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meowkit commented on The dead Internet is not a theory anymore   adriankrebs.ch/blog/dead-... · Posted by u/hubraumhugo
kubb · 2 days ago
I want cool cryptography where I can, e.g. verify where I'm writing from and what my age is without giving away any other information.

Or if I want, I can verify that I'm myself, and eschew anonymity, and certain platforms should only accept contributions from people who don't hide their identity.

Everyone knows who you are in the town square.

meowkit · 2 days ago
Zero Knowledge Proof schemes

Applied ZKPs are being actively worked on in the blockchain sphere.

meowkit commented on Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far   burkeholland.github.io/po... · Posted by u/tbassetto
Aurornis · 2 months ago
> If I am unable to convince you to stop meticulously training the tools of the oppressor (for a fee!) then I just ask you do so quietly.

I'm kind of fascinated by how AI has become such a culture war topic with hyperbole like "tools of the oppressor"

It's equally fascinating how little these comments understand about how LLMs work. Using an LLM for inference (what you do when you use Claude Code) does not train the LLM. It does not learn from your code and integrate it into the model while you use it for inference. I know that breaks the "training the tools of the oppressor" narrative which is probably why it's always ignored. If not ignored, the next step is to decry that the LLM companies are lying and are stealing everyone's code despite saying they don't.

meowkit · 2 months ago
We are not talking about inference.

The prompts and responses are used as training data. Even if your provider allows you to opt out they are still tracking your usage telemetry and using that to gauge performance. If you don’t own the storage and compute then you are training the tools which will be used to oppress you.

Incredibly naive comment.

meowkit commented on Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner   layandreas.github.io/pers... · Posted by u/wismwasm
nomel · 2 months ago
Spotify lossless support was added last year [1].

[1] https://newsroom.spotify.com/2025-09-10/lossless-listening-a...

meowkit · 2 months ago
Spotify only streams 16-bit lossless as far as I have seen (though they claim 24 bit in this post). Might require artists to reupload the audio?

Tidal has much more 24 bit options when I did an A/B.

The dynamic range difference is very material on quality sound setups.

As a side note Bluetooth (at least for Airpods) only does 16-bit!

meowkit commented on A prediction market user made $436k betting on Maduro's downfall   bbc.com/news/articles/cx2... · Posted by u/tartoran
ordinaryradical · 2 months ago
The problem with prediction markets is not purely insiders but that they interface with the real world, so they encourage bettors not just to predict an outcome but to bring it into being.

You are a poorly paid Russian commander. You open an account on polymarket or Kalshi and place a bet about specific Russian troop movements, perhaps ones that would be disastrous to your war effort even, to up the leverage. When you’ve accumulated a sufficient position, you order the troops to be moved, perhaps even out of accord with orders from above. Your front collapses, your soldiers are routed, and you get rich.

These markets are dangerous. We will learn this lesson eventually.

meowkit · 2 months ago
Your example assumes there would be sufficient liquidity on that bet. The existing platforms aren’t houses or market makers that just provide functionally infinite liquidity on any bets. The “win” criteria on this example is so specific that verification becomes its own problem.

In theory a fun example, but practically it doesn’t play out the way you’re describing.

meowkit commented on DMT-induced shifts in criticality correlate with self-dissolution   jneurosci.org/content/ear... · Posted by u/Anon84
cluckindan · 3 months ago
1) Absolutely nobody is going to take heavy psychedelics if they are driving or operating heavy machinery, and if they are, they are either very misinformed or simply don’t care to the point of malice. Driving or operating while impaired is a crime in itself.

2) The effects of DMT wear off in 15-30 minutes, which is why it’s called ”the businessman’s lunch”. Subjectively, however, a person may experience decades of time pass.

meowkit · 3 months ago
Wheres the wooshing joke jpeg when you need it
meowkit commented on How stealth addresses work in Monero   johndcook.com/blog/2025/1... · Posted by u/ibobev
kasey_junk · 3 months ago
Courts, law enforcement and contract law. All of which will take a dim view of using a currency which appears designed wholly to make their function harder.
meowkit · 3 months ago
That is not where trust in the dollar comes from.

