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by beagle3 2y ago
But the main reason, I think, was the flash runtime was an energy hog, and at the time (up until iPhone 4 or so), that meant using a Flash website on an iPhone would shorten battery life and put the blame on Apple. At the time, they vetoed
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by beagle3 2y ago
The short story it is based on can be found here: https://pvto.weebly.com/uploads/9/1/5/0/91508780/eight_o’clo...
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by beagle3 2y ago
I wonder if Breiman’s ACE (alternating conditional expectation) is useful as a building block here. It will easily recover this formula, because it is separable under the log transformation (which ACE recovers as well). But ACE doesn’t work
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by beagle3 2y ago
I read a book on NNs by Robert Hecht Nielsen in 1989, during the NN hype of the time (I believe it was the 2nd hype cycle, the first beginning with Rosenblatt’s original hardware perceptron and dying with Minsky and Pappert’s “Perceptrons”
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by beagle3 2y ago
I vaguely remember this being discussed in a semiconductor course at uni (back in 1996 or so) - it was already an issue at the time in the smallest processes, and IIRC the prevailing approach then was to make sure that current flows both wa
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by beagle3 2y ago
My threat model excludes state actors and my ISP actively collaborating with those who try to profile me. Thus, CGNAT - which I already get, is comparable to VPN (better in some respects, worse in others).
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by beagle3 2y ago
I fail to understand your perception in which I am lonely just because I don’t leave a breadcrumbs everywhere for state and commercial actors (whose interests don’t align with mine) to find.
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by beagle3 2y ago
Thank you for the elaboration. I disagree it’s the limited IPv4 address space that promotes centralization, which seems to be the essence of your thesis. Incumbents and laziness promote centralization. First, people stopped hosting email be
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by beagle3 2y ago
You are wrong, and I say that as someone who was employed by someone who (likely) invaded and still invades your privacy through a firewall and IPv6. Modern firewalls do nothing for privacy. IPv6 eliminates your ability to maintain your p
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by beagle3 2y ago
I live in a very social, active, healthy world. Indeed, I don't have "friends" on Facebook / Instagram (I don't use those) - I talk to friends on the phone, meet them in person, we have message groups on various ser
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by beagle3 2y ago
For every ISP serving my area, it is indeed a "per customer, immutable" prefix. IIRC, some have a 96-bit prefix, some have a /64, but that's the kind of thing that a "maxmind" style database of prefix length pe
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by beagle3 2y ago
Yes, CGNAT can't give you any protection against state actors. But if you are NOT under criminal investigation, having an IPv6 lets every single server on earth know who you are so they can correlate and profile you. That's happen
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by beagle3 2y ago
I do a lot to preserve my privacy. The CGNAT makes it impossible for random websites to correlate my actions among them - which is something they try to do while profiling me. It is, as you point out, useless against state actors and simi
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by beagle3 2y ago
For many people, that’s true. But not for those who care. The other metrics are under my control, and I actively scramble them to uselessness. An IP address … I can’t do much about.
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by beagle3 2y ago
To each their own. Want to be reachable? Use IPv6. My privacy is more important to me than being directly reachable.
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by beagle3 2y ago
I vastly prefer CGNAT to IPv6, because CGNAT preserves my privacy by default, and IPv6 eliminates it by default. It’s that simple. While it’s possible for an ISP to unmask me on CGNAT (Verizon and AT&T did in the early smartphone days)-
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by beagle3 2y ago
If it’s based on asymmetric encryption, (e.g. RSA, DH etc) and the private key did not leak, then no.
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by beagle3 2y ago
Phones also use WiFi access points and some Bluetooth beacons to get a better location. AFAIK only Google and Apple have up-to-date maps of these that are useful for navigation, and no one else does (Mozilla threw the towel a year or two ag
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by beagle3 3y ago
Ubuntu's Unity on 14.04 was top GUI for me. It worked well at least through 18.04 even after it was no longer the default. I was using a Mac at the time as well, and I have since moved to Mac (still on Catalina ...). There were no thin
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by beagle3 3y ago
Road infrastructure applies equally to gas powered and EVs
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by beagle3 3y ago
My qmail setup in 2000, on a humble beige box, was occasionally under a “thousands of bad addresses” attack, but I only found out about it a few days later while reviewing the logs. There surely was a threshold where it would be down on its
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by beagle3 3y ago
… and everything old is new again. DJB’s qmail, written in 1995, was made of 5 distinct processes, owned by different users, with no trust among them. Coincidentally, it was the MTA with the best security record for more than a decade (and
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by beagle3 3y ago
This was news … 5 years ago, I think, I don’t know why it blew up again. But context matters: Onavo provided a compression + VPN service for people traveling; they let users use little or no data while roaming, and still get internet access
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by beagle3 3y ago
We actually do know quite a bit beyond the labels. We measure excitation in neurons. We can tell from DNA sequence what kind of color blindness (if any) one has.
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by beagle3 3y ago
The startup/shutdown time is possibly explained by being an 2013 machine, but I have little reason to replace it right now - it’s only 8GB, old slow CPU (by modern standards), old slow SSD - but it does Firefox, thunderbird, the occasi
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by beagle3 3y ago
I think Firefox will delay loading on session resume (that is, if you restart Firefox, tabs will not load until you actually switch to them),but will not unload anything automatically - so if you open 200 tabs between restarts and keep them
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by beagle3 3y ago
It’s my home computer. It’s there to be used intermittently when needed at random times. It sleeps drawing almost zero power. Why should I shut it down? Shutdown takes 20 seconds. Startup requires the FileVault password, then 20-30 seconds,
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by beagle3 3y ago
There’s AutoTabDiscard which lets you set a timeout and other rules for when to discard.
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by beagle3 3y ago
I use Firefox on an 8GB, early 2013 MBP, with hundreds of tabs and an extension, AutoTabDiscard that unloads/suspends them after a couple of hours. Works beautifully. I have to restart the computer about once a month because of Catalin
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by beagle3 3y ago
30 years ago, there was no “just works” option. Windows was at WfW 3.11 / NT 3 , so you had to choose between being “entertained” by Windows driver issues and crashes (which you could hardly do anything about), or Linux (which you coul

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