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by wfn 2y ago
I understand what you mean re: Arch wiki (I'm a fan of it even though not an arch user) but I genuinely suggest you go over and read some of the FreeBSD Handbook. Just look through the ToC (itself a nice thing) and pick something. It i
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by wfn 2y ago
> case in point - dealing with race conditions. 100%. Case in point for case in point - I was just scratching my head over some Claude-produced lines for me, thinking if I should ask what this kind entity had in mind when using specifi
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by wfn 2y ago
> but if you need to use Signal as opposed, then you are already assuming an adversary that does more than just snoop on the public Wifi he offers. No, not necessarily. In fact I'd claim that we should all use Signal so that usage o
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by wfn 2y ago
> Wouldn't a columnar store be 25 512MB arrays? Hm I guess you're right - I'm misusing the term. And yeah! Will experiment with it; what's neat is that it's not that much code to mess around with these basic noti
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by wfn 2y ago
Goddamn, that's just the most sexy use of XOR ever :O omg.
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by wfn 2y ago
Re: data-oriented data structures... random (not XOR)... I have been running multiple iterations of entire ipv4 space port scan. As of now only scanning top 25 used ports (nmap, masscan have toplists). I wanted to be able to do simple data
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by wfn 2y ago
But Signal offers optional features so that it does not know the former; nor the latter (usernames, etc.) Re: former - as discussed there's sealed sender (iirc been quite some time since they released it), but also depending on how you
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by wfn 2y ago
Thank you for your work and thanks for your immense patience answering mostly-already-addressed concerns of someone who has not bothered to even read the article. It's bad form; noble of you to answer (and hopefully useful for others &
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by wfn 2y ago
Wasn't downvoting for the questions, but started downvoting these comments of yours because of your attitude + expectation that OP will answer questions that have in various ways already been addressed if you read the article. I believ
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by wfn 2y ago
> Nobody wants to revive the PGP parties Hey cmon.. I do; but, like, mostly for fun, and for the ceremonial readouts of usernames / key fingerprints etc... a bit of demonic summoning vibe, it can be... But in seriousness: yes again
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by wfn 2y ago
This may be a useful notion and term to start using when thinking about these things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threat_model (not being smirky; I should use apply it more often myself, e.g.) With this in mind, I&#x
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by wfn 2y ago
Anonymity, privacy, confidentiality, ( edited to add) censorship resistance / circumvention are different properties oftentimes perceived with some overlap. Different products and different audiences will provide / desire/ne
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by wfn 2y ago
What a pleasure your C code is :) very nice (currently reading it) My only quick comment is - the link to `theory.pdf` in README is broken (your pdf is in docs/ dir, so just need to change the url to include docs/).
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by wfn 2y ago
> That library is exactly the kind of thing I have been looking for. Ah, that's great to hear! You can message its author if you have any specific questions regarding it, he's a friendly and very competent fella. > I'm
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by wfn 2y ago
Completely agree. Source: I build things for a company[1][2] which is a TRA and a QTSP (eIDAS parlance). Two references which I promise will be interesting (re: qcerts and QES tooling): - excellent open source library for working with PDFs
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by wfn 3y ago
Thank you for helping me structure what I want, yes, exactly. (And noted re: your PoC, ok!) > You might want to see all events of the internals of two different components in the tree structure. > Need to process log lines into a grap
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by wfn 3y ago
> showed logs as a tree. Yes , that is exactly what I want as well - a tree-like structure where you can trace events across multiple layers of abstraction as well as across systems (so both horizontal and vertical relations of events,
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by wfn 3y ago
Golang has its own native crypto implementations where possible. Having used openssl extensively and having read some of its source code[1], I would personally like good alternatives. The developer (Filippo Valsorda) is a cryptographer and
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by wfn 4y ago
> It's like a special productivity poison, takes some percentage of your engineers and just deactivates them. http://play.elevatorsaga.com/ (protip: don't share this in your company's slack during rush t
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by wfn 4y ago
This is the basis of a major plot point in Greg Egan's novel Quarantine : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine_(Egan_novel) Heartily recommend it. sci-fi detective story which asks "what if the Copenhage
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by wfn 4y ago
Could you share some links to your work / research re: interfaces with focus on art? I'd be very interested to check it out. https://quantumdelta.nl/ is some kind of hub but landing pages offer too much hype and t
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by wfn 4y ago
Just to clarify, eIDAS is an EU regulation ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIDAS ). Regulation means it's law in all EU member states. Organisations can implement eIDAS-conforming technology to provide eID services
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by wfn 5y ago
Very nice and useful product! Question: do you have or plan to support PDF signatures? This may be then useful for us[1], we issue qualified certificates and eIDAS-compliant legal qualified electronic signatures which often need to then be
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by wfn 5y ago
I unfortunately don't have a list for the US, I'm based in the Baltics (Lithuania). I've heard good stories from US hotlines but don't know any particular names.
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by wfn 5y ago
I'm sorry to hear you had these shitty experiences :( FWIW, I agree with some others who say that it differs between hotlines and it does depend. I volunteer at one (working at software doesn't provide enough meaning as far as act
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by wfn 5y ago
> Did anyone else look into his Stanford biography page? It's great; it's called wit. :) If you want a more conventional boring bio, there's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Earnest
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by wfn 5y ago
There's a whole area for this - pharmacokinetics. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_half-life#Rate_equa... for examples of e.g. first order models (exponential elimination rate, etc.) It has to do
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by wfn 5y ago
Hm, but the idea (in the article as well) is that savings _are_ being used for investments and overwhelmingly so; and because of this, investment returns are going down. Does this part need further justifying? If you have a finite amount of
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by wfn 5y ago
Here's a nice related FT opinion article, "The rich get richer and rates get lower": https://archive.is/rMTnV It explains a sort of feedback loop taking place here (with regards to excess of money looking whe
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by wfn 5y ago
Yeah, maybe wasn't clearest notation in retrospect :) I somehow felt too humble to actually write out "million"

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