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ZiiS

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ZiiS··on Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict
In my opinion it is more important that FOI laws are balanced even if that dosn't ensure the outcome I would prefer of giving the public access to the scans.
ZiiS··on Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict
The scans guide conservation work, concerving the statues is a public benefit.

Whilst I think on balance the scans should be public; it is more important that the FOI laws strike a perfect balance of enabling efficient administration whilst shinning enough light to reduce corruption.

I would not want museums to be reluctant to create scans and archives that compromise their short term funding models if they are useful for conservation.

ZiiS··on Cloudflare OHTTP gateway
If I want to preserve the privacy of my users I will avoid using massive behavior capturing networks like Cloudflare. The is no world where giving them the tracking is better then just ensuring I anonymize my logs. If my users don't trust me; and are informed enough to understand what this service dose and doesn't cover they are just going to assume I can fingerprint them in some other way.
ZiiS··on Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams
Feels like a 20 year trend is glacial by todays standards.
ZiiS··on Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
Why are they calling its primary funtion a problem?
ZiiS··on Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
I assume he didn't sell at the peek else wining about yet another billion just looks like sour grapes. But what about someone who _did_ go all in on a stock at the right time; do all their late payers now owe 100x?
ZiiS··on Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
I also wonder if he paid the correct taxes if he earned 1 billion dollars in 1996.
ZiiS··on Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
For me the fair outcome would be Nvidia paying the 1996 share-price + inflation; not the 2026 share-price. They could neither force him to hold them for 30 years; not prevent him from having bought as many as he wanted. The only error was they slightly underpaid him.

I can also see why these claims age out; else all old companies would have enough uncertainty they would be uninvestable.

ZiiS··on Netherlands bracing for potentially devastating US sanctions against the ICC
If both houses switch then he will be distracted fighting them for the rest of his term; if they don't we no longer need to treat the US as a functioning democracy.
ZiiS··on AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0?
Looked at another way; leaving out the zero also dosn't significantly hurt. If the is any risk if it breaking the PRNG why take the risk.
ZiiS··on AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0?
Because I don't want my test keys to be random/none reproducable, instead I will just used fixed seeds to see if any timing etc leeks.
ZiiS··on AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0?
In lots of scenarios I know the software used to generate the key; the only unknown is the random numbers used. If I am searching for weaknesses it is highly likely I would try keys with different seeds; zero, one, are going to me much more likely choices here then hoping I can guess the right values.
ZiiS··on AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0?
It is just possible they decided crypto code that uses it was safer to skip zeros. (Whist mathematically it should be no more likely; it is vastly more likely someone will actually try that key).

It is also possible that their code was generating too many zeros and the easiest fix was to discard them all.

ZiiS··on WalShadow: Sub-second Postgres replication to ClickHouse from physical WAL
Not this quick but better then polling: https://supabase.com/features/supabase-pipelines
ZiiS··on The case against JPEG XL
All Browsers do use hardware decoding for video though, I doubt safety is a major factor.
ZiiS··on Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
Because they were trained on humans who lye, cheat, and coordinate.
ZiiS··on StarCraft returns in 2030 as an open-world shooter
Even a half hearted RTS would be better recived, how can they not know that?
ZiiS··on IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]
Is that what I said?
ZiiS··on IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]
Whom they often sue. 100% they would would consider the logo/branding/bottle infringing if they were a competing product.
ZiiS··on Stockfish 19
For when you need another decimal place of accuracy deciding what you should have moved instead of hanging your queen.
ZiiS··on Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence
It was the being fired that made the news; not the stealing.
ZiiS··on British Museum faces question over Peter Thiel's private Bayeux Tapestry viewing
What is super wired is they _do_ explicitly and publicly give donors preferential access. https://www.britishmuseum.org/support-us/patrons/sloane-circ...
ZiiS··on There Gonna Be a Shortage of Everything
Yes, single purpose robots like washing machines and rombas are much better value and hence much more common. But if I want a sandwich in bed, that is either way more pre planning then I actually did; dozens of simple machines; or something much closer to humanoid.
ZiiS··on There Gonna Be a Shortage of Everything
If we don't it dosn't mater; if we do we do.
ZiiS··on There Gonna Be a Shortage of Everything
Stairs, doors, tables, chairs are all designed for humanoids; the will be large similaritys with the optimum form just as horseless carriages still have four wheels.
ZiiS··on Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions
In a good way?
ZiiS··on The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]
Yes the are strict regulations requiring them to carry extra fuel; despite its weight having a real cost. Carrying extra battery would be too heavy even compared to having a whole extra engine.
ZiiS··on GPT-6 Astra
But are other people?
ZiiS··on .name Termination
It has been extreamly clear VeriSign has no business doing anaything for years.
ZiiS··on .name Termination
You have to trust them and Verisign; which will always be less then just Verisign.
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