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Comment · 8 years ago
ChessNetwork has my favorite analysis of the world championship games. His AlphaZero vs Stockfish series is also very good. https://www.youtube.com/user/ChessNetwork
Comment · 8 years ago
Compare ad tech that news websites use to what Cambridge Analytica did.
1. Ad tech:
As I browse, my interests are accumulated into basic interest groups, demographic data, and maybe recently visited websites that use tracking.
The result: when I visit a news website, I might see an ad for tennis racquets (because of interest), or a local bank (because of location), or DigitalOcean hosting, because I recently visited that site.
2. Facebook's platform, used by Cambridge Analytica:
I install a Facebook psychological quiz app (supposedly from the prestigious Cambridge university), and give it permission to access my data.
Through that, Republican campaigns also access my grandmother's account, with all of her photos, likes, and comments. They use that data to learn her deepest fears.
They hire designers and writers to create fake news websites, and get their propaganda stories to appear in her Facebook news feed, where they appear to be legitimate right next to the news about the local sports team.
The result: when I visit for Christmas, I have to try to calm her down, that Hillary Clinton isn't actually running a late term abortion clinic out of a pizza parlor. And she won't believe me.
Comment · 8 years ago
The whistleblower said they had access to private messages. Are those ever publicly available? I don't see any privacy settings for messages in my FB profile.
Comment · 8 years ago
I'd like to see which country the ad / news post / video is coming from. Stick a little flag icon on it.
Comment · 8 years ago
... and all of their ‘friends’, totaling over 50 million
Comment · 9 years ago
You won't be able to connect to a shared drive using AFP anymore, if you get the new file system APFS when you upgrade. Apparently you only get APFS if you have a pure SSD drive (not Fusion).
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT208018
APFS and file sharing
- Volumes formatted as APFS can't offer share points over the network using AFP.
- APFS supports SMB and NFS, with the option to enforce only SMB-encrypted share points.Comment · 9 years ago
> Apple has traditionally been very user hostile
Here's an interview with Steve Jobs on privacy regarding location data:
https://youtu.be/39iKLwlUqBo?t=23s
Apple takes care of their users.
Comment · 9 years ago
I've always been surprised that Reddit hasn't had many trackers - basically just Google Analytics and Doubleclick. Especially since their parent company is so heavily into tracking on news sites.
It will be a real shame if they start gunking it up with trackers - many news sites are basically unusable without ad blocking.