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by thadt 1y ago
For those in the know about such matters, where is the secret, community audited Rust supply chain? Let's say I want to start a new project in Rust that needs to touch web services for some reason. The standard answer today is "ju
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Cloudflare just got faster and more secure, powered by Rust(blog.cloudflare.com)
3 points by thadt 1y ago|0 comments
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by thadt 1y ago
Yeah? It's an eight byte header. The OS needs something to tag IP packets to get them delivered to the correct application. So you're thinking maybe a four byte header for 50% savings here?
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by thadt 1y ago
Indeed - it would depend greatly one's workflow and threat model.
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by thadt 1y ago
Lua is one of the easiest configuration file formats I've had the pleasure of working with. Readable. Has comments. Variables. Conditionals. Everyone (including me): "oh no, no, you don't want a full Turing complete language
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by thadt 1y ago
How would PGP help in the long run? If client side scanning is mandated for everything then the natural place for it to wind up is in the OS. Once your OS is scanning all the things, your privacy is finished - pretty good or otherwise.
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by thadt 1y ago
My read is that Signal now ratchets with ML-KEM in a similar way to iMessages's PQ3, with key delivery being one of the main differentiating features. Everyone is worried about the fact that ML-KEM keys are so chonky, so PQ3 sends them
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by thadt 1y ago
Probably not. But this one time we had an argument and I made a statement along the lines of "I'm right, naturally." She went irrational. I lost the argument. QED
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by thadt 1y ago
This reminds of of that one time when I was on a date with a girl from the history department who somehow bemusedly sat through my entire mini-lecture on comparing infinite sets. Twenty years and three kids later, she'll still occasion
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How has mathematics gotten so abstract?(lcamtuf.substack.com)
139 points by thadt 1y ago|207 comments
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by thadt 1y ago
Yeah, even in the non-consumer grade space, you're still likely to want to include something like a calibrated GM tube in the lineup, for measuring dose after the scintillators are saturated.
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Revocation Ain't No Thang(dadrian.io)
2 points by thadt 1y ago|0 comments
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by thadt 1y ago
So, the original complaint is that MLS solves technical logistics problems but punts on authentication. Which is because authentication it isn't a technical problem - it's a trust/people problem. MLS's Authentication S
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by thadt 1y ago
Aight, I'll bite: continue or stop... and do what? As others have pointed out, the only safe option to get back to a consistent state is to roll back to a safe point. If what we're really interested in is the log part of a write
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by thadt 1y ago
> Note that there’s no secure way to do asymmetric encryption: we could use the PRF extension to encrypt a private key, but then an attacker that observes that private key once can decrypt anything encrypted to its public key in the futu
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Encrypting files with passkeys and age(words.filippo.io)
136 points by thadt 1y ago|71 comments
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by thadt 1y ago
> The framing of the server as just "storing ciphertext" would suggest trustyworthyness of that hosting provider isn't relevant. In point of argument, it should not be relevant - beyond metadata exposure or failure to pr
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by thadt 1y ago
There are a significant number of digital scans available online. The problem is that they're only a tip of the iceberg of the available material, and digitizing records costs time and money (that apparently they don't have much
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by thadt 1y ago
I get that reference! Having done this with Lua and C++, it’s easy to do, but just tedious repetition. Something that Swig could handle, but it adds so much extra code, plumbing and overall surface area for what amounts to just a few lines
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Your Job Now: Be the Outlier(quic.video)
1 points by thadt 1y ago|0 comments
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by thadt 1y ago
Microsoft Word 365 (online) -> Transcribe. I know, I know - it sounds super cheese, but after trying several different LLMs and workflows, it just worked out of the box and gave me what I needed: labeled speakers, timestamps, and a nice
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by thadt 1y ago
I posit that of the various uses of student writing, the most important isn't communication or even assessment, but synthesis. Writing forces you to grapple with a subject in a way that clarifies your thinking. It's easy to think
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by thadt 1y ago
On Learning: My wife, a high school teacher, remarked to me the other day “you know, it’s sad that my new students aren’t going to be able to do any of the fun online exercises that I used to run.” She’s all but entirely removed computers f
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by thadt 1y ago
This is a rather new project so this should be obvious, but anyone looking to use this should be wary of it's quantum resistant security claims (on line 1 no less). Scanning through the code, I didn't see any reference to any stat
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by thadt 1y ago
A few years ago I took a class of middle schoolers through a simple game dev course and rarely have I seen a group of kids so motivated. Using microStudio[1] they built the story, art, music, gameplay, and levels - I only helped a bit with
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by thadt 1y ago
We at the HN do not have a sense of humor we're aware of.
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by thadt 1y ago
Agreed. The bullet point "Helping editors share local perspectives or context by automating the translation and adaptation of common topics" could be unfortunate if not carefully reviewed - and hopefully it will be. Having recentl
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by thadt 1y ago
Oh, well if that's the case thats waaay more bananas. Like maybe around 4000. Nobody should be eating that many bananas.
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by thadt 1y ago
Agreed, this case is bananas. If his "plutonium sample" is actually (probably) trinitite which you can just buy online [1], and if we assume an exposure of 1 uR/hr at one inch[2], then convert that to BED (Banana Equivalent D
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by thadt 1y ago
Kinda neat that they were able to marry all those different scintillators together in one package, but their paper makes it sound like you're still going to want an He3 tube along if you really care about finding neutrons.

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