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Comment · 1 year ago
In the title you have written 'Remote (Worldwide)" while on the jobs page it says "Remote (United States)" https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Railway/6ddcfe47-6cce-469b-ba6d-4f0... and the same for https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Railway/b8072f95-043f-404d-a313-f0b...
Comment · 1 year ago
but you use Cloudflare yourselves?
Comment · 1 year ago
WOW! clealry you have no understanding of thoughts that might make their way to teenage minds or to children' minds in general. seriously, WOW!
Do you believe there exists such a thing as depression?
Comment · 1 year ago
Can it finally make 10 sentences that end with a "w" or "p" or "o"? /s
Comment · 1 year ago
She says "there is no language in nature" which does not seem accurate. Even though she might mean something else or a particular form of language but even then, bees and birds still use sound and something similar to language.
Is it just me?
for e.g. the form of communication used by bees is very well known now, it involves not just spatial movements but also "buzzing" which is totally similar tot he sounds we make, they just lack vocal cords.
Comment · 1 year ago
What makes you consider it a "discovery" instead of a creation of us humans?
I am more on the side of seeing maths as a precision language we utilize and extend as needed, especially because it can describe physically non-existent things e.g. perfect circles.
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Comment · 1 year ago
So, no wealthy person is buying a physics lecture or investing in experiments to better understand the nature of this universe we live in? /s
btw does anyone know if places like Fermi lab, CERN receive donations from the super-wealthy?
Comment · 1 year ago
What sort of access level / integration would you need to the businesses (repositories, CI systems, mobile app source repositories, Github admin) seeking to use Actory?
Comment · 1 year ago
Despite modern VPNs, global CDNs, impractical technical level ban on any web service: how come X and others simply do what the government tells them?
Is it the fear of fines? That never deters them from collecting more data though.
Comment · 1 year ago
Here is a nice talk by Byron Tau who has also written a book titled "Means of Control" detailing some of these flows covering ad tech companies, data brokers and how government contractors use them and serve as a key player to provide services to intelligence agencies.
- https://www.interface-eu.org/events/background-talk-with-byr...
Comment · 1 year ago
I think they definitely knew that they are embedding code from US based ad agencies who might either be selling it to the NSA or just doing it in an insecure manner (plaintext protocols).
Mostly in such cases, direct involvement and paying dollars is a clear no-go for the intelligence agencies. They could instead be paying the ad agencies.
Also note that we are talking pre-Let's encrypt and TLS everywhere world, a lot of this traffic was also just plain text making it much easier to harvest.
Some interesting insights from this piece: https://web.archive.org/web/20180719081149/https://theinterc...
Comment · 1 year ago
from an intelligence perspective, this is business as usual.
- Rovio sold data to ad companies (ad companies primarily based in the US)
- They used AWS (to which of course NSA has legal access)
- Data is not end to end encrypted, all metadata sits on servers in plain text and within AWS even moves from server to server in plain text
How much insight metadata can grant to someone like NSA is still wildly underrated.
- https://www.propublica.org/article/spy-agencies-probe-angry-...