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researcher, engineer, applied cryptographer. interested in freedom-enhancing technology and the future.
Laniakea Supercluster
Joined August 2021
i love the new feature of phones where they figure out what youβre trying to take a photo of and then hallucinate it for you.
I donβt know who needs to take a 100x photo of the moon, but clearly the Galaxy S23 Ultra is the phone for you
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where did people get this idea that every new human tool should have a little cop inside it.
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if god wanted us to have energy abundance, there would be an immense fusion reactor in the sky that is visible every single day if you look up.
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null pointers strike again!. looks like the crowdstrike issue is a dereferenced null pointer that's trying to access null memory using the 'mov r9d, dward ptr r[8]' assembly operation. brutal.
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did you know that researchers in 2022 demonstrated that you could process an opponent's microphone, extracting the noise induced by their GPU, and use that noise to know where they were on a Counter-Strike map
GPUs are not secure hardware.
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Valles Marineris is absolutely not a gigantic scar from a kinetic kill vehicle. donβt believe anyone who tells you it is
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slowly coming to the realization that perhaps most people are not even aware of the concept of a 'second order effect'.
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if god wanted us to have infinite energy and resources he would have put a gigantic fusion reactor in the sky.
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'we cant even build pyramids or cathedrals ππ". mfer,
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fun fact: if you publish a package to a package manager with a name that is one bitflip off from a very popular package, computers around the world will sometimes accidentally download and install/run your package because of radiation from space
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there has been close to zero progress in desktop operating systems generally for the last decade at least.
tried a bunch of linux distros and canβt get rid of the feeling there has been close to zero progress since i last tried desktop linux 16 years ago.
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why do normies know nothing about claude. whatβs going on there.
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massive blackpill is to look at educational outcomes in areas where leaded gasoline is still used (esp. lakes/bay/river regions w/ lots of seaplane traffic, NASCAR tracks). there's no good excuse for it. high octane unleaded gasoline has been available for decades.
"it's a good thing we stopped leading gasoline.". "yeah, except all small aircraft.". "wait, what?". so many cases of things like this.
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online so-called βleftistsβ when βtech brosβ make tools that put the means of production directly into peoples hands (3d printing, generative AI, and crypto)
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perhaps the solution to fragile critical infrastructure is not βsingle b2b saas company with kernel accessβ.
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@elonmusk you literally tasked teams of engineers at tesla on accepting payments with dog money.
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kind of wild that when you join a vrchat world someone can run a linux kernel on your gpu by packing it into a shader on their avatar.
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one day google is going to randomly kill 8.8.8.8 for no reason and a double digit percentage of the internet as well as major world governments will go down.
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itβs simple. DALL-E is a plagiarist because it learned from billions of pieces of existing artwork. unlike real artists, who are sealed inside a deep dark cave until they are 20, at which point they emerge to dispense their vision unto the world.
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this meme but for biolabs and chiral-mirrored cyanobacteria
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since everyone is talking about log4j/supply chains. an experiment years ago i calculated 1-bit offset utf8 strings of the top few hundred npm packages and registered packages under them. they received thousands of hits per week from machines trying to download and execute them.
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summary of my current view of LK-99 superconductor saga:. - LK-99 levitation is likely due to its relatively strong diamagnetism combined with weak ferromagnetism in parts of the sample causing a torque (. - LK-99 high-low resistivity transition is likely.
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so, uh, while his own company was over leveraged through exposure to its own money that it printed to back loans (FTT), and exposure to a pseudo-internal hedge fund that makes huge bets on leveraged illiquid tokens, SBF was advocating forβ¦. KYCing defi frontends.
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βtechbroβ is just the reemergence of thinking itβs cool to hate nerds, mixed in with a bunch of resentment from watching the last 20 years of nerds taking over the world.
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45k likes. blatantly misleading misinformation: the person who made this misinformation took a GAN designed to produce close outputs given an input, gave it these inputs, and is now raising a reactionary mob.
Remember that website 'This person doesn't exist' ? . Well, they do. Pretty good sleight of hand, hyping of the tech, right?
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*person whose brain has been shaped by recommender_model.next() for the last decade voice* yeah, i donβt use AI at all, its evil and boiling the oceans.
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alexey pertsev sits in jail without charge for publishing privacy preserving cryptography while SBF sits in his $40M mansion, bought with stolen customer deposits, taunting us on twitter and having NYT puff pieces published about him.
