ray991

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by ray991 6y ago
You might be interested in this article that tries to explain what happened - from my perspective it was nothing short of a scandal. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/03/covid-19-surgi... Others
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by ray991 6y ago
I really wish the PDF layout was easier to parse. No matter which library you use, you always run into edge cases which make text selection and extraction an issue on certain files. I was recently extracting financial data from a bank which
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by ray991 6y ago
But that is just swapping one privacy issue with another, as NextDNS is also free to sell user’s private metadata to data brokers. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23318830
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by ray991 6y ago
So NextDNS is free to sell metadata. What is the extent of this metadata - is it like ‘this user spends 10 hours a day actively using the internet’, or ‘this user consumes a lot of streaming video content’, or this user ‘watches netflix eve
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by ray991 6y ago
The opt-out form [0] asks only for the name, phone number, DOB, address, email, etc. How do they ensure that someone else did not opt-out or opt-in on someone else’s behalf without their permission? And how are they deduplicating people wit
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by ray991 6y ago
The author mentions that this bug saved him 1000s of hours in development. How is a sandbox escape useful in development? Can someone give me an example?
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by ray991 7y ago
I think this is the right way - store data but publish it publically when you are confirmed with coronavirus. Then apps installed on others phones would automatically see your data and would do an intersect to see if they were in proximity,
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by ray991 7y ago
What if every coronavirus victim voluntarily uploads their location data publically (their identity kept anonymous). Now you can, without uploading your own data anywhere, check if you have ever been in vicinity of any of them. If you have