Ahh interesting, thanks for the learning

Is this the 3rd name change? or the 2nd?

Came here to say this. Matrix is also a bit clunky still.

Good point

From personal experience, I went that route (open source non profit) and it ended up being a shit show, i wouldn’t assume it’s better. I think going the route of just producing things people want to make their life easier is somewhat reasonable. I’ve been having a bit of a time sorting this out myself.

USB-C. We are clearly progressing. I never want to go back to the world where every phone had a proprietary power brick and connector.

They are browser based, their whole UI and much of the in car backend is a JavaScript.

All my personal devices are named “AHE”+n. So the abbreviation for “at heart engineer”+ a letter signifying the device. So my phone is “AHEM”, my laptop is “AHEL”, my desktop is “aheo” (O for office), my server is “ahes”.

Same, I’ve got a modded 2080ti with 22gb of vram running deepseek 32b and it’s great… But it’s an old card, and with it being modded idk what the life expectancy is.

If AMD was smart they would release an upper-mid range card with like 40+ gb of vram. Doesn’t event have to be their high end card, people wanting to do local/self serve AI stuff would swarm on those.

Being for profit as a legal entity doesn’t necessarily mean they will exploit every angle they can to make a profit. When a company has to answer to shareholders, like when they go public or sell private share to raise capital, that’s when it becomes a real issue. It really depends on their bylaws and who’s running the organization otherwise.

“Where are they getting money to pay for sponsorships and what are their motivations”

Just some background on the cryptography going on:

Its a hash of a fingerprint of your iris that isn’t used for access, it’s used for Sybil resistance, which is a bit different. You wouldn’t use this to prove you are eligible to vote, only that you haven’t voted already for a specific election.

Under the hood, the iris scanning ball thing is just adding you to a membership registry. When you actually go to use your membership, you are generating a semaphore proof, which is a zero knowledge proof that you are in the registry with some nullification output so you can only participate in certain events some number of times (like voting once). You wouldn’t use this by itself to prove that you are eligible to vote.

Generating secret keys from public data (iris)

These aren’t exactly secret keys, but, yes, I agree. Also the Minority Report vibes weird me out.

They use a grounded faraday cage around it. Video on it where he touched on that https://youtu.be/fyai_kUYhLs

That just would allow a malicious attacker to fake being the server, it doesn’t actually compromise the TLS session. So you are talking about a much more sophisticated multi stage attack that needs to be actively executed. This wouldn’t at all allow them to record traffic and decrypt later.

The certs authenticate that you are talking to the real server, the symmetric session keys that are usually derived from a diffie helman key exchange have nothing to do with certs. That’s two separate (but connected) parts of the transaction to build a TLS session.

I work in cryptography, and I guarantee if that’s true “some person you know who worked in government security” would not tell you if they did know, or they are pulling shit out of their ass. There have been so many people that have looked at or worked on SSL/TLS implementations (including some of my coworkers), any vulnerabilities would have to be pretty subtle or clever, and that would be kept highly classified. Quit making shit up or repeating bullshit you heard.

I have, if you are nice it goes fine

I think it’s pretty reasonable for a company as big as delta to wait a little bit to see how a patch rolls out before upgrading.

This is much much harder though, and would risk exposing the vulnerabilities they are using, so they likely won’t use these methods unless it’s higher profile and involves some higher up govt entities. Your normal street crime cop shop won’t be able to do this.

That’s easy, buy all the real estate in an area that’s for sale, scarcity will drive up the value of the properties you have bought. Economics 101.

– This is sarcasm and is poking fun of wall street buying up all the property to be landlords, the world and economy are much more complicated than this… But, it is a quick way to spend $100m in 30 days