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dylkil··on Cursor Camp
Weirdly i got slight motion sickness from this
dylkil··on Show HN: How LLMs Work – Interactive visual guide based on Karpathy's lecture
Was this created with claude design? it looks very similar to something it mocked for me last week
dylkil··on Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults
ZK proofs are the solution to this problem. Its a pity this tech is not taken more seriously. I recently used a product that required proof of country (or rather proof of not from certain countries). It was a very painless experience with https://zkpassport.id/
dylkil··on Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here?
> which adds a great deal of UX complexity to the end user

Not exactly, L2s are being abstracted away, end users eventually wont even be aware what chain they are interacting with without tracing the tx

dylkil··on The pro-Israel information war
they let it happen
dylkil··on Rattled U.S. government fears wars could spread
Why vote down the cease-fire then in the UN?
dylkil··on Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services
It limits denial of services attacks on onion services
dylkil··on Tornado Cash devs charged with laundering more than $1B
There was evidence that north korea specifically used tornado cash to hide stolen crypto, which is where this has all stemmed from
dylkil··on Psychedelic scientist sends brains back to childhood
Using your phone feels strange too
dylkil··on Germany wants to legalize quality control of illegal drugs
Every study under the sun shows drug criminalization causes more public health issues than it solves. It should be treated as a public health issue rather than a criminal issue. Portugal is a fantastic case study of how this succeeded.
dylkil··on Show HN: Zsync, a Reddit Alternative with the Goal to Reward Quality Comments
thats a bit of a stretch
dylkil··on Show HN: Zsync, a Reddit Alternative with the Goal to Reward Quality Comments
You can offer censorship to users who want it, everything stays up but some people dont see it
dylkil··on In praise of blowing up your life
momentum going down is usually what makes people unhappy, blowing up your life up kicks momentum in a new direction
dylkil··on Ted Kaczynski has died
>collapse of civil and political life

civil and political life is terrible and still better than it has ever been

dylkil··on Binance commingled customer funds and company revenue, former insiders say
What i find especially intriguing is the certainty some people on this forum have of crypto going to zero. The same certainty they had 2, 5 and 10 years ago. Yet here we are. At what stage do they start questioning the strength of their certainty.
dylkil··on Leaked government document shows Spain wants to ban end-to-end encryption
In the uk politicians were allowed to opt out

https://www.digit.fyi/data-protection-political-parties/

dylkil··on Binance sees $2B in outflows as troubles compound
"for allegedly listing unregistered securities"

Hasn't coinbase repeatedly asked the SEC which tokens were securities and have yet to get answer... I don't think SEC strong arming is any indication of shadiness.

dylkil··on $3.3B of the ~$40 billion of USDC reserves remain at SVB
LUSD and RAI are fully decentralised (no centralised backing), though they are not quite as stable are their centralised counterparts (yet)
dylkil··on SEC Says Crypto Fugitive Do Kwon Tapped Hoard of 10k Bitcoin via Swiss Bank
Modifying "fugitive" with the context of said fugitive doesn't really exemplify the commonness of those type of fugitive.
dylkil··on What in the Ethereum application ecosystem excites me
>Objectively nobody actually uses this stuff

Stay tuned for major central banks deploying CDBCs on ethereum. Swiss, EU and Singapore are launching a pilot program.

dylkil··on What in the Ethereum application ecosystem excites me
Andre is pretty much hated now. He created a shit ton of useless tokens in 2020 and 2021, made multiple millions off them, disappeared, and now has come back to preach to word of regulation to prevent others doing what he got away it.
dylkil··on The FBI alleges TikTok poses national security concerns
>ban surveillance by apps

if only

dylkil··on FTX faces potential hack, sees mysterious outflows totaling more than $600M
smart contract wallets allow users to recover funds in the event they lose their private key - https://www.argent.xyz/learn/what-is-a-smart-contract-wallet...
dylkil··on The Ethereum merge is done
the servile class learned how to program
dylkil··on The EU Commission accepts high error rates when checking chats
These are the type of questions that need to be presented to the public. This type of attack on encryption hasnt changed in 30 years, except now governments are going hard on the CSAM aspect as opposed to the other 3 horsemen[1]. It makes sense too since its the type of argument which invokes the most emotion in people, how could anyone be against protecting the children.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...

dylkil··on The EU Commission accepts high error rates when checking chats
Is there any estimate for what percentage of chat communication happening within the EU is done by "perpetrators/criminals"? The average crime rate is 40 incidences per 100000 people per year, which would mean 0.0004% of the population is considered a criminal every year. What % of that tiny margin are going to be using online chat to commit their crimes? is it really worth abandoning the privacy of 450mil other people in the hopes that you might stop a criminal?
dylkil··on Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash
the classic tale of "privacy is only needed to do illegal things"
dylkil··on Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash
tornado cash doesnt facilitate money laundering, it just obfuscates the source of eth, like converting debit into cash, those funds still need to enter the real system in some "legitimate" manner in order to be considered laundered.
dylkil··on Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash
Exactly, everyone is missing this. If anything using tornado cash is analogous to converting debit into cash.
dylkil··on Dusting “Attack” via Tornado Cash to Public Wallets
patterns will emerge eventually as you try to reconcile more and more of your scattered eth
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