ldarby
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Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Just in case you weren't joking, and at the risk of making a fool of myself if you were and still are joking (and/or trolling us now), where you initially said "non-rewritable optical storage media", some people people including me thought you were making a joke referencing this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_disc.
If you genuinely weren't aware of CDs, that's fine, see https://xkcd.com/1053/.
Comment · 2 years ago
I found it confusing - if a URL is "offline", I'd expect some kind of error message like connection refused or no such domain. The URL here is not "offline", it's the BL that's offline, and the BL isn't a URL.
Comment · 2 years ago
> It would not make sense to train a model for every advertiser and then upload that to the phone.
I was assuming that's what they were doing. Maybe you could combine both ways, with really imprecise models, so the phone captures and upload only words that above average chance of matching (so not that much data), and have heavy servers do the rest?
Yes I don't work in this field, but you shouldn't assume that just because you don't know how something can be achieved, then no one else has figured it out either (especially where they're motivated to keep it secret).
Comment · 2 years ago
I'm sure it's existed for many years. Ultrasonic tracking apps are from 2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-device_tracking#Applicat...
Let's try to imagine a world where that exists, keyword detection exists as well ("ok google" etc), and keyword detection for targeted ads doesn't exist. Can you? I can't.
Comment · 2 years ago
I'd assume that this listening functionality only comes with certain apps, that's certainly the case for ultrasonic tracking apps [0]. Probably you have just managed to avoid installing such apps.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-device_tracking#Applicat...
Comment · 2 years ago
>. Nothing stops you from using another phone,
Do you realise phones cost money and not everyone can afford an iPhone?
Comment · 2 years ago
It's viewable via Nitter:
https://nitter.net/SenWarren/status/1733956234200445130
But I agree with the earlier point, that it is a closed platform. If you want to respond, I thought it requires a phone number now in addition to email? It used to at least. And if Twitter doesn't like you, why is your ability to communicate with an official regulated by this private company? And Nitter is likely to get shutdown by Twitter any moment now in the same way as Apple is trying to shutdown Beeper.
Comment · 2 years ago
No, it's the other way round. You setup this DNS server to serve e.g. evil.com on the global internet.
Then if you can control the client, you can just do regular DNS lookups for <longstring>.evil.com, that goes to the victim's DNS server, and that DNS server forwards it to this DNS server, which saves <longstring> (many of them) to a file.
Edit: looking closer, this isn't exactly how this tool works, this DNS server assumes the client can send directly to this DNS server, I was assuming it didn't need to do that (and if it sends to the victim's DNS server instead, it's a lot harder to block). If you used it as I thought above, the output filename would just be "evil.com".
Comment · 2 years ago
I'm not suggesting anywhere is actually using brainfuck. Why would you think I was? I was attempting to use rhetoric to point out that you do in fact care about choice of language.
Comment · 2 years ago
There's something extremely satisfying to me about finding the source of a noise and I love how this one was recorded and analysed. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unexplained_sounds, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum, and https://xkcd.com/1590/
Comment · 2 years ago
So you'd be happy working at a place that required all code to be in brainfuck? That choice of computer language is "just an implementation detail" and you can still solve your interesting abstract problems in it so you should be happy with it.
Comment · 2 years ago
You're not getting that most employers treat the requirement to use windows like the requirement to wear pants, i.e. they're not going to state it.
Comment · 2 years ago
I've used Linux as my primary OS for > 20 years. My current job supports Mac and Windows and I accepted it with the understanding that I'd have to use windows, but couldn't get used to it, so switched to a Mac. Maybe I could have gotten used to this, but switching between the Mac UI and Linux at home always felt like switching between a normal bike and one with reversed steering (see e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFzDaBzBlL0). Luckily Linux is unofficially supported at work so I've switched back to that now.
Comment · 2 years ago
That is the same thing as preferences. Different things are important to different people, these are preferences by definition.
No shit, Sherlock? In the UK a lot of fuel pumps have credit/debit card readers built in, and if not cards are accepted everywhere for payment already. But yes electric charging companies here are still wierd about accepting such standardised payments, and we did just introduce a new law about it [0] promising "most" but not all chargers will accept cards.
[0] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-laws-to-make-charging...