Right. Which is why it's unlikely. But interesting channel.

I sometimes think about power analysis, picking up the high frequency signal through your home power lines.

Right. Which is why it's unlikely. But interesting channel.

I sometimes think about power analysis, picking up the high frequency signal through your home power lines.

I was wondering if they couldn't completely bypass packets via a very low bandwidth signal that would just look like noise in the carrier.

Exfiltration is Extremely Rare

(alternately titled: "I'm not wearing a tinfoil hat")

For an intelligence agency to exfiltrate data from a computer, that data has to travel over the network. That means such data is discoverable, either by packet sniffer or oscilloscope. Enough people of high technological background are looking at enough packets and enough ethernet segments to know that there is no hidden exfiltrated data in there in the general case. And the odds that you might decide to take a look, or that your router is looking for anomolies all the time, are far too high for intelligence agencies to exfiltrate data off of your computer regularly.

An intel agency could try to obfuscate the data, but that is very hard and still discoverable.

Therefore, in my opinion, this almost never happens.

WE KNOW however that they exfiltrate data from central hubs on the Internet. This was exposed multiple times. That is a different thing.

And I am nearly certain that they CAN exfiltrate data from your computer if you are targetted, and this is almost entirely undefendable (but maybe not quite and still worty trying). Someone makes the call for whether it is worth the risk to involve Tailored Access Operations to hack your computer and exfiltrate data. Specific targetting is so risky that it is highly limited. BUT I claim it does happen, and I claim that it happens more easily than most people realise, and that it happens at the lowest levels of hardware and that most security mechanisms cannot prevent it. Consider for example that sandsifter found undocumented instructions, found hidden RISC instructions inside instruction data offering direct memory access that completely bypasses processor security.

Getting serious about learning chess, realizing I'm about 30 years late.

The weirdest thing about Nostr is that they're hiring any dev anywhere on the planet to do paid work, but can barely find anyone.

How is this even a thing?

A bunch of women (and men pretending to be women) make their money by

*checks notes*

asking random strangers for money.

I feel stupid, now.

It is the mark

of a great mind to entertain a thought without accepting it.

HILAIRE BELLOC

#quotestr

If you can't imagine yourself as a parent, you probably haven't spent enough time around kids.

As one of the 99% I take exception to this note because you didn't tell me what my poor design decisions are and how to avoid them.

99% of developers do not know how things scale or how to scale, therefore making poor design decisions along the way. 🐶🐾🫡

I don't myself think poor behavior is only restrained by one's religious beliefs. But I've heard some religious people talk as if that was the case.

Cool! This would grab a big part of infrastructure. How would you assign IPs to pubkeys?

What are ethics? Ethics are a subset of heuristics for desision making. The subset consists of decisions that affect other sentient beings. Many decisions don't (should I drink water now or later) but some do (should I steal this motorbike).

The moon has no ethics. Algae probably has no ethics. Mice have limited ethics, generally related to how their decisions affect fellow mice.

Ethics are mostly hardwired into you when your brain developed, and they were determined genetically. If we didn't have this hardwiring, the cost of thinking through a decision would be overwhelming (the game theory is incredibly deep) putting you at a huge survival disadvantage. But ethics can be learned from society (necessary adaptation!) and also consciously chosen. Although I'd argue that we have far less ability to consciously choose our ethics than we think we do.

Because ethics come in part from society, children have big wide openings in their underdeveloped ethical systems. Children will often believe that stealing, murdering, cheating, etc, might be the smartest move. It takes parents and/or life experience to discover this is almost always incorrect. Some adults have "arrested development" and continue to operate with under-developed ethics. These people tend to be in and out of the prison system. We could argue about whether this is genetic or developmental or environmental or societal, but that would make this post far too long and more controversial than I was intending it to be.

The ethics that a Christian has and the ethics that an athiest has are different:

1. Athiests don't believe there is any ethics to praying, going to church, or paying tithe to the local minister, keeping the sabbath, not eating pork, or any other god-given rules from a god they don't believe exists, wherein the rule is esoteric and doesn't affect their fellow sentient beings.

2. Athiests feel it is unethical to disrespect the non-standard sexuality of a person, whether homosexual or transgender, whereas Christians appear to believe it is unethical to have non-standard sexuality in the first place.

3. When it comes to treating others with the "golden rule", the ethical systems are virtually identical, except:

4. Religious people have some carve outs for stealing and murdering (as evidenced by Israel).

If I have a choice of dealing with an atheist or a theist, I feel safer dealing with the atheist.

I've heard some Christians who believe the world would be much worse if it were not for Christians. That without Christianity, people would partake in all kinds of activities they feel are unethical: stealing, cheating, murdering, etc. But if it is only your religion that prevents you from doing those things, that frightens me. I would *hope* you were born with (and developed) ethics that prevent you from doing those things just because they feel very wrong. So for people who think they would benefit from harming others, please keep going to church!

I don't know any Palestinians. I don't think I even know any Arabs. And yet I feel great empathy towards Palestinian women and children and doctors and aid workers when they die. If atheist's ethics were only selfish, I wouldn't feel like this.

TIL that most women my age are not married to their first husband.

Long press, type + and click add and save.

Now you'll see a heart in that popup list which is your typical like button.

People on nostr just add reactions instead these days, its more expressive and better.

buy a whole subnet? i presume you mean 256 addresses?

i agree though, IPV4 is actually addressable to 48 bits which is a huge amount, just requires some coordination at a p2p level

i *can* use ipv6 if i want to but it's just pointless if i want to work with p2p systems, because almost nobody has p2p running on ipv6!