Natanael
@Natanael@infosec.pub
- Comment on It's the Lord's problem now. 7 hours ago:
Someone will gag eventually if this indeed
- Comment on It's the Lord's problem now. 7 hours ago:
Don’t worry the dog just found a money pile, the dog will be ok
- Comment on It's the Lord's problem now. 8 hours ago:
- game devs
- Comment on It's the Lord's problem now. 8 hours ago:
Out of flight
- Comment on French scientists discover law that predicts how most objects shatter 4 days ago:
In physics, law mostly just means a clear formula which always applies when you’re within some specific parameters (Newton’s laws when below relativistic speeds)
- Comment on xkcd #3174: Bridge Clearance 5 days ago:
There’s actually math for this where you look at the distribution and distances of mass and calculate probability of hitting something based on distance (created to calculate things like how far you can see in the woods)
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 6 days ago:
Bad terminology choice, I meant the cert issuer. Need to revise the language later. I was thinking of it in terms of who verifies your IRL identity. The issuer can only issue the cert after you met them and they checked your documentation, etc
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 6 days ago:
More like getting a TLS domain cert from a CA both sides recognize, but yeah
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 6 days ago:
Zero-knowledge proofs still require that third party but only once, to issue it initially. Then the user can issue their own proofs locally
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 6 days ago:
Correct, as a cryptography nerd I can assure you that you MUST at minimum have a trusted verifier which met you in person at some point (such as whatever office you get your physical ID card at) and they have to have your information.
And then you’re trusting both Secure Element hardware and fancy cryptography where both must be flawless in order to protect the end user’s side of it, all while the end user now carries much more personal information with them than before
- Comment on Feeling that groove 1 week ago:
Have you seen mechanical music boxes?
The ones and zeroes and bumps and flat areas
- Comment on Feeling that groove 1 week ago:
That’s because it doesn’t, your brain does
Speakers do the simplest thing possible and literally just vibrate. A recording being played literally just recreates a recorded vibration. It’s a tiny choreography that your ears are incredibly sensitive for.
All the fancy stuff happens in our brains, after our ears has split up the sound around us into different ranges of frequencies (you can think of the hairs in the inner ears as tuning forks). We learn to recognize which frequencies goes together, and then we learn how the frequencies from multiple sources can overlap, and we learn what it all means
The real crazy part is how something as simple as sound can carry so much information and how reliably our brains can tell it all apart and make sense of it
- Comment on We have one at home 2 weeks ago:
I sold my Ouya and have an original Steam controller still
- Comment on I am fucking tired of this shitty behavior. 2 weeks ago:
There’s steps in between. Rate limiting unverified server federations, etc. No need to inhibit discovery for casual users
- Comment on Microsoft lost a court case after claiming that reselling its licenses "infringed copyright" 2 weeks ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
It’s not cleanly defined for digital only sales
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 2 weeks ago:
Even as a Linux desktop it would mostly just be interesting for devs and people doing relatively lightweight 3D design work (especially because it will take a while before other distros support it), I don’t see it competing against regular desktops.
Any company who depend on their employees having a decent GPU will likely want to be able to upgrade/reconfigure new orders at will, and will prefer a tower, and they will prefer the quick repairability of a tower. Those who don’t are increasingly ok with using mini PCs.
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 2 weeks ago:
Rumors is that the original Zen CPU SoC in the Steam Deck was also the leftovers from another canceled project by “a major OEM”, so it’s plausible. Sounds like Microsoft planned a handheld Xbox much earlier, which years after the Deck turned into the ROG collaboration, could have been related
- Comment on While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago 2 weeks ago:
The secret trick is that they can do both.
The actual software target is their Steam Linux Runtime container. So all you need to install is the container environment, and if your 3rd party OS does that for you then you’re already done.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 3 weeks ago:
They’re literally memeing on the store page about it being based on Arch (by the way)
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 3 weeks ago:
There’s some slots for peripherals, so it’s definitely doable
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 3 weeks ago:
I heard it from digital foundry
- Comment on Fourier 3 weeks ago:
The friend she said you shouldn’t worry about gave her a band pass
- Comment on Fourier 3 weeks ago:
WDYM you’re not just going with
sine wavesvibes - Comment on Fourier 3 weeks ago:
You’re making it complex
- Comment on Fourier 3 weeks ago:
He didn’t say 1 of which unit or function
- Comment on And now I'm reminded I have two of these to repair. 3 weeks ago:
Depends on model. Almost all older ones does (using radiation from the isotope to electrically charge smoke particles that pass through, which then can be detected by a sensor).
Many newer ones are optical.
- Comment on And now I'm reminded I have two of these to repair. 3 weeks ago:
I’M A POTATO
- Comment on Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs 3 weeks ago:
That was barely a year or two. Bitcoin wasn’t very popular globally speaking when the first ASICs already was in development, and in between the two there was FPGA mining
- Comment on Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs 3 weeks ago:
Not really. Wrong type of math, not practical to reuse to break cryptography. There’s similar techniques that can be used against some algorithms, but not when set up like that.
- Comment on Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs 3 weeks ago:
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The current mainland China gov never had any real claims to it. The argument they use is the same as for why they believe they have the right to enforce Chinese law on Chinese people abroad, including having their own secret police in other countries, etc, they simply don’t accept being anything less than the sole authority and sole representative for everybody they consider to belong to any ethnicity which is “theirs”. The claims on the island doesn’t really have much to do with the island, but that it’s populated with people they consider theirs.