ajflores1604
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Comment · 1 year ago
Post from my friends newsletter I thought worth sharing here
Comment · 5 years ago
Wonder what the chances are that her voice was deep faked. I don't want to get all conspiracy theory and say it probably was. But considering who's involved, the chances are definitely non-zero. Feel like this is obvious neferious use case for the tech. Impersonate loved ones to manipulate.
Comment · 5 years ago
Off the top of my head, offsceeen canvas and being able to query for many processors the client device has to use for web workers
Comment · 6 years ago
Used power cables for my Thinkpad from a computer recycler. Have them all over house and dedicated one for my bag so I never think twice about packing or forgetting it somewhere
Comment · 6 years ago
I have no proof, but I feel like it's more than that. I don't think getting number of threads is fine grained enough to make a meaningful difference on identifying a device. Especially compared to fine grained numbers I've seen extracted doing audio fingerprinting with AudioContext.
At least with firefox I can give the user instructions on how to enable it again if they want to and they can make the decision for themselves. From what I read briefly last night about safari, it's impossible to get a number directly unless you wanted to recompile the browser yourself. I found this package (https://github.com/oftn-oswg/core-estimator) which seems to give an estimate, but its something someone who wants to fingerprint could also implement on a library level, so we're back to square one except with worse developer and customer experience.
Offscreen canvas is also something I wish more browsers supported, along with webgl2 (need for fbo). Although, I've heard rumors webgl2 might be finally coming to safari soon.
I also wouldn't have an issue with safari taking hard stances on these things if only they allowed competing browser engines on their phones.
Comment · 6 years ago
As someone getting into front end dev with WebGL I constantly want to do this but with a message to specifically call out Safari. Just yesterday I found out they don't support navigator.hardwareConcurrency
My creativity and explorations shouldn't be limited by one vendors intentional gimping of the web to shield their app store revenue. And calling for devs to not push things where possible but instead go at the pace of the slowest player feels very "No Child Left Behind", which also leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Comment · 6 years ago
Could probably roll something yourself using Spotify API. Has tempo available as a query
https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/referenc...
Comment · 6 years ago
Oh man Thank You. I came across this video (https://youtu.be/rpkoCZ4vBSI) years ago and I've haven't been able to find it again since. Your comment gave me enough of a breadcrumb to finally track it down
Comment · 6 years ago
Thank you
Comment · 6 years ago
Being able to select your default browser doesn't address the issue that every browser on iOS is just a webkit wrapper
Comment · 6 years ago
I found a lot of very valid points presented in the second half from gesture navigation to inefficiencies in default navigation I hadn't thought of.
Watching at like 2x speed is a must tho. I wouldn't have been able to make it thru otherwise.
Comment · 6 years ago
If you end up doing this you should definitely make a post about it. I'm sure I'm not the only one incredibly curious on the real world performance and tradeoffs
Comment · 6 years ago
Does anyone know if its theoretically possible to run a cluster of Pi's off of the same external ssd at the same time? I'd like for say 4 Pi's to get a speed boost of not running off microSD, but I also don't want to shell out for 4 separate hard drives.
I've looked in the past and have only found links to partitioning the drive so that it could be used when moving from one pi to another. But nothing about using it concurrently.
I'm not even sure what this would look like physically. Like if a hub exists that could pass traffic to a single drive connected on the other side. Or how the drive would internally separate the writes. But im curious if something like this has been done before. Or why it couldn't be done