Mensh123

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Congrats on making it, something like this can be quite hard.

By the way: You should probably move from Telegram to something like Signal to get strong end-to-end encryption by default back. Telegram's secret chats aren't the default, are inconvenient to set up and cryptographically strange.

on Text Editors H · c/linuxmemes · 5 pts · 45d

That's fun! I'm currently comming from Neovim to see if Emacs is for me. I've only really used Neovim for half a year and Emacs for less than a week so who knows? I've actually only been sent on this rollercoaster ride by JetBrains trying to sneak AI training data collection into IntelliJ almost a year ago, eventually being annoyed by how clanky Eclipse is. Am I annoyed by Neovim? No, not at all, I just want to see if I like Emacs even better.

Across the Mozilla Project and every organization in the Mozilla family, we pledge to support the Mozilla Manifesto in its activities. Specifically, we will:

  • build and enable open-source technologies and communities that support the Manifesto’s principles;

Source: Mozilla Manifesto

I've seen a Claude screenshot posted in a community of computer scientists where it “proved” P=NP through circular reference and cursed mathematics.

For context, P and NP are sets of problems. If an algorithm exists where the time it takes to determine if a solution to a problem is correct scales polinomially relative to its input size, it's in NP. If the time to solve the problem scales polinomially, it's also in P, a subset of NP.

The question now is if P = NP: Is every problem we can verify in polinomial time also solvable in polinomial time? We just don't know, although we think it probably isn't. But that's just a guess.

So someone asked Claude and it came up with: https://fixupx.com/connacher_/status/2079541927553212471 which, to a maths person, is hillariously incorrect.

I just don't trust in AI's ability to reliably produce true statements.

on Matrix or Signal? · c/opensource · 2 pts · 51d

Matrix is only really enjoyable with unencrypted chats.

I have fairly recently switched phones. Now, a good number of older messenges fail to decrypt. Even when I don't switch devices, a group chat for a three day long event with a very small group already gave us lots of fun decryption errors. Oh, and I have this other fun group chat where Fluffy Chat constantly reminds me that people whose devices I haven't verified will be able to read my messenges every time I send something. Also, Matrix has coutless clients with different feature sets and I heard calls are a pain to ßet up.

Signal, on the other hand, just works. Federation and decentralization is obviously nice but a functional product is more importmant. I haven't had a chance to try XMPP unfortunately.

Quote from the article:

DNS leaks are not dramatic. There’s no attacker, no data center breach, no policy failure. Just code doing something its authors didn’t intend, quietly working against the protection users assumed they had.

This sounds AI generated. I suspect the entire article is. Some cases it explores I have heard of but I wouldn't trust AI to not make stuff up.

I mean, it does seem to do something. I generated a random one and it told me it was safe. For now! The box then told me to get a password manager with a link to its own password managers article and set up 2FA. The password manager list is just a collection of affiliate links with filler text btw.

If someone wants to figure out what the site sends to figure this stuff out and if it's more than just rockyou.txt, go ahead.

on New User Monitoring · c/fediverse · 5 pts · 99d

That's actually a good idea if they're dealing with such campaigns. See it as the moderators (wo exist either way) directing their attention to places where violations are more likely to happen. Sure, DM monitoring sounds a bit intrusive, but admins reading your DMs was always a possibility and with the right user education, it shouldn't be an issue.