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New comment by dewyatt in "Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online"

dewyatt — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 05:03:37 +0000

I think it's more likely we'd see term limits and balanced budget amendments. Possibly even the power for states to override federal laws, with a supermajority.

I'd like to see other things, like the commerce clause returning to its original meaning, but like you said, it's already a high bar.

New comment by dewyatt in "Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online"

dewyatt — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 00:38:44 +0000

We've drifted pretty far from the Constitution and what the Founders envisioned.

The reinterpretation of the Commerce Clause was the start of a downward spiral.

I'm hoping the Convention of States will succeed and fix this, even if it means rebuilding many institutions at the State level.

New comment by dewyatt in "Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online"

dewyatt — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 00:09:09 +0000

Tor doesn't protect against traffic correlation last I checked.

Mixnets/Nym are better for actual privacy.

(I've not audited Nym, not an endorsement)

New comment by dewyatt in "Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia"

dewyatt — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 01:18:00 +0000

Example: https://www.theblaze.com/news/general-mark-milley-pentagon-a...

New comment by dewyatt in "Gzip exceptions, but only on hot or rainy days"

dewyatt — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 18:28:40 +0000

> To rule out if it was a coding error, I tried to decompress the gzip file with bash via gzip -dc file. bash threw a strange error, “can’t seek file descriptor” when trying to read the file. This error is emitted from bash.c here.

Unless I am reading this wrong, the error would have been emitted by gzip, not bash. There is no redirection or anything here, bash is not even aware of that file.

New comment by dewyatt in "How to deal with extreme physical pain (2020)"

dewyatt — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 18:48:36 +0000

BPC-157 is the only thing that helped me with my debilitating tendinitis. It was definitely worth it for me, nothing else worked.

New comment by dewyatt in "Contagion in Mass Killings and School Shootings (2015)"

dewyatt — Sun, 04 Aug 2019 12:38:12 +0000

They had warships when the 2A was written, some of which were privately owned.

They also had things like the puckle gun and the founders were aware of advancing weaponry.

New comment by dewyatt in "Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs"

dewyatt — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 01:38:25 +0000

Hmm maybe they'll add something later. It does have smartcard support, so that may be one approach.

New comment by dewyatt in "Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs"

dewyatt — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 17:56:22 +0000

I just went ahead and placed my order anyways. :)

New comment by dewyatt in "Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs"

dewyatt — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 17:44:17 +0000

The product page does not completely agree with all of these tech specs:

https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/

New comment by dewyatt in "How Weight Training Might Change the Brain"

dewyatt — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 09:44:06 +0000

It seems like you're proving his point.

New comment by dewyatt in "Abandoned America"

dewyatt — Sun, 21 Jul 2019 21:19:45 +0000

If you enjoy this type of stuff, you may also enjoy some urban exploration videos:

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheProperPeople

New comment by dewyatt in "Opmsg – A GPG Alternative"

dewyatt — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 12:45:38 +0000

I'm not sure what you're implying, but without context, the screenshot is meaningless.

It could be that Phil has a policy of not storing private keys on his iPhone or something. Is that so unusual?

Anyways, maybe you're privy to context that I'm missing.

New comment by dewyatt in "The PGP Problem"

dewyatt — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 20:32:11 +0000

Yes, it depends on what you mean. The packets themselves aren't a big deal to me, it's more the ability to construct them in arbitrary ways that concerns me.

New comment by dewyatt in "The PGP Problem"

dewyatt — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 14:25:21 +0000

> Every well-known bad cryptosystem eventually sprouts an RFC extension that supports curves or AEAD, so that its proponents can claim on message boards that they support modern cryptography.

I'm being attacked! :P

New comment by dewyatt in "The PGP Problem"

dewyatt — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 14:21:15 +0000

I can probably agree on the packet format, it's excessively flexible and easy to implement insecurely.

New comment by dewyatt in "The PGP Problem"

dewyatt — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 14:20:35 +0000

> PGP theater

Hmm I don't see it as theater if you are unable to intercept and decrypt my message. Or forge my signature, etc.

New comment by dewyatt in "The PGP Problem"

dewyatt — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 13:38:19 +0000

This is more an issue with GnuPG though, not OpenPGP.

Also, you may want to try using an actual OpenPGP Card (https://www.floss-shop.de/en/security-privacy/smartcards/13/...). (You can get a small one inside a USB token too)

New comment by dewyatt in "FTC Approves Roughly $5B Facebook Settlement"

dewyatt — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 20:35:15 +0000

Real ID gets us much closer to having a national ID. Give it time.

New comment by dewyatt in "SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack"

dewyatt — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 23:23:50 +0000

Much of that could be solved by an implementation having user-controlled policies that whitelist/blacklist sets of algorithms. An implementation could be made with a sane default policy.

Of course, some things ought to just be replaced (S2K).