Ajen
@Ajen@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Phone calls still assume the people on the receiving end are attached to a desk. 4 days ago:
For me it would help if there would be an option for me to see the at least the reason why the call is being made and also an estimated time of the call.
There is: the person calling can first send a short text asking if they can call you to talk about ________.
- Comment on FedEx’s Secretive Police Force Is Helping Cops Build An AI Car Surveillance Network 1 week ago:
Snow Crash, anyone?
- Comment on Let's talk about Prusa Printables contests. It might need some fixing. 1 week ago:
I’m not sure I fully understood, but it sounds like you have several concerns with their competition? And those concerns are around asking people to design things that are potentially unsafe, giving bad advice for selecting materials, new awarding prize money to submissions by Prusa employees?
- Comment on Dangerous? Signal Blasts Google Effort to Use AI to Scan for Scam Phone Calls 1 month ago:
They might be taking about Google Fi.
- Comment on NASA remotely reprogramming Voyager 1 also means that aliens can reprogram all of our satellites. 1 month ago:
Thanks OP
- Comment on Sam Bankman-Fried deserves 40-50 years in prison for FTX fraud, prosecutors say 3 months ago:
How did he become a billionaire? From what I’ve hear his parents were connected and well-off, but not billionaires. And he doesn’t seem old enough to have made billions on his own before FTX. If he only became a billionaire by temporarily scamming people, I don’t think that counts.
- Comment on An engineer bought a prison laptop on eBay. Then 1,200 incarcerated students lost their devices. 3 months ago:
It’s a vulnerability, not a breach. As you pointed out, no one attempted to breach it.
- Comment on Commercial Flights Are Experiencing 'Unthinkable' GPS Attacks and Nobody Knows What to Do 7 months ago:
I’m the commenter you originally replied to. If the US military wanted unspoofable GPS available to everyone then it would be available to everyone. They only want the public to have unencrypted GPS, so that’s all we get.
- Comment on Commercial Flights Are Experiencing 'Unthinkable' GPS Attacks and Nobody Knows What to Do 7 months ago:
PKI? I assume you mean asymmetric encryption? That’s been available long before the GPS system was launched. Why do you think it isn’t relevant?
- Comment on Commercial Flights Are Experiencing 'Unthinkable' GPS Attacks and Nobody Knows What to Do 7 months ago:
GPS is encrypted, it’s just that the US military won’t share the encryption keys so the rest of us have to use the unencrypted channels. They’ve clearly thought about it and decided against making it public.
- Comment on How are 144hz screen possible? 7 months ago:
I’m guessing you’re talking about 608 bearings?
- Comment on How are 144hz screen possible? 7 months ago:
Probably a reference to shittymorph? knowyourmeme.com/…/the-undertaker-threw-mankind-o…
- Comment on Sundar Pichai argues in court that Google isn’t evil, it’s just a business 7 months ago:
You didn’t correct false information. “Do no evil” was removed from their motto and you didn’t give any evidence to disprove that.
- Comment on New York Bill Would Require a Criminal Background Check to Buy a 3D Printer 8 months ago:
so, still prone to eventual catastrophic failure ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Everything will fail eventually, the question is how long it will take and more importantly if the failure can be predicted.
- Comment on New York Bill Would Require a Criminal Background Check to Buy a 3D Printer 8 months ago:
In general, most people can legally build their own firearms in the US. “Ghost” guns aren’t illegal unless you’re selling them or giving them away.
- Comment on Finding a Tech Job Is Still a Nightmare 8 months ago:
The visa rules make it too easy for employers to take advantage of foreign workers. 30 days to find a new job isn’t enough, IMO, so they have to put up with a lot more than they should.
- Comment on VR still makes 40-70% of players want to throw up, and that's a huge problem for the companies behind it 8 months ago:
40-70% seems reasonable if it includes the people who eventually get used to it.
- Comment on If you resold Taylor Swift Eras Tour tickets, the IRS is watching — A new rule from the IRS is punishing those who resold tickets for more than $600 in profit with a tax penalty 8 months ago:
Most of those “businesses” are run by just one person, or maybe a few friends. And how much money do you really think they could be making?
- Comment on If you resold Taylor Swift Eras Tour tickets, the IRS is watching — A new rule from the IRS is punishing those who resold tickets for more than $600 in profit with a tax penalty 8 months ago:
On the other hand, if it’s worth your time to scalp tickets then you aren’t part of the upper class.
- Comment on Countries Eye Weight Tax To Counter Public Safety Threat Of Extremely Heavy, Large EVs 9 months ago:
A bicycle can’t move without someone sitting on it pedaling, so I think it’s fair to include the weight of the rider.
- Comment on Reddit Taken To SF Court for Firing Worker With Anxiety: Lawsuit 9 months ago:
I disagree, I think this kind of firing is very common and most workers don’t have enough power to fight back, unlike tech workers. Can you imagine how much this court case is going to cost them if they don’t win?
- Comment on Cheap UPS solution? 10 months ago:
OK, guess I misunderstood
- Comment on Cheap UPS solution? 10 months ago:
Are you really suggesting someone buy a used Ford Lightning to use as an alternative to a DIY UPS and never drive? The DIY UPS sounds 100x more practical.
- Comment on Raspberry pi 4 inside abandoned scooters 10 months ago:
Counterpoint: all of that is irrelevant if the legal owners don’t care enough to sue you.
- Comment on Raspberry pi 4 inside abandoned scooters 10 months ago:
What if the “bag of money” didn’t have any money in it at all, and the cost of recovering and properly disposing of the “bag of money” cost the legal owners more than what the bag and it’s contents are worth?
- Comment on Is the blockchain an interesting innovation, aside from cryptocurrencies ? 11 months ago:
Yeah, but that kind of data would be better in an auxiliary database. There’s no reason to include it in the blockchain.
- Comment on Is the blockchain an interesting innovation, aside from cryptocurrencies ? 11 months ago:
Yes, everyone would need a copy of the 10s-of-GB blockchain. That’s a fraction of the amount of space a single computer game would use, does that seem unreasonable/impractical to you?
And I buy used enterprise 2-3TB drives on eBay :) . I was going to use a 32GB flash drive for my example, but a 500GB HDD is the same price
- Comment on Is the blockchain an interesting innovation, aside from cryptocurrencies ? 11 months ago:
What do you think I’m missing in my estimate? Do you have any experience in CS?
- Comment on Is the blockchain an interesting innovation, aside from cryptocurrencies ? 11 months ago:
Something about this comment didn’t seem right to me, so I did some quick math:
There are approx 144,000,000 homes (incl apartments, etc) in the US. www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/…/VET605221
Assuming every home is sold 5 times on average, that’s 720,000,000 sale records/deeds.
Existing blockchain implementations use IDs that are around 32 bits, or 4 bytes.
A “home sales record” or deed on the blockchain needs to include the buyer and the time/date of sale (8 bytes), along with a cryptographic signature (4-16 bytes). The seller’s identity doesn’t need to be included because it’s always doing to be the previous owner.
So each record is 16-28 bytes, and there are 720,000,000 records. If we go with 28bytes, it would take about 20GB to store all of the deeds for the US. A 500GB hard drive costs $20.
- Comment on Ska is the "pineapple on pizza" of music genres 11 months ago:
That’s just because it takes twice as many syllables to order Pepsi. Ain’t nobody got time for that.