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by prophesi 7y ago
I agree that it's a useful feature and not a privacy issue, but I will say that it's nigh-impossible to avoid clicking links like these. I already try my best to strip out tracking parameters in query strings, and avoid shortened
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by prophesi 7y ago
This is absurdly difficult to pull off with very little payoff. You'd need to be sniffing the traffic of a network. Then craft a URL that contains a unique image near your text fragment query. Then somehow send that URL to the victims
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by prophesi 7y ago
These visual editors are a godsend when developing a videogame. Even with ThreeJS, which is still an abstraction of OpenGL, I've had a lot of issues with really simple visual problems, like getting my models placed at correct locations
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by prophesi 7y ago
You didn't list out any actual UX issues with Signal. I use it on my phone, desktop PC, and laptops without coming across any issues. And you'd want to use a cipher agreed upon by the general cybersecurity community to be secure.
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by prophesi 7y ago
Have you ever seen The Good Place?
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by prophesi 7y ago
https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/do... "those binaries that cannot be removed do not contain machine code." I'm not sure what's meant by them not containing m
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by prophesi 7y ago
Yeah, this is probably the main reason. I know two friends who use Plex exclusively on their PS4. I'm also not the only one in my group maintaining a Plex server, so they'd incur a transitioning cost as well.
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by prophesi 7y ago
Yeah, I was really surprised to see Plex in my friend's off-FB-activity list. I've been wanting to switch to Emby, but I already have a Plex lifetime membership, and it would be difficult to get friends to make the switch. I'
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by prophesi 7y ago
I know this thread's a bit old now, but could you expound on what the implications are for that?
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by prophesi 7y ago
For more information on this: https://github.com/burtonator/polar-bookshelf/blob/master/do... And you get a free year of cloud storage if you make a non-trivial contribution.
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by prophesi 7y ago
Gosh, I would love if more services didn't offer any account recovery, and refused email/password combos found in HaveIBeenPwned. With perhaps a discount code for a password manager below the sign-up form.
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by prophesi 7y ago
Old isn't a valid critique with crypto; 2048-bit DH is verifiably secure.
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by prophesi 7y ago
Yeah, that's very true. I'm not sure what good alternatives there are for Contacts/Calendar/etc. You'd need to find a good service that can sync your CalDAV/CardDavs, as the best part about Google's Contac
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by prophesi 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_concerns_regarding_Goo... They are the pioneers of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism For specific technologies: Their search engine. Their
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by prophesi 7y ago
For email clients, Thunderbird on desktop, FairEmail on Android. All open-source. It should be pretty straightforward for them to deduce what your Gmail SMTP settings are, and you'll be able to add your emails from other providers as w
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by prophesi 7y ago
Historically speaking, Google is the one who innovates ground-breaking privacy-violating technology, and Facebook copies them a year or two later with much less tact.
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by prophesi 7y ago
Not sure why the OP's message was flagged, as it was a totally valid criticism... But yeah, I just started a Lumen project last night for a quick API behind OAuth2. I sometimes have to append "php" or "laravel" to m
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by prophesi 7y ago
I tried asking this in the Show HN thread on that exact colab project, but how difficult would it be to set it up in your own local Jupyter notebook if you're okay using your own GPU? Edit: Ah, I see in another thread ( https:/&#x
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by prophesi 7y ago
> What innovation? This is a question that possibly can't be answered if it's illegal to experiment with it from the get-go. Off the top of my head, it could be used for thought-provoking art installations; perhaps one that uti
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by prophesi 7y ago
The obvious harm in outright bans (I know this specific case is only banning it in public areas) are that it stifles innovation where the technologies are used to empower society. The reference to smartphone tracking before the one I believ
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by prophesi 7y ago
I don't know what you're trying to say. We're talking about corporate/state surveillance and privacy violations here.
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by prophesi 7y ago
Yeah. Facial recognition by itself is fine, but let them be in hot water if they use it for identifying others. It's similar to how GDPR and similar laws operate. Collecting the data is fine, but you'll get in trouble if you proce
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by prophesi 7y ago
https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2020/01/were_bannin... These bans have good intentions, but won't solve the actual root of the issues, and does more harm than good.
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by prophesi 7y ago
> In any case, their app is now open source, so why is this an issue anyway? My issue is that countless VPN companies are re-inventing the wheel, when they could just be contributing to open-source in the first place. It's obviously
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by prophesi 7y ago
Not sure what exit point selection is, but I don't see why any of those features can't be added upstream to a FOSS OpenVPN client/server.
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by prophesi 7y ago
I definitely need to give this a whirl. Does it use Python 2 or 3, and is it as simple as importing its ipynb to run it in a local Jupyter notebook?
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by prophesi 7y ago
Yeah, that's definitely fair. Figuring out how to import a config file can be enough friction. And you certainly wouldn't be able to easily switch which server the app is connecting to, which a VPN provider's app will have a
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by prophesi 7y ago
I think you're confused. OpenVPN is both the server and the client. I'm arguing that you can simply download an OpenVPN client, get the .ovpn config from your VPN provider, and you're good to go. To clarify: VPN Providers are
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by prophesi 7y ago
This isn't revolutionary, or did we forget that OpenVPN (and when it's easier to use: Wireguard) is a thing? Well-audited, open-source, cross-platform, and most VPN providers offer an .ovpn config.
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by prophesi 7y ago
Erm, none of those things were _stopped_. Heck, even Asbestos lacks a full ban in the USA. These hazardous materials were just heavily regulated, which is what we're arguing should be done with surveillance tech as well. So even with o

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