Recent submissions

Comment · 8 months ago
So-called "cookie banners" usually ask for your consent to much more than optional tracking cookies. By accepting you might be giving your permission to e.g. track you through various fingerprinting methods, build a profile and share it with advertising partners.
Comment · 10 months ago
It shows you the automatic account matches on import, allowing you to double-check and correct any misclassified ones.
Comment · 10 months ago
>Isn't this suitable for a Bayesian classifier?

I think that's what GnuCash does by default. Even with years of past transaction data it still gets some very obvious matches wrong for me. In my experience it's about 90% accurate for the ones it really should be able to do based on the training data.

Comment · 1 year ago
>There is a sign-in/create account screen, but this is easily bypassed if you know how to edit an sqlite file.

You can also just add "SideloadedMode=true" to your "Kobo eReader.conf" to achieve that. This removes the "Home" and "Discover" tabs as well, defaulting to the clean "My Books" tab instead.

Comment · 1 year ago
>Add special signals you can change on your server, which the app will understand, such as a forced update that will install without asking the user.

I understand the reasoning, but that makes it feel a bit too close to a C&C server for my liking. If the update server ever gets compromised, I imagine this could increase the damage done drastically.

Comment · 2 years ago
I tried the the linked example search for "baby cat" and it returned the same three AI cats you can see in their Google search comparison screenshot on the first page. None of them labeled as AI generated.

Edit: When I explicitly choose to "Include" AI images from the toolbar option, they disappear. When I choose to "Exclude" them, they reappear. Still seems a bit buggy.

Comment · 2 years ago
>I don't remember where I've used my YubiKey in the past.

I track this in my password manager. Accounts where the YubiKey is enrolled are tagged "YubiKey (FIDO)".

Comment · 2 years ago
I don't get those prompts with Google Photos. Have you tried selecting "Use without an account" in the account menu at the top right?
Comment · 2 years ago
>Not if this is one of a few dozen or few hundred similar ongoing operations. The risk is always there, they have to expect some amount of failure.

That actually makes me think it's not happening at a larger scale, since we'd likely have heard of at least a few similarly elaborate cases being uncovered by now. If not during the attempt itself, then at least at some later point in time.

Either almost all of these operations remain undetected, because they are even more sophisticated and much of the world's software ecosystem has been secretly compromised for years or there aren't actually that many such operations.

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Last time I checked the Linksys E8450/Belkin RT3200 was widely recommended.
Comment · 2 years ago
That wouldn't work for dynamically injected ads that could be at different timestamps and have different lengths for each user.
Comment · 3 years ago

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton