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by tastroder 6y ago
The original thread is just as incoherent. Did anything ever come of this / did the op ever post any substantial information? I don't even see where in the, presumably somewhat large and structured, data dump they want to have fou
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by tastroder 6y ago
Given this blog post I have no idea if it even works well for English. Sure, the demo video contains sensible recommendations but what gives? Most of those I've seen seem to be included in the training data shown in the image below. If
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by tastroder 6y ago
I don't find your account's premise uninteresting but it is empty and HN isn't your personal ad network. You might want to look at other submissions to tweets https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=twitter.com
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by tastroder 6y ago
From skimming a recent FOSDEM talk that was uploaded the other day [0] I think it looks like an open source web based office suite you can host yourself. There's also a dockerized version available [1]. [0] https://www.youtu
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by tastroder 6y ago
Link without all those ads. https://mobile.twitter.com/doctorow/status/12962481673194823... Don't really follow his logic there. Contact tracing is a manual process, thus digital contact tracing apps bad beca
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by tastroder 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24091555 HN post on the techcrunch report from a few days ago.
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by tastroder 6y ago
How is there no broad discussion? There's dozens of papers on the topic, both scientific and of the pseudoscientific "lockdown is worse than COVID, which is just a flu. here's a linear regression model"/"let&#x
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by tastroder 6y ago
The post links to the authors technical write-up that's a little less of a simple ad for Google Vision: https://daleonai.com/building-an-ai-powered-searchable-video...
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by tastroder 6y ago
Please use the original title for submissions, especially if your editorialization contains "wtf"... Related threads from the past 48 hours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23931960 https://news.yc
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by tastroder 6y ago
https://www.heise.de/news/BKA-nutzt-WhatsApp-Webfunktion-zum... (German) says they had physical access to the device and likely simply logged in to WhatsApp web in a browser. There's an always active notification
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by tastroder 6y ago
As arpa mentioned in the other thread, client certificates are a thing. Outside of corporate infrastructure the implementation is somewhat painful though and OS/browser sides far from optimal in terms of user experience.
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by tastroder 6y ago
Why not? They're not updating HN with those but media and shareholders.
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by tastroder 6y ago
> It used to be that malware authors (virus writers in particular) were characteristically more "hardcore" than the average developer, [...] A subgroup of them still operates like that but I feel like "it used to be"
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by tastroder 6y ago
The hacker tool paragraph is pretty toothless. I just checked one of those legal tech apps and see 12 judgements total that even mention it. There was quite a bit going on when it passed that effectively clarified that working on, and with,
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by tastroder 6y ago
Add to home request, notification permission, newsletter sign-up overlay. If you maintain that site for reasons beyond ad revenue please overthink how you greet new visitors.
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by tastroder 6y ago
HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23744613
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by tastroder 6y ago
https://www.bmjv.de/SharedDocs/Artikel/DE/2020/021920_Kabine... has a better comparison of what's really new here. Which, range of sentences and problematic data collection aside, is not much and so
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by tastroder 6y ago
Sure, I completely agree with the point of principle, just found it odd to simply dismiss a project on it. The norm for HN maybe just hasn't reached the authors yet given their home countries and the fact they seem to identify via Stea
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by tastroder 6y ago
Cool, and? Then you're apparently not the target audience. It's an unobfuscated .NET application that a bunch of folks seem to have built in their spare time. Did you use any of the widely available tools to decompile it and find
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by tastroder 6y ago
Thanks for the explanation, you're right, seems like I misread that part of your suggestion.
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by tastroder 6y ago
I mean, media sensationalism aside, honest question from outside the US: they had decades to change something and just about nothing happened, is a nuanced conversation about this realistic? Plus, if they wanted a nuanced conversation it wo
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by tastroder 6y ago
Realistically that will just yield guidelines on GDPR compliance, which was already adopted by major providers, and interoperability. Even if this non-political actor would lead to regulatory advice, we already have similar guidelines in ar
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by tastroder 6y ago
In terms of technology and innovation the German side is likely similar, though I wouldn't go as far as calling it corruption. Larger companies like Deutsche Telekom have been doing local cloud stuff for years now, leading to amusing o
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by tastroder 6y ago
Tend to disagree w.r.t. the disclaimer tbh. Be it GitHub or package manager of choice I don't get where the default assumption became "everything on here is curated and production ready" rather than "this is something a
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by tastroder 6y ago
I like giving a cursory glance at candidates github profiles mostly to see what they're interested in, if they participate in open source, things like that. The particular "quality" of code is imho relatively irrelevant. Besi
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by tastroder 6y ago
250 iirc
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by tastroder 6y ago
Not everybody uses the scheme for some futile security purpose, some sites are just a bit annoying with their outgoing addresses with their non-nefarious communication and the + scheme can be a nice way for rules.
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by tastroder 6y ago
I just did not see any indication of the permission actually being abused by this specific extension, hence the hypothetical. That's not meant to dismiss that it is an issue but in this specific case I think the communication is worse
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by tastroder 6y ago
The theoretical problems that are also hypothetical because the browser vendor isn't specifically saying that it's what they take issue with here even after the developer tried to mitigate it? And which is apparently pretty common
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by tastroder 6y ago
I'm not sure I get your point, yes that permission was overreaching but they fixed that and were still rejected and left in limbo without Google's system giving them enough specific information to reliably mitigate whatever it is

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