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by yyyk 4y ago
>The only question is not why we didn't "see" any aliens so far. It's why we wasted so much money on SETI. Was Carl Sagan not able to do the back of the envelope calculation I just did here? Sagan was perfectly capabl
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by yyyk 4y ago
I've always been happy with KDE. KDE/Wayland still has a few rather unfortunately bugs, so if you go that way it's better to stick with X for now.
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by yyyk 4y ago
Ah, so Tiberium is technically possible...
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by yyyk 4y ago
>WeChat: "am I a joke to you?" WeChat is way beyond Twitter. It's nigh an alt-OS. Doesn't really follow (any) Store policy, but allowed due to CCP influence. If it becomes popular in West, West will very likely ban it
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by yyyk 4y ago
Doesn't that depend on the instance (with some not being as strict)? Regardless, such people could always decamp to their own servers - an option that was not available with Twitter. Also, volunteer instance admins will never have the
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by yyyk 4y ago
The original talk's mention of Enterprises with horrible database schemas made sense for Smalltalk/Ruby, but not so much for Rust. An enterprise with 'horrible database schemas' would be much better off using a typical G
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by yyyk 4y ago
The underlying issue: Musk's incentives don't give him much reason to care if Twitter goes under. Musk likely feels he might as well push for any changes he likes, and gain whether Twitter survives or not. What was Musk's big
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by yyyk 4y ago
I agree it's a social problem, but IMHO it's a rather different social problem: Current cars, roads and car culture is adapted to human drivers, and AI is expected to be able to integrate into that. What if we would make cars and
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by yyyk 4y ago
Come on. 6.36 inch isn't a 'small' phone by any standard.
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by yyyk 4y ago
Writing the compiler in a different language limits the language users' ability to contribute - they'll need to learn another language - and makes porting more complex since you'll need to port Haskell or whatever to the new
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by yyyk 4y ago
This is clever. There's one thing that I do not understand: Why the step 3 compiler has only the C backend enabled? In theory one could enable all the backends and skip to step 6? The step 5 comment says something about 'correct f
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by yyyk 4y ago
>At this point I expect they're sitting on the feature until or unless there's public outrage Possibly so. However, I believe they have two alternatives to client-side scanning: A) I think their wording still allows uploading a
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by yyyk 4y ago
I think the state of the art has progressed past that? A non-trivial reversal of a perceptual hash would mean that every cloud provider maintaining a CSAM scan list violates CSAM laws - if they could reverse the hash to get too close to the
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by yyyk 4y ago
>just a software provider selling you a phone running software that does something that dozens amount to state action. >Put another way, if you invite me into your house... and I want to search your house Say Apple did implement clien
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by yyyk 4y ago
These days, your handset is de facto your personal id (via eSim) and contains your personal digital possessions. A person taking over your handset could easily impersonate you and there's a good chance they could access your medical an
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by yyyk 4y ago
>But why do you need the length of a pointer to also be a power of two? Are you addressing the bits in the pointer? Indeed. The entanglement code will crawl without easy direct addressing of the bits. We wouldn't want the universe t
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by yyyk 4y ago
It doesn't seem there are many orders of magnitude more subatomic particles. 3 quarks in a proton. At most O(10^2) protons in a atom. So it should all fit comfortably in a 512-bit type. * As for photons, this estimate finds 4*10^84 pho
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by yyyk 4y ago
IMHO, it's the comparison to a stored hash value which is the scanning part. In my scenario, the hash calculation is only done during upload and the hash is not saved on device. Let's say tomorrow China tells Apple to do client-si
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by yyyk 4y ago
If Apple were to calculate the perceptual hash client-side but only do the actual hash comparison server-side following an upload, it would preserve the 'no keys on iCloud' policy while also preserving the 'no local scanning&
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by yyyk 4y ago
The argument rests on the comparison of a user's local device to a private residence. Google, Facebook and Microsoft do scanning in their cloud and it's fine because it's in their servers. Apple's original suggestion w
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by yyyk 4y ago
>I guess they decided it wasn’t worth it and it’d be good to ship e2ee anyway despite that meaning it may protect CSAM. I had figured they’d enable e2ee first and then reannounce the hash check if you enable it but I guess not. I read th
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by yyyk 4y ago
An internet search tells me there are somewhere between 10^76 and 10^82 atoms in the universe. We must not rest until all atoms are mmap-able. That should require at least a 273-bit length type to be safe. Since we need a power of two, 512-
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by yyyk 4y ago
>If they wanted to prevent inbound connections then all they would need to do is firewall them. Note that this already happens to an extent. Some ISPs try to protect their users from UPNP attacks and block certain inbound ports. On the o
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by yyyk 4y ago
>Right, but that hardly mattered as long as it applied only to iCloud-uploaded files There were some practical differences. e.g. Some programs have a permissive default of always marking as 'save to iCloud', and avoiding this c
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by yyyk 4y ago
1) I'm aware of the difference. However, I think the Apple phrase is sufficiently ambiguous to legally cover an image hash as well. An image hash is technically a checksum and is made of raw bytes that cannot be converted back to the i
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by yyyk 4y ago
Your theory is contrary to what happened in reality: It was governments mandating router and OS support of IPv6 that jump-started protocol support. Had the mandate not existed, MS would not have added IPv6 as early as Win XP (in preview dur
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by yyyk 4y ago
IPv6 is a slightly different model, different enough that you can't just copy the configuration from IPv4, and that adds a significant implementation burden. If IPv4+ had been created instead, we'd probably all be already using it
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by yyyk 4y ago
I didn't expect Apple to actually do this. Kudos. During the client-side scanning debacle I noted they'd have to implement server-side scanning anyway, so they might as well abandon client-side scanning. The wording still allows f
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by yyyk 4y ago
It may be a useful talking point to get the public to do the right thing on Taiwan, but frankly there's no meaningful economic reliance on TSMC/Taiwan and policy makers know this.
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by yyyk 4y ago
You should look at Iranian 'elections' since 2009 (stolen) or the last one (every possible serious opponent to Raisi being disqualified). Even NIAC had to concede this: https://www.niacouncil.org/news/disquali

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