markasoftware

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Comment · 2 hours ago
It's not great. But I prefer it over the risk of downloading an APK from signal's website that I don't know how to properly verify the integrity of (there's a key listed on the website, but who knows if it's correct?). (I don't use Google play)
Comment · 2 hours ago
Signal only has one recent CVE, one which lets an attacker keep an audio or video stream open after you hang up. It doesn't disclose e.g. your chats with other users.
Comment · 2 hours ago
Should take only a few minutes to use an LLM to sync to upstream and build a new APK if you have any of the $20 subscriptions
Comment · 21 hours ago
Mitigation is to retire and wait for the singularity.

Don't use MPTCP is the first mitigation, but my understanding is this might be exploitable without MPTCP.

Comment · 1 day ago
Tether's entire business model, providing an almost-unregulated USD cryptocurrency, relies on them not arbitrarily banning people. They don't do it frequently or without thought. You're far less likely to get banned from USDT than just about any non-cryptocurrency financial institution.
Comment · 2 days ago
In the us, with AI mode in Google search and the exact queries from the article, I reproduce their results: answers with a name for all but 2020
Comment · 4 days ago
The vast majority of what they scanned were books they bought at wholesale in big lots. Stuff being weeded out from Goodwills or libraries and (mostly) bound for destruction anyway.

No, the lawsuit was because they illegally acquired the books (e.g. downloading them from piracy websites)

These days they are sticking to more legal means like the one you described

Comment · 4 days ago
The API call that submits your transcript after giving feedback accepts any transcript. You can modify the body of the transcript and send anthropic whatever data you want.
Comment · 7 days ago
Is this guy reputable? No other influencers are backing him up saying they received the same message.
Comment · 8 days ago
Interesting they're adding new support for DTLS 1.3 when afaict most new applications are defaulting to QUIC datagram mode. I have something built around DTLS 1.3 and am using wolfssl for that reason, will have to check this out.
Comment · 10 days ago
Fwiw I am a "backend" developer and have never in my professional career written a frontend except for internal tooling.
Comment · 10 days ago
I know this post isn't about vibecoding frontends, BUT...

Many of my coworkers and friends are rejoicing that they don't have to write frontends anymore. I actually think that frontends are the last thing that should be vibecoded. It's the part that faces the user. It's what helps the user form their first impression of your product. If your landing page looks like it was made in 30 seconds by Claude, they'll assume the rest of your product was too. Use AI assistance on the parts of your codebase where only raw functionality matters (eg, the backend), and put real human effort and care into the frontend that reflects the effort put into the rest of the system.

Comment · 10 days ago
What kind of incentive structure do most ransomware negotiation firms use that would actually cause them to benefit from coordination with the ransomware groups, as happened in this case? Do ransomware negotiators get paid more if they negotiate a lower price?
Comment · 13 days ago
Fwiw I find gpt Sol on medium or low effort to also be faster than opus to the point of helping me not check out, but is quite smarter than dsv4 flash
Comment · 19 days ago
Hmm, howcome voters give taxpayer money e.g. to subsidize pro sports facilities? And why do we fund the humanities?

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