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Whats something new thats actually good? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 7 months ago* by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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I tend to not really care for most new things, as most of it feels cheap, inauthentic or a scam to further the surviellance facist oligarchy state. Id be completely content with time frozen in 2004.

So, to be a little more positive, what are some new things that are actually good?

Note, to me, new is within the last 10 years.

I'll start. The fediverse concept is neat.

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[–] 8 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

Webb space telescope

Fully homomorphic encryption doing useful things

Higgs boson detected (oops, 2013)

Solar power and battery storage cheap enough to displace fossil energy and let ordinary people go off grid

New tacqueria in my neighborhood is actually pretty good.

What more could you want?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Fully homomorphic encryption doing useful things

    Like what?

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Private information retrieval with just one server! Nobody thought that was possible.

    https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~csd-phd-blog/2024/piano-private-information-retrieval/

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Shit like this is what makes me realize I'm an engineer and not a computer scientist. I get the logic, but not so much the practical math.

    It seems like there's a lot of unknowns for where PIR is best used, though. Like using DNS as their example has a lot of issues (that they mention). In what cases is it really best to download the whole dataset (temporarily) to just then go back and query the server on that dataset?

    Though maybe I'm just not that creative of a thinker.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago*

    Single server PIR is kind of a theoretical surprise but good ways to do it with multiple servers have been known for a long time. See the Wikipedia PIR article. Yes it's maybe a solution looking for a problem, but it's way cool that it can be done at all.

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