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They don't support it? That's weird (maybe a missing feature) given that it's quite easy to add to anything that has signed metadata, see e.g. this for OpenPGP: https://github.com/…

Who said the keys need to be long lived in WKD? WKD just makes the key discovery easier based on email address, you can rotate your key as often as you want (just set the expiry da…

Does anyone know any other good resources (esp. books) on this subject? (Clifford/geometric algebra)

mkinitcpio is being replaced with dracut so zstd won't probably happen.

Google is closing on of their perfectly working services? Who could've imagined such a conundrum!

Counterpoint: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-08-17-introducing-d...

The entire fun with DNS section is interesting: https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/fun-stuff/ Although some protocols are missing for example DoX: https://xmpp.org/extension…

This is not the only example. I never ceases to amaze me that Google dropped XMPP because of non-mobile-friendliness and it was proven wrong by a single developer (see: Conversatio…

> The people who had been using it would continue uninterrupted. I'm not sure about that. If the main matrix server disappeared today that'd be problematic. Yes, you'd have history…

> Please sign your outgoing mails if you have a key. It's interesting that even Edward Snowden made this mistake of sending only encrypted email. For more elaboration about this su…

> Someone comes along with a patch or idea. Bunch of big Postgres people come knock it and it dies right there. This is not unique to Postgres. I've seen this behavior on many deve…

Poor support of SSL certificates in browsers is commonly attributed to bad UX but the real reason is that they are credentials that can be re-used by multiple services to track you…

Every time I read a API that uses signed/authenticated requests (AWS, Let's Encrypt ACME) I wonder exactly the same thing - why is this needed in the first place? If TLS guarantees…

> ...the fact that the Linux kernel is licensed under GPLv2 or later. Actually Linux is licenced only under GPLv2: > The only one of any note that I'd like to point out directly is…

There are ways to communicate from the REM state back to the real world used in research on lucid dreams: > Previously to sleeping, volunteers like Worsley agreed on preset eye mov…

As far as I remember Ethereum smart contracts were designed to be Turning-complete because that would make them "more powerful" than Bitcoin Script. It seems that with great power …

Well it's obvious you can't heat your house and earn money at the same time continuously. Bitcoin is no magic perpetuum mobile zero-point energy bending-physics solution but it's t…

> while other solutions like proof of stake / space / ... exist and are much more energy efficient. They are only proposed solutions, not implemented in any existing systems so it'…

Well Bitcoin is always on because people are constantly using it so it can't "conserve power" just as a constantly on display or CPU can't.

> SSL provides a service that is immediately valuable to all parties. And Bitcoin does not provide service that is valuable to all parties? > Bitcoin mining is done by people who w…

Why do you think the power is not already being used to bring useful services for people? It seems like people would want to bend thermodynamics and require that benefit is produce…

> - pixels: even whitespace is important next to information And protecting money is not important? > - RFC: we're wasting a few bits as a tradeoff for less complicated hardware an…

> but we can also decide to incentivize something else. This needs a proper source. As far as I understand currently only Proof of Work is sound enough to use in real-world scenari…

Maybe not exactly on my kitchen but rather all kitchens around the world as we all use monitors, TCP etc...

> flagrant use of power that doesn't necessarily compute anything. I don't get it. Why won't you complain about monitor pixels, that don't display content using/wasting power or va…