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by reginold 5y ago
Google Doodles are USA only? Huh, never thought of that. Makes sense I suppose.
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by reginold 5y ago
Would this just be one org to donate to? Or do they donate to lots of other orgs?
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by reginold 5y ago
I can make something up, but would love to see a guide to how to donate broadly to open source. Apache, GNU, Ubuntu, libinput? I've been doing this myself with a combo of one-off donations (Ubuntu, Pop OS, libinput) plus experimenting
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by reginold 5y ago
Better: "Be a role model on the roads, treat this car as a beta and piece of the future it is. We know this is exciting, we're excited too." Instead of "don't get caught"
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Ah I see what you mean now. What you mean is this event doesn't technically mean the entire company is a scam that has no clicks. It's possible all their traffic is organic and uses iOS and loves clicking ads, just that the CEO an
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How is this immaterial? The two co-founders tried to defraud an investor.
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Help me understand, what is so damaging in YouTube data that you risk the entire company to hide it? The idea is all the traffic is fake. Does that somehow get exposed by the YouTube call in a way that otherwise is not possible?
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by reginold 5y ago
Wow. "Hey we tried to rip you off like no tomorrow, but got caught. No harm no foul right"? From the article: "When YouTube learned that someone had apparently impersonated one of their executives at a business meeting, its s
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by reginold 5y ago
If instead of buying $10k FSD 5 years ago you bought TSLA stock, you would have $213,330 today.
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Here's a good song that brings together a lot of what you're pointing to: Pet Shop Boys - Integral ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSKSTvzuPr0 )
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by reginold 5y ago
Anyone here use prefetch or these libraries? Seems neat to get top speeds. > There are also libraries such as quicklink and guess.js, that use heuristics to determine which resources should be prefetched at runtime. With these, developer
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by reginold 5y ago
Lightning transfers cost 1 sat, about 0.05 cents. So on a 50 cent transaction that's 0.1% fee.
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Agree, that discussion got so sidetracked by people speculating and not reading the PDF, maybe this will be better.
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The scan is not for English words. Extract from table 14.... =================================================== No.: Original - Approximate translation 1 "宗教虔信者阵线", “Front of religious believers”, ... 22 "西藏自由", “Free T
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by reginold 5y ago
Pronouns in particular seem problematic. "It", "they", "he", "her" seem to be on their way out because they are less and less useful at communicating information.
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Right. MiAdBlackListConfig does not include English versions, according to the 32 page research article. Therefore "Free Tibet" is not relevant. A user here testing this is irrelevant. If someone wants to verify, figure out where
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Open to other ways of taking action. What are you doing to support the solutions you describe?
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As far as I can tell, the meta solution here is open source hardware and software. Otherwise it just doesn't matter who is doing this, why they do it, or who is affected. The core issue is the lack of end to end encryption and open sou
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by reginold 5y ago
You are more powerful than you may realize. Work on supporting open source hardware and software options. 1. If you are a developer, consider buying a Pinephone [1] and contributing to the codebase. 2. If not a developer, you can submit bug
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by reginold 5y ago
Yes, rather than "it doesn't matter", something like "typing in a phrase yourself isn't relevant as this feature is likely disabled for you". Believe that's why you're being downvoted. The way HN move
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Appreciate your perspective here, you're right. The insidious "filter list" in the dictionary is sensational and the meta-story is around the worldwide invasion of user privacy.
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Wow thanks for all that you do and blogging about this. HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28499918
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No, the OP in the thread later retracted as they could not replicate and it seemed more like a random bug in the camera: "Yesterday I was a bit in a hurry and could not do all tests that I would have liked to. Today I tried to repeat t
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by reginold 5y ago
Oh I get what you mean, my bad. You're saying the above poster "typing in Free Tibet and nothing bad happened" doesn't prove anything. Yep, agreed.
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According to the 32 page research report the phrase is "西藏自由", and also that blocking is disabled outside regions of interest. So it's likely you won't see anything happen, but worth a try!
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I don't understand what you're saying or intending with your comments. There are 32 pages in the report. I'm curious about steps to replicate as well, generally for stuff like this.
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by reginold 5y ago
What's "decomposition analysis" and how can I do it at home? Since others here are curious, how would one go replicating these results to find the MiAdBlacklistConfig file? Can I download the OS from a website and just search
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by reginold 5y ago
It's all covered in the 32 page research report: Xiaomi system applications (Security, MiBrowser, Cleaner, MIUI Package Installer and Themes) have been found to regularly download the manufacturer’s updated configuration file MiAdBlack
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Are you saying you don't care what happens to journalists around the world? Seems like a recipe for disaster.
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It seems like the keyword match is based on Chinese, based on the extract on page 23 of the report. Linked near the top of the thread, 32 pages of goodness: https://www.nksc.lt/doc/en/analysis/2021-08-23_5G-C

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