pdkl95

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by pdkl95 9y ago
Either intentionally or as "unintended consequences", having to work in open offices is operant conditioning against working in private. This might explain why so many tech workers believe "privacy is dead/futile" a
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by pdkl95 9y ago
Assuming "qc35" == "Bose QuietComfort 35", it also eavesdrops on the metadata of everything you listen to and sends it to Bose (and segment.io). https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Bose-headphon
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> there were lots of drugs in Bruce Sterling's 'Schismatrix' Like.... [see my username & profile] # "Life moves in clades."
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by pdkl95 9y ago
That's not the only problem, unfortunately. The results that prompted that comment from 3 different doctors was the results from two sleep studies at different locations that indicated an AHI[1] of 152 an 148. Hypoxia and no stage 3&#x
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by pdkl95 9y ago
I currently live on SSDI due to unfortunate medical problems that made driving impossible. Three doctors independently looked at a particular lab result and said, "How are you still alive?". (Previously I had a decent engineering
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Visualising irrationality with triangular squares(youtube.com)
1 points by pdkl95 9y ago|0 comments
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by pdkl95 9y ago
(Maciej Cegłowski's talks are hilarious, insightful, and highly recommended) It's not just the media; this is a problem inherent to capitalism (at least the type of relatively unregulated capitalism as currently practiced in t
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by pdkl95 9y ago
Kyle Kallgren's incredibly insightful discussion[1] of sci-fi from Frankenstein to Black Mirror explained one of the mechanisms that create wars out of too much interconnection: metaphor shear . >> That feeling all users experie
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> Peart Prof. Moriarty of Sixty Symbols discussed[1] this paper, where he was particularly interested in extending the research into other drummers and music styles. For a while, he was asking[2] people to submit covers of the drum track
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> Ensure that the input you receive is not malicious To do that input needs to be decidable . Input from possibly-malicious sources needs to be limited to a grammar no more complex than deterministic context-free[1]. Accepting Turing co
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Why Bitcoin Is Not Cash(youtube.com)
2 points by pdkl95 9y ago|0 comments
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> any client could sniff any other client's events and windows That's a feature that I have used many times in the past. Isolation should be handled at the X server level, where it can be handled without excessive complexity or
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> does democracy require privacy? Yes, it absolutely does. The most effective way to fight a political ideology is not meeting it fairly on the marketplace of ideas to fight it directly. If the opponent is allowed to an opportunity to
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by pdkl95 9y ago
Any plan that relies on NOBUS ("NObody But US") information - like a global private key - is a brittle design that will fail catastrophically when the keys become public (either Snowden-style, or accidentally disclosed like the TS
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Time: The History and Future of Everything – Remastered(youtube.com)
1 points by pdkl95 9y ago|0 comments
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by pdkl95 9y ago
See my other post[1]. Yes, they are not storing all of the IP; they are simply storing the most interesting 3/4 of it (including the ASN). The most difficult problem they have to solve is a 1-in-256 guess, if-and-only-if the other
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> It can’t be identified back to an user. It's trivially associated to your IP. Google, if they chose to, could trivially tie these GA records to your personal profile. > It is not personal data. It's behavioral data that he
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by pdkl95 9y ago
Google's "anonimized IP" means setting the last octet to 0. At best that is a 256->1 grouping[1]. If you're the only person on your local class C network (x.y.z.0-255), your analytics uniquely map to your IP. Google
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by pdkl95 9y ago
See RFC 2100 for additional commentary on naming host: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2100
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by pdkl95 9y ago
While a noise gate is an obvious starting point, I suspect that much smarter filters are possible. A wide range of design choices are possible that trade CPU <-> complexity <-> accuracy. If a high error rate (including "n
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> I would trust Amazon Note that re: Kyllo v United States, trust in any specific manufacturer is irrelevant. The SCOTUS ruled that use of a technology - not a product - requires a warrant when it is "is not in general public use&
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> because the main processor that was always running was primitive and was only powerful enough to pick up a key phrase That's only true if you're trying to do complex analysis on the device. Cell phones in the early 1990s had
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by pdkl95 9y ago
A warrant is required only as long as "voice assistant" technology "is not in general public use"[1]. Kyllo v United States created a bright-line[3] test that removes the warrant requirement to see "details of a pri
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> including an “algorithmic transparency requirement” that would help people understand how their data was being used and what automated decisions were then being made about them. This needs to be required for any type of algorithmic dec
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by pdkl95 9y ago
"How Companies Learn Your Secrets" (2012) https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits....
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> the only data is domain name, record and the incoming ip Other data that can be logged: - timestamp - this can be very revealing when correlated with other datasets.j - ASN - can sometimes act like fingerprint on it's own, and ass
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> expecting a non-tech-savvy person to understand how data moves around the Internet Then we - the people that do have the necessary technical knowledge - have a duty to teach them what they need to know. This isn't necessaril
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by pdkl95 9y ago
The previous method ("haircut" tainting) - wheretransactions from a wallet with "bad" bitcoins are marked as "X% tainted" where X := (#bad_coins / #total_coins) - quickly marked all the active bitcoins on
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, a vice president at Facebook ~sigh~ "Boz" is the only person I regret introducing to programming. (I convinced him to attend the 4-H project where I taught BASIC)
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by pdkl95 9y ago
Dan Rather, after offering sage advice[1] to Mark Zuckerberg regarding the recent FB/CA drama, concluded with: > This is about Facebook's survival, pure and simple. If you don't change things, people will leave faster than

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