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by px43 3y ago
I actually talked about this with Gavin (who was running the project back then) in 2013. It wasn't a priority, and it almost certainly never will be. Vitalik, on the other hand, has always made quantum resistance a priority, and the ac
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by px43 3y ago
IMO people on their smartphones are generally experiencing 10-100x the human connections that people without their smartphones are experiencing. That's exactly why they're so addictive. Smart phones let people push themselves ri
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by px43 3y ago
One positive in all this is when Twitter got blocked in China, over night basically everyone under the age of 24 learned how to use VPNs, and learned how to subvert various official software update mechanisms. I'm thinking that this, o
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by px43 3y ago
I have personally reported bugs in the past that got closed as WONTFIX because they required some obscure configuration that the developer didn't believe would exist in the real world, but the way I found them was by breaking into actu
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by px43 3y ago
As I understand it, if the expansion was constant, farther away stuff would still be more red shifted. Stuff twice as far away appears to be moving twice as fast. It helps me to imagine the expansion of a metal cookie sheet, where the two e
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by px43 3y ago
I'm pretty sure this is also how Chrome behaves. I think I've seen this happen a couple times.
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by px43 3y ago
Loving that CSP bypass :-D
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by px43 3y ago
By ignoring cryptocurrencies, you've missed out on over 10 years of progress in this space. We have things like zero knowledge notaries and data availability sampling proofs. Actively Validated Services are also a thing. Service provid
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by px43 3y ago
Not sure why that would be ironic. Seems absolutely fitting, and the most likely place for a study like this to occur. Studying women in danger at BYU is like going to the antarctic to study penguins.
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by px43 3y ago
To be clear here, you think that Microsoft has more AI compute than Google?
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by px43 3y ago
That was a complete dumb luck accident due to a spelling mistake. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/spelling-mista... Note that the rest of the money disappeared quite effectively.
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by px43 3y ago
The list of phone numbers with signal accounts is basically public. It kind of has to be. When a new number gets added and it matches someone in your address book, your app will tell you that one of your contacts has joined. People have alw
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by px43 3y ago
I think people might have forgotten that LLMs before InstructGPT came around could be weirdly opinionated jerks. There was this whole effort to train them so that we could actually give them instructions. It's probably a hell of a lot
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by px43 3y ago
Large group chats should have an expiry of one week or so, maybe 4 weeks at the longest, otherwise it gets crazy. Unfortunately the best way to delete those old messages in your local chat is to delete the conversation and rejoin it. Admins
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by px43 3y ago
So you're looking for a feature where someone can hit a button and get a clear text export of all the encrypted chat history on the phone? You do understand why that feature doesn't exist right? Backup utilities are regularly abus
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by px43 3y ago
Do you think F-Droid is more resilient to malicious influence than Google's Play Store? I haven't looked deeply into how F-Droid is currently operating, so maybe I'm off here, but isn't it just all on a server run by som
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by px43 3y ago
Maybe we could punish the bad actors who spent decades lobbying so they could sell more and more addictive food products to our population, or maybe at least we could stop subsidizing them so much? The incentives are so fucked. Now we have
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by px43 3y ago
Numbers are spotty now for all sorts of reasons, but from the latest numbers I'm seeing, about 20% of bitcoins are still being mined in China (despite it being illegal) and 60% is being mined with renewables. China is building out hydr
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by px43 3y ago
Coal power almost anywhere is prohibitively expensive for the purposes of mining. Generally places that use coal are desperate for power so residents will pay 20c or so per kwh, which is way more than any miner would pay. Mining profits are
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by px43 3y ago
It's no coincidence that bitcoin mines sprout up anywhere that is saturated with cheap, renewable energy. Most often around hydro plants where the cheap power can be used that would have just been wasted anyway. These extra funds make
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by px43 3y ago
Yes, an operating system that uses a compromised software supply chain is at risk of compromise, but that really has nothing to do with e2ee.
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by px43 3y ago
It's important for metrics to be measurable. Throwing in a bunch of subjective criteria like how tricky a road is will only make the analysis less meaningful. Yes, it's important to understand the limitations of the metrics, but t
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by px43 3y ago
I don't drink alcohol and I've been to every DEF CON for the past 22 years and had a blast at every one. Some people are into that sort of thing, and that's fine. Some people like cocaine and strippers. Some people like dress
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by px43 3y ago
I'd like to see a side by side comparison with a random human on the street. Maybe with a sample size of 100 or so. How well do you think the humans would do vs whatever outdated model you were playing with here? There is clearly signi
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by px43 3y ago
In 2021 I paid in cash, showed my physical ID and vax card, and was on my way with my badge. Nothing about the exchange was recorded. They take privacy incredibly seriously, especially the goons working registration. There was also basicall
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by px43 3y ago
DEF CON started as a bunch of teenagers running away from home to get ridiculously drunk and trash some place, and it hasn't changed much. Vegas was the perfect choice. It was a party. Getting to smash up an obscene capitalist hellhole
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by px43 3y ago
This also blew up on every social media and news site as well, not just here.
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by px43 3y ago
Not proven? It's not even well defined. You can't prove anything meaningful about terms that can't even be defined.
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by px43 3y ago
Last I checked, Docker wasn't considered a security boundary and Docker escapes weren't considered a security issue. The most obvious escapes have slowly been mitigated over time, but the prevailing wisdom is that you should alway
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by px43 3y ago
My understanding is that there is a lot of political power inside Google (from the Chrome side of things) working to ensure that PWAs are the primary way that users interact with their phones. It's definitely a point of contention, w

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