swamp-agr
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Comment · 1 month ago
What would be the next actionable step for bringing these executives to the Congress for further questioning?
Comment · 9 months ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Anti-spam bot plugin for messengers:
- MVP version for Telegram (since spamming is a part of their business model, it feels natural to start with it)
- More precisely, data pipeline for weights and measurements for word frequencies. Think of it as small-language models.
- More precisely, it is about morphological analysis of words across different languages. Unlike Meta with regex-based dictionaries[0], I am porting rule-based morphology analysis python library[1] into target programming language.
- More precisely, right now it is about understanding DAWG data structure by porting it from C++[2] to Haskell[3].
- Instead of introducing FFI I wanted to become more comfortable with LLMs, I am trying to approach their internals (or my possibly wrong vision of their internals) by building small language model based on a corpus of thousands of spam messages.
Links:
[0] duckling: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/duckling
[1] pymorphy2: https://github.com/pymorphy2/pymorphy2
[2] dawgdic/C++: https://code.google.com/archive/p/dawgdic/
[3] dawgdic/Haskell (work-in-progress): https://github.com/swamp-agr/dawgdic
Comment · 2 years ago
Mozilla Firefox + NoScript + DNT works very well for me.
Comment · 4 years ago
Just a kindly reminder about filtering out FB/Instagram/Whatsapp on your device or even home network:
Comment · 5 years ago
Yes, it is possible that I experienced a bug at least three times (2010, 2014 and 2020), certainly.
It might be the case, sure.
Last email (as of today) about permanent deletion was one year ago. During next year I will give it another try: log in and come back to you, then.
Comment · 5 years ago
From data modelling point of view it's a challenge to wipe the user data since it will affect a social graph. And there're different strategies to handle corner cases (e.g. how to deal with reactions/replies on "deleted" comments or with reactions on your photos or your reactions on different news, mark as deleted and wipe the content or completely remove nested graph). And it actually makes user tracking much harder (please keep in mind, they're tracking users that have not register yet, in that case user profile might be converted from one user type to another if they are going to continue track you (why didn't want that?)).
It might be much easier to extend account entity with something like:
- is_deleted (boolean)
- deleted_time (utctime)
- is_suing_us (boolean)
- legal_case_id ...
Comment · 5 years ago
You cannot be quite sure
- that someone who takes over your "garbage" account
- could fake someone else (on your behalf)
- with a traces on corporate servers that will lead authorities to you in the future.
It might be highly unlikely to happen, though.
Comment · 5 years ago
I don't know
- whether they partially disable functions on purpose
- or there are region-dependant backend code errors.
Comment · 5 years ago
I am in the middle of exactly that process!
Comment · 5 years ago
Disagree.
- I explicitly check to avoid any "disabling".
- The only intent was to permanently delete the account.
- You can believe me or not and I did it really careful.
Comment · 5 years ago
The situation is quite interesting here.
- Imagine, you're living outside of USA/UK/Europe.
- Formally, it's possible to proceed with "Permanently delete my account".
- You will even receive email assuring you that two weeks later profile would be completely deleted.
- Then, couple years later you'll occasionally seen email from facebook that someone tried to log in into your ("permanently deleted") account.
- You'll try to log in, probably restore and change the password among the way.
- And after that you'll be successfully logged in. And the profile's state would be like nothing changes. Nothing. Completely.
- You'll contact Support. Seriously? They'll ignore you.
- Maybe some interaction with 3rd-party websites triggered cancellation of the process, you thought.
- Then, you'll implement blacklist just to avoid any interaction with facebook, something similar to: https://pastebin.com/FAV2f9eA and try to repeat the flow again.
- Then another 2+ years later situation will repeat again. Deja-vu. And again. And again.
There's no way to delete facebook profile if facebook didn't really care about its users.
Comment · 5 years ago
You can go ahead and block FB before FB blocks you.
With a simple /etc/hosts update like that:
Several years without FB and its scripts anywhere. Never regret about such decision.
Comment · 7 years ago
Paste content from link below to your /etc/hosts file:
https://pastebin.com/raw/FAV2f9eA
On Android you could prevent Facebook by blacklisting same hosts via Firefox + NoScript.
Comment · 7 years ago
Haskell.