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Is the conjecture not trivially sound at an intuition level? It's surprising that this proof was difficult.

I would rename "the dark forest" to "the interesting horizon"


> To see Sid use his motivation and resources to solve his own problem is the core message (IMHO) of the hacker community.

Hacking is about exploration beyond the known, and iterating towards a clear understanding.


Like the evergreen comic, "How would you like this wrapped?" by John Janik

For decades policymakers have been trying to sell us the same surveillance state they accuse their adversaries of having, wrapped as either security or protecting children.

https://i.redd.it/ifb8agngc7dy.jpg


Fool me once...



A lot of vim users use comma as the leader key so this is probably natural for a lot of folks.

Also seems convenient to be able to type ,<tab> to autocomplete over your custom commands, in case you forgot the name you assigned them.


Incredible popular software lore here. Calibre and Kitty are two of my favorite pieces of software in the world.


Obligatory reference to Simple Made Easy https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/

I watch this talk about once per year to remind myself to eschew complexity.


Wireguard ships with the Linux kernel so you only need to receive ~60 bytes of configuration information.


Wireguard is also easily censored and is already censored in the places that censor VPNs.


The user-facing software is not included in the kernel, but you need that to configure wireguard.


Is that true? I thought wg-quick etc were just convenience functions and that it's relatively trivial to use iproute2 to configure a VPN link


You don't need wg-quick. You do need the "wg" command.


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