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  • Honest question, what are the incentives for instance operators to play nice, so to speak? And not just recreate new oligarch safe havens?

    It seems like each instance is a miniature zone of centralization and it’s still incumbent on individuals to create their own circles of influence. For better or worse that’s how we get hivemind echo chambers and I’m not sure it’s even in human nature to seek anything else.

    Alternatively we have to rescue our friends and families when they start to fall for BS and educate them aggressively on improving the sourcing of their information.


  • The TOTP changes every time. For modern totp hashing I’m not sure how many sequential codes a keylogger would need but I’m guessing more than I will ever enter.

    Edit, asked ai for an answer to that because I was curious (maybe it’s right):

    Start AI

    That being said, if an attacker were able to collect a large number of TOTP codes, they might be able to launch a brute-force attack to try to guess the private key. However, this would require an enormous amount of computational power and time.

    To give you an idea of the scale, let’s consider the following:

    Assume an attacker collects 1000 TOTP codes, each 6 digits long (a common length for TOTP codes).
    Assume the private key is 128 bits long (a common length for cryptographic keys).
    Assume the attacker uses a powerful computer that can perform 1 billion computations per second.
    

    Using a brute-force attack, the attacker would need to try approximately 2^128 (3.4 x 10^38) possible private keys to guess the correct one. Even with a powerful computer, this would take an enormous amount of time - on the order of billions of years.







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    5 months ago

    Me too but here’s one useful function:

    Perhaps you are aware there is an ongoing event, say for example a football game, or an election, or an outage of your email service provider. You go to one of these “scream into the void” social sites, search on the topic, and learn what people are saying about it. Maybe someone knows what’s really going on, maybe some of those people have some interesting insights and you engage with them, not unlike you and I are engaging right now. Others can observe, perhaps contribute, and after the event has concluded, everyone goes their own way. Hopefully in the end the interactions are beneficial for all.





  • He seems to lack competence in many ways, but some of the guys around him are a whole lot more conniving and potentially effective.

    It’s also not likely Trump feels any urge to hire a somewhat moderate(ish) cabinet of professionalls like he did last time. I assume he learned his lesson given that they all eventually turned on him.

    So let’s see. I think he’s spent the past 4 years surrounding himself with some bad hombres, to borrow a saying, and now he’s ready to act with fewer guardrails.





  • There are only a few counties in the world that draw the smartest and most accomplished from the rest of the world. The USA is pretty high on that list. This gives the USA an unfair advantage worldwide in several ways:

    US schools and businesses get to pick from the best and brightest worldwide, promoting an atmosphere of high performance STEM jobs.

    US replaces lost high education and high IQ population, since there is a negative correlation between education level and reproduction.

    Finally, if you think in terms of winners vs losers, which I feel MAGAs do these days, other countries lose their best and brightest, making them less competitive to the USA.

    And of course don’t forget that the vast majority of Americans come from families that immigrated, and few would argue that they themselves should be sent back “to where they came from”.

    No matter how you look at it, immigration is extremely advantageous to the USA if handled properly and an enviable position that many other countries wish they could be in.