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by smashah 6y ago
I'm glad that there is some internal opposition to the Israeli cyberterrorism trade. However, it is sad that K does not feel that they can come out openly about their position in famously the only democracy in the middle east. I don&#x
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by smashah 6y ago
Is there an example of something akin to ISO standards but on GitHub?
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by smashah 6y ago
The other day I decided to make use of our garden and work outside. Within 20 seconds I was being swarmed by the buggers. I thought of using some sort of anti mosquito white noise to repel them but no luck (although it did seem to work for
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by smashah 6y ago
You can use a platform like otechie. There people are required to put in their card details before starting a conversation. This is what I do with open-wa ( https://github.com/open-wa/wa-automate-nodejs#support ) Because
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by smashah 6y ago
I am also extremely interested as to why this stopped being maintained.
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by smashah 6y ago
At least one person noticed. Thank you. Downvoters probably prejudged my political position from the observation. No hard feelings.
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by smashah 6y ago
This whole website is pretty much a sub-reddit. It wasn't really a joke either, more an observation.
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by smashah 6y ago
Username does not check out
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by smashah 6y ago
Ah I see where the confusion lies. In this thread we are discussing a smartphone application that requires an internet connection - I extend those prerequisites/qualifiers to the word "planet".
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by smashah 6y ago
What is five eyes? I think the bounds of your knowledge are deceiving you as to the extent to which WhatsApp is used all over the world. It is the dominant communication app in the entirety of the middle east, Africa and Asia (not including
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by smashah 6y ago
Sorry if I wasn't clear. I was speaking about human beings, not the planet in a celestial/natural sense. Hope that makes sense.
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by smashah 6y ago
Too big to fail. WhatsApp should be transferred to something like the UN. It is no longer a cool startup/app. It is the main communication infrastructure for the majority of the planet. Yet it's in the hand of unblinking cyborgs.
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by smashah 6y ago
TIL what APM stands for. I've been perusing this space for a while and landed on swagger-stats for monitoring my API but it leaves a lot to be desired. Looking forward to trying signoz. Good luck!
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by smashah 6y ago
This is the first time a stock rally makes perfect sense to me. Power to the people.
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by smashah 6y ago
I did gcp tutorial that left some resources running for a month. I eventually got charged around £300, I was able to talk to a human being and they sorted it out and refunded me. So they're still in my good books.
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by smashah 6y ago
Wow I didn't know that's why they asked that question. I just put down a hack to get more ice cream from Baskin Robbins for less money. Is that unethical? I guess it's subjective.
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by smashah 6y ago
As pointed out by fang's pinned comment. Sites, companies and services have rules of engagement which if broken even in the flimsiest sense (e.g snark, I've been snarky here and have been rightfully warned). Break those rules of e
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by smashah 6y ago
Project Eagle https://egl.chat Find my friends alternative but on WhatsApp. Why is it half baked? It's so stupid, I built everything but got stuck on the hero image screenshot. Smh. I'll get it back up and running toni
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by smashah 6y ago
Hey Al. A friend of mines from FF told me about this a few months ago and I'm looking forward to the launch. What do you use for your wa integration? Twillio?
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by smashah 6y ago
Despite the valid arguments on both sides, I fall on the side of this being stupid. Let them keep the name!
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by smashah 6y ago
Awesome work! For anyone interested in using The Quantum ad-list in their adguard setups, I've added this to my self-updating ad gaurd block list generator (smashblock - which is also based on hblock). https://github.com&#x2
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by smashah 6y ago
This is not what I mean. The tech industry internationally should participate in some form of BDS (as much as they are comfortable with I guess) with these countries. Also, I believe there should be something akin to the Hippocratic Oath bu
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by smashah 6y ago
I did not know this. This is incredibly concerning and warrants another HN post on its own. Thanks for sharing
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by smashah 6y ago
Whataboutisming when people are justifiably calling out an Israeli company (shielded by Israeli courts) for continuing to be the reason why human rights activists and journalists are being jailed or murdered, is a very cool and contrarian t
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by smashah 6y ago
I'm not able to elaborate because I'm not a lawyer. I am speaking in more general terms regarding the history of NSO and pegasus. I am not certain if Jamal's phone itself was hacked but if it was then, in all likelihood, his
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by smashah 6y ago
If the buck stops with the execs then you concede that NSO is a legitimate company. The techs know what they're making and what it's being used for. They are just as, if not more, responsible.
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by smashah 6y ago
Oh ok. Thanks for the correction. If the Italian government shields hacking team then I wouldn't be surprised if someone said that they should have that state aid cut.
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by smashah 6y ago
I forgot to add on my hypothetical that the Somalian government was protecting me. In which case it would be valid for people to be calling for sanctions let alone revocation of state aid. Iirc, hacking team dissolved or greatly downsized a
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by smashah 6y ago
I guess the question now is; under what jurisdiction does exploits based on WhatsApp and iOS source code lie? If I reverse engineered and sold exploits of American missile systems while in Somalia would that mean everything is A-OK? Idk. Ag
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by smashah 6y ago
Israeli courts rejected the case to revoke NSOs export license which would then implicate the state itself. IANAL but I think the case can be made that the export of NSOs software is against US law and a violation of the Wassenaar Arrangeme

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