Natanael
@Natanael@infosec.pub
- Comment on How much is the fish? 24 minutes ago:
Jeopardy
- Comment on Whoa! Windows 7's market share surged, tripling in users last month 1 day ago:
FYI if you have disk encryption enabled you need to pause/disable it first (assuming you’re using automatic unlock using the TPM, which usually is the default)
- Comment on U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after 1 day ago:
Still less than the competitors
- Comment on IT'S A TRAP 1 day ago:
That’s like just your axiom man
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 4 days ago:
You’re responding downthread of QubesOS being mentioned
Sure it’s hard to get that kind of security onto mainstream distros. But it exists.
- Comment on BREAKING NEWS: We did it, guys! 20 poptarts! 6 days ago:
Save them for future stacking attempts
- Comment on BREAKING NEWS: We did it, guys! 20 poptarts! 6 days ago:
Exponential growth
- Comment on BREAKING NEWS: We did it, guys! 20 poptarts! 6 days ago:
You have to bring the seeds first
- Comment on Should Neutron Stars be Added to the Periodic Table? 6 days ago:
abc.lbl.gov/wallchart/chapters/03/2.html
I got stuff mixed
In beta minus decay, a neutron decays into a proton, an electron, and an antineutrino: n Æ p + e - +. In beta plus decay, a proton decays into a neutron, a positron, and a neutrino: p Æ n + e+ +n. Both reactions occur because in different regions of the Chart of the Nuclides, one or the other will move the product closer to the region of stability. These particular reactions take place because conservation laws are obeyed. Electric charge conservation requires that if an electrically neutral neutron becomes a positively charged proton, an electrically negative particle (in this case, an electron) must also be produced. Similarly, conservation of lepton number requires that if a neutron (lepton number = 0) decays into a proton (lepton number = 0) and an electron (lepton number = 1), a particle with a lepton number of -1 (in this case an antineutrino) must also be produced. The leptons emitted in beta decay did not exist in the nucleus before the decay–they are created at the instant of the decay.
- Comment on Should Neutron Stars be Added to the Periodic Table? 1 week ago:
I don’t think a single neutron star is a gas, but a neutron star binary system is a gas
- Comment on Should Neutron Stars be Added to the Periodic Table? 1 week ago:
Neutron stars have so high pressure that MOST but not all protons decay into neutrons plus electrons (plus neutrinos)
- Comment on Steady 1 week ago:
Only a handful of movies like Avatar gets actual effort put into fully custom fake interfaces, where the producer has a big vision. But even most other blockbuster releases don’t get that. Fast & The Furious with a dozen movies in the series? Nah. Anything where what’s on the screen is just filler will simply not get a big budget for interfaces.
- Comment on Steady 1 week ago:
3D effects will get a much bigger fraction of the CGI budget than some random animated chart
- Comment on Has this happened to you? 2 weeks ago:
If your Apple account is separate and the uploaded backups are untouched by the company solution, then yes (in other words, if file deletion doesn’t sync into your iCloud backup)
Note that the company might use the management tool to block you from connecting personal accounts!
- Comment on Has this happened to you? 2 weeks ago:
There’s all kinds of options like Microsoft Intune to corporate antivirus + data protection solutions
- Comment on EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to UNDECIDED 2 weeks ago:
And a right wing government here in Sweden relying on a far right party to stay in power, all in favor of heavy surveillance
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 2 weeks ago:
15 proxy states typing
- Comment on IF YOU TAKE ENOUGH YOU CAN SEE *THE PATTERN* BRO 2 weeks ago:
Last Thursdayism is when they reload the save
- Comment on IF YOU TAKE ENOUGH YOU CAN SEE *THE PATTERN* BRO 2 weeks ago:
Same lmao
Pretty sure he’s misunderstanding interference patterns
- Comment on Our fediverse conversations are gonna have the context they have been missing! 3 weeks ago:
The post you replied to comes from a different instance than your own, so does my answer. When you’re logging into your instance, the view of their and mine posts are both remote to you.
Sometimes in Mastodon you’ll only see the specific post that you’re opening a link to directly, not other posts before or after. This tries to fix that.
- Comment on UK government trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost 3 weeks ago:
Not if you’re defying safety regulations.
- Comment on UK government trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost 4 weeks ago:
Tools that decrease accuracy should not be provided to government employees
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 4 weeks ago:
A discoverable non-banned account. Not from “ghost accounts”. If a server creates a massive amount of accounts to use them to vote, you can see that a small server has a disproportionate amount of registered accounts too, which probably will be otherwise inactive. Then you can reject votes from that server.
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 4 weeks ago:
The very very short TLDR is that anonymization is very hard, but there’s auditable cryptographic voting schemes which preserves anonymity by using anonymous cryptographic commitments and one of a bunch of different techniques to count encrypted votes (homomorphic encryption, threshold encryption, etc).
You could set it up so you know which server each set of votes comes from but not which users on the server. You could also make it prove each vote comes from one real account and that no account voted twice. You could even make use of commitments plus ZKP to prove banned accounts can’t vote!
It sounds complicated because it is complicated. And somewhat inefficient. But it’s possible. And it would be fully encrypted and anonymous voting.
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 4 weeks ago:
They’re implementing E2E encrypted social stuff. Voting privacy and encryption is linked.
Especially when you have users across multiple servers and both want voting privacy AND being able to deal with vote manipulation. You need stuff like pseudonymous commitments per account attested to by the hosting instance, etc. The only thing that’s simpler but still private is having instances just digitally sign a total vote tally, which also means you can’t detect vote manipulation on other servers at all.
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 4 weeks ago:
It’s doable with E2E encryption, but lots of social stuff in large groups requires coordination which is incredibly hard to with a server that has no knowledge of what the data is because it can’t index anything, etc.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 4 weeks ago:
The same argument goes for audio too.
6K and 8K is great for editing, just like how 96 KHz 32+ bit and above is great for editing. But it’s meaningless for watching and listening (especially for audio, you can’t hear the difference above 44khz 16 bit). When editing you’ll often stack up small artifacts, which can be audible or visible if editing at the final resolution but easy to smooth over if you’re editing at higher resolutions.
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 4 weeks ago:
The volume of Jupiter is mostly gas. If you increase the mass enough, at some point the higher gravity and thus higher pressure at the center causes a phase change of enough mass (from gas to liquid or liquid to solid) that the lost volume from the phase change exceeds the original volume of the added mass.
It’s like pushing a bunch of origami paper into a box until a bunch of them collapse and fall flat instead of filling the volume.
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 4 weeks ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettier_problem
Unjustified true belief