mechnesium

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by mechnesium 6y ago
I think it is just an illusion that Western governments can be changed. In reality, the deep state is an unstoppable machine underneath the facade of democracy. See perception management: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by mechnesium 6y ago
It’s possible that the United States will resemble China once its population reaches a comparable size. China may simply the next evolution of what the US will become, and if it happens slowly enough, no one will do anything about it. Conwa
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by mechnesium 6y ago
> USA for singling out Tik Tok seemingly arbitrarily, and banning it for "national security" reasons without going into any detail about what they are or what evidence they have for them. It’s McCarthyism all over again. This
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by mechnesium 6y ago
I don’t think Chinese surveillance is worse for people outside of China. Your local government’s surveillance will always be worse, because it has the capability to act upon the data collected on you, since you are in their jurisdiction.
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by mechnesium 6y ago
Precisely. We should not censor platforms that enable effective free speech to occur. TikTok is the one place that you can post a political video that doesn’t get removed within seconds for “violating community standards.” It’s blatantly ob
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by mechnesium 6y ago
A hybrid strain of critical thinking and anti-nationalism.
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by mechnesium 6y ago
Welcome to the Red Scare 2.0, comrade. TikTok is under fire because it’s a piece of software from China. We’ve turned a blind eye to hardware security and the fact that the iPhone and nearly every other mainstream consumer device is manufa
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by mechnesium 7y ago
Does the App Store or Play Store provide a checksum of the binary to compare to the self compiled binary?
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by mechnesium 7y ago
If you didn’t create the binary yourself how can you trust it?
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by mechnesium 7y ago
Sounds like malware if you take it out of context. That’s unacceptable behavior (unless maybe there’s an opt-out for the mass notification).
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by mechnesium 7y ago
That’s a valid question. Do these platforms provide users with signatures/checksums to reference?
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by mechnesium 7y ago
How? Can you prove the binaries on the Play Store/App Store do not have backdoors? Most nation states engage in domestic surveillance. Here is a story about ToTok: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/22/us&#x
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by mechnesium 7y ago
This my professional opinion since I lack the resources to perform a true analysis, so instead I speculate based on current nation state trends and the US government’s surveillance track record. Signal is a big red flag to me. I choose not
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by mechnesium 7y ago
I’m guessing that you didn’t read the Wikipedia article. Here’s the direct quote pertaining to appearance. “Renoux indicates that Japanese media, magazines in particular, often depict Paris as a place where most people on the street look li
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by mechnesium 7y ago
My industry forbids purchase of Chinese hardware (Lenovo, Huawei, ZTE, etc.) over security concerns. China has targeted various organizations in my industry and this hardware opens the back door wide open for them.
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by mechnesium 7y ago
Disconcerting and suspicious to see so many Chinese codebases being advertized here. I feel that there is some nation state activity behind it. There is a ban on Chinese work products in sensitive industries (aerospace/defense, militar
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by mechnesium 7y ago
Disconcerting and suspicious to see so many Chinese codebases being advertized here. I feel that there is some nation state activity behind it. There is a ban on Chinese work products in sensitive industries (aerospace/defense, milita
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DNA as a digital information storage device (2018)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
2 points by mechnesium 7y ago|0 comments
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by mechnesium 7y ago
The fact that third-party addons can even touch sensitive settings in the user.js prefs is a massive security flaw in Mozilla's implementation of the WebExtensions API. Addons should be sandboxed/containerized or require privilege
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by mechnesium 8y ago
There’s a 4th option that somewhat falls under your number 2. AdNauseum ( https://adnauseam.io/ ) spoofs interaction with ads while simultaneously blocking them. I suppose both the service and consumer can reap mutual benefit
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by mechnesium 8y ago
From a meta-perspective, HackerNews is how I'm currently spending my time. Alas, it is a stopgap to a more pervasive problem in my life. If I weren't currently on HackerNews, I would (very literally) be spending my spare time wond
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by mechnesium 8y ago
The only thing I'm missing is a C++ implementation of libp2p. Ethereum is the only example I've found that comes close, but it's poorly commented and only implements a small set of details of libp2p.
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by mechnesium 8y ago
I respectfully disagree. It should be public record when a product or service fails to perform to the expectation of the customer. This is why we have outlets such as Yelp and Amazon reviews. There is no incentive to improve the product if
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by mechnesium 8y ago
I think various flavors of Markdown have largely superseded TeX, at least for stylistic minimalists. I'm not saying that TeX is obsolete, but for the majority of use cases, Markdown is faster and less troublesome. Modernity always triu
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by mechnesium 9y ago
The buck does not stop here. Prepare for cryptomining bloatware to come preinstalled on all your devices in the near future.
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by mechnesium 9y ago
You have a valid point. A logical analysis of this event easily reveals certain political motives. The fact that it has been publicized and spun with negative implications for Cuba and Russia is even more suspicious. I highly doubt that Cub
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by mechnesium 9y ago
It's pretty irresponsible to make something and then abandon it. It's like having a baby and neglecting it.
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by mechnesium 9y ago
Have you looked into pharmaceuticals to possibly mitigate damage? I'm not sure of their efficacy, but there are a few racetams that might aid recovery. Phenylpiracetam is perhaps the most potent. From Wikipedia: "A few small clini
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by mechnesium 9y ago
Well, productivity is IS a function of cognitive states. The nonlinearity could be tied to neurotransmitter activity/concentration such as dopamine, or perhaps cortisol level.
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by mechnesium 9y ago
It was very misleading. I eagerly clicked on the article expecting genetic research... cloning a dinosaur using a common ancestor or something.

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