aiiane

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by aiiane 6y ago
First turn's free.
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by aiiane 6y ago
No, the daily key is not broadcast; instead it's used to generate a series of rolling identifiers to broadcast. The rolling identifiers change much more frequently. The daily keys don't leave the device until/unless filing a
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by aiiane 6y ago
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/30/755994591/president-trump-twe...
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by aiiane 7y ago
https://adssettings.google.com/
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by aiiane 7y ago
"Recall future investment" makes no sense. Isn't that just a fancy way of saying "not invest"?
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by aiiane 7y ago
IRC is a protocol, Discord and Slack are complete ecosystems. This isn't just a protocol problem; there has to be user friendliness in the full experience. IRC can be part of a solution but it's not a solution on its own.
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by aiiane 7y ago
I'm not a fan of overdone notifications either. If it helps in the short term, long-pressing on a notification should give you easy access to the ability to disable it.
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by aiiane 7y ago
Which is why Android now has a prompt.
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by aiiane 7y ago
Cool. What store? Do all services that provide accounts need physical stores now? How do you ensure the store endpoints are trustworthy, and actually checking said IDs and SIMs?
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by aiiane 7y ago
people never factor in healthcare into this calculus.
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by aiiane 7y ago
This is yet another article that conflates de-identified data with anonymization. There are ways to create anonymous datasets, but they generally involve aggregation, not just removing the identifiers. It's unfortunate that general lay
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by aiiane 7y ago
> If you've ever been passionate about something, something that's hard and takes a lot of effort and practice to become good at, would you really let microaggressions stop you from doing that thing? Yes, actually, people do th
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Keeping Privacy and Security Simple, for You(blog.google)
1 points by aiiane 7y ago|1 comments
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by aiiane 7y ago
> if you're not using any PHP frameworks or external libraries you might have to implement some crypto of your own to store passwords securely, just for starters. I don't think PHP offers a standard library to do that, does it?
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by aiiane 7y ago
No, they don't. Fully demonetized videos don't run ads because that's the entire point of demonetization - that the video was deemed unsuitable for showing ads (because ad buyers don't want their ads showing next to cert
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by aiiane 7y ago
Because if you do it in two rollouts, you don't find out that the first one is broken until you do the second one... which means the first isn't necessarily a safe rollback target for the second. But the one before the first isn&#
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by aiiane 7y ago
Visa and MasterCard already cut off services to some groups.
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by aiiane 7y ago
There's a lot of stuff listed on that site that didn't actually go away, just got rolled into something else or rebranded. It's not very picky about what it chooses to list as "killed".
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by aiiane 7y ago
It would be more accurate if the left hand map had 2-color stripes to indicate both the summer offset and the winter offset, e.g. if CA were striped blue and red on the left, and solid red on the right.
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by aiiane 7y ago
The linked page is a bit misleading, because it's not necessarily so much that people are dissatisfied with their current time zone as they are dissatisfied with it changing for half the year. The linked page portrays it as e.g. CA m
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by aiiane 7y ago
You can always set it to zero by turning off location history / web and app activity entirely, causing new data to not be stored at all.
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by aiiane 7y ago
First let me say that I can't speak to whether anything "significantly impacts Google's revenue" - either I don't have any material information in that regard, or if I did the SEC probably wouldn't want me maki
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by aiiane 7y ago
Answered here while your comment was dead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19809515
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by aiiane 7y ago
'justcodebruh' your comment is marked as dead, but to answer your question I work on Google's privacy engineering team.
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by aiiane 7y ago
You're welcome to believe whatever you want, but a decent chunk of my day job is making sure that it's true.
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by aiiane 7y ago
In general models trained on individual users' data get rebuilt when the underlying data changes so as to properly reflect the current state of the source data.
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by aiiane 7y ago
Yes, if you choose to delete it, it will be deleted. (It takes nontrivial amounts of time to delete it across distributed service architecture but the deletions do get propagated.)
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by aiiane 8y ago
Upgrading with do-release-update is simple if it works... but what happens when it breaks?
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by aiiane 8y ago
Well, it does avoid them needing to rebrand if they decide to pivot...
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by aiiane 8y ago
Gmail does not require location, mic, or camera access. In fact, the Gmail app does not even request any of those permissions, so I'm not sure what you're talking about.

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