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Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
I just picked up a Mac Mini for recompiling a handful of apps. If I were developing daily on it, a better specced machine might be worth it, but 2 to 4 year old Mac Minis are cheap, have the latest MacOS and fulfill my needs.
Comment · 6 years ago
Who is permitted the time and resources to develop breakthroughs and innovations?
Surely not the proletariat in modern America, where the vast majority are getting poorer year by year.
Comment · 6 years ago
The browser version of Zoom seems to require a free account be created, and it was audio only in Chromium, I could not get it to use my camera. Zoom refused to work in Firefox.
Jitsi and Google Meet seem to work in both browsers, without requiring me to log in.
Comment · 6 years ago
I couldn't get it to work in Firefox ESR on Debian 10, and audio was consistently choppy for me in Chromium 80 after I went through their forced account creation process. Zoom wouldn't use my camera either in Chromium :c
Jitsi and Google Meet worked by following a link and clicking one popup. Much easier UX
Comment · 6 years ago
The spread may appear low in your city, but how much of that is from lack of testing? If your employees can work from home, it is best for you to implement work from home ASAP.
Businesses in Washington State have shuttered or gone to work from home over the last 3 weeks, had most businesses made this change earlier(eg: at the beginning of those 3 weeks) we would see much less spread and quicker easing of restrictions.
Is Alberta doing widespread Covid-19 testing yet? We had cases of teens with no international travel getting Covid-19 in February according to the Seattle Flu Study, there are likely more cases in Edmonton that exhibit minimal symptoms currently.
Seattle Flu Study: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/coronavirus-testing-de...
Comment · 6 years ago
Many sales environments are just fucked, look at the shit happening at Toyota of Kirkland, the town that is the epicenter of the Pacific Northwest Coronavirus infections: https://www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/comments/feflyn/dealershi...
Comment · 6 years ago
The healthcare industry can't afford to exist if they don't get paid by someone (whether that is the insurers or Medicare/Medicaid). We've seen mass closures of rural hospitals and medical practices as more rural Americans have lost insurance or gotten insurance that has large penalties for using said insurance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18kxPz4Z_g8
Insurers themselves are a mixed bag, many have gone broke as IIRC the gov't managed pool of money they were supposed to pull out of/put money into to ensure no insurer went under from too many unhealthy, newly insured people has been starved of funding under our current administration.
Comment · 6 years ago
1. A store location or locations was compromised
2. January 10th was when we notified T-Mobile of the attack
3. Likely sometime between January 17th (the last successful SIM swap attack we experienced) and January 24th.
4. Who knows? T-Mobile refuses to disclose any info to the police :P
Comment · 6 years ago
I was affected by this, they SIM swapped a line on our account twice, both times on Friday at 5:23pm (followed by swapping the old SIM back at 5:42pm).
Just received the CPNI notice today from T-Mobile, we had a 6 digit PIN set prior to the first SIM swap on January 10th, and changed it before the following SIM swap on January 17th.
T-Mobile told me these swaps occurred at a store for both attacks. I did remove all authorized users from the account prior to the SIM swap on the 17th. T-Mobile has refused to provide Seattle Police Dept with any info about the fraudulent activity, and left me in the dark prior to the letter today.
Comment · 6 years ago
The insurance policy seems super sketchy, take a look at its caveats:
- If your balance loses under 20% in value then the loss is not insured
- If there are any code changes in a contract, there is zero coverage for 250 days
- If the exchange (outlet.finance in this case) is hacked, your not insured
Comment · 6 years ago
Some card types will force usage of the EMV chip when used in a card present transaction.
By instructing the cashier to manually key in a card (albiet using a barcode to expedite the process), they bypass the need for EMV.
Comment · 6 years ago
Every release mentions the word error rate, its interesting to watch the WER improve over time: https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/releases
Comment · 6 years ago
What value does this provide compared to SSLPing.com? How are you planning to ensure the longevity of your service?
Comment · 6 years ago
Mozilla DeepSpeech has seen significant improvements in the quality of results it provides (and RAM/CPU usage) since early December, the accuracy of transcriptions has substantially improved in our testing.
IIRC the 2019 report from HCSEC outlined the same bugs had yet to be fixed. I think Huawei doesn't want to fix bugs in products they aren't currently selling (in part based on Nortel code that has been patched over the last decade with new features), thus the lies and lack of investment.
More reading: https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/uk-says-huawei-equip... and https://aragonresearch.com/cyber-war-flashback-remembering-t...