I’ve been doing most of my posting off Twitter, here. Would be great to see you all.
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I joined Mastodon at matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange. Figured it was worth a try.
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Matthew Green
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I teach cryptography at Johns Hopkins. Screeching voice of the minority. (Mastodon at matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange.) Also, I will never pay for Twitter.
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ICYMI: (who has abandoned Twitter) proposes in the #OnlineSafetyBill that platforms must know the nationality and/or physical location of their users, lest VPNs (etc) are used to circumvent OSB restrictions
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This paper contains the "philosophy of differential privacy" stuff I've been wanting to get out, as well as a fun history of PRNGs and it even tells you what we're doing for the 2020 Census!
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Everyone on Twitter: do you have BlueSky invite codes?!?11
Everyone on BlueSky: why is there nobody in this place.
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“Here at (at)DecentraNetProto we’ve solved the problem of forward secrecy, deniability AND post-quantum security. I think you should take a look!” No I’m pretty sure I won’t.
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I actually don’t hate cryptocurrency posts that much. I just hate the ones that start out shilling some random protocol, like I’m supposed to know what it does or care.
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A massive GPS glitch in Moscow.
Car-sharing cars and scooters are shown floating in the river, taxis are being called to the other side of the city, and pedestrian navigation is working intermittently.
All because the police are jamming GPS signal for security purposes in… Show more
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The area around Moscow has been one of the most intense regions of GPS jamming on the planet for the past 9 months. twitter.com/search?q=%40le
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@MichioKaku: "Quantum computers can act as a fact checker on ChatGPT."
@JoeRogan: "It's going to be able to discern what's real and what's not real?"
@MichioKaku: "Yes, and even gradations of what's true. It can give you detailed understanding of what is partially correct."
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It’s been six months since Elon Musk took over Twitter, promising a new era of free speech. But Twitter’s self-reported data shows that, under Musk, the company has complied with hundreds more government orders for censorship or surveillance
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10 months ago USDT (a Eurodollar used primarily for settlement on international exchanges) had $66 billion in market cap. USDC hit $55 billion in market cap.
Today, USDT is $82 billion vs. $30 billion for USDC.
That's a collossal public policy failure.
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India’s ban on encrypted messaging apps continues.
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The degree to which ChatGPT has fallen out of relevance in the last month is surprising.
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The minute I saw “payments made easy” I knew this was going to be expensive and it wouldn’t accept any of my cards. The entire US payment infrastructure should be ripped out and replaced.
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Meta-owned #WhatsApp banned a record of over 47 lakh bad accounts in India in the month of March, in compliance with the new IT Rules 2021.
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When it comes to inventing new types of crypto scheme, there seem to be basically two approaches: “wouldn’t that be cool” and “I really need that.”
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I want a SNARK-friendly elliptic curve where H(pi) has a known discrete logarithm wrt the base point.
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Also this was Google’s idea for a “share” icon for like five years, which means I’ll never trust any usability research coming from that company ever again.
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I’m not sure if this is good or bad, I just know that it’s different. And I don’t like when things are different because I’m old and crotchety.
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Chrome is replacing the “lock” icon with… something. I don’t know what it is. Might be two people sharing a sleeping bag.
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Here's a #ReadyMadeTwitterSearch for tweets about:
Twitter's Adoption Of Encryption For Direct Messages
…with links & more information at:
github.com/alecmuffett/re
cc:
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My biggest worry about Musk’s E2EE DM plan is that he’ll install some sort of broken client-side scanning system into it, and governments will treat this as the gold standard.
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So what would stop a person private company from hosting an OpenAI competitor based on Meta’s bigger LLaMA models? Surely it isn’t copyright claims.
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Hello sweeties and home slices.
Apple have released a Rapid Security Response update for your Tim Apple computer machines. Rapid Security Response means you should go update them right now now now now and reboot.
It'll be quick and painless I promise*.
gg and glhf
*maybe
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My student cleaned my whiteboard to be nice, and it’s like my whole mind has been erased.
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People keep saying things like “you can’t ban math” and yes that’s true. But you sure as hell can ban things from the App Stores.
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Thanks! We are working on improving Vicuna and releasing other open models . Also check out the arena.lmsys.org battle of the open LLMs. We hope to release a detailed analysis of the results this Tuesday.
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I remember being told that removing API access would take care of the bot problem.
It has, in fact, not taken care of the bot problem...
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Depressing watching a nation systematically eliminate private messaging because of terrorism, knowing the terrorists will find other secure ways to communicate — but ordinary people won’t.
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Correction: final list is still unknown so these messengers are just guesses.
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India blocks 14 messaging apps because they were allegedly used by terrorists. Does not include Signal or WhatsApp yet.
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The Succession theme is piano layered with strings layered with TR-808 drums which is the part I didn’t realize.
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7B parameters for a Chatbot that actually speaks real language and answers questions, pretty amazing. We live in weird times.
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Wow the Vicuna models get facts wrong, but beyond that they are pretty good for being so tiny.
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