[-] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 5 hours ago

The overwhelming majority of all neurons in our body are just for controlling movement. Ironically, things like language or creativity require very little of our computing power and might be replicated by machine learning and a sufficiently beefy computer. But complex motor tasks? We're way ahead of our current tech on that.

[-] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 6 hours ago

Only the first human was natural, every one after that was created by humans.

[-] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 days ago

I'd say !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml is the better option, but hey, as long as you got your question answered... :)

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submitted 3 weeks ago by pancake@lemmygrad.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

After some investigation and benchmarking, it looks like the best PIR protocol for this use case is YPIR+SP (from February). On a single compute- and network-constrained server, with users on constrained (and possibly metered) networks, this would amount to providing service to up to 1000 users while keeping latencies reasonable; by (quadratically) scaling the server(s) enough, that could become up to 100,000. That means this method of message routing could definitely work, although I look every day in case new protocols are published.

[-] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 month ago

I'd say it's too soon to see if China will take an imperialist approach. The US and Europe seem to be decoupling from them, so they are in desperate need of well-developed markets that will buy their products. It's in their own best interest that African nations develop quickly (which also hurts the US and Europe, making it harder to get cheap raw materials, thus doubly good for China).

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submitted 2 months ago by pancake@lemmygrad.ml to c/cryptography@lemmy.ml

I have been thinking about implementing this for quite some time, but I would like some feedback from people more knowledgeable than me on the matter.

There's been some great progress in the field of Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocols. Recently, in a 2022 article, Lin et al. describe an "updateable DEPIR", with both read and write times that can be made sublinear to database size.

I wonder if one couldn't use a combination of this technique and regular public-key cryptography to provide fully anonymous message routing. One could write outgoing messages to a fixed address and issue private reads to their contacts' addresses, with the messages themselves being encrypted with the receiver's public key.

The benefit of this would be a messaging protocol wherein the server wouldn't just be oblivious to the content of all messages, but also the social graph itself, plus all message-sending operations becoming deniable as a side effect.

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submitted 3 months ago by pancake@lemmygrad.ml to c/socialism@lemmy.ml
[-] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 3 months ago

Interestingly, malfunction of cortisol signaling has been very strongly linked to depression. High-dose corticosteroids can produce an array of mood effects, including depression and mania, as well as other psychiatric symptoms. Relatively recently, psychoactive steroids have been approved for postpartum depression.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by pancake@lemmygrad.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

1 more year has passed, and I'm still tracking these numbers, albeit now posting with a different username. The upward tendency has not just continued, but even increased; now Linux is nearing 4 % market share globally and over 2 % on Steam.

[-] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 6 months ago

"Escanciar" in Spanish means pouring from a height for the purpose of mixing a beverage (usually cider) with air. I suppose it would still be valid if you're pouring a mix from some height.

[-] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 9 months ago

No side wants to give you affordable healthcare and housing. If they say they want to do it, but then do absolutely nothing in that general direction, they don't want to do it.

[-] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 year ago

Well, to be fair there are indeed enough houses... We kinda just assumed they would, by the grace of the market, end up distributed among virtually all people and at a fair price. The reason they never did and increasingly don't is one of the largest unsolved problems in economics /s

[-] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 1 year ago

Potato and tomato were native to the American continent.

[-] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 1 year ago

Israel was basically created by the West, in land that belonged entirely to Palestine. Then, decades later, with Western help, Israel had conquered half of that land, and the UN just decided to enshrine the borders at the time. Now, some more decades later, Israel has expanded way beyond those "compromise" borders, thanks to even more Western help.

There is no "internal conflict" that the West needs to help ending. It was always the West, seeking to create an allied enclave in someone else's land. Or, to build on your metaphor, this is a fight between the adults and the only child who was there from the start, because they want their own kid to play there instead.

[-] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 1 year ago

Palestine has attacked territory that was assigned to Palestine by the UN in 1947. The UN also makes it very clear that a country may lawfully recover occupied territory "by any means, including armed force". UN laws are thus very clear: Ukraine and Palestine can recover territories by force. Now, that doesn't mean you should support them in their struggle to do so, but if you don't, it must be for some other reason (e.g., Israel taking over would constitute a huge strategic gain for the US, while Russia taking over would destabilize the world and thus benefit small or weakly aligned players).

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submitted 1 year ago by pancake@lemmygrad.ml to c/fuck_cars@lemmy.ml
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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by pancake@lemmygrad.ml to c/mechanicalkeyboards@lemmy.ml

My old keyboard served me well, but lately I'm having to replace a broken switch every month so I'm not sure it's worth it. It's also noisy as hell and I hate the backlighting with every piece of my heart. So here's the replacement.

I've ordered it from WASD Keyboards, hmu for the design file. Obviously Spanish layout, I chose MX Cherry Brown switches, light pastel colors to improve visibility under dim lighting, and a pattern from a Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion system to decorate special keys. I've added a few (superfluous) icons for editing operations and arrow keys for Vim, as well as part of an Aristotle quote I like, just because the spacebar felt so empty. I used the old Greek translation simply to avoid distracting myself (I can barely read even modern Greek, so this looks like an uneventful string of accented letters to me).

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