cypherpunks

I think it's pretty great that Zuckerberg went all-in on the thankfully-wrong bet that his Second Life knockoff would somehow be popular and that people would actually want to strap a computer on their face to use it. 🤡

Which is to say, VR isn't particularly high on the list of things I'm concerned about giant tech companies' control of.

I recommend reading The Verge's review of the Apple Vision Pro which concludes:

Apple may have inadvertently revealed that some of these core ideas are actually dead ends — that they can’t ever be executed well enough to become mainstream. This is the best video passthrough headset ever made, and that might mean camera-based mixed reality passthrough could just be a road to nowhere. This is the best hand- and eye-tracking ever, and it feels like the mouse, keyboard, and touchscreen are going to remain undefeated for years to come.

As someone who doesn't want to live in a world where head-mounted cameras in public spaces become ubiquitous or even socially acceptable, I found that review to be good news.

they basically agree with you

yes, I realize :)

I should've made clear in my comment that, aside from a bit of imperfect English and incorrect use of the term snake oil, I think this is an excellent blog post.

via https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/our-blessed-homeland-their-barbarous-wastes

https://twitter.com/tomgauld/status/571994690289061888 is the original

post-quantum cryptography can be compared with a remedy against the illness that nobody has, without any guarantee that it will work. The closest analogy in the history of medicine is snake oil.

Good on them for saying that.

A "remedy against the illness that nobody has" is a good analogy, but it is important to note that it's an illness which there is a consensus we are likely to eventually have and a remedy that there is good reason to believe will be effective.

It isn't a certainty that there will ever be a cryptographically relevant post-quantum computer, and it also isn't a certainty that any of the post-quantum algorithms (as with most classical cryptography) which exist today won't turn out to be breakable even by yesterday's computers. The latter point is why it's best to deploy post-quantum cryptography in a hybrid construction such that the system remains secure even if one of the primitives turns out to be breakable.

That said, I think it is totally wrong to call PQC snake oil because that term in the context of cryptography specifically means that a system is making dishonest claims: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil_(cryptography)

+1 to ctrl-alt-fsomething (start at f1 and go up to move through the different virtual terminals). once in a while there are graphics problems which this will fix.

If you're using GNOME Shell on X you can reload the shell (and all of its extensions) with alt-f2 and then in the "Run a command" dialog that appears type r and hit enter. Unfortunately this doesn't work in GNOME on Wayland.

/c/eleven@lemmy.ml

That installs and or updates roots flatpaks

Which is what flatpak will always do unless provided with the --user flag.

By default it operates in system-wide mode, which is different from "root's".

flatpak list and sudo flatpak list will both show you what is installed system wide, and flatpak list --user will show you your user's, and sudo flatpak list --user will show you the root user's flatpaks installed in per-user mode (of which there are typically none).

I highly recommend Phillip Rogaway's The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work even if you aren't interested in cryptography specifically, but especially if you are.