theherk
@theherk@lemmy.world
- Comment on Electric Flying Cars Now for Sale by California Company Pivotal 2 days ago:
It also means the people operating them will have a high threshold for consequences and maybe not care so much about the community.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Proton also has mail and password management.
- Comment on YSK how to protect yourself at a protest 6 days ago:
That’s dark, hilarious, and horrifying.
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 1 week ago:
Actually great questions. Yes and no. There are vulnerabilities if the private key leaks, but public keys are just that; perfectly okay public in any hands. You only encrypt data with it.
What makes the Signal protocol so awesome, and other algorithms like it, is that it reduces the threat surface area further by using onetime keys. So even if your key is leaked, it cannot be used to decrypt old or forthcoming messages as the keys have already ratcheted to the next pair.
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 1 week ago:
They share it with you. Their public key is generated by them. You encrypt a message to them with their public key. They use their private key to decrypt it.
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 1 week ago:
I’m not following. In the WhatsApp case, yes, because we can’t see how those keys are managed. In the Signal case, we can. So the centralized server has zero impact on the privacy of the message. If we trust the keys are possessed only by the generating device, then how does the encrypted message become compromised?
I’m not talking about anonymity, only message privacy. No different than any of the other proxies or routers along the way. If they don’t have the key, the message is not readable.
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 1 week ago:
Sorry but you’ll need to hold the L on this one. If I encrypt a message with public key material for which the only private key material that can decrypt the message is in only my possession, it doesn’t matter if the message passes centralized servers.
I’m not trying to be rude, that’s just how it works.
- Comment on YSK: listening to audiobooks and reading books both activate the same language related areas of the brain 3 weeks ago:
Depending on the book, I usually read at 1.4x or up to 2x if I’ve already read it.
- Comment on 'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular 4 weeks ago:
Step 0. It just goes without saying.
- Comment on Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early 5 weeks ago:
More of a fidget toy at that point. I’m in. I’d go as high as $8.
- Comment on Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early 5 weeks ago:
Remove the outside screen and all cameras and I’d be slightly more interested.
- Comment on U.S. Pedestrian Deaths Up 77% Since 2009 & The Auto Industry Knew It Would Happen 1 month ago:
Those are pretty staggering numbers considering the population has only grown by maybe 12% in that same timeframe.
- Comment on Notepad++ updater installed malware 1 month ago:
Agreed in all accounts. I do use ublock on my laptop but not on mobile.
- Comment on Notepad++ updater installed malware 1 month ago:
Not accessible without accepting advertising cookies, like Healthline.
- Comment on YSK that Elon Musk now hates California. He lives in West Lake Hills, Texas. He loves to visit Austin. 1 month ago:
I’m not sure you made it in time.
- Comment on Public AI: Free and Ethical AI models with Social good in mind 1 month ago:
Yeah, for sure. I’m not saying it is good at all, just that scraping some proportion of copyrighted material is an improvement over scraping all the copyrighted material.
- Comment on Public AI: Free and Ethical AI models with Social good in mind 1 month ago:
That is at least an improvement over including in its corpus the entire worldwide collection of copyrighted materials.
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 2 months ago:
Careful. You might burn yourself on that take.
- Comment on Steam Hardware Announcement 2 months ago:
Suggesting something open to doubt isn’t debatable is just not knowing what the word means. There are dictionaries available to the public.
Suggesting the device is underpowered in all contexts is just silly. If I want a device to play Stardew Valley, Braid or some other game with very different people requirements than Cyberpunk, it may not be underpowered… to me.
I get that you’re one of those people that just can never ever accept they are maybe making an objective statement about a subjective value, but you should introspect a bit. You said it wasn’t debatable. We have debated. I doubt your position. End of story.
If you want to compare this to flat earth, fine. Rest assured, nobody will likely find and follow this thread.
FWIW, I think I probably agree with some of your sentiment. It would be better if more powerful. It is underpowered for many of the modern generation of games, etc. Not for you. No problem. Maybe others will like it. ¯\(ツ)/¯
- Comment on Steam Hardware Announcement 2 months ago:
You don’t seem to understand that “underpowered” requires context. Nor do you that what we’re having here is a debate, thus making it debatable nevertheless.
- Comment on Steam Hardware Announcement 2 months ago:
Yes I agree, if we can move the goalposts where ever we want, you might have a point for your own narrow view. But there will be people that believe what it delivers to be suitable for playing the games they want to play, in which case it won’t be underpowered. Which means its status as underpowered… is debatable.
- Comment on Steam Hardware Announcement 2 months ago:
No, I meant precisely what I wrote. The point being that if it were $4, “underpowered” would be an absurd way to describe it, because value is a function of cost versus benefit, where benefit is subjective.
- Comment on YSK How to cook a perfect (hard) boiled egg 2 months ago:
You’re probably correct that there are other methods for perfect eggs, but I believe that is a bit reductive. Boiling first then reducing the temperature, while similar, is definitely not the same as periodic temperature change, aside from it adding the same total energy to the system. But the rate that energy is added is the critical variable.
Don’t get me wrong, your method is good, but I don’t think the method in the paper only has the advantages you list. The periodic temperature change is important, and they detail precisely why that is.
Having said all that, I’m certainly not doing this. I’m all about easy and don’t need eggs to be a certain way. I just thought it was neat.
- Comment on YSK How to cook a perfect (hard) boiled egg 2 months ago:
If one really wants perfect, they should read Periodic cooking of eggs from the journal Nature earlier this year. Everybody that has implemented it, claims it works great.
For the periodic method, scientists alternated submerging the eggs for two minutes in boiling water at 100 C (212 F) and lukewarm water at 30 C (86 F). This cycle was repeated eight times for 32 minutes.
— from: Scientists developed a new method for the perfect boiled egg, and you can test it at home
- Comment on Steam Hardware Announcement 2 months ago:
And how would you feel if it were $4?
- Comment on Steam Hardware Announcement 2 months ago:
Yeah, well you know uhh, that’s just like my opinion, man. And without pricing it is hard to say if under or over powered. But I think it is thoughtfully designed. Looks like it is well-cooled, expandable storage, programmable light strip, and you can install whatever you want in it.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 2 months ago:
I thought the GabeCube was even better.
- Comment on Steam Hardware Announcement 2 months ago:
Valve crushed it out of the park. Great hardware and really well presented; beautiful and succinct.
- Comment on Servo: A new, independent Web Browser Engine (the core of a web browser) written in Rust. 2 months ago:
I think Servo joining LF is one of the more exciting things of the last few years in software. I really hope they keep making progress.
- Comment on How Palantir infiltrated the state 2 months ago:
Pretty on the nose. It shouldn’t be that easy.