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j16sdiz··on Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access Bill
if you can identify some country that is safe to relay to, why not just put it there?
j16sdiz··on Apple and a hacker's future
Meta maybe worse wrt privacy. .. but they are NOT alone in disrespect of user consent. Microsoft have the UAC dialog before Mac. There are tons of blogs from the old msdn devblog on what app developer have been doing to work around them.
j16sdiz··on Apple and a hacker's future
There are no much user can do once they "clearly understand these risk".

The risk of having human assistant can be mitigated by background check, insurance and legal recourse. We have none of these for AI agents.

j16sdiz··on Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
The noise from backup generator and step down transform can be quite annoying. Not loud, just annoying.
j16sdiz··on How to hack time, with C2PA
C2PA is never a good standard for AI.

In traditional provence use case, you want to prove the image have never edited after it was created from the source. When signature mismatch, it is considered invalid.

For AI use case, you want to proof the image have never touched with AI. C2PA only (kind of) proof the last touch wasn't from AI..

j16sdiz··on EDG C++ front-end goes public
I hate that now every catchy phrase are considered llm written.

llm overused them, but llm got its training data from catchy marketing materials and youtubers

j16sdiz··on Pi.dev: You Said No MCP
separate session need more hand holding, i guess?
j16sdiz··on Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent
effective on what?

What's the threat model?

j16sdiz··on We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians
The more I think about space elevator, the less I believe in it.

The material alone is in a quantity beyond what we can reasonably manufacture.

and the material needs to be perfect. All design we have today have cascade failure mode -- any material failure translates to a total catastrophic failure.

and geostationary does not really meant Geostationary. There are lots of jiggling everywhere. It wear down over time. and let's hope nothing resonance

and we need some maintenance / decommission plan. How can we decommission this when it fail or need upgrade?

j16sdiz··on Can AI Shopping Agents Be Trusted?
I think this is (was?) a good writing style, until it is everywhere.
j16sdiz··on Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS
I would image in corporate / government deployment, declarative configuration is more efficient.

When you have that many users, you don't really configure individual system, you deploy up some per-configured module or setup.

Repeatable builds also make troubleshooting lots easier - and you can hand those task to front-tier helpdesk staffs.

j16sdiz··on CVE-2025-13032: Entering and Breaking the Avast Antivirus Sandbox Part 2
Sandbox or virtualize everything does not eliminate the need to share data. Something control that permission, and it is the weakest link.

Either you end up with something don't work, too lax, or just DoS the user with permission dialog.

j16sdiz··on Spymarks, not Watermarks
GDPR have lots of board exemption.

When some processing is required by eu or eu member state law, that processing doesn't need explicit consent.

One could also argue the watermark tracks the generated content, not the person

j16sdiz··on Spymarks, Not Watermarks
Your use case asks for a visible watermark, not an invisible one.
j16sdiz··on Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test
DXOMARK sells test equipment, technical report and consulting service.

I am quite sure they have those analysis behind a paywall.

j16sdiz··on Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test
They have lots more data in their paid report.

Dxomark sells test tools and reports

j16sdiz··on Asking authors about their own papers
I hate to say this, but a researcher in biology ain't a statistician or logician. Many math paper hand waves over many parts of a proof.. yet both of those can be and have been useful in practice.
j16sdiz··on A 32-year-old bug walks into a Telnet server
and SPARC was one of the top choice for server where telnet were run.
j16sdiz··on Nvidia is the central bank of AI
Private Banks.

They are regulated as bank under fed.

j16sdiz··on Thanks to Siri Recaps, your Apple Watch is always listening
It is "not stored" "not recorded".
j16sdiz··on Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
This depends on what "proved by AI" meant.

Was that a one shot prompt? or something guided by human, step by step?

If that's the later, it won't use the same approach when not guided by the same human.

j16sdiz··on Show HN: Copperhead – Cursor for circuit boards
User just couldn't care less.

Do it have extra feature? Speed? Ease of use?

j16sdiz··on Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
Rate limit never work like that in large volume.

Keeping connection alive take memory.

Rate limit by bytes/sec would hold the connection longer, taking more resources.

Rate limit by ip don't work with sudden surge demand, ddos, etc

Rate limit by user basically means you need to process the request and CPU bound

In very large scale DDoS, incoming SYN alone can cog your down pipe. You need to upgrade the connection just for that (Or something on your upstream to block by ip)

You can do lots of these without using cdn, yes. But it is easier with cdn and it is cheaper than paying for extra capacity "just in case"

j16sdiz··on Scientists observe Einstein's gravity in the quantum world
Where did the 50% came from?!

Many phenomenon emerge from randomness with very high probability just because the law of large number.

j16sdiz··on We have a year to fix security everywhere
and don't forget the bullets.

In most part of the world, bullets are illegal. If you are getting "grey market" bullets anyway, it is easy to get a "grey market" gun.

j16sdiz··on Asahi Linux on M3
Well... every reverse engineering project is a schematic sitting in someone's drawer.
j16sdiz··on Keep Our Servers Running
No. The question OP ask was.... who is paying for the matching?

The donation got 3x, sure somebody is paying, right?

I was planning to donate, and this omission stopped me.

j16sdiz··on .name Termination
22k is nothing on the internet.

A random youtube channel have way more than that.

j16sdiz··on Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived
It is fascinating that both of these are equality true in the ancient world:

1. Most of the population never leave their city or town of birth.

2. Some people went on multi-year pilgrim, voyage, or trading route. Even multiple time in their life.

j16sdiz··on Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
There are no public release of 3.5 pro. Either its a typo, or you have some insider information
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