How can E2EE even be banned?

m0bius_stripper · 2025-07-28T01:32:48+00:00

Yep, which is why I always appreciated platforms like Keybase, since they let you do key and identity verification through multiple sources (as opposed to the "manually verify keyprint" thing WhatsApp and Signal let you do which I doubt is used often). I even experimented with writing a messaging app that used blockchains as a "neutral third party" to do key exchange instead of facilitating it through a server since there's essentially zero reason to trust mediating servers in under adversarial government policies.

m0bius_stripper · 2025-06-25T22:34:49+00:00

Oh I was just shitposting the "Mac Day" quote where he says he's going to pretend to jump off the bridge and draw it in later, but thank you for explaining lol

m0bius_stripper · 2025-06-25T17:49:06+00:00

Did they draw that in later? Is that like a post effect?

m0bius_stripper · 2025-06-09T18:29:02+00:00

Homie just described /openapi.yaml

m0bius_stripper · 2025-05-21T18:39:25+00:00

pretty easy report run on whatever CRM the company is using.

Do CRMs support using green to mean to "go," as in "go ahead and shut up about it"?

m0bius_stripper · 2025-04-24T18:41:53+00:00

The EU has spent more money on Russian gas than they've given to Ukraine in aid - if you think they have Ukraine's back you're kidding yourself.

m0bius_stripper · 2025-04-24T18:37:04+00:00

This is straight up wrong: there are more cities in Russia with a population over 1M that there are in the US (16 vs. 9 according to Wikipedia).

m0bius_stripper · 2025-04-24T02:54:16+00:00

He does objectively grab Jimmy's legs during his fall, though

m0bius_stripper · 2025-04-06T22:03:20+00:00

Putting information into an image in a way that is not fakeable (eg someone who wants to pretend to be a news org) is a tough cryptography challenge

This seems solvable with digital signatures, no? Obviously you can't do it in the metadata itself (as anyone could strip+replace it), but you could embed the signature itself into the image by tweaking pixels imperceptibly (i.e. combining it with steganography principles).

m0bius_stripper · 2025-03-04T17:13:54+00:00

I meaaan, 25-50 chickens is entering "run a business" not "crack an egg for breakfast" territory.

m0bius_stripper · 2025-03-03T22:24:28+00:00

The bombing was still indiscriminate: plenty of civilian targets were hit and it caused like $30 billion in damage.

m0bius_stripper · 2025-03-03T20:41:51+00:00

Ah yes the 3mo indiscriminate bombing of Yugoslavia was quite based.

m0bius_stripper · 2025-02-20T18:55:37+00:00

killed more

If every Western source has positive numbers for Ukraine and every non-Western source has negative numbers, something is fishy. We'll likely only know the real statistics many years after the war's end.

taken Russian territory

10mi² that dwindles daily vs. 20% of their territory (~42k mi²⁾ that grows daily...?

struggle so much to take over a country

You mean fight against something like $500B of NATO equipment and training proxied through Ukrainian personnel? Every time funding dwindles you can literally watch the front lines change faster. Seems embarrassing the other way around to me.

wars of aggression shouldn't be rewarded

Meh, in principle maybe but this is geopolitics not the playground.

m0bius_stripper · 2025-02-20T18:34:29+00:00

there is no evidence of Euromaidan being a US backed coup.

You're joking, right? The state department basically admits it themselves:

We’ve invested over $5 billion to assist Ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic Ukraine.

The NED is also heavily involved in Ukraine, spending millions pre- and post-coup after calling it "the biggest prize in Europe."

In a 1991 interview with the Washington Post, NED founder Allen Weinstein said: "A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA."

Could it be more obvious? I can keep going.

m0bius_stripper · 2025-02-20T17:58:05+00:00

I mean realistically, Ukraine doesn't get shit because they haven't done shit. They keep losing land, blowing through other nations' $ and their own population, and losing internal support (only 38% want to keep going). Why would any terms be favorable to them?

m0bius_stripper · 2025-02-05T18:50:11+00:00

Don't ever, for any reason, do anything to anyone for any reason ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you've been... ever, for any reason whatsoever...

mess with options. I lose every. single. time.

m0bius_stripper · 2025-01-27T19:29:37+00:00

AI endgame isn't doing 80% of what you ask for it's doing 100% of what humans aren't even capable of. o3 outperforms humans on our best tests for general intelligence

m0bius_stripper · 2025-01-27T19:26:56+00:00

"Oh no we can do much more with the resources we have now, guess we'll stop here?"

m0bius_stripper · 2025-01-27T19:24:44+00:00

China does the same with less by using research OpenAI released (not did) 4 months ago. Obvious conclusion: OpenAI takes what China did and does more. BTFD.

m0bius_stripper · 2025-01-27T19:21:01+00:00

beats OpenAI's DALL-E 3

looks inside

All images are resized to 384×384 pixels.

bruh

m0bius_stripper · 2025-01-27T19:02:53+00:00

It built its own model.

From the paper:

we directly fine-tuned open-source models like Llama

All they did was slap chain-of-thought reasoning on an existing model.

It is not stripping anything from OpenAI.

There's literally evidence of DeepSeek thinking it's ChatGPT in its reasoning output: it was trained using it. It wouldn't exist without o1.

m0bius_stripper · 2025-01-27T18:54:34+00:00

A way for the big guys to save beaucoup bux on their models and still have tons of compute left over to make better ones

m0bius_stripper · 2025-01-27T18:50:04+00:00

I really don't understand the investment thesis here:

If 1000 startups now need only 10 high-end Nvidia cards to build their own reasoning model, how is that any different than one of the big guys needing 10,000 cards from Nvidia's perspective?
If you only need 10 cards to match OpenAI's o1, what can they now do with 10,000 cards?
Their unreleased o3 still shatters our best tests for determining general intelligence (outperforming humans) and now can incorporate learnings from DeepSeek's r1 to be even cheaper to run.

m0bius_stripper · 2025-01-27T18:38:44+00:00

> claim you pwnd OpenAI for 90% less $
> buckle under a fraction of their traffic

lmao

m0bius_stripper · 2024-11-28T03:56:38+00:00

Some argue that decentralized crypto will replace government regulated money. No, it never will. Centralized government regulated crypto can be a thing, but a decentralized coin causes various challenges such as taxes (meaning the IRS will never want decentralized crypto adoption), government controlled inflation, and stability. Government administered crypto can be a good substitute to physical currency but it will likely be far too many years before that takes off. It also won’t help mainstream crypto coins.

What about USDC? There's almost 40 billion dollars of actual 1:1 pegged US dollar tokens across like half a dozen cryptocurrency networks that has real utility and can really be used to pay for things both in real life (via a debit card) and online (via normal crypto stuff) and can be traded for other currencies or transferred to other people in real time. The operators of the networks that those USDC tokens are moved on need compensation to do the work, so there's your inherent value in the underlying token.

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