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tanewishly commented on Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online   ellsberg.substack.com/p/f... · Posted by u/blurbleblurble
rocqua · 5 months ago
Zero knowledge proofs are the solution.

The website sends the verification function to the user device. The user device then returns a proof that it knows an input that the verification function accepts.

The verification function should include a digital signature check.

This is generally possible already with SSI based credentials, including standards created by W3C.

tanewishly · 5 months ago
Or attribute-based credentials. Basically, you're challenged and get a one-time, challenger-specific credential for exactly the requested attribute(s) from a credential provider. Eg. government (municipality, province, national) can become a credential provider.

Eg. Yivy: https://docs.yivi.app/technical-overview/

tanewishly commented on Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"   simonwillison.net/2025/Ju... · Posted by u/simonw
xnx · 5 months ago
Fair. I dislike "non-deterministic" as a blanket llm descriptor for all llms since it implies some type of magic or quantum effect.
tanewishly · 5 months ago
Errr... that word implies some type of non-deterministic effect. Like using a randomizer without specifying the seed (ie. sampling from a distribution). I mean, stuff like NFAs (non-deterministic finite automata) isn't magic.
tanewishly commented on Libxml2's "no security embargoes" policy   lwn.net/SubscriberLink/10... · Posted by u/jwilk
arp242 · 6 months ago
A lot of these "security bugs" are not really "security bugs" in the first place. Denial of service is not resulting in people's bank accounts being emptied or nude selfies being spread all over the internet.

Things like "panics on certain content" like [1] or [2] are "security bugs" now. By that standard anything that fixes a potential panic is a "security bug". I've probably fixed hundreds if not thousands of "security bugs" in my career by that standard.

Barely qualifies as a "security bug" yet it's rated as "6.2 Moderate" and "7.5 HIGH". To say nothing of gazillion "high severity" "regular expression DoS" nonsense and whatnot.

And the worst part is all of this makes it so much harder to find actual high-severity issues. It's not harmless spam.

[1]: https://github.com/gomarkdown/markdown/security/advisories/G...

[2]: https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2024-0373.html

tanewishly · 6 months ago
> A lot of these "security bugs" are not really "security bugs" in the first place. Denial of service ...

Ackshually...

Security is typically(*) classified as CIA: Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability. Denial of Service is an attack against Availability... so yeah, that kind of is inherently a security bug.

tanewishly commented on The JAWS shark is public domain   ironicsans.ghost.io/how-t... · Posted by u/MBCook
genghisjahn · 6 months ago
Wow! Thats quite a catch!
tanewishly · 6 months ago
You're going to need a bigger boat.
tanewishly commented on The JAWS shark is public domain   ironicsans.ghost.io/how-t... · Posted by u/MBCook
jfengel · 6 months ago
As I understand it, problem wasn't Universal. It was that the publisher didn't put his name on the copyright page, so the art became public domain under the laws at the time.

That law has been replaced and you now get copyright automatically.

tanewishly · 6 months ago
That was my takeaway as well. The weird thing is: since it's someone else doing the initial publication, their omission of copyright credits is costing the artist their copyright. That's... unexpected. I don't know how things worked back then in book art, but if the artist wasn't contracted as work-for-hire, protecting their copyright ought to become the burden of those who actually made the art public. I don't know if this argument was put forth in appeals, but ruling+motivation on this point from the appeals committees are absent from the story.

