar, that is a problem that requires local cultural and language expertise and staff performing 24/7 real-time moderation. An AI ethics team is just a
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by pseudo0 4y ago
Mastodon is still littered with dead accounts from the last "exodus" so I'm not holding my breath.
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by pseudo0 4y ago
Are two of them named Ligma and Johnson?
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by pseudo0 4y ago
For reference, here's the comment that was deemed sufficient grounds to be desysopped. > # '''Oppose.''' I think the domination of Wikipedia's woman niche, for lack of a better term, by males masq

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