Sophira

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by Sophira 5y ago
> [1] Just off the top of my head, a small camera in the room aimed at the screen and a discrete -- in-ear, like my daughter's (Bluetooth) hearing aids -- ear-phone Bluetooth connected to a mobile phone to a third party in another r
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by Sophira 5y ago
I have seen plenty of curl | sh invocations that pass the "-k" flag to curl, meaning that curl will allow insecure connections even if there are invalid SSL/TLS certificates.
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by Sophira 5y ago
There's a really important point that everybody is missing here. Transcribing phone calls is, in a sense, equivalent to recording a call. Having automatic transcription may not even be legal without letting the other party know.
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by Sophira 5y ago
> The bank didn't have support for diacritical marks. Things like á, è, ô, ü, ç etc. Unless I'm misunderstanding, EBCDIC does have support for all of the characters used as examples. Specifically, code page 37 - the "defau
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by Sophira 5y ago
I feel like a big part of the problem is that back when computers were newly introduced to the world at large, there were actually good tutorials on how to use them. Consider the Windows 3.1 interactive mouse tutorial/Windows tutorial.
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by Sophira 5y ago
Somebody just had their very own "onosecond". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6NJkWbM1xk The video is one that Tom Scott published in June 2020 about the worst typo he ever made in one of his prior jobs, and whil
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by Sophira 5y ago
> Services are treated like bots with higher privilege A slight correction: Services normally link as a server to the network, which is how they get the higher privilege that they do (because only servers, not clients, get the abilit
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by Sophira 5y ago
The parent comment is talking about what would happen if, for example, you typed this in bash to try to download a video: $ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&pp=sAQA In this case, bash would interpr
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by Sophira 5y ago
They could... except: a) It would be completely inaccessible to blind users; b) Sometimes devs want to be able to give users some choice, like copying text, and this is impossible with your proposed method. These two reasons alone mean it
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by Sophira 5y ago
Except it's not that easy. Web developers have been trying to remove user choice all the time - disabling right-click menus, preventing copying on websites, forcing the page to look blank unless you turn JavaScript on - and yet it&#x27
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by Sophira 5y ago
It would never get passed, though. The government relies on being able to force companies to lie to people for things like criminal investigations and so on.
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by Sophira 6y ago
It wouldn't be too difficult to work out which app/site you're using given profiling data on which hosts are contacted during typical runs, and that data can be generalised in cases where the services use multiple names.
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by Sophira 6y ago
While individual clients may not be easily identifiable, there's still a measure of identification that could be made, if you were to configure the public key DNS server to send a different (but persistent) public key to each IP addres
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by Sophira 7y ago
> If your html isn't long enough, and that abomination still exists, you'll get Microsoft's 404 instead of your nice and short 404. The most annoying part is that this knowledge was abused to make even the most basic and o
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by Sophira 8y ago
There's an article from 14 years ago that I remember to this day, mainly for the immortal line "RSS 2.0 is incompatible with itself": http://www.diveintomark.link/2004/the-myth-of-rss-compatibil... It go
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by Sophira 8y ago
Wow, I'm sorry your friend had to go through that. This is the first time I've heard that this job actually exists! It seems very strange to have a human who can listen but can't speak. I guess these companies think that by r
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by Sophira 9y ago
I really don't understand why companies (and everyone else, for that matter) treat people in these jobs like garbage. Yes, it's physical labour. Yes, the hiring pool is big. But it's demanding physical labour, dammit, and w
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by Sophira 9y ago
I believe the parent comment is talking about auditing apps as a user, not as a developer, in which case debug builds will not be available.
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by Sophira 9y ago
I apologise for using 'soul' where I should have used 'sole' in this reply. I promise I know the difference but I was clearly tired when I wrote this.
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by Sophira 9y ago
> And since we’ve been sipping the Facebook friend juice for so long, it’s legitimately scary to quit. How will you know what events are going on? How will you know if something big happens in your friend’s life? How will you stay in tou
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by Sophira 9y ago
In one case they deliberately provided a whole category of false information in an attempt to spread awareness of False Authority Syndrome.[0] They wanted to make the same point that the comment you replied to is making! [0] https:/
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by Sophira 9y ago
Even Snopes themselves have tried to tell people this.[0] They created a category called "The Repository of Lost Legends" composed entirely of false, made-up myths and called them "true", to show people what False Author
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by Sophira 9y ago
Pipes have existed in DOS since before Windows 95 was around!
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by Sophira 9y ago
While I'm sure the article is correct, it doesn't even attempt to link to resources to say how these things are misunderstandings. For example, I myself don't really understand IVs, and from my perspective I'm left wit
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by Sophira 9y ago
The lines are exactly the same for each caller, played in the same order, on a loop. The recordings are obviously tailored for telemarketer scripts, and to string them along and make them think a conversation is going, but there's no d
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by Sophira 9y ago
It's a little more than that; it also incorporates silence detection so that it waits for the caller to finish talking before 'Lenny' plays its next line. But otherwise, yeah, it's just recordings.
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by Sophira 9y ago
To be fair, the easiest way to do it (to my knowledge) is by direct URL entry - for example (replace 'hxxps' with 'https' for this - I didn't want crawlers to pick this up): hxxps://web.archive.org/sa
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by Sophira 9y ago
> What Reddit does right is focus on topics , primarily, not personalities. I think they've been trying to change that recently; they've been focusing more on content creators - people like Shitty_Watercolour who are known Red
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by Sophira 9y ago
This was absolutely the most worrying part for me. How in the hell did Google get access to that much?
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by Sophira 9y ago
I think this is an incredibly worrisome move on 1Password's part. Coming from the right motives, but ultimately it'll end up being used against us. Look at it from the perspective of the government. By bringing information from el

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