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by quohort 2y ago
Hmm, true. But perhaps you could mitigate this with cookies as OP suggests. Simply don't return anything unless the GET request has a valid intranet cookie? Or perhaps the client can tell the server what webpage it's fetching from
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by quohort 2y ago
the purpose of having engineers write software is that they can transparently prove that it works reliably, and they can be professionally held accountable and learn if it fails. You're suggesting that reliability should be improved by
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by quohort 2y ago
Steam isn't a monopoly. I, and everyone I know who uses steam is familiar with GOG or Epic games or Battle.net or some other service. You can even distribute your game independently (e.g. in the case of minecraft and some of the most s
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by quohort 2y ago
> Would any OEM dare to use workarounds to install windows 11 on not officially supported hardware? I feel like most OEMs would simply upgrade the hardware no questions asked. Simply because should any problem occur, Microsoft would just
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by quohort 2y ago
Sure, it's motivated by a bit of license turnover like you suggest. But mostly it's a case of securing their OS against adversaries (including their users). You can lock down the system a lot more with TPM on your side: Now you ca
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by quohort 2y ago
It's pretty much how every cryptocurrency works, with separation of public (receive) and private (send) keys. The fact that invoices are temporary in LN is a weakness of the design, not an intentional choice. The lightning network repr
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by quohort 2y ago
link broken, use https://www.usgs.gov/programs/national-geospatial-program/to...
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by quohort 2y ago
try celluloid https://github.com/celluloid-player/celluloid
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by quohort 2y ago
IA into BS, BSDF LJL your AJS IoK. From NJBW Chinese UAU in BA PFF‽
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by quohort 2y ago
> It's just statecraft and covert influence campaigns I'm sure that has something to do with it, but such campaigns are catalyzed by china's military aggression in the south pacific. Morality is an afterthought.
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by quohort 2y ago
How difficult is it to test your site on the 3 major browser engines? I have done some web development before and when I'm on linux, I just test my site with chromium, firefox, and epiphany. I think the onus is on the developer to use
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by quohort 2y ago
I wonder if you could create a national or federated ID system that takes advantage of blind signatures/ZKP to improve privacy. For example, you could create an unlimited number of identities to hand out to different buisnesses, and th
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by quohort 2y ago
Good news loyal customer, we now support 2-factor authentication! ... over SMS!
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by quohort 2y ago
How about this: without barcodes, you can't replace your clerks with self-checkout machines
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by quohort 2y ago
It doesn't need to be a national ID, it could just operate on a state-level like drivers licenses currently do.
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by quohort 2y ago
Why do programming books always have some random unrelated illustration on the front? Usually when you have a textbook, they will have some nice illustration that is tangentially related to the content of the book (like fibonacci spiral for
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by quohort 2y ago
Sort of. The solution i'm suggesting would occupy the "decentralized" and "secure" position of zooko's triangle ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle ). Whereas the problem that
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by quohort 2y ago
It's true that china has been developing anti-satellite weapons recently ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASAT_program_of_China ). To respond in kind with "kinetic" weapons as mentioned sets a dangerous pre
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by quohort 2y ago
Are you being sarcastic? Historically, programs like SDI have had a destabilizing effect on nuclear war due to the dynamics of MAD
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by quohort 2y ago
makes me wonder if there is some sort of generic CAD for processes that involve bending and folding. For example, knitting fabric, bending wire, bending sheet metal, tying knots. For example, you could have a parametric design for a custom&
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by quohort 2y ago
a domain is a big ask for some p2p applications. Not only does it cost money, but you have to interact with a (central) domain registry, which defeats the purpose. There really ought to be a system (like .onion services or eepsites but with
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by quohort 2y ago
Another example that comes to mind is iroh, a p2p filesharing system ( https://www.iroh.computer/ )
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by quohort 2y ago
> One, it makes me worry about the mental health of the author. They are clearly really not having a good time living in our reality, and I hope they can find a way to relieve the suffering. > Two, I hope no one else gets caught up in
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by quohort 2y ago
Sounds like Gridcoin. The problem with these systems is that it's difficult to write a useful proof-of-work scheme that produces useful work as side effect. So you have a loss of decentralization vs conventional cryptocurrency, but at
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by quohort 2y ago
Yes, ironically increased transparency and more secure systems will lead to less freedom for the user, because trusted computing is most often securing the interests of manufacturers against users (what RMS refereed to as "Treacherous
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by quohort 2y ago
1. This is interesting. So in a measured boot scenario, you wouldn't be able to boot the main OS, but it would give you access to sort of a minimal initramfs environment for debugging? It's a good idea for personal computers, like
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by quohort 2y ago
certainly
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by quohort 2y ago
> And you could always make them opt-in instead of opt-out. > The only danger is that some pedant comes along and says that with these assumptions what you're now writing isn't "portable C" and relies on compiler-d
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by quohort 2y ago
> A big chunk of the essay is about a side point — how good the gains of optimization might be, which, even with data, would be a use-case dependent decision. I think this was useful context, and it was eye-opening to me.
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by quohort 2y ago
Perhaps the solution is also to reign in the language standard to support stricter use cases. For example, what if there was a constant-time { ... }; block in the same way you have extern "C" { ... }; . Not only would it allow you

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