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cryptocurrency is a field where some of the most groundbreaking, important, and impactful computer science & cryptography research is happening, while its public perception is Dog Coin Go Up.
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a ton of people from that generation read Paul Ehrlichβs βpopulation bombβ and deeply internalized it, and still havenβt really coped with the fact that all of his predictions were wrong and continue to be wrong, let alone the reprehensible underlying anti-human ideology.
Speaking on a World Economic Forum panel, UN "Messenger of Peace", Jane Goodall, advocates reducing the global population down to 450 millionβa 95% reduction from today's population:. "We cannot hide away from human population growth. Because, you know, it underlies so many of
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phone cameras have fundamental optical and physical limits.
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make no mistake. this is the cause of the crisis. not silicon valley startups, not VCs, and sure as hell not crypto coins or any other distractions.
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apple's laptops run about the same price. this thing has two laptop class chips in it and 4k per eye micro oled displays. 3500$ is pretty reasonable.
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if we sent a space telescope about three times further into space than Voyager, we could use the sunβs gravity as a lens and take high resolution photos of planets in other solar systems, with enough data to easily infer details about their biosphere and other activity
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apple has solved the βcant look cool with headset onβ problem.
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why is midjourney only accessible through a discord bot with a weird chat api. why isnt there just a web interface. i'm so confused.
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i donβt think we should have a central committee headed by mostly 70+ year olds deciding what technology is allowed to be built or not.
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this is especially demented when it comes to messengers (the ability to have a conversation) or wallets (the ability to affect agency in the world).
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imprisoning the founder of a communications technology for not providing micro-level surveillance and censorship of its users for the state is the action of a failing authoritarian junta, not a western democracy.
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you can get a decent size telescope and a DSLR from 2010 for cheap and do this for real, with better real detail than any phone camera can do.
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i am once again asking you to consider things other than negative polarization and first order effects
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For people looking for a conspiracy, the replacement language for C++, Rust, is compromised by a cabal of woke tards that are doing strange things. It's possible this could be a plot to move mission-critical code to Rust. It's the only other language Linux is allowing, other.
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you gotta be rentseek maxing. you gotta be buying commercial real estate. you gotta be providing nothing of economic value while benefiting from the work an innovation of others. you gotta be calling bitcoin rat poison. you gotta be dumping gigatons of sugar into american bloodst.
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AlphaFold doesnt care if you think it doesnβt exist, it successfully predicts protein folds. AlphaGo doesnβt care if you think it doesnβt exist, it successfully beats you at Go. o1 doesnβt care if you think it doesnβt exist, it successfully completes 80% of the math olympiad.
βArtificial Intelligenceβ doesnβt exist and probably never will. Itβs a fantastic concept from golden age science fiction novels that software companies decided to start using as a marketing term a few years ago.
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and like, ok, you made the hammer have a little cop that keeps track of how many nails youβre hitting with it or whatever. why would a hammer-murderer use the cop-hammer?.
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yo what the fuck this is the guy who stored $3.6B in his icloud and was doing so when he wrote this tweet.
@dystopiabreaker There really should be a mandatory security tutorial with a test at the end for many crypto assets.
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i canβt believe this is a real The Economist headline
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i am primarily interested in crypto as a technology which can use cryptography and distributed systems to give individuals and communities more autonomy and to make more resilient, secure, verifiable, and interoperable financial rails.
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the OP claims samsung "isn't faking it like huawei", the thing about that is, that the geometry of the camera is known and you can do math to compute its optical limits.
@dystopiabreaker did the math and the s23 ultra would be diffraction limited at around 35 pixels across the width of a full moon.
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stephen diehl. has been the cto. of a private blockchain startup. since 2015.
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the mythology from normies about tiktok is insane. they think itβs an ultra powerful spying apparatus, unique in its ability to spy on you. they think it has kernel level hooks into your phone and is listening to you all the time and has access to every piece of data on every.
Breaking News: The Biden administration is demanding the Chinese company that owns TikTok sell the app or face a possible ban due to national security concerns.
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the thing that upsets me the most about ftx is that mainstream seems to think some random guyβs hedge fund blowing up invalidates all the amazing zk, pl theory, cryptography, mechanism design, distsys work that so many amazing high-integrity people are working on.
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i'm not convinced that intelligence/capability is actually the bottleneck to solving the major problems facing humans. it's coordination.
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yearning for the real in the morass of hyperreal and unreal near-singularity content swamp (pointing an actual telephoto lens at things and measuring the actual photons).
