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hannula | 5 years ago | on: Luau – A fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting language derived from Lua

As a Roblox user, I believe it might be their tool that allows Luau code to be stored on the filesystem and automatically synced to games. There are references to "FileSyncService" in the binaries, but the engineers refuse to open it up for some reason.

hannula | 6 years ago | on: 'Unfixable' security flaw in Intel boot ROM

So it seems that the flaw can’t plausibly be exploited by a remote or adjacent attacker or software. So what’s the impact here? Warez scene wreaking havoc with lossless WEB-DLs?

hannula | 6 years ago | on: What do we really know about the effectiveness of digital advertising?

> "What frustrates me is there’s a bit of magical thinking here," Johnson says. "As if Cambridge Analytica has hacked our brains so that we’re going to be like lemmings and jump off cliffs. As if we are powerless.”

Probably not, but nevertheless their efforts to polarise thinking and support the formation of echo chambers have been quite successful. While selection effect has indeed been disregarded often, in the case of CA it actually amplified the outcome.

hannula | 6 years ago | on: 94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet

I'm curious. Who are these analysts, and how did they come to that conclusion?