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by sigmar 7y ago
[In order to not spread bad info I'm deleting my paragraph where I misunderstand what WARP is] Even this blog post is confusing "From a technical perspective, WARP is a VPN." Then contrasts WARP with a "traditional VPN&q
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by sigmar 7y ago
Your OS is 'reading' your messages (whether you use smart reply or not)
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by sigmar 7y ago
As it was in Gmail and Messages, 'Smart Reply' is done with on-device models, messages aren't sent to Google. Source: https://9to5google.com/2019/04/05/ml-kit-smart-reply/
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by sigmar 7y ago
>Companies like Twilio largely created the explosion in spam calls by providing extremely cheap, programmable calls... Nah, Twilio has existed for a decade. Spam calls exploded because of court decisions https://www.apnews.com
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by sigmar 7y ago
Brave ads are targeted through on-device matching. I'm not sure how well this will scale tho. Described in "Relevance" here: https://brave.com/brave-ads-launch/
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by sigmar 7y ago
If someone wanted to do that, they could have made a ton of money before Apple started this bounty.
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by sigmar 7y ago
>We are withholding CVE-2019-8641 until its deadline because the fix in the advisory did not resolve the vulnerability Wonder how this happened? rushed patch or perhaps they only tested against a submitted PoC? Only a week left until the
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by sigmar 7y ago
I'd also like to add that not only do people have too much confidence in their "ownership" of an idea, but people severely underestimate the extent to which their idea was influenced by the cultural zeitgeist (which frequentl
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by sigmar 7y ago
I might be wrong, but I think those replies are confusing "autoplay next episode" with "autoplay show from the main menu". Above comment seems to be complaining about the latter, only the former can be turned off.
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by sigmar 7y ago
Yea, I think loosely inspired by Australia's plot to kill sugar cane-ravaging beetles with cane toads (that then became a nuisance).
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by sigmar 7y ago
This is the Ship of Theseus as applied to America's love of cars and hatred of bicycles... Neat.
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by sigmar 7y ago
Reminds me of The Simpsons episode where they let Lizards get rid of the pigeons, then plan to have snakes kill the lizards, then have gorillas eat the snakes. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9yruQM1ggc
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by sigmar 7y ago
I've been wondering about this too. I don't see how the incentives are setup that the Association would want to move towards an entirely permissionless network. Especially if Libra gets heavily adopted at 100 nodes (as they don&#x
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by sigmar 7y ago
he used the opusenc setting "tuned for speech" and music sections (like :22) sound awful. would like to know what it would sound like without that mode turned on, as it also surprises me how bad opus sounds vs mp3.
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by sigmar 7y ago
It is using "malicious" to mean "intending to circumvent your intention to keep this email confidential." Is there a different word that could be substituted to maintain that meaning?
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by sigmar 7y ago
>Note: Although confidential mode helps prevent the recipients from accidentally sharing your email, it doesn't prevent recipients from taking screenshots or photos of your messages or attachments. Recipients who have malicious prog
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by sigmar 7y ago
Why would they leak vulnerabilities they've spent millions of dollars to find? Seems like that would be a waste of money with zero benefit to their mission.
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by sigmar 7y ago
>Specifically, IEEE says they “cannot receive or access materials submitted by other persons until after IEE has accepted the material for publication.” At that point, Huawei scientists “may act as editor or peer reviewer for that materi
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by sigmar 7y ago
They note that Huawei's patent contained Quintel's name in the documents. How are those accusations weak? Seems like impressively strong evidence. Between T-mobile's tappy (resulted in indictment), Quintel's antennas, CN
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by sigmar 7y ago
Before I clicked the link I thought "I bet they got facebook warnings for some junk posts, but they'll play leaving facebook off as a moral decision." But I was surprised to be so wrong. With phrases like "corrupt academ
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by sigmar 7y ago
So what is going to happen with the Hisilicon[1] chips? Do they still get to keep using all the licenses they already agreed to? What will they do when they next cortex implementation comes out? Copy it? [1] https://en.wikipedia.
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by sigmar 7y ago
This lawyer is grasping at straws. There's no way that having security cameras in your own embassy is an "illicit operation"
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by sigmar 7y ago
my (well-informed but not expert) opinion is that you'll be able to use google services and the play store indefinitely, but that phone will not receive any more _system_ updates that maintain access to google services (since any andro
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by sigmar 7y ago
You're probably right that they used a guide like that. It seems irresponsible to publish that blog post. 99% of Pi tinkerers will read that disclaimer in the third paragraph and either not understand that life critical devices _do_ ca
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by sigmar 8y ago
>It's a bit anti competitive, yes, it limits what app makers can do, but it makes iOs secure. There's no other way to do it, and that's what many people don't understand. Doesn't it seem weird to you how they onl
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by sigmar 8y ago
Manning was definitely still leaking while talking to Assange.[1] and there is no public information about whether or not Assange cracked the hashes (only that he offered to). [1] https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/sta
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by sigmar 8y ago
Someone asking for your help in hacking a DoD network doesn't seem like jay-walking.
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by sigmar 8y ago
>most of the web is now end-to-end encrypted with HTTPS. So why does he need a VPN at the airport? What percentage of (typically rushed) people at an airport will notice that a website is loading over http instead of https? SSLsplit is p
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by sigmar 8y ago
Either this anonymous person was promoting posts or a group (ie paying facebook) or he was tricked by someone that was falsely claiming to be from Facebook. Willing to bet money that Facebook is not paying employees to visit people's h
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by sigmar 8y ago
>Plus, you can replace just the earbuds or the case on its own (it's unlikely you'll break both at the same time) for ~$60. this is the exact opposite of iFixit's ideals. What do you want them to do? not talk about this pr

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