Heh, just today: Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders

We don’t learn much about recent events of Colombian history, but a lot of international history.

Tangential: Recently, I was talking with a friend of how in Colombia, schools don’t teach much of recent events of Colombian history (Colombia has been in a pseudo-civil war for almost 80 years), but we learn A LOT about WWII, Vietnam war, Korean war, cold war, etc.

Given that the Goverment has done extremely nasty things in these decades, I’m somewhat convinced this is intentional.

Did they give you your account back?

My underestanding is that they can’t reverse market sales as it is a problem that quickly gets out of control. What happens if one of those items were already sold to another innocent third person? What if said person also traded them? How can they know you did not scam the person after a fair trade? etc.

Story time: I once saw a betting page claiming to give away free Dota 2 skins. I wanted to take a chance, but smelled the sketchyness, so I logged in with a secondary account that I used that only had a free NSFW game.

Unexpectedly, after I logged in, they inmediately changed the password and the email associated, and probably tried to steal any skin I had; since this secondary account had none, I didn’t lose anything.

I contacted Steam support, told them what happened with proof that I’m the owner of the previous email. They verified the situation, and I had my account back less than 48 hours after being “scammed”. All of this in an account that literally only had a free porn game.

The massive difference between and what your friend is dealing with Microshit is crazy.

Thanks a lot!

Thanks!

Some Neon White dialogues have me laugh, but there was one level that baited me so badly, I couldn’t stop laughing. Incredibly recommended game, although I’ll never forgive the devs for not adding a map editor.

Thanks for the response. I have a question

Given the tight budget

I can increase the budget, but I though that $200USD would be enough to get me starter, given that the 200 don’t include the drives. If I were to increase it, what would you recommend?

Thanks!

I’m in shock. We lost a truly amazing player, teacher and person. RIP Danya.

Quantum computers represent a complete paradigmatic. Modern quantum computers beat classical ones on some problems, while still not being able to factor some 2 digit numbers.

A single algorithm would be probable arrive some day, but why risk it right now? The Signal protocol adopted Post-Quantum some years ago. They going for a hybrid, not well tested over several years against classical computers, algorithm, would have been a security disaster.

That’s not what I’m trying to say. I’m not saying apply 1000 classical algos on top of 1000 quantum algos. I’m saying that post-quantum needs to be an extra layer, not a replacement.

This is explained further in the first few sentences of the third link I posted: https://blog.cr.yp.to/20251004-weakened.html. Note the author is an expert in the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Bernstein

I think we both agree on the same thing, I comunicated it badly. The better approach is to apply a post-quantun algorithm on top of a classical one, so you are safe against both types of computers. The advantage of this approach is that you need to crack both algorithms at the same time.

NIST seems to prefers a hybrid approach, where a single algorithm is supposedly safe against both classical and quantum computers, leaving you with a single point of failure.

If some credible doubt is shed on them … then NIST is just an acronym with no power.

Doubt it, given tha NIST has no credibility among researches, only in the general public that ignore their shenanigans:

• NIST already aproved NSA backdoors.

• NIST has extensive record of colaborating with NSA, including following their orders.

• NIST is pushing for unsecure post-quantum algorithms, that may be secure against quantum computers, but weak against normal, modern computers.

NIST doesn’t need credibility, it simply needs to pass along NSA’s aproval stamp for $next_algorithm, so $next_algorithm becomes a widely used standar.

The most ridiculous thing in the conversations I read was someone arguing that the fact that Anduril has a member at SC (Steering Committee) weakens their position. The mental gymnastic is so insane to me because it completely naively expect people who have a conflict of interest to do the right thing. What if they don’t ?

The argument there was that they would be excluded of any votes related to said company.

And calling “bot” anyone who disagrees. Peak Reddit behaviour.

I don’t think the problematic political part is a person basically saying “Oh, I’m queer btw”, but the mod team redacting it.

I also think that trying to supress political discussion in the forums of an OS literally called Ubuntu is beyond ironic: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_philosophy

Strg-r does most of the heavy lifting for me

If you haven’t, give fzf a try. Is like Ctrl+r in asteroids

I ser your point, but that’s not an implication. There’s an incentive, but reality will depend on the company, specially in their size.