ignirtoq

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If websites are slow for you, this is why, AWS is breaking everything⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Amazon is using their own hosting. AWS stands for Amazon Web Services. Or did I miss the joke?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. Drops Out of Top 10 in Passport Power. Here’s Why⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  crackdown on legal [...] immigration

  That's just blatant manufacturing consent of persecution of immigrants. If they're in the US legally, what exactly is Trump "cracking down" on?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While a TLS uses the same key throughout a session, keys within a Signal session constantly evolve.

  What are we defining as a "session" for Signal? The vast majority of TLS sessions exist for the duration of pulling down a web page. Dynamically interact with that page? New HTTP request backed by a new TLS session. Sure, there are exceptions like WebSockets, but by and large TLS sessions are often short.

  Is a Signal session the duration of sending a single message? An entire conversation? The entire time you have someone in your address book? It doesn't seem like an apples-to-apples comparison.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Republicans put tech firms in a vise on Kirk social-media posts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as I've ever been paying attention, conservatives only argue in bad faith. It's always been about elevating their own speech and suppressing speech that counters theirs. They just couch it in terms that sound vaguely reasonable or logical in the moment if you don't know their history and don't think about it more deeply than very surface-level.

  Before, platforms were suppressing their speech, so they were promoters of free speech. Now platforms are not suppressing speech counter to them, so it's all about content moderation to protect the children, or whatever. But their policies always belie their true motive: they never implement what research shows supports their claimed position of the moment. They always create policies that hurt their out-groups and may sometimes help their in-groups (helping people is optional).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cornell's world-first 'microwave brain' computes differently⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My understanding of why digital computers rose to dominance was not any superiority in capability but basically just error tolerance. When the intended values can only be "on" or "off," your circuit can be really poor due to age, wear, or other factors, but if it's within 40% of the expected "on" or "off" state, it will function basically the same as perfect. Analog computers don't have anywhere near tolerances like that, which makes them more fragile, expensive, and harder to scale production.

  I'm really curious if the researchers address any of those considerations.