robryk @robryk@qoto.org
I enjoy things around information theory (and data compression), complexity theory (and cryptography), read hard scifi, currently work on weird ML (we'll see how it goes), am somewhat literal minded and have approximate knowledge of random things. I like when statements have truth values, and when things can be described simply (which is not exactly the same as shortly) and yet have interesting properties.
I live in the largest city of Switzerland (and yet have cow and sheep pastures and a swimmable lake within a few hundred meters of my place :)). I speak Polish, English, German, and can understand simple Swiss German and French.
If in doubt, please err on the side of being direct with me. I very much appreciate when people tell me that I'm being inaccurate. I think that satisfying people's curiosity is the most important thing I could be doing (and usually enjoy doing it). I am normally terse in my writing and would appreciate requests to verbosify.
I appreciate it if my grammar or style is corrected (in any of the languages I use here).
Joined Nov 2020
@dymaxion @tarheel @tknarr @lapcatsoftware
So you're proposing something similar to secure boot root key changing? I wonder why that mechanism (albeit with some woes) is mostly workable on PCs, but there is basically nothing similar on mobile phones (I don't think you can lock an Android bootloader with different software signature verification keys, can you?)?
Do you know whether the extent of liability is limited to the losses that the supplier could reasonably expect? (I don't remember the name for the concept; I mean the limit that causes the liability from e.g. delayed supply of some trivial item not to be arbitrarily high by virtue of the item being necessary to satisfy a buyer's obligation that is connected with absurdly high delay penalties.)
The exception seems somewhat contradictorily described: point 14 on page 7 first says that the exception applies to software developed _or_ supplied outside of commercial activity and then says that the exception does not apply if the software is supplied commercially, regardless of how it's distributed. I expect that the intended reading is the latter (it's also what I would a priori expect), so am somewhat confused by the "(...) this Directive should not apply to free and open-source software developed or supplied outside the course of a commercial activity (...)" passage.
> prices that could change in the time it takes you to grab the item off the shelf and scan it at the register
Do you know how that is legal? I thought the price tag constituted an offer.
Die Maus sagte: "Obwohl alle Feuerwehrautos rot sind (...)".
Stimmt das wirklich in Deutschland? In der Schweiz stimmt es nicht, mindestens in der Stadt Zürich.
@dymaxion @tarheel @tknarr @lapcatsoftware
How would whatever is doing the exporting decide which things that present themselves as hardware tokens to trust (iow, what would it want to know about a keypair before it encrypts the export to it)? I can either see a version where it trusts any keypair provided by the user (and is imo equivalent to just straight up export) or one where it wants some sort of attestation chain that a trusted manufacturer promises that this is really a hardware token, which then creates a potential for lock in. Do you see some other option?
I wonder what you think about:
- if the victim is not breathing and there's a spare helper available, send them off to find an AED,
- if the victim fell from a nontrivial height, impacted into something headfirst or backfirst (or you suspect that in face of lack of witnesses) do not move them unless they aren't breathing/are unable to breathe and tell them not to get up if conscious, but do not try to restrain them,
- if the victim is unconscious in an ~enclosed space, esp. under ground level, with no obvious reason for the unconsciousness and there is no well person in the space space, be extremely wary of entering it (or just don't).
Greatest in the sense of with most positive effects, with largest effects, or something else?
@munin The reason I chose facts might be slightly atypical: I think that figuring out the connections from the facts teaches me more about reasoning in the area in question than the opposite (because the opposite is closer to reverse engineering why people find these interrelationships in particular important).
Agreed that it's hard to measure value of interventions in an adversarial situation (because their existence changes the adversary's behaviour). Given that TfW apparently also has conductors I don't see how the additional deterrence would be significant.
BTW for context, it seems that TfW is getting ~120Mpounds per year from tickets out of ~700Mpounds of revenue (which include some non-passenger services and mainly grants from various levels of government). Source: grep for "revenue from contracts" in https://tfw.wales/sites/default/files/2024-07/TfW-Annual-Review-24_ENG.pdf
@kuba pewne ilości alkoholu znajdziesz w rzeczach typu sok jabłkowy (z powodu niepożądanej fermentacji iiuc) i bigos (który co prawda nie jest napojem). Jaki jest ten próg w Polsce?
They didn't say how they packed it though. (I once ordered a mug and teapot from Ikea and received a cubic package with the side of ~1m. To be fair, both the mug and teapot arrived undamaged.)
@zandra I have a setup with magnets for attaching an inflatable buoy to a belt and the difference between the closest magnet on the belt being on different sides of the belt is the difference between it working well when I run and it falling off with nearly every step.
Hacky solution: add something very thin inbetween the two magnets (e.g. a sheet of paper folded a few times). The force after all decreases pretty rapidly with distance.
@phil I don't see how they intend to clue the user on the expected alignment (and current misalignment) in the hidden version.
From a skim of the video I expect that placing a moral equivalent of a wire loop next to/around an appliance would cause that to heat up. I'm not sure how much energy would get sunk into e.g. a large knife lying to the side.
Did the yellow-green transition look more sharp than e.g. yellow-red with your eyes too?
What's distance field doing exactly? (It doesn't seem to be "distance to closest pixel that's lit in the input", because the lit pixels from the original texture -- which would end up with the same value then -- disappear at different points in time in the threshold step.)
I enjoy things around information theory (and data compression), complexity theory (and cryptography), read hard scifi, currently work on weird ML (we'll see how it goes), am somewhat literal minded and have approximate knowledge of random things. I like when statements have truth values, and when things can be described simply (which is not exactly the same as shortly) and yet have interesting properties.
I live in the largest city of Switzerland (and yet have cow and sheep pastures and a swimmable lake within a few hundred meters of my place :)). I speak Polish, English, German, and can understand simple Swiss German and French.
If in doubt, please err on the side of being direct with me. I very much appreciate when people tell me that I'm being inaccurate. I think that satisfying people's curiosity is the most important thing I could be doing (and usually enjoy doing it). I am normally terse in my writing and would appreciate requests to verbosify.
I appreciate it if my grammar or style is corrected (in any of the languages I use here).
Joined Nov 2020
