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mccorrinall··on Japan's cyber-security minister has 'never used a computer'
My mathematics professor used a windows 98 (or 95) computer and created the exams in word. Not connected to the internet, obviously.

This was in 2017.

mccorrinall··on I ran the worlds largest DDoS-for-Hire empire and Cloudflare helped
I was active quite a lot in that scene a few years ago. The dude who threw eggs at drachenlord was someone from cnw. The dude who broke into his house was from cnw. BasedGod was from cnw too (he’s fortunately in jail today).

But yes, the userbase of cnw and pr0gramm is overlapping. But pr0gramm is at least „only“ allowing bullying. Not the hard stuff such as actual murder, trading narcotics and your grandma’s credit card number + ID. And yes, cnw is way more ruthless than 1337crew ever was.

Anyway, I wanted to point at this because cloudflare said they took KF down because they felt like legal enforcement wasn’t moving fast enough. CNW destroyed lots of lifes too and it isn’t a secret that a few of cnw‘s users are well connected to rocker gangs which pull of murder for hire.

mccorrinall··on Blocking Kiwifarms
While I agree with you that the content on kiwifarms is not covered by free speech, you should not play law enforcement and wait for a court order instead.
mccorrinall··on I ran the worlds largest DDoS-for-Hire empire and Cloudflare helped
Cloudflare still protects all those forums which harm people. Kiwifarms is the only one which was sensationized by the twitter crowd.

Look at crime.to. They still send bomb threats [1], exchange stolen credit card data [2], harass people to the point where they lose their houses [3] (SWATing, breaking in into their house and much more included), and probably more on a daily basis.

Still protected by cloudflare. Pretty hypocritical if you ask me.

[1] https://archive.ph/mOBGB

[2] just browse the forum

[3] https://www.merkur.de/bayern/nuernberg/drachenlord-youtube-w...

mccorrinall··on Interview: Vitalik Buterin
And this slashing process does not solve the issue. Or well, it does, but it makes the whole system centralized and introduces a single point of trust.

The bounty hunters, who find misbehaving validators which signed orphaned blocks, will slash the validators stake. But those bounty hunters are programs which are being run in Vitalik‘s basement. Not everyone will be able to run one like a normal validator. They are trusted entities within the network.

mccorrinall··on Interview: Vitalik Buterin
While validators can’t censor, they can play both sides: Nothing at stake is still not solved on ETH.
mccorrinall··on Tor – Arti 1.0.0 is released: Rust Tor implementation ready for production use
iced-rs, a gui framework in rust, is sponsored by kraken.

react-grid-layout is written and maintained by cofounder of bitmex.

uWebSockets, one of the fastest ws servers, is mainly makelt afloat by crypto exchanges who make use of the author‘s consultancy service.

mccorrinall··on US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia
China will just import the cards via third leg which isn’t sanctionizing them, eg Japan
mccorrinall··on AMD Launches Ryzen 7000 Series Desktop Processors with Zen 4 Architecture
You compare instructions per clock with the clockspeed.
mccorrinall··on Telegram is asking German users when to share information with law enforcement
We should ban IRC next because all the swastikas floating around.
mccorrinall··on Telegram is asking German users when to share information with law enforcement
Even if they don’t store it: if they get a court order, and it requires to turn on IP logging, they will have yours the next time you log in.
mccorrinall··on Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers
Apple’s web extension api is crippled.
mccorrinall··on Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers
Try Orion browser on iOS/iPad. Afaik it’s the only browser that implements web extensions, therefore you can install any native firefox or chrome extension from the store.

It’s by the makers of kagi.

mccorrinall··on Web3 Domain Name Service Could Lose Web Address-Owner Who Can Renew Is in Prison
Quite a lot of jail time for what basically hosting a crypto party is.

