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Comment · 26 days ago
Diego Aranha had found an exploit with brazilian voting machines back in 2017. They scrambled votes whenever every vote was cast using a CSPRNG, but initialized its seed with the time the voting machine had been turned on (rounded to the second), which due to voting protocols at the time meant you only had to have one person vote a specific way and bruteforce 3600 orderings to find that person's vote and destroy ballot secrecy for everyone else who voted on the same machine.

Seems like this is the same mode of failure, which is strange considering diebold made the brazilian machines back then and should have fixed that.

Comment · 1 month ago
I think it's the first one where the Chrome version fixing it has no Manifest V2 support at all.
Comment · 2 months ago
Does this happen in the absence of light sources? I believe i have aphantasia but can still see those when one is present.

My guess is my eyelids don't block off enough light. Coincidentally, i have some trouble sleeping with light sources present.

Comment · 2 months ago
Can it be scaled small enough to replace capacitors in DRAM?
Comment · 3 months ago
two-letter TLDs are reserved for country codes and not available for private use.
Comment · 4 months ago
Had a run where i've rolled the interview as the first phase 2 event and got the conveyor on turn 50 with exactly 300 rubles at 40 morale, 30 party favor, +4 click and +1 auto/turn, only to fail by show trial because i didn't get the thief event by the end of turn 60 to get party favor up.

I think i found a winnable, if heavily RNG-dependent strategy:

- Work 5 days. Buy tools 1.

- Work to turn 14's event. Take inspector padded numbers choice. If not inspector event, reroll.

- Keep working, buy tools 2 on turn 18. If the broken machinery event triggers on the turn you bought the tools or the turn after, buy german tools. Otherwise, reroll. (or go shock brigade, but that really reduces the chances of the run succeeding because you hit phase 2 a few days later with this and it depends on multiple phase 2 events before day 60)

- Buy tools 3, then assistant 1.

- Keep working until phase 2, hope you get the interview by turn 50/51 so you can buy the conveyor.

- Pray that the other events trigger fast enough to avoid the deadline. You want to have at least 35 party favor and 20 morale by day 60, but can only afford a single day of rest at this stage. This requires the thief event and some accounting for the winter crisis event. If you're lucky, you can buy coal without funds just after buying an upgrade, but most likely you'll have to overwork and rest for a day.

Having survived day 60, you now need to get production up as quickly as possible, and going for a workshop delays you too much at this task. I've been buying tools 3 then assistants 2,3 and 4 before focusing on getting morale and party favor high enough to survive the penalty of immediately failing phase 3.

On that run i've cleared phase 2 in turn 119, then completed turn 120 by resting on double shift with 1042 tractors produced.

Comment · 4 months ago
Best i could achieve while surviving the instant phase 3 failure penalty was 1004 which i've only done once. Can't remember what i did but IIRC i tried to rush the conveyor before turn 60 or a workshop, taking both cash infusion event options, rerolling so the first one is the first event, and resting/cracking down to try to get morale/party favor to acceptable levels near the end.
Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
Every outbound connection needs a DNS8 lookup. What prevents this from being abused for censorship?
Comment · 7 months ago
There's a more worrying part: It refers to unreleased versions of Claude in more detail than released versions.

For a company calling chinese companies out for distillation attacks on their models, this very much looks like a distillation attack against human maintainers, especially when combined with the frustration detector.

Comment · 9 months ago
YC3.
Comment · 9 months ago

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