did you know that researchers in 2022 demonstrated that you could process an opponent's microphone, extracting the noise induced by their GPU, and use that noise to know where they were on a Counter-Strike map
fun fact: if you publish a package to a package manager with a name that is one bitflip off from a very popular package, computers around the world will sometimes accidentally download and install/run your package because of radiation from space
online so-called “leftists” when “tech bros” make tools that put the means of production directly into peoples hands (3d printing, generative AI, and crypto)
one day google is going to randomly kill 8.8.8.8 for no reason and a double digit percentage of the internet as well as major world governments will go down
it’s simple. DALL-E is a plagiarist because it learned from billions of pieces of existing artwork. unlike real artists, who are sealed inside a deep dark cave until they are 20, at which point they emerge to dispense their vision unto the world
since everyone is talking about log4j/supply chains
an experiment years ago i calculated 1-bit offset utf8 strings of the top few hundred npm packages and registered packages under them
they received thousands of hits per week from machines trying to download and execute them
summary of my current view of LK-99 superconductor saga:
- LK-99 levitation is likely due to its relatively strong diamagnetism combined with weak ferromagnetism in parts of the sample causing a torque ()
- LK-99 high-low resistivity transition is likely…
so, uh, while his own company was over leveraged through exposure to its own money that it printed to back loans (FTT), and exposure to a pseudo-internal hedge fund that makes huge bets on leveraged illiquid tokens, SBF was advocating for…. KYCing defi frontends
“techbro” is just the reemergence of thinking it’s cool to hate nerds, mixed in with a bunch of resentment from watching the last 20 years of nerds taking over the world
45k likes. blatantly misleading misinformation: the person who made this misinformation took a GAN designed to produce close outputs given an input, gave it these inputs, and is now raising a reactionary mob
alexey pertsev sits in jail without charge for publishing privacy preserving cryptography while SBF sits in his $40M mansion, bought with stolen customer deposits, taunting us on twitter and having NYT puff pieces published about him
cryptocurrency is a field where some of the most groundbreaking, important, and impactful computer science & cryptography research is happening, while its public perception is Dog Coin Go Up
a ton of people from that generation read Paul Ehrlich’s “population bomb” and deeply internalized it, and still haven’t really coped with the fact that all of his predictions were wrong and continue to be wrong, let alone the reprehensible underlying anti-human ideology
Speaking on a World Economic Forum panel, UN "Messenger of Peace", Jane Goodall, advocates reducing the global population down to 450 million—a 95% reduction from today's population:
"We cannot hide away from human population growth. Because, you know, it underlies so many of…
if we sent a space telescope about three times further into space than Voyager, we could use the sun’s gravity as a lens and take high resolution photos of planets in other solar systems, with enough data to easily infer details about their biosphere and other activity
you gotta be rentseek maxing. you gotta be buying commercial real estate. you gotta be providing nothing of economic value while benefiting from the work an innovation of others. you gotta be calling bitcoin rat poison. you gotta be dumping gigatons of sugar into american bloodst
i am primarily interested in crypto as a technology which can use cryptography and distributed systems to give individuals and communities more autonomy and to make more resilient, secure, verifiable, and interoperable financial rails
the OP claims samsung "isn't faking it like huawei", the thing about that is, that the geometry of the camera is known and you can do math to compute its optical limits
the mythology from normies about tiktok is insane. they think it’s an ultra powerful spying apparatus, unique in its ability to spy on you. they think it has kernel level hooks into your phone and is listening to you all the time and has access to every piece of data on every…
Breaking News: The Biden administration is demanding the Chinese company that owns TikTok sell the app or face a possible ban due to national security concerns.
the thing that upsets me the most about ftx is that mainstream seems to think some random guy’s hedge fund blowing up invalidates all the amazing zk, pl theory, cryptography, mechanism design, distsys work that so many amazing high-integrity people are working on
yearning for the real in the morass of hyperreal and unreal near-singularity content swamp (pointing an actual telephoto lens at things and measuring the actual photons)
this ad was funded by ashton kutcher’s anti-encryption mass surveillance startup. you know, the guy who was in the news a week ago for writing apologia letters to a judge to try to get his serial rapist friend a lighter charge?
