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tetraodonpuffer commented on "Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit   pluralistic.net/2025/08/1... · Posted by u/Refreeze5224
pier25 · 13 days ago
There's no way this could be implemented globally.
tetraodonpuffer · 12 days ago
why don't you think this would work? Technically this is basically "the (SP) site trusts another (IDP) site to sign/encrypt a JWT containing some custom assertions". The user would go to the SP, get a signed blob (session nonce / expiry / whatever), take that to the IDP, log in there, IDP creates a JWT with the original blob plus any assertion you allow, you post the JWT back to the SP, SP decrypts the IDP packet, gets its own nonce, ties you to the session, done.

There are also obviously better ways (https://blog.cloudflare.com/privacy-pass-standard/ possibly some variation of zero knowledge proofs) but technically this seems like a solvable problem. Money wise the IDP or in general verifier can charge users for an account and/or generated assertions.

tetraodonpuffer commented on A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)   prog21.dadgum.com/29.html... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
Someone · 15 days ago
tetraodonpuffer · 15 days ago
according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ispell ispell (1971) already used Levenshtein Distance (although from the article it is not stated if this already existed in the original version, or if it was added in later years).
tetraodonpuffer commented on Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering   qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwe... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
rushingcreek · 23 days ago
Not sure why this isn’t a bigger deal —- it seems like this is the first open-source model to beat gpt-image-1 in all respects while also beating Flux Kontext in terms of editing ability. This seems huge.
tetraodonpuffer · 23 days ago
I think the fact that, as far as I understand, it takes 40GB of VRAM to run, is probably dampening some of the enthusiasm.

As an aside, I am not sure why for LLM models the technology to spread among multiple cards is quite mature, while for image models, despite also using GGUFs, this has not been the case. Maybe as image models become bigger there will be more of a push to implement it.

tetraodonpuffer commented on Piano Keys   mathpages.com/home/kmath0... · Posted by u/gametorch
ajuc · a month ago
I never understood why the piano keyboard isn't regular. It forces players to remember different positions for the same chord transposed to start at different notes.

Like why do I have to remember the shape for C major and D major chords? It should be the same shape just starting at C vs D.

It's not even that hard to fix. There's 12 semitones in an octave. Just make it 6 white 6 black keys.

tetraodonpuffer · a month ago
having the keyboard the way it is also allows you to more easily orient yourself, you can feel with the sides of your fingers if you are next to E/F or B/C and with the corner of your eye it's also straightforward to figure it out. I don't think it'd be possible (or anyways even more difficult than it is now) to play large jumps accurately if the whole keyboard looked the same
tetraodonpuffer commented on Every part on a bicycle is safety critical   escapecollective.com/thre... · Posted by u/spooky_deep
pentamassiv · a month ago
Modern bikes allow novel attacks too. I wrote a blog post about how to downgrade the firmware of a Shimano Di2 groupset and doing a replay attack to shift someone elses bike.

https://grell.dev/blog/di2_downgradehttps://grell.dev/blog/di2_attack

tetraodonpuffer · a month ago
this is why if I was a sprinter a the TDF I'd 100% be on a mechanical groupset (assuming the sponsors allowed me to) a missed shift on a sprint means losing 100%
tetraodonpuffer commented on Every part on a bicycle is safety critical   escapecollective.com/thre... · Posted by u/spooky_deep
HPsquared · a month ago
There are a couple of extra factors to consider:

1. Does the part give clear "warning" that failure is imminent (e.g. sound, feel, appearance), or will it just fail suddenly? (This characteristic is often a key design feature of safety-critical equipment)

2. When the part fails (note, different failure modes should be considered separately), what is the range of outcomes? (E.g. drive failure is dangerous if you're crossing the street, not so dangerous at other times; bell failure could occur at the worst possible time, etc). Then on the other hand we have structural failure of the frame and handlebars etc which are almost guaranteed injury.

