demesisx
@demesisx@infosec.pub
Plutus, Haskell, Nix, Purescript. laser-focused on FP: formality, purity, and totality; repulsed by pragmatic, unsafe, “move fast and break things” approaches
- Comment on [deleted] 7 hours ago:
Get this fucking Google ad out of here.
- Comment on Absolute Units - things bigger than normally expected 1 day ago:
Not to be confused with absolute eunuchs:
- Comment on Decentralization Scoring System (v1.3) 2 days ago:
This is really cool.
It reminds me of the #Edinburgh Decentralisation Index: an academically rigorous decentralization index that the university of Glasgow school of informatics devised to quanitfy the decentralization of cryptocurrencies:
The Edinburgh Decentralisation Index (EDI) studies blockchain decentralisation from first principles, archives relevant datasets, develops metrics, and offers a dashboard to track decentralisation trends over time and across systems.
informatics.ed.ac.uk/blockchain/edi
You should give it a serious look. IMO, it would offer some insight into academically peer-reviewed ways of quantifying this kind of thing.
- Comment on BPS is a GPS alternative that nobody's heard of 1 week ago:
Geerling is a YouTuber
- Comment on How to harden against SSH brute-forcing? 2 weeks ago:
If you can use another method, disabling SSH entirely would do it. ;)
This is how Talos Linux achieves best-in-class security properties.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I’m impressed that a pro footballer found Lemmy. Welcome!
- Comment on Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade. 3 weeks ago:
You need to disable JavaScript to read my blogspam.
- Comment on Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade. 3 weeks ago:
I read four words then was hit with this.
You’ve just hit the article limit with your free Sifted account.
Ok, ok. If you insist. I won’t read your article.
- Comment on Discord alternativ 4 weeks ago:
Why would you use this instead of Matrix FFS? Closed source and centralized.
- Comment on Tech giants must protect reporter-source privacy in leak cases. 4 weeks ago:
I’d argue that FPTP is the real barrier. It makes it a FACT that we can only have two parties.
- Comment on Open Source Github Repositories in Danger of being Deleted 1 month ago:
I used to keep a list of repos to pull onto my NAS in case they someday went closed source. I use “mr” for it. It worked great. I had it on a systemd timer.
- Comment on What are the democrats actually doing to help? 1 month ago:
It feels AOC is doing all the
heavyliftinggrandstanding while all the rest of them smug bunch are just watching with “told ya dis was gunn happen” drawn on their face.Please tell me my ignorant ass is just blatantly wrong because I ain’t getting any news.
You’re blatantly wrong. AOC lives to grandstand and pander. Just like mamabear Pelosi, she kept REALLY quiet about everything (including the ongoing genocide she voted to keep funding) when her team was in power.
Cast your attention to Rashida Tlaib if you want a real one. AOC is as fake as professional wrestling.
- Comment on A monolithic and ruthless conspiracy: What was John F. Kennedy referring to? 1 month ago:
Yes. They did, after all, assassinate him.
- Comment on A monolithic and ruthless conspiracy: What was John F. Kennedy referring to? 1 month ago:
It’s pretty funny to see this thread filled with wrong answers by lemmy.world users and those same smuglibs downvoting anyone that suggest otherwise when it’s pretty universally accepted that he was killed by the CIA.
The CIA even did a distinctive CIA-style cleanup job , eliminating all parties with knowledge of the hit afterward.
- Comment on What Would a Fair and Community-Focused Monetization Model on the Fediverse Look Like? 1 month ago:
Agree to disagree then. You don’t seem to grasp my points and I don’t grasp yours. Peace.
- Comment on What Would a Fair and Community-Focused Monetization Model on the Fediverse Look Like? 1 month ago:
I suspect you should listen to your own counterpoint:
Don’t walk down the street because someone might rob you.
Don’t use your computer because someone could hack you.
Don’t go swimming because it is possible to drown.
Throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
An uncensorable ledger not controlled by any one party is (at the very least) a valuable technology with unique abilities despite scammers using it for gambling.
The digital equivalent of uniqueness is (at the very least) a valuable technology with unique abilities despite assholes using it for Bored Apes.
Just because you can’t see the use case, doesn’t mean me need to stop innovating.
- Comment on What Would a Fair and Community-Focused Monetization Model on the Fediverse Look Like? 1 month ago:
Scammers:
- don’t tend to share any of their their source code
- usually have an initial token allocation where insiders are given early access to more than 15% of tokens. (this one is a CRUCIAL)…Obviously, the best ITA is one where the tokens are 100% available to everyone at once.
