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Re:FBI Extracted Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification ...
on Thursday April 09, 2026 @09:38AM (#47703596)
Perhaps Signal should force the notification settings to "don't show the content" when disappearing messages are enabled in a particular chat?
Re:Determination of the fifth Busy Beaver value
on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @03:06PM (#45280034)
No, they are correct, because the deciders themselves are just a cog in the proof of the overall theorem. The specification of the deciders is not part of the TCB, so to speak.
Re:Toronto's Pearson airport responding to emergency involving plane l...
on Monday February 17, 2025 @10:50PM (#43085906)
The discord link will die soon. The attachment links started expiring at some point last year IIRC.
Re:Why Is Warner Brothers Discovery Dumping Old Movies on YouTube?
on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @11:57AM (#42951435)
I'm pretty sure this is a feature that's available at least to big creators – I remember a Tom Scott video doing a bit involving scheduling an ad at a particularly fitting moment.
You might have to be a YouTube partner or something like that to make use of this stuff, though.
Re:Long term technologies, waiting in the background
on Monday December 02, 2024 @09:50AM (#42296735)
I must admit, this is the kind of description that's enough to make me want to maybe get into ham radio someday.
Long term technologies, waiting in the background
"War on WPE", or the single-member community of Automattic CEOs
Re:Harvard Railroad Economics Exam (1906)
on Sunday June 16, 2024 @08:01AM (#40696424)
I have heard of at least one instance of an exam a while ago, where some questions – ones that need diagrams in their statement – would be written onto the blackboard in the exam room, due to limitations of the duplication techniques used for the exam paper.
Re:Open-Source Screen Recorder
on Saturday March 09, 2024 @05:42AM (#39650820)
Exactly, the comment in question is basically a noisy upvote.
Re:California Pizza Hut Lays Off Delivery Drivers Amid New Wage Law
on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @10:45PM (#38778902)
Probably trimmed due to HN's length limit
Re:Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hacke...
on Thursday December 14, 2023 @05:59AM (#38640045)
You're talking about industrial PLCs. They're programmed using a-bit-more-fancy Scratch snappy blocks. There is no version control. The firmware contained paths embedded as strings, so we know that firmware for each model and customer was developed in a separate folder on disk. I wouldn't be surprised if they also had .zip files with backups of previous versions.
Re:Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops
on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @09:57AM (#38531613)
As explained by the linked article in Polish, the workshop reached out to them and asked of they could figure out why the train isn't working.
Re:Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip ...
on Sunday November 19, 2023 @03:20AM (#38330416)
I've seen a lot of discussion about YouTube banning adblockers, but as a user of Firefox + uBO, I have never seen it happen for me. Perhaps the Firefox extension ecosystem makes it easier to push blocklist updates or something. Or YouTube's detection is browser-specific and they bothered with the largest first.
Re:Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip ...
on Sunday November 19, 2023 @03:14AM (#38330377)
Some sort of checksumming to detect segments differing between users would probably be doable.
Re:The 8000th Busy Beaver number eludes ZF set theory (2016)
on Thursday November 02, 2023 @02:58PM (#38118371)
Checking whether a string of bits encodes a proof of False in ZF is decidable. Now enumerate the bitstrings and check each.
Re:macOS Sonoma Boot Failures
on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @08:31PM (#38093196)
Only one of the two bugs listed requires a ProMotion display. The other one can occur on all Apple silicon machines.
Re:Oxide: The Cloud Computer
on Thursday October 26, 2023 @04:31PM (#38031339)
I suppose we need to know if it's secure boot (tivoization), or verified boot (remote attestation).
Re:Localization Failure: Temperature Is Hard
on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @04:37AM (#37926199)
Pretty sure you can just click the dotted menu button on that popup and select "do not translate from $LANG".
Re:BB(3, 3) is Hard
on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @02:21AM (#37911288)
How do you make the new machine compute BB(754)? BB is the canonical example of an uncomputable function, precisely because you can decide the halting problem if you can compute it (or any upper bound). Granted, BB may be computed for specific arguments, as OP mentions for 1–4, but the existence of the ZFC-dependent machine is, at least to me, a very good argument that the boundary of what's possible is much lower.
Re:BB(3, 3) is Hard
on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @02:18AM (#37911269)
Do note that any function f(n) that is always (or even just eventually always) greater than BB(n), is uncomputable, for very similar reasons.
Re:The $8,192 NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty
on Friday October 06, 2023 @06:01AM (#37788840)
The standards claim that the existence of such a (SEED, a, b) tuple is enough to show that there is nothing special about the curve in question. But if one in a billion curves have a special property that only you know about, which would make it easier for you to attack the cryptosystem, you can try a variety of different SEED values until you find a desirable curve.
Re:We have successfully completed our migration to RAM-only VPN infras...
on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @10:36AM (#37584713)
There are two known ways to achieve this:
- Multi-party computation. Too much overhead for something like this.
- Remote attestation, as seen in e.g. Intel SGX. Usually provided by the CPU vendor. Not a cryptographic guarantee, more of a "it'd be very hard to defeat this if you're not Intel". Probably not that warrant-resistant.
Re:Detecting SSH Tunnels (2017)
on Thursday September 14, 2023 @06:31AM (#37507146)
They want to consider normal connections legitimate, and only detect tunnels.
Re:Absurd Success
on Thursday August 31, 2023 @11:53AM (#37339172)
It's the search engine for the niche stuff. Marginal stuff, if you will. The name makes sense to me.
Eh, as long as you assign both hyper-threads to the same tenant, and schedule them at the same time, you should be fine.
Re:Do not expose your RIGOL oscilloscopes to the internet
on Sunday July 16, 2023 @11:03AM (#36747773)
I don't think it's strncmp itself that's the problem. They fucked up and are only checking that the provided password matches a prefix of the stored password. And obviously an empty string is a matching prefix.
Re:GPT-4 Details Leaked
on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @11:51AM (#36682725)
The software is the matrix multiplication and gradient descent. We are talking about the numbers in the matrices. They are the output of a training algorithm, so we can only talk about the copyright on the training algorithm, and on its input data.
Re:OpenAI sued for $3B after allegedly trampling privacy with ChatGPT
on Thursday June 29, 2023 @11:07AM (#36521405)
You are claiming that piracy is legal.
Re:The legend of “x86 CPUs decode instructions into RISC form internally”
on Monday June 19, 2023 @11:28AM (#36392199)
Not even that - instruction fetch can cause a page fault. When an NMI happens,the CPU still has the choice of when to service it. If it needs to flush the pipeline, it might as well retire the instructions up to the first store.