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by __MatrixMan__ 25d ago
Me too. Like maybe we could convert to DC at the breaker box so I didn't have to be haunted by the squealing capacitors in all of the power supplies that are scattered around my house.
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by __MatrixMan__ 25d ago
> The shareholders give all authority over actions and property of the company to the executives. Who picks the executives? Who fires them when they misbehave?
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by __MatrixMan__ 25d ago
Interesting. Is this common? Like, is there some way to enable it on my LAN so that when I become disconnected from the internet I can still browse pages which were cached by other devices on that LAN?
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by __MatrixMan__ 25d ago
Without content addressing how do I know that whoever holds the cache hasn't tampered with the content?
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by __MatrixMan__ 25d ago
Right, but my browser doesn't interpret that. The site tells me to run some code which interprets it. I should be able to get the lay of the land without trusting the site enough to blindly execute whatever code it points me at. It&#x
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by __MatrixMan__ 25d ago
Its not stored separately, so: 1. You need write access to the server if you want to add one 2. The server could change its behavior at any time and there's no way to know that caches now need to be invalidated 3. If something goes wro
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by __MatrixMan__ 26d ago
We need to set a precedent for holding shareholders accountable. I could go to jail if my dog hurts somebody, it should be no different with a company.
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by __MatrixMan__ 26d ago
Can next.js give me a page's links without requiring that I execute any code that I didn't have prior to visiting that page? The .js part makes me think not.
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by __MatrixMan__ 26d ago
If we stored the edges (links) and nodes (pages) separately, rather than requiring you to blindly run a node's code just to discover what its edges might be, then you could skip the prediction and instead pre-cache the next hop for al
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by __MatrixMan__ 26d ago
I wish there was some kind of EFF-curated "privacy/internet freedom" pass that I could buy. Kagi is great, but it's not everything. Brave is great, but it's not everything. Signal, GrapheneOS, Tor... this is a bat
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by __MatrixMan__ 26d ago
This is part 3. I found it hard to figure out what was going on without first scanning part 1: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/06/29/obfuscation1.htm...
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by __MatrixMan__ 26d ago
I prefer to share a video, ask people to watch it, and have them send me questions. That way I can spend time preparing answers to those questions, and then then meeting can be about discussion, not information delivery or recall. Asking p
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by __MatrixMan__ 27d ago
It provides a legal justification for censorship. Originally used by The Church to prevent the wrong sort of bible from being printed. It has always been about insulating monopolists and gatekeepers against change. We desperately need to
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by __MatrixMan__ 27d ago
Given that people use that info to decide how to spend their money on influencing political outcomes, aren't we better off if it's as inaccurate as possible?
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by __MatrixMan__ 27d ago
I suspect that the money taxpayers used to spend on humanities professors in women's studies is a pittance compared to the money they're now wasting because grab-em-by-the-***** regime never took one of those classes. Ignoring ha
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by __MatrixMan__ 27d ago
It was a mistake to normalize blindly executing whatever code the server sends your browser. One day we'll look back on this era and wish we had pulled the plug sooner.
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by __MatrixMan__ 27d ago
Bluetooth is such a mess. You know what didn't have this problem? Cables.
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by __MatrixMan__ 27d ago
There are a variety of political tensions in the US associated with whether academia has its head up it's ass (a right leaning perspective), or whether it's populated by experts that need to be supported and listened to (a left le
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by __MatrixMan__ 28d ago
This seems to be mostly from the perspective of what makes the most sense to use at an API boundary. Rather than trying to agree on the best meaning the various integers or floats that we're passing around, maybe we should instead buil
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by __MatrixMan__ 28d ago
Yeah I'm not sure that the web is worth saving. But the internet is ok, and we can build a new web on top of it. The alternative is doing nothing while the world gets less and less safe for our children. So let's try.
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by __MatrixMan__ 28d ago
Worse even than Palantir?
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by __MatrixMan__ 28d ago
Some say it's being pushed by investors of Axon, its biggest competitor. I'm not sure I buy it though, the rage translates across brands too easily.
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by __MatrixMan__ 28d ago
Nothing about the Snowden revelations presented such an easy target. There was no obvious action against it for juries to nullify. If there were companies whose bottom lines we could target, it's not clear which companies they were.
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by __MatrixMan__ 28d ago
I'd call it a bug. If we don't fix it, I think that our habit of creating incentives towards outcomes that nobody actually wants will eventually kill us.
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by __MatrixMan__ 28d ago
You're assuming that the invaders can't just buy, hack, or social engineer, access to the cameras from Flock. Lately it has been social engineering: https://www.404media.co/floridas-wildlife-cops-are-searching...
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by __MatrixMan__ 28d ago
> So what do you do when the majority of the systems you use on a daily basis to function in a normal life, require you (or atleast the majority of the populace) to compromise on morals? You replace those systems, one by one, with system
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by __MatrixMan__ 28d ago
If your bank requires you to use a device that is pre-compromised by Apple or Google, get a different bank.
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by __MatrixMan__ 28d ago
There are a lot of answers to this, but since we're likely coders in here, there's a software design answer worth pointing out. Watch how police states behave. What tools do they use? Typically, it's roots of trust. They t
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by __MatrixMan__ 28d ago
On the other hand, a few heuristics will get you pretty far: Don't build technology that interacts with people in ways they did't consent to. Don't build skinner boxes. Let the user decide who gets whatever data they genera
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by __MatrixMan__ 28d ago
You can run wasm components in tauri apps, and tauri supports building for android. I haven't figured out how to make them talk with each other though. I imagine that's the place where I'd notice this lack of support.

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