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420official··on LG says we're fake news [video]
I just set up a second network that can't reach the internet and connect the TVs to that
420official··on San Jose officer used Flock to help relative track domestic violence victim
Also might stop if we remove the surveillance aperatus that allows any officer anywhere to violate the privacy of anyone. The flock cameras help facilitate crime and oppression and they need to go.
420official··on Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs
It's true someone snooping at either end of a conversation could over time correlate timing and sizes to show that two users are communicating, but that's the most they can do. Signal is not peer to peer so you're not connecting to your recipient, and signal itself has enough raw volume that simply correlating sizes and timing of a small number of messages wouldn't really be sufficient to know who is communicating with who.

I think they could make that significantly more difficult by adding csprng delays and padding to the messages. That way you can't really effectively correlate timing and sizes without direct access to signals inner workings. I'm not sure what signal's actual throughput is, but if think as a paid feature it could be economical.

Another crazier way would be to send every message to a large number random latched recipients. Good way to 1000x your bandwidth.

> The metadata is as valuable as the data.

This can be true if you are able to get ahold of a user's device and access their signal messages. It's not true in most other cases. I don't particularly care if you know that I am talking to someone specific as much as I care that you don't know what I'm saying.

420official··on Google stole open source code without crediting the authors (Artemis/Minitap)
The point is that the plagiarism is evident and they took steps to hide it, not that the authors should have been left as is.

The lack of any attribution at all is the ultimate issue like you point out, but the force push demonstrates intent over honest mistake in my opinion.

420official··on Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs
Is it your expectation that E2E is broken by these "dragnet surveillance" networks? Surely not?

I concede that if you can't trust the device itself you can't trust anything running on it, but why have you resigned yourself to that? And how does that reflect on signal at all?

420official··on Google Maps changed to show Lake Ontario as Lake America
Well technically less than a quarter voted for it, but fair enough.
420official··on Tesla allegedly in autopilot mode crashes into Texas house, woman killed
You might not think so, but there are many people that believe Tesla marketing that FSD is better than paying attention. I struggle convincing my parents that they shouldn't drive if they are likely to fall asleep behind the wheel and it's helpful to categorize an FSD crash separately from a human driver crash.
420official··on US and Iran announce deal to end military operations
The funds that are confiscated are the 25b of released frozen assets. I do think that the US will uphold its agreements, as it absolutely should.

If the US and allies didn't want to spend the 300b they should've stuck with the existing agreement that didn't include 300b in repairs.

420official··on How to earn a billion dollars
I think you'd find more examples of people spending much much less money to influence elections, or buy certain positions than you will people spending money to make the public vote for them. The money influences policies, regulations, wars, etc.

The problem isn’t necessarily that some one can buy a seat for themselves (though some people out there could spend 1000x as much as half a billion and still have 500 billion to spend), it's that for less than half a billion, someone can buy 20 house or senate seats for more conventional candidates that are willing to vote the way the financier wants.

420official··on AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale
Sometimes links take the form of `.../post/{id}/{extra-text}` where `extra-text` is not used at all to match the post. Amazon links are (used to be?) this way where the product name is added to the end of the link but can be removed or changed and still will route to the product. Maybe the author is surprised the LLM is providing the irrelevant portion of the link verbatim.
420official··on U.S. Senators Vote to Ban Themselves from Trading on Prediction Markets
Not paying officials enough leads to bribery and corruption. Take away their avenue for insider trading, but let them make a healthy living off it in my opinion.
420official··on You don't want long-lived keys
OIDC with JWT doesnt need any long lived tokens. For example, I can safely grant gitlab the ability to push a container to ECR just using a short-lived token that gitlab itself issues. So the answer might be to ask your sentry/jira support rep to fast track supporting OIDC JWTs.

- https://docs.gitlab.com/ci/secrets/id_token_authentication/#... - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles_pr...

420official··on Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock
While it's true that the legality of law enforcement forcing passwords in unclear, courts can absolutely force you to enter a password even if it's not written down by holding you in contempt indefinitely.
420official··on Artemis II safely splashes down
The amount of things that would have to go wrong for the craft to get an accidental gravity boost and be ejected would be significant.

I feel like the original claim paints the whole thing as on a knife edge and barely achieved by virtue of not making a single mistake. In today's age with so many moon landing deniers and worse I feel like we should be specific about where the actual dangers challenges and unknowns there were here. In reality, the orbital mechanics are one of the simplest parts of the entire problem, at least when we're talking about a moon flyby

420official··on Artemis II safely splashes down
You seem to intentionally be ignoring the original quote that any error may have caused them to be flung into space. This is patently false unless the one math error is pumping in hundreds of pounds more propellant and burning far longer than the scheduled burns. NASA would need to make a significant series of mistakes beyond orbital math for the "flung out into space" statement to be true.

