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by maqp 18d ago
Same. Every time I see LLM has contributed to the work I feel it greatly dilutes it. I'll push through if the topic is important and there's good points. But e.g. on YT, a sloppy script that barely stands on its own becomes a hard
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by maqp 19d ago
looks cool. But estimating distances is hard, as is estimating road size. You can only plan one straight line ahead, and there's no "glance how many blocks before I make a left turn". Now it's "scan and process the
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by maqp 21d ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkmjSSC3r5A something like this?
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by maqp 21d ago
My first introduction to the man was Muppet Treasure Island, the video game. I didn't see the movie until I was adult but the game really, really stuck with me. It's not on GOG (yet) but a copy of it sits on archive: https:/
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by maqp 1mo ago
I can't believe I'm not able to buy Every Fucking Website Premium with business focused ads and native advertising masquerading as quasi-educational infotainment. Also where's the sign-up with Spybook?
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by maqp 2mo ago
What's the ideal route for someone familiar with 3ds Max to learn Blender? I feel a bit stuck with my proprietary skillset.
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by maqp 2mo ago
What's the vulnerability they injected into DES?
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by maqp 2mo ago
Very secure servers are openly documented (Kerckhoff's principle). Snake oil purporting itself as secure is always very hush hush and comes with claims of security. Besides, other messengers like Signal have already made the server ope
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by maqp 2mo ago
Telegram offering bells and whistles that leaks everything to the service provider is not an argument for Telegram the same way "it launches the video game" isn't an argument for video game cracks that carry ransomware. Both
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by maqp 2mo ago
The bigger issue is Telegram advertises it as more private option to WhatsApp although Telegram collects more metadata, and also the message content. People think Telegram is more private, they don't use it as a public forum replacemen
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by maqp 2mo ago
Too bad he gave the job of company cryptography team to his brother, Nikolai who's an expert in geometry, not cryptography.
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by maqp 2mo ago
Yup but the issue is Telegram already has two separate groups, normal groups (3-200 users), and supergroups (200-200,000 users). For end-to-end encrypted groups, Threema supports 256 members, Signal 1000, Wire 2000, and Matrix has no upper
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by maqp 2mo ago
>Durov who supposedly lives in exile has visited Russia over 50 times Durov's exile marketing makes him look like he's Alexei Navalny. Navalny was a true dissident and critic and he was first poisoned, and then later arrested w
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by maqp 2mo ago
>Ukrainian military has literally relied upon it in the past Well they realized their mistake and banned Telegram's use on state issued devices in 2024 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78dwepw95do I&#x27
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by maqp 2mo ago
>telegram is the safest encrypted messaging app. Period, full stop. Yes, let's see * Not end-to-end encrypted by default * No end-to-end encrypted groups * No end-to-end encryption on any desktop client by the vendor, forcing cross-
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by maqp 2mo ago
There's nothing slow about AES. In this context "heavily" means "we can't legally claim it's end-to-end encrypted because it's not". Also it's not even post quantum, so it's not heavy. Teleg
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by maqp 2mo ago
https://docs.cwtch.im/ has P2P Onion Service based messaging.
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by maqp 2mo ago
Probably not. It's been ~13 years when Snowden said what the NSA is doing is going around the encryption by hacking endpoints. Post quantum cryptography doesn't change any of that. You can still lift TLS keys with exploits for tra
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by maqp 3mo ago
PSA: https://dr.loudness-war.info/ is a great place to look for info on dynamic range of releases, and also, a great place to find new music with excellent dynamic range.
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by maqp 4mo ago
What are you hinting here? Surely you can make a positive claim with evidence to back it? A CEO of a big project like SimpleX wouldn't stoop as low as Pavel Durov?
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by maqp 4mo ago
Same guy, always pretending we've never had the same discussion over and over here, Reddit and privacyguides, for years. You're always running away. >The protocol is designed to provide packet-level anonymity Anything you do to
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by maqp 4mo ago
The point is there is no public key capability in BB84 that requires pre-sharing a symmetric key. You absolutely do get forward secrecy with pre-shared keys. You just need to make the protocol derive the next key with a cryptographic hash f
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by maqp 4mo ago
QKD is interesting from the PoV of perfect secrecy. But AFAIK with e.g. BB84, the basis orientation communication (used to detect OTP delivery eavesdropping) is done with Wegman-Carter (unconditionally secure) authentication using... a pre-
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by maqp 5mo ago
In 2006?
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by maqp 5mo ago
Plus the company likes to advertise their product as more metadata-private than Tor Onion Service based messaging apps like Cwtch. They lie by omission when they say that the service doesn't have any user IDs. What they really mean is,
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by maqp 5mo ago
Thank goodness. Finally. Yeah I'm just not comfortable with 80-bit complexity against Grover, even if it's practically infeasible.
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by maqp 5mo ago
Could we finally get SHA256 fingerprints. Or BLAKE2, or SHA3-256, or SHAKE256, or BLAKE3, or LITERALLY ANYTHING BUT SHA-1, pretty please?
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by maqp 5mo ago
Some DJs use this principle when they need a hacky stage mic. They plug their headphones to the mixer's mic input, and shout to the speaker element.
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by maqp 5mo ago
and many LEDs are weak photo-diodes, i.e. you get weak current when you shine a light to them.
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by maqp 6mo ago
The sad part is, Instagram is exceptionally damaging to kids for a disjoint set of reasons.

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