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The NuGet.org repository signing certificate will be updated as soon as April 8th, 2024 #nuget
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/nuget/t<…

What is your favourite #mastodon #linux or #web client?
Right now, I'm using the default one, but I'm wondering if there are any nice alternatives out there.

online schema changes in cockroach (which is cool, I like their stuff, but also... how do you pick the table version you're gonna query mid-update?)
interesting that it's 3x the storage requirement instead of 2x transaction logs
https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/online-schema-changes
e.g. some way that mid data update the SQL client can be like "no I wanted the data from the previous column definition" or "I want the future one but it's not ready yet"
that kind of MVCC-ness

👀 Not bad. Though honestly expected more from #PhanpySocial users 😤
Table is further analyzed from the kaggle site: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/fourtonfis

mastodon.social alt text use by client app
The use of alt text on mastodon.social broken down by the client app used.

online schema changes in cockroach (which is cool, I like their stuff, but also... how do you pick the table version you're gonna query mid-update?)
interesting that it's 3x the storage requirement instead of 2x transaction logs
https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/online-schema-changes
e.g. some way that mid data update the SQL client can be like "no I wanted the data from the previous column definition" or "I want the future one but it's not ready yet"
that kind of MVCC-ness

Desktop-App für #ChatGPT zuerst nur für den #Mac: Zusammen mit GPT-4o hat OpenAI auch seinen ersten offiziellen Desktop-Client angekündigt. Er erscheint zuerst unter macOS, Windows kommt "später dieses Jahr". @…

I had a bunch of interactions with a major telco’s customer service over the past few days, and I could feel a large language model was generating a lot of the customer service agent’s messages, looking up related information to display, and summarizing the action items and their status. So I just straight up asked.
I had a good customer service experience, if slow because they likely don’t have enough humans in the room but require human oversight.

heise | VMs mit Thin Client: Desktops und Anwendungen verteilt im LAN nutzen​
Anspruchsvollen Aufgaben lassen sich auf leistungsstarke Systeme auslagern und per Thin Client steuern. Das klappt mit kostenloser Open-Source-Software.

Jerrod Carmichael Says Dave Chappelle Can't Handle Criticism of His Anti-Trans Comedy

Jerrod Carmichael Says Dave Chappelle Can't Handle Criticism of His Anti-Trans Comedy
"He’s an egomaniac. He wanted me to apologize to him publicly,” Carmichael said in an Esquire interview this month.

This cloud architecture is fascinating.
1. Secure the hardware supply chain.
2. Rely on secure boot and the trust cache to assure loaded software.
3. Remove code that provide access in and out of the runtime.
4. Rely on per-boot on-disk encryption keys to secure data on Flash.
5. Generate per-node public/private key pairs for data exchange with client.
6. Rely on Secure Enclave to hide private keys from runtime.
7. Rely on 3rd party load balancers to batch…

Blog - Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud - Apple Security Research
Secure and private AI processing in the cloud poses a formidable new challenge. To support advanced features of Apple Intelligence with larger foundation models, we created Private Cloud Compute (PCC), a groundbreaking cloud intelligence system designed specifically for private AI processing. Built with custom Apple silicon and a hardened operating system, Private Cloud Compute extends the industry-leading security and privacy of Apple devices into the cloud, making sure that personal user data…

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio1's #Radio1sResidency
Client_03:
🎵 Ur Luv
#BBCR1 #Client_03
https://client03.bandcamp.com/album/ur-luv-interpersonal-relationship-assessment-ltd-digi

I just want to let you know even I am slightly drunk I just wrote code that works and emailed a client letting them know the project is completed.

Cool https://phanpy.social/#/mastodon.social/t/aurora auroraborealis?media=1

Phanpy
Minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client

Morons: They are so brainwashed that they become nothing but mindless money pumps to be used by rightwing scammers...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/11/anti-woke-vitamin-economy

ServiceWorkers are a pain in the butt, because they’re designed for progressive enhancement. I’m trying to get one to be accessible and also handle fetch events immediately.
I tried skipWaiting and to claim the client, but still not having luck.