They certainly could've gotten the return wrong but with a perigee of 119 miles they arent even in a stable orbit and likely could deorbit themselves using only rcs thrusters at apogee, or by just waiting a few orbits.

420official··on Filing the corners off my MacBooks
I just did this to my MacBook not because of the sharp edge but because the pitting turns a sharp edge into a sawblade. Something about the grounding on on the frame when plugged in mixed with my sweaty hands leads to damage along this sharp edge on every MacBook I've ever owned.

See https://www.reddit.com/r/macbook/s/hbyVh5SJhw for another poor soul with the same caustic skin

420official··on Show HN: AgnosticUI – A source-first UI library built with Lit
Very cool, I'm a big fan of web component libraries over vue/react ones. I did notice a couple places where mobile doesn't seem fully supported.

- Disabled outline buttons get a focus color - Dialog close modes all seem the same on mobile, click the backdrop to close. Maybe this is intended?

420official··on Welcoming Elizabeth Barron as the New Executive Director of the PHP Foundation
What's your concern here? That she lead nonprofits? She seems overly qualified to run a separate nonprofit to me.

Why would the government dump any programming language for anything non security related, let alone for the actions of a third party nonprofit? PHP is still governed my a committee of approved voters like always, not by the PHP foundation.

420official··on Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise
FWIW this was fixed in 2020
420official··on The Waymo World Model
You're forgetting that they are also training with real data from the 100+ million miles they've driven on real roads with riders, and using that data to train the world model AI.

> there's probably no examples in the training data where the car is behind a stopped car, and the driver pulls over to another lane and another car comes from behind and crashes into the driver because it didn't check its blindspot

This specific scenario is in the examples: https://videos.ctfassets.net/7ijaobx36mtm/3wK6IWWc8UmhFNUSyy...

It doesn't show the failure mode, it demonstrates the successful crash avoidance.

420official··on Light Mode InFFFFFFlation
A well designed dark mode UI is just as readable as a well designed light mode UI. The issue is a lot of designers design light mode then just try to invert for dark mode rather than actually designing for dark mode. I'd imagine your post would exist for light mode if we had started with dark mode as the default.
420official··on Distributed Denial of Secrets
What fundamental human rights are being lost by outing someone's ideology? I am not making a claim here, just asking for clarification.
420official··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
I agree with the rest of your point but I dont think its factual to say the majority of the country voted for trump. 77m/343m or ~20% of the country voted for trump, though I'm sure this is what you meant to say.
420official··on Anthropic acquires Bun
Does this acquisition preclude implementing an s3 style integration for AWS bedrock? Also is IMDSv2 auth on the roadmap?
420official··on Kiwi.com flight search MCP server
What makes this a better option than just using an API with well formed output?
420official··on When DEF CON partners with the U.S. Army
If all we did was supply arms to our allies who are under attack without making egregious profit off of it, then yeah I think folks would feel better about the MIC, but as you're well aware we are only granting small shipments of weapons along with big demands including currently asking Ukraine to give up it's land to russia. We also have a long history of giving weapons to sow chaos around the world leading directly to things like isis and others. Arguably worse than that, we're now using these military weapons to suppress liberty in American cities.
420official··on When DEF CON partners with the U.S. Army
Sure, I can agree that companies using gender dysphoria as only a way to increase profit is a bad thing, and I recognize that pharmaceutical companies are this way with _every_ drug and not just ones that benefit people. However I do disagree with the idea that people should be stripped of their right to free speech if you disagree with their statements, or stripped of their right to choose how to live their own lives.

I would offer that this is entirely different than the lack of choice we have in regard to how our government uses the military to "spread democracy at the point of a gun" while taking more and more of our tax dollars and liberty without improving our lives or tackling the problems that ordinary Americans face.

420official··on US Defense Department will stop providing satellite weather data
The thinking is they will offer it at a high enough cost that they don't go broke. The problem is a lot of consumers, if not most, would be fine reading street signs or using mapquest.
420official··on Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket
It's liquid propellant being vented, the fuel is under extreme pressure so when its released it immediately expands to a gas. I don't know that Honda has said what their propellant is, but it's probably liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen.
420official··on A Song of “Full Self-Driving”
Waymo is firmly SAE self driving level 4 "automated driving" vs Tesla at level 2 "driver support". You're correct that waymo has operators that can jump in in the event something unusual happens, but the vast majority of the time the vehicle is operating autonomously within their defined area. All that is described by SAE level 4 where no human is driving while automatic driving is engaged.

https://www.sae.org/blog/sae-j3016-update

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