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fun fact: L-glucose (the chiral mirror of the common sugar glucose) is FDA approved. it tastes sweet but it just goes straight through you .
Yo wtf βmirror lifeβ is not a thing that should exist irl. Wikipedia below
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tornado cash HAS COMPLIANCE TOOLS BUILT IN. users can PROVE THEIR FUNDS ARE NOT NORTH KOREA. the cops DO NOT CARE.
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this ad was funded by ashton kutcherβs anti-encryption mass surveillance startup. you know, the guy who was in the news a week ago for writing apologia letters to a judge to try to get his serial rapist friend a lighter charge?.
this anti-encryption ad in williamsburg is wild
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the concentration of xenon isotopes in the martian atmosphere is likewise absolutely not consistent with nuclear mass bombardment
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why doesn't macro economics, the bigger of the two economics, simply eat micro economics.
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1948. oppenheimer: oh no my βmake a big huge bombβ project made a big huge bomb what have i done i am destroyer of world. john von neumann: we should nuke russia.
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the fact that these types of posts consistently get unbelievably high engagement is an interesting datapoint about our culture.
dear rich tech bros: you can have water for your data centers, or you can have it to save your homes, but you cannot have both. your choices are killing us and you.
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it's not a conspiracy theory. you can literally just do the math .
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here's my response to @moxie's article about web3, web3 infrastructure, trust, etc. i wrote about constructive criticism, light clients, message detection, and overall ways to improve the status quo of web3/crypto infrastructure.
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update: there are still no charges, but theyβre continuing to hold him, and are now apparently planning to auction all of his property while he sits without being charged with any crime. very normal country.
EXCLUSIVE: Arrested Tornado Cash developer to stay in jail after appeal rejected. By @Yogita_Khatri5 .
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if personal computers were invented today there would 100% be a movement to attempt to ban them, or at least mandate mass surveillance of them as a prerequisite for legality.
personal computing? but what if the person is bad?.
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all sums are zero. no new wealth. only stagnation and a brutal fight to increase your wealth at the cost of others. entropy be my god, death be my light, praise the dying of the light.
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satoshi was cooking when they made the halving schedule track US elections.
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bro it's not a "woke cancel mob", it's all your gay, trans, and non-binary coworkers, cobuilders, and comrades suddenly realizing that you secretly think we are evil degenerates.
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imagine if reagan issued an executive order in 1985 requiring all computers with more than 1 gigaflop of compute to be registered with the government, all of their users have to kyc and all uses have to be pre-approved. the number is never revised upwards.
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one of the coolest bits of sidechannel stunt hacking in recent memory has to be the one where they were able to identify websites people were browsing, extract keys, and even wallhack in counterstrike, using only the background noise from their microphone in a VOIP call
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it's wild how there's a credible claim of high temperature superconductivity, with a simple process that will take days to replicate (or not), and there isn't a single mainstream news outlet reporting on this.
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what are the chances that this ftx thing ends garyβs career.
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i see thereβs a lot of new interest from the general public in Mastodon. before jumping over, you should know that mastodon is split into instances. anyone running an instance can. - see your hashed password and all user data.- read all of your DMs.- take over your account.
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we're going to build a new one on the far side of the moon.
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you too can be a billionaire:. 1. make token with 1,000,000,001 supply.2. make uniswap pool for token, put 1 USDC and 1 token in pool.3. you are now a billionaire (marked to market).
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ok gpt4 is insanely good. things are going to get WEIRD.
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today itβs tornado dev. tomorrow itβs tor dev. next week itβs signal devs and the developers of iMessage.
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this kind of dense, high-gdp urbanism is illegal to build in most european cities
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somehow python managed to take off despite having bar none the worst devtools ux in existence. thereβs literally not a correct way to install it into your env and thereβs not a way to make portable builds or reproducible builds.
the greatest minds of my generation were trying to figure out how to install python envs.
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brantly.eth is currently the most powerful ENS delegate, with about 100k more votes than Coinbase. if you don't think this attitude is something worth supporting, please redelegate.
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it's cool how the us regulators made 'intentionally valueless shitcoin' the legally safest thing to launch in the us.
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my computer is now generating thousands of "unhosted wallets" (key pairs) locally per second. @SenWarren come and take it.
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privacy is not criminal and neither is writing privacy software.
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ok so this celsius thing is quite bad. hear me out, what if we required all businesses like that to instead use some sort of open computer contract, that could be executed on some sort of neutral layer, and have all of its properties independently verified by consumers and regs.
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