xvilka

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Comment · 1 day ago
This is why Kagi and Kagi Assistant is the "next-level" of web search. Well worth every cent spent on the subscription. Even in the AI era.
Comment · 9 days ago
Zero-knowledge proofs and PKI system could fix all of that. Nobody needs to know all of your personal information, only on the "need-to-know basis" and via easily revocable access. But as long as humans are the ones who decides on this I don't believe it will ever happen. At least until sentient AI is in control.
Comment · 15 days ago
At this point we really should start working on interplanetary time standards, as well as better handling relativistic time effects. With more and more satellites and computers in deep space it might become a point of failure in the near future.
Comment · 1 month ago
In China you get the economy of scale for building nuclear power plants precisely because they are standardized. Thus, pivoting to SMR is unnecessary, since they produce significantly less energy.
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Just like V but without sharp edges?
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Hopefully, such deals will also convince countries to build more nuclear power plants or expand existing ones. Europe urgently needs more electricity.
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The original idea for the ID verification was broken by design anyway. The only safe and secure way is a chain/tree of trust, e.g. with PKI, where you could generate some certificate just for that particular service, while keeping your root key safe. Then, in the case of leak, the most you lose, is one particular key for one particular service that could be immediately revoked. You could even slap zero-knowledge proofs for particular properties (e.g. if the person has a driver license or not) without de-anonymizing the account. In the rare even of root key leak you should be able to physically go to the authority and make a new one, while revoking the old key. I don't see any other better alternatives than this.
Comment · 1 month ago
Would be nice if they donate to LibreOffice then, to improve the support of various MS Office features in files, as well as comparison/diffing features. Win-win to everyone.

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