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zaroth

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About zaroth

Some of my endeavors; - Founder of TapLink, now called BlindHash - 2nd prize winner at MassChallenge 2016 - Co-Founder of Club Benchmarking and Dynamic Benchmarking - Bitcoin contributor (inventor of Micropayment Channels and first implementation of Stealth Addresses) - Operating an honest Tor Relay

Reach Out: jspilman at blindhash dot com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #42823700

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    Comment #42823694

    > The Service’s mandate allows it the wide-ranging ability to enter any government agency and access its software or technical systems with the goal of helping to streamline or ref…

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    Comment #42752809

    Whatever you think a “rug pull” is, this ain’t it. FOSS owes you literally nothing . Go build what you want for yourself, geez. Oh, and feel free to give it away to the world… OR N…

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    Comment #42651047

    Exactly what DeepSeek3 is doing.

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    Comment #42651041

    Tell me you haven’t used the latest models, without telling me you haven’t used the latest models? They do hallucinate at times, but you’re missing a lot of real utility by claimin…

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    Comment #42568429

    Maybe by the time it’s doing a trillion dollars a year of useful work (less than 10 years out) people will call it intelligent… but still probably not.

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    Comment #42568276

    Downvoted for… too conclusively proving OP wrong?

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    Comment #42542080

    I wish it were so! That was true until they turned this feature on by default.

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    Comment #42538248

    Everything about what they did was absolutely fantastic and amazing, until they turned it on by default.

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    Comment #42538109

    That doesn’t mean the first phone is waste! There’s nothing wrong with wanting to buy a new phone. The law won’t reduce smartphone ewaste. It will just satisfy the people who want …

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    Comment #42533842

    I don’t even use iCloud Photos and this was on by default. Very bad move by Apple to ship my photos off my device, without my permission, in any shape or form, I don’t care.

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    Comment #42533784

    It’s not even advice, and it’s not wrong.

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    Comment #42512853

    They literally spent months trying to work out the bugs. It’s an absolute admonishment of AMD’s software stack. Just look at their market value and it says everything you need to k…

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    Comment #42182851

    You should not give these sites the benefit of rendering their own HTML. Ask your agent to convert the URL to markdown, and read it in VS Code or whereever.

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    Comment #42078775

    That’s not, in fact, what Apple is saying.

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    Comment #41976699

    Grain of salt due to the source? What is that supposed to mean? Tesla is so far ahead when it comes to these things (48V architecture), there literally is no other source in this c…

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    Comment #41963659

    It’s even worse to proscribe liability when the “flaw” is not even an actual operating failure, but the ability for a bad actor to break the software maliciously. Software is only …

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    Comment #41963633

    This is neither a best practice, nor does it result in bug free code.

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    Comment #41963611

    TFA specifically states that US has gone in a totally different direction than the EU on this?

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    Comment #41963466

    If this actually becomes law, it instantly makes it too dangerous to bother for me to ever ship software into the EU again. Under this law, consumers can claim compensation for dam…

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    Comment #41963438

    What “best practices” are you even taking about. Point to one piece of bug free software that performs a useful task. I’ll wait.

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    Comment #41963428

    This is obviously a completely useless carve out. The EU will define something as commercial based on even having paid support or enterprise features, so if there’s any company beh…

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    Comment #41828463

    [flagged]

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    Comment #41828325

    Is the $1000/ton a law a physics, or could that ever possibly scale up and come down an order of magnitude?

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    Comment #41805936

    The bus can only transport 100 people because it forces everyone to take the same route, regardless of where they are actually headed. This is not merely inconvenient, but a delusi…