beatle_sauce

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by beatle_sauce 6y ago
Does Wechat on Windows have a similar feature?
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by beatle_sauce 6y ago
Is this basically the learning parity with noise problem, but instead of a fixed size vector, the noisy output is generated in by a PRNG with a pre-determined secret seed? How can this be used for authentication or encryption?
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China Cybersecurity: No Place to Hide(chinalawblog.com)
8 points by beatle_sauce 6y ago|0 comments
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by beatle_sauce 6y ago
As you can find in one of his articles, he deducted his findings from from job descriptions and articles in newspapers (Renminribao, Xinhua): Xinjiang's rapidly evolving security state, Zenz et al., 2017 http://www.academia.
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by beatle_sauce 6y ago
Please take information with a grain of salt that tries to discredit the researcher, without even mentioning the actual argument. You might not agree with his world view, but Zenz found hard evidence of repression in Xinjiang and uncovered
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by beatle_sauce 6y ago
The core of the communist party follows an unambiguous agenda. John Garnaut described this very well in his speech "Engineers of the Soul" https://sinocism.com/p/engineers-of-the-soul-ideology-in
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by beatle_sauce 7y ago
IMHO the speech dataset list is missing other interesting free corpora, e.g. the TEDlium dataset, Voxforge, Common Voice. A more comprehensive (but not complete) list can be found here: https://github.com/kaldi-asr/kald
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by beatle_sauce 7y ago
There was an article in China News Weekly that investigated the origins of the Virus and also pointed out that 1) the first cases were in November and 2) that the first cases were not linked to the Huanan Seafood Market. https://
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by beatle_sauce 7y ago
The pro-Beijing camp expected the support of the "silent majority" in the election, which did not exist, but was reported by the Liason Office. The problem: "The people in charge of manipulating Hong Kong public opinion for t
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by beatle_sauce 7y ago
Same with document formats: MS Office Open XML instead of just supporting the existing OpenDocument Format (ODF) as open standard.
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by beatle_sauce 7y ago
The flaw I care about most: The lack of transaction privacy.
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by beatle_sauce 7y ago
The law is called MPLS 2.0, also see the follow-up blog post.
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by beatle_sauce 7y ago
Agree. There is evidence that such a law will be used for political purposes. See the case of the Huawei CFO Meng Hongwei that was about sanction violations. She was arrested in Canada and is about to be extradited to USA. The extradition b
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by beatle_sauce 7y ago
IMHO, the Chinese influence over the law system will damage HKs economy more than the protests in the long term. "Protests damaging HK" is a narrative that seems to be pushed in Chinese state media. I recommend: https:/&#x2F
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by beatle_sauce 7y ago
> It isn’t known, even to some members of the consortium, how the coin will work or what their roles will be, people familiar with the project said. Such a stablecoin still requires a regulatory approval process before roll-out. Just as
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by beatle_sauce 7y ago
There is a whole district in Tel Aviv in this style, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_City_(Tel_Aviv)
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Reaver: Mapping Connections Between Disparate Chinese Apt Groups(threatvector.cylance.com)
3 points by beatle_sauce 7y ago|0 comments
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by beatle_sauce 7y ago
Gallium nitride technology is used for the higher frequencies in 5G chips. Currently only suppliers outside of China produce such chips. From a business perspective, pushing 5G as fast as it is pushed now by China, does not make sense. Chin
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by beatle_sauce 8y ago
This is currently listed as the most starred repository on Github with 153k stars: https://github.com/search?q=stars%3A%3E0&s=stars&type=Reposi... (There was the freeCodeCamp repo with 300k stars, but I don't
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by beatle_sauce 8y ago
There is an excellent overview over their speech recognition system. http://iscslp2018.org/images/T4_Towards%20end-to-end%20speec...
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by beatle_sauce 8y ago
The weibo account of the person who called for a boycott of Devotion, was promptly deleted. "If repeat its words, you help to spread it, you also have responsibility". https://twitter.com/palastinalied11/statu
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by beatle_sauce 8y ago
`git clone https://github.com/deepfakes/faceswap.git` still works without login...
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by beatle_sauce 8y ago
The new Firefox sync (v1.5) is surely great and has good usability, I preferred the old Firefox sync (v1.1), because it didn't require a Mozilla account (for password retrieval). The new service requires two servers for one's full
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by beatle_sauce 8y ago
They already retracted that plan, e.g. see https://www.theepochtimes.com/chinas-hainan-quickly-backtrac...
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by beatle_sauce 8y ago
This is their promo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqmbLYWAki4
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by beatle_sauce 8y ago
I expect partial geoblocking and more censorship. The chinese government tried to force Github to censor shadowsocks and the NY times repository. But back then it would have to block the whole site with other resourceful content. My guess i
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by beatle_sauce 10y ago
Did anybody notice that the Opera browser company and Wosign are both owned by Qihoo? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qihoo_360 What is the status of Wosign/Startcom certificates in the Opera browser? And in the Qih
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by beatle_sauce 10y ago
This could develop further. Reminds me of TOM Skype: Chinese users are redirected from skype.com to the chinese-characteristics website skype.tom.com which serves a censorship-enabled version of skype, see https://en.greatfire.or
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by beatle_sauce 10y ago
https://www.taler.net/
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by beatle_sauce 12y ago
Big-data consulting services for secret services and oil companies... mhhhmmm.

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