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by snaky 7y ago
No Chrome extensions on mobile still.
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by snaky 7y ago
There's something like that at K-12 level https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/2016/03/15/there-fear-...
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by snaky 7y ago
> We should not be sharing their contact information online. So, keep your contacts in a different database. This app saves contacts in its own database seperate from android contacts. This way no other app would be able to access contac
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by snaky 7y ago
Presuming it's not formally verified assembly code https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/andreymokhov/spacecraft-control/
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by snaky 7y ago
Using ATS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY1e3MLoYqg
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BESM-6, the late great Soviet mainframe(mailcom.com)
3 points by snaky 7y ago|0 comments
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by snaky 7y ago
MB sales on Western markets didn't drop because of that, so could we say that was a rational business decision by MB.
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by snaky 7y ago
Decentralized doesn't mean flat. You can trust to some actors only (and to some they trust to).
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by snaky 7y ago
There's no drop in productivity if you don't care about quality.
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by snaky 7y ago
Could we ask any Chinese webcam vendors - which are constantly upload the stream to some Chinese clouds - what the main purpose of their devices is?
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by snaky 7y ago
What's the brand damage from the resultant public shaming of e.g. Google Nest Guard' 'hidden' microphone?
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by snaky 7y ago
People are very adaptable and will consider all that things new normal. XIX century Americans would consider an income tax in a peacetime grossly inappropriate, creepy and a violation of their dignity after all.
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by snaky 7y ago
> Even Walmart’s “Great Value 100% Whole Wheat Bread” contains seven ingredients that Whole Foods considers “unacceptable”: high fructose corn syrup, sodium stearoyl lactylate, ethoxylated diglycerides, DATEM, azodicarbonamide, ammonium
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by snaky 7y ago
Like about half of startups do. https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/5/18251326/ai-startups-europ...
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Machines like the EMSculpt may do your exercise for you(bloomberg.com)
1 points by snaky 7y ago|0 comments
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by snaky 7y ago
How many cheap electronic devices at Amazon have a non-fake FCC certification, what do you think?
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by snaky 7y ago
They will continue to be manufactured and sold uncertified then.
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by snaky 7y ago
We can imagine something like 'an iPhone experience' pack for Android, and it's technically feasible - and may attract some attention from the customers. But the question is - if you could get 'a pretty much iPhone'
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by snaky 7y ago
This review from USENIX Enigma 2019 might be interesting for you. They tested over 80,000 of the most popular Android apps to examine what data they access and with whom they share it, how mobile apps are tracking and profiling users, how t
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Expired food: how best-before dates create a waste mountain(theguardian.com)
55 points by snaky 7y ago|75 comments
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by snaky 7y ago
> China has begun rolling out new surveillance software capable of recognising people simply by the way that they walk. > The "gait recognition" technology, developed by Chinese artificial intelligence firm Watrix, is capabl
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by snaky 7y ago
You may have a look at all the most common fears and find how many of them could be connected to privacy at all, in any meaningful way. From irrational (clowns) to semi-rational (immigrants and robots) and rational (shootings) ones.
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by snaky 7y ago
> While on my most recent flight to Beijing, I sat next to an chatty elderly Chinese woman. We started discussing the topic, and she said that Chinese society lacks su zhi 素质, which translates roughly to manners or etiquette. Before the
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by snaky 7y ago
If (or when) the share of that privacy-conscious users will rise, Google might motivate webmasters to compile GA scripts in the main JS script, and considering pretty much any website now a days just doesn't show content with no Javasc
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DopplerFi – Communication Between BLE and Wi-Fi by Injecting Doppler Shifts(arxiv.org)
192 points by snaky 8y ago|23 comments
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Correctly identifying emotions from facial expressions 98% of the time(thedaily.case.edu)
2 points by snaky 8y ago|0 comments
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PostgreSQL now has pluggable table storage(twitter.com)
4 points by snaky 8y ago|0 comments
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Local China authorities cracks down on mobile apps snooping(globaltimes.cn)
3 points by snaky 8y ago|0 comments
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by snaky 8y ago
There definitely are vendors out there who want to really innovate in the OS field. Huawei for example is working on next-gen microkernel leveraging hardware-software co-design [1]. That's not about to bring the power back to the users
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by snaky 8y ago
Do you consider e.g. BER MetaOCaml approach as "being able to redefine the language"?

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