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Natanael_L

@Natanael_L@mastodon.social

Geek.

/u/Natanael_L on reddit, moderating /r/crypto (as in cryptography)
https://mastodon.social/@Natanael_L on birdsite
https://bsky.app/profile/natanael.bsky.social

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LukaszOlejnik, to random
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China releases an AI chatbot trained on the thoughts of President Xi Jinping, the political philosophy “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era”, as well as other official literature. Competition for OpenAI? https://www.ft.com/content/43378c6e-664b-4885-a255-31325d632ee9

Natanael_L,
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@LukaszOlejnik has anybody tried to make it contradict itself yet?

mjg59, to random
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Given a webauthn.create response, what is the absolute easiest way for me to verify that it has a valid signature (in an ideal world something like https://debugger.simplewebauthn.dev/ but validates the signature rather than just verifying the format is good)

Natanael_L,
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@mjg59 since there's no PKI if you don't care about attestation, the main task is just serializing the signed data right and verifying the sig against the pubkey. Are you looking for a tool that does it automatically for you? Are you doing it in a browser or not?

gsuberland, to random
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LTT: "unfortunately wide-screen gaming forums is now mostly dead"

WSGF, in the comments: "we're not dead, we just moved to Discord and stopped using the forums"

me: "unfortunately wide-screen gaming forums is now mostly dead"

Natanael_L,
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@gsuberland @thor the inability to search discord is a big problem and contributed heavily to the problem of repetitive questions

GossiTheDog, to random
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My Mastodon server, cyberplace.social, has received a legal threat in an attempt to have a user's thread deleted. It is styled as a cease and desist.

I have published the email here:
https://github.com/GossiTheDog/Cyberplace/blob/main/LegalThreats/Cease%20and%20Desist%20Order%20-%20Felix%20Juhl

Natanael_L,
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@GossiTheDog @rysiek link to it from your own site(s) to let the indexer know it's there.

0xabad1dea, to random

not sure if this is a very good deal or a very bad one

Natanael_L,
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@0xabad1dea you might have to pay with your soul

GossiTheDog, to random
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    Natanael_L,
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    @GossiTheDog is xai xenophobic yet?

    matthew_d_green, to random
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    So Apple built an entire key transparency thing for iMessage and it literally seems to be documented in a blog post. What the heck is the point of key transparency if you don’t document things, and (critically) provide open source ID verification tools?

    Natanael_L,
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    @filippo @matthew_d_green both, the TLS cert model for transparency also works with subscriptions to third party monitoring tools since sufficiently paranoid admins would assume the server might be compromised

    tolmasky, to random
    @tolmasky@mastodon.social avatar

    “Once they put it on, reassure them that they look good, not like a dork at all. Say ‘’Wow, it suits you! And I don’t just say that to everyone.””

    https://www.macrumors.com/2023/10/22/apple-to-host-secretive-vision-pro-training-event/

    Natanael_L,
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    @gsuberland @tolmasky they should have just embraced this as a devkit and public demo and completely skipped some of these pieces like that stupid eye-passthrough which won't look decent from more than one direction anyway

    mcc, to random
    @mcc@mastodon.social avatar

    I have just found, on Amazon, a USB peripheral which is a gearshift for a manual transmission car

    Challenge: What is the funniest way you could utilize this peripheral in software

    https://www.amazon.ca/Thrustmaster-Shifter-8-Gear-Compatible-Playstation/dp/B0C2JCX1TD

    Natanael_L,
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    @adriano @jkohlmann @mcc @foone you're needed

    malwaretech, to random

    I just saw that Am I The Asshole reddit thread where the white girl started going to a black salon because she had extremely curly hair and the black salon was the only one that didn't massacre it. Her white friends straight up gaslit her into believe she was engaging in cultural appropriation and stealing resources from black people. WILD 💀​

    Natanael_L,
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    @ftp_alun @malwaretech horseshoe theory, extremists on either end are both just as likely to support apartheid depressed up in different words. Unfortunately the extremists also tend to be loud.

    Natanael_L,
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    @VoxofGod @ftp_alun @malwaretech I've seen a fair few derail from "protect minorities" all the way into "isolate and don't interact with minorities" thinking somehow that would be better for the minorities. Certainly not a majority, but these people are real

    GossiTheDog, to random
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    I wish I didn't auto delete my toots sometimes, as I predicted this about 6 months ago...

    People are injecting malware responses into Microsoft's AI, so now when you ask it questions it is serving people malware downloads. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bing-chat-responses-infiltrated-by-ads-pushing-malware/

    Natanael_L,
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    @GossiTheDog you weren't the only one predicting it, but I would probably have expected it to take longer 🤷‍♂️

    briankrebs, to random

    We're all just a bunch of frogs sitting in a pot as it gently warms on the stove, too stupid or lazy or comfortable to jump out just yet. But soon to be part of the stew.

