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Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse in c/technology@beehaw.org

[-] Gork@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

They say they get around the easy linking of a single wallet address to your identity by using subaddresses. I don't think this fixes it, it merely delays it.

The number of these subaddresses are capped to prevent botting. But suppose you use this account every day for years or decades. You've meticulously allocated subaddresses for different categories of spending, assessed the risk profile of using each one, and used them throughout the years until you're out of subaddresses.

Now you're vulnerable to having your identity tied to the account since the risk of getting had goes up every time you use any of your subaccounts. And this risk only increases the more you use your Worldcoin.

Even if the biometric privacy safeguards they built in (hashing yer Mk. I orbs) work perfectly, I wouldn't use it for the reasons I mentioned above, there isn't a way to ensure transactional anonymity if your account/subaccounts can be linked to your real identity regardless of the method.

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Time Appears to Have Run Five Times Slower in Early Universe, Supporting Einstein's Relativity Theory (archive.ph)

submitted 1 year ago by Gork@beehaw.org to c/space@beehaw.org

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Five times slower for us distant observers, regular time (1 second = 1 second) if you're actually there, if I'm understanding this correctly.

Still, difficult to wrap my brain around.

I have a confession to make... I code in Comic Sans in c/programming@beehaw.org

[-] Gork@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

Conic Sans is the hyperbolic version of Comic Sans

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The Internet Is Failing The Website Preservation Test (archive.ph)

submitted 1 year ago by Gork@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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This is something that keeps me worried at night. Unlike other historical artefacts like pottery, vellum writing, or stone tablets, information on the Internet can just blink into nonexistence when the server hosting it goes offline. This makes it difficult for future anthropologists who want to study our history and document the different Internet epochs. For my part, I always try to send any news article I see to an archival site (like archive.ph) to help collectively preserve our present so it can still be seen by others in the future.

API pricing protests caused Reddit to crash for 3 hours in c/technology@beehaw.org

[-] Gork@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

If enough of us do it, entire comment chains will be illegible lol

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[Rust] Why code in text like a peasant when you can code using emojis (tomdebruijn.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Gork@beehaw.org to c/programming@beehaw.org

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Why use pi when you can use 🥧

fn main() {
    let pi_emoji = "🥧";
    let pi_value = 3.1415926535897932384626433832;

    println!("Let {} {:.28}", pi_emoji, pi_value);
}