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voxic11··on Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
That is how discord has chosen to implement it but nothing about the scheme actually requires an app besides a mobile browser and QR code scanner to be involved.
voxic11··on Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
I use a passkey with discord on my phone. If I want to log in to discord on a computer it shows a QR code on the page/desktop app and I scan it with my phone to log in. I could see this become a pretty common pattern.

I like it because I can use discord on even a pretty untrusted computer without providing it any credentials or access to my passkey, and then later when I'm done I can revoke the session.

voxic11··on Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
I put my passkeys in my password manager and it works fine.
voxic11··on OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation
Not from the US but https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/freedom-of-inform...

This news segment goes into more detail about how he downloaded the documents (by incrementing the document id in the url) https://x.com/Brett_CBC/status/984751373525901313

voxic11··on OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation
Most crimes require intent, hacking is one of them. The relevant law in this situation is:

> (a) Whoever— (2) intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access, and thereby obtains— (C) information from any protected computer; shall be punished as provided in subsection (c) of this section.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030

So if it can't be proven that you intended to access a computer without authorization, or exceed your authorized access, then you can't be found guilty of the crime.

Consider the possible consequences of the law not requiring intent, if simply accidentally exceeding your authorized access could be a criminal act.

voxic11··on Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
Stanley v. Georgia considered the question from the right to privacy side, not the first amendment. The relevant cases are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashcroft_v._Free_Speech_Coalit... and United States v. Williams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_Act_of_2003#Supreme_Co...
voxic11··on Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
For drawings it has to additionally be "obscene" (since obscenity isn't protected by the first amendment). And there is also a specific law that criminalizes even non-obscene realistic computer generated imagery.
voxic11··on Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled
Yes but it was so shocking because it was such an inhuman, "unaesthetic" play. It was considered to be "creative" in that no human would have thought of making the move, so it can't simply be copying human play.
voxic11··on Blender 5.2 LTS
There is a popular mcp interface but having them write blender scripts is also pretty usable.
voxic11··on Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)
Lots of people take diphenhydramine products as sleeping pills and they are advertised as such OTC in the US. Long term Diphenhydramine use is associated with many negative health outcomes and despite the warning labels many people become dependent on them.
voxic11··on What to know about 'explosive diarrhoea' parasite outbreak in US
Treated waste water is very commonly used as well. Just not normally for vegetables intended to be consumed fresh. Its mostly used to grow animal feed and non-food agricultural products.
voxic11··on Wikipedia escapes Category 1 designation under the UK Online Safety Act for now
> In 2027, the law will impose extra obligations on the most popular services.

I presume this is the extra obligation starting in 2027 that wikipedia mentions.

voxic11··on Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?
Negative leap seconds mean we skip a second, normal leap seconds are the ones where we repeate a second.
voxic11··on Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?
Explain why negative leap seconds are worse? Intuitively it seems like normal leap seconds would cause way more issues, or at least not more.
voxic11··on Should DayQuil Be Legal?
They also sell homeopathic drugs at that same store. So that at least should tip you off that not everything for sale can be trusted to be effective.
voxic11··on Texas Man Gets 30 Years in Prison for Transporting 'Anti-Government' Pamphlets
fwiw he wasn't charged as an accessory in this case. He was charged with "corruptly concealing a document or record" and "conspiracy to conceal documents".

In fact federal law provides that accessorys can't be sentenced to more than 15 years if the principal crime is punishable by life imprisonment (like terrorism is).

> or if the principal is punishable by life imprisonment or death, the accessory shall be imprisoned not more than 15 years.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/3

voxic11··on Steam Machine launches today
Computer hardware prices tend to go down over time so in general this is a pretty bad strategy. Of course in rare times like these it can pay off.
voxic11··on Minecraft: Java Edition 26.2, the first version with Vulkan 1.2
OpenGL doesn't have any way to do this except sometimes via vendor specific extensions. Basically how OpenGL works is it creates the graphics context on whichever device the system hands it. So you can configure the GPU used by OpenGL on the system level but not at the application level.
voxic11··on Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible
I had a coworker who spent his career working for 2 years then taking 2 years off to live off the savings. Have you considered such a strategy? It seemed to be working out well enough for him.
voxic11··on Claude Fable 5
[delayed]
voxic11··on AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models
No it says sharing is required. If you don't change the setting on your account then you simply can't access Fable, its not like the setting is ignored. I just tried this on my account and it blocks API requests to Fable.
voxic11··on AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models
Bedrock doesn't offer zero data retention for OpenAI's latest models either

> For OpenAI GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.5, classifier-flagged traffic will be retained for up to 30 days for automated offline abuse detection

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/abuse-d...

voxic11··on Fooling around with encrypted reasoning blobs
They are encrypted to prevent others from training on the reasoning trace. But before anthropic started encrypting the reasoning traces they were signed. The signature was to prevent the user from being able to manipulate the reasoning part of the context because this reasoning part is considered "more trustworthy" by the model. So it would be bad if the user could manipulate the reasoning to convince the model to do something dangerous/against policy. Encryption keeps this property while also preventing the reasoning from being used for training.
voxic11··on Love systemd timers
Whitespace immediately before or after the equals sign is completely ignored by the parser. Its the standard INI format.
voxic11··on Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200
The state of incorporation doesn't often matter in interstate contracts. Usually they will include a choice of law and forum selection clause specifically to avoid this kind of thing.
voxic11··on Are we self-sovereign PKI yet?
look into "sealed sender" schemes, they allow the recipient to verify the sender identity without allowing anyone else to verify the sender identity. So making use of such a scheme allows you to prevent governments or corporations from intercepting even the metadata of communications (and of course E2EE prevents intercepting the contents).
voxic11··on Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests
The UI is in the default claude code style
voxic11··on Incident with Actions and Pages
at least enterprise is better https://us.githubstatus.com/posts/dashboard
voxic11··on GitHub Actions down again today
They have the github enterprise domain separated out and its working fine right now https://us.githubstatus.com/posts/dashboard
voxic11··on Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs
He probably meant Corsair which is the DRAM brand selling CXMT produced chips.
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