Dear T&M instrument vendors, or really anyone designing anything with a network-exposed API: There is no reason to persist protocol state between clients, period.
If I open a session to your gizmo and send it a command, at no point is it ever acceptable, expected, or correct to send me a reply to a previous command sent by a different client (even if they disconnected before you had a chance to send the reply to them).

I stopped messing with client certificates and went back to good old HTTP basic authentication for my little digital light switch panel.
It's a shame nobody cares about TLS client certificates. With a bit more effort we could've gotten rid of passwords a long time ago.
I wish there was something like SSH keys for the web.
Yeah I know, Passkeys are a thing... but also not really.
#http

Is there a Mac OS 9 Mastodon client?

"Either Jeff Clark doesn't understand how attorney-client privilege works in the DOJ ~or~ he was moonlighting as Trump's personal attorney outside the scope of his office and not in furtherance of any official acts but wielding the color of office for campaign purposes."
Jeffrey Clark testifies his client was Donald Trump: 'A problem for both of them' - Raw Story

Jeffrey Clark testifies his client was Donald Trump: 'A problem for both of them'
Former Justice department official Jeffrey Clark Wednesday asserted that his client was Donald Trump when he tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election from within. At a disciplinary hearing before the D.C. Bar, Committeewoman Patricia Matthews noted that Clark had repeatedly cited attorne...

I absolutely love seeing the momentum of “keep users’ sensitive data on their own devices/in their own control only” as a technology security privacy strategy.
https://criticalmoments.io/blog/how_to_target_users_without_collecting_data

How To Target Users Without Collecting Data: Our Architecture Explained
Smarter Targeting, Safer Users: The Promise of Client-Side Targeting

@… möglicherweise hat die andere Person dein Handle von Hand eingetippt ohne es komplettieren zu lassen (je nach Client ist das normal). Wenn du in dem Posting, das dich nicht benachrichtigt hat, auf deinen Namen klickst und nicht zu deinem Profil gelangst, ist das vermutlich die Ursache

Planet Fitness assigns staffer to assist transgender client in women's locker room: 'If you are uncomfortable, you can use a stall' (Lisa Fickenscher/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2024/03/22/business/planet-fitness-assigns-staffer-to-assist-transgender-client-in-womens-locker-room/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240322/p52#a240322p52

🍞 Kitten toast, anyone?
A fifteen-second demo of how you can create a toast message in 42 lines of code¹ without writing any client-side JavaScript using Streaming HTML² in Kitten³.
Video:
https://vimeo.com/925828491
Source code:

Judge rules John Eastman should be disbarred over efforts to overturn 2020 election 
“In view of the circumstances surrounding Eastman’s misconduct and balancing the aggravation and mitigation, the court recommends that Eastman be disbarred,” Roland wrote in a 128-page decision.
The judge also recommended that Eastman be ordered to pay $10,000 in monetary sanctions to the State Bar of California Client Security Fund.
Eastman’s legal team said he would appeal Wednesday’s r…

Judge rules John Eastman should be disbarred over efforts to overturn 2020 election 
A California judge recommended disbarring a lawyer at the center of former President Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election on Wednesday.  State Bar Court Judge Yvette Roland found John Eastman culpable on 10 of the 11 counts filed by the California State Bar last year. The state bar sought to strip…

Microsoft confirms the April 2024 Windows security update breaks VPN connections across client and server platforms on Windows 11, 10, and Server 2008 or later (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/micr

Aprovecho para recordaros que nekogram es un cliente de telegram open source y que trae proxy integrado, por si gustšis.
https://github.com/Nekogram/Nekogram

@… 9pfs client under <https://github.com/bsdjhb/devsummit/blob/main/15.0/planning.md#-want> (linked from the title)

Microsoft announces Zero Trust DNS (ZTDNS). My quick, not-so-well-informed take is that it looks RPZ-like, but seemingly specific to Windows environments with all the bells, whistles, and functions that implies.
#DNS

Big fan of #Phanpy
https://3615.computer/@alyx/112111725478751708

Trepidations but I ask for own #learning: Why does fmt require casting ptr to void*? I assume there are technical reasons (or it wouldn't be required) which I'm just failing to see. Are there links where I can learn more? 🙏🏽
BTW I dabbled a bit to *convince myself* that arbitrary ptr types can be recognized without casting in client code:

