It would also trivially fall to double spending.

But all of this is a solved problem and has been since the late 90s! Many European countries had domestic two-sided offline capable digital cash schemes, but they were all shut down in favor of domestic online schemes, or often Visa and Mastercard

I doubt the ECB will want to get into the business of retail dispute arbitration. And probably not so coincidentally, Wero now seems to support disputes?

Seems like an excellent way to outsource both frontier model training (to Anthropic, via Opus reasoning traces) and RLHF (to users).

Du bist doch hier der Feuilletonist, mach mal was für mein Abo*!!

*Probeabo

Matches my experience completely. It's pretty good at coming up with small/one-off scripts or single-page web apps, OK at working in large existing code bases, but an absolute beast at finding bugs given a detailed description of symptoms and a few pointers.

Not all OSes allow trusting self-signed certs only for a particular set of hostnames, and if they don't, the associated private key becomes incredibly risky (since anyone getting it would be able to pose as google.com etc. to you as well).

Some OSes don't even have a system-wide trust store at all!

A real shame there’s no mechanism browsers can indicate language preferences to websites, like a request header or something.

Fortunately IP addresses map to user language preferences perfectly.

USDL is pegged to USD and is domiciled in Abu Dhabi, as far as I know. No idea if that’s available to residents there, though.

Natürlich, Selbstanzeige. Wäre für das kriminell schlechte LLM dieses Zusammenfassungs-Bots auch überlegenswert.

Ah, and the other one requires an app to have verified some companion domain and then allows only that as RPID, IIRC?

Thanks for doing all of this, by the way, I hope having a great use case finally convinces Bitwarden to also support PRF :)

Speaking of that, did your explorations of using the FIDO "backend API" on macOS in CLI tools lead anywhere, or does that still require some browser-only code signing entitlement?

It's slightly different from a smart card in that the key inevitably is revealed to the host computer with the PRF extension, but for applications that only use the smartcard for key (un)wrapping it's effectively equivalent.

On the other hand, having somebody/something really intelligent working for you certainly helps a lot.

I don’t think being a majority holder of voting shares allows you to make decisions that disadvantage minority shareholders. (Otherwise, people would vote for things like “don’t pay any more dividends to these 49% of shareholders” all the time.)

You might be delighted/horrified to learn that the machine-readable zone of ICAO passports encodes all dates as YYMMDD – including the date of birth.

> new Date("📅")
Invalid Date

*monocle drop*

Excuse me but deluding myself into thinking I saved everyone some time by monologuing at an intern who didn’t ask any question whatsoever isn’t novelty, that’s a core part of my professional identity

Please contain me

Woah, this is literally on my to do list for vibeserver

github.com/lxgr/vibeser...