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by vinsci 4y ago
Yes, and I will. I'd much prefer if the team came clean themselves, saying why they did it, and who paid them to destroy the RISC-V project. Atonement, Patterson. Now.
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by vinsci 4y ago
The 1.1 spec is corrupt, intentionally sabotaged. Stay away from Patterson and co.
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by vinsci 5y ago
More or extended features are not automatically a good thing for the users. Microsoft extended Kerberos with incompatible changes, re-published it under a diffeerent name, users lost open source benefits and became locked in to the Microsof
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by vinsci 5y ago
Friends don't let friends write new operating systems in unsafe programming languages.
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by vinsci 5y ago
Here [1] is a 2016 video [12:22] summary of the attempts by Hillary Clinton trying to start a war with Russia and Iran, in her own words, on camera. [1] Hillary Clinton Is A Threat To All Of Humanity https://www.corbettreport.com
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by vinsci 5y ago
Compare the fall of the US dollar, 100 USD dollars from 1913 now have a purchasing power of less than 4 dollars. [1] When talking about the USD, it isn't a question of if the USD went to zero, but when people stop using it entirely in
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by vinsci 5y ago
Actually, the headline could be more technically correct written as "sentenced by algorithm executing on backdoored remotely controlled computer", as that is the case today. Enjoy your dystopia of greed, fraud, and injustice.
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by vinsci 5y ago
Also, a TPM does not protect you from rubberhose key extraction. There is, however, a file system that can give you some modicum of protection against that, the Rubberhose File System[1][2], created by Julian Assange in the 1990s. It comes
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by vinsci 5y ago
I'd be cautious with that, as the Purism security guy is not necessarily a free man to do what is best for the customers of Purism. He needs assistance, support and protection from abusive people, and small popes.
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by vinsci 5y ago
Ah, paranoia is a good motivator to learn more. You might want to see this[1], for example. I think his solution is likely to be a trap, ie. not actually safe, but the presentation is at least a good example of how complicated it is to get
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by vinsci 5y ago
TIL that twenty years ago, Paul Graham put Object-Oriented Programming under Pitchfalls and Gotchas in his notes titled Five Questions about Language Design.[1] It is misguided, but perhaps it can help explain the origin of the numerous mis
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Programming Language Design(cs.lmu.edu)
7 points by vinsci 5y ago|1 comments
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Algorithmic Redistricting: Elections made-to-order ]video[(m.youtube.com)
1 points by vinsci 5y ago|0 comments
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by vinsci 5y ago
In fact, the PR firm for the makers of a vodka brand did hire someone to order <insert brand> Vodka with a loud voice in various places when exporting it to the USA began, according to Carl Hamilton's book about the design of the
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by vinsci 5y ago
Bitcoin is already regulated, with the algorithm that determines the difficulty of successfully calculating a transaction block, and the max number of Bitcoins. The USD, on the other hand, has no such algorithms, and so in the last year alo
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by vinsci 5y ago
“the FBI’s gross abuse of its power,” its “serial deceit” by which it “manipulated documents, concealed crucial exonerating evidence, and touted what it knew were unreliable if not outright false claims.” As a result, “years of major claims
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by vinsci 5y ago
by James Corbett corbettreport.com April 11, 2021 I posted Episode 398 of The Corbett Report podcast, “Science Says,” around 10 PM Japanese Standard Time on Friday, April 9th, 2021, and then went to bed. Sometime shortly
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Mission Accomplished: The Corbett Report Removed from YouTube(corbettreport.com)
7 points by vinsci 5y ago|2 comments
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by vinsci 5y ago
# IP address, should things get uglier still. corbettreport.com. 3599 IN A 77.235.50.111
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by vinsci 5y ago
md5sum ep398-sciencesays.mp4 a5ab6b2a0f88bdc86fe79f1a96526a71 ep398-sciencesays.mp4 I provide the md5sum of what I just watched, as some Youtube employee deleted his channel and all content apparently due to this video. Deleting content is
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Science Says(corbettreport.com)
1 points by vinsci 5y ago|2 comments
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by vinsci 5y ago
The right to modify needs to be protected, just as the right to repair anything without exclusion.
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by vinsci 5y ago
This just in: Microsoft admits to signing rootkit malware in supply-chain fiasco https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27640553
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by vinsci 5y ago
Fraud alert.
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by vinsci 5y ago
Quote from Ross Anderson's `Trusted Computing' Frequently Asked Questions - TC / TCG / LaGrande / NGSCB / Longhorn / Palladium / TCPA Version 1.1 (August 2003) https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk&#x2F
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by vinsci 5y ago
Reference?
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by vinsci 5y ago
An Evaluation of Location Encoding Systems https://github.com/google/open-location-code/wiki/Evaluation...
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by vinsci 5y ago
> It was a Eureka moment, and entirely based on such a simple statement that was never brought up in lectures Young me picked up the basics of cryptography at seven or eight, a couple of years before classes in the first foreign language
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by vinsci 5y ago
> only a best-intentions step above asking for “papers please” in a German accent, but whatever. This is the connection to The Third Wave, and we all recall the Der Spiegel cover photo of Trump in a photo studio doing a nazi greeting so
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by vinsci 5y ago
Good to see that many US legislators learned to avoid turning Ron Jones' 1967 experiment[0] into an actual real dystopia. HI seems to be in real trouble though, at least for now. Maybe spend more time on Retraction watch, the number of

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