Confiks

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by Confiks 1y ago
And out of nowhere, after posting this comment, Otter.ai now has responded after ghosting me for 3,5 weeks. They are no longer quoting the CCPA, but now are misinterpreting the GDPR and claim that every user is their own little GDPR data co
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by Confiks 1y ago
Their own privacy policy acknowledges their obligations under the GDPR.
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by Confiks 1y ago
A month ago a potential customer automatically included their Otter.ai meeting agent into a Teams call. The customer never turned up (he canceled the meeting somewhat later), but me and a colleague chatted a bit in the meeting. Then the Ott
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by Confiks 1y ago
Perhaps "unfathomably" was too strong, but "any undergraduate" is at least very easy to falsify.
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by Confiks 1y ago
It's a very interesting solution that allows for multi-show unlinkability to be married to hardware binding using existing ECDSA hardware keys. It's not limited to age verification; it can be applied to arbitrary attributes. It&#x
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by Confiks 2y ago
It's even more important if this finding [1] (press release [2]) turns out to be true, namely that the amount of carbon dioxide in the air is not just a proxy for air quality, but that having less of it actually actively destabilizes v
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by Confiks 2y ago
It's not illegal, but unlawful for data controllers to process such personal data without free permission. But in this case there's likely an exception in GDPR article 85, for "For processing carried out for journalistic purp
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by Confiks 2y ago
> Privacy Pass in fact doesn't make sense outside of an anonymizing transport This kind of thinking is pervasive in the discussion of privacy enhancing technologies. It might not make sense against the most sophisticated attacker, b
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by Confiks 2y ago
I've similarly been grasping at straws to find some way that makes the fatigue go away, at least a little (although not for myself). As doctors won't prescribe any medication off-label, I've mainly looked at other methods and
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by Confiks 2y ago
Same. Including weird audio clicks during supposed 'sleep' (already happend during heavy load while awake). Then one day this summer it just died without any recourse.
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by Confiks 2y ago
Try logging in with the game client from twenty years ago, which is the equivalent here.
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by Confiks 2y ago
That would make the quote true, or at least for early produced models. However, in guides created two months after the release of the Oculus Go, it was was already necessary to create an account: "before you can put your device in Dev
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by Confiks 2y ago
> Yeah and the go isn't really an interesting product anyway. It's a basic, relatively inexpensive model that was sold widely with over 2 million units until July 2019 [1] and continued to sell for 20% of Meta VR until it was d
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by Confiks 2y ago
> Turns out that the quote isn't true at all To be clear (too late to edit): the latter part of the quote.
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by Confiks 2y ago
> Would you be able to do it with a fake account Of course, although it also requires a setting up a 'fake' phone number. I just don't want to touch the Meta ToS – as I haven't for more than a decade – even with a ten
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by Confiks 2y ago
On an unrelated note, in 2021 Carmack and Meta announced [1] unlocking the Oculus Go bootloader, explicitly mentioning that it "opens up the ability to repurpose the hardware for more things today, and means that a randomly discovered
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by Confiks 2y ago
A project I contributed tried to use this, but eventually switched to pdfkit [1] for better PDF accessibility support and smaller files [2]. [1] https://github.com/foliojs/pdfkit [2] https://github.com/
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by Confiks 2y ago
> Undisclosed (...) Vulnerability RFC 7258 - Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack was published in 2014 [1] [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7258
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by Confiks 3y ago
Many commenters point out that Bluetooth MAC address randomization on phones mitigates most of the privacy risk, but forget that most other devices – even including the pressure sensor in you new car's tires – use a static address that
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by Confiks 3y ago
Please be aware that Microsoft bundles news from MSN with Windows, and will show trash articles like the one submitted here to a very large part of the population. Including students of all ages who must use a managed laptop from their scho
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by Confiks 3y ago
> For single-serve coffee (...) and uses standard #4 filters Automated machine here [1] (except putting the filter in, and coffee and water every ten cups). Seems to be the only one of its kind as far as I'm aware. [1] https:/
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by Confiks 3y ago
Indeed. Comma.ai [1] does this [2] in a very open way. Including eye-tracking (which doesn't work for everyone yet apparently [3]). Unfortunately existing manufacturers are unlikely to implement this in a local-first way. [1] https:&#
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by Confiks 3y ago
The headline is completely speculative. The meat of the article is "A survey by Business New Zealand and Southern Cross Health found sick days hit a record high in 2022" and "Auckland University immunologist Anna Brooks said
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by Confiks 3y ago
Fixing the TPM is hard because taping out semiconductors at scale is not yet facile [1] and there's also still a proprietary PDK in the way of 'traditional' manufacturing [2]. The article submarines [3], which looks very inte
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by Confiks 3y ago
Bought the book last week, it's beautiful! Would anyone have any recommendations for other books that can offer deep insight into technology but also just can be leafed and skimmed through, perhaps part of a small library collection? I
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by Confiks 3y ago
Was your case publicized? [1] looks quite similar but is a case from two years earlier. Similar procedure? [1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000649712...
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by Confiks 3y ago
ICTU for the Dutch Ministry of the Interior | Software engineer (authentication, open source, Rust) | https://github.com/MinBZK/nl-wallet | REMOTE NL (1 day onsite) | Full-time freelance Under the Working Agenda Value
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by Confiks 3y ago
https://atproto.com/guides/faq#why-not-use-activitypub
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by Confiks 3y ago
The wording could have been better (and the whole private beta thing as well). For what it's worth, the protocol and data model is open and designed for redistribution [1], and the event stream of messages is freely available without l
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by Confiks 3y ago
Boots in 5 minutes, minimum allocation of 24 hours, is "low stock" if you actually try to allocate one, and was recently "no stock". I'd be unsure if its actually available when you need it. They offered bare metal

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