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AtHeartEngineer

@ AtHeartEngineer @lemmy.world

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Aspiring polymath.Trying to make things better. Opinions are my own and subject to change

  • Trump eyes privatizing United States Postal Service during second term

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  • I don't think he will actually be able to pull this off. All federal agencies use USPS because they are govt employees, there are tons and tons of policies written about what has to be sent using USPS. Sure he probably could try to do this, but I imagine he will get a fair bit of pushback internally

  • Revolut, McDonald's, and Authy have banned the use of GrapheneOS.

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  • I just switched, looks like uber is working for me

  • Moderators Across Social Media Struggle to Contain Celebrations of UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Assassination

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  • That just would allow a malicious attacker to fake being the server, it doesn't actually compromise the TLS session. So you are talking about a much more sophisticated multi stage attack that needs to be actively executed. This wouldn't at all allow them to record traffic and decrypt later.

    The certs authenticate that you are talking to the real server, the symmetric session keys that are usually derived from a diffie helman key exchange have nothing to do with certs. That's two separate (but connected) parts of the transaction to build a TLS session.

  • Moderators Across Social Media Struggle to Contain Celebrations of UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Assassination

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  • I work in cryptography, and I guarantee if that's true "some person you know who worked in government security" would not tell you if they did know, or they are pulling shit out of their ass. There have been so many people that have looked at or worked on SSL/TLS implementations (including some of my coworkers), any vulnerabilities would have to be pretty subtle or clever, and that would be kept highly classified. Quit making shit up or repeating bullshit you heard.

  • Neo-Nazis Are on the March Across America

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  • I have, if you are nice it goes fine

  • Trump’s promise to loosen crypto regulations may be boon for extremist groups

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  • Voters rejected historic election reforms across the US, despite more than $100M push

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  • I'm only saying this because the vote failed everywhere, clearly it's a strategy problem.

    If you ask anyone on the street if they would want more moderates and parties in office, a large majority would agree, so if that's the goal, the question is, how do we get there. Ranked choice is great, but it's not optimal in either how the tallying determines a winner, or in convincing people this is better. Approval voting is clearly easier to explain and probably convince people it's better. So now that the vote has failed, we should reassess our strategy from ranked choice to approval voting.

  • You vs the person they tell you not to worry about

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  • Absolutely agree. It's so much less frustrating too

  • ‘You Don’t Care?’: GOP Senator Shocks ABC Host With Take on Background Checks for Trump Picks

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  • This is how you get people into positions where they can be blackmailed

  • Voters rejected historic election reforms across the US, despite more than $100M push

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  • We should be pushing approval voting instead, the educational barrier is way lower and both RC and approval are a load better than FPTP.

  • Voters rejected historic election reforms across the US, despite more than $100M push

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  • I think we should start pushing approval voting instead of ranked choice. Ranked choice is easy to explain how to vote but a little complex to explain how the vote is tallied and that's what people find confusing.

    Approval voting is straight forward and easy to explain, whoever gets the most approvals wins.

    They both are much better than what we have.

  • Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan Can’t Happen If US Military Members Resist It

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  • It is really not easy to just replace commanders

  • Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan Can’t Happen If US Military Members Resist It

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  • There will certainly be commanders who resist if they think it's unlawful. We may just need to wait to really see. I hope there will be resistance.

  • Masked gang broke into home of Conor McGregor accuser, Dublin court was told

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  • Jfc

  • This beautiful lady is so clingy.

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  • These kind of pics make me want to squeeze my dog too tight lol

  • The 49 times the US used veto power against UN resolutions on Israel

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  • Maybe no country should have veto power

  • People often talk about their own privacy protocols? What are yours or how do you go about considering them beyond the obvious?

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  • I work for an org that makes a bunch of privacy protocols. Semaphore, RLN, and MACI. All of these use zero knowledge cryptography. Semaphore is a way of proving you are part of a group but without revealing who you are, RLN is the same thing plus spam resistance, and MACI is "minimal anti-collusion infrastructure" which is voting while trying to prevent bribery.

    I imagine this is a bit outside of what you are asking for but thought I would share

  • Offensive, racist texts now being sent to high-schoolers, Latinos and LGBTQ community, FBI says

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  • Ya I did, it probably is, thanks for bringing this up. We need to get the word out! Fuck misinformation!