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by bostik 7y ago
I just read half of the last paper (and skimmed the other half). It is surprising that the paper does not use the term "information theory" even once. The research basically bumps into the established facts that properly hiding or
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by bostik 7y ago
Airdropping news fliers for propaganda purposes was a thing, once. These days it's carpet bombing black propaganda via all means online. If you control printed and/or TV news too, all the better.
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by bostik 7y ago
> Which can be summarised as the "PR industry" There's a very good reason the person who came up with the term Public Relations did it to rebrand the techniques and methdology used for propaganda.[0] 0: https:/&#
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by bostik 7y ago
Law may well be the same. However, the question everyone has to answer is not about law per se, but: "How much justice can you afford?"
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by bostik 7y ago
There is a weird and pretty nasty bug in FF71. When using a built-from-source version (such as are available in distros), it breaks at least LastPass. See: https://forums.lastpass.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=356405
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by bostik 7y ago
> taste of hops in a beer can be used to mask many errors and missteps You are not alone. A microbrewer here in London said it really well: most small breweries go with IPA and in general overdo their hops because it allows to hide fau
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by bostik 7y ago
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by bostik 7y ago
Critical thinking and media literacy. It's become painfully clear that information and communications technology, is used - to a disturbing degree - to facilitate propaganda. If the issue matters at all, there are well funded parties[ß
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by bostik 7y ago
Sadly no. We tried to figure out a way to reliably and permanently disable a whole suit of test scripts, but that got surprisingly fiddly. I think there might be a way to choose categories to include/exclude but haven't had the
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by bostik 7y ago
I was planning to do a blog post in about a month's time. The DC4420 meetings and/or talks are not recorded (luckily!), but I intend to polish the talk up for a future re-run. On the other hand.. I do have something that might b
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by bostik 7y ago
> All companies that follow those guidelines... If we want to push for guidelines on acceptable ads, how about starting with these? https://bostik.iki.fi/aivoituksia/random/no-stalking.html (Yes, I have broug
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by bostik 7y ago
In my experience pair programming works wonderfully for short, intense and complex problem solving scenarios. The extra pair of eyes and a second brain gnawing at a nasty problem is a good way to augment each other's capabilities. In f
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by bostik 7y ago
> scanners usually do not account for the current v vulnerable configuration. So while they may flag a vulnerability, its often a potential vulnerability. This is a straight-up artifact from the fact that the scanners (which essentiall
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by bostik 7y ago
Yeah, OpenVAS is a nasty piece of work to set up and operate reliably. Especially headless. Shameless plug: I got it to work. Will be doing a talk about the experience at week's DC4420 meeting.
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by bostik 7y ago
> The ‘more to the story’ is possibly just affluence and family stability, which are also culturally embedded. At a guess I would think these are the more important factors. Being born into an affluent family gives access to higher lik
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by bostik 7y ago
Relief and retirement.
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by bostik 7y ago
And I can guarantee they all had to go through a long, painful process with reams of paperwork to get there.
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by bostik 7y ago
I have worked with old-school journalists, and have done my share of freelancing between ~1993 and 2005. Even reasonably well done journalism is like debugging complex technical problems, but instead of working with systems that behave in a
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by bostik 7y ago
There was a good talk[0] on latest London CryptoDays. There were many talks about applications and attacks on differential privacy, but this one was quite remarkable in highlighting just how hard it is to remain anomymous against good t
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by bostik 7y ago
Risky Business did a really good interview on the subject early last year[0]. Law profession is already aware of the potential problems. Me? I welcome the future where audio and video evidence are just another piece of evidence. 0: https:&
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by bostik 7y ago
> This essentially means the web is too difficult for some users and they need something else I think you are on the right track, but not going all the way. The bigger issue here is that media literacy is incredibly hard. You need a
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by bostik 7y ago
Yup, in a reasonably, but not entirely optimised setup, the spinup time for a new node from scale-up event launching to it being able to serve traffic may take 2-3 minutes. And trust me, after a couple of mishaps with very aggressive scal
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by bostik 7y ago
> Keep the image, it's worth 1000 words. Rephrase that one, please. An image lies more than a 1000 words.
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by bostik 7y ago
> I also have a way to beat adblockers that I'm afraid of bringing to light Proxying ads through as first-party content? If you really are invested in making them work ethically, consider these ground rules: https://bos
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by bostik 7y ago
You should think of static analysis as a form of linting. It's there to catch stupid errors and brainfarts that should not need to even reach a reviewer. Dynamic analysis, instrumentation and intelligent logging are invaluable in catch
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by bostik 7y ago
Patents in general and as originally intended are beneficial: the concept was created to incentivise publishing innovations, to promote progress and state of the art. Patents in software space are an abomination. The solution is actually
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by bostik 7y ago
> Firewalling access points, good practice or not, should not be necessary. It is now, it seems. Having seen what kinds of data crash reports in other domains include (the richer the call chain trace, the better) I expect this to be a
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by bostik 7y ago
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by bostik 7y ago
[warning: biased, cynical and opinionated content ahead] To me this whole debacle feels like a forced error. Gitlab needs to find a way to profitability - fine, I am very much in favour. But I can't shake the feeling that somewhere, so
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by bostik 7y ago
> The exemption for celebrities is especially troublesome. When I saw that one, it became clear the companies involved in this know they are operating on shaky ground. There is a perfectly valid concern of rich/eccentric/stal

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