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by whyever 10y ago
Only Servo parallelizes single-page rendering as far as I know.
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by whyever 10y ago
It is extremely hard to use compared to Signal or Whatsapp and has worse cryptographic properties.
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by whyever 10y ago
I can recommend the paper by David Donoho from 2014: https://statweb.stanford.edu/~donoho/Reports/2004/Compressed...
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by whyever 10y ago
You can look at the published court documents: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3120046-Open-Whisper... The page I linked was the full data they disclosed.
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by whyever 10y ago
Of course, if the software or hardware on your phone is compromised, all is lost. This is not specific to Signal though. > I'm saying that we have to trust them that they don't. This applies to anything. It is not feasible to b
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by whyever 10y ago
It is completely unusable on mobiles because it drains bandwidth and battery.
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by whyever 10y ago
When the US government asked OWS for data on some users, all they got was the telephone number and the date of the last login.
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by whyever 10y ago
> OWS should denounce these implementations as least as firmly as they do open source Signal client forks. They don't. Moxie does not want the forks to use his servers or the name of his app, that is all.
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by whyever 10y ago
> when Moxie himself said that I should trust WhatsApp without having the source code and the ability to put it on my device. What are you talking about? All I can see there is that you asked for the source code of the QR generator and h
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by whyever 10y ago
> do you know whether the software you got from the App Store is the software that's on Github? Yes: https://whispersystems.org/blog/reproducible-android/
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by whyever 10y ago
On my phone it cannot be uninstalled. Your contacts might be in a similar situation.
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by whyever 10y ago
This is really not hard using expression templates.
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by whyever 10y ago
I don't think this is true. C++ matrix template libraries are competitive with anything that Fortran can do.
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by whyever 10y ago
Federated standards have problems with spam and rolling out encryption-by-default. This applies to both examples you mentioned.
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by whyever 10y ago
You call that a temper tantrum? I thought he was being very reasonable.
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by whyever 10y ago
> It's 2016 and our best crypto messenger options are worse than what we had 10 years ago when Skype was peer to peer, or Jabber with federation. I strongly disagree, Skype has always been a black box. The usability of Signal's
317.
by whyever 10y ago
They are talking about the whistleblowers, not about others affected by the leak. So it is not the same talking point at all.
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by whyever 10y ago
I think it is still extremely popular among (mechanical and electrical) engineers. All physicists I know rather use the stacks you mentioned or ROOT.
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by whyever 10y ago
> Is that how Rust does it? No, safe Rust only has safe references, and that includes "this" ("self" in Rust). Because the lifetimes are part of the type, it does not require the runtime overhead of reference counting
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by whyever 10y ago
The site being evil is equivalent to the password being compromised.
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by whyever 10y ago
> That means that each time it is gathered by an attacker it gets easier to compromise. I don't think this is relevant. You still need to inverse the key-derivation function. If you know a hundred passwords, this will be technically
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by whyever 10y ago
> It would appear to be cryptographically pretty much identically secure as using a single password on all sites I don't think this is true. To brute force the master password, you need to know the password of one site.
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by whyever 10y ago
I think these concerns are slightly misleading. 2., 3. and 4. boil down to 1. 1. is a problem. If one password is compromised it is possible to brute force the master password. This is mitigated by a key-derivation function. 2. is also miti
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by whyever 10y ago
> Why not provide people with a quick and easy "login by email", since this fallback is almost always available anyway? There was Mozilla's Persona (which was shut down a few days ago). Now there is this: https:/&#x2
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by whyever 10y ago
There is indeed a counter, with the shortcomings you mentioned.
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by whyever 10y ago
Calling it non-identifiable is a lie.
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by whyever 10y ago
> unless you tried your best to address the problem in a more restricted exchange. That sounds like orders of magnitude more work. In case you are not interested in performing that work, it seems more constructive to me to share your tho
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by whyever 10y ago
> I wish he could interact better with the core team, because some of his rants are not as constructive as they might be. Can you be more specific? How could it be more constructive?
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by whyever 10y ago
There is no general C++ ABI, the ABI depends on the compiler and the standard library.
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by whyever 10y ago
I think it works as a C replacement in HPC. Maybe not a C++ replacement (mostly because of missing integer generics).

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