Compiler Explorer - C++
//f is highly simplified proxy for fmt

Threads ist ja ganz nett, aber der originale Mastodon Client ist noch immer der beste. #mastodon #client

On the final stretch of my 2,700 km train trip to Madrid and the WindEurope annual event in Bilbao!
Visited a client in Madrid, saw the beautiful cities of Barcelona, Zaragoza, and Madrid, and got quite some work done.
Ready now for 3 buzzing days with 12,000 renewable energy professionals in Bilbao, and a nice train trip back to Utrecht, and the Common Futures HQ ;!

Scoop: Fujitsu spilled private client data, passwords into the open unnoticed for a year
https://www.thestack.technology/fujitsu-breach-cloud-buckets/?ref=the-stack-newsletter

In 1998 I used a NNTP newsreader with an integrated Bayesian spam filter in addition to simple 'killfile' and pattern-matching rules. It was like having a purely client-side individually tuned social media optimization algorithm. Had it been maintained across the MacOS 9->OSX divide and had Usenet not declined in signal, I’d still be using it
I’m still trying to achieve the same S/N and usability in my daily newsfeed.

So, for a cool #Mastodon client, written by @…
What’s neat about it?
Instead of showing a chronological POST timeline, it shows you a chronological POSTERS timeline.
So it’s like SMS/iMessage - you see it sorted by people, which can be nice if yo…

GitHub - terhechte/Ebou: A cross platform Mastodon Client written in Rust
A cross platform Mastodon Client written in Rust. Contribute to terhechte/Ebou development by creating an account on GitHub.

A HAT Trick: Automatically Verifying Representation Invariants Using Symbolic Finite Automata
Zhe Zhou, Qianchuan Ye, Benjamin Delaware, Suresh Jagannathan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01484

A HAT Trick: Automatically Verifying Representation Invariants Using Symbolic Finite Automata
Functional programs typically interact with stateful libraries that hide state behind typed abstractions. One particularly important class of applications are data structure implementations that rely on such libraries to provide a level of efficiency and scalability that may be otherwise difficult to achieve. However, because the specifications of the methods provided by these libraries are necessarily general and rarely specialized to the needs of any specific client, any required application-…

pretty cool, v1.0 unit tests succeed with a v2.0 3/5 threshold configuration, and the best! very few changes/fixes were necessary: https://github.com/stef/pwdsphinx/commit/2863d6aa2e0dcf5f9849621d756446bf7ec2d205

[enh] all unit tests pass · stef/pwdsphinx@2863d6a
python bindings for libsphinx, a reference client/server and a native backend for web-extensions for Sphinx-based password storage - [enh] all unit tests pass · stef/pwdsphinx@2863d6a

I just discovered this #Discourse plugin that I think could reduce the Maker Forums Discourse spam moderation problem by about 50%. There are a few ASNs which are responsible for an outsize proportion of our incoming spam...

The first rule of #distributedsystems is "Don’t distribute your system". Designing distributed systems right is infamously hard for multiple reasons.
Imagine that the client sending a request sends a unique key along. The server keeps track of key-request pairs.
It’s precisely the idea behind the

Creating spanning trees in Waiter-Client games
Grzegorz Adamski, Sylwia Antoniuk, Ma{\l}gorzata Bednarska-Bzd\k{e}ga, Dennis Clemens, Fabian Hamann, Yannick Mogge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18534

Creating spanning trees in Waiter-Client games
For a positive integer $n$ and a tree $T_n$ on $n$ vertices, we consider an unbiased Waiter-Client game $\textrm{WC}(n,T_n)$ played on the complete graph~$K_n$, in which Waiter's goal is to force Client to build a copy of $T_n$. We prove that for every constant $c<1/3$, if $Δ(T_n)\le cn$ and $n$ is sufficiently large, then Waiter has a winning strategy in $\textrm{WC}(n,T_n)$. On the other hand, we show that there exist a positive constant $c'<1/2$ and a family of trees $T_{n}$ with $Δ(T_n)\l…

The great #podcast client #PocketCasts has added the feature "Skip Chapters" as patron preview in its latest version. This is the last feature I missed from #castropodcasts

“It takes a special kind of stupid to export a LastPass vault and dump it into a public bucket along with a bunch of AWS keys. How do these people win critical government contracts again, please?” #fujitsu
https://www.

