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Cake day: 2023年6月22日

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  • This seems incredibly interesting, but the idea of a ‘general purpose syncing service’, in the way he describes it, makes my head scream’security concern’. In general the way it’s described the format is not fixed for these services so your data might as well be encrypted in any arbitrary way I think?

    But knowing this wouldn’t this kind of general purpose syncing service need some way of identifying what data it is even syncing? Unless you encooperate something grand like the signal protocol (as in encrypted anonymous messaging) you d always run a security risk if the service you use for syncing is not self-controlled?

    If anyone has more insight on this I’d be very interested, it seems like a very good concept.

    It sounds to me like anything other than p2p local syncing with some protocol is a confidentiality no-go.







  • In general the article seems to be a summary of current legislative actions that are ongoing between big tech and EU. Though in the article it’s worded with the much more fitting ‘game of chicken between EU and Big Tech’ rather than something like the title, but I guess “drop dead has a better ring to it”…

    I general the article has a lightly optimistic tone, which I very deeply hope holds true.






  • /u/Chainweasel@lemmy.world explains this well, though I got a different take on the analogy.

    Imagine you are trying to put air into a deflating balloon that’s about to ‘loose form’ that’s essentially what you are trying.

    Put just enough air (energy/mass) into the star and it will stay stable, loosing as much as you put into it.

    Too little and the star will dissolved, in this example you’d fully absorb it.

    Too much and you are essentially infusing a star with so much mass that it explodes all over again.

    If you are trying to stabilise a star this way, ideally, it would never even begin to go nova.







  • I mean… Maybe I am just oversimplifying things or misreading something, but if the cabinet the switch was on was metal then maybe the switch connected ground to ground? Suddenly changing ground to ground can crash old hardware quite reliably but booting with another ground plate could make it adjust the potentials properly… I’ve done this multiple times in a lab, in essence adding more ground causes the ground plates to equal out and that sudden drop can crash sensitive hardware…

    Please tell me i am wrong I want this magic switch to be true so bad