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halosghost
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Comment #47656616
See also, one of the older / more-robust entrants in this space [0], and one of the more innovative (still from a hot-second ago now…) [1]. All the best, 0. https://github.com/andm…
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Comment #47106531
https://unbiassly.com/terms_of_service is 404. All the best, -HG
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Comment #46403529
I flagged this as undisclosed slopware being pushed as secure cryptographic engineering with no reasonable measure of human review. All the best, -HG
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Comment #46073242
I flagged this as heavily-clickbaited self-promotion. All the best,
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Comment #45853359
Just to say, I actually disagree entirely. I do not believe press releases are, almost ever, valuable. Papers are just a format (with some writing style conventions that tend to fo…
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Comment #45830617
Hey @dang (I know it doesn't work, but isn't it fun to use your imagination?), can we get this press release replaced by a link to the actual paper [0]? This one is even open-acces…
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Comment #45690289
Kentucky Route Zero [0], which managed to not just be beautiful in its own right, but so perfectly captures the visual language it's aiming for that you'll just lose yourself in mo…
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Comment #45257286
From `/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose`: ... : "‘" U2018 # LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK : "‘" U2018 # LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK : "’" U2019 # RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK : …
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Comment #44155823
Because, like everyone else that keeps using , they think it can be relied upon either because they don't care enough about the work they do to actually do it, or because they have…
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Comment #44151805
I flagged this post as the article is rather exclusively culture-war politics (which accurately reflects all other comments from this poster), and has nothing to do with tech or ha…
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Comment #43864623
Note that this is actually one of the things Anubis does . That's what the proof-of-work system is, it just operates across the full load rather than targeted to a specific user's …
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Comment #43827101
See also: https://www.latacora.com/blog/2024/07/29/crypto-right-answer... All the best, -HG
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Comment #43734052
I don't understand how it is harming anyone—unlike web designers who actively design inaccessible websites—and while I suppose I could offer a reason, I don't particularly feel the…
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Comment #43733927
While I fully understand, and try hard to refrain from making such comments, given that the actual point of this article is about stress-relief, but it leverages design patterns wh…
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Comment #43733901
What can I say? It's a habit I developed long ago… [0][1] All the best, -HG [0] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1417817#p1417817 [1] for anyone who doesn't have an Arch…
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Comment #43733792
As opposed to overly-engineered websites that hijack [0] scroll-behavior, which only increase anxiety and fury. ಠ_ಠ All the best, -HG [0]: web-designers take-note, the normal term …
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Comment #43692245
Given that Firefox now sells your data [0], this move should be seen as nothing less than actively adversarial. The ship has been sinking for a while; now the crew is trying to lig…
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Comment #43561343
Broadside coding? It appropriately invokes the scattershot nature of generative tooling (“this code couldn't parse the broadside of a barn”) and the violent and malicious nature of…
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Comment #43553497
Yeah, haven't read the book, but the article completely ignores "EEE." All the best, -HG
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Comment #43448399
I am afraid your “human in the loop” isn't [0]. You acknowledge the problem of AI slop up-front, but seem to have chosen to plow forward anyway. Please do consider your actions and…
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Comment #43117679
It would probably require a “hard fork,” which is generally considered to be a major change in the Bitcoin world. All the best,
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Comment #43117478
If by “crypto,” the grandparent meant “cryptography,” this is not true. Most widely-deployed asymmetric/public-key primitives (e.g., RSA, elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), etc.) a…
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Comment #43117352
No. If their claim is true, they have a new prototype of a single qubit that they say could enable faster scaling up of qubit arrays (which means asymmetric/public-key cryptosystem…