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ortichic··on Exapunks (2018)
The no-UI part will probably deter a big portion of players. Allowing own tooling on the other hand sounds cool. Adding an optional UI, or getting someone to do it for you would certainly help. But then again, if it is interesting enough, someone might just do so after you launched it without a UI
ortichic··on Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote privacy in age assurance
Lots of bias in this thread. But maybe we can have a technical discussion?

I'm not into this topic, so maybe someone else can answer this: How "zero-knowledge" is this actually?

As far as I understand, there are three parties here: 1. Me, the user; 2. The site I want to access; 3. The attestor (google? my government?). What do they know about each other?

Does the site know who I am?

Does the site know who my attestor is (and therefore, for example, that it doesn't like Winnie-the-Poo memes)?

Does the attestor know what site or kind of content I want to visit (and therefore e.g. if he agrees with it)?

Does the attestor know who I am?

Do I always know who the site and attestor are, and when this proof happens?

ortichic··on Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but do you guys not have radio controlled clocks outside of Europe? If I got it right, the only purpose of this project is to always display the correct time. Radio controlled clocks do exactly that. They are cheaper than the one ESP board, and run years on a single AA battery. No WiFi, tinkering, setup, or cables necessary
ortichic··on Exploring Different Keyboard Sensing Technologies
Does anyone know why alanlog optical switches never gained traction, but analog magnetic ones did? Sounds like optical ones should be cheaper to manufacture, with all the same benefits?
ortichic··on Why not use DNS over HTTPS (DoH)?
Can you also choose which company provides the physical infrastructure that connects to your home?
ortichic··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2025)
SEEKING WORK | Remote Worldwide | Hybrid Germany | Onsite Munich Area

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ortichic··on I Found Malware in a BeamNG Mod
I had forced ASLR on in windows for a while... You'd be surprised how much stuff breaks with that. Almost feels like more is broken than not. Just to name a few: MinGW (including git for windows), Unity, Whatever installer Framework Signal and some others use, some Anti-Cheats
ortichic··on Obscura VPN – Privacy that's more than a promise
How would such an attack work?
ortichic··on Obscura VPN – Privacy that's more than a promise
What happened if some government agency were to order both Obscura and Mullvad to log a certain user or certain activities? Wouldn't it be possible to combine those logs? If it isn't: would that change if Obscura was ordered to also use a separate Mullvad account for a specific user/IP?
ortichic··on Lucid dreaming app triples users' awareness in dreams, study finds
App the article is about: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.neurelectr... Doesn't install on recent android versions though
ortichic··on Someone has been attempting to DDoS us for weeks and we do nothing
they talk about storing logs and separating databases, so good question
ortichic··on Open-source project ZLUDA lets CUDA apps run on AMD GPUs
OpenMP 5 specified GPU support. A quick search suggests that some compilers at least partially support it by now
ortichic··on Valetudo – Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation
Define "old"
ortichic··on Valetudo – Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation
There is none, there is a section why and waht to do without it in the FAQs.
ortichic··on Making noisy SVGs
I like the effect, but is there a way to make it independent of the zoom level?

On a related note, this probably adds randomness, is there a way to seed it? For example to be able to define a single correct render result at a given size.

ortichic··on Windows 11 is last in gaming performance tests against 3 Linux gaming distros
Yes, if you look at the source, these are actually FPS. The frame times look much less one sided, although overall, Arch manages to beat windows.
ortichic··on Security Vulnerability of Switzerland's E-Voting System
The difference here is that they can do it with few people or alone, possibly hard do detect, and most importartly, at scale. Attacks on paper voting require many people in differet locations, can be re-counted, an they don't scale.
ortichic··on Git-appraise – Distributed Code Review for Git
I mean... Just look at how to comment some line:

`git appraise comment -f README.md -l 2 -m "Ah, so that's what this is" 1e6eb14c8014`

ortichic··on The infamous coin toss
If I owned a casino, should I offer this game?