So if you are riding a bike with lightweight racing components that aren't designed with a "leak-before-break" philosophy, riding in mountainous terrain in a crowded peloton, then yes - pretty much any small deviation from normal could cause a massive pileup. On the other hand, a leisurely commmuter ride on a quiet path has much more tolerance for component failure.

tetraodonpuffer · a month ago
it still depends what component it is, when I was a teenager I was riding a bike with rim brakes, the bolt holding the front rim brake to the frame broke all of a sudden during very light braking, the caliper rotated and got caught between the spokes and the front fork leading to the front wheel immediately stopping leading to me performing a superman dismount (since then I've ALWAYS worn bike gloves when riding). There had been no signs at all that the bolt was about to fail.

In my experience (many years of riding, quite a few years of bike commuting full time included) most mechanicals on the front wheel mean a fall/crash, but everything else just leads to having to walk home if you don't have the right tools (carrying a couple spare chain links in addition to the typical flat repair stuff and a full set of hex keys lowers the chance you'll have to do so).

tetraodonpuffer commented on The Rise of Whatever   eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/th... · Posted by u/cratermoon
scrollaway · 2 months ago
My girlfriend is a ceramist. She makes porcelain pieces (https://malinamore.art/) that are sold for hundreds or even thousands of euros.

Why would someone buy a plate off her, when they could get one from IKEA for 1.50 eur?

Yet ceramics is not a dead art. Beats me?

tetraodonpuffer · 2 months ago
there will always be a market for exceptional artists, but what about the other 80-90% of people that used to be able to make a living and now can't anymore? What are they going to do? And without the possibility of a particular profession leading to gainful employment, very few people will even start it, making the funnel smaller and smaller until even exceptional artists won't be able to emerge at all.
tetraodonpuffer commented on Wayland is growing up. and now we don't have a choice   fireborn.mataroa.blog/blo... · Posted by u/mmoya
cardanome · 2 months ago
I am still perfectly happy running X11. I am not going to switch any time soon.

Never change a running system.

The fact that only Gnome kind-off supports basic accessibility on wayland already shows what a giant failure wayland is.

tetraodonpuffer · 2 months ago
it only takes popular distributions making it default, then all sorts of things will start depending on it, and it will be difficult to not switch eventually. As somebody that has written a lot of xlib/xt/motif code years back, and that still has the full O'Reilly X series set on my bookshelves, I would prefer X11 to continue; but just like sysv->systemd it seems things are moving against that being the case.
tetraodonpuffer commented on My Mac contacted 63 different Apple owned domains in an hour, while not is use   appaddict.app/post/my-mac... · Posted by u/rpgbr
lapcat · 2 months ago
Little Snitch can detect and block connections at the process level.

https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html

tetraodonpuffer · 2 months ago
that works in a lot of cases, but unfortunately it seems sometimes you get these popups about nsurlsessiond (for example) where you know where the connection goes, but no idea where it comes from (especially if it's trying to connect to to some generic AWS hostname)

And as much as you can use little snitch for programs you install, these days it seems an endless whack-a-mole to block Apple's stuff as there's so many requests all the time. The more time goes by, the more it seems that the concept of "personal" computer is gone: there's nothing "personal" about it anymore, it's the computer plus an amorphous blob of online services one has no control over.

tetraodonpuffer commented on Microsoft Go 1.24 FIPS changes   devblogs.microsoft.com/go... · Posted by u/ingve
qmuntal · 7 months ago
Author here. Microsoft is a soft Go fork mostly for internal Microsoft needs, but some projects outside of Microsoft use it as well due to it's good FIPS 140 story. I expect some of these users to switch back to Google's Go now that it will also ship with a FIPS-140 crypto stack.
tetraodonpuffer · 7 months ago
Any plans to use it for the managed azure istio so that can be used in FEDRAMP environments?

u/tetraodonpuffer

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How to set up a linux / virtualbox / pfSense system where all networking runs over pfSense and apps are run in Virtualbox VMs, each firewalled by pfSense separately, with some i3 monitoring of the VMs

http://www.woodensquares.net/posts/rationale.html

Set up a Kubernetes cluster from scratch on a set of CoreOS Xen guests, with flannel, RBAC, TLS etc.

http://www.woodensquares.net/posts/xen-1.html

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