Fujitsu spilled client data, passwords into the open
It takes a special kind of stupid to export a LastPass vault and dump it into a public bucket along with a bunch of AWS keys. How do these people win critical government contracts again, please?

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08970 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

An Efficient and Multi-private Key Secure Aggregation for Federated Learning
With the emergence of privacy leaks in federated learning, secure aggregation protocols that mainly adopt either homomorphic encryption or threshold secret sharing have been widely developed for federated learning to protect the privacy of the local training data of each client. However, these existing protocols suffer from many shortcomings, such as the dependence on a trusted third party, the vulnerability to clients being corrupted, low efficiency, the trade-off between security and fault to…

Prosecutors played a recording of a phone call, made surreptitiously by Michael Cohen, of Cohen and Trump discussing paying off Davidson’s client, McDougal, with **Trump saying, “What do we got to pay for this? One-fifty?”**
Trump Trial Day 10: "What do we got to pay for this?" - National Zero

I hunt for exciting products for #developers at Product Hunt since 2014. Today I found another one:
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/buglab-ai

Buglab AI - Spellcheck for UI | Product Hunt
Easily detect UI/UX issues in websites, platforms, and web apps by automating the testing process. Accelerate development, and ensure client-facing software quality effortlessly while focusing on the important aspects of your business.

I just discovered that #phanpy (a Mastodon web client) has a really cool “Catch up” feature.
I think this should help me limiting social media usage from my phone while keeping track of what’s going on in my corner of the fediverse
https://phanpy.…

Phanpy
Minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client

I love #Plexamp a lot. I just wish the proper client was available on #RaspberryPi instead of the broken headless version that is a chore to use in comparison.

@… @… that’s amazing Alex! What split would you say your time is between client work and OS work?

For the past ~2 years, I’ve been working on a neuroscience startup (called Matter). We have an app that—by its nature—needs to operate on private user data. Some of that data is so private that we never actually want to handle it ourselves. So we don’t.
We can’t leak data we don’t have. We can’t mishandle private info that never leaves the control of the user.
We’re taking a mostly-unique approach to user data at Matter, and I’ve finally written a little bit about it:

Matter and Privacy
When I was still working at Faculty, we took on a new client that was not yet named Matter. We eventually transitioned from an agency-client relationship to a startup relationship, where I became the

28.
— Alors j'aurais un #créneau de deux heures vendredi entre la séance de sieste qui finit Š 14 heures et l'atelier rêverie qui… Ah non, zut, on s'est réservé un bout de septième ciel avec Clémence. À la rigueur le soir, mais je dois aussi caser le CR de la réunion de février… Samedi serait plus sûr.
— O.K., alors je confirme au client qu'on tient pas les délais. Super…

Federated Semi-supervised Learning for Medical Image Segmentation with intra-client and inter-client Consistency
Yubin Zheng, Peng Tang, Tianjie Ju, Weidong Qiu, Bo Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12695

Federated Semi-supervised Learning for Medical Image Segmentation with intra-client and inter-client Consistency
Medical image segmentation plays a vital role in clinic disease diagnosis and medical image analysis. However, labeling medical images for segmentation task is tough due to the indispensable domain expertise of radiologists. Furthermore, considering the privacy and sensitivity of medical images, it is impractical to build a centralized segmentation dataset from different medical institutions. Federated learning aims to train a shared model of isolated clients without local data exchange which a…

Improved Methods of Task Assignment and Resource Allocation with Preemption in Edge Computing Systems
Caroline Rublein, Fidan Mehmeti, Mark Mahon, Thomas F. La Porta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15665

