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by rmrfstar 6y ago
This is like... intro-to-intro statistics, summarized in the last bit of the article: "yes, corr is like a rescaled regression coefficient." y = x*b + e b = cov(x,y)/var(x) = corr(x,y) * (std(y)/std(x)) It&#
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Isn't SF wildly corrupt? Do the puppet masters bear any responsibility for the outcomes they orchestrate? Or is stewardship an obsolete concept?
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
This article is a marketing submarine. Can you spot the product?
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
> manipulated with media https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/18/books/how-the-cia-played-...
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Wow, rclone is very cool! Works with 50 different storage providers.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
If I was going to do this in a weekend, I would avoid the NAS device. "The ecosystem is moving", availability, etc. Build a simple system around "content groups", something that people will put in the same mental categor
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Chromebooks are fine, if they boot from coreboot to debian. If you don't teach people to value individual liberty, a lot of people won't. Maybe that makes good workers, but I doubt it makes a good civilization. "The deepest
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Seriously! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
I don't see the distinction. To me, it's just "how do I know this isn't a watering hole attack for developers?"
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
At this point it is really tough to find devices that don't leak data like a sieve. I recently bought a car, and could not find one without a cellular modem and microphones. Removing the modem voids the warranty. The period where you
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
So the burden is on me to show they are untrustworthy, rather than the burden being on them to show they are more trustworthy than Reddit?
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
It would be nice to know who that "new player" is.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
That sounds like a foolish thing to do. Teddit terminates your TLS connection to Reddit, and all you have is their promise to not use that position of power.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Is there some reason I should believe they won't when it is clearly in their interest to do so?
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
How can it be privacy focused if it is terminating my TLS connection to Reddit? Your Reddit browsing patterns are just going to accumulate at Teddit. Given the increased importance of things like /r/wallstreetbets, this data coul
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
That's well and good for you. The academy is supposed to be its own free-standing institution with its own values and its own agenda. There are intelligent people who don't want to work with people who build mass surveillance syst
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Someone else posted youtube-dl args to get the transcript in its original language. It's pretty easy to rig a translation script using pretrained models. [1] If you are building a historical dataset, it's probably better to cache
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
I think they mean that AWS acts as a proxy and only terminates the outer layer. Wouldn't it be pretty easy to fingerprint a TLS session that always starts with another TLS handshake?
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
The whole package can't, but all you really need is analysis/analysis.py. The analysis operates on .pcap files, so if you opkg install tcpdump on your router, you can run tcpdump over ssh and analyze the resulting pcap file on yo
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
It sounds nice, Glass-Steagall for tech. Worked in finance for a long time. But I think that technology is going to make it easy to work around structural separation. Facebook derives its power from building dossiers on billions of people
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
The West tolerates corruption with one or two layers of indirection. Revolving door, speaking fees, campaign contributions, nonprofit donations. These kinds of corruption are not banned by the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, but direct gra
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Wealthy people earn higher risk-adjusted returns.(twitter.com)
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
So he warmly welcomes the elimination of trade barriers, predicts it will create a large peasant class, then aggressively undermines a proposal to up-skill students by saying it is too expensive. No one is ever going to come out and say &qu
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
That is an incredibly charitable interpretation of what Shaw said. He paints a picture of a future where 80% of the population earns third-world wages unless they "compete for the kinds of jobs that are going to be at the top end"
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
If you're interested in Montana, you should read [1]. [1] https://news.yale.edu/2020/07/23/billionaire-wilderness
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
I was trying to be funny, not snarky. My point was that some of the uglier parts of PGP are still actively promoted by people who build products that affect hundreds of millions of people. That's all.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Yeah, me. I solved this thing called the cryptopals challenge. You've probably never even heard of it. Only elite hackers know about it. Edit: Clearly I'm not funny.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
The US is a nightmare for at least half of its population. Americans find it very difficult to accept this fact, and simply cannot understand that other nations--like Japan--are governed in the interests of their citizens. That's why
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
That's a great point, but the maintenance techniques aren't terribly difficult to learn. One could easily imagine those skills spreading quickly in an environment where abandoned buildings are cheap to occupy. That presumes that
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
It's so weird that people find it hard to see a rotted mansion as a policy failure. That's straight up economic waste. It's like dumping milk to support the market price, even if people are hungry. Detroit isn't abando

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