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And it will spend 1 million tokens finding the most memory efficient program: int main(){}

I think the problem with this argument is the assumption that nature is inherently good. Nature is cruel and uncaring. Moving beyond it is a good thing imo. We’re just lucky that a…

Have you used VLC on MacOS tho? Full screen video looks very slick and is tough to differentiate from native quicktime other than having support for more codecs and features. The n…

Browsers enforce that certificates are signed by two independent CT logs. The public keys of which is shipped by the browser. So a MITM would need to compromise a trusted CA and tw…

Assuming that living with your parents is a safe option which for many, especially LGBT people it isn’t.

Of course, this is the only explanation. No one can just make stuff up on the internet. That’s impossible.

Browsers are just mini OSs at this point. It’s probably best just to accept it. Honestly in some respects (security, isolation, resource management) they do a better job than the o…

Even as a user I don’t there’s a good reason to love cert pinning. If you’re going up against adversaries that can compromise web pki they also probably have some other exploits up…

Write access to .bashrc is plenty to very sneakily get sudo access tho. alias sudo='./.my-evil-sudo-binary' And wait till the next time the user authenticates, they wont see anythi…

Installable web apps would give you a workaround for that wouldn’t it?

Hahahahaha. Yeah, sure cryptocurrency never comes crashing down. It certainly would never lose 60% of its value in 6 months. That would never happen. What a perfect store of value.…

The math used in AES (Rijndael) utilize operations in GF(2^8) tho, so you're doing operations using Galois fields whether your utilizing GCM or CBC. I don't really see how adding t…

The fact that any Xorg client can become a key logger without any user input or authentication is a pretty big security hole imo. By design Xorg has no isolation between clients so…

Even when applying to companies that are LGBTQ friendly? I sometimes self identify on applications if the company has a good reputation with that kind of thing because I’d expect I…

I submitted this in light of the recent iCloud end to end encryption announcement which seems to indicate they're using Convergent Encryption here: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/…

Looking into the details it seems like they're using Convergent Encryption [1][2] in order to enable deduplication in iCloud drive and photos. Which would imply it is possible for …

Your kidding right? Anything IO bound like an server isn’t going to be remotely affected by the speed of underlying language. There’s almost no compute required for a mastodon serv…

I’m not so sure that’s true reading through the privacy notice when enabling SMS filtering it reads “You can install and use third-party SMS filters. If you do, the filter provider…

I don’t think you need to be from the west coast to understand people saying SIKE. It’s a pretty common phrase across the US. I’m from Colorado and I heard that a fair amount growi…

They can usually still see Domain names. DNS traffic is normally sent in the clear and in the event it’s not the SNI field in TLS (https) is unencrypted. So your ISP can know which…

To me being FIPS compliment would be a good definition of something being “Military Grade” because that would be the actual standards the US military would use. However, that still…

No Flops are floating point operations. GPUs are better at them because they run floating point operations in parallel on thousands of optimized cores. While python will run a floa…

See paper. All the “misinformation” ever spread before the internet was written on paper. Is paper evil?