Cynddl

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by Cynddl 8y ago
Do you mean as someone not living in the EU? More than 500M people live there and their primary market, when offering a service or a product, is indeed the European market.
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by Cynddl 8y ago
From their research paper at https://vuvuzela.io/static/vuvuzela.pdf : > Vuvuzela can support 1 million users exchanging text messages (up to 240 bytes each) with an end-to-end latency of 37 seconds, achieving a thro
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by Cynddl 8y ago
The original article by CNIL has been posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18960564 but this article might bring more context about the fine, incl. the key notion of consent bundling.
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French data protection watchdog fines Google $57M under the GDPR(techcrunch.com)
2 points by Cynddl 8y ago|1 comments
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by Cynddl 8y ago
The ICO addresses the issue of MAC addresses in: https://ico.org.uk/media/for-organisations/guide-to-the-gene... > A business uses Wi-Fi analytics data to count the number of visitors per hour across different
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by Cynddl 8y ago
Although there is a remark about the potential legal issues in the US, it should also be noted that capturing and storing MAC addresses without explicit consent is not GDPR compliant, and not legal in Europe.
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by Cynddl 8y ago
> Sorry, this content is not available in your region. I guess Fox 4 KC didn't want to implement the GDPR… But what happens with the GDPR if I, a European citizen in Europe, access this website (blocking EU IP addresses) using a VPN
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by Cynddl 8y ago
> What those devices do with that light, however, is changing at an incredible rate. This will produce features that sound ridiculous, or pseudoscience babble on stage, or drained batteries. That’s okay, too. Just as we have experimented
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by Cynddl 8y ago
> The treaty in question is the Universal Postal Union, which established that each country should retain all money it has collected for international postage. Without the Universal Postal Union, how will fees be calculated when shipping
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by Cynddl 8y ago
> Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. We continue to identify
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by Cynddl 8y ago
How does it compare to redbaron? [1] > RedBaron is a python library and tool powerful enough to be used into IPython solely that intent to make the process of writing code that modify source code as easy and as simple as possible. That i
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by Cynddl 8y ago
How does this compare to FastLED [1] on the same ESP8266 (and ESP32) platform? FastLED is free and open source, and support almost all LED drivers out there. Writing animations with FastLED might not be as easy as with Pixelblaze, but simil
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by Cynddl 8y ago
> The control solution was 100 ml of cool potable water and the L-theanine solution was prepared by dissolving 0.5 mg powdered L-theanine (Taiyo Kaguka Co. Ltd., Yokkaichi, Japan) per Kg participant body weight in a tea infusion (total L
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by Cynddl 8y ago
> Timsort is a sorting algorithm that is efficient for real-world data and not created in an academic laboratory. It's always a bit sad to see academia as an ivory tower where researchers generate unusable knowledge. Academia is not
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by Cynddl 8y ago
Bitwarden has auto-fill disabled by default, and only enables it with a warning (“Use at your own risk”).
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by Cynddl 8y ago
How does this tool compare to other (libre) anonymization software programs, such as ARX [1]? From what I understand, there are only basic routines so to sample records and coarsen a few attributes (e.g. ZIP code, dates) implemented so far.
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by Cynddl 8y ago
The mobile version of Wikipedia works perfectly fine in a browser. I personally prefer it for readability.
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by Cynddl 8y ago
“Most common types of thermal paper contain BPA or BPS” That's not valid everywhere. The European Union decided in 2016 to forbid the use of BPA in thermal paper. [1] BPA is currently still used but will be completely banned in 2020. A
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by Cynddl 8y ago
In France, there is also no general Freedom of Information law, except for some administrative documents.
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by Cynddl 8y ago
Direct link to the research paper (might have less context): https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.06752.pdf
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When the signal is in the noise: Exploiting Aircloak's Diffix anonymization(cpg.doc.ic.ac.uk)
4 points by Cynddl 8y ago|2 comments
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by Cynddl 8y ago
The name is a bit confusing, as Grasshopper [1] is also a coding tool for beginners, designed for 3D algorithmic modelling. [1]: http://www.grasshopper3d.com/
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Cambridge Analytica is only the beginning. Should you blame your friends for it?(cpg.doc.ic.ac.uk)
2 points by Cynddl 9y ago|0 comments
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by Cynddl 9y ago
Differential privacy appears regularly on Hacker News, with either theoretical articles or projects that aim to implement it. Yet often there is a huge gap between both. For example, Apple has touted about its use of differential privacy, b
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by Cynddl 9y ago
Yes, I did leave that out, as I think it's still an issue. A synthetic model performing better is a little dubious, since the modeled distribution has less information than the original one. Overall, the discrepancy seems more importan
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by Cynddl 9y ago
I'm highly dubious of the ability for synthetic data to model accurately datasets without introducing unexpected bias, esp. to account for causality. If you dig through the original paper, the conclusion is on the line with that: “For
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Sterilizing cyberspace (2008)(newleftreview.org)
1 points by Cynddl 9y ago|0 comments
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by Cynddl 9y ago
A bit of extrapolation here. In short, a few websites dedicated to make easy money on Facebook by copying articles have started to use unicode to obfuscate the title. They automatically replace latin characters with similar letters. This ma
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by Cynddl 9y ago
Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2270681 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8445724 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1904957
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Scenes from Google Street View (2010)(9-eyes.com)
3 points by Cynddl 9y ago|1 comments

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