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crotchfire

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About crotchfire

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    Comment #40010541

    Would be interesting to combine this with a web-of-trust. None of my one-hop trusted people are part of the cancelmob. If I found that somebody two hops away from me did something …

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    Comment #39889665

    https://ryf.fsf.org/

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    Comment #39889549

    [flagged]

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    Comment #39889540

    ... and how they steer the discussion from "social media" to "screen time". Wikipedia helpfully selected a picture of somebody using an ebook reader as their illustration of what "…

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    Comment #39886814

    It's okay, the Cargo Lords promise me that because they require a git-hub account and agreeing to the git-hub terms of service before contributing, everything will be okay. They pi…

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    Comment #39874078

    Unfortunately github appears to be actively breaking the ability to use git-bug on repositories with large numbers of pull requests (like nixpkgs): https://github.com/MichaelMure/g…

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    Comment #39873801

    where a repo is forked but the new maintainers don't change the repo's did A DID is a public key. If you don't know the corresponding private key you won't be able to make any upda…

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    Comment #39872481

    You're an LLM, right?

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    Comment #39870817

    Oh please with the karma-farming. Suburbs, for better or for worse, have been around for a long time. They cannot explain the massive decline in Generation Z's mental health compar…

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    Comment #39863105

    To use the Mastodon web application, please enable JavaScript. Alternatively, try one of the native apps for Mastodon for your platform.

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    Comment #39861976

    Mister The Plague.

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    Comment #39861923

    The "one-knob, self-adjusting" way to implement this is a revenue-neutral size tax: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39235533

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    Comment #39861883

    > AI eating jobs, there's zero mention of whether it could come for management positions. Nothing. Curious, isn't it? Why wouldn't an LLM be good enough at this? There's a whole bo…

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    Comment #39861696

    [flagged]

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    Comment #39850983

    > How does this end? War, unfortunately.

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    Comment #39848513

    You have misunderstood the notation; Noise NK is 2 messages, one round trip. Exchanges above the dotted line are one-time key distributions; see this link: https://archive.li/bU5Me…

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    Comment #39848489

    Protecting against "swapped devices" is simple: put a secret key in the device, ask it to produce a signature, check it with the public key. Any device other than yours won't know …

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    Comment #39837161

    > 10c per HN post Apparently some people haven't heard about Stacker News (okay it's more like $0.0001 per post, but anyways...)

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    Comment #39835981

    Why not buy a TKey Unlocked instead? https://tillitis.se/products/tkey-unlocked/ Then you not only have access to the device secret, you can even choose it yourself.

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    Comment #39835948

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39835927

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    Comment #39835927

    This is Noise NK, possibly with differences in the hashing details which I did not check: https://noiseprotocol.org/noise.html#interactive-handshake-p... I encourage you to use the…

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    Comment #39824805

    Telemetry.

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    Comment #39822984

    Sure: you replace the hardware with brand new hardware and it keeps happening. Then you know it's not the hardware.

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    Comment #39821195

    Can you point to any botnets which were built using rowhammer attacks? Rowhammer and speculative execution attacks are incredibly labor-intensive and target-specific. They are targ…