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salviati commented on Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz forever-wars.com/torture-... · Posted by u/perihelions

DyslexicAtheist · 7 days ago

I never claimed it was a democracy, either today or in the past. I actually said the opposite.

salviati · 7 days ago

I see. I thought you meant "under Trump the US is not a democracy". Which I think is a pretty common opinion. But now I understand you meant "the US has never been a democracy".

salviati commented on Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz forever-wars.com/torture-... · Posted by u/perihelions

conartist6 · 7 days ago

They clearly think of anyone they don't like as not human. I am only indulging in their crime. They do what evil people would do.

salviati · 7 days ago

Thinking that the word is divided into evil and non evil people is not very useful.

salviati commented on Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz forever-wars.com/torture-... · Posted by u/perihelions

DyslexicAtheist · 7 days ago

> strange thing is how some "democracies" do that

the US is not a democracy.

Also, it is not a "repeat of old patterns" but continuation of things that have never been solved.

salviati · 7 days ago

> the US is not a democracy.

Since when? You probably think that it has been a democracy at some point. And I'm sure the US did use torture at the time you deemed it a democracy.

Hence I don't get your point.

salviati commented on Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down · Posted by u/bakigul

zombot · 12 days ago

Is that the same as "All downdetectors are down"?

salviati · 11 days ago

People confused by this reference can read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down

salviati commented on Show HN: I built a 1.8MB native app with self-built UI, vision and AI libraries github.com/Okery/Aivition... · Posted by u/jaramy

soulofmischief · 15 days ago

On my personal computer running macOS, I have this program called "App Store". And on my GNU/Linux machine, I have all of these weird programs distributed as something called "AppImage". And on my Windows machine, the Microsoft Store has a tagline which says, "Microsoft Store - Download apps, games & more".

There is not a desktop/mobile distinction in terminology other than the one you're attempting to enforce.

salviati · 15 days ago

I thought providing my point of view was contributing to the discussion. I didn't mean to enforce anything.

I still don't think most people would call Excel or Photoshop "apps", but I'm absorbing the points of view expressed in the replies to my comment.

salviati commented on Show HN: I built a 1.8MB native app with self-built UI, vision and AI libraries github.com/Okery/Aivition... · Posted by u/jaramy

mmmlinux · 15 days ago

What happened to executable?

salviati · 15 days ago

`/bin/ls` is an executable but it's not an application. The two terms are different.

salviati commented on Show HN: I built a 1.8MB native app with self-built UI, vision and AI libraries github.com/Okery/Aivition... · Posted by u/jaramy

salviati · 15 days ago

I think the name "app" is quite universally recognized as "mobile application", i.e. application for iOS or Android.

I think you should call it "application" to avoid confusion. Windows application would be even clearer.

salviati commented on The cryptography behind electronic passports blog.trailofbits.com/2025... · Posted by u/tatersolid

miki123211 · 2 months ago

So, if I understand this article correctly, if a single terminal private key ever leaks, all the protections preventing any random passer-by from reading your biometric data go out the window[1].

You could partially mitigate such a weakness by including "not valid before" and "not valid after" timestamps in the certificates, which would have to be short-lived. Passports would then verify that the timestamp supplied by the terminal is in the correct range, as well as that it is greater than any previous timestamp this passport has ever recorded.

salviati · 2 months ago

This would also add the requirement of an accurate internal clock.

salviati commented on European.cloud: A Curated Directory of EU-Based Cloud Providers european.cloud/... · Posted by u/florian_s

salviati · 2 months ago

https://www.netcup.com/en is missing.

salviati commented on I only use Google Sheets mayberay.bearblog.dev/why... · Posted by u/mugamuga

glimshe · 3 months ago

And it all started with Visicalc. The spreadsheet and the word processor are the most important computer programs ever created. No wonder Google and Microsoft still make billions from these two.

salviati · 3 months ago

I would argue that the compiler is the most important computer program.

Or maybe that it doesn't make that much sense to look for a most important program.

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