amoshi

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by amoshi 5y ago
You're completely missing the point, it's about Windows ignoring users browser choice and opening stuff in Edge anyway.
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by amoshi 5y ago
Yep, I think so too, it wouldn't have protected him. Whoever was in charge of the operation would've noticed and identified this killswitch, and prepared appropriately. The suspect would be incapacitated as a matter of priority to
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by amoshi 5y ago
Despite not being in 5 eyes, Israel does get special treatment in the form of raw intelligence data from the US. >The National Security Agency routinely shares raw intelligence data with Israel without first sifting it to remove informat
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by amoshi 5y ago
It's a reasonable concern for a government if the surveiling capability is shifted from themselves to a foreign government (USA with PRISM and all the other programmes)
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by amoshi 5y ago
And US might be using them because Apple/Google are American companies and can just be sent a National Security Letter along with a gag order.
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by amoshi 5y ago
>The contact tracing protocol for Covid was anything but more surveillance. This is what happens when you buy into simplistic narratives. Guess you're not following the news. Things that look simple can be deceiving. >It did seek
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by amoshi 5y ago
...that's being "retired" at the end of 2021 so an alternative for ~2 months only.
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by amoshi 5y ago
That's pretty much what happened after Snowden, everything is much more locked down, access is tightly controlled and employees are more closely monitored. That's why I'm glad he released as much as he did, any followup whist
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by amoshi 5y ago
How is it superior? Quest 2 is the only wireless headset (arguably the biggest QoL feature unless you like pulley systems on your ceiling), and spec wise it roughly matches the Index (you win some, you lose some). I despise Facebook but I g
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by amoshi 5y ago
How was your experience with them? Mine wasn't too great a few years ago - I switched, everything was great, had that nice fuzzy feeling inside that I'm using a pro-freedom/anti-censorship DNS, until a couple of months later
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by amoshi 5y ago
This seems to be a clickbait headline - where is the AI part? It was just a remotely controlled gun. >Next, the report details how the sniper who took out Fakhrizadeh did so remotely from Israel, over 1,600 kilometers away, since the hit
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by amoshi 5y ago
That's standard practice afaik, it's a machine learning blackbox after all Google ‘fixed’ its racist algorithm by removing gorillas from its image-labeling tech - https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/12/1
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by amoshi 5y ago
> The page you have tried to view (A stable bug fix bites proprietary modules) is currently available to LWN subscribers only.
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by amoshi 5y ago
The !g can be almost anywhere in the query, it just can't be followed by non-whitespace or prefixed by special signs.
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by amoshi 5y ago
Ransomware: Another great "feature" of non-backdoored encryption. See how silly you sound?
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by amoshi 5y ago
JIDF doesn't exist anymore but others have replaced it, eg ACT.il, they use "hasbara" documents that describe how to use logical fallacies and how to twist history to win online arguments. It's a really disgusting docume
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by amoshi 5y ago
Cutting into people's flesh and taking out an implant will discourage petty/squeamish/opportunity thiefs, furthermore you'd need to know which arm the implant is in and where. I'm not sure about the exact size of th
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by amoshi 5y ago
The barrier of entry to theft is raised from pick-pocketing and mugging in alleys to chopping off a limb, no doubt it'll happen but I'm certain it'll be MUCH much rarer.
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by amoshi 5y ago
It can't be stolen. You can't lose it. You can't forget it. You don't need to charge it.
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by amoshi 5y ago
You're overcomplicating, Zerodium exists.
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by amoshi 6y ago
Very depressing how in the UK you could've been forced to disclose your password under section 49 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, and gotten even 5 years jail time if you refused. I presume there isn't a US equivale
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by amoshi 6y ago
As I have pointed out in a comment some time ago [0], there have been multiple instances where US (ab)used their intelligence for economic gains - be it getting a US company to file a patent (that the NSA "obtained") before the Ge
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by amoshi 6y ago
I personally want to have a choice between NSA/GCHQ and the CCP.
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by amoshi 6y ago
All you've mentioned (apart from Nest) is available in Life360 so why wait for the ad company Google to do this?
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by amoshi 6y ago
I gave Deezer a try and I've been quite pleased. The main problem I had with Spotify was missing music from specific genres/countries. Deezer let's me upload my own mp3 files, which means it has the most complete catalogue fo
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by amoshi 6y ago
>As for papers like the Guardian, who benefited the most from Assange's work, they've been even more conspicuously silent. Jonathan Cook, a former Guardian journalist, explains why in his piece 'The US is using the Guardia
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by amoshi 6y ago
>If so, is there any evidence that the EU tech sector has been stifled because of US government espionage? Other sectors have been, and there's no reason tech would be immune to this. Also, it's only logical that attempts to cr
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by amoshi 6y ago
Barely anyone is OK with the ads, people just use uBlock in their browser and YouTube Vanced on their android phones. Or suffer, if they're not tech-inclined.
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by amoshi 6y ago
>And we all kind of blindly walking into this no questions asked. It's already happening, now, unfortunately. All your tweets (posted & liked) etc analyzed and flagged for bad language, drug/alcohol mentions, bigotry etc. a
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by amoshi 6y ago
Thanks for this, seems to confirm my suspicions. The camera popup happened quite often on Glassdoor, which I remember once blocking me for some time after I blocked their canvas fingerprinting attempts. Just checked and that seems to no lon

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