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Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 03:13:30 JST Amolith

Tor turns to proof-of-work puzzles to defend onion network from DDoS attacks
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/26/tor_tweaks_onion_routing_software/

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> The updated software, used to run Tor nodes, now supports a proof-of-work challenge called EquiX. Designed by Tevador, who developed Monero's proof-of-work algorithm, it is "a CPU-friendly client puzzle with fast verification and small solution size (16 bytes)."
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> It appears this computation will not go toward cryptomining, which some may feel is a lost revenue opportunity and others may welcome as an ethical necessity.
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GOOD. It is absolutely an ethical necessity.
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Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Aug-2023 16:33:43 JST Amolith
@aetios @mametsuko

Hope you enjoy it :neocat_floof_cute:

@fristi @foxhkron @Johann150 @ente @jbauer @puniko @langoor @Bendodroid @steph @feli

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Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Aug-2023 01:53:32 JST Amolith
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@torproject > encouraging people to use cryptocurrencies
I expected better from The Tor Project :flan_disappointed:

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Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Aug-2023 01:53:30 JST Amolith
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@accretionist @torproject it's better for everyone that Tor lives and these shitcoins and blockchains die

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Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Aug-2023 01:53:28 JST Amolith
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@accretionist @torproject I donated to Tor just last week at DEF CON and I've run guard nodes out of my own living room as well as multiple exits. I believe Tor is absolutely essential.

That does not excuse promoting the use of cryptocurrencies and blockchains.

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Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Aug-2023 05:06:27 JST Amolith

My girlfriend is now a cyborg; she got an RFID chip implanted in her hand :neocat_glasses:

#DEFCON31 #DC31

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Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Aug-2023 00:53:23 JST Amolith

For those who find git difficult to use and don't know a ton about it, understanding its underlying data structure helped me a lot.

A git repo is a merkle tree
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree

Each commit is a node that builds on its predecessor and branches are, well, branches. When you check out a branch and run git log, you're seeing the linear history of that particular branch from the most recent node to the root of the tree, often your "initial commit". HEAD is a pointer to whatever node you're currently at; when you git checkout an old commit, you're moving HEAD so it points to that older node. When you checkout main, you're moving HEAD so it points to whatever node is furthest down that branch.

Removing secrets from a repo is not feasible for large projects because it requires finding the commit introducing that secret and changing it. Because all child commits contain a hash of its parent commit, changing a parent invalidates every single one of its children and grandchildren and great grandchildren and so on. The parent has changed, so its hash changed, so its child needs to be updated to include the new hash of its parent. That cascades through the rest of the tree. You then have to force-push to your remote because your local tree has wildly diverged from the remote tree; you're telling the remote to throw whatever tree it has away (the one containing your secrets) and just accept the tree you're sending it (the one without your secrets). Your local tree and your remote tree are now the same … but your other contributors might have pulled the commit with your secrets. Now their tree is wildly diverged from the remote tree and they have two options: save their work somewhere else, rm -rf their local repo, and re-clone the new tree or do a git reset <commit preceding the one with secrets> and git pull.

Git reset <commit> discards all of the nodes on your branch up to and _not_ including <commit>. It's like pruning a branch that's grown too long; you cut it back then let it re-grow differently.

I hope this helps :neofox_heart:
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  Merkle tree
  
  In cryptography and computer science, a hash tree or Merkle tree is a tree in which every "leaf" (node) is labelled with the cryptographic hash of a data block, and every node that is not a leaf (called a branch, inner node, or inode) is labelled with the cryptographic hash of the labels of its child nodes. A hash tree allows efficient and secure verification of the contents of a large data structure. A hash tree is a generalization of a hash list and a hash chain. Demonstrating that a leaf node is a part of a given binary hash tree requires computing a number of hashes proportional to the logarithm of the number of leaf nodes in the tree. Conversely, in a hash list, the number is proportional to the number of leaf nodes itself. A Merkle tree is therefore an efficient example of a cryptographic commitment scheme, in which the root of the tree is seen as a commitment and leaf nodes may be revealed and proven to be part of the original commitment. The concept of a hash tree is named after Ralph Merkle, who patented it in 1979. Uses Hash trees can be used to verify any kind of data stored, handled...
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Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 03:08:32 JST Amolith
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@kaia I edited the post to add a podcast I missed and mention the free feeds :blobcat3c:

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Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 03:02:13 JST Amolith
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@kaia none of them are paywalled :akko_woozy:

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Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 03:02:11 JST Amolith
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@kaia the free feeds have ads, the paid feeds do not :akko_woozy:

(assuming you're talking about my post)

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Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Aug-2023 09:13:34 JST Amolith

Well fuck :neofox_flush:
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/09/ansi_escape_sequence_risks/
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  ANSI escape sequences remain open to abuse
  
  When you can't even cat your telemetry safely, who can you trust?
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Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Aug-2023 01:49:03 JST Amolith
- Linux Lads Podcast
RustDesk is genuinely one of the most useful services I self-host. I just started rendering the Blender video for the next Linux Lads episode on my desktop on the other side of the US from a car driving to Las Vegas for DEF CON :cirno_UwU:

(I'm in the passenger seat :neofox_lul:)

#RustDesk #LinuxLads @linuxlads #DEFCON31 #DC31
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Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 15:33:40 JST Amolith
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@lanodan now that's a fantastic idea; I literally added tracking the date earlier tonight because I knew it would be useful for something later on even though I had no idea what :meowLul:

I will still need to parse the tag names and treat rc, alpha, etc. differently though.

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Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 14:32:59 JST Amolith
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@lanodan it also needs to be smarter about -rc and -beta and whatnot. i'm not sure how i'm going to deal with that crap yet :neofox_woozy:

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Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 14:29:51 JST Amolith
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@lanodan the only tweak i made to support stagit was wrapping the tag's annotation in <pre> when the forge isn't github, gitea, or forgejo :cirno_UwU:

I'm going to work on sorting soon™. it'll be a headache and a half because some people use stupid tagging systems
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Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 13:39:11 JST Amolith

What are some projects that people would be interested in tracking releases for?

Preferably on platforms *other than* GitHub, Gitea, and Forgejo. Those three have RSS feeds that I intend to take advantage of. Gitlab, Bitbucket, cgit, custom git frontends, etc. would all be great. I'm looking for a variety of platforms to test against.

RE: https://nixnet.social/objects/0955dbf7-d224-4d81-8585-8477447702eb
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Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 07:21:36 JST Amolith
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@NeonPurpleStar whot

they just released 11 :cirno_thinking:

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Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 07:03:00 JST Amolith

I like the Windows 11 emojis :comfythink:

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Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Friday, 05-May-2023 01:51:31 JST Amolith

The official X.Org fedi profile is uwuing and owoing, whoever runs it belongs here :meowLul:
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Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Mar-2023 09:43:37 JST Amolith

Pull vs push: intentional notifications
https://secluded.site/pull-vs-push-intentional-notifications/

I’ve recently noticed that many of my peers are sometimes overwhelmed by the internet; they feel as if they’re stretched too thin and that their attention is constantly shifting between too many different platforms. I think a portion of that feeling comes from systems that bombard them with push notifications. Reducing that barrage — on all systems, not just phones — could be a great way to start building a healthier relationship with technology.
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