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They also have a typo on their description... "AI coding creates a time span isn't long enough to do something new, and it's not short enough to be entirely negligible" Should say …

Is the conclusion here not that you are asking questions when you should instead have been looking for an existing resource? The ability to search across the massive accumulation o…

How many people drive their car daily or near daily? How many people are good drivers? The ratio of those two values shows, in my experience, that a lot of people are not very good…

In that case the NAS company should, at a minimum, be loading their NAS with a certificate signed by a CA owned by the NAS company, where the trust chain for their NAS's certificat…

Allowing self-signed certificates creates a higher risk for MITM attacks. Sure you can trivially get a letsencrypt certificate once you register a DNS entry, but you can't triviall…

If a user set up a NAS they should be capable of googling "Openssl how to set up a CA" > First link fully explains it https://arminreiter.com/2022/01/create-your-own-certificate-..…

You have to consider the rarity of your use case vs the use case they're defending against. How often do you think someone tries to connect their gamepad to a local server? Not nev…

I didn't say a "pinned self signed cert is insecure" I said that self-signed certs are a lazy choice I also said "allowing the end-user to confirm a certificate offers basically 0 …

"This is good enough because I don't expect anyone other than me will use it" is lazy What would happen if you connected to your mail client today and you got prompted "Trust this …

It's 2024, PKI best practices are well known and well documented, anybody still using a self-signed certs on their mail server (or anywhere) is either lazy or stupid. Plenty of exi…

I used logic.ly for a class last semester, we used it for about a month and built up to a very basic cpu. I found it pretty easy to pick up and fun to work in. Wouldn't be surprise…

Glad to see this go public. I am interning for one of the guys working on this project (I am not working on this however) and they seem like good guys. Best of luck in getting fund…

Congratulations on getting published. Having finished the paper I thought it was informative and well written. I just started interning for you guys today and I look forward to an …

I am currently an intern an The Immunity Project, a YC funded non-profit working on vaccinating HIV. I have been here for only a day so far but I whole heartedly agree. I have been…