    In this "enshittified" world, we don't actually own any of the things we buy. The vendor either sells all customer data up front, or what's sold is offered mainly on a subscription basis, even as they're reselling that data. Any terms, prices or promises can be changed on a dime, and your only "choice" is "okay" or not to use the thing.

    This fairly describes your privacy expectations for commercial services in the USA. We are long overdue for a Privacy Bill of Rights that says quite simply, if you sell it and it actively collects and transmits data, you have to up front offer consumers the option to turn all it off. Full stop. And then respect that decision in perpetuity.

    Natanael_L,
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    @wordshaper @briankrebs look at Amazon sidewalk with their wifi and bluetooth network

    realhackhistory, to random
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    I.. uh, okay what

    Natanael_L,
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    @realhackhistory how did the kid even pay for it

    dangillmor, to random
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    Dear journalists: Facebook and Google are not "quashing" media outlets in Canada. They're declining to participate in the government's (and media's) extortion scam, which demands payment for sending traffic to media sites.

    Natanael_L,
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    @Grant_M @dangillmor unfortunately the supporters of the bill are on the wronger side. The link tax and most of the associated bills are incredibly harmful for multiple reasons, and hurts more than just Google and Facebook.

    It incentivizes clickbait, artificially boosts non-news (for simple budgetary reasons) including fake news sources, it assumes in law there's harm caused to publishers when somebody links TO news sites, and more. And yet, they WANT to be linked to despite arguing harm!

    Natanael_L,
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    @Grant_M @dangillmor and yet this laws also hurts independent and honestly operated aggregating websites, so "everything that hurts my enemy is good regardless of collateral damage" is the wrong approach here

    Natanael_L,
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    @Grant_M @dangillmor so you're literally supporting a law telling him he should show less legitimate news and more fake news which doesn't ask for payment to be linked?

    Natanael_L,
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    @Grant_M @dangillmor I know plenty about that, and it makes them spew more lies so it's a net loss

    thomholwerda, to random

    Both Twitter and BlueSky - backed by untold amounts of money and white tech bros - are down.

    Mastodon - run by trans furries and femboys high on anxiety - is running just fine.

    Natanael_L,
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    @ploum @thomholwerda @sebsauvage they have a federation test network up. There's independent reimplementations of the protocol taking part. So it's getting there.

    Natanael_L,
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    @chucker @ploum @thomholwerda @sebsauvage how is content addressing more flawed than profiles controlled by the domain owner?

    Em0nM4stodon, to random

    My in-progress blog article has the equivalent of 11 pages now 😐

    ...and I haven’t even started to write the last section.

    Apparently I am bookblogging 🙃📚

    Natanael_L,
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    @Em0nM4stodon "it came to me in a dream"

    aral, to random
    @aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

    If there is even a single gram of truth to this…

    Any instance that goes along with such a thing will be lost to surveillance capitalism. I don’t care how large they are or who they are, any instance that becomes Meta’s bitch should be defederated immediately by all others. Let the largest few get swallowed up whole by Silicon Valley if they’re dumb enough to do it. The rest of us will rebuild.

    I really hope no one is stupid enough to take Meta up on this if it’s true. https://beach.city/@vantablack/110594120842443355

    Natanael_L,
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    @aral @ubiquity75 look at similar projects by academics if you want that.

    It reminds me of stuff @axz works on

    Natanael_L,
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    @aral @qwazix this doesn't scale against brigades, at some point you have to outsource trust to gatekeepers (but of course revocable and even granular trust delegation could be done in such networks)

    Rairii, to random
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    "Reddit has far too many managers from FAANG doing nothing but playing politics"

    "[Discord's] marketing department imported a lot of MBAs and ex-Meta brand directors since mid-2022, and their jobs seem to be: DDoS attack ICs with micromanagey demands, pile sudden landslides of work on people due to poor planning, and hiring their friend's agencies to do unusably shoddy work and write redundant market research that’s already been done before."

    This seems to be a trend in big centralised services: "ex-FAANG" managers coming in for their CIA sabotage manual any% runs

    Natanael_L,
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    @Rairii what I can't understand is how they get hired. There's almost always some investors not in on it who get hurt, why don't they ever try to veto it? Do they believe the PR?

    ct_bergstrom, (edited ) to photography
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    UPDATE: This is an example of atmospheric chromatic distortion that appeared because the moon was very close to the horizon, related to but not the same as chromatic aberration from the lens. First time I've noticed it.

    Shooting pictures of the moon with a 800 f/6.3 PF, the chromatic aberration is blue at the top, and red at the bottom.

    Can anyone explain what is going on here?

    Natanael_L,
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    @ct_bergstrom @coprolite9000 not exactly applicable here, but relevant enough to mention;

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_gravity_theory

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