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The only kind of ad I don't find objectionable is the kind where someone makes a genuine recommendation, with no money changing hands. Or if money did happen to change hands, the same recommendation would've been made without it.

As a random example of the latter, it doesn't bother me too much when electronics youtubers are sponsored by PCB manufacturing companies.


I did the same. Something that helped me get my head around it was realising that NTT is mostly a performance optimization, a bit like montgomery form in RSA. You can conceptually implement ML-KEM without it, it'll just be slower (it also won't be interoperable because the wire format involves the NTT'd form - I think, it's been a while since I looked at it in detail).

daviid - or trim to davii and pronounce it "davey". But tbh I quite like dav2d.

Lattice-based cryptography exists in the present (Both Chrome and Firefox support X25519MLKEM768 hybrid key agreement, by default)

Yes, but it exists because it was deemed better to be cautious and implement PQC despite the uncertainty and different points of view around the time scale to have cryptographically relevant quantum computers (or, from a different point of view, precisely due to the uncertainties). Their comment was in the wrong tone, but the doubts are there. BTW, PQC can be interesting to learn regardless of the discussion around quantum computers.

"will we have a CRQC soon" is the subject of much debate but "will we have a CRQC ever" is pretty uncontroversially a possibility, and so it is worth defending against harvest-now-decrypt-later attacks in the present - which is why X25519MLKEM768 is widely deployed already.


So why serve them at all?

If your website itself is advertising a product or service you sell you would still want LLMs to see and fetch it. If you are a news site, blog, or any other website that doesn’t exist to sell something, you are only harmed by ai agents.

In those situations you wouldn't have ads on the human version of the site either, surely?

Sure, if it’s paywalled. Web hosting isn’t free

Or indeed an illegal LLM prompt: "/goal locate and patch out the licensing check"

Enforcing your rights under your contract by patching out some cert validation checks seems legal to me. Maybe not in places with anti-circumvention laws, but elsewhere it seems fine.

It would be amusingly ironic if someone used Copilot to do it.

Pretty sure this is beyond copilots abilities... It's really bad at any kind of binary analysis.

Really? It's been pretty good with a Ghidra MCP at signature scanning for extremely niche undocumented software.

Unless you snapshot a VM and run clones of it.

That would be nice, but the emergent properties of LLMs defy any kind of first-principles reasoning if you ask me.

Do you use Firefox? I have a theory that there's some kind of Firefox-aarch64-linux-specific memory leak but I haven't been able to track it down. I have a 16GB x86-64 Thinkpad and I rarely get OOM issues, whereas my 32GB M1 MBP running Asahi is always on the brink of OOM.

But is it FF that is taking all the RAM? If you restart it, how long until it fills again?

Why is it unfair to compare two different CPU architectures?

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