- heavily market their cryptocurrency before it even has a use-case (most projects fall into this category)
- their governance is centralized to some charismatic Elon-bro that talks about price all the time
- don’t let you to use any wallet you want (self-sovereignty is CRUCIAL)
- don’t give you access to your keys at all times (again, self-sovereignty)
- are not just some governance token or ERC-20 or some quickly minted Solana token ($LIBRA $TRUMP $MELANIA were all obvious scams)
- never have a viable peer-reviewed white paper
- their code is NEVER formally verified by neutral parties
- use technologies that are not auditable
- use technologies that are not decentralized
I’ve spotted many scammers a mile away just starting with this list off the top of my head.
For instance, I am the moderator of infosec.pub/c/midnight and actually locked my own communities until I see the source code.
I like the tech from what they tell me. But, I can’t, in good conscience recommend it yet because it ticks some of the above scammer boxes.
- Comment on What Would a Fair and Community-Focused Monetization Model on the Fediverse Look Like? 1 month ago:
You: “If you won’t spend your whole weekend on your smart phone, writing a paper for me complete with MLA formatted bibliography, you are wrong.”
- Comment on What Would a Fair and Community-Focused Monetization Model on the Fediverse Look Like? 1 month ago:
Thanks. 😂 Honestly, I hate scammers. I really do. But they’re SO easy to spot.
I feel that the hivemind threw the baby out with the bathwater when it comes to crypto. Thanks to Do Kwan, Sam Bankman Fried, etc, a whole viable set of technologies aimed at wrestling power from the world bank has been vilified by the hivemind.
- Comment on What Would a Fair and Community-Focused Monetization Model on the Fediverse Look Like? 1 month ago:
Yeah! How dare people try to have wealth that is actually borderless and self-sovereign. Those idiots are scammers! I will own nothing and step in line to bow before the fed. Sure they can take away my money whenever they feel like it for no reason and that is a good thing.
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- Comment on What Would a Fair and Community-Focused Monetization Model on the Fediverse Look Like? 1 month ago:
Instances could run stake pools and tie the two together somehow. Perhaps in this case, your username follows whatever pool you’re staking to.
It’s a solution look for a problem admittedly. It works better in the case that instances act as retail “clubs” like Costco for example. In that case, stakers to said pool could be authorized to get certain deals on products sold by that instance.
- Comment on OpenSSH vulnerabilities could pose huge threat to businesses everywhere 2 months ago:
Hot take: Might be wise to adopt the security by obscurity model and go with an OS that is hardened (ideally, a formally verified microkernel like sel4) or runs in a custom VM/container with almost zero attack surface area.
- Comment on Palmer Luckey says he wants to 'turn warfighters into technomancers' as Anduril takes over production of the US Army's IVAS AR headset from Microsoft 2 months ago:
Anduril is scary. They seem able to harness the most elegant technologies that idiot government redneck contractors tended to avoid in years past. I’ve seen them in Haskell and Nix forums offering jobs to morally bankrupt autists FAR too often. Fuck you, Anduril.
FUCK YOU!!!
- Comment on Humans are notoriously hard to kill on purpose but laughably easy to kill by accident. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Syria's new leader denounces Iran, calling its proxies a regional threat 2 months ago:
Syria’s new # western puppet.
- Comment on Potential Decentralized Fediverse Alternative to Ko-fi, Patreon, etc.? 3 months ago:
I stand behind this idea 100%.
I’m sorry you have to start from such a defensive place about the crypto aspect of this idea. Don’t let hivemind anti-crypto people get you undermining or apologizing for your vision. It is the right way to do decentralized finance.
Most people would recommend ETH or BTC but I’d actually recommend you stay away from ETH because of the inherent non-determinism of the accounts model.
Full disclosure: I might be slightly biased since I moderate Cardano’s communities on Lemmy but, if you want the stability of BTC’s UTxO with smart contracts, I’d recommend Cardano. Decentralized in most every way including governance, fully open source, and utterly parallelizable (due to the UTxO nature of it).
You should also consider BTC or Monero if you don’t absolutely need smart contracts. But don’t let the investor moonbois get you using ETH or Solana. They’re both incredibly flawed and most likely unfixable (in ETH’s case because of nondeterminism and in Solana’s case because of centralization).
Good luck!
- Comment on Bill Nye should host a New Year's Eve event and call it Bill's NYE 3 months ago:
I met Bill in Boston on a trip to the Science museum. Perhaps we were annoying kids but I will never forget how much of a dickhead he was to everyone in my group including the teacher.
Fuck you, Bill Nye.
- Comment on Got electrocuted today 4 months ago:
Electrocution implies that you died.
- Comment on Backdoor slips into popular code library, drains ~$155k from digital wallets 4 months ago:
Solana! 😂😂
- Comment on Top executive shot dead outside New York hotel 4 months ago:
🎉
