wybiral

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by wybiral 9y ago
But not everyone is running exit nodes. And even if they are they get random requests that can't easily be correlated to a source. My point is that most people run those services for free without the expectation of collecting personal
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by wybiral 9y ago
Websites were "free" from the start when people were hosting them on their own machines. At this point we have the internet access and cheap hardware that would allow us to take control and build distributed solutions that are &qu
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by wybiral 9y ago
What you meant to say was "replace 'sauce' with 'source'" but ironically you used a meme to critique someone else's use of a meme.
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by wybiral 9y ago
Exactly. It's weird how much backlash there is whenever a certain crowd gets the paranoid narrative of "first they came for X..." I understand the appeal of that argument. Regulation should be approached with caution, but the
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Twitter collects which apps are installed on your devices(twitter.com)
4 points by wybiral 9y ago|0 comments
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Governing the singularity (what the algorithms don't want you to know)(twitter.com)
1 points by wybiral 9y ago|0 comments
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by wybiral 9y ago
This is obviously about silencing the entry points and advert channels for this kind of business. If people were posting this on a public forum like Google Plus or something it would be a fair comparison. But Gmail hosting private accounts
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by wybiral 9y ago
FB (and other data collection businesses) pose a greater threat because they have direct access to your content rather than passive streams of increasingly encrypted data. And web trackers get access to your browsing behavior even if you ar
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by wybiral 9y ago
I would join all of the people in this Facebook exodus but I haven't used it in five years or so. Catch up with old friends over lunch sometime or write them an actual letter. You'll feel more connected having that kind of persona
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by wybiral 9y ago
This link discusses it: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorifyHOWT... The issue mentioned of reusing nodes doesn't seem like much of a concern considering how the onion routing wor
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by wybiral 9y ago
If they create a work situation where by cutting corners on container safety, protocols, and employee attentiveness I think they are guilty. And in the modern security context we're pushing deadlines just to race to the latest features
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by wybiral 9y ago
If Google had just added comments or other social elements to their reader instead of killing it they might not have missed the boat. Instead they killed their popular Reader and made Orkut and Google Plus.
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by wybiral 9y ago
It's for my own use. Also I don't see why it would be any different than leaving it open in my browser or something. The articles here are mostly title, link, summary too. So not too unlike what someone would share on social media
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by wybiral 9y ago
I've been aggregating my news for my own use recently so I can keep a database of articles and grab articles from more sources than just RSS (some are parsed out of HTML). The Python code for some of the sources is here: https:/&
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by wybiral 9y ago
How many dimensions were they working with and how much variance and correlation was there in the features? What's the margin of error for the end product?
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by wybiral 9y ago
Unless the data is completely random it's not crazy to say that the data can be reconstructed from a reduced version. If you have a million points that largely fall on a 3-dimensional line and you project that into 2 dimensions, you ca
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by wybiral 9y ago
Especially when the dataset probably isn't that high in entropy. Something like PCA can drop the dimensionality by significant amounts as long as the data has enough clear signals in it.
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by wybiral 9y ago
I've never typed "sl" either. I have accidentally typed "l" and hit enter only to be surprised that it's aliased to "ls -CF".
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by wybiral 9y ago
I thought IPFS required someone to pin/host the content in order for it to stay alive. So if it's private how many people are likely to host it? Or am I missing a detail?
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by wybiral 9y ago
Good point. Uber tried to fix things by a shake up (but I still don't use Uber). Equifax, I would force to pull my data if I could. Facebook, this kind of stuff is inherent in their business model. Our data is the only obvious thing th
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by wybiral 9y ago
> IMO, it's an insurance policy against the eventuality that Trump decides to fire Mueller or stall/block the FBI investigation. We really do need to make sure that doesn't happen and make sure they don't grab any mor
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by wybiral 9y ago
We have different approaches but we're on the same side in case you haven't picked up on that. I agree with you on most of these points but until the proper investigations proceed not much will happen. And this administration will
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by wybiral 9y ago
> Right, but then you said Obama was doing the same thing. No. I didn't say anything like that. I literally said "people tried to accuse Obama of all kinds of stuff" and my point was to the parent post who said "Its p
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by wybiral 9y ago
I don't think you got what I was saying. All of these things are alarming, yes. But not because Trump is involved. These issues should be investigated regardless of who was doing it. And I was trying to convey to the parent post that
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by wybiral 9y ago
I think it's more that all of these things are gaining traction and people are trying to relate it to Trump. There's been a growing discussion about data collection and shady advertising practices for a long time. It's not ab
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by wybiral 9y ago
All of our arms are being twisted by that standard. And all candidates were using ads. I'm saying that the people voted how they voted without the use of anything that seems outside of the norm. We should investigate these data-driven
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by wybiral 9y ago
I do agree, but it's also annoying that people keep using this to try and downplay stories like the Russia investigation and the fact that shady practices are going on at places like Facebook and in our political campaigns. People did
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by wybiral 9y ago
I agree with the RSS point. There were complaints about content being hard to monetize with RSS but the way that social media spreads links seems possible (just put a summary and make the feed entry a link to the main content where you can
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by wybiral 9y ago
Turns out that deleting your account doesn't stop them from tracking you on every website you visit that uses their code.
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GitHub government takedown requests(github.com)
3 points by wybiral 9y ago|0 comments

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