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by cromwellian 7y ago
It really depends on how you travel. Tour bus excursions are one thing, but when you're young, backpacking and biking through another country, or doing foreign exchange or student travel programs gives you much more exposure. Consider
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Travel tends to decrease xenophobia and increase empathy and cultural understanding among those who do it. I worry that some of the use of environmental impact is a "concern troll" cover to call for restrictions is the result of m
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And you used to be able to find stuff on Lycos too, but the search quality between Lycos, Altavista, and Google were dramatically different.
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Yahoo and Hotmail were the market leaders offering free email at the time. They set the price to $0 first.
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by cromwellian 7y ago
XMPP is a bad example. Google Talk ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Talk ) supported XMPP from 2005-2014, but by the time they dropped federation, it had already massively declined. You can argue over the reasons
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by cromwellian 7y ago
Leaving aside the obvious problems with this, it also is just a shitty user experience. A search for “podcast” should not return a compass app. For a company that is supposed to be at the pinnacle of user experience and usability, the App S
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by cromwellian 7y ago
Back when Chrome was based on WebKit, IIRC Chrome team found and fixed oodles and oodles of bugs in WebKit, because WebKit wasn't even using fuzzing, or not enough fuzzing. Even as late as 2017, fuzzing was still finding significantly
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2 months for those particular websites. There's a difference between the timeline that a vulnerability existed, and the timeline of a specific known usage of them. Apple is trying to confuse the two. If I discover a security hole that&
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by cromwellian 7y ago
My chart was taken from a Quartz report, and has the author listed in it. The journalist made the charts, presumably by collecting it from the individual transparency reports. https://qz.com/620423/heres-how-often-apple
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by cromwellian 7y ago
Security researchers have a culture of being both overly paranoid and sticking to just the facts and not actively trying to minimize. It seems Apple doesn't want them to say "here are the exploits we found, and we found them on X
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Google was the first company and for years the only one that published transparency reports on government requests and how many were rejected vs accepted, as well as publishing a detailed look at how requests are handled. This chart shows A
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by cromwellian 7y ago
Local governments are notoriously corrupt, frequently destroy records, not keep them at all, and take years to deal with requests for information. Are you not unaware of the long history of civil asset forfeiture and the long, very long, ti
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by cromwellian 7y ago
My son and I have a fantastically close relationship, we talk about everything, including deeply negative feelings. But unless you know how anxiety panic attacks work, don't make comments like this. Regardless of the relationship and u
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by cromwellian 7y ago
I didn't downvote you, but Find Friends doesn't geo-fence. So unless I'm actively tracking him, I won't know. I only want to be notified if he leaves the school premises during school hours, I don't want to microman
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If you have a kid who is being monitored for depression and in therapy, it is a totally different story, and the monitoring is completely transparent, my son is not unaware of it, in fact, he specifically has an agreement not to disable loc
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by cromwellian 7y ago
I also used Life360 to geofence my kids and get notifications when they leave school and return home. It actually caught my son running away from school one time, and when the guidance counselor couldn't find him, I was able to locate
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by cromwellian 7y ago
FOIA applies to the federal government, not to state and localities which run most of these cameras. States have their own variations, but are much less responsive. People can barely get their stuff back from civil asset forfeiture. Local a
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by cromwellian 7y ago
Agreed. My observation is that patent shakedowns are the last resort of a market loser. Once your company starts losing vast amounts of marketshare to competitors, the patent warchest comes out. IBM and Microsoft were notorious for this, as
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by cromwellian 7y ago
And I and many others protest that, like we protested ALEC. I have friends at Microsoft who have lodged similar protests. I'm working on privacy preserving technology, that's my contribution. I'm trying to make things better.
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by cromwellian 7y ago
> This about engineering choices. No doubt a phone can report on traffic without the system as a whole storing which phone it was. This doesn't prevent fingerprinting. If you send me enough data, even if it is not associated with an
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by cromwellian 7y ago
Apple uses differential privacy and evangelizes its use. DP is not either-or with consent. Let's say your mapping app says 'Do you want to contribute traffic information during your drive to help provide better navigation experie
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by cromwellian 7y ago
True, and would be a concern if Google had a litigious history of being a patent shakedown artist.
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https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology/location-trac...
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Widespread government owned CCTV cameras have been widely recognized as a privacy threat, and you only need to look at countries outside the US to see how they are being used for license plate AND face tracking. Speed cameras in the US aren
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Traffic cameras don't give anywhere near the detail that crowd sourcing from mobile phones do, and you're just trading off one form of tracking which actually can be secured via DP, with another -- government CCTV cameras -- which
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Download Chrome's source code, it's been using DP for years ( https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c... )
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Chrome was shipping differential privacy (RAPPOR) before Apple.
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Differential privacy is a tool for doing many useful computations in ways that provide value to end users beyond advertising. Apple uses it too. It's like saying "wide acceptance of end to end encryption legitimizes it for Google
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by cromwellian 7y ago
I work for Google, I definitely think the behavior of Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, and others hurt the idea that "open wins". Google tried hard with XMPP, OpenID, OAuth, ActivityStreams, WebFinger, OpenSearch, FOAF, OpenSoci
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by cromwellian 7y ago
Google did not kill XMPP, the number of people who actually used Google Chat client was tiny. What killed XMPP was ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, Facebook, and text messaging. Your comments on federation are mistaken IIRC. Google Chat supported federatio

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