harabat

Getting into any kind of online discussion with the "$X is khamass" crowd is generally futile.

I'm working on a news analysis project where I'll have to identify articles that speak about the same event. For now, I think it'll be based on date + "asking an LLM", but you probably came up with something better. How do you approach this problem?

In case you haven't heard of it: https://web.archive.org/web/20170409015127/forkthecookbook.c...

There was a report posted on HN months ago showing the proportion of fraudulent vs legitimate activities on Tor vs non-Tor across a pool of websites. Tor users were (slightly, IIRC) more likely to be malicious, but they represented a drop in the bucket against all malicious users. Maybe some sites that do block Tor might be seeing different proportions, I'd wager most of them do it because Tor == bad for most people.

I'll add the source when I find it.

The paragraph starting with "it would be a shame..." has their entire point laid out in simple, unambiguous terms. There's no mention of human nature or calls to not worry.

A workaround I saw a few months ago on HN: for both Organic Maps and OSMand, you can use Acastus to search for something and then open the result in the maps app (+ share the broken query with Organic Maps, as requested by the founder).

Acastus-Photon (An online address/POI search for navigation apps) https://f-droid.org/packages/name.gdr.acastus_photon/

I'm trying to find a good project to work on to start learning QGIS, and what you described sounds interesting. Would you happen to have a write-up of this?

Dang, you're a model for my own communication style, a source of indirect advice for a project that I'm building (one day I'll be ready to reach out to you for direct advice), and someone I see as an example of a good human. Thank you!

Thanks for the notes on Notes!

As I said, it's way out of my wheelhouse, but I'm planning on spending some time in the next months on trying to merge a decrypted backup of old iOS Signal chat history into the decrypted backup of current Android chat history and trying to restore from that (re-encrypted) backup (there is no native iOS to Android transfer on Signal yet), so I'm starting to look into any learning material that will allow me to not fail within the first 2 minutes of trying :).

Definitely do start writing this stuff up!

Re keychain, you're probably aware of it, but https://github.com/ptoomey3/Keychain-Dumper/ is very thorough in extracting keychain data (including data that one would expect to no longer be in there).

Not my area at all, but reverse-engineering file formats sounds really interesting. Do you have a blog by any chance?

For those who are going through the thread finding new tools: pandas-profiling[0] is a library for automatic EDA (which bamboolib[1], mentioned elsewhere, also does).

[0] https://github.com/pandas-profiling/pandas-profiling [1]: https://bamboolib.com/

Related from yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31329368 (300 comments)

Probably little to no effect, but I'd hope it's slightly more effective than just tweeting a hashtag (which is arguable simpler than my "simplest" suggestion) because it will actually pierce the techie anti-privacy bubble and be heard by/bother the .

To be honest, I'd wager that most of the benefit in doing something as little as sending copy-pasted emails is that it increases the probability of the protester doing a more meaningful action in the future (by generating some cognitive dissonance, by reinforcing a positive internal narrative, by weakening the illusion of powerlessness, etc.).

For those who won't read the article: it provides a few ways to protest [0] (contact Commissioners, request media to cover this issue, get active on social media) and offers a list of arguments [1] (such policies don't work against CSAM but make it worse, while better/more targeted methods are being ignored).

If anyone has experience calling to protest, could they share it here? Otherwise, the simplest course of action might be to copy-paste the arguments given in [1] into an email addressed to the parties mentioned in the parent comment.

[0] https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/messaging-and-chat-co...

[1] https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/messaging-and-chat-co...

Related:

https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox

HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27842740

Would you be able to list some of the negative developments you expect from GitLab going forward? For example, I know they are reducing support for Free Tier on their managed instance (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30791162). Is that the kind of thing you're talking about?

What would you recommend instead? Gitea?

I commented about FriendlyCaptcha [0] elsethread.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30345606

Seems like FriendlyCaptcha [0] might tick the boxes. Here's the author talking about it [1].

[0] https://friendlycaptcha.com/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24921288

Great resource, a surprisingly clear and detailed introduction to the various attacks faced by websites!

The relevant part:

"we concluded that approximately 1 in 380 http requests coming out of Tor is verified to be malicious, while only 1 in 11,500 http requests coming out of a non-Tor ip were verified to be malicious. In essence, an http request from a Tor ip is 30 times more likely to be a malicious attack than one that comes from a non-Tor ip."

From https://www.democracynow.org/2019/11/22/nils_melzer_julian_a...

"He will be certainly exposed to an arbitrary trial, if he — in the U.K., extradition trial. The choreography is clear. Whatever his lawyers say, in the end, the U.K. judges will say, “Yes, of course, we cannot extradite him if there’s death penalty or torture or treatment, so, please, U.S., make assurances.” The U.S. will obviously make these assurances, and then the U.K. will say, “Then we have no reason not to trust the U.S.” And they will extradite him to the U.S. That’s what I foresee. And that’s what he expect he will hear. And that’s the crux here. In addition to the ill treatment he has already suffered, I am absolutely convinced that he will not get a fair trial. He’ll get a show trial in East Virginia, and he’ll end up in prison under inhumane conditions for the rest of his life. That needs to be prevented."

The whole article is worth reading: Melzer initially was extremely opposed to even looking into Assange's case (his negative view of Assange having been molded by media, as he states), and describes how his view evolved immediately after starting working on this, assessing him, etc.

People who find this interesting might also like DoltHub:

"Dolt marries two familiar concepts, Git and MySQL. The first and only SQL database that supports clone, branch, and merge."

https://www.dolthub.com/

And the GitLab repo: https://gitlab.tue.nl/20040367/pybaobab