[–] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (3 children)

I don't have a name.
You don't... have a name?
That's right. I don't have a name. I was given a number at birth.
What's your number, then?
1337
Hmm, it seems I can't type digits in the name field. Are you sure you don't have a name?
Yes. Just type it.
But...
I SAID TYPE IT!
Customer name: one three three seven

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago

    Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
    Zuck: Just ask.
    Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
    [Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?
    Zuck: People just submitted it.
    Zuck: I don't know why.
    Zuck: They "trust me"
    Zuck: Dumb fucks

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago*

    Nitpick: the author seems to be under the impression that attestation occurs at login, but what I remember from reading A Tour of WebAuthn is attestation can only happen when a credential is created. In the case where Xitter wants to prevent you from logging in from Lineage OS, the effect is broadly the same. The difference is, instead of Xitter refusing login, either (a) Xitter refuses to create an passkey login option for you if the device does not offer attestation or if the attestation indicates the device could later expose the credential to an "insecure" operating system OR (b) the device simply can't have Lineage OS installed at all or erases the credential or prevents Lineage from accessing the credential while Lineage OS is running.

    I'm also not sure if governments or government agencies being members of the FIDO alliance is an indication of nefarious intent. Their intelligence agencies engage in offensive operations, but are also interested in defending their countries against cyberattacks, yes? Moreover, the NSA is not a member. NIST is, but NIST is a standards body, not an intelligence agency.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

    The advent of Turing-test-passing AI was such an enormous mistake. There's no shortage of people who want to do creative, intellectual work. People even do it in their spare time and give the product away. They're trying to automate the wrong kinds of jobs.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (2 children)

    You're still dependent on Adobe if you use a clone of their software which has been cleanroom reverse engineered and re-implemented. And then it needs to happen all over again when Adobe releases a new version. It's just a Rube Goldberg way of getting Photoshop and the clone is probably a buggy mess.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 weeks ago

    I clicked around and couldn't find who wrote this. It's also very eager to send you to a Wordle-like game which itself links to a large number of what looks like news articles with no author given. It's a bit sketchy. I'd bet my left kidney this whole thing is AI-generated. You can't trust anything anymore.

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  • Fermat's Last Tango (en.wikipedia.org)
     

    Here is the Clay Mathematics Institute DVD of the musical on YouTube.

    A proof was recently formalized in the Lean proof assistant by Anthropic, leaving little doubt that Fermat's Last Theorem is indeed a theorem. There was (and still is) ongoing work by mathematicians to formalize a more modern proof in Lean in a more handcrafted fashion, but they were robbed of some of the joy of that activity by the AI companies, which seems will be a repeating pattern going forward.

    https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/flt-anthropic-has-beaten-me-to-it/

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