Em Adespoton

https://lemmy.ca/comment/25786053

So that’s over 1,000 unverified proofs published now?

At that volume, it becomes noise; someone still has to read, understand, validate and be able to apply those proofs before they become useful.

Well… the existing source is still open. Has anyone forked the repo?

If there were no people, there’d be no piracy. We’re all piracy tools.

syncspirit is a continuous file synchronization program, which synchronizes files between devices. It is built using the C++ rotor actor framework. It implements the BEP-protocol for files synchronization, or, simplistically speaking, it is a syncthing-compatible synchronization program at protocol level, which uses the syncthinginfrastructure (for global discovery and relaying).

Despite being functional, syncspirit is less feature-rich than syncthing and is still in heavy development

Apple positions iCloud as a “must use” — but I still use my phone with syncs and backups going to my computer. No iCloud. All photos get transferred to the computer on each sync, where they get sorted and touched up without the Photos app, and then a curated folder with stripped metadata etc. gets synched back to the phone.

I’ll just place this here: https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/04/fbi-recommends-encrypted-messaging-apps-combat-chinese-hackers/

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One zero at a time….

The whole thing is wrongheaded in the first place; any child wanting to access adult-only content will use an adult’s account to do so; any adult attempting to access adult-only content is likewise going to use an adult’s account.

So unless they’re tying this to biometrics that are actually secure against an adverserial child, all the system really does is creates a registry of adults. And we already have those.

Just so you know, turning all that off only limits SOME of the telemetry going back to Microsoft. You can’t turn it all off.

I self-host NextCloud myself, which provides shareable calendars, contacts, drive space, photos and collab office suite. It doesn’t do email. For email, I have my own domain and point the MX records at whatever service I currently happen to be using.

Proton seems to be trying to do all of this, but I don’t want one org holding all that personal data of mine, even encrypted. The only people who need access to my NextCloud data are my family, which is much easier to manage than thousands of accounts.

It wasn’t like that before Meta bought WhatsApp. This is why Signal is the superior app using the protocol; Meta stores not only the conversations, but separately stores the address books and the connection meta data and communication web. The actual messages are at least encrypted, but they’re still sitting there waiting to be accessed by anyone with a key (it doesn’t have to be her key).

AI agents can already search all about me.

They only find what I’ve made available for them to find.

Eventually they might be able to link all my personas to physical me, but by then I’ll likely be dead.

Helps that I don’t have a SSN and that credit companies don’t have my correct address.

Also helps that I don’t share photos on social media.

Either is fine. I’d just send it a wall of text and it would hit its token limit and stall.

Unless it was running towards me to protect me; in that case, I’d want Claude.

At first I thought this was the Israeli company run by “ex” Mossad that owns all the VPNs. But after going through the website, the company is called Privacy Inc. and appears to be run by a bunch of rich ex-US intelligence people.

They do a really good job of hiding their staff and company name and physical location, revealing only what’s legally required. That means they at least have the chops to do privacy right… but it always gives me a funny feeling when a company doesn’t stand behind its own brand but instead depends on third party promoters.

And they call themselves a global private telecom, but appear to be very US-focused, with two US locations (but no addresses available).

They certainly have lots of claims and appear to have thought about company structure, but this looks really similar to a Langley shell company to me.

Are there commercial enterprises outside China adopting RISC-V?

Seems to me that’s when we see the tipping point.

Following the successful laboratory demonstration, a prototype chip could be ready by 2030, the scientists said in the study.

The researchers think a further reduction in the thickness of the Mn3Sn layer will reduce power consumption even more. The next challenge, they added, will be to develop a commercially viable bulk manufacturing process capable of building the device at scale.

Aside from the viability of producing the chips at scale with rare minerals, there’s another item I don’t see answered: they’ve produced one of these in the lab — but that’s like producing one transistor. Modern CPUs have ~20billion transistors. How tight can these new systems be packed? If they’re fast and efficient but 20 billion of them would take up a football field, that’s not going to be very useful.

I haven’t touched anything that used Adobe DRM in over a decade….

The provenance and concept look fine; the claim to be the first decentralized VPN rings a bit hollow when TOR predates it by decades. That in itself makes me question the other claims more than I would if they just stuck to “properly decentralized” or similar. Celebrity sponsorship also rings warning bells for me.

But then, using a VPN for privacy purposes seems odd to me too — unless you own both ends of the tunnel.