roastedpeacock

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by roastedpeacock 2y ago
Not sure about the memory transfer bottleneck and potential mitigations. But out of interest, how insurmountable would it be to 'retool' fastplotlib to use JAX acceleration instead of wgpu?
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by roastedpeacock 2y ago
> AFAIK Hardware jailbreaking/homebrew tools are fine even in jurisdictions blighted with with DMCA unless they're specifically for circumventing DRM. Certain Japanese video-game companies would take issue with that interpretat
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by roastedpeacock 2y ago
> Granted, this was a university project so we clearly were within the academic context, but we were in no way affiliated with a too big to sue company. Even without supposed goodwill of AMD and seeing things a different way being a) aff
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by roastedpeacock 2y ago
And how is the situation with desktop clients? Last I saw the situation was not exactly great.
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by roastedpeacock 2y ago
Just a friendly reminder to everyone that a challenge of the DMCA has not reached the Supreme Court in over 25 years of its existence.
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by roastedpeacock 2y ago
Claming injury to a third-party who hosted information (did they host binaries?) of a tool at issue seems like a novel legal theory to me. Best of luck to them.
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by roastedpeacock 2y ago
Session started as a fork of the Signal client/server to use identifiers that are not phone numbers (perfectly sensible) but having deviated from the known primitives of the Signal protocol and omitting PFS gives me pause.
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by roastedpeacock 2y ago
I was under the impression that the Signal server, if compromised could be utilised to potentially log metadata of communication between contacts. Sealed sender [1] is a feature of the Signal protocol to mitigate overt metadata retention bu
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by roastedpeacock 2y ago
Anyone know if EFF is going to attempt further appeals?
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by roastedpeacock 2y ago
Are you able to discuss what this product is?
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by roastedpeacock 2y ago
Sony omitted OtherOS support with the PS3 Slim hardware revision with seemingly no technical justification and later removed it from existing consoles. Afterwards several researchers investigated how to execute third-party code on the devic
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by roastedpeacock 2y ago
> If you think that the Internet Archive is their own worst enemy and anyone who thinks differently is wrong, then you don't actually support the work of The Internet Archive. Sure, you may like parts of it. But you oppose its core
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by roastedpeacock 2y ago
> Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees Considering the Lavabit case [1] this reek of grandstanding to anyone else? Not saying Europe is panacea but considering the unaccountability of American int
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by roastedpeacock 2y ago
What current Intel products are fabbed at TSMC?
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by roastedpeacock 2y ago
> But the whole story is very crazy, I should write a complete blog post on it and what their shady techniques are. Please do. If you have any new details not in the public-domain and are safely able to disclose them I am certain many ot
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by roastedpeacock 2y ago
Censored by Rockstar/Take-Two no less. With presumably an ultimatum to discontinue the project as part of a settlement of a protracted legal case [1]. [1] https://www.gamesradar.com/gta-owner-settles-lawsuit-against...
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by roastedpeacock 2y ago
> I named the DMCA because that was likely to be most recognizable by our most esteemed readers but fine I will elaborate how this shit is everywhere. Yes. But not all countries interpret the restrictions on fair-use as aggressively as D
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by roastedpeacock 2y ago
a) DMCA does not apply the same to all countries b) With the way politics is going in USA I am not optimistic about DMCA reform until the heat-death of the universe.
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by roastedpeacock 2y ago
Card game? Does he mean there is a console/PC version of the Pokemon card game or this is simply bad journalism?
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by roastedpeacock 2y ago
> Key pinning also can be done independently of the protocol; the SSH client does that, and it is helpful, but it isn't something that necessarily needs the SSH protocol in order to work. While it was not entirely perfect Google thr
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by roastedpeacock 2y ago
> after the recent xz backdoor, combined with the fact sshd runs as root, we probably shouldn't use SSH for everything Independent sshd implementations with the potential of having neither issue do exist [1] And many httpd's ru
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by roastedpeacock 2y ago
Traffic of onion-services is encrypted. Traffic correlation to deanonymize the client can still be theoretically performed but ultimately you need to draw the line in the sand somewhere. > Regardless, protonmail doesn’t let people regist
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by roastedpeacock 2y ago
Even if the attacker cant decrypt existing e-mail the concern is by hijacking the account they can intercept future e-mail received such as password resets. Some searching finds this comment. [1] I would be interested if such a password res
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by roastedpeacock 2y ago
That also struck me as odd. And seemingly a violation of journalistic best-practices of protecting sources. I sure hope this was done with consent of the anonymous source.
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by roastedpeacock 2y ago
That is a pretty damming accusation. Can you provide more details? This should be the sort of thing you should be hearing from a disclosure or ideally a vendor advisory - not an HN comment thread on a vaguely related article. Failures of ra
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by roastedpeacock 2y ago
Anyone know if GitLab has a transparent archive of DMCA notices similar to GitHub?
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by roastedpeacock 2y ago
The Suyu project also has their own self-hosted Git server. Be interesting if development continues there and information is spread by word-of-mouth or similar.
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by roastedpeacock 2y ago
Some countries have better exemptions for fair-use even accounting for WIPOisms than others.
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by roastedpeacock 4y ago
Given recent regressions in Hong Kong that may not be the best idea.
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by roastedpeacock 4y ago
What jurisdiction will the organisation be registered in and in the unlikely event of a dispute how will that impact the project?

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