What’s next? Sending everyone to jail who published articles online on how to trade crypto?

mccorrinall··on Meta is building an AI to fact-check Wikipedia
Usually the truth is somewhere on the web, just not necessarily on the wikipedia article.
mccorrinall··on The coming tsunami of fakery
Headphones don’t age. It’s perfectly fine for such an old article coming up, especially if gets referenced on prosumer forums such the r/audiophile or r/hifi subreddit.

Sennheisers headphone division got eaten by its own success: the sennheiser hd 650 is so durable and has such a great soiund quality, that people just aren’t switching away from that 20 year old headphone.

In case the link you mentioned isn’t about that mid range headphone, it’s probably about the beyerdynamics T1.

Besides talking about audio equipment: I hate the sites on google who update the dates of their articles although the content wasn’t changed. Happens way to often. I googled the release date of BOTW2 a few days ago, and 3/4 of the search results were blatant seo spam where the initial article was about something else, and then the headline and date were changed in order to get more traffic from google.

Imo you are setting the wrong priorities for a search engine.

mccorrinall··on Soketi: Simple, fast and resilient open-source WebSockets server
My guess: Their motivation is probably that they used a SaaS product, which was totally overpriced for what value it provided and they want to show that they can do it better for cheaper.

Anyway, what exactly is the use of this compared to just using uWS straight away? It’s build on uWS, so this is basically just a pusher implementation and some notification features with cool branding?

mccorrinall··on Mobility startup TIER is laying off 16 percent of staff
Did softbank and goldman stop throwing money at them?
mccorrinall··on TypeScript is terrible for library developers
I recently typed my state for zustand (react library for managing state) and it was a horrible experience.

An example from the docs with middleware:

https://docs.pmnd.rs/zustand/typescript#middleware-that-chan...

If anyone calls this “easy, just learn generics” I won’t believe them further.

mccorrinall··on Tauri vs. Electron – Real world application
Fyi you need to optimize for two browsers only: chromium (edge) is the webview on windows, and webkit is the webview on linux and macos.

Anyway, I’m curious about the svg and flexbox issues you mentioned. I have not experienced any differences with those across systems and browsers.

mccorrinall··on OpenAI API pricing update FAQ
Microsoft does microsoft things.
mccorrinall··on uBlock Origin works best on Firefox
If video and sound don’t work in firefox it sounds more like a microsoft issue than a firefox issue. Webcam and Microphone APIs are following the standard and are well documented on MDN.

Sounds like user agent / window.navigator sniffing in order to block the browser.

Classic microsoft. They will never change.

mccorrinall··on Uacme: ACMEv2 client written in plain C with minimal dependencies
Not affiliated with caddy, but caddy is awesome! I use it all the time.
mccorrinall··on Developers, family protest arrest of Tornado Cash developer in Amsterdam
Just because someone uses a mixer/coinjoin/atomic swaps etc it isn’t money laundering. If the US really know that money is being laundered, they can send an email to the developer and tell him to not accept funds from those addresses. I doubt that this happened.
mccorrinall··on Ask HN: Are there any decent GitHub Copilot Alternatives?
Students get 1 year of copilot for free. But it’s like heroin: once you got hooked on it, you cannot live without it.
mccorrinall··on A sane SSH(1) key management example
If you run a dark net market and your servers are at the risk of being seized, then no, you don’t want stuff like whoami.filippo.io to work.

It all depends on your threat model, I guess.

mccorrinall··on TSMC to begin 3nm chip production next month
"N3 technology will offer up to 70% logic density gain, up to 15% speed improvement at the same power and up to 30% power reduction at the same speed as compared with N5 technology (According to TSMCs website). If this holds true we could see 300+ MT/mm2."

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/3_nm_lithography_process#TSMC

mccorrinall··on AirTag leads to arrest of airline worker accused of stealing from luggage
Take a look at this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.trac...
mccorrinall··on Vietnam to make Apple Watch and MacBook
smic (partially state owned) is only two nodes behind tsmc and samsung: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/china-chipmaker-smics-7nm-...
mccorrinall··on VPNs on iOS are a scam
iOS has no native wireguard support
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