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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47227954

pedo peekers

appreciate the extra info!

I did not connect these dots, I am now, thank you!

ahhh what is this?

The completely unrelated

In completely unrelated news, upcoming versions of Signal will be periodically fetching files to place in app storage. These files are never used for anything inside Signal and never interact with Signal software or data, but they look nice, and aesthetics are important in software. Files will only be returned for accounts that have been active installs for some time already, and only probabilistically in low percentages based on phone number sharding. We have a few different versions of files that we think are aesthetically pleasing, and will iterate through those slowly over time. There is no other significance to these files.

Do not stop here! Keep going the trilogy there is great and all of it within the foundation universe, incredible stuff. I wish I had more people to discuss it with

I find this interesting, there was a briar app that was spoken about a few months ago that was only for android citing that iOS had issues [0] with apps running in background, wonder if/how this was solved here.

Also, I have not seen unlicense before -- guess I'm one of todays lucky 10,000

[0] https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar/-/wikis/FAQ#will-t...

I'm a big fan of this change, however, I think to a black mirror episode [0] where essentially little robot dogs could interface with everything they came into contact with because every connection was the same, it may be trivial to have multiple connections for a weapon like this but the take away I had from this is that 'variety' may be better than a single standardized solution. Partly because it is more expensive to plan for multiple types of inputs and making the cost of war go up will make it more difficult which I think inherently is the idea behind some of the larger cybersecurity companies, a hack can only work once then everyone has defenses for it after that single successful attack, this makes it more expensive to successfully stage attacks. Huge digression from this convo... but I think back to this constantly.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalhead_(Black_Mirror)

this seems interesting and I (very briefly) installed to check it out but never actually used.

I just noticed there is no IOS version? bit strange no?

also no update on their blog since 2023?

would be interested to read whats going on recently, is there another place to look?

I really enjoyed continuum and felt that the last season was a bit abrupt leaving a lot unexplored.

I still imagine a halo device from that show that i think would do well to be made, I imagine a garmin/iwatch that also completes lifestyle and healthcare needs on steroids that also replaces smart phones

I plan to use MonicaHQ , I failed to self host behind a reverse proxy and the effort was no longer prioritized but I would be interested if anyone else is using it.

https://www.monicahq.com/blog

I'm interested in how you came up with this, do you have a blog post or something I can peruse?

this happened to me (minus the travel part, but the theif was from what appears to be a south east asian country), I tried for quite some time getting attention because for about 2 weeks I was still being forwarded messages to my other address so I could observe what they were receiving which was... strange.

in any case my final attempt was contacting a group of people who wrote about account recovery [0] as a last ditch effort, unfortunately some emails bounced and no one responded.

my parents and grandparents occasionally still use my old email and I'm still bothered by it despite it happening over a year ago now. if there is anyone on this list working at google email, I have a lot of evidence showing I owned the account and I would love to have the opportunity to talk to a person about options.

[0] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

out of curiosity, why not just tax people less rather than offer UBI?

either lower the tax or start offering monthly tax refunds?

would that work as an alternative or equivalent to UBI or am I thinking of something very different?

not only is the comment about China accurate it elicits a great point.

to add in a Hayek quote

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.'

there is a great podcast from Econtalk [0] talking about this in detail that I highly recommend a listen if you are not familiar with it.

back to the point, these changes have unforeseen consequences, some may be good but some could cause a new type of famine or disease that could have devastating consequences. I do not think this point can be overstated.

[0] https://www.econtalk.org/frank-dikotter-on-maos-great-famine...

a lot is covered here, I found myself at the Azimuth project [0], hard to believe this guy started blogging in 1993. pretty cool!

I find his bio more interesting than the chat but in any case thanks for sharing!

[0] http://www.azimuthproject.org/azimuth/show/HomePage

I recently sold a home through redfin and was able to negotiate down to 3% total (2 for buyer 1 for seller)

if you have the time have you attempted hosting/selling yourself? I know it sounds ridiculous at mentioning but I purchased my current home without any real estate agents, we did work through lawyers and there were fees there... but likely minimal (I paid under $1500) and I actually enjoyed working directly with lawyers rather than having real estate agents inbetween, this would be my prefered method if I were to sell/purchase again.

I find this is interesting however I cannot see businesses with important data to protect depending on this when decryption is a far safer option, there is no guessing what it is when on a corporate network you can simply decrypt the traffic and see what it is.

The Chief Data Officer (CDO) will "(1) be responsible for lifecycle data management"

I am very interested in what this type of lifecycle might look like considering most data I feel should be kept forever. I wonder how a lifecycle might collide with the challenges that bit rot[0] are dealing with.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/13/what-is-b...

there is when it derails conversation. this is called whataboutism.

we can have a separate conversation about that separate issue which I agree needs to be addressed, but not in this thread..

if you need help understanding what whatboutism is here is a great john oliver explanation [0] that will help why this is bad and that pointing out hypocrisy does not create a moral equivalency.

please try to focus on the conversation, and open up a new thread on the issue you would like to discuss, not here.

[0] skip to 6 minutes if you would like to get to that point, I think the entire video is worth a look. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZAPwfrtAFY

Economic theory and history [0] day Tariffs are a bad idea. I like Senator Warren but this seems like an idea that will be just as painful as the least time we tried despite the differences in implementation.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot%E2%80%93Hawley_Tariff_...

click the 'web' link under the link that has enabled my ability to view.

the game is here [0] but a friendly warning, the link may not play with javascript disabled and it may immediately hijack your noise.

ignoring those two annoyances, it is quite interesting, I was drawn here after watching Sebastian Seung speak [1] which I found in the rabbit hole of reading about the new 100% fatal startup...

[0] https://eyewire.org/ [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS6nTA3DUuY

check 'show' tab for programming content

I prefer a rings of Agus type solution (RE: Freedom (part two of Daemon by Danial Suarez)

expired link? (I am not very familiar with discord)

yes.

Data Science can be applied in many different ways, (somewhat) Recently LightCyber was acquired by PANW [0] and I believe that if you are in data science that may be something that tickles your itch.

if I may give advice, asking a more specific question to a search engine may also get you ona path with additional information. 'cyber security' is a pretty large umbrella and much of it may bore you while only a small handful is interesting... so try to be more specific rather than say 'stuff'

[0] https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/products/secure-the-network...

exciting to see opportunities [0] popping up for community based networks, it would be interesting to see a rewards based approach to hosting access points for others.

[0] https://nycmesh.net/

most modern NGFW's identify traffic by the layer 7 application. many (but not all) are identified by the time a tcp handshake completes.

future repo?

https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers