"We gave them $14 million to work on the protocol."
Jack Dorsey/Blue Sky are/were morons apparently. Rich, but ignorant, what a terrible combination.
Imagine what Pekka Riikonen would have done to improve SILC with $14 million?!
SILC was ALREADY libre/free open source and a protocol before Twitter ever existed.
SILC ALREADY had end to end encryption! It even implemented PFS (Perfect Forward Secrecy) before SSL/TLS tried to do so.
SILC even attempts to mitigate eavesdropping of its users' communications from hostile server operators, something which almost no other realtime encrypted comms protocol even seems to realize is a threat.
Why do the morons get all the money while the people who actually advance the state of the art tend to get ignored and forgotten to obscurity?
@teajaygrey because the morons don't know they're morons, and they think their ideas are perfect so they brag about them all the time. The people who know what they're doing spend most of their time trying to poke and fix holes in their work.
What was it a couple of weeks ago where I was head scratching about Taylor Swift having TWO private jets?
I re-watched Inception last week.
How could I have forgotten that they performed their Inception-errific-injection during a first class air fare (of an airline owned/purchased by the adversary) by sabotaging the target's private jet? Thus necessitating them to book a ticket on a plebeian airline?
I guess Taylor Swift's threat model is just on a different level?
I am grateful I am not so rich and famous as to have to worry about fictional threats from Christopher Nolan movies.
I have more than enough real world threats as it is.
My "threat level" was already set to: "we do not have multiple founding partner level employees flying the same flights" mitigations as far back as 2010, because iSEC Partners was not looking for a repeat of this disaster:
Library hasn't even been open for 30 minutes and I've already seen 3 women with babies in strollers, another woman with a toddler, there's a free tax workshop in the basement which appears to be at capacity just about and I didn't even go upstairs.
I mostly frequent libraries for the toilets and WiFi and a quiet place to sit and focus, but these community resources are used heavily and I don't think they get nearly enough funding and resources.
They're basically proxies for human decency in societies which largely turn a blind eye to the impoverished.
"The N3Ultra is powered by a Snapdragon CPU and operated under Android 8.1."
I guess, maybe it will run a different Android version when shipping? (Some places claim it is already in stock though, so seems as if they could check that first hand)
Near as I can guess: Cayin is using some stripped down Android build sort of like HiBy did; though their N3 Pro, they claimed it ran a custom OS that wasn't Android, I had other devices, which disagreed. ;)
A potential upshot to this is their "Snapdragon 425 DTA (SRC bypassed)" which (after doing some digging) means that Android's SRC "Sample Rate Conversion" is mitigated so that the playback isn't resampled I guess? I am still not sure what the acronym "DTA" (Direct Transport Architecture) means in practice though.
Alas, having emailed Cayin's tech support in the past, they never seemed particularly, technical. ;-/
In the world of so-called "audiophile" gear, snake oil is rampant and attempting to discern shit from Shinola is a never ending exercise is dispelling BS.
I don't really know how others reach theirs, but I tend to derive continual inspiration in the field of computing from the demo scene.
The individual who tipped my off to @hyc's LMDB being worth a gander is (or at least was) part of Fairlight.
No, not the Fairlight CMI digital synthesizer used by Kate Bush in "Running Up That Hill" which has had retail prices ranging between: £15,000–£112,000. (chips on Reverb start at $60, software on eBay goes for $500.00+ I don't even see a full unit for sale in usual aftermarket retailers, though I see a cached listing for one for $16,000).
@teajaygrey I've always viewed demo coding and reverse engineering as closely related; both require intimate knowledge at the hardware level. And success requires an attention to detail that programmers who only use high level languages couldn't begin to even dream of.
/me sees EFF toot about contacting representatives about not banning TikTok because free speech for Muricans or something.
But, I do actually despise TikTok.
Can we amend the proposed legislation so that it bans all closed sores proprietary so-called "social" media surveillance crapitalism garbage?
No more Instagram?
No more Facebook.
No more X/Twitter.
No more YouTube comments.
undsoweiter?
If anything, banning TikTok doesn't go far enough.
If you think ANY of those for-profit surveillance capitalism corporations actually give a flying fuck about freedom of speech and do not actively silence and ban and shadowban their users for the most innocuous BS, then I am guessing you haven't been paying attention in the first place.
The rulers are trinitarian devils. And most people are not savvy enough to understand that evolution and eugenics are outgrowths of trinitarianism, since the trinitarians believe that God is a white man. God is not a man, that he should lie. He is not white, or black, or brown, or red. He is a Spirit and his form is beyond the comprehension of human flesh.
The pagan trinity is the crux of Christianism. It is blasphemy. It is men glorying in their flesh instead of in the Spirit. When one worships the flesh, he wants his flesh to be considered divine. And so the trinitarian cult cooked up the big bang, evolution, and such, to claim that their flesh is divine and self-evolved under its own divine power. They want to play god, and these Roman and British red coats continue to play god with the lives of everyone on earth, fomenting wars, famines, chaos, deceptions, and calamities in their wake.
If this doesn't make sense to the reader, this article will sort it out:
Those who Manufacture Your Beliefs are Your Rulers: Evolution is Ancient Devil Worship Dressed up for Today
Again, the evolutionists claim to deny the existence of God. But they are denying the existence of the God of the bible, and claiming their own flesh as god that made itself through the struggle of natural selection. And this belief in evolution did not originate with Charles Darwin as they claimed for over a century. Darwin's grandfather wrote about it in his religious work, Zoonomia. And his religious belief in evolution of the superior 'master race' goes way back in history thousands of years. You see, they consider themselves a 'master divine race' and they consider their own race to be a god with the right to rule the others. That is the true origin of evolution and eugenics.
I repeat: the theory of evolution did not arise out of scientific inquiry, no way, no how. The article introduces this thread of history. The historical record shows that evolutionism is a very ancient religion, much older than the faith of the early Christians, and the early Christians warned about this evolution cult:
"O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:" (1 Timothy 6:20)
There is a God, a divine being of unlimited and infinite life and power. He did make all things and speak them into existence. It is his power that sustains the universe that we inhabit. It is his power that gives us consciousness. Because the trinitarians hate him, and want themselves to be god, they cooked up this ancient religion, and in modern times they dressed up their religion in scientific jargon to deceive the masses into accepting them as masters. Because the redcoat Roman and English trinitarians want to be god, and want god to be a white man, they cling to their evolutionary idol:
"And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil."
Yes, many of them do the work of their daddy. When they should be arguing that the accuser has no standing to accuse, and no legitimate authority to bring the case in the first place, instead they abdicate and bring their client right into the benefit of discussion, which is an automatic loss for the client--since equity and law don't mix. Satan's little helpers want equity so they can make merchandise of men.
When the lawyer should be saying on the record, you have nothing proving this man a resident of your judicial district, the lawyer instead stipulates to the residency requirement and slyly brings his client under the court's jurisdiction where the moment before no jurisdiction existed. Then the accuser doesn't have to prove authority to prosecute, and all challenge to jurisdiction is lost. Only a devil would do this to someone. A righteous soul would demand proof of the accuser's standing in relation to the accused before allowing any benefit of discussion or discussion of the elements or merits.
It's up to someone else with merge access to commit it. Much thanks to @dan for the lightning fast merge with my 2.44 PR.
This time around, the Makefile.patch required a minor tweak, to reflect a minor tweak in the upstream's Makefile as well. Hopefully everything is OK? Preliminary testing on my end went alright but it took me a little longer to find sufficient focus to make that change than I would have liked.
(My own personal life is still sigh hectic and about the same as far as challenges [mostly housing/homeless and financial/debt related] C'est la vie!)
TFW newfangled website designs for restaurants have all kinds of dynamically animated doohickeys but don't even have a menu that loads, and the only link that works is to an Instagram account.
JFC, please fire your website "designers" with their it.sh bloated API garbage and find a middle school kid who can write static HTML for minimum wage.
"The United States, often a pioneer in technological advancements, finds itself trailing behind more than 20 developed nations in the realm of high-speed rail. While Europe and Asia boast efficient and widespread high-speed rail networks, the U.S. has yet to witness the inauguration of its first such system."
sigh
From "Fast Track to the Future: 5 HIGH-SPEED RAIL Projects Transforming Travel Across the US!"