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by haswell 6mo ago
I do think a degree of alarm is appropriate. But it’s critical to sound the correct alarm. To me, it seems like the authors pulled the fire alarm for a single building when in reality there’s a tornado bearing down. And by doing so, everyon
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by haswell 6mo ago
I completely agree. Fighting against these kinds of directives was a large factor in my own major burnout and ultimately quitting big tech. I was successful for awhile, but it takes a serious toll if you’re an IC constantly fighting against
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by haswell 6mo ago
> How is probing your browser for installed extensions not "scanning your computer"? I think most people would interpret “scanning your computer” as breaking out of the confines the browser and gathering information from the
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by haswell 6mo ago
Absolutely not. At no point am I saying this is ok. I’m saying that the framing of the article makes this sound like LinkedIn is the Big Bad when the reality is far worse - they’re just one in a sea of entities doing this kind of thing. If
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by haswell 6mo ago
To be clear, expecting != accepting. The point was more that the headline frames this as some major revelation about LinkedIn, while the reality is that we’re getting probed and profiled by far more sites than most people realize.
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by haswell 6mo ago
This, to me, seems like the more salient point. A headline like “Major browsers allow websites to see your installed extensions” seems more appropriate here. We’ve known for a long time that advertisers/“security” vendors use as many d
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by haswell 6mo ago
To broaden my point, I think we’d find that many websites we use are doing this. My point isn’t that this is acceptable or that we shouldn’t push back against it. We should. My point is that this doesn’t sound particularly surprising or uni
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by haswell 6mo ago
The headline seems pretty misleading. Here’s what seems to actually be going on: > Every time you open LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser, LinkedIn’s JavaScript executes a silent scan of your installed browser extensions. The scan probe
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by haswell 6mo ago
I do think your comment is bringing up valid questions/points. One thing that worries me about the current state of things is scale and speed. Modern technology, markets, communication systems and supply chains make it possible for thi
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by haswell 6mo ago
Interesting. Looks like this is EU specific.
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by haswell 6mo ago
I've seen individual developer's names in the App Store, but the parent comment is also claiming that Address and Phone number is published. I've done a bit of digging, and can't seem to confirm this.
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by haswell 6mo ago
The way I read that question was: where can other people see this information about me once I’ve published the app? i.e. say I just published an app, where would you navigate to find this info?
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by haswell 9mo ago
I think “king” may be overstating it somewhat. While it’s true that there are some big titles with anticheat that won’t work on Linux, there are quite a few major titles that work fine, and in practice I’ve been able to use Linux as a gamin
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by haswell 1y ago
What are you trying to imply with the “hmm”? I personally found out about my aphantasia when reading an article in Scientific American titled “When the Mind’s Eye is Blind”. A whole lifetime of experiences clicked into place. So it’s not su
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by haswell 1y ago
As someone with aphantasia, all I ever get from people who can visualize is self-report, anecdote, self-assessment, etc. By definition, this will always be the case until we have a deep enough understanding of the brain to diagnostically
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by haswell 1y ago
I’m unfamiliar with German basic law, but considering the lawlessness we’re seeing play out in the US right now, I’m curious how/why modern constitutions are less vulnerable? By this I mean: it’s not as if the things we see playing out
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by haswell 1y ago
I think a middle ground version of this is possible, e.g. instead of letting your battery die, reset the phone to defaults and don’t install anything with the exception of critical communication apps. Run the rest of the experiment as descr
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by haswell 1y ago
When the agency enforcing those labor laws is also blatantly violating the law while carrying out other highly publicized enforcement actions, they will be scrutinized for everything they do, including actions that were likely legal/ne
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by haswell 1y ago
I think you’re mistaking my comment for an endorsement when it was primarily attempting to reframe and describe the dynamic. > Saying that someone ought to write better I did not say someone ought to write better. I described what I
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by haswell 1y ago
I don’t think this framing quite captures what’s going on. The AI space is full of BS and grift, which makes reputation and the resulting trust built on that reputation important. I think the popularity of certain authors has as much to do
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by haswell 1y ago
The beauty of meditation is that no faith is necessary. No belief. Just a willingness to explore one’s own mind in new ways. All of the claims made by practitioners can be individually/personally verified.
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by haswell 1y ago
With all respect, I would encourage you to investigate this more deeply, and the swipe is unnecessary. I realize it sounds preposterous. I spent the majority of my life holding a similar view. I mentally categorized meditation as another r
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by haswell 1y ago
One of the arguments used to justify the mass-ingestion of copyrighted content to build these models is that the resulting model is a transformative work, and thus fair use. If this is indeed true, it seems like Google et al must be liabl
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by haswell 1y ago
Why would we suppose AI isn’t in the picture? You’re describing unrelated scenarios. Apples and oranges. You can’t wish away the AI and then conclude what’s happening is acceptable because of how something entirely unrelated has been treate
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by haswell 1y ago
> This is like saying I can fix global warming by recycling better and going vegan. I can't agree. I don't think anyone who is diligent about recycling or making environmentally conscious food choices believes it will fix glo
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by haswell 1y ago
History is filled with people saying “this won’t happen”, only for that thing to happen. Culture evolves and changes. What is acceptable in a culture evolves and changes with it. Be the change you want to see, apply steady pressure, speak u
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by haswell 1y ago
For me, this is about personal priorities. I’ve been a professional sysadmin and definitely have the skills to build a NAS from scratch - I’ve done it more than once. But this is one aspect of my life that I look at as core infrastructure t
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by haswell 1y ago
The fact that something can happen is separate from how likely that thing is to happen, and that’s what matters here. The comments here that point to this theoretical possibility seem to be missing the point, which is that using something
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by haswell 1y ago
While this may be true, this is still a major improvement, no? i.e. it seems far more likely that a rapidly evolving hot new project will be targeted vs. something more stable and explicitly security focused like bubblewrap.
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by haswell 1y ago
Yes, that was pretty obvious, and that's part of why I wrote what I did.

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