wybiral

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   by wybiral 8y ago

   I don't see it as a wrong or right, more so a matter of informing the public. Everyone suspects that those devices are listening to them but it's usually brushed off as tin-foil hat stuff. Stories like this are just making people
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   by wybiral 8y ago

   It's not directly about leaking or espionage though. The indictment [1] says that he conspired to help crack passwords from classified government databases. [1] https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/press-release/
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   by wybiral 8y ago

   Why would Twitter censor something like that? Edit: if this is a glitch from trying to combat bots Tweeting the URL, that just means you can trigger automatic censorship of any URL with a bot farm.
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   by wybiral 8y ago

   It's refreshing to see bipartisan efforts like this coming out of the current political landscape.
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   by wybiral 8y ago

   Having market data, email, and slack up seems really distracting. If I'm writing code I try to remove everything that isn't related to that project. I may have docs or a search window on one monitor and the IDE in another but I&#x
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   by wybiral 8y ago

   Here in Austin, Texas we still have a local movie rental chain, I <3 Video [1], that has free beer nights and an incredible selection. [1] https://www.iluvvideo.com/
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   by wybiral 8y ago

   They need a warrant by law in most cases but ICE seems to be requesting this data without much to back it up. The standard approach is to challenge it and keep records of the interaction.
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   by wybiral 8y ago

   Putting aside the fact that companies can definitely challenge these requests... What tech stack is ICE storing and managing all of this data with that companies keep handing over to them?
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   by wybiral 8y ago

   PyGame is a really approachable way to play around with 2d graphics. I believe it's based on SDL.
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    by wybiral 8y ago

    So you're storing data in an external drive?
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    by wybiral 8y ago

    You better have some good redundancy on those SD cards because I've run Pi clusters before and most of those cards go corrupt pretty quickly with any frequent number of writes.
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    by wybiral 8y ago

    I'm not ruling out that what they reported (or something resembling what they reported) happened. But it's been half a year and no evidence or corroboration has surfaced. That just seems odd.
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    by wybiral 8y ago

    * "redacted" was supposed to be "retracted"
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    Ask HN: Six months after the Bloomberg “spy chip” story?

    12 points by wybiral 8y ago|4 comments
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    by wybiral 8y ago

    ...Or they just use Instagram as a platform to promote their work. If your content gets shared it's basically advertising but you're assuming that they don't do business other than just posting on Instagram.
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    by wybiral 8y ago

    I don't think there's anything weird about that at all. But suppose you did want to publish your content. For instance I make videos about tech and programming that I enjoy sharing with others and getting feedback on, so I post th
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    by wybiral 8y ago

    I value privacy as well, but I use Twitter for public things. To me it's not much different than having a public blog that data companies could scrape and store. Facebook and Instagram feel different to me just because people tend to u
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    by wybiral 8y ago

    Right, my point was that they're doing more than just reducing the nm.
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    by wybiral 8y ago

    But you can still speed things up with shiny tricks like speculative execution...
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    by wybiral 8y ago

    Here in Austin, Texas I encounter homeless people regularly and have become a bit numb to the stories after talking to people more and seeing their stories change. I've bought food and even pumped gas into portable gas cans for people,
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    by wybiral 8y ago

    > We didn't evolve to be always connected and busy. But that doesn't necessarily mean we spent more time in solitude. A lot of tribes spend most of their time near one another rather than being off alone. We're incredibly
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    by wybiral 8y ago

    Blue doesn't mean far left progressive. Being a Democrat in Texas isn't necessarily the same as being a Democrat in a more progressive state. So "blue" is an ambiguous term here.
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    by wybiral 8y ago

    > how do we reconcile his conservative voting record with this contrary image he presents? Because a good representative represents their people. And as a Texan, I can assure you that his left-leaning constituents weren't always the
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    by wybiral 8y ago

    If you're into that kind of lifestyle day after day, sure.
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    by wybiral 8y ago

    Exactly. It's a glimpse into what they value most in candidates which is indicative of the culture. If you want to work somewhere full of distractions, crappy hardware, and lots of stress then look for those kinds of interviews.
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    by wybiral 8y ago

    True. It's a culture of burning people to the ground because they're disposable. Not everyone is into that.
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    Golang Controller Interface for Tor(github.com)

    1 points by wybiral 8y ago|0 comments
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    by wybiral 8y ago

    I had the worst interview with these people (codercom) that I've ever had in my career as a developer. It essentially consisted of them sitting me down with an old crappy laptop that kept logging out every few seconds and asked me to w
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    by wybiral 8y ago

    /me puts on tin foil hat It's the rice grain implants, man
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    by wybiral 8y ago

    I believe that too but some of the services seem unrelated (like Flickr and Capital One). Now, another interpretation is that the reports are simply false...