Sounds like you could accidentally make someone else's art public domain by forgetting to include them on the copyright page...

edit well, perhaps that's part of the reason the copyright laws were updated.

tanewishly commented on Game Hacking – Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC)   codeneverdies.github.io/p... · Posted by u/LorenDB
IsTom · 6 months ago
> fun will always be dictated by how often you win

Matchmaking is designed so that you win roughly 50% of the time (except for the very top), no matter how well you play. If you focus on playing better it's going to be a treadmill by design. OTOH some people accept that you're going to lose 50% of matches anyway, chill and keep to lower ELO.

tanewishly · 6 months ago
I can see that working in a 1-v-1 game, but how does that work in a last-one-standing game? Each game would have 1 winner and N-1 players who lost.
tanewishly commented on We investigated Amsterdam's attempt to build a 'fair' fraud detection model   lighthousereports.com/met... · Posted by u/troelsSteegin
tripletao · 6 months ago
The linked article already notes that model accuracy degraded after their reweighting, ultimately contributing to their abandonment of the project. (For completeness, they could also have considered nationality in the opposite direction, improving accuracy vs. nominally blind baseline at the cost of yet more disparate false positives; but that's so politically unacceptable that it's not even mentioned.)

My point is that even if we're willing to trade accuracy for "fairness", it's not possible for any classifier to satisfy both those definitions of fairness. By returning to human judgment they've obfuscated that problem but not solved it.

tanewishly · 6 months ago
My point was that there is no test (or classifier) that can always guarantee that one definition of fairness by itself, irrespective of the base rate. If the classifier acts the same independent of base rate, there are always base rates (ie occurrence rates in the rates population) for which the classifier will fail the given definition.

That illustrates that the given definition cannot hold universally, irrespective of what classifier you dream up. Unless your classifier is not independent from the base rate - that is, a classifier that gets more lenient if there's more fraud in the group. That seems undesirable when considering fairness as a goal.

tanewishly commented on It’s nearly impossible to buy an original Bob Ross painting (2021)   thehustle.co/why-its-near... · Posted by u/rmason
prmoustache · 6 months ago
He was more famous because he appeared on TV, and transfered/the joy of painting, not because of his paintings. They were unremarkable to say the least.

A lot of people are trying to make a living painting landscapes with the same painting for dummies style that Ross used (not invented). It seems counterproductive to give money to speculators for an unremarkable painting of a dead man when you can spend a fraction of that to buy a similar decorative painting and contribute to the income of someone who actually worked and spent time on it.

tanewishly · 6 months ago
The thing is: I'm not looking for an unremarkable painting. I sincerely am not interested in one. So spending my money that way would be counterproductive.

Related: if you feel this style of painting is so unremarkable, why are you advocating for others to support knock-offs? To use an analogy: I have zero interest in buying a Louis Vuitton handbag - but my interest in buying one of the far cheaper knockoffs you can get at touristy places from shady peddlers is a lot lower than that.

tanewishly commented on It’s nearly impossible to buy an original Bob Ross painting (2021)   thehustle.co/why-its-near... · Posted by u/rmason
tayo42 · 6 months ago
2k I think could get you two paintings by some of the most famous current water color artists(going off memory)
tanewishly · 6 months ago
Perhaps, but unless one of them is Walt Disney, I've never heard of them - therefore their fame does not impact my valuation of their work. I can see myself spend 50 bucks on a (to me) unknown piece of art because it is pretty. Spending more would require an additional connection - fame of artist, depicts something dear to me, seems like a good investment, etc. etc... only being pretty isn't enough.
tanewishly commented on It’s nearly impossible to buy an original Bob Ross painting (2021)   thehustle.co/why-its-near... · Posted by u/rmason
prmoustache · 6 months ago
Because he was a celebrity?

I paint myself occasionally some similarly uninspired stuff, and bar 2 painting I hung in the living room and corridor, I throw them away (or rather reuse the canvas) because I don't even consider them art but rather artisanal decorative items.

2 thousand can get you much more interesting paintings. There are many talented but barely known artists anywhere in the world waiting for you. You just have to visit galleries whenever you are visiting a town.

tanewishly · 6 months ago
No, because he painted something that I find pleasant to look at and consider it worth money. The price is higher because of the artist's fame, that much is true - but that is always the case with art.

I mean, you're basically arguing about taste... Bob Ross was a lot more famous than most other artists, not in the least because many people liked what he produced.

u/tanewishly

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