Improved Methods of Task Assignment and Resource Allocation with Preemption in Edge Computing Systems
Edge computing has become a very popular service that enables mobile devices to run complex tasks with the help of network-based computing resources. However, edge clouds are often resource-constrained, which makes resource allocation a challenging issue. In addition, edge cloud servers must make allocation decisions with only limited information available, since the arrival of future client tasks might be impossible to predict, and the states and behavior of neighboring servers might be obscur…

Today we are discovering that RCON has no official multi-packet response support in the protocol even though a) the maximum response packet is 4096 bytes, b) several things which talk RCON (-glares at Minecraft-) return messages much, much longer than 4096 bytes and, most hilariously, c) I haven’t yet found an RCON client library which supports multi-packet / long responses.

In 1998 I used a NNTP newsreader with an integrated Bayesian spam filter in addition to simple 'killfile' and pattern-matching rules. It was like having a purely client-side individually tuned social media optimization algorithm. Had it been maintained across the MacOS 9->OSX divide and had Usenet not declined in signal, I’d still be using it
I’m still trying to achieve the same S/N and usability in my daily newsfeed.

Hmm, aerc mail client seems interesting. I'm not yet ready to give up Mutt though!
https://jmtd.net/log/aerc/

Is there a mastodon iOS client that will refresh replies when it loads the timeline?
Currently using @… and otherwise very happy!
#mastodon

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.02936 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qu…

Verifiable blind quantum computing with trapped ions and single photons
We report the first hybrid matter-photon implementation of verifiable blind quantum computing. We use a trapped-ion quantum server and a client-side photonic detection system networked via a fibre-optic quantum link. The availability of memory qubits and deterministic entangling gates enables interactive protocols without post-selection - key requirements for any scalable blind server, which previous realisations could not provide. We quantify the privacy at <~0.03 leaked classical bits per qub…

pretty cool, v1.0 unit tests succeed with a v2.0 3/5 threshold configuration, and the best! very few changes/fixes were necessary: https://github.com/stef/pwdsphinx/commit/2863d6aa2e0dcf5f9849621d756446bf7ec2d205

[enh] all unit tests pass · stef/pwdsphinx@2863d6a
python bindings for libsphinx, a reference client/server and a native backend for web-extensions for Sphinx-based password storage - [enh] all unit tests pass · stef/pwdsphinx@2863d6a

I can't load my Gmail background image anymore because it... *checks notes* ..."is not abuse"?

#PhanpySocial changelog ✨ :catjam:
👾 Custom emoji search — Pointer & keyboard-accessible tooltips of shortcodes. Fuzzy search. Shortcodes show by default when searching.
🐛 Bug fixes
🔗 https://phanpy.social/

Phanpy
Minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client

small websites doing big things.
small website client side, medium API server side.

ACE: A Model Poisoning Attack on Contribution Evaluation Methods in Federated Learning
Zhangchen Xu, Fengqing Jiang, Luyao Niu, Jinyuan Jia, Bo Li, Radha Poovendran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.20975

ACE: A Model Poisoning Attack on Contribution Evaluation Methods in Federated Learning
In Federated Learning (FL), a set of clients collaboratively train a machine learning model (called global model) without sharing their local training data. The local training data of clients is typically non-i.i.d. and heterogeneous, resulting in varying contributions from individual clients to the final performance of the global model. In response, many contribution evaluation methods were proposed, where the server could evaluate the contribution made by each client and incentivize the high-…

I am forced out of my everyone-gets-a-fixed-IP-address ISP. So, it was time to find out how to get a stable reference to my home server. I settled on ddclient
https://blog.lanzani.nl/2024/start-using-ddclient/

Start using ddclient · Technical inconsistencies blog
For more than 10 years, I’ve been a happy client of Tweak (how long will that link work?). One of the many features it offered was a fixed IP address. Now that I’m forced to switch to Odido, I will lose this affordance, which serves me greatly whenever I need to connect to my VPN at home. In fact, my phone and laptop are configured to just connect to a subdomain of lanzani.

