r3trohack3r

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by r3trohack3r 4d ago
Kagi support zero knowledge search through a Firefox extension and Mullvad supports zero knowledge VPN by putting cash in an envelope with your account ID written on the outside.
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by r3trohack3r 4d ago
My time, attention, and “brain” are valuable. Having aligned incentives with my search provider and control over the results it serves me through weighting is worth substantially more than I pay for unlimited. Kagi is the stickiest digital
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by r3trohack3r 6d ago
Were there multiple of these sites? If not, I have fond memories of using yours!
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by r3trohack3r 6d ago
It’s the other way around - for secure environments there is an approved device list. If your device is not on that list, it does not go in. There is also an approved human list. And the approved humans carry responsibility and consequence
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by r3trohack3r 6d ago
That you see the world this way says more about you than the piñata.
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by r3trohack3r 7d ago
I also broadly agree with you're sentiment But re: kagi specifically, for me personally, the delta is obvious and isn't trust based. When I use Kagi I have a curated search experience that has a relatively high information density
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by r3trohack3r 7d ago
While what you said is literally true, it’s also entirely possible muse sold this exactly as if they’d owned it as an asset.
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by r3trohack3r 8d ago
Free isn’t free, you get what you pay for and you’ll pay one way or another
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by r3trohack3r 10d ago
From the state department link above: > Oregon-based Rose City Antifa has relied on A/I Collective tools and services to organize and incite violent and criminal acts domestically, including an attack on Customs and Border Patrol he
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by r3trohack3r 12d ago
The last time I looked into it, exit nodes have a long “ramp up” period of many days. If this is still true, you’re not going to be serving much purpose with a collection of transient nodes.
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by r3trohack3r 13d ago
Anyone else watch the video and catch Dunder Mifflin @ 4:11? Using this for my webcam background moving forward!
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by r3trohack3r 13d ago
Generally agree with you. But for this specific project the goal was to host the _entire_ npm registry as a mirror on consumer grade hardware, not just the slice of it I personally used for local development. It was part of the (now defunct
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Realtime Streaming of Synchronized Video, Audio, and Control Feeds(kyber.tech)
4 points by r3trohack3r 13d ago|1 comments
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by r3trohack3r 14d ago
Tangentially related, I applied a similar approach to compress the npm registry by over 90% on disk a few years back. Since most versions of a package are similar, you can delta encode them first and then compress them. The deltas are small
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Silverman vs. OpenAI: Statement of Interest of the United States [pdf](storage.courtlistener.com)
3 points by r3trohack3r 14d ago|0 comments
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by r3trohack3r 14d ago
If you define the entity as “all institutions that are allowed to create and enforce laws” and then say “that entity has a monopoly on creating and enforcing laws” you’ve created a tautology. There are clear counter examples to your stateme
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by r3trohack3r 14d ago
I know it’s not new, thus why I said I’ve never seen a definition that is both true and useful. In the U.S. I can lawfully use violence in many ways under many circumstances. I.E. if you’re in my house and I didn’t invite you there, I can s
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by r3trohack3r 14d ago
> they have a monopoly on violence in the country I have not seen a definition of this that is simultaneously true and useful The sole provider of violence in the U.S. is not the government.
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by r3trohack3r 19d ago
I mean, I think it entirely depends on the nature of the groups they support?
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Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming(web.archive.org)
19 points by r3trohack3r 20d ago|0 comments
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by r3trohack3r 20d ago
Rob Pikes 5 Rules of Programming: Rule 1. You can't tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so don't try to second guess and put in a speed hack until you've proven that's
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by r3trohack3r 22d ago
I was surprised by this number too - and I’m pretty sure it’s a clever wording trick to inflate the percentage: > equivalent of a 26% higher sales tax than premium credit card users shopping at the same store. I do not think the sale pri
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by r3trohack3r 23d ago
If you are a believer in projects like IPFS and want to work on it full time, email me. We are building systems that live in the same space as projects like IPFS, Secure Scuttlebutt, Automerge, Tailscale, etc. For folks who are already expe
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by r3trohack3r 23d ago
America does it with 50 states
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by r3trohack3r 24d ago
(1) just to clarify isn’t meant to be polite, I’m trying to get GP to clarify his belief (2) I don’t care about citations - I want GP to clarify his belief (3) GP is using something similar to a Motte and Bailey to make a generalized statem
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by r3trohack3r 24d ago
I’d take this even further and say most programmers are incapable of building authoritarian software; where the client is subservient to the server by default. The tyranny of the system administrator.
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by r3trohack3r 25d ago
Just to clarify. What percentage of wealthy people do you believe think this? Is 10% too high of an estimate for wealthy people that believe this? 50%? 75%? 90%? Where would you throw the dart of your estimate and how wide do you think your
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by r3trohack3r 25d ago
I think it’s self evidently true that hard work is not equal to wealth and I don’t know how that meme became a thing. You can exert extreme effort in unproductive directions and provide marginal, even extremely negative, value. You can work
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Micropayments and Mental Transaction Costs(nakamotoinstitute.org)
6 points by r3trohack3r 26d ago|0 comments
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by r3trohack3r 27d ago
Have experienced it, but didn’t document. Downstream database of our edge serverless platform went down. A tonne of requests failed all at once. Every service in the microservice request path, and the client, had their own retry policy. Cli

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