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I came, I debated, I got pissed off, I got banned. I liked HN more when it wasn't full of obtuse fuckwits...
I wonder if he's ever stolen from a powerful drug dealer, who could afford to send someone to Russia to get revenge - not necessarily show up at the hacker's door, but to rent some locals who'd do that
For extra clever points, make it a person who already does protect their privacy by e.g. encrypting everything on local storage, doesn't like the cloud, and not being all over social media. If the cops bust them and can't find any evidence, they'll accuse them of hiding things, if they comply and decrypts their stuff and there's still nothing, the cops will still insist it was this person and they're still hiding something. If there's other incriminating stuff in the encrypted disks, boom the cops will bust them for that instead and will still think they got the master hacker...
God damn debating with you people is useless sometimes.
My second paragraph is meant to show a possible other explanation why the Chinese didn't want foreigners snooping around their bio labs: in my belief the same evasiveness the Chinese has/had would apply to the USA if China wanted to visit and have unlimited access (for a thorough investigation) of American bio labs.
And I'm not talking about whether American journalists would be arrested. I'm just talking about the evasiveness about the labs.
Yeah, holding strong to the logic that's like a mom concluding of her kindergartner "You're being evasive, this means definitely that you're hiding something" is ridiculous.
If the outbreak started in Colorado, and Russia wanted access to the CDC lab there, Americans (officials and public) would also be crying and screaming...
But Serbia's system seems flawed, the EU system has all the data encoded in the QR-code, including name, the date the test was performed, the sort of test (PCR or antigen), and the result, plus a digital signature to prevent changing of those fields. And the QR code is given to the person and is static. The app that checks it checks that the document hasn't been modified by verifying the digital signature. What Serbia seems to have done is to have a PDF with the timestamp, and QR code which goes to a website showing a database entry with no timestamp (except for the URL which apparently does contain a Unix timestamp, but that's not authoritive nor easily parsable by huamns).
So if I got a negative test in July and a positive one yesterday, and I want to fly somewhere, it seems I can just copy the QR code from the test in July and paste it into a Word document that says "The test was performed on January 10, 2022, and the result is available through this link: [QR code with the link to the results from July 2021]". And it seems this document doctoring (with a document with a result that allows unvaxed entry) is what Team Djokovic has done.
He's turning to the Donald Trump of the tennis world. No matter how cunty his behavior is, he'll have his supporters (god bless nationalism, one of the more obnoxious forms of tribalism). And now with the whole shitstorm he'll even gain the support of the anti-science antivax crowd. Like Trump and to some extent Obama, he's become the subject of a cult of personality. He can never do wrong in their eyes.
Just to protect my ego when this is downvoted and flagged to death: watch this comment get downvoted, because even HN has too many such numbnuts.
the participants who have mountains of capital will use it to price out competitors and new upstarts.
Lufthansa's interest is piqued. They already price out competitors, they've bought many smaller airlines (even the "national" airlines Swiss and Austria) and operate them at slim to negative margins to keep the workers quiet (the threat of bankruptcy prevents them from rebelling too much)..
I guess it'll be a "Facebook censorship API". Beyonce wants an image to disappear? If it's not on FB, IG, WhatsApp, Pinterest, it's pretty good. Prince Andrew doesn't want a pic of him with his hands around a minor and Ghislaine Maxwell nearby? Call Zuck...
Seems like just a summary of the mentioned blog post, the author probably saw the same HN post we did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29861678
Seems like the fastcompany article linked from the bottom of that press release has a bit more detail: https://www.fastcompany.com/90678612/this-tech-unicorn-just-...
One thing I wonder is if everyone's getting a pay cut, or if they just got a net 25% raise on their hourly rates.
I guess if 94% of employees liked it[1], there was no pay cut involved...
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/05/the-4-day-workweek-becomes-p...
Well, there were stories of unburned bodies found floating in the rivers, there are many who couldn't afford the cremation. There's the official rule (registration needed) and the reality on the ground: insufficient government service coverage leading to undocumented births and deaths.
Even China has a lot of undocumented births, because of the 1-child-policy: https://thediplomat.com/2015/03/chinas-hidden-children/ (IMO the accepted "legend" that there were a lot of abortions just demonized the Chinese, whether nefariously or on purpose)
Now I want to make a pizza with pineapple sauce in it...
I heard a former US Army guy saying in a podcast, even at home he's always dressed to be ready to walk out the door at any second, because it's a habit he developed in the Army. Which makes sense, the enemy doesn't wait for you to wait to put your socks and shoes on.
The article doesn't seem to answer the question it has on its headline.. instead it just goes through banal details of the hardware and software.
Cars are popular for a lot of reasons.
And so is jetting off somewhere for holidays.. realistically we need to cut down so much to survive, but so far everyone is working on "it's future society's problem".
