Reminder, there is no cloud, there is just computers of other people. And I for one support those other people's right to do on their computers what they want.
Readit Newsyk commented on YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/jakub_g
I wouldn’t be so harsh. I think the Unicode Consortium not only started with good intentions but also did excellent work for the first decade or so.
I just think they got distracted when the problems got harder, and instead of tackling them head-on, they now waste a lot of their resources on busywork - good intentions notwithstanding. Sure, it’s more fun standardizing sparkling disco balls than dealing with real-world pain points. That OpenType is a good and powerful standard which masks some of Unicode’s shortcomings doesn’t really help.
It’s not too late, and I hope they will find their way back to their original mission and be braver in solving long-standing issues.
I would. The original sin of Unicode is really their manifold idea, at that point they stopped trying to write a string standard and started to become a kinda general description of how string standards should look like and hopefully string standards that more or less conform to this description are interoperable if you remember which direction "string".decode() and "string".encode() is.
yk commented on German court declares Karl Marx's teachings unconstitutional harici.com.tr/en/german-c... · Posted by u/Anthony-G
The title is extremely clickbaity, to the point of being a lie.
Actual news: A group was in risk of being considered left wing extremist, which could jeopardize their non profit status. The court ruled in their favor actually.
It just so happens that the wording of the court’s justification of the ruling irked some people - quickly paraphrasing, “Marx teachings might be contrary to democracy but this people aren’t acting on those teachings so their reading isn’t reason to consider them extremists”.
Some groups are worried that this wording about marx sets a precedent, being unclear if there is actual legal concerns.
The phrasing the court uses is precisely the one used in the German constitution to allow restricting basic rights for political reasons. Though the court uses "probably against the constitution" in German and Germany's law is not as directly case law as in the US, the court ruling is still saying that being a Marxist "probably" warrants suspension of the constitution and only in the specific instance of a long running reading group who are otherwise harmless basic rights may be granted.
yk commented on StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers lwn.net/SubscriberLink/10... · Posted by u/pabs3
Dumb question... Could you do a per-word bloom filter to do online spell checking without actually disclosing the words you're checking?
There are two scenarios I believe, first accidentally sending a (decent) password, and second the server not learning what you actually look up.
For the first case, sending a hash would prevent the server from learning a password that is not in the dictionary, something like password5 would hash to gibberish.
For the second, the server needs to know what to actually send back. I believe Google's malicious website check works (or used to) by truncating a hash an then just sending the answer for some 128 or so websites and have the browser figure out which of them the user wanted to visit. That creates some deniability over witch website you actually visited and should be also usable to prevent the server from learnering what you actually looked up.
So yes, I think you could design a more secure Protokoll. Though general security disclaimer the people trying to read your letters probably spend more time attacking than I spend writing this post.
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So NFTs for stocks?
yk commented on Nuclear Waste Reprocessing Gains Momentum in the U.S. spectrum.ieee.org/nuclear... · Posted by u/rbanffy
I'm confused the article sometimes talks sometimes about transmutation, that is turning problematic isotopes into ones with shorter half life and theoretically gaining energy in the process, and sometimes about reprocessing, taking spent fuel and essentially recycling to get usable fuel again.
yk commented on New Bacteria Have Been Discovered on a Chinese Space Station wired.com/story/bacteria-... · Posted by u/yk
So if it turns out they evolved on the space station, would that mean we discovered extra-terrestrial life, or is that cheating?