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I use a passkey with discord on my phone. If I want to log in to discord on a computer it shows a QR code on the page/desktop app and I scan it with my phone to log in. I could see this become a pretty common pattern.

I like it because I can use discord on even a pretty untrusted computer without providing it any credentials or access to my passkey, and then later when I'm done I can revoke the session.

Most crimes require intent, hacking is one of them. The relevant law in this situation is:

(a) Whoever— (2) intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access, and thereby obtains— (C) information from any protected computer; shall be punished as provided in subsection (c) of this section.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030

So if it can't be proven that you intended to access a computer without authorization, or exceed your authorized access, then you can't be found guilty of the crime.

Consider the possible consequences of the law not requiring intent, if simply accidentally exceeding your authorized access could be a criminal act.

Blender 5.2 LTS 2 days ago

There is a popular mcp interface but having them write blender scripts is also pretty usable.

They also sell homeopathic drugs at that same store. So that at least should tip you off that not everything for sale can be trusted to be effective.

fwiw he wasn't charged as an accessory in this case. He was charged with "corruptly concealing a document or record" and "conspiracy to conceal documents".

In fact federal law provides that accessorys can't be sentenced to more than 15 years if the principal crime is punishable by life imprisonment (like terrorism is).

or if the principal is punishable by life imprisonment or death, the accessory shall be imprisoned not more than 15 years.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/3

Computer hardware prices tend to go down over time so in general this is a pretty bad strategy. Of course in rare times like these it can pay off.

OpenGL doesn't have any way to do this except sometimes via vendor specific extensions. Basically how OpenGL works is it creates the graphics context on whichever device the system hands it. So you can configure the GPU used by OpenGL on the system level but not at the application level.

They are encrypted to prevent others from training on the reasoning trace. But before anthropic started encrypting the reasoning traces they were signed. The signature was to prevent the user from being able to manipulate the reasoning part of the context because this reasoning part is considered "more trustworthy" by the model. So it would be bad if the user could manipulate the reasoning to convince the model to do something dangerous/against policy. Encryption keeps this property while also preventing the reasoning from being used for training.

Love systemd timers 2 months ago

Whitespace immediately before or after the equals sign is completely ignored by the parser. Its the standard INI format.

look into "sealed sender" schemes, they allow the recipient to verify the sender identity without allowing anyone else to verify the sender identity. So making use of such a scheme allows you to prevent governments or corporations from intercepting even the metadata of communications (and of course E2EE prevents intercepting the contents).