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by jen_h 7y ago
Rolling your own encryption is an entirely different animal. I agree with that sentiment for encryption. When you use a VPN service, though, you really don’t have any real insight into what’s going on on their servers. Run your own and you
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by jen_h 7y ago
Okay, just thought of something here — force third party apps to use a different voice. Developers (on Alexa, at least) can optionally do this now with SSML, but making it a requirement would be an audio cue to users that the “actor” has ch
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by jen_h 7y ago
For awhile, my brain conflated it with [OpenVPN-NL]( https://openvpn.fox-it.com/about.html ), a publicly-available, hardened version of OpenVPN used by the Dutch government. You can't really blame NordVPN for that (I mea
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by jen_h 7y ago
I've seen "infosec professionals" say they don't trust themselves to secure their own VPN server. It blows my mind...if you can't do that, why are you even in this business? How do you even use a personal computer?
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by jen_h 7y ago
I would hope that isn't what they thought and I'm sure it's not what they thought. Launching a personal-use ephemeral cloud instance running OpenVPN to hide your personal traffic from your ISP is absolutely nowhere the sam
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by jen_h 7y ago
Some thoughts: 1. You have to keep two ports locked down. If you can secure your own laptop, you can secure a cloud instance. The cloud instance you're basically just using as a proxy is a lot less important than what's on your
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by jen_h 7y ago
This. I can set up and connect to a new OpenVPN instance under my own control in less than seven minutes (5:59 last I clocked) from my phone. Anyone can do this, it’s not nearly as complicated to launch and secure as some would have us
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by jen_h 7y ago
But the television’s unencrypted collection is fine?
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by jen_h 7y ago
You don’t really even need real false positives...case in point: My grandma has trouble saying “Alexa,” so we set it to “Amazon.” She listens to the news 24-7...& Amazon’s always all over the news...so there are a lot of stored news s
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by jen_h 7y ago
Proves my point -- your girlfriends are judged much more harshly for how you're dressed than you yourself are -- which is silly, absolutely ridiculous. I'm assuming you're a grown man, right? Why does it make sense that peopl
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by jen_h 7y ago
This sensitivity is probably due to the fact that, as a culture, women to do a bit more of the child-rearing, and they want things to be easy for their sons. Women see themselves in their daughters and daughter-in-laws, and are harder on th
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by jen_h 7y ago
It's not really any different -- changing server behavior after app review is possible for any server-based app. The one thing they exploited that is unique, though, is that when a user talks to a smart device, they generally don'
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by jen_h 7y ago
You could do the same thing with almost any type of app where you run your own web service; it's kind of a black box to the app market's test group...you could change everything but the domain name and security certificate (and
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by jen_h 7y ago
The device has to record all the time in order to "listen" for the wake word. It's got a small couple-second buffer (enough to store "Amazon" or "Computer" or "Alexa" or "Echo") where i
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by jen_h 7y ago
This is such a fatalistic and sad attitude...”Why should I wear clothes anywhere if my doctor sees me naked?” Apple, Google, and Amazon encrypt their data in transit, I have an ongoing customer relationship with them and I keep abreast of t
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by jen_h 7y ago
I would absolutely pay extra for a television without an onboard camera and stealth network connection, yes. It's sad that we should expect to pay extra for our televisions not to spy on us, but here we are. We bought one of the last &
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by jen_h 7y ago
This saved my sanity: synclient PalmDetect=1 && synclient PalmMinWidth=4 && synclient PalmMinZ=60
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by jen_h 7y ago
Surprised not to see more mentions of the Asus Zenbook here — I switched from a MBP to a Zenbook running Ubuntu four years ago, and haven’t looked back...sleek, light, fast, beefy specs AND it’s endured my abuse pretty well. It’s starting t
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by jen_h 7y ago
My UX303 has served me well for four years now, dropped several times, lugged it around through all climes & my only major issue right now is that it’s nearly impossible to find a good power adapter for it and the screen hinge is loose.
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Machine Translation on a Budget: OpenNMT-py on Google Colab and EC2 Spot(sevenminuteserver.com)
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by jen_h 7y ago
I found this a worthwhile argument: "The FSF should have nurtured and grown new leaders a long time ago, leaders who looked into the future, understand cloud and mobile computing and their threats to a free society. ... I never heard a
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by jen_h 7y ago
Yeah, people have been using things like Mint for ages, too, and it's not like professional accountants hosting Quickbooks on their ancient Windows boxen is any less terrifying from a security perspective than a ledger SaaS startup...
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by jen_h 7y ago
This sounds like something internal...I don't think developers or typical small businesses need (or would want to!) to store their double-entry accounting database in shards across Google Cloud Spanner & Kubernetes clusters... Good
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by jen_h 7y ago
If that article offends you by discussing race, you can grab the CPI article that talks about white people being exploited, too: https://publicintegrity.org/business/warren-buffetts-mobile-... My comment stands: > Y
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by jen_h 7y ago
Yeah, you've gotta hand it to them, they really commit to the long-term hollowing out of the economy and the wringing of money from poor stones: none of this short-term loot 'em and flip 'em mentality for BH! https:/&
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by jen_h 7y ago
I have seriously reconsidered giving my business to a bank that does do that: I'm not a fan of sending transaction amounts or account info via text. My bank does this (and over email!); their security posture is fairly decent otherwi
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by jen_h 7y ago
Herbicides, specifically ( https://ohioseagrant.osu.edu/news/2009/fe052/researchers-stu... ). The stuff has adapted to eat glyphosate like candy. Makes sense when you see where it flourishes (like wheat and sug
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by jen_h 7y ago
I'm really sensitive to whatever it is they've started using in the last decade or so. Get rashes and itchy eyes/nose just from particles coming in through the air vents. I often entertain moving back to the DC area, but ever
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by jen_h 7y ago
There's also an epidemic of cyanobacterial (also known as blue green "algae") contamination around the US. We've traveled all over the country and have personally encountered it everywhere -- from Oregon to New York to c
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by jen_h 7y ago
See also: "burn pits."

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