It comes from stability. Predictability.

Courts and law enforcement certainly provide these things, but they are not required. The inherent design of blockchains makes them trustworthy (an oversimplified statement), which is even better.

meowkit commented on Project Gemini   geminiprotocol.net/... · Posted by u/andsoitis
barbazoo · 4 months ago
Unrelated but I went to the linked website, then a while later to Youtube and now I'm getting videos recommended about the Gemini protocol that I have never heard of before today.

I'm on Arc and use uBlock Origin Lite, NextDNS, if I had searched I would have used Kagi. How do they (Google) know?

EDIT: I'm not implying that the gemini project is doing anything wrong here

meowkit · 4 months ago
The prediction algorithms are so good that indirect behaviors and data can be informative.

You might also be profiled by Google and bucketed into a group of similar people who leak their data. They also went to this website and their YT recommendations became a signal to inform your own.

Not claiming any certainty here just possible ideas.

meowkit commented on How the cochlea computes (2024)   dissonances.blog/p/the-ea... · Posted by u/izhak
xeonmc · 4 months ago
Nit: It’s an unfortunate confusion of naming conventions, but Fourier Transform in the strictest sense implies an infinite “sampling” period, while the finite “sample” period counterpart would correspond to Fourier Series even though we colloquially refer to them interchangeably.

(I had put “sampling” in quotes as they’re actually “integration period” in this context of continuous time integration, though it would be less immediately evocative of the concept people are colloquially familiar with. If we actually further impose a constraint of finite temporal resolution so that it is honest-to-god “sampling” then it becomes Discrete Fourier Transform, of which the Fast Fourier Transform is one implementation of.)

It is this strict definition that the article title is rebuking, but it’s not quite what the colloquial usage loosely evokes in most people’s minds when we usually say Fourier Transform as an analysis tool.

So this article should have been comparing to Fourier Series analysis rather than Fourier Transform in the pedantic sense, albeit that’ll be a bit less provocative.

Regardless, it doesn’t at all take away from the salient points of this excellent article which are really interesting reframing of the concepts: what the ear does mechanistically is applying a temporal “weigting function” (filter) so it’s somewhere between Fourier series and Fourier transform. This article hits the nail on the head on presenting the sliding scale of conjugate domain trade offs (think: Heisenberg)

meowkit · 4 months ago
I was a bit peeved by the title, but I think its a fair use of clickbait as the article has a lot of little details about acoustics in humans that I was unfamiliar with (i.e. a link to a primer on the the transduction implementation of cochlear cilia)

But yeah there is a strict vs colloquial collision here.

meowkit commented on Digital ID – The New Chains of Capitalist Surveillance   theslowburningfuse.wordpr... · Posted by u/Refreeze5224
gorgoiler · 5 months ago
The bouncer saying I need to see your ID always rubbed me up the wrong way, not because I objected to being challenged but because they don’t need to know who I am, they just need to see proof of age. Not even that! Proof that my age is greater than or equal to X!

In a world where we would might actually see societal benefits in having people prove things about themselves*, could we not leverage technology to emit verifiable tokens that say “I have the right to work” and “my eyeballs have this shape and are this far apart”** without the world turning into 1984?

(I suppose with enough people there could still be a black market for token generators where you could feasibly buy one that matched a subset of your biometrics.)

* Illegals have the potential to be exploited just as much they themselves can be exploitative. It goes both ways.

** Is it possible to have biometrics that can be verified against my physical presence, but which can’t be used to identify me in a crowd?

meowkit · 5 months ago
Google zero knowledge proofs for verification
meowkit commented on Open Social   overreacted.io/open-socia... · Posted by u/knowtheory
deadbabe · 6 months ago
How about DNS on a blockchain?
meowkit · 6 months ago
https://docs.ens.domains/learn/protocol/

Supporting DNS all up should be possible but organizing the other decentralized services (compute, storage) is the hard part

u/meowkit

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