ikmckenz

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by ikmckenz 5mo ago
This is different than push data, which already does not contain any content or metadata in Signal. This is about local OS caches, whereas for push notifications Signal only sends a push saying “message received” which wakes the device up a
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by ikmckenz 6mo ago
I really want a small SBC with USB-C DP Alt mode that I can stuff into a ~60%ish mechanical keyboard-sized case to make into a headless laptop thing so I can justify buying some display glasses like the XReal One or similar. Seems like it w
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by ikmckenz 6mo ago
Parent comment was talking about relay nodes, not exit nodes. The risk of running a relay node is essentially zero in a free country.
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by ikmckenz 6mo ago
I think the hosts that Tor recommends against because there are already so many nodes hosted on them like OVH and Hetzner are perfectly happy with their (quite good) reputations.
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by ikmckenz 7mo ago
That’s almost what we already have with the CVE system, just without the legal protections. You report the vulnerability to the NSA, let them have their fun with it, then a fix is coordinated to be released much further down the line. Perso
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by ikmckenz 7mo ago
Your opinion is that Apple should have just handed over Jamal Khashoggi‘s information to the Saudi Arabian agents who were trying to kill him, because then Saudi Arabia wouldn’t have been incentivized to hack his phone? I think you’ll find
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by ikmckenz 7mo ago
OpenSSH has been moving quite quickly in the direction of multiple, privilege separated processes, each also heavily sandboxed with pledge and unveil
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by ikmckenz 8mo ago
As of 2025 OpenBSD has support for AMD SEV and SEV-ES, with support for SEV-SNP work-in-progress, so with the right hardware yes it's able to isolate itself sufficiently https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/timetable/t
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by ikmckenz 10mo ago
> very deep interests in things i was completely unaware that they existed ... say goodbye to the cognitive ability of a large chunk of future generations I would think very deep interests in niche or obscure topics is correlated with i
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by ikmckenz 10mo ago
Is this comment AI written?
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by ikmckenz 11mo ago
Why won't these sites simply block this browser?
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by ikmckenz 11mo ago
What's the story behind adsbexchange selling out?
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by ikmckenz 1y ago
No, historically the vast majority of communication was not recorded, and so a warrant could not be used to access the communication. The fact of the modern world is that for the first time in history almost everything we do is recorded, an
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by ikmckenz 1y ago
> They forgot about training and practice. Try it with airplanes. "The results surprised us. Given Boeing 777 they thought they will get from London to New York in 7 hours, but they actually couldn't even get off the ground. In
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by ikmckenz 1y ago
I would expect that data to be mostly noise though, after all, there is pretty strong evidence towards some soft form of "set point" level of happiness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
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by ikmckenz 1y ago
All of them are real? You have a 100% rate of reports closed as valid?
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by ikmckenz 1y ago
Related: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/open-source-project-...
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by ikmckenz 1y ago
Except for the fact that the security of Session is drastically worse than Signal. https://soatok.blog/2025/01/14/dont-use-session-signal-fork/ https://soatok.blog/2025/01/20&#x
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by ikmckenz 1y ago
> the EU has not yet stomped them into mulch hard enough yet I see This is literally the result of EU "stomping"
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by ikmckenz 1y ago
And yet I don't see Apple on the list of contributors of the OpenBSD Foundation ( https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/contributors.html ), shame.
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by ikmckenz 1y ago
The Isosceles blog post[0] on the initial webp exploit, linked by the article, says: > Google's OSS-Fuzz project has fuzzed hundreds of open source libraries for many years now, including libwebp and many other image decoding librar
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by ikmckenz 1y ago
An actual strongly encrypted messenger app like Signal is not really like a FBI fake-encrypted honeypot app like Anom
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by ikmckenz 2y ago
No, "I am XYZ hedge fund and I want to buy stock ABC" is not material non-public information to XYZ hedge fund. If it was, any buying or selling of stocks would always be illegal, since you would be "insider trading" on
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by ikmckenz 2y ago
> Isn't the problem that this allows for all kinds of forms of insider trading? No, it doesn't. All trades are made public after they happen, as per regulations. There is no difference to insider trading regulations if a bad ac
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by ikmckenz 2y ago
There is no such thing as a "Nobody But Us" vulnerability. Leaving holes in systems and praying enemies won't discover them, with the hope of attacking them ourselves is extremely foolish.
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by ikmckenz 2y ago
I have nothing to do with this event, but what do you gain from misrepresenting this? They also gave: 30 mins on the state of the libp2p project 30 mins on ipfs network measurements 1hr on optimizing libp2p for mobile 30 mins on an end-to-
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by ikmckenz 2y ago
Looks like past events had deep technical talks on libp2p's DHT ( https://p2p.paris/en/talks/libp2p-dht/ ), and a novel gossip based pubsub protocol ( https://p2p.paris/en/talks/go
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by ikmckenz 2y ago
Except now they get to remain the owners and they don’t have to sell at fire sale prices, so it turned out to be the best possible outcome for their shareholders.
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by ikmckenz 2y ago
And those German short-sellers (and to a lesser extent their British counterparts) were aggressively bullied by their local government market regulators https://www.reuters.com/article/technology/germanys-long-lon
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by ikmckenz 2y ago
Teens aren't doing drugs, smoking, drinking, or having sex. And the suicide rate has never been higher.

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