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esrauch

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esrauch
·hace 4 días·discuss
I wouldn't conflate old computers and old browsers. I still use an over 10 year old laptop and it still has a latest browser.
esrauch
·hace 5 días·discuss
I'm not trying to agitate you here and won't keep looping on the same question after this reply: I just do not understand the threat model here, and you're still being oblique as though its obvious what the threat model by being sarcastic instead of just spelling it out in plain language.

Are you worried about some foreign state actor like Israel targeting you specifically, hacking your devices to listen to you chatting? Or you're worried about US warrantless mass surveillance wiretapping all citizen's smart speakers, and you're worried the US government may spin up such a program?

In the latter case, the scenario you expect will happen is we'll have ~100 million US households are live wiretapped 24/7 without anyone knowing, you'll be part of the remainder living your life blissfully wiretap-free thanks to not having a smart speaker?
esrauch
·hace 5 días·discuss
Nissan Leaf motor is silent, there's really just objectively not a noise from the motor itself which could offend you.

There's still some possibilities here: maybe you came across someone with a broken car and believed that to be representative.

Most other explanations here just involve some form of confusion on your part to be honest: that it was the backup-alert noise that it makes _because_ the car is otherwise too silent, that it wasn't actually a Leaf but an ICE engine that you saw, or something else.
esrauch
·hace 5 días·discuss
Sorry, you're going to have to spell out the risk for me here. What other cases have we seen that indicate that mass surveillance via smart speakers is a risk?

We all also have phone in my pocket 24/7 and my laptop on my desk, both with microphones in them. In the event of the government doing warrantless spying on all devices it seems like that is a strictly higher ROI target for them?
esrauch
·hace 5 días·discuss
There is literally any noise from the engine, whine or otherwise. Whether a noise is bad or not can be subjective but silence is objective.

So at least for that one it kind of draws into question your overall conclusions here. You might be hearing an ICE and thinking it is electric, or some specific badly tuned vehicle or something.
esrauch
·hace 5 días·discuss
Can you spell out the ramifications for the plebs?

As far as I can tell home smart speakers are being used for warrantless mass surveillance, unlike Flock for example. Do you mean the possible future situation where they are?
esrauch
·hace 6 días·discuss
I'm old enough to have used computers before having any Internet, and in 2026 the idea of plugging in devices to transfer files to it does feel like a fiddly relic of the past to me.
esrauch
·hace 6 días·discuss
I believe the feature is that you have a pending unreleased video and go to an llm for tips. When getting the tips it uses the pending video content and your recent videos info as context. So there's no holding back unlisted info short of not letting the user use it for their upcoming videos at all

And then the attack is to trick this recommendation system into putting a link out

I actually the attack is very likely already soft defeated by an interstitial telling you that you are leaving the site though, it would be weird if they didn't do that in general from this surface
esrauch
·hace 6 días·discuss
In 2026 things have changed, there's literally whatever tens of thousands of "security" reports that are almost all bogus as a raging crap river.

I think theres very little chance this particular report made it to any engineer who works on product at all, because if they did they would be completely overwhelmed by reports, the filter which has to handle the many thousands of reports based on a playbook almost definitely filtered it out before it made it that far.
esrauch
·hace 7 días·discuss
What noise pollution do you hear from electric? You mean the noise cars make when they are backing up or what?
esrauch
·hace 11 días·discuss
It's not 1% here though... Graphene has 300k users worldwide. There's 8 million absolutely illiterate and 150 million functionally illiterate people in Europe for comparison on scale here.
esrauch
·el mes pasado·discuss
It seems it is just like macOS releases, they have a number and they give the numbers arbitrary names to refer to them?
esrauch
·el mes pasado·discuss
Fingerprinting to detect bots seems mostly relevant for things which are not DOS, so that percentage doesn't seem like the relevant one.

Bots manipulate review scores, posting link spam to other users, crawl your database that isn't open to crawl, etc.
esrauch
·el mes pasado·discuss
> Bot protection with fingerprinting is just an illusion. Any signals like this which is on client side can be spoofed by an above average person.

At the upper bound, fraud can always be committed by paying real people with real accounts to perform the desired action in a way that is 100% truly indistinguishable from organic. There's fundamentally actual prevention technique at the limit.

So the entire game is only "increasing the costs until it's not viable ROI", not "holistically prevent", which is why fingerprinting is a relevant technique here.
esrauch
·el mes pasado·discuss
It has scrollbars, but there's benefits to having more on an individual page at once. The tradeoff point seems unclear but everyone must recognize some tradeoff there.

Foldable maps allow for getting everything on one view by having the final display area be enormously larger, which isn't an option on laptop screens.
esrauch
·el mes pasado·discuss
Let's say you are writing into a byte[] and have a LEB128 length-prefix followed by a payload, but that determining the length actually involves nontrivial encoding work. For example, you have a UTF16 string and want to write out a UTF8 string, you want to go over the characters and write them out, but the UTF8 length is not known without doing all of that work.

If you can choose a fixed number of bytes for the length prefix, you can skip that number, do the encoding and find out the length, and then come back and fill in the length-prefix after.

But you actually don't know how many bytes it will take without doing all of the work to know the payload length (since larger payloads take more bytes to represent the length).

If you allow overlong representation you can reserve a few bytes and sometimes it'll just be the effective no-op bytes. If you don't, you won't be able to.
esrauch
·hace 2 meses·discuss
I'm not sure what you think account managers do that they can prevent accidents/bugs like that?
esrauch
·hace 2 meses·discuss
"Moxes/Sol Ring. They are a nice touch if not found in abundance."

Seems odd when followed by every 40 card deck having all color-relevant moxen and sol ring...
esrauch
·hace 2 meses·discuss
I think the vast majority of people just "don't care" for all possible topics.
esrauch
·hace 3 meses·discuss
"Evil megacorp" media is hardly new.