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by pdkl95 8y ago
> The same people calling for everyone to always remember what Microsoft did 20 years ago log out of HN and go work on their Facebook React app with no apparent sense of irony. This is a straw man. You're arguing against a group tha
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Worse Than Demonetization: Anti-Gay Ads on LGBTQ+ Videos(youtube.com)
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> DES ... it was never a NOBUS backdoor in NSA's own design > Second, you can't argue that something is an NSA backdoor when NSA's only role in standardizing crypto relative to it is to make the standard resistant to it
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> But NSA doesn't want arbitrary weaknesses; it wants NOBUS backdoors The NSA's handling[1] of differential cryptanalysis suggests they could consider an entire analysis technique to be (pseudo-)NOBUS. If they believed they wer
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Who said anything about making IP addresses public? You seem to be assuming registering a domain name implies delegating that domain to an actual name server that must respond to public requests. These assumptions are both incorrect. Regist
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Printing hardware usually has higher point density than screens. It depends on the printing method, but >=300dpi is reasonably common.
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Serifs on low resolution fonts didn't gain legibility when LCD market share became dominant. > Is this even an issue? Yes, to some people on some devices. While less common than it was a decade ago, old hardware exists[1], poor qual
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> "... hosting Open Sans locally vs Google CDN." Both of these are still a lot slower than simply installing the font in the OS (or browser) and loading out of the filesystem block cache (or using the already-loaded font in bro
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> The traditional excuse for stripping away ornament has been about improving legibility, especially for small screens. This is a fallacy No, serifs really do have legibility issues, but not for small screens ; they cause problems at (v
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Idealism isn't about living as a monk, it's about not compromising on the things that are often seen as "trivial" or "inconsequential". Most people don't jump from acting ethically to accepting work on tha
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> I don't really see the use of old data like that for ad-targeting Ad-targeting is not the only use Google has for data. Google's core view of the world is that useful signals can be extracted from data; the more data you gath
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> more dangerous That kind of unqualified/unjustified claim is misinformation designed to generate an emotional reaction, not rational analysis. Nature often produces very dangerous on it's own. It doesn't always take th
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> Users who have demonstrated intent through ... searches I know marketing always makes exaggerated claims, but to claim that a search implies intent is such blatant nonsense. At least later on they make claims about "interest&quo
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> how would you use that information to identify a natural person? That depends a lot on 1) the other data that submitted in the same set of analytics events. and 2) the data found in other databases that might correlate with the dat
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> toilet that flushes itself automatically ... tiny camera Why would you use as camera as the sensor for simple presence detection? An IR LED+photoresistor is much cheaper. > No one ever worries about the privacy implications of this
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> Google Analytics provides an IP anonymization feature. The &aip=1 feature - in spite of it's name - does not provide any useful anonymity! As you can see in Google's own documentation (your 2nd link), when aip=1 GA clai
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From the associated article about this supposed "link tax". > Anyone using snippets of journalistic online content must first get a license from the publisher. Re-publishing a portion of a published work is not a "link&q
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> have the logic that chooses ads run locally Unless you are unconditionally loading all possible ads into that code that runs locally, it still betrays the result of the local code's analysis when it loads the specific ad. This k
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http://www.danielsen.com/jokes/objecttoaster.txt > The second advisor, a software developer, immediately recognized the danger of such short-sighted thinking. [...] "A toaster that only makes toast will soon be
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> expectation in customers' minds that the device is always listening If, even with that expectation, enough people still use "voice assistant" technology for a judge to consider the tech to be "in general public use&
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> anonymising ... columns until the output is useful for applications where sensitive information cannot be exposed This tool will not provide any significant amount of anonymity. > rows to randomly sample ... hash (using ... 32 bits)
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> an arc flash threw him back 15 to 20 feet That requires significant amounts of energy. > Tesla should have cut electricity to the equipment he was working on, but refused to because the company didn’t want to temporarily stop produc
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> forgot the ... PIN Schneier on passwords[1]: >> Simply, people can no longer remember passwords good enough to reliably defend against dictionary attacks, and are much more secure if they choose a password too complicated to reme
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> someone I forgot That would be Upton Sinclair. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11/30/salary/
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It doesn't look like a deadlock; turning off interrupts prevents the preemptive scheduler from running. Without a timer interrupt, the only way the scheduler would run is if it's invoked to put the process to sleep during a blocki
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Prolog is crazy-making and awesome in all the right ways. For some problems, it can be very concise. https://swish.swi-prolog.org/p/xkcd287.pl
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction
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When mission critical parts, tools, or infrastructure is moved to "the cloud" (aka computers owned by someone else that you do not control) - often replacing in-house tools with a SaaSS[1] - a second source [2] is rarely discusse
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> cell network Pagers do not use the cellular network. (some cellular networks do provide paging-style services, but that is a later development that is unrelated to traditional pagers) > A 'receive only' pager still needs
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Dan Geer (CISO at In-Q-Tel, has been warning about the dangers of surveillance for years) has spoken about how he uses a pager instead of a cell phone. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014&#x

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