true_repairman | 2 years ago | on: The Fifth Gift (2005)
~15 minute read about alien gifts to a small and childish civilisation.
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true_repairman | 3 years ago | on: How to explain zero-knowledge protocols to your children (1998) [pdf]
I think the point is, that a zero knowledge proof only works between two parties, the proofer and the verifier.
If I want to proof something to you I cant just say "Hey I showed it to Bob over there. Ask him if I'm telling the truth."
But that doesnt really come through in the analogy.
true_repairman | 3 years ago | on: How to explain zero-knowledge protocols to your children (1998) [pdf]
Why should bystanders not know? It seems like Micks proof is an attempt at fame, so he would want everybody to know.
true_repairman | 3 years ago | on: Common tech jobs described as cabals of Mesoamerican wizards
So if wizard = programmer, most charactes in Harry Potter wouldnt be wizards. Maybe you could call them spell users?
true_repairman | 3 years ago | on: “Harbinger households” consistently buy products that get discontinued (2019)
If this would work for stocks aswell...
https://xkcd.com/2270/
true_repairman | 3 years ago | on: Make Tracker Tunes in the Browser
Title made me think of a browser plugin, that plays a sound everytime a tracker is loaded. But this is also cool.
true_repairman | 3 years ago | on: Translate a message 10 times into different languages and back
Firefox is not used in 68.
true_repairman | 3 years ago | on: Broadband cables to be routed through water pipes in new trial
The people of Penistone probably have some good ones.
true_repairman | 3 years ago | on: Twitter is using its embedded JavaScript to hide tweets that have been deleted
What a shame that Jack left. We could live in a utopia where every tweet is an NFT in the Twitter Blockchain...
true_repairman | 4 years ago | on: Lab-grown meat may never be cost-competitive enough to displace traditional meat
"Oh my god the government is feeding us dead babies!" would probably be up there.
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