1948
oppenheimer: oh no my “make a big huge bomb” project made a big huge bomb what have i done i am destroyer of world
john von neumann: we should nuke russia
update: there are still no charges, but they’re continuing to hold him, and are now apparently planning to auction all of his property while he sits without being charged with any crime. very normal country
here's my response to
@moxie
's article about web3, web3 infrastructure, trust, etc. i wrote about constructive criticism, light clients, message detection, and overall ways to improve the status quo of web3/crypto infrastructure.
if personal computers were invented today there would 100% be a movement to attempt to ban them, or at least mandate mass surveillance of them as a prerequisite for legality
all sums are zero. no new wealth. only stagnation and a brutal fight to increase your wealth at the cost of others. entropy be my god, death be my light, praise the dying of the light
bro it's not a "woke cancel mob", it's all your gay, trans, and non-binary coworkers, cobuilders, and comrades suddenly realizing that you secretly think we are evil degenerates
imagine if reagan issued an executive order in 1985 requiring all computers with more than 1 gigaflop of compute to be registered with the government, all of their users have to kyc and all uses have to be pre-approved. the number is never revised upwards
one of the coolest bits of sidechannel stunt hacking in recent memory has to be the one where they were able to identify websites people were browsing, extract keys, and even wallhack in counterstrike, using only the background noise from their microphone in a VOIP call
it's wild how there's a credible claim of high temperature superconductivity, with a simple process that will take days to replicate (or not), and there isn't a single mainstream news outlet reporting on this
i see there’s a lot of new interest from the general public in Mastodon. before jumping over, you should know that mastodon is split into instances. anyone running an instance can
- see your hashed password and all user data
- read all of your DMs
- take over your account
you too can be a billionaire:
1. make token with 1,000,000,001 supply
2. make uniswap pool for token, put 1 USDC and 1 token in pool
3. you are now a billionaire (marked to market)
somehow python managed to take off despite having bar none the worst devtools ux in existence. there’s literally not a correct way to install it into your env and there’s not a way to make portable builds or reproducible builds
brantly.eth is currently the most powerful ENS delegate, with about 100k more votes than Coinbase.
if you don't think this attitude is something worth supporting, please redelegate.
sorry but cryptography and distributed systems are fake and scams now because some guy in the bahamas overleveraged his hedge fund and stole $10B of customer deposits
nooo you can’t distribute machines that allow anyone to own a means of production for arbitrary media!!!! think of the intellectual property holders and existing commercial interests!!
ok so this celsius thing is quite bad. hear me out, what if we required all businesses like that to instead use some sort of open computer contract, that could be executed on some sort of neutral layer, and have all of its properties independently verified by consumers and regs
don’t worry bro it could be much worse, imagine if you were one of dozens of men who had to listen as i described how i broke their crypto protocol to their boss, instead of just being the guy that’s insecure because my tweets are complicated
i am once again reminding you that california is one of the most beautiful places on earth and most of the anti california takes on this website are insane cope
if someone says "people shouldn't be allowed to have anonymity/pseudonymity online and privacy is dangerous" you should immediately be suspicious about them. vibe check failure of the utmost degree
the Canada stuff is mind boggling to me, feels like a major catalyst, didn’t expect to see a major western government saying “if you protest wrong we will coerce our captured financial chokepoints to cut you off from the economy” so soon
i dont understand. how did these idiots have the bitfinex bitcoin. who gave it to them. why did they have it. who would trust them with it. what is going on
wild how in centralized exchange world "heavily regulated" mostly means "we are deputized to surveil all of our users and randomly submit 'suspiciousness' reports because we don't like their activity" rather than "we produce cryptographic proofs of solvency of our business"
i am extremely glad that no one "protected" me from:
- dropping out of US high school
- not taking out a US student loan
- not going to college
- investing in bitcoin and eth
- doing multiple startups
- playing with defi and protocols
the boomers told me these would ruin me
the thing about mass surveillance is that it induces a positive feedback loop: behavior revealed by mass surveillance is used as evidence that there needs to be more surveillance. with no limiting principle (fourth amendment or equiv), this quickly spirals out of control
hating crypto is fine, but look out for when “lol fuck crypto bros” leads you into supporting stuff like “ban end to end encryption” or “allow the government to blanket compel or ban speech” or “deputize wall street as ultra powerful Stasi”
iOS 16.2 is out, which adds end to end encryption for iCloud backups, photos, and other data, but only if you opt-in. if you use iOS, update and opt in now!
we need to start buying and running ads like “without encryption, predators, criminals, and literally north korea can see all of your kids photos, medical data, and personal information”
i'm shocked that the CEO of the company with the leading advantage in [industry] is pleading to congress for regulation. we have never before seen this in history
SVB depositors, mostly startups paying payroll to employees, lost money because their bank, unbeknownst to them, bought treasuries and mortgage-backed securities with a duration mismatch
this isn't a "lOL riCh vCs LoSt MoneY on ApeS" situation