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by stymaar 3mo ago
Fortifications never went anywhere. Just in this century, the US used fortified camps in Iraq and Afghanistan, and so did the French in Sahel. And the Ukrainians fortified Dombas and effectively prevented the Russians to take it quickly. Th
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by stymaar 3mo ago
> You're moving the goalpost. They were responding to the claim suggesting it's impossible to get non-Signal provided signal. That was never my claim. The claim is that you cannot protect youself from Signal being malicious if
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by stymaar 3mo ago
> means that you are claiming protection from you and your system. Not necessarily. I push for e2ee everywhere I can for a completely different reason: when (not “if”, “when“) we get breached, we cannot leak sensitive data we don't
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by stymaar 3mo ago
> The definition is quite clear. It does not apply when the implementation is not distributed by the same entity that creates it for example. How can you be sure that the entity distributing the software didn't backdoor it? > the
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by stymaar 3mo ago
It will be enough until the server is pwnd and the data is leaked to the world. Data breaches happen literally every day.
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by stymaar 3mo ago
> This is not true. I can build Signal from source from GitHub Sure, but can you find an NSA-designed backdoor in the source code? > you can get it once and disable autoupdates Try doing that with Signal, and you'll be unable to
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by stymaar 3mo ago
It was due to Anthropic's misconfiguration of Bun so you can argue it's not Bun's fault. IIRC it's the default config though, so maybe it's a little bit of Bun's fault but I didn't check that.
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by stymaar 3mo ago
> A cryptosystem is incoherent if its implementation is distributed by the same entity which it purports to secure against. This is both true, and also useless: pretty much any E2E system is falling under this definition. By definition y
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by stymaar 3mo ago
You missed the day when they had their bun build misconfigured which ended up leaking the entirety of Claude Code's codebase? (I wish I was joking)
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by stymaar 3mo ago
What does that prove exactly?
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by stymaar 3mo ago
I'm 95% sure the account you're replying to is a karma-farming bot (15k karma in just 8 month is a lot ), which makes its comment spectacularly ironic.
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by stymaar 3mo ago
> These vessels have evolved intricate adaptations that can maintain the water in liquid form, even under the extreme low pressures This sentence undersells the phenomenon quite a bit: the “extreme low pressure” is in fact several bars o
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by stymaar 3mo ago
> But the goal of an encyclopedia is to inform people on things that it covers, isn't it? Yes, but that implies filtering on all things that are false. And in this day and age, filtering truth is a very hard thing to do, so instead
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by stymaar 3mo ago
This exactly! There are probably thousands of JavaScript packages on NPM that are more well-known than Odin, that doesn't mean they deserve their own Wikipedia page.
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by stymaar 3mo ago
And here's the persecution LARPing the article talks about.
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by stymaar 3mo ago
Also, how are we supposed to know that JangaFX is a real company, and its CEO a real person? Creating fake companies and persona is not particularly high effort today, if that's all it takes for a pet project to be featured on Wikipedi
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by stymaar 3mo ago
I see what you mean, but I'd disagree with the idea that there's “precisely zero ideological, ie political-economic, difference”. That's true that since at least Clinton, the Democrats as a political party have mostly embrace
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by stymaar 3mo ago
> The 2020 Census had a number of issues and many of them ended up giving the Democrats more seats in the House than they should have. Do you have any source on that. For a census issue to have an actual impact in an election outcome, it
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by stymaar 3mo ago
In fact that there's both a liberal and conservative economics ideology, and what could form a scientific discipline in between is unfortunately cornered and sorely lacking visibility.
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by stymaar 3mo ago
Oh, that one hits hard on the nail.
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by stymaar 3mo ago
Can anyone explain me why the Heritage foundation targeted these statistical techniques? What's the political motive behind it?
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by stymaar 4mo ago
Shame has ceased to be an applicable concept for anyone “important” enough to get free media attention.
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by stymaar 4mo ago
> This started with phishing It didn't. Phishing is just a pretext. Google didn't care about Phishing for the first 20 years of Android. Why do they now? Because it serves as argument to close their platform a little more (whic
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by stymaar 4mo ago
That's econ 101. But that doesn't mean that's what happened in the real world. The thing is you won't be able to name a single industry for which automation has had a significant impact on labor productivity during the 2
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by stymaar 4mo ago
> What do you think has driven productivity? “Productivity” is a terrible metric for such a discussion, it's not what it sounds, it's merely “real” GDP/worked hours. > The fact is capital expenditure from company or inv
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by stymaar 4mo ago
> Further the jobs from building the factory are temporary. This is correct, and it has an impact on local employment and social dynamics, but not at the country level. > They need fewer people to build and to maintain than older ones
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by stymaar 4mo ago
> New factories use very few people That's both true and false. Yes they need very few people to operate , but building and maintaining still need a lot of people.
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by stymaar 4mo ago
> Automation, robots, software etc. they are all capital share. I highly doubt automation and robots are a meaningful factor here, but IP and outsourcing have the exact same as automation.
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> I suspect that this is a fundamental limitation of LLMs I suspect there's also a strong sociological bias at play: LLMs are being made by people who are familiar with coding but aren't software engineers. So they design their
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by stymaar 4mo ago
You can blind someone with a fork, but if the feds arrested you while you had one in you backpack and claimed you were carrying a weapon, that would be a ridiculous mischaracterization.

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