ehsankia

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by ehsankia 5y ago
Wow, I always knew Flu was seasonal, but never realized how extreme that was. Looking at the North America graph, basically after May, the flu almost entirely disappears until the end of summer. Roughly 3 orders of magnitude difference betw
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by ehsankia 6y ago
If video games are able to be streamed with acceptable latency, I would assume browser would too. That being said the text compression is worrying and I would like to see a demo too of scrolling. I wonder if there's more clever ways of
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by ehsankia 6y ago
I'm not sure what the point you're making is. Yes, YC/Paul backed Mighty, I assume the parent is surprised that they did and were ready to invest in such an idea. Only time will tell if it was a genius or stupid investment.
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by ehsankia 6y ago
Is this a HN bug? You just pasted the exact same broken link again... Here's the correct link: https://www.mightyapp.com/security
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by ehsankia 6y ago
This kind of logic is so annoying. If it's so easy / good for profit / advantageous / smart business, then why doesn't Apple do it? The whole "they only do X for profit" is such a lazy argument, because it
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by ehsankia 6y ago
How come this never happened to Amazon and Samsung app stores?
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by ehsankia 6y ago
> I hope this gets fixed. Define "fixed", it was removed from Play Store but anyone can still install from APK or F-Droid, right?
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by ehsankia 6y ago
> re-embrace the idea of ownership and control of our devices Overall I would agree, but I don't see how this specific example has anything to do with that sentiment. You still have control of your device and can install DroidScript
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by ehsankia 6y ago
At the end of the day, this goes back to a debate that's been had here many times before, such as with Google's Dragonfly, which is that is Twitter doing more good being available in India with occasional censoring, or if it do mo
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by ehsankia 6y ago
I agree with you. There are way too many "X used to be better" for all of them to be true, most likely you don't remember all the bad parts. I remember when half of search results would be pages literally filled with nothing
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by ehsankia 6y ago
In general yes, though just looking quickly, it seems like Belgium for example was a lot brighter than surrounding countries, and I don't think they have that high of a density? I would liked to see a map like this normalized for popul
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by ehsankia 6y ago
If the expiration was in July, how could it possibly have been Google's mistake that it got sold months before it expired?
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by ehsankia 6y ago
My knowledge of NK is fairly limited, but I genuinely don't see what help would computers do to NK. Do they have access to the internet? What good do computers do without an internet connection? Maybe you can play some games, maybe you
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by ehsankia 6y ago
If your problem is targeted advertising, then yes, this definitely isn't trying to solve that. The goal here is to solve your data being leaked all over the internet. We can have an entirely separate discussion on whether the value of
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by ehsankia 6y ago
FLoC by itself doesn't solve fingerprinting, the but larger Privacy Sandbox effort does have changes such as Privacy Budget which aim to fix fingerprinting.
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by ehsankia 6y ago
The thing is, even most creators who are on Patreon are actually indirectly relying on the ad-funded system currently. Most of these people you're referring to are probably Youtube or Twitch creators for example. But why do you think Y
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by ehsankia 6y ago
> controls the algorithms I'm not sure what about the algorithm can benefit them, they're just segmenting the population into cohorts, and again everyone has access to the exact same cohorts as Google does. > gatekeeper to t
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by ehsankia 6y ago
> keep your client open which most people do. [citation needed] I know very few people who leave their computer on 24/7. I agree forums is actually probably closer to replicating what Discord has, those were definitely a big part of
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by ehsankia 6y ago
Speaking of Steam, it's also a shame they snoozed on it until way after Discord picked up steam. They were also very well situated to replicate it, but to date they STILL don't have message history in chat conversations...
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by ehsankia 6y ago
A lot of people make comparisons to vent/mumble/teamspeak/irc, but I think Discord is quite a bit different. I used to hang out on vent/mumble all the way from ~2008 to ~2015 when I switched to Discord. While voice chat
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by ehsankia 6y ago
Hmm, this sounds like the opposite. FLoC actually gives any ad-tech company access to the same cohort information. If FLoC does not happen and cookies are banned, that would be the death of smaller ad-tech companies. I assume that's wh
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by ehsankia 6y ago
FLoC itself does not prevent fingerprinting, but it's part of the Privacy Sandbox [0] where they are doing a bunch of things to mitigate those kinds of tracking, such as Privacy Budget [1]. Note that other browser suffer from the same
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by ehsankia 6y ago
From the proposed spec [0], it's literally just: cohort = await document.interestCohort(); Seems pretty easy to override with a simple extension. [0] https://github.com/WICG/floc
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by ehsankia 6y ago
>I bet you are working for some ad company "Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing" https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > most users are clueless, why should they be included? Pr
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by ehsankia 6y ago
The status quo is advertisers tracking every single website you visit, and keeping a personalized profile of you with all your data in there. The system under FLoC means they don't see anything about you and which site you've visi
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by ehsankia 6y ago
> the end results are the same as before Except it's not. In the old world, advertisers literally track you around the web and gather data about every single website you've visited, how long you've spent there, and so on.
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by ehsankia 6y ago
Never claimed it started this way, but they've had replaceable models for ~3 years now, if not longer.
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by ehsankia 6y ago
Then just just a Tile or some other tracker.
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by ehsankia 6y ago
> Their marketing pointed to "scalloped" batteries instead of square so they can take up more empty space I'm confused, are these standard CR2032 batteries or not? Do I have to buy some special Apple battery?
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by ehsankia 6y ago
That kinda kills the whole purpose of the tag, which is to beep when you lose it. I guess you can still kinda find it with the UWB chip on your iPhone, but that's much harder than by sound.

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