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throwawayk7h··on Anthropic shares more details about how Claude's new watermarks will work
My understanding of the watermark process is that it only kicks in when it's not the case that one particular token is overwhelmingly likely. In the case where many tokens are plausible, we already choose with PRNG -- the "watermark" is essentially a more easily reproduced PRNG, but it still looks like PRNG.
throwawayk7h··on I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
The problem is that Remote Attestation allows apps to reliably detect running in an emulator. Otherwise, it's already possible with waydroid.
throwawayk7h··on Dates That Don't Exist (2015)
So, the Proleptic Gregorian Calendar[1] refers to what you'd get if you extended the current Gregorian Calendar back in time before its introduction. (It agrees with the Julian calendar only during the 3rd century AD.) Most date libraries use the Proleptic calendar for simplicity. Ruby's DateTime is unusual insofar as, by default, it actually switches to the Julian calendar for dates before Oct 15 1582.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proleptic_Gregorian_calendar

throwawayk7h··on Toot.community is shutting down
Yes, it's called ActivityPub. I'm surprised it doesn't support migrating posts.
throwawayk7h··on More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle
Can someone explain to me why tailscale is needed at all?
throwawayk7h··on Kill The Cookie Banner
It should be by default, rather than relying on the parent proactively.
throwawayk7h··on Firefox Containers Preview
I'd love to be able to specify containers on bookmarks. That's the biggest missing feature for me still.
throwawayk7h··on Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude
Why would you think the advance is the problem? The problem is the low cut of sales if anything. The advance is exclusively beneficial.
throwawayk7h··on Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
I dislike passkeys because they support remote attestation. It's my key -- why does the website care what app I'm using to host it or if I'm allowed to copy it? Or what operating system I'm using, for that matter.

Because of this, I will not use passkeys. It's a slippery slope. Once we're all on passkeys, website devs won't resist enabling the remote attestation bit, locking out linux users.

throwawayk7h··on European Court: Apple Can Not Shirk Off Its Interoperability Requirements
thanks!
throwawayk7h··on European Court: Apple Can Not Shirk Off Its Interoperability Requirements
How do I report this typo to the eff? they have no contact page.
throwawayk7h··on Don't change lanes – the maths of holiday traffic jams
Here's the trick when driving on highways to clear up traffic jams: try to move at a flat, constant speed, such that by the time you would reach the stopped car in front of you it has already started moving again.

To the people behind you, traffic appears to be moving at a constant speed. The wave stops propagating backward and the jam clears up.

throwawayk7h··on Google deleting all recently inactive accounts without phone number
perhaps they are planning for the eventuality that long-lifespan unused accounts become a commodity, an easy way to avoid age verification.
throwawayk7h··on Show HN: Reverse-engineering web apps into agent tools
This is going to wind up with remote attestation being implemented into web browsers to prevent this exact thing (and conveniently for google, this will finally end adblock)
throwawayk7h··on How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)
if nothing works, try cryonics. Maybe AI-2040 is right and we'll be able to revive you in a few years.
throwawayk7h··on AI 2040: Plan A
No, nobody can be held liable for the extinction of humanity, for there is nobody left to pay up. If your objection is that you think AIs won't cause human extinction, you should say that instead, as that would be where you disagree with the authors.
throwawayk7h··on Show HN: Yamanote.fun – A complete soundscape for Tokyo's Yamanote line
I think I'd be 2% less likely to visit japan without the melodies. I love those things.
throwawayk7h··on LineageOS Statistics
Why so few in Canada compared to the U.S?
throwawayk7h··on StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time
Please advertise that you offer it on f-droid as well! I only see Play store and App store links. But it's available right here: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.westnordost.streetcomplet...
throwawayk7h··on OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router
gl·iNet also runs openWRT. You can even ssh into these routers.
throwawayk7h··on Fable 5 will default to Opus 4.8 for coding tasks
If fable 5 can't do code... what are people using it for?
throwawayk7h··on The case for physical media ownership
be that as it may, when e.g. TicketMaster asks me if I want to "use a passkey," they are potentially referring to something with remote attestation capabilities.
throwawayk7h··on The case for physical media ownership
Okay let me withdraw slightly. What I mean is: if I choose of my own free will to not be able to access the bits (e.g. via a cryptoprocessor) then sure, I can still "own" it. And that's the case for certificate authorities. But when vendors force me (with remote attestation) to not be able to access the bits, then I see that as me not having control => me not owning the key.
throwawayk7h··on The case for physical media ownership
There are also non-transferrable passkeys which can't be copied between two secure devices, so it'd be hard to get some passkeys onto your yubikey in the first place.

Furthermore, I personally feel that if you can't actually access the bits, you don't truly "own" it.

throwawayk7h··on The case for physical media ownership
You don't consider WebAuthn to be passkeys? Why not?
throwawayk7h··on Wayfinder Router: deterministic routing of queries between local and hosted LLM
It'd be nice to just have a command prefix e.g.

/local fix my typo

throwawayk7h··on The case for physical media ownership
that's not true. Passkeys have an optional remote attestation capability, which second parties can use to completely enforce aspects of your keys, such as them being non-transferrable or not usable without a screen touch etc.
throwawayk7h··on Steam Machine launches today
I'm skeptical that they have working CEC. The steam deck, for example, does not. It also doesn't work reliably with many TVs. I'll believe it when I see it.
throwawayk7h··on Japanese verb conjugation the simple hard way
there are more irregular verbs than just kuru and suru. iku and aru are also irregular, for example.

Irregulars notwithstanding, the conjugation pattern is actually completely lossless if you just remember the imperative form (e.g. 着ろ kiro, 切れ kire) instead of the infinitive, which is lossy (e.g. 着る kiru, 切る kiru). Then there's no need to have to remember, "oh... is this -iru verb group 1 or group 2?"

throwawayk7h··on Show HN: Teach your kids perfect pitch
What I dislike about this method is that it seems to be focussed on A=440 Hz, which is arbitrary. I assume that if the learner drifts later in life by under a semitone, then things will seem like they're between keys.
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