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Comment · 25 days ago
Passkey attestation is trusted computing.

The equivalent of 'owner override' is user access to all secrets.

As with TC, one could have all the user-protecting aspects without any of the user-limiting aspects, by implementing suitable owner override / by enabling users to know all secrets.

Comment · 3 months ago
That sounds like a great opportunity to digitize all rare books and to provide them to libraries?

And the competition, so they dont have to shred 2 or more copies?

Comment · 3 months ago
Excellent point
Comment · 4 months ago
You should still be able to confirm it with calorimetry though I guess?

I'm confused about this.

Comment · 4 months ago
Okay thats wrong they didnt find that. Looks like just did some ml and it suggested that such a reaction exists and what the two species are.

Also its unclear whether during the phase transition there really is two seperate macroscopic regions as opposed to a mixture (maybe like a suspension)

Comment · 4 months ago
Nah.

If I understand the article correctly, they found a phase transition reaction, a chemical reaction that occurs in liquid water below 0 C that splits the body of liquid water into one continuous region of high density and one of low, so its no longer a uniform liquid.

This would also release heat, like the freezing reaction (and unlike random rearrangements of molecules in the liquid).

Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 4 months ago
You dont block either.

The factory does decent software engineering - for which it can also use the same llm - so that when an attacker does either, a sota llm does not find bugs to exploit.

Comment · 6 months ago
Ding ding ding

This is one of the things a comprehensive interoperability mandate could enable.

Require monopolistic companies that have a frontend/backend architecture to publish the interface docs and to not obstruct third party commercial alt backends/frontends.

Its a bit like carving up monopolistic firms along the joints (interfaces) defined by the software architecture, and team structure. Just less extreme; the firm isnt actually split, it's just required to allow "fair competition by third party architecture components"

This would really improve googles software, we might get e2ee google keep or gmail with pgp.

(I have not worked out the details of this, it might not be feasible)

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