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Cake day: 2023年7月2日

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  • Dude, this is exactly what you are doing. You have wandered into the fediverse that welcomes everybody and you are upset that not everybody agrees with you on everything and that justifies you being a dick. You are exactly the thing you are hating on in your head canon self righteous hero narrative.

    Take this moment to reflect on your first instinctual mental response. Is it “but that’s because I’m right”? Think about this and what it implies.







  • Regardless of opinions, this article opinion piece is written like by an angry teenage nerd.

    I don’t understand what these angry anti FF people want that keep on having weekly rants on the topic. You are free to not use the software if you don’t like it or the company or whatever. Just move on and be happy.

    I’m getting tired of these haters any time Mozilla does literally anything and there is not a single constructive idea ever but the demand that Mozilla must operate like a benefactor for nerds that do not have to pay for anything ever.

    Damn, I almost wish Mozilla went commercial with FF to fund the development of it just because.








  • Anybody using obfuscation for securing algorithms is fooling themselves. It can be useful in fringe scenarios when you know and accept the limitations but for general use it is not. There is no obfuscation clever enough that can not be broken down and figured out.

    Example - delaying cracking of copy protection for the first few weeks of a game release. It will be cracked eventually though, regardless the obfuscation and protection. Nobody expects it to be secure - but complicated enough to buy some time.

    Other example - obfuscating assets loader for your game app to make it slightly harder to steal the graphics for scams and knock offs. It will not stop anybody dedicated to it but it can make the lazy skip it and go for the next game instead. Nobody expects it to be secure, but it might work as a deterrent because the next bicycle has a simpler lock to cut.

    Counter example - thinking you’re clever by obfuscating your homebrew cryptographic algorithm. Just don’t. Use a FOSS crypto library, learn how to secure keys and be done with it. It’s not secure or safe in any possible way ever and it is a really bad idea all over.




  • I’ve been trying to configure ChatGPT tell me if I’m wrong in a question or statement but damn it never does unless I keep probing for support or links. I’ve been having the feeling that it has become worse with latter models. Glad but also sad to see I was right.

    Anybody know other LLM that are more “trustworthy”* and capable of searching online for more information?

    Edit; *trustworthy in quotes because of course people will jump on this. I know the limitations of LLM, I don’t need you to tell me how much you hate everything AI. And I know LLM aren’t AI.