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by eykanal 10mo ago
Now seems like a good time to remind folks of the Stanford dead fish fMRI study: https://law.stanford.edu/2009/09/18/what-a-dead-salmon-remin... fMRI has always had folks highlighting how shaky the science is
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by eykanal 10mo ago
This exactly. Worth mentioning that "censoring" can occur in any of a number of ways; blocking select traffic, slowing select traffic, "forgetting" specific nodes, redirecting other nodes at will, performing MITM attacks
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by eykanal 10mo ago
I read this as "Disney approached OpenAI and threatened to sue them into oblivion --> OpenAI negotiated that Disney will use OpenAI internally for free, and will buy $1B of equity to have an ownership stake in the company". Dis
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by eykanal 1y ago
> ...who non-ironically believes that Tor is used for things besides drug deals and kidnapping plots. That was the quote I was referring to. Also, of course I didn't say that no one should have any privacy; I simply implied a high m
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by eykanal 1y ago
> ...Assange and Snowden... I'd argue that for every Assange and Snowden, there are 100 (1k? 100k?) people using Tor for illegal, immoral, and otherwise terrible things. If you're OK with that, then sure, fine point. > SSH k
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by eykanal 2y ago
Any reason why this is on the front page today? Is there some context for why this is interesting now?
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by eykanal 2y ago
The problem with this paper is that, while technically true, there are many website owners who have found that CAPTCHAs have effectively reduced the spam on their site to zero. The fact that a CAPTCHA _can_ be bypassed doesn't mean tha
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by eykanal 2y ago
Link: https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/how-does-the-duck-hunt... Super low-tech and amazing ingenuity in making something work within the limitations of the tech they had then.
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by eykanal 2y ago
Just piling on here because upvotes are not visible. The one thing you can guarantee is that your good faith is not reciprocated by the university. Get a lawyer. To make it easier: it sounds like you're still registered. University of
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by eykanal 2y ago
It's worth mentioning that this really isn't programming-specific, or even engineering-specific, at all. The exact same story applies to the guy doing finance, or marketing, or project management, or legal work, or whatever. This
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by eykanal 2y ago
Can we just link directly to the story rather than through longreads? https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/10/1105034/weeds-cl...
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by eykanal 2y ago
This article could use an awful lot more links to the cited research. Reading this as a skeptic, I don't know whether the claims are accurate or not, but the fact that (nearly) none of his claims are supported by citations to authorita
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by eykanal 2y ago
> [...]the movements in the cluster began to show an atypical pattern with diverging paths What the heck does this mean? > Insurtech utilises technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data analytics, blockchain, and machine le
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by eykanal 2y ago
Was thinking that when I wrote the comment. Unfortunately, spammers have gotten very good at gaming web of trust techniques (see amazon product reviews). This is a Hard Problem™.
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by eykanal 2y ago
This seems like a great idea designed for well-intentioned people. Unfortunately, the internet is running a bit short on well-intentioned people. The potential for abuse here is enormous. I have a difficult time seeing this becoming anythin
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by eykanal 2y ago
Same for Pittsburgh: Completely wrong information about nearly all neighborhoods with a healthy dose of racism. Basically, the internet.
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by eykanal 2y ago
I stayed past that for a bit but eventually cancelled as well, even though work offered to pay for membership. Same as above, once the conference discount wasn't necessary I gained absolutely nothing from the membership.
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by eykanal 3y ago
So, IIUC, passkeys are a form of public key authentication. You register a public key with a service and then prove you have the private key. It sounds like this article is blaming "big tech" for not creating a universal, seamless
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by eykanal 3y ago
This seems to be ~4 years old. Have any cryptographers reviewed / audited this protocol in the interim? A quick google search comes up empty [1], and google scholar doesn't show anything [2]. [1]: https://www.google.com
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by eykanal 3y ago
From that page: "To advertise on DuckDuckGo, visit Microsoft Advertising." Is DDG the #2 position or Microsoft? Kind of a notable difference there... if DDG is just an arm of Microsoft it rings a different tune.
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by eykanal 3y ago
Saying "I don't want censorship" is equivalent to saying "I'm fine with people using my tool for coffee meetups, genocide planning, bridge club, and drug deals." It's an attempted handwashing of moral resp
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by eykanal 5y ago
Its pretty well known that fingerprints _by themselves_ are a pretty poor replacement for passwords. (a) They're public, in that it's pretty easy to get someone's fingerprint... just find something they touched recently. (b)
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by eykanal 5y ago
Can we change the title here to something less marketing-ish? Possibly just "Apple releases new iPad mini"?
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by eykanal 5y ago
From the comments here, it sounds like the main issue is payment processors needing to accommodate "vice laws" or something. Can someone explain why OnlyFans can't simply use non-US payment processors to get around this? My u
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by eykanal 6y ago
Just want to mention that, as a hiring manager for over ten years now, I haven't looked at a cover letter once in that entire time.
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by eykanal 6y ago
> This is virtually indistinguishable from a protection racket: It is a fee that developers must pay if they want to stay in business. And it is a fee which ultimately harms consumers because these fees are indirectly passed on to users,
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by eykanal 8y ago
"...and in other news, water is still wet." There is nothing new about this type of behavior, at Google or any other company that has existed since, oh, the dawn of time. This happens in almost every sector that has large business
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by eykanal 9y ago
So, we're willing to introduce legislation to bring a $700 textbook bill down to $600, but ignore the fact that tuition is over $50,000 in many institutions. I guess we can call this a small win, but my goodness, that is a small win in
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by eykanal 9y ago
Strongly recommend you watch Hans Rosling's TED talk on washing machines to realize how automated it already is: https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing... That said, I do still understand you
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