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by tga_d 2y ago
I've also heard that it's popular as a literal cash-heavy business. This allows it to be used for manipulating tax filings, in both directions: laundering other income, or under-reporting profits.
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by tga_d 2y ago
That's my understanding as well. The thing I was wondering as I read it: how difficult would it be for someone to make an extension or fork of Rust that allows annotating sufficient type information to prove these kinds of invariants,
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by tga_d 2y ago
That's not really a comparable narrative arc though. Breaking Bad is a character drama, not a mystery box structure. With only some limited exceptions, which clearly were planned out in advance of their resolution, the driving questi
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by tga_d 2y ago
Maybe in the broadest sense, but it's certainly not more accurate to say that. If I hold a fiction writing competition, and you submit a piece of non-fiction that I throw in a paper shredder, I think most would agree that I would be
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by tga_d 2y ago
It's not that the headline is "more accurate" than the story, it's that the headline is accurate and reflects the content of the article. If you look at the second paragraph of the article, as well as the source it provi
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by tga_d 2y ago
A fun attack, but I don't think this is a significant improvement over the existing state of the art using delivery receipt timings ("Hope of Delivery"). https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.10523
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by tga_d 2y ago
What if the private key were accidentally exposed via public API, behind ROT13? Also, I don't think DKIM is used for encryption, just signatures.
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by tga_d 2y ago
While a plant growing in shade might grow slower than a plant growing in sunlight, a part of a plant growing in shade will grow faster than the parts growing in sunlight (mechanically, this is done using auxin plant hormones[0]). This i
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by tga_d 2y ago
In your view, what would be an example of code that is de jure open source but de facto closed, if not a case where people have the legal ability but not the technical means to access it?
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by tga_d 2y ago
Both the comment and TFA clearly indicate it's measured in terms of fatal accidents, not fatalities.
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by tga_d 2y ago
Yep, also extremely helpful if you need to submit a passport for processing (e.g., visa applications) when you're soon to be/are already abroad.
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by tga_d 2y ago
I feel as though there is a generational gap developing between people who do and do not remember how prolific Firesheep used to be.
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by tga_d 2y ago
>You have to trust the client with enemy position information that it shouldn't be able to see yet That seems like something that would be solvable with location-style differential privacy. Report a number of plausible locations to
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by tga_d 2y ago
Every source you list as "approved" either isn't listed as perennial at all (which makes me wonder, how did it end up on your list?), or has explicit carve-outs saying that statements need to be attributed due to bias. Meanwh
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by tga_d 2y ago
In order to maintain some semblance of process, Wikipedia has to approximate what is true by relying on the consensus from reputable sources, not reality itself. This means that experts are often not who you want editing an article, becau
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by tga_d 2y ago
>So, once you understand the cultural context, you know to give the people both mosquito netting and fishing nets. Another example of this problem was the distribution of high efficiency stoves as a form of carbon credits. People just us
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by tga_d 2y ago
By that argument, all bytecode is open source, because it has to be run in some other environment, and you can technically modify it if you want to. Open source is supposed to refer to the human-interpretable elements of the code. E.g., ker
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by tga_d 2y ago
It's RCE (as the lp user, if I'm not mistaken) with user action, and only if the firewall isn't blocking required ports. Most systems, even most systems with CUPS installed, never print anything. The number of systems with
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by tga_d 2y ago
We can't enumerate these things (for obvious reasons), but I would be shocked if the overwhelming majority of onion services active any any given moment were anything other than nerds who need quick and easy NAT punching. By traffic vo
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by tga_d 2y ago
Changing an image timestamp -- as in, exif metadata -- is trivially easy for anyone with a computer or phone, a quick search will tell you how to do it on any device with no skill involved. There's a difference between "easy for a
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by tga_d 2y ago
To just back up for a moment, your argument is that an attack that turned enemy combatants into unwitting suicide bombers in civilian areas with children doesn't qualify as terrorism, because children are easy to kill? Would you hold t
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by tga_d 2y ago
Not only would you need the node to expose IPs with a wide enough distribution to allow the right path selection, you'd also need to have enough bandwidth available to look like distinct hosts, and ensure any losses in connectivity are
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by tga_d 2y ago
Polling says ~70% of Republicans, or over one third of all Americans, think the 2020 election was stolen.[0] That's a lot of people who disagree over what "allegiance to the constitution" means. [0] https://www.was
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by tga_d 2y ago
I don't think their first point meant to say that there is no going back on deployed e2ee at scale, I believe they were just providing ground for connecting the next two points: it's so pervasive currently that, even if outlawed,
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by tga_d 2y ago
It's definitely a thing, but IME hosting a small instance, it's really not that bad. My advice for new admins would be to 1. find a small, decently up-to-date block list as a starting point (I can recommend FediNuke [0]), 2. check
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by tga_d 2y ago
It may be true in the literal sense that "the developer talent pool for C++ is much larger than Rust" in that there are more C++ developers than Rust developers, but if I can plug my own research a bit: at least for open source pr
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by tga_d 2y ago
What do you mean "nobody's counting"? Excess mortality from delayed or denied treatments are measured all the time in medical research. How do you think these drugs get made in the first place? We just had a pandemic where a
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by tga_d 2y ago
No, Stallman has always insisted from its inception that free software is firstly a moral principle, a sort of human right like free speech in the traditional liberal worldview, and only secondarily a pragmatic one.[0][1] I suspect if you
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by tga_d 2y ago
The article specifically says it likely happened 100 million years ago and that the interesting thing is an organelle that fixes nitrogen. That is a big deal, on the order of photosynthesis. A lack of nitrogen-fixing organisms is an extreme
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by tga_d 3y ago
To be clear, is the position you're arguing that governments that commit war crimes should not be held to account?

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