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by mr__y 7y ago
>this is no longer possible because we can't bring compute any closer to the user than the mobile devices. this is based on a very dubious assumption that bringing compute closer is the only path for innovation. and even that is not
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by mr__y 7y ago
Wouldn't this make a literal tinfoil hat effective ad-blocker or at least an actual privacy enhancement?
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by mr__y 7y ago
>instead of repeating a slightly different version of what you've already learned while I generally agree with your idea, a little counterpoint: it depends on a way you consume those materials. If you do that thoroughly, actually re
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by mr__y 7y ago
>Whatever controls they had to block spidering, limit further than immediate contacts, etc would have to kick in. On the other hand their business requires the ability to discover candidates by HR people so I guess that completely disabl
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by mr__y 7y ago
>and it doesn't show others when you connected if I actually scraped all the profiles in 2009, then in 2014 and then in 2019 I could tell whether an account is a 10+-year old account by simply checking if it is available in my 2009
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by mr__y 7y ago
>but this often does more to hurt low-resource users than brute force also. 1MB memory usage would not hurt most of the low-resource users while having 1MB memory for each of the millions of computational units in a brute-force rig would
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by mr__y 7y ago
Assuming that the average adult citizen is nowadays using social networks for more than a decade you could cross-reference the persons photo with many snapshots of your scraped data expecting the person to show in most of them, not just o
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by mr__y 7y ago
>We know we need at least like 80 bits to start to be safe against brute force. you could imagine a cipher with a computational/memory[0] intensity so high that the brute force attack could be practically infeasible even at lower ke
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by mr__y 7y ago
>Unless foregin governments continuously poll and save data from FB and IG apis (which is possible) all of that can be faked or deleted. Given how simple and relatively cheap that is I would be very suprised if they don't. This is a
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by mr__y 7y ago
Why bother with bugging a bathroom when most people will carry a wiretap device with geolocation there willingly? And continue to do so despite the evidence that device is actually listening? Then, why bother bugging a bedroom if people wou
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by mr__y 7y ago
>"Crypto performance doesn't matter" the argument I was trying to make is more in the sense "is it worth to take (even a minimal) risk optimizing performance given that this very performance gain is not (that) importa
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by mr__y 7y ago
2x+ speedup would assume that all you do is just doing encryption/decryption while in most cases crypto would use only a small percentage of cpu time anyways. So if - let's say 1% of cpu time is spent on crypto, then that 2x gain
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by mr__y 7y ago
A) debatable B) very,very debatable, especially this piece: "understand the space well-enough" C) I tend to agree, but then (especially with hardware-supported crypto) there is not much to be gained by reducing the number of round
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by mr__y 7y ago
I use Caps Lock only to turn off Caps Lock if I accidentally pressed it previously
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by mr__y 7y ago
>First of all, it is not like FB employees are pushing people into gas chambers in Dachau I laughed at this way louder than I'm willing to admit
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by mr__y 7y ago
It's probably not that they can't classify fake accounts but that doing so at a scale requires too large resources and it's more economical to employ only simpler techniques that weed out most of the bots and live with the re
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by mr__y 7y ago
There are a lot of JS-based detection techniques that rely on things being or not being available. By using an actual browser you have JS/WASM environment that is identical to what is expected from a real user. By using [scripting lang
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by mr__y 7y ago
Selenium is still relatively easy to detect by JS, but on the other hand it does require some dedicated[0] effort even if just the user-agent is overriden and that itself might be enough to work for relatively long time. Other important th
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by mr__y 7y ago
Depending on the code and the dependencies it might not be that free if you run on some unexpected problems after those upgrades due to some incompatibilities or even reliance on now-fixed bug. While I understand that the latter should not
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by mr__y 7y ago
HTML may contain style and script tags. Sometimes minification may break CSS or JS - however rare that is, if you want your archive to be reliable you don't want functionality that may break something. If you intend to reduce storage s
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by mr__y 7y ago
The ads can be made relevant relative to website's content, not my previous activity. If I'm reading a tutorial on how to fix something there may be ads for tools that are required for that. This is very relevant to me and at the
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by mr__y 7y ago
>those apps continue to be updated and utilizing the latest features. while this is orthogonal to Shopify API or your post at all, since you mentioned the need of updates, I just wanted to use that opportunity to vent my frustration with
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by mr__y 7y ago
Imagine future cashless society with mobile-only payments. And a smart-car that needs a phone to open/start. And a smart-home with front-door unlocked with a phone. If you loose/break your phone - no problem, you can replace it wi
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by mr__y 7y ago
This. It may not (yet) be suitable for every-day use, but it is absolutely great for pet-projects or some tinkering. Also I would love to see enthusiasts creating alternative ecosystem around this, like open, federated social networking app
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by mr__y 7y ago
I would expect them to send search the query if and when I search for something and send exactly nothing when I don't
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by mr__y 7y ago
Also relevant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeQD4UdGY-A
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by mr__y 7y ago
>drive-by type attacks would be very concerning not only that. One insecure system in the area could be infected and then controlled to attack other networks in the area. With a high density of IoT devices you could have malware spreadin
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by mr__y 7y ago
How would you solve access permissions in DHT? What if a node in DHT holds data that it is not granted to read? This would imply encryption of the data to prevent unauthorized reads - this does not really seem as a complicated problem - the
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by mr__y 7y ago
Thanks, it looks really interesting and seems to do what I just described. The thing it lacks though is - in my opinion - RPC-style messages. For example an alarm controller could subscribe to motion events, but when such an event occur it
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by mr__y 7y ago
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