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by Cynddl 2y ago
Maybe a good illustration would be ClearView AI. They are scraping websites, extracting information (images), and training ML models to learn embeddings (distance between faces). They indiscriminately collect personal data without opt-in, b
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by Cynddl 2y ago
I find it interesting that as an (edit: UK) academic researcher, I would be likely be forbidden to use tools like this, that fail basic ethics standards, regulations such as GDPR, and practical standards such as respecting robots.txt [given
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Data anonymity methods and privacy safeguards unfit for modern data(oii.ox.ac.uk)
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by Cynddl 3y ago
Adding to other voices in this thread that the title does not explain academic ranks, it explains North-american academic ranks. There are a variety of academic systems worldwide and in numbers of academics, production, and diversity, USA f
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by Cynddl 4y ago
> No other computational platform before the blockchain has provided all these features at the same time. What about PGP/GPG?
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by Cynddl 4y ago
> 1. The successful communication platforms are ones that are opt-in, meaning you can't message or talk to someone unless you give their consent; and Not particularly true in the rest of the world, for instance in Europe as many hav
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by Cynddl 4y ago
I'm surprised no one here or in the original comments points out the sheer violence of that first photograph, depicting the dead bodies of three Ukrainians. I find it deeply unethical to use such war photographs for a paid newsletter,
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by Cynddl 4y ago
Two very different things. The banner is set by the Wikimedia Foundation, while this is a vote by the community.
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by Cynddl 5y ago
Only 51%: “Le Monde owns 51%; the Friends of Le Monde diplomatique and Gunter Holzmann Association, comprising the paper’s staff, together own 49%.” https://mondediplo.com/about
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by Cynddl 5y ago
I believe it first happened after cleaning the demo to start from zero. But the apps is quite buggy in other ways. For instance, trying to add the GBP currency fails silently, but it's apparently due to using a free API? > "The
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by Cynddl 5y ago
It doesn't appear to be very stable. I keep running into the following error on Firefox and need to empty the memory and cache, then restart everything again: > TopHat has hit an error, and has ended up in a bad state. You could go
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by Cynddl 5y ago
> We could even end up living in a world where a kind of “e-passport”, crypto-signed government ID is attached to your every internet connection, and tracked everywhere online. […] The rise of bots could render many online communities si
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Soundaktor: a vehicle audio system used to simulate engine noise in the cabin(en.wikipedia.org)
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by Cynddl 6y ago
Mozilla: “When you click on a sponsored tile, Firefox sends anonymized technical data to our partner through a Mozilla-owned proxy service. This data does not include any personally identifying information.” adMarketplace: “We may also rece
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by Cynddl 6y ago
“WhatsApp’s existing users were held captive by the fact that leaving WhatsApp meant losing the ability to communicate with WhatsApp users.” I'm confused. I thought everyone was identified by their phone number, which can be used to re
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by Cynddl 6y ago
Thanks for sharing! Really like the minimal design and the animations. Could you explain how you did this simulation?
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by Cynddl 6y ago
> An avid practitioner of retail therapy, he's excited to share his findings with you. Yikes, is retail therapy really a thing? Assuming this is a real website, there are so many things both wrong and sad here. :( You don't nee
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by Cynddl 6y ago
> I was out bid from someone from France. This is quite interesting to read. Most of the media coverage in France has been very hostile against the US with little evidence to back it. We've seen claims of Americans waiting on the ta
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by Cynddl 6y ago
All of these examples are large independent companies that operate without Amazon network. Very few French companies use Amazon to ship products, and only small ones.
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by Cynddl 7y ago
What does CYA mean? Haven't seen this acronym before.
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by Cynddl 7y ago
Sadly not available in Europe. Three years after GDPR and these big news outlets still haven't figure how to provide content without invasive privacy breaches. > Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European c
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by Cynddl 7y ago
iOS requires a VPN profile (even a local VPN) for ruled-based adblocking. This is what AdGuard Pro [0] does for adblocking. This does not mean that your data goes through a VPN server. [0] https://adguard.com/en/adguard
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Free money, PS4, and train tickets(rocher.lc)
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by Cynddl 7y ago
It depends on the country. I'm assuming you're from the US, but (law) education in Europe is generally much more affordable.
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by Cynddl 7y ago
This is just a dataset of postcodes, no demographic information about the population alas.
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by Cynddl 7y ago
The article is available here, in open access: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10933-3
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by Cynddl 7y ago
Co-author here. We designed a statistical model, which is never 100% sure a re-identification is correct. There is, e.g., a non-null probability that two individuals in the US share 5, 10, or even 15 demographics attribute.
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by Cynddl 7y ago
Co-author here, we will add the source code very soon. A little swamped with the press coverage, but the source code in Julia+Python is coming.
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by Cynddl 7y ago
Yep, we used a dataset by the ONS, which includes only England and Wales. This is indeed not clear on the website, we'll fix that.
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by Cynddl 7y ago
Wups, what is your postcode? Feel free to let me know at luc (at) rocher (dot) lc if you don't want to post it here. We used the complete list of US/UK postcodes (edit: England and Wales only for UK) to implement the demo, so all

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