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David Buchanan

@retr0.id

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Reverse Engineering, cryptography, exploits, hardware, file formats, and generally giving computers a hard time. Occasional CTF player.

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idk, but the answer is aeropress

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The list is empty now which presumably means they all got banhammer'd, but I wish there was an easy option to see the DIDs listed (without having to poke the APIs manually)

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It's a bit sad that they're only doing it for the sake of IP maximalism, though

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Oh lol yes I would unironically love to audit a worldcoin orb

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iiuc yes, lol

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Was there ever a (publicly available) specification of the RC4 cipher, from an official-ish standards body? RFC 6229 comes close but it's just test vectors.

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Nah, I'm not saying *he'd* like the coffee. He'd like that I like it.

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every time I make a good cup of coffee I think "james hoffman would be proud"

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I did consider this

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I recently purchased an Orb (for pondering), and I would've posted pics, except for the fact that it reflects everything in a 360 field of view, revealing that my room is a mess.

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Can't believe I didn't think of this

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Kinda dark but I just read a code comment written by someone who is now dead and uh, it made me think back to this. Asynchronous communication is weird like that...

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[citation needed]

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Yes it's some kind of partnership, presumably with money changing hands, although I'm unsure in which direction besuper.ai/spotify

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I'm curious if someone is paying them to do this or if they genuinely think a "course" on AI prompting is a value-add for their customers

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spotify what the fuck is this

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The rotation itself is always ~free, it's the video encoding that'd be expensive (if they weren't just setting a metadata flag, that is)

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It's also the fact that modern devices have hardware-accelerated codecs

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environmental storytelling

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lol yeah they seem to be human-generated names from Elsewhere

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