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auscad commented on The Crime Messenger cbc.ca/newsinteractives/f... · Posted by u/SirLJ

auscad · 9 months ago

What makes this different from a typical attack on encryption is that this company (probably) knowingly distributed to and worked with criminal enterprises.

But this article is written in a way that suggests that encryption is dangerous - an angle that the CBC has taken before - which makes sense considering that it is a government-owned news outlet in a Five Eyes member state.

auscad commented on Show HN: Memories – FOSS Google Photos alternative built for high performance memories.gallery/... · Posted by u/radialapps

lxgr · a year ago

If you don’t trust your OS, how can you trust it to run an app? Apps can’t hide data from the OS that’s running them.

auscad · a year ago

I’m concerned about what the OS is doing in accordance with its privacy policy or terms of service. Without having read them (I am only human) I assume the photos in the default location are sent off for analysis to “improve your experience by showing you relevant advertising”. I would be surprised if this above-board surveillance went as far as crawling the filesystem

auscad commented on Show HN: Memories – FOSS Google Photos alternative built for high performance memories.gallery/... · Posted by u/radialapps

auscad · a year ago

I would really like to see an integrated camera app that allows me to hide my photos from the OS so that big brother doesn't automatically ingest them

auscad commented on Find the date of your birthday in the number pi mypiday.com/... · Posted by u/Gedxx

auscad · 2 years ago

This is an incredibly slow grep as a service. I’m not sure why this is supposed to get anyone excited about Wolfram.

auscad commented on The promise of crypto has not lived up to its initial excitement economist.com/special-rep... · Posted by u/martincmartin

rektide · 2 years ago

The actual value of crypto as a technology seems to have receeded past visibility. At its origin, it promised enduring new forms of interconnected computing. But overwhelmingly, there seem to be no contemporary applications of any note, just endless cryptocoins of unremarkable note as far as the eye can see.

auscad · 2 years ago

> At it's [sic] origin, it promised enduring new forms of interconnected computing.

Have you read the Bitcoin whitepaper? You should, it’s not that long. This is not what was promised. We were promised a decentralized peer to peer currency with a fixed supply that couldn’t be inflated at the whims of a central bank. We got that. And we sort of also got “new forms of interconnected computing”. We now have new types of zero knowledge proofs which were designed for smart contract verification but are more generally useful. We have things like IPFS allowing you to store data in a decentralized way. There’s helium, a mesh network for IoT devices. We have ENS. Then of course we have an endless supply of sophisticated financial instruments which you probably wouldn’t be able to access otherwise.

Your position is easy to take because it’s sort of the “default” that an uninformed person would believe, and those people will side with you.

auscad commented on CATL's Sodium-Ion Battery medium.com/predict/catls-... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi

jimnotgym · 3 years ago

The weekly HN 'new battery chemistry will solve all worlds problems' story.

I will believe it when I see it

auscad · 3 years ago

CATL is the world’s biggest EV battery manufacturer, and they’re planning to mass produce these batteries in the next few months. This isn’t your run of the mill university research press release.

auscad commented on Mcmaster.com is the best e-commerce site I've ever used bedelstein.com/post/mcmas... · Posted by u/runxel

monstertank · 3 years ago

Do they ship to Australia? Any idea if that is also comparable to Amazon delivery speeds?

auscad · 3 years ago

Probably not. They don’t ship to Canada. Don’t be fooled if you’re able to place an order with a non-US address. I was able to, before getting an email the next day when they realized their mistake.