plusCubed

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Code, Speech, and the Tornado Cash Mixer(eff.org)
4 points by plusCubed 4y ago|0 comments
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by plusCubed 5y ago
What's the difference between this and Sonobus [1], which is open source and also supports iOS/Android? [1] https://www.sonobus.net/
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by plusCubed 5y ago
Google and Apple both have WiFi geolocation databases. As far as I can tell there's no way for an AP to opt-out of Apple's database. Interesting tidbit from [1]: "In older versions of Apple's mobile OS (1.1.3 to 3.1), Ap
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by plusCubed 5y ago
I remembered that Apple has such a database too, and interestingly, here's a project that reverse-engineered queries to Apple's Wi-Fi geolocation service: https://github.com/zadewg/GS-LOC
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by plusCubed 5y ago
Fair enough, "same" is overstating it - edited.
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by plusCubed 5y ago
Interesting, similar to Google[1]... I wonder if 3 days in-person will be the new paradigm for big tech companies. [1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/6/22422518/google-hybrid-wor...
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by plusCubed 6y ago
To be clear, the FDA has not approved the vaccine yet, but an FDA advisory panel has endorsed it [0]. [0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-pfizer...
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by plusCubed 6y ago
Oh interesting, lots of good discussion on HN about that post too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16887276 . Particularly someone asked whether Uber could scale the approach. I couldn't find how many cities in whi
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Improving urban GPS accuracy on Android(android-developers.googleblog.com)
32 points by plusCubed 6y ago|2 comments
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by plusCubed 6y ago
Gotcha, so Cloudflare One = Access (BeyondCorp) + firewall/filtering/Wireguard VPN/logging/... ?
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by plusCubed 6y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, my read is that this is a competitor to Google's external BeyondCorp solution[0]? (They reference the BeyondCorp papers in the post.) [0] https://cloud.google.com/beyondcorp
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by plusCubed 6y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24301332
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by plusCubed 6y ago
Regenerative braking largely minimizes conventional braking on Teslas.
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by plusCubed 6y ago
Question: Is it possible to uninstall Safari on macOS? (without shell commands)
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by plusCubed 6y ago
> The employees revolted so strongly the project was cancelled. Exactly - the buck stopped at company leadership beholden to internal/public reputation, rather than a central authoritarian government with the power to make you disap
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by plusCubed 6y ago
Context: All internet companies in China operate under China's Cyber Security Law [0]. Among its consequences: "Companies could be asked to provide source code, encryption, or other crucial information for review by the authoritie
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by plusCubed 6y ago
DuckDuckGo "most commonly" uses Bing for link search results, so it would mostly be redirecting queries to Microsoft: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
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by plusCubed 8y ago
Ah got it. Maybe the first-person part can be added to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ?
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by plusCubed 8y ago
Tom Scott, an educational YouTuber. (I am not him, the title was changed by a mod I think)
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by plusCubed 8y ago
Edit: title was changed, I am not Tom Scott I am not too familiar with how Brave and BAT (Brave Attention Token), so please chime in. Here's how Brave describes the BAT YouTube donations system: https://basicattentiontoken.o
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Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent(twitter.com)
323 points by plusCubed 8y ago|341 comments