harabat

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by harabat 1y ago
Getting into any kind of online discussion with the "$X is khamass" crowd is generally futile.
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by harabat 2y ago
I'm working on a news analysis project where I'll have to identify articles that speak about the same event. For now, I think it'll be based on date + "asking an LLM", but you probably came up with something better.
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by harabat 2y ago
In case you haven't heard of it: https://web.archive.org/web/20170409015127/forkthecookbook.c...
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by harabat 3y ago
There was a report posted on HN months ago showing the proportion of fraudulent vs legitimate activities on Tor vs non-Tor across a pool of websites. Tor users were (slightly, IIRC) more likely to be malicious, but they represented a drop i
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by harabat 3y ago
The paragraph starting with "it would be a shame..." has their entire point laid out in simple, unambiguous terms. There's no mention of human nature or calls to not worry.
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by harabat 3y ago
A workaround I saw a few months ago on HN: for both Organic Maps and OSMand, you can use Acastus to search for something and then open the result in the maps app (+ share the broken query with Organic Maps, as requested by the founder). Aca
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by harabat 4y ago
I'm trying to find a good project to work on to start learning QGIS, and what you described sounds interesting. Would you happen to have a write-up of this?
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by harabat 4y ago
Dang, you're a model for my own communication style, a source of indirect advice for a project that I'm building (one day I'll be ready to reach out to you for direct advice), and someone I see as an example of a good human.
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by harabat 4y ago
Thanks for the notes on Notes! As I said, it's way out of my wheelhouse, but I'm planning on spending some time in the next months on trying to merge a decrypted backup of old iOS Signal chat history into the decrypted backup of c
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by harabat 4y ago
Re keychain, you're probably aware of it, but https://github.com/ptoomey3/Keychain-Dumper/ is very thorough in extracting keychain data (including data that one would expect to no longer be in there).
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by harabat 4y ago
Not my area at all, but reverse-engineering file formats sounds really interesting. Do you have a blog by any chance?
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by harabat 4y ago
For those who are going through the thread finding new tools: pandas-profiling[0] is a library for automatic EDA (which bamboolib[1], mentioned elsewhere, also does). [0]: https://github.com/pandas-profiling/pandas-prof
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by harabat 4y ago
Related from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31329368 (300 comments)
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by harabat 4y ago
Probably little to no effect, but I'd hope it's slightly more effective than just tweeting a hashtag (which is arguable simpler than my "simplest" suggestion) because it will actually pierce the techie anti-privacy bubbl
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by harabat 4y ago
For those who won't read the article: it provides a few ways to protest [0] (contact Commissioners, request media to cover this issue, get active on social media) and offers a list of arguments [1] (such policies don't work agains
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by harabat 4y ago
Related: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27842740
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by harabat 4y ago
Would you be able to list some of the negative developments you expect from GitLab going forward? For example, I know they are reducing support for Free Tier on their managed instance ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30
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by harabat 5y ago
I commented about FriendlyCaptcha [0] elsethread. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30345606
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by harabat 5y ago
Seems like FriendlyCaptcha [0] might tick the boxes. Here's the author talking about it [1]. [0]: https://friendlycaptcha.com/ [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24921288
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by harabat 5y ago
Great resource, a surprisingly clear and detailed introduction to the various attacks faced by websites! The relevant part: > "we concluded that approximately 1 in 380 http requests coming out of Tor is verified to be malicious, whi
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by harabat 5y ago
From https://www.democracynow.org/2019/11/22/nils_melzer_julian_a... > "He will be certainly exposed to an arbitrary trial, if he — in the U.K., extradition trial. The choreography is clear. Whatever
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by harabat 5y ago
People who find this interesting might also like DoltHub: "Dolt marries two familiar concepts, Git and MySQL. The first and only SQL database that supports clone, branch, and merge." https://www.dolthub.com/
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by harabat 5y ago
And the GitLab repo: https://gitlab.tue.nl/20040367/pybaobab