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Re: Traces Of Humanity

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Post by brcmthrowaway »

realo wrote: post #14
piffien wrote: post #10

> This blog is intended to be a reportage of my struggles between Rationality and Humanism. Pragmatism and Beauty. Formalism and Intuition. Freedom and Love. Individualism, Independence and Privacy on the one side, vs Egalitarianism, Sharing and Community on the other. What is he on about? Sounds like his future blog posts could just be rambling about anything.

She. She was a brilliant cybersecurity researcher. Nowadays seems to have switched to poetry. Not the first one to do that, recently... IMHO she is up there on par with Yudkowsky.

Guessing financially independent from crypto.

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nycerrrrrrrrrr wrote: post #13

Since some people seem to not be familiar with Joanna, she is a massively influential security researcher. IMO most famous for her "Blue pill" attacks on Vista and Xen: https://blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-06/BH-US-06-Rutkow... , https://invisiblethingslab.com/resources/bh08/part3.pdf . Her work demonstrated that hardware virtualization is not in fact the security panacea we wish it was, but that it too is vulne…

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Re: Traces Of Humanity

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Post by mentalgear »

Kudos to her pristine work in security, especially with QubesOS - more relevant as ever since LLMs are now finding and weaponizing bugs at lightspeed, QubesOS feels like the last trustworthy OS fortress left.

> What is Qubes OS?

Qubes OS is a free and open-source, security-oriented operating system for single-user desktop computing. Qubes OS leverages Xen-based virtualization to allow for the creation and management of isolated compartments called qubes.

These qubes, which are implemented as virtual machines (VMs), have specific:

    Purposes: with a predefined set of one or many isolated applications, for personal or professional projects, to manage the network stack, the firewall, or to fulfill other user-defined purposes.

    Natures: full-fledged or stripped-down virtual machines based on popular operating systems, such as Fedora, Debian, and Windows.

    Levels of trust: from complete to non-existent. All windows are displayed in a unified desktop environment with unforgeable colored window borders so that different security levels are easily identifiable.
source: https://doc.qubes-os.org/en/latest/introduction/intro.html

Re: Traces Of Humanity

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Post by superxpro12 »

userbinator wrote: post #22
brcmthrowaway wrote: post #2

Why did the author leave computer security industry?

I hope it's because she realised its hidden purpose of advancing towards authoritarian dystopia.

but isnt e2ee also one of the technological advancements that actually fights against authoritarian dystopia?

Re: Traces Of Humanity

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Post by lo_zamoyski »

"For it seems that the struggle, the uncertainty, the incompleteness, they all might be the central theme of humanism, perhaps even its very essence."

Uncertainty and incompleteness are only meaningful in relation to certainty and completeness, and these point at desire. We desire food to complete us nutritionally, at least for a time. When we desire to know something, our minds come to rest - relatively speaking - when we arrive at that knowledge.

The questions then become: what is lacking to make something uncertain? What is lacking to make something incomplete? So, while these defects may be unavoidable (at least in his life), then the question one should be asking is what does the apparent insurmountably of this condition entail? What is the desire in question that isn't being satisfied?

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Post by fsflover »

userbinator wrote: post #22
brcmthrowaway wrote: post #2

Why did the author leave computer security industry?

I hope it's because she realised its hidden purpose of advancing towards authoritarian dystopia.

How so? Qubes OS is the best operating system you can have today to reclaim the control over your computer.
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