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This isn't completely true, while linked devices probably can't do everything, they do act as independent message endpoints. Messages fan out sender-side, are encrypted and sent se…

It sounds like this is a poisoning attack, which has been shown to be pretty trivially defeated [1]. That said, while poisoning countermeasures in the facial recognition case were …

One feature of this format which made me choose it for a project I worked on is self-synchronization -- if your data is truncated or corrupted in some way, you can recover by stepp…

Ok, turns out I was mixing up "flexible array member" with "variable-length array". Slices can be used on the stack like a VLA as well, though, with the unstable "unsized_locals" f…

Slices in Rust are actually kinda similar to VLAs in C99, but usable in places other than aggregates, and use an additional word in pointers to them for the length, as a safety mec…

I'm not going to assume anything about this person's gender, but I think it's worth mentioning that the Japanese government uses violence to erase transgender existence [1], so it …

Exactly. How is this any different than any Instagram filter that many influencers of any gender use to make themselves look younger? I think this was only a news story in Japan be…