I'm trying to wrap my head around a weird problem.
I'm doing some stupid `echo | tee -a fname` for a file residing on #nfs
The system returns
close(3) = -1 ENOSPC (No space left on device)
even though there is plenty of disk space (and inodes) available AND '\n' is written to file!
Staring at #rpc debug output along with strace and I don't see any real problem.
The only bit the nfs client shows is `nfs_pgio_result: 15583, (status 1721)`. What does 1721 mean?
#followerpower

My wife and some of her friends are heavy users of @…. Three times now, she has had spam (email and/or ads, popups on other sites) start occurring for products she has only mentioned in a Signal conversation.
Enough to know it's not a coincidence.
Is Signal selling keywords to advertisers? The Mac OS text edit client?

This is super helpful if you ever have trouble uploading large files to your web server or through your web proxy (I did). Solved an Immich problem for me. Yay.
Default nginx client_max_body_size - Stack Overflow
#nginx #immich #proxy #WebProxy

Fat API bindings of C objects into scripting languages
Russell K. Standish
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14940 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Fat API bindings of C++ objects into scripting languages
A fat API exposes nearly all of a C++ object's public attributes and methods to a consuming environment, such as a scripting language, or web client. This can be contrasted with a conventional, or thin API, where the API is defined up front, and the C++ object provides the implementation, most of which is private to the C++ layer. Obviously, reflection is required to expose C++ objects to a consuming layer like this -- this paper explores using the Classdesc system to implement reflection of C+…

Grade den #Nextcloud Desktop Client unter Windows manuell upgedatet. Brav alle Anwendungen geschlossen. Und wieder mal wurde alles schwarz. Nach dem Neustart ist aber alles okay. Jedenfalls ein merkwürdiges Update-Verhalten. Bestimmt aber ein Windows 10-Problem.

@… @… that’s amazing Alex! What split would you say your time is between client work and OS work?

Playing fast and loose and uploading a small change to a client website 10mins before sitting on a plane for an hour and a half.

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— Alors j'aurais un #créneau de deux heures vendredi entre la séance de sieste qui finit Š 14 heures et l'atelier rêverie qui… Ah non, zut, on s'est réservé un bout de septième ciel avec Clémence. À la rigueur le soir, mais je dois aussi caser le CR de la réunion de février… Samedi serait plus sûr.
— O.K., alors je confirme au client qu'on tient pas les délais. Super…

Federated Semi-supervised Learning for Medical Image Segmentation with intra-client and inter-client Consistency
Yubin Zheng, Peng Tang, Tianjie Ju, Weidong Qiu, Bo Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12695

Federated Semi-supervised Learning for Medical Image Segmentation with intra-client and inter-client Consistency
Medical image segmentation plays a vital role in clinic disease diagnosis and medical image analysis. However, labeling medical images for segmentation task is tough due to the indispensable domain expertise of radiologists. Furthermore, considering the privacy and sensitivity of medical images, it is impractical to build a centralized segmentation dataset from different medical institutions. Federated learning aims to train a shared model of isolated clients without local data exchange which a…

Improved Methods of Task Assignment and Resource Allocation with Preemption in Edge Computing Systems
Caroline Rublein, Fidan Mehmeti, Mark Mahon, Thomas F. La Porta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15665

Improved Methods of Task Assignment and Resource Allocation with Preemption in Edge Computing Systems
Edge computing has become a very popular service that enables mobile devices to run complex tasks with the help of network-based computing resources. However, edge clouds are often resource-constrained, which makes resource allocation a challenging issue. In addition, edge cloud servers must make allocation decisions with only limited information available, since the arrival of future client tasks might be impossible to predict, and the states and behavior of neighboring servers might be obscur…

Leak and Learn: An Attacker's Cookbook to Train Using Leaked Data from Federated Learning
Joshua C. Zhao, Ahaan Dabholkar, Atul Sharma, Saurabh Bagchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18144

Leak and Learn: An Attacker's Cookbook to Train Using Leaked Data from Federated Learning
Federated learning is a decentralized learning paradigm introduced to preserve privacy of client data. Despite this, prior work has shown that an attacker at the server can still reconstruct the private training data using only the client updates. These attacks are known as data reconstruction attacks and fall into two major categories: gradient inversion (GI) and linear layer leakage attacks (LLL). However, despite demonstrating the effectiveness of these attacks in breaching privacy, prior wo…

