avaloneon

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by avaloneon 3y ago
This is something I've been investigating. If one had a gateway that spoke Reddit's API, the apps wouldn't even really have to pivot, just change the API base URL. And in theory not even that. As long as the traffic can be re
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by avaloneon 3y ago
I feel like they're targeting VR. Some background: Currently PCVR is basically 100% Windows. It's possible to stream VR games from a PC to a standalone headset (ie: with the Quest AirLink) but it depends on network conditions. For
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by avaloneon 3y ago
FWIW, the Quest Pro can do both eye and face tracking on avatars right now, although whatever app you're using needs to support it and it's not yet photorealistic. (Meta's been working on photorealistic avatars but my underst
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by avaloneon 6y ago
> I still don't understand what would "FairPlay applications" entail? Anyone care to explain further? Apps on iOS are kept encrypted until runtime, presumably to deter piracy. Obviously this makes reverse engineering/
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by avaloneon 7y ago
Part of the confusion comes from the fact that there are several different points do be discussed, and they're easy to mix up. For instance: software trust in general, web server security vs repository security, reproducibility, etc. I
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by avaloneon 7y ago
I'm surprised that no one has yet mentioned that piping curl to bash can be detected by the server (previous discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17636032 ). This allows an attacker to send different code
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by avaloneon 10y ago
You might be interested in something like ORWL[1], which is arguably the most secure consumer PC I've ever heard of. It has tamper-resistant features, full disk encryption, and a secure co-processor which does things like disable the U
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by avaloneon 12y ago
The buzzword is "risk compensation". There's a whole article on Wikipedia about it (and lots of studies) but, to make a long story short, "measures, designed to improve traffic safety, may bring along negative consequenc