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If it's dumb and it works, then it's not dumb.

True, but it depends on what you mean by “works”.

Please don't affirm things that you perfectly know you don't know.

Don’t worry about me, what I know or don’t know ;)

I'm worried!

No, author says right here in this threads that it's been hardened versus default:

> For those who are saying that the nginx config is unfairly difficult, intention was just to replicate a fairly normal config that was more realistic than you'd get in a lab environment. If we get to 24 hr+ with no solves I'll see about making it easier. In the meantime, seems like you can perhaps mitigate PHP2Shell with the right nginx config, so that's pretty neat!



But they just showed you their proof. You simply did not accept it, which they might or might not care about.

I suspect that they in fact do not particularly care about what you think.


Breaking Bad vibes here. "You don't want a ransom negociator, you want a ransom negociator!"


Better than some random negotiator.

You can have $1,000,000 in unmarked bills as requested. Or you can have whatever is in the mystery box!

"oh no, my wife's head!", he says, calmly.

And remember to switch doors if Monty offers it!

What if I wanted a goat?

The box, the box, the box!

Yes, indeed! Can you imagine how slow /dev/random would be if every random number would have to be negotiated first?

Not necessarly. For example you could have the machine print a ticket with the vote and show it to the voter behind a window. The voter:

- confirms (paper goes down the box) and exits the booth

or

- cancels (paper is burned) and votes again


This is why crypto hardware wallets have screens.

To show you the user something and no one else without leaving a paper trail.

The ability to enter a single person voting booth through a e-passport style gate and security to check your devices screen again so a perk that could be implemented.

The public ledger of all votes that could be checked to enforce no duplicate voting, generate a full list of who voted if desirable, and you with your device in a secure room check your vote.

Are all features of cryptocurrency systems that exist allow.

All of that could be optionally allowed or disallowed for a future cryptography enabled voting system.

The e-passport style gate to single person voting room is the physical security needed to ensure people don't coerce each other more than today. And optionally make coercion impossible at the cost of some people not being able to vote (people who need someone in the room with them as they do in the booth with them today).


Right, because the person coercing the voter wouldn't know of this little trick and wouldn't make sure the voter doesn't do it. Riiight.


Yes, coercing the voter in the polling station where there are people monitoring the situation, and police, is more difficult than in supervisor's office in the factory where you just call the employee and order them to vote. No witnesses, no evidence.


You don't, you simply make both spend a few billion cpu cycles for it. The human will tolerate the one-time cost. The bot's owner won't because it's not scalable.


Calling $900 "a couple bucks" shows how wide a gap there is between perception and reality though.


Maybe the reason is simply that it's a cool idea?

This is typically the kind of hacking project that is preposterously non-economically-viable for 99% of homelabbers, let alone regular folks. Now, for the first time ever, AI is making it actually palatable for everyone who wants it done to have it done... and certainly much cheaper too at an equivalent quality level.


Commissioning art like this is at most a few hundred dollars. As was posted elsewhere, there are lots of young artists that need to pad out their portfolios, as well as artists in places where the cost of living is significantly cheaper. This isn't a multi-thousand-dollar thing that only the 1% could afford.


I'm sorry, I have a hard time understanding you. Correct me if I'm wrong, are you saying that

1. paying an illustrator is non-economically-viable for 99% of homelabbers? and

2. AI would have done it at an equivalent quality level?


Yes to both.

For (1) the vast majority of people don't want to spend what's probably on the roundabout of a thousand dollars for their homelab's homepage. You can easily see this in almost every homelabbing discussion on reddit or even here, where everyone focuses on cheap/hackish solutions to avoid overspending... except in hardware of course =) It's kind of become a meme at this point.

For (2), certainly, especially so considering that the author gave the illlustrator blueprints, photos, instructions, etc. for the commissioned illustrator to convert into dynamically-compatible svgs.

There's a lot of top-down implementing there with very low bottom-up artistry. This doesn't at all take from the final quality -which is pretty good- but it makes it easily replicable using current-gen AI.


That is just nonsense. Is your work experience perhaps only in marketing-oriented shops for you to think that?

Most models from architect offices of any size will be larger; many experimental results from applied physics research labs will be larger; any single project from a film production company of any size will be larger; any combined weekly security log at MSPs of any size will be larger; any industrial plant's daily production indicators will be larger; any energy company's hourly operational measurements will be larger.


I mean, I have ten years worth of hourly reports for a few power plants printed on greenbar in my archives.


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