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by wzdd 3y ago
> This proposal doesn't make sense; assuming the best of the authors I can only assume they haven't really thought through what they're trying to build. This is my conclusion too. Regarding alternative browsers, the "
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by wzdd 3y ago
Seems like it. Also that everyone will eventually end up fingerprinted if they browse for long enough, because the holdback is randomly enabled on a per-(client,site) basis.
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by wzdd 3y ago
The "explainer" does actually address this, by talking about "a small percentage of (client, site) pairs". In other words, a particular browser, going to a particular site, will always and forever either enable holdback
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by wzdd 3y ago
The "explainer" is either incoherent here, or at least fails to acknowledge that by implementing holdback they don't solve the client trust issues they outline at the beginning. For example, one of the goals is to prevent che
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by wzdd 3y ago
It could be related to the fact that if an instruction was not handled at all the CPU would lock up (search https://www.righto.com/2016/02/reverse-engineering-arm1-inst... for "kill"), so rather than add
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by wzdd 3y ago
The attitude from Google towards this has changed significantly over the last few days (unsurprisingly). From the "explainer": "we are evaluating whether attestation signals must sometimes be held back [...] However, a holdba
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by wzdd 3y ago
Actually, these two things are orthogonal. If you require some kind of authentication process to prove your identity, it doesn't matter whether your device has TPM-supported device attestation or not. If Apple or Google wanted to do th
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by wzdd 3y ago
> then a web that is populated by identified humans (and their authorised proxies!) You wrote "I kind of get both sides here", but, to be clear, this is the polar opposite of both the WEI proposal and Apple's thing, both o
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by wzdd 3y ago
I had a look at your referenced source ( https://ia-petabox.archive.org/details/the-best-software-wri... ), but I didn't find statements as strong as the summary you give in your paper or blog post. Here are some q
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by wzdd 3y ago
Really lovely writeup. I liked the discussion of determining how can you tell if a randomly-generated program performed correctly. The obvious approach is to just run it on an "oracle" -- another processor or simulator -- and see
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by wzdd 3y ago
The blog sets up to address the "claim by proponents of dynamically typed programming languages" that "once you have unit testing static type checking is redundant". This is a strawman and I'm fairly sure it was a s
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by wzdd 3y ago
A trust chain beginning at the bootloader is what will ultimately enable this API, though, because that's what SafetyNet/Play Integrity API relies on. If you don't have a locked bootloader, or you're not running stock An
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by wzdd 3y ago
There is a timeout on multi-key mappings, so if you need to type fd0 you type f, wait 'timeoutlen' (1 second by default apparently), then type d0. That's a pain, but it doesn't come up often. In return you get quite a lo
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by wzdd 3y ago
Australia is 57th in supplementary table 5 of the linked paper, which adjusts for urban areas only. I assume that coastal areas (where the cities are) are impacted more under this CDD measure than deserts (which is what most of Australia is
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by wzdd 3y ago
> [Transparency] introduces some complexity in the rasterizer. To flip only one bit [of the colour value] we need to know the prior value of the pixel at this location. This is like one of only three advantages to using planar graphics,
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by wzdd 3y ago
Even if the models improve to the point where hallucinations aren't a problem for education, which is not obvious, then it's not clear that enforcing a chain of model provenance is the correct approach to solve the problem of &quo
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by wzdd 3y ago
Five minutes playing with any of these freely-available LLMs (and the commercial ones, to be honest) will be enough to demonstrate that they freely hallucinate information when you get into any detail on any topic at all. A "secure LLM
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by wzdd 3y ago
Still, most of these commands will also have bugs. Even if they didn't have convenient built-in ways to escape a restricted shell, I would not expect that these command-line programs, which weren't built to be run in an adversaria
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by wzdd 3y ago
The fact that it feels like something at all could simply be a description of what it's like for these correlations to arise inside a complex system. It's not a rebuttal, it's just a restatement of the position.
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by wzdd 3y ago
The position still seems to boil down to "Reducing experience to labels or correlations doesn't feel right to me", which actually dovetails nicely with your Nagel quote, since you can't rely on your intuition when attemp
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by wzdd 3y ago
This issue with Aaronson's response is that it comes from the perspective of first accepting Chalmers' "Hard Problem of consciousness". The "Hard Problem of consciousness", despite the name, is actually a state
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by wzdd 3y ago
Conception as a result of sex can take place up to one week after the act, even if it only happened once.
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To expand on this, healthy human brains seem to be made of many interacting systems which function in different ways. It may be that in the future we view the search for one simple formula for "intelligence" / "understan
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by wzdd 3y ago
My reasoning was that in emergencies, typically, certain rules don't apply to certain groups of people if their actions are related to the emergency. Therefore, a police officer driving a police car into the park (assuming they're
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by wzdd 3y ago
This is weird. 1. Instead of having the kernel verify the program about to be installed at installation time, they rely on a trusted compiler and having the kernel perform signature validation. This means that the kernel is relying on a use
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by wzdd 3y ago
Making peace by allowing an aggressor to expand their territory is called appeasement, and there are historical reasons why people are reluctant to do it: https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-britain-hoped-to-avoid-wa...
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by wzdd 3y ago
The lyrics were in fact composed by a neural network (Sheeran) trained on Sheeran's past work, all Sheeran's life experiences up to that point, and any new things that he had experienced since releasing his penultimate album. The
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by wzdd 3y ago
This is glib to the point of being misinformation in the other direction. 1. All Windows native apps were cooperatively multitasked. Only DOS boxes were pre-emptively multitasked. When your GUI locks up because some random app got into an i
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Also, consider a hive in which all foraging bees exclusively followed waggle dances. Pretty obviously they would eventually all end up going to the same place and the hive would run out of food. Therefore it makes sense that at least some b
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by wzdd 3y ago
You were downvoted but you are right. The podcast was released last week, but the game came with a day-1 patch to improve the performance on Switch which they would not have been able to try. Obviously it will never compete with emulation o

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