Fat API bindings of C objects into scripting languages
Russell K. Standish
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14940 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Fat API bindings of C++ objects into scripting languages
A fat API exposes nearly all of a C++ object's public attributes and methods to a consuming environment, such as a scripting language, or web client. This can be contrasted with a conventional, or thin API, where the API is defined up front, and the C++ object provides the implementation, most of which is private to the C++ layer. Obviously, reflection is required to expose C++ objects to a consuming layer like this -- this paper explores using the Classdesc system to implement reflection of C+…

I can't load my Gmail background image anymore because it... *checks notes* ..."is not abuse"?

zomg this still exists: https://www.distributed.net/
i remember back in the days running their client everywhere

Wish #cpp allowed concept definitions in class scope, not just namespace scope. DRY, better encapsulate class, reduce litter outside class.
E.g., if a class has many functions w "strict bool" parameter:
- (a) works, not DRY
- (b) DRY but concept visible in client along with class
//a: repeat w each function
template<typename B> requires std::same_as<B, bo…

I am forced out of my everyone-gets-a-fixed-IP-address ISP. So, it was time to find out how to get a stable reference to my home server. I settled on ddclient
https://blog.lanzani.nl/2024/start-using-ddclient/

Start using ddclient · Technical inconsistencies blog
For more than 10 years, I’ve been a happy client of Tweak (how long will that link work?). One of the many features it offered was a fixed IP address. Now that I’m forced to switch to Odido, I will lose this affordance, which serves me greatly whenever I need to connect to my VPN at home. In fact, my phone and laptop are configured to just connect to a subdomain of lanzani.

distributed identity and closed minds
"Public trackers are all that can ever exist"
Magnet links and distributed hash tables: uh... What?
"DHT content can never be updated authoritativly by the author"
Tor v3 addrs, veilid kv, and torrent BEP-39/BEP-46: hi.
"The server has to be online"
Apt cache, SSB, git: now hold up
Sure you could use DNS as a host but that's not the point. Or using keyservers as a host. There might be a dumb way to use hole punching relays as a host
The directory, rendezvous, shared peers, authors, and readers, don't need to all be online simultaneously (or indeed be a single entity or monogamous relationship) - you only need two at a time to exchange what they know.
Each part in the puzzle doesn't have to solve everything that a centralized site does.
Federation is sometimes so limited in the client server mindset.

Ah, yes. Thank you, Matrix.
#Matrix #Conduit #FluffyChat #KDE

distributed identity and closed minds
"Public trackers are all that can ever exist"
Magnet links and distributed hash tables: uh... What?
"DHT content can never be updated authoritativly by the author"
Tor v3 addrs, veilid kv, and torrent BEP-39/BEP-46: hi.
"The server has to be online"
Apt cache, SSB, git: now hold up
Sure you could use DNS as a host but that's not the point. Or using keyservers as a host. There might be a dumb way to use hole punching relays as a host
The directory, rendezvous, shared peers, authors, and readers, don't need to all be online simultaneously (or indeed be a single entity or monogamous relationship) - you only need two at a time to exchange what they know.
Each part in the puzzle doesn't have to solve everything that a centralized site does.
Federation is sometimes so limited in the client server mindset.

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FrankenSplit: Efficient Neural Feature Compression with Shallow Variational Bottleneck Injection for Mobile Edge Computing
The rise of mobile AI accelerators allows latency-sensitive applications to execute lightweight Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on the client side. However, critical applications require powerful models that edge devices cannot host and must therefore offload requests, where the high-dimensional data will compete for limited bandwidth. This work proposes shifting away from focusing on executing shallow layers of partitioned DNNs. Instead, it advocates concentrating the local resources on variationa…

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ACE: A Model Poisoning Attack on Contribution Evaluation Methods in Federated Learning
In Federated Learning (FL), a set of clients collaboratively train a machine learning model (called global model) without sharing their local training data. The local training data of clients is typically non-i.i.d. and heterogeneous, resulting in varying contributions from individual clients to the final performance of the global model. In response, many contribution evaluation methods were proposed, where the server could evaluate the contribution made by each client and incentivize the high-…

Playing fast and loose and uploading a small change to a client website 10mins before sitting on a plane for an hour and a half.

