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by g_p 6y ago
This seems to be a support screenshot of the Apple Music app, running on Android. In it, it's asking for the user to enter payment information directly, rather than using Google's payment platform. The significance of this is that
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by g_p 6y ago
I am inclined to agree, but I think we need to be careful not to paint the "decentralised" approaches as perfect. Neither solution is perfect, as both make different trade-offs. I share your privacy concerns and whether it's
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by g_p 6y ago
I agree entirely here. In fact I know people at the time jumping up and down and saying "apply the Wuhan quarantine rules to everyone arriving from mainland Europe in general, or indeed anywhere". The key to me seems to have been
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by g_p 6y ago
If the clinical results of the 20-minute lab-free test the UK is trialling [1] are positive, I could see this working. But that's a risk. To my mind, this is a simple matter of reducing the time the "next generation" of infec
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by g_p 6y ago
GDPR itself is a lot more than the "cookie law", and in my view most people are mis-interpreting and mis-applying it. Any site that won't let you in without accepting their tracking cookies is actually breaking GDPR. If we en
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by g_p 6y ago
I would give the centralised app approach some credit - there is some good science around why being able to react to reports of symptoms (without a test) could actually have significant positive benefit. Some of the feedback seems to be fru
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by g_p 6y ago
The quarantine for new arrivals has been in effect for 10 days [1]. Contact tracing was launched on 28th May [2]. It seems to me that what went wrong was a large number of UK residents were overseas in February/March (sspecially on ski
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by g_p 6y ago
The UK "hack" for the bluetooth was quite clever from what I saw - in essence they implemented the "background discovery of an iPhone" feature. One concern I do have with this approach is that the decentralised system in
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by g_p 6y ago
At this point I am hopeful (but not optimistic) that the EU competition/antitrust investigation [1] might go somewhere and get an outcome. The trouble with investigations like these, as we all know from previous cases, is they tend to
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by g_p 6y ago
I wonder if there's a factor in the make-up of the founding team needed to raise money and gain traction through credibility, that leads to this? The leadership and management issues being so common makes me wonder if the resulting fou
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by g_p 6y ago
Well that was an insightful read! Clearly seem to be some recurring issues. That kind of culture comes from the top.
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by g_p 6y ago
Thanks for engineering responsibly! I think it's our duty to do this where we can. As you say, data can be lost or stolen. But companies also change hands, and it is notoriously hard to prevent it being used for other reasons after acq
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by g_p 6y ago
I absolutely agree, and if anyone has any useful data on this, it would be an interesting afternoon of data crunching. In this ideal dataset I'd also be really keen to look at how the C-suite changes over time with respect to funding,
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by g_p 6y ago
I can see why there is a benefit to the patient of being able to check back in to listen to something again. It might be encrypted, but it appears that encryption was ineffective (i.e. the API or application has access to the keys), since a
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by g_p 6y ago
This seems to be a pretty big question - how long are they retained for as well? From their own FAQ (on their NHS GP at Home service) at https://support.gpathand.nhs.uk/hc/en-us/articles/1150037092... : &quot
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by g_p 6y ago
Looking through the vacancies, they have a category of jobs under "Enterprise IT", which includes CI/CD Engineer. Doesn't bode well, but no hard-and-fast details of who they report to. They're also hiring full-stack
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by g_p 6y ago
Sounds like an access control failure here, leading to users being able to access other users' recorded consultations. Babylon claims that this is due to a new feature letting people switch between audio and video in the call, but this
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Babylon Health admits GP app suffered a data breach(bbc.co.uk)
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by g_p 6y ago
Do you have a source for 11 kW base stations? Assuming we are talking about RF power output here, that is far higher than anything I've ever dealt with, and I'm not sure that it's at all right. A typical macro cell has 20 Wat
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by g_p 6y ago
I think part of the unwillingness is due to the incorporation of external third party IP they realise they have no real prospect of being able to get a license to open source. In some areas like imaging this always seemed to be particularly
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by g_p 6y ago
Yes, the Freedreno work is a really good start, and an admirable one at that which has reached fruition! I think there's quite a lot of closed userspace drivers that need (or would benefit from being) freed - I don't have a list t
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by g_p 6y ago
Good link - there's also a clear case that "requiring" the kernel to provide long-term stable driver API/ABIs is simply reallocating a cost towards the benevolent open source maintainers, to allow closed-source companies
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by g_p 6y ago
Yup, and with that, welcome to the world of semi-proprietary ARM development boards. Leave security patches at the door, and enjoy your version 3.5 kernel for as long as the hardware lasts! Joking aside, I think a lot of this comes down to
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by g_p 6y ago
Good question. The answer is that it requires you to keep your driver maintained as a patch that applies against the kernel you want to use it on. Every release, there's refactoring and improvements of the kernel subsystems. They don&#
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by g_p 6y ago
On the point about riddled with bugs, the Qualcomm proprietary drivers absolutely are riddled with them. Even in their closed source and proprietary incarnation, take a skim through Google's monthly android security bulletins, specific
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by g_p 6y ago
As someone that hasn't used Java in production deployment, I tried to play with an open source project that seems to run on JBOSS Wildfly. After about 3 frustrated hours, I cut my losses, deleted the docker containers and images, and d
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by g_p 6y ago
I'm inclined to agree with you there. Anyone that wanted to do it could figure it out anyway from the standards docs and broadcast the right data in the SIBs, but it is probably better not available as a "click and run" type
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by g_p 6y ago
This is a few components that make up the very baseline of some aspects of a standalone 5G core. If you want to add commercial base stations to it, you'll find you're missing a few non-standardised things missing from all "op
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by g_p 6y ago
Fairly straightforward to use these in other core networks. Not sure if this one implements the signalling for it. Fun fact though - if a phone is without signal on its home network, it will attempt to join any valid 3GPP network it sees, a
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by g_p 6y ago
This is the CBRS band, and the idea behind CBRS is that people should be able to gain access to it on an ad-hoc basis by making a request for it, when it isn't being used for marine radar on the US coast. I believe OpenAirInterface can

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