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by whyever 8y ago
I found this part the most disturbing: > While searching the premises of the board members in Augsburg, Jena, Dresden, and Berlin, the police – on their own accord –decided to extend the search to premises also used by members of the CCC
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by whyever 8y ago
Besides the (desirable) features already listed by someone else, here are a few others, some of which can have unfortunate interactions: implicit conversions, constructors, member initializer lists, inheritance, overloading, default argumen
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by whyever 8y ago
> Why would you think that Rust is "far simpler" than C++? C++ as a language is a lot more complicated. It has a lot of features with weird corner cases that interact in unfortunate ways. > And I wouldn't say that Rust&
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by whyever 8y ago
I would be more comfortable with Whatsapp than with email, at least it's end-to-end encrypted.
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by whyever 8y ago
This is not enough. The results need to be understood and interpreted as well. For example, it is questionable whether linear dependencies in some bits matter for any of the typical applications of non-CSPRNGs.
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by whyever 8y ago
Which implementation are you talking about? The only assembly I can see in the reference implementation is used because clang fails to optimize a rotation. There seems to be no explicit SIMD at all.
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by whyever 8y ago
Claiming that PCG is unpredictable is dangerous. If it was really unpredictable, it would qualify as a CSPRNG... Unlike you, PCG's author does not claim it is, but even claiming it is "challenging to predict" is questionable.
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by whyever 8y ago
> On the other hand vigna's (and therefore linux) RNG's are easily predictable without knowing the internal state, but just by observing the external output for some short time. They are not CSPRNGs, so it is expected that they
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by whyever 8y ago
If you are using AVX, you might as well use AES-NI, which will probably be faster than PCG. Also, the xoshiro/xoroshiro RNGs are faster than PCG.
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by whyever 8y ago
It's blocked in Germany.
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by whyever 8y ago
Just to clarify, allocation is entirely implemented in the Rust standard library, not the language/compiler.
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by whyever 8y ago
I think some of the combinators can be elegant. E.g. `Option::map`.
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by whyever 8y ago
I don't think they are protected outside the EU.
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by whyever 8y ago
You are being hysterical. The plus is there for historical reasons, way before acceptable ads were a thing.
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by whyever 8y ago
They are not intentionally running untrusted code. But yes, anti-virus software can reduce security.
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by whyever 8y ago
> With new "safe" languages you do not encounter an error most of the time, but when you do see an error it is quite discouraging to see that your "safe" language fails and you don't have any idea why it fails.
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by whyever 8y ago
Yeah, unlike most sites, HN includes the dot in the link for some reason...
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by whyever 8y ago
Yes, but theoretically Electron apps could use the browser. (I think Google killed that option though.)
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by whyever 8y ago
Well, supposedly it is end-to-end encrypted, so they don't get that information unless they are lying. Even if, it is still better than "anyone how cares to listen". SMS is not secure at all.
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by whyever 8y ago
Depends what you mean by "fast". It seems to have the highest stdout throughput, but that is not necessarily the most important metric: https://danluu.com/term-latency/
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by whyever 8y ago
Not sure it is a good idea to use a language that is not memory safe for GUI.
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by whyever 8y ago
If you just count the JS and HTML, then a minimal Electron app is (hopefully) also tiny.
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by whyever 8y ago
I'm surprised this article does not mention Max Schrems, who requested all data Facebook had on him in 2011: > He later made a request under the European "right to access" provision for the company's records on him an
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by whyever 8y ago
> Does your bank send you messages on WhatsApp? Ofcourse not. They use SMS. I would much prefer if they used WhatsApp, because then it would not be ridiculously insecure.
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by whyever 8y ago
That argument goes both ways: When you say Facebook is "selling ads", I think most people would understand it to mean that advertisers can buy ads like in a paper magazine. That's very different from the tracking and targetin
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by whyever 8y ago
> I think the best thing to do here is to relentlessly keep a long, safe distance from vehicles ahead. In Germany, this is legally required. However, the safety distance is often abused by other vehicles when passing.
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by whyever 8y ago
The raw data is close to useless unless you are an expert on the detector which took the data.
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by whyever 8y ago
> They're not required by law to give it all to you, are they? They are in Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schrems
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by whyever 8y ago
A driver of a Tesla car has mentioned in this thread that the car sometimes doesn't register the hands on the wheel.
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by whyever 8y ago
How do you make someone liable for returning privacy?

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