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Pollen: High-throughput Simulation of Federated Learning via Resource-Aware Client Placement
Federated Learning (FL) is a privacy-focused machine learning paradigm that collaboratively trains models directly on edge devices. Simulated environments are crucial for large-scale FL research, allowing scientists to quickly test new ideas without acquiring millions of devices. However, current simulators cannot match the scale necessary to emulate production systems or push the boundaries of research in a time-efficient manner. This work proposes \emph{Pollen}, a novel resource-aware system …

Wish #cpp allowed concept definitions in class scope, not just namespace scope. DRY, better encapsulate class, reduce litter outside class.
E.g., if a class has many functions w "strict bool" parameter:
- (a) works, not DRY
- (b) DRY but concept visible in client along with class
//a: repeat w each function
template<typename B> requires std::same_as<B, bo…

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Snail: Secure Single Iteration Localization
Localization is a computer vision task by which the position and orientation of a camera is determined from an image and environmental map. We propose a method for performing localization in a privacy preserving manner supporting two scenarios: first, when the image and map are held by a client who wishes to offload localization to untrusted third parties, and second, when the image and map are held separately by untrusting parties. Privacy preserving localization is necessary when the image an…

Service Level Agreements and Security SLA: A Comprehensive Survey
Serena Nicolazzo, Antonino Nocera, Witold Pedrycz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00009 https:…

Service Level Agreements and Security SLA: A Comprehensive Survey
A Service Level Agreement (SLA) is a formal contract between a service provider and a consumer, representing a crucial instrument to define, manage, and maintain relationships between these two parties. The SLA's ability to define the Quality of Service (QoS) expectations, standards, and accountability helps to deliver high-quality services and increase client confidence in disparate application domains, such as Cloud computing and the Internet of Things. An open research direction in this cont…

The Privacy Policy Permission Model: A Unified View of Privacy Policies
Maryam Majedi, Ken Barker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17414 https://

The Privacy Policy Permission Model: A Unified View of Privacy Policies
Organizations use privacy policies to communicate their data collection practices to their clients. A privacy policy is a set of statements that specifies how an organization gathers, uses, discloses, and maintains a client's data. However, most privacy policies lack a clear, complete explanation of how data providers' information is used. We propose a modeling methodology, called the Privacy Policy Permission Model (PPPM), that provides a uniform, easy-to-understand representation of privacy p…

Six Levels of Privacy: A Framework for Financial Synthetic Data
Tucker Balch, Vamsi K. Potluru, Deepak Paramanand, Manuela Veloso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14724

Six Levels of Privacy: A Framework for Financial Synthetic Data
Synthetic Data is increasingly important in financial applications. In addition to the benefits it provides, such as improved financial modeling and better testing procedures, it poses privacy risks as well. Such data may arise from client information, business information, or other proprietary sources that must be protected. Even though the process by which Synthetic Data is generated serves to obscure the original data to some degree, the extent to which privacy is preserved is hard to assess…

Snail: Secure Single Iteration Localization
James Choncholas, Pujith Kachana, Andr\'e Mateus, Gregoire Phillips, Ada Gavrilovska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14916

Snail: Secure Single Iteration Localization
Localization is a computer vision task by which the position and orientation of a camera is determined from an image and environmental map. We propose a method for performing localization in a privacy preserving manner supporting two scenarios: first, when the image and map are held by a client who wishes to offload localization to untrusted third parties, and second, when the image and map are held separately by untrusting parties. Privacy preserving localization is necessary when the image an…

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Verifiable Encodings for Secure Homomorphic Analytics
Homomorphic encryption, which enables the execution of arithmetic operations directly on ciphertexts, is a promising solution for protecting privacy of cloud-delegated computations on sensitive data. However, the correctness of the computation result is not ensured. We propose two error detection encodings and build authenticators that enable practical client-verification of cloud-based homomorphic computations under different trade-offs and without compromising on the features of the encryptio…