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pa7ch commented on Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections   blog.citp.princeton.edu/2... · Posted by u/WaitWaitWha
SV_BubbleTime · 19 days ago
>Electronic tabulation introduces little risk when the ballots are paper.

Do European and other first world countries favor electronic tabulation?

Is it possible that introduction of all electronic factors reduce trust?

pa7ch · 19 days ago
Risk limiting audits are why this work. You physically sample ballots at random. The number you sample grows as the gap in the electronic tally shrinks to reach high confidence the election was tabulated correctly.
pa7ch commented on 39th Chaos Communication Congress Videos   media.ccc.de/b/congress/2... · Posted by u/Jommi
cyberpunk · a month ago
In the talk he mentions he’s from Canada…
pa7ch · a month ago
He has been living in LA and working for the EFF for some time now.
pa7ch commented on James Moylan, engineer behind arrow signaling which side to refuel a car, dies   fordauthority.com/2025/12... · Posted by u/NaOH
lostlogin · a month ago
The person (committee?) who came up with USB A needs sanctions.

And Apple Needs more, for putting power buttons and key ports at that back.

pa7ch · a month ago
whats wrong with usb-a? I feels more sturdy and less likely to have connection issues then usb-c in my experience.
pa7ch commented on Five Years of Tinygrad   geohot.github.io//blog/je... · Posted by u/iyaja
pa7ch · a month ago
Very weird to market this as subscribing to "Elon process for software"

I remember when defcon ctf would play Geohot's PlayStation rap video every year on the wall.

pa7ch commented on Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability   phoronix.com/news/First-L... · Posted by u/weinzierl
pa7ch · 2 months ago
Honestly seems like zig is shaping up to be a better fit for kernel. Regardless the language that attracts skilled kernel devs will matter more then lang.
pa7ch commented on Booting Linux in QEMU and Writing PID 1 in Go to Illustrate Kernel as Program   serversfor.dev/linux-insi... · Posted by u/birdculture
pa7ch · 2 months ago
Gokrazy is a minimal linux distro that just boots into a go init program. You can run on a raspberry pi or pc. It has a little init system that just takes a path you normally use in `go run` and just runs them and restarts as needed. Its been a joy for me to play around with. Has A/B updates as well.

https://gokrazy.org/

pa7ch commented on 30 Year Anniversary of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness   jorsys.org/archive/decemb... · Posted by u/sjoblomj
SpaceManNabs · 2 months ago
I consider WCIII TFT the apex but that is because i really like the hero mechanic and it spawned so many amazing custom games, including the moba genre. I know AoS was first but dota really made it.
pa7ch · 2 months ago
I feel like wc3 is undersung. To me it achieved the perfect balance of allowing potentially mechanically worse players to win with brilliant tactics or strategy. It put the emphasis on strategy in rts more then anything else.

As a kid I was shit at it and played customs maps and goofed with the editor. Now I've gone back to find grubby streaming and revealing the depths of the meta evolution, and counters.

I like that even when a strong meta develops people can potentially counter with strategies that aren't as well rounded for long term use but upset the current meta.

pa7ch commented on Google 'Looking into' Gmail Hack Locking Users Out with No Recovery   forbes.com/sites/daveywin... · Posted by u/lawlessone
bickfordb · 2 months ago
I think the larger question is why are we all (or most of us?) still using Gmail? Why can't an average person host their own email server with open source software with straightforward security upgrades instead of trusting BigCo or the latest SmallCo?
pa7ch · 2 months ago
I think its fundamentally more difficult to host communications services where spam is possible and there is no auth/contact system in place before first communication can happen.
pa7ch commented on Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig   sinclairtarget.com/blog/2... · Posted by u/yurivish
evanmoran · 2 months ago
I thought the recent error proposal was quite interesting even if it didn't go through: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/71528

My hope is they will see these repeated pain points and find something that fits the error/result/enum issues people have. (Generics will be harder, I think)

pa7ch · 2 months ago
I was a big fan of the original check handle proposal: https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/go2draf...

I see the desire to avoid mucking with control flow so much but something about check/handle just seemed so elegant to me in semi-complex error flows. I might be the only one who would have preferred that over accepting generics.

I can't remember at this point because there were so many similar proposals but I think there was a further iteration of check/handle that I liked better possibly but i'm obviously not invested anymore.

pa7ch commented on Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground   zigtools.org/blog/zigbook... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
testdelacc1 · 2 months ago
But he isn’t. He’s just writing an AI slop book about Zig. Surely there’s nothing legally wrong with that? He never said it’s an official book or backed by the Zig project.

The trademark cudgel is used on people who release an incompatible language that they insist on calling Zig, confusing people who want to try Zig. Or people who add malware to the Zig tool chain and try to distribute that.

Trademark can’t be used to control bad actors like zigbook.

pa7ch · 2 months ago
Mm thats a good point. I'm not entirely clear on the limits of trademarks in this case. Its Zigbook rather then Zig.

u/pa7ch

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