Only when the threat of death was within weeks did humans actually react with lockdowns, etc...
Probably because some hacker started using it, according to the Jargon File[1] someone in the MIT AI Lab popularized it.
The Rivian can be charged by towing it, at least that was the case in their prototype car shown off in Long Way Up (Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman's Apple TV show where they (and their support crew) took 2 electric motorbikes up South and Central America)
And if we continue burning fossil fuels it might never be cold enough for snowstorms any more, problem solved! /S
Who the fuck is this guy writing that stupid ass article... How about you solve the problem of terrible American driving, and lack of winter tyre regulations. Hah, he takes Norway as an example, the country where you have to learn ice driving conditions to get your license..
Ah Germany, the country who's outer image is so much better than the reality...
The Merkel government was just a unprincipled opportunistic one, although I do credit her for having the guts to say "Syrian refugees can stay"; she took the morally correct decision, not the politically expedient one. But her previous steps before that like championing austerity (anyone remember the PIIGS problem?) ensured that her populace got really pissed off, imagine seeing your conservative government stripping away money for social programs for decades (while the elite get richer), and then suddenly saying "we can afford to host refugees"...
Looks like a developer having an epic temper tantrum: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29839786
If I can throw my second impression, what a little shit. But maybe I'm too much of corporate conformist...
I went to OP's account, he replied inside the thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/rxtl22/w...
TL; DR: photos were from a loaner phone that was never wiped that OP backed up, and then restored onto his new phone.
OP replied in the comments why he deleted it: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/rxtl22/w...
TL;DR: he's an idiot.
A bit longer: OP went to a shop to get his phone repaired. Shop gave him a loaner phone, which had been used by many many people and apparently never wiped. OP set up Google backup on that phone and those photos got uploaded onto his WhatsApp backup. OP got a new phone, set up WhatsApp, and WhatsApp downloaded the pics from the loaner phone onto his.
For a short while in the 90's there was a software called uTok, it acted as a HTTP proxy for your browsers and modified the HTML of websites to add the users' comments. Yeah this was when not many cared about HTTPS.
I remember people attaching comments to headlines on cnn.com's homepage, although that page changes frequently. And of course the comments were political. Hey OP, how will you prevent the lunatics from attacking sites like whitehouse.gov?
Edit: the fact that a screenshot of your app shows the page "CNN Facts First: Fact check: Five enduring lies about the Capitol [...]" (showing people they can comment on/criticize/flame war such pages), and that you've mentioned Gab's Dissenter, doesn't inspire me with confidence about your leanings. I sound like a McCarthyist, but well...
If I were designing the tech, and people used it to forward videos and images to thousands of people, I wouldn't want to have thousands of copies of the file on my server, all locked behind different encryption keys.
Technically it's possible that: my client encrypts the file with locally generated key A and uploads it to WhatsApp's server. The server returns a URL. My client takes key A, and sends it to Bob along with the URL, and this message is encrypted with Bob's public key.
When I want to send the same file to Charlie, or Bob wants to send it to Dominic, my or Bob's client just needs the URL, and the key A...
My comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29838746
My first suspicion would be, "Define new". OP and you could be working on 2 different definitions of that word.
How new is "new phone"? Maybe OP bought a second hand phone, and all these images have been left behind in the "Whatsapp Images" directory. Especially if it's pictures of local people, I would guess someone local sold this phone to the store and it didn't get wiped properly.
I've actually bought a new phone once and it had someone's list of phone numbers. It still looked pretty new, so I guess someone bought it, used it for a week or two and returned it. I was just annoyed at the scummy seller...
That's like the last paragraph of the story... what even is faker.js?
I guess I should do my own research.
Meh, yet another PR-laden series of tweets. Gotta love that "we were mocked and insults were hurled at us" in PR-English is "this led to an important discussion", and "we wanted to jump on the bandwagon and thought no one would criticize us" turns to "a lot has changed since we started accepting crypto donations"...
It insulted me (correction: it redirected me to the image meant to insult), seems like your browser could be blocking referers by default (maybe they block it if it's an external link?)
It follows the new trend of making the top row of keys multimedia keys, but they're F1-F12 if you hold down the Fn key.
On this laptop I can't even see the F1-F12 label near those keys (from the video, also from The Verge writer[1]), so, what's next, will they have their own version of "How to use Excel" that says "If you want to edit a cell's contents, press Fn-Mute"? Hooray for the stupidification of the computer.
Oh, I spoke to soon, at 1:56 [2] the backlight does change from backlighting the icons to backlighting Fx "keys" in between them. But my complaint remains, now a user and tech support has another hurdle of "I don't see the F2 key" because they both don't realise they have to press the Fn key...