tarpitt

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by tarpitt 17d ago
Maybe you could have a system that heuristicially detects when an crawler is making the request and then feeds them a modified page, itself generated from an LLM, that injects vulnerabilities and bad code and discussion and such.
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by tarpitt 20d ago
You and what army? Killbots, mow down these protesters. Too late
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by tarpitt 21d ago
terrible blog, wants me to sign up to read the full article, then their email redirects me to download their app.
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by tarpitt 22d ago
nitter.rdrama.net is still up
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by tarpitt 1mo ago
the benefits of unemployment
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by tarpitt 1mo ago
the problem with lightning is: 1) it requires you to open a lightning channel. So you need some amount of initial investment (which usually means you need a credit card and an account on a bitcoin exchange), not just any computer which is t
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by tarpitt 1mo ago
With micropayments, the server owner makes 1 million requests times 0.05 cents = ~$500 The status quo with those js PoW pages doesn't really benefit the server owner at all, it's wasted energy. I mean proof of work is always waste
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by tarpitt 1mo ago
Something like Chaum's blind-signature based ecash, or GNU Taler would be ideal in terms of efficiency, but it's still centralized in distribution. Freenet currently uses something like this. Another option I was thinking of would
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by tarpitt 2mo ago
I have been following this one for a while, but I have never seen anyone report on its status in linux.
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by tarpitt 2mo ago
Plug in an EG25-G USB module. It has good driver suppport on linux as this is the same modem that's in the pinephone. About $60 plus the antennas. It also gives you GPS. I'm actually working on this right now. I made a case for th
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by tarpitt 2mo ago
What if the supplier backdoors the secure element? It would be better to just encourage the user to use a high-entropy key, and not bother with the secure element at all.
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by tarpitt 2mo ago
If you're that much of a coward, you won't get hit by a wrench anyways because you will give your keys up immediately. But you will force your enemy to exert additional effort. It works for the same reason locks on houses work aga
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by tarpitt 2mo ago
The wrench attack is still far weaker than a push-button attack. In the wrench attack you are aware that you have been attacked, and you're aware of what data the attacker gains. Additionally there are schemes like deniable encryption
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by tarpitt 2mo ago
I'm more curious to see how the second ammendment could factor into this.
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by tarpitt 2mo ago
You are going to be fed feet-first into a woodchipper, but don't worry about it just smoke some weed and chill out. Live, Laugh, Love that's what I always say
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by tarpitt 2mo ago
Can't wait for the barista and wicker basket based economy. Although personally I just make coffee at home, so I have no need for a barista with a PhD in neurosurgery to make it for me. Plus it just takes too much time to go to starbuc
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by tarpitt 2mo ago
If your earning ability is eliminated due to AI and you can't survive off of welfare or savings there will not be much more to your life other than starving to death.
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by tarpitt 2mo ago
Okay, so you are saying that there may be a design flaw we just haven't seen yet, based on historical precedent. Which is a very weak argument, because you are just making the case for the possibility that you may be correct, and
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by tarpitt 2mo ago
I didn't say it violated the first ammendment. I said it violated the principle of free speech. It's the same principle that justifies your ability to post in this discussion here, right now, despite the fact that you don't b
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by tarpitt 2mo ago
That money had to have come from somewhere, whether it was taxpayers or individuals. What if I donated? Is it cool to just roll over and allow political groups to hijack a previously neutral service? Also there are other projects hosted the
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by tarpitt 2mo ago
reminds me of https://xkcd.com/350/
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by tarpitt 2mo ago
It takes many bits to identify an individual. Let's say I offhandedly mention your email in this comment, for example, like we had an out of band conversation somewhere else. Then, someone takes that email and links it to another forum
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by tarpitt 2mo ago
I don't have the ability to downvote, and I disagree that the downvote should be used, but I disagree with your disagreement about the downvote. The proposal that seems to infringe on free speech, but mostly I take issue because there
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by tarpitt 2mo ago
I wonder if this could be used to unmask satoshi. I remember a piece about applying stylometry to satoshi's writing, but they just compared him to the usual list of suspects (finney, back, etc.)
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by tarpitt 2mo ago
I remember this! it got me pretty good. I have a bad habit of generating alts because I forget the password. It makes me wonder if we could use non-instruct LLMs to slightly alter the wording of text while keeping the meaning the same meani
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by tarpitt 2mo ago
Eh, I've got 200mb/s fiber for cheap. It's pretty good and definitely bottlenecked by crowded wifi and upstream sources moreso than the ISP. Ethernet helps somewhat. At the same time, I do kind of want more bandwidth just so
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by tarpitt 2mo ago
Probably not that many lives, maybe like a handful of hikers every year I would guess? I think what attracts hikers in the first place is the danger, and the idea that they're exploring an area that is "outside of civilization&quo
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by tarpitt 2mo ago
Say what you will, but it's staying above cloud providers.
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by tarpitt 2mo ago
I feel like I already have internet access pretty much everywhere with cell towers, and even then if I went to the middle of alaska or montana I could already get sattelite internet before starlink with hugesnet which is fine as long as you
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by tarpitt 2mo ago
Do ISPs have to comply with the 1st ammendment? My understanding was that they have some sort of common carrier law but net neutrality did not hold up.

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