almostdigital

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by almostdigital 5y ago
In case someone else is wondering why this company stores petabytes of data, this is why: > Heap is the only tool that automatically captures all user interactions on your site, from the moment of installation forward. A single snippet g
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by almostdigital 5y ago
A large meteor would delete it just fine.
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by almostdigital 5y ago
I reject the premise that CSAM scanning is a solution to anything, especially if the goal is to E2EE encrypt the rest of the photos. My understanding from following this debacle is that law-enforcement don't have resources to investiga
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by almostdigital 5y ago
> Apple's solution on this requires client and server communication to flag an image Well of course it does, would be a very pointless surveillance system if it scanned for stuff and then threw away the result. I've also read t
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by almostdigital 5y ago
It's clear now that Apple is never going to back down. It's bittersweet, I'm sad to see them go but also excited for what I think will be a FOSS renaissance.
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Thinking of the Children(maxhodak.com)
3 points by almostdigital 5y ago|1 comments
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by almostdigital 5y ago
Maybe not if you assume Apple is evil but for the case of Apple being good intentioned but having its hand forced, they will have a much harder time resisting a 1 line change than a mandate to spend years to develop a surveillance system
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by almostdigital 5y ago
> I really don't understand this view. You are using proprietary software, you are always an N-line change away from someone doing something you don't like. This situation doesn't change this. And I don't understand w
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by almostdigital 5y ago
For me the standard is that I don't want any 1-line code change between me and near-perfect Orwellian surveillance.
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by almostdigital 5y ago
Yeah that's true, although to do some sort of mass scanning stealthily they would need a system exactly like what they built with this, if they tried to upload everything for scanning the data use would be enormous and give it away. I
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by almostdigital 5y ago
> Apple will publish a Knowledge Base article containing a root hash of the encrypted CSAM hash database included with each version of every Apple operating system that supports the feature. Additionally, users will be able to inspect th
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by almostdigital 5y ago
I've been buying licenses since version 3 (2013) even after they started to hide the option. Sad to see 1Password use dark patterns to push people towards subscriptions then twisting that into that people don't want licenses, at l
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Expanded Protections for Children – FAQ [pdf](apple.com)
45 points by almostdigital 5y ago|58 comments
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by almostdigital 5y ago
> Apple has already been doing exactly this for years. Is that an assumption made based on that "everyone is doing it" or is there some evidence? > Apple makes the OS and doesn't need a fancy system to scan all the file
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by almostdigital 5y ago
Not sure about the OCSP encryption but they did remove their VPN bypass in 11.2 (which was the bigger issue for me at least)
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by almostdigital 5y ago
Last year Apple reacted after the outcry about MacOS tracking[1] so there is some hope. That was not a deliberate product and probably more of an unintended behavior though. I'm really hoping this was just a team at Apple that got blin
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by almostdigital 5y ago
It's disturbing because of how effective it could be. It's at OS level, anything you have on your phone can be scanned. Even if an app tries to circumvent it by keeping files encrypted at rest it can scan them in-memory. And since
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by almostdigital 5y ago
A system on my phone where it has a list of bad files and a threshold on how many of those files are allowed. If the threshold is reached Apple can read them. Both the bad files list and threshold is controlled by Apple and is explicitly de
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by almostdigital 5y ago
I've tinkered around a bit and found that with another dongle that uses displayport everything works fine. Changing volume and brightness from the keyboard not having to fiddle with monitor menus is a godsend :) The dongle that's
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by almostdigital 5y ago
This seemed neat so I installed Lunar to try out on my M1 MacBook Air with a LG HDR display connected over HDMI. After launching the app my system started freezing so bad I had a hard time closing the app, inputs unresponsive for 30 sec the
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Tour of the Sacred Library(moultano.wordpress.com)
5 points by almostdigital 5y ago|2 comments
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by almostdigital 5y ago
Not really :) But it's mostly variants of stuff you can find on https://observablehq.com/@d3/gallery
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by almostdigital 5y ago
I really wanted to like this, I've tried it several times but always end up with either having to pre-process my data to fit whatever vis I'm trying to create or just simply not being able to do it. I recommend https://
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Johan-Nordberg.com(johan-nordberg.com)
1 points by almostdigital 5y ago|0 comments
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by almostdigital 5y ago
I like it because it has lower a/v latency compared to many other apps, especially over long distances. I think many people don't realize how much it affects the feel of the call. A fun way to test is counting to 10 by having one
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by almostdigital 6y ago
No, they want Bitcoin to be a "store of value", whatever that means. Poor people being able to run a full node on a low-end phone is pointless when a transaction fee due to the artificial block size limit is more than a months wag
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by almostdigital 6y ago
> Google has a computer that can hack the encryption Citation needed
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by almostdigital 6y ago
Not sure about how much is actually available but you can generate about 1000 keypairs before it starts to throw errors at you
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by almostdigital 7y ago
Scaleway gives you a k8s cluster starting from 40 EUR per month
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Show HN: Beating the Turing Test(decentium.org)
87 points by almostdigital 7y ago|5 comments

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