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?
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.