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If you enjoyed this you will probably enjoy Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag[0]. Great piece that discusses why and how art moves us and pushes back a bit against the idea that is presented in this post that real art is art you can ask questions about and get answers from. I think most people including the author can recognize impactful art is more than just being able to get your 'why' questions answered (some might claim modern art is about challenging these assumptions), but it is even more difficult to talk about that concept without sounding extremely snobby, and Sontag has the credentials / writing skills to discuss it well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Interpretation


> Sontag has the credentials / writing skills to discuss it well.

100%, and just to give an example, she finds good art is excreted (her words - perfectly chosen) rather than created, and I think her example was how the immaculate constructions of somebody like Flaubert lose a certain impact and potency, precisely because they betrays some sort of methodological process. And this cannot yield Truth.

To me, reading this now, that sort of analysis struck me rather as very much dated, and an example of that flippant iconoclasm of modern literary criticism, basically, of the hippies.

Because, really, who is she to throw Flaubert so casually under the bus? (im joking) Mme bovary is perfect, in a way a classical music composition is perfect, it is the oppressive knowledge that perfection can be willed into the world and it's the artist who has the task to will it in the world, no matter the devotion and commitment required. Causally dismissing this, is at its base adolescent posturing (like the hippies). But more importantly, and this is why I say "dated", is that we now, after 60-80 years very much have witnessed what sort of art we get when creating art should be more akin to some physiological evacuation. It's just no good, and it's being rejected more and more.


In the README it talks about accessing and modifying the code of the Platform Security Processor including accessing the keys, how is what is on an Xbox different?


The Xbox does not use AMD's Platform Security Processor, they have their own custom controller on die with Microsoft hardware and their own custom BootROM. This custom security processor actually has its own bit of RAM entirely in the die and doesn't even go out to the DRAM at all.

See the slide on Tony Chen's presentation about Xbox One security https://youtu.be/U7VwtOrwceo?t=843 and this video from the person who hacked the Xbox One https://youtu.be/FTFn4UZsA5U?t=299


But the million dollar question is, do they rotate the IV per block or do they opt for speed as AMD and Intel both did by deriving it from the address and thus are vulnerable to someone sniffing the bus? (Note that older Intel server hardware wasn't vulnerable in this way but tracking IVs slowed everything down so they did away with it.)


Seems like this should get us a newer PS4 jailbreak?


Looks like a tailscale alternative from Cloudflare


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If the system is implemented correctly then Kagi cryptographically can't link a particular search to a particular user.


A problem with "zero knowledge" proofs is that Kagi needs to verify that the user has paid for the service, which requires the server to have some knowledge about the client at some point.


You have to generate the tokens while signed in, but once you have the tokens, you can use them without your searches being associated with your account (cryptographically provable).


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If the method works as described (which is a cryptography issue and can be verified?), there’s no way to track you.

Your claim is a bit like saying „it’s impossible to encrypt mail, the government wouldn’t allow it“. But PGP still exists.


In case anyone else does this and is new to Rust - you can use `cargo check` to type check/borrow check/everything else without doing any codegen


This thread is no longer with regards to Rust or checking whether the code compiles or not. It is about how you can work with compilation times that are longer than a coffee break.


Isn't Google Takeout pretty easy?


Google takeout rips out a lot of metadata information and virtually all organization you had - there are a couple open source projects trying to replace or augment gphotos takeout so it is useable but as is it isn’t a viable option for large libraries


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