dgroshev

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How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of Signal chats(blog.trailofbits.com)
79 points by dgroshev 4d ago|61 comments
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by dgroshev 6d ago
That's true, although inconvenient for production code that needs to be delivered yesterday. Sadly, agents don't mind generating gigatons of code instead of refactoring the abstractions.
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by dgroshev 6d ago
To add to this, I find that the delta between the amount of code and pain you get with good and bad abstractions is substantially higher in rust than other languages. It's alright to muddle through in Python or TS, but with Rust bad ab
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by dgroshev 8d ago
Ukraine is retaking some of the territory right now . https://euobserver.com/236059/ukrainians-again-liberate-terr...
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by dgroshev 9d ago
More likely than not a full endorsement, given DHH's multiple references to notoriously and openly racist "The Camp of the Saints", or this quote: > standing idly by while your livestock is devoured by predators or your ne
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by dgroshev 9d ago
I don't think "growing polarisation" is the right framing here. It gives way too much weight and legitimacy to views that have to be subjected to cordon sanitaire [1]. It's not acceptable to associate race with national
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by dgroshev 10d ago
You're talking to the CEO of the want-to-be-SEO company [1] that did that. It is very much content marketing for their services. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49557233
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How the government is using AI to speed up the planning system(takes.jamesomalley.co.uk)
1 points by dgroshev 1mo ago|0 comments
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by dgroshev 1mo ago
Here are a couple examples: https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/build-gemini-build
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by dgroshev 1mo ago
A lot of clubs in a lot of places scan and store your ID on entrance.
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by dgroshev 2mo ago
Indeed, Trump is a great example of democratic backsliding completely unfettered by "freedoms" often mistaken for the actual freedom. The way forward is being able to change things or regaining this ability if it's lost, not
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by dgroshev 2mo ago
You just said it yourself: the perceived danger of overreach was averted through new laws and control over what the government is doing. If citizens still have a capacity to restrict the government via (enforced) laws, it doesn't matte
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by dgroshev 2mo ago
So what? Some things are exceptionally hard to track now (like e2ee messages) that were trivial to track back then. Every remote communication could only be had in the clear. Everyone was fine with that. Was the US in the 80s a surveillance
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by dgroshev 2mo ago
Just a few decades years ago, everyone's names and phones in the US were freely available to anyone with a phone book. Communications were done in the clear, either via letters (hardly tamper-proof), or via phone (that anyone with acce
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by dgroshev 2mo ago
Algorithmic scroll is factually more harmful, regardless of the amount of harm as long as it's non-zero, because it does affect people. Surveillance on its own doesn't. It just doesn't, everything that you can think of in res
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by dgroshev 2mo ago
Did the US annex Vietnam or Iran? There's a qualitative difference between interference and outright annexation, with borders redrawn and cultures violently assimilated.
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by dgroshev 2mo ago
> How can one intepret it in any other way is "Russia is evil and visiting Russia is thus evil"? Simple: Durov has no problem with constructing a narrative that has little to do with reality.
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by dgroshev 2mo ago
Of course he would say that. Even besides the fallaciousness of this argument (there is no equivalence between an aggressor and a victim), Pavel Durov is completely untrustworthy. There is product stuff, like misleading claims about Telegra
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by dgroshev 2mo ago
More mysteries of Telegram Data Centres: https://istories.media/en/stories/2025/06/10/telegram-fsb/ (and a follow-up: https://istories.media/en/news/2025/06/
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by dgroshev 2mo ago
Some heart surgeons might only be able to explain to the nurses their ideas on how to carry out the surgery, but are they still heart surgeons?
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by dgroshev 3mo ago
That list really misses Glove80! It's an incredible keyboard, and imo is better than the Moonlander at practically everything. Edit: on second thought, I guess some people might not like the low switches?
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by dgroshev 3mo ago
China? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_police_overseas_servic...
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by dgroshev 3mo ago
I don't mean a conversation. I understand the process and how front-loaded it is at Oxide. I mean just having an actual human being on the other side of those rejection emails, instead of sending them from an unmonitored address. Oxide
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by dgroshev 3mo ago
Probably 16 hours all in between research, writing, and editing, spread over a week. That might be a bit more than average, since English is my second language, and I make many passes to make sure the text works. Got boilerplate-rejected
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by dgroshev 3mo ago
> Backpack launched a SpaceX token at IPO that can be moved between on-chain and your brokerage What is the actual societal value of this? Do you seriously believe that such a token helps price discovery?
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by dgroshev 3mo ago
Laws are "reviewed" by courts, and in the UK newer laws automatically supersede older laws if there are any contradictions (with minor nuances as per Thoburn v Sunderland City Council). There's no need for the mechanism that
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by dgroshev 3mo ago
Most people on here are in the US, and the baseline of "scary" implied by that (and many other) posts is definitely not where it should be. "Moron" doesn't nearly do it justice. The US saw a paramilitary force lead
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by dgroshev 3mo ago
Thankfully, we do have laws that change with the times over here in the UK. Just a couple months ago we had a constitutional change (abolishment of hereditary peers) and that was just another Thursday. It's fine, we don't need to
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by dgroshev 3mo ago
Yes, I'm saying it's a normal part of a functioning country to onboard tech into their law enforcement. If anything it's positive in this case, because it's a domestic effort and not just buying a similar system from Pal
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by dgroshev 3mo ago
I don't see what's "scary" about this link. It's talking about pretty much standard data processing, Palantir is doing that in the US for many years now.

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