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2 года назадdiscuss

I can't find it in the settings for Google Search, has it been removed?

2 года назадdiscuss

I've been seeing this specific type of sock puppet spam on YouTube for years, the same exact modus operandi, my earliest distinct memory of seeing this specific kind of sock puppet spam comments promoting a financial scam is from early 2020, just before the breakout of COVID19.

The screenshots shows how they are the top comment on the video, as a result of manipulating YouTube's comment ranking algorithm, with the sock puppet comments. (note: it's a big screenshot, you might need to zoom in)

How is it that Google has not fixed this yet? How can spam email classification in Gmail be so good while this is allowed to go on?

I believe a small finetuned LLM can easily identify this kind of sock puppeting spam.

Google should do something about this specific kind of sock puppeting comment spam that promotes financial scams and shadow ban them.

Can somebody who knows someone that works at Google ask them to raise this internally?

It infuriates me and makes my blood boil how they specifically target old people. and they intentionally target YouTube videos that old people are more likely to watch.

2 года назадdiscuss

> Soon, developers will be able to withdraw the stars earned by their bots in Toncoins via Fragment.

So it's backed by Telegram's own cryptocurrency, or at least soon gonna be. reading this killed the little excitement I had.

2 года назадdiscuss

I guess the accuracy really depends on your location or ISP.

I believe my ISP rarely or never rotates IP addresses, and on top of that I think my ISP provided router is assigned an IPv6 address and it prioritizes using it, because when I visit whatismyipaddress.com with JS disabled, it can only show my IPv6 address, but if I enable JS it can show an IPv4 address too (I assume through the WebRTC IP leak method, which requires JS)

2 года назадdiscuss

How the heck did it automatically pan the map to my current location, my small town, in an Incognito window, on page load?

Is IP geolocation this accurate and accessible to every website nowadays?

If this website can do this I assume every website I visit can do it too?

2 года назадdiscuss

While you can't save to localStorage as my sibling commenters have shown, greyface- down below in the thread posted a version that saves to the hash fragment of the URI. Saving to the (Data) URI has a benefit over localStorage of allowing you to save by bookmarking, which also enables you to save many notes, not just one.

I code-golfed greyface-'s code and made the text cursor autofocus on page load:

  data:text/html,<body contenteditable autofocus document.write(atob(location.hash.slice(1)))">#

2 года назадdiscuss

Nice! I bookmarked it and I'm gonna start using it, thank you.

For a quick and dirty save, you can press Ctrl+P to open the print window/dialog and select "Save as PDF", or you can press Ctrl+S and save as a single HTML file.

Edit: to make the text cursor focus automatically when the page loads, you can add the autofocus attribute to the body tag.

2 года назадdiscuss

Google, (the Google Chrome team), have stated before that "[JPEG XL] doesn't provide significant benefits over existing image formats" [1] and have been vocal in there disinterest in shipping support for it (they deprecated experimental support) [1]

My guess is that the newest/latest JPEG encoder developed by Google researchers, Jpegli[2], has a lot to do with this. Jpegli has been described in a Reddit comment as "a JPEG encoder that was developed by the JXL [JPEG XL] folks and the libjxl psychovisual model" and described to have superior performance to WebP (lossy WebP) [3]. that whole reddit thread has comments relevant to this discussion, specifically about the tradeoffs of supporting extra formats in browsers.

[1] https://www.techspot.com/news/101764-google-once-again-accus...

[2] https://opensource.googleblog.com/2024/04/introducing-jpegli...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1ajq7bj/commen...

2 года назадdiscuss

and using one image format (or fewer number of them) increases the CDN's cache hit rate, so it decreases latencies and makes your site load faster.

2 года назадdiscuss

I just realized that the PNG file for the logo hosted on wikimedia, is 232KB! That is a lot, that's unnecessarily large for such a simple logo, so I used vtracer, a raster image to SVG vectorizer, written in Rust, and SVGO, a SVG optimizer, to create the SVG file version of the logo, it is 16KB. a 93.1% improvement in size! (and they look the same)

The 2 commands used:

  > wget 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/SUN_microsystems_logo_ambigram.png'
  --2024-05-14 17:33:31--  https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/SUN_microsystems_logo_ambigram.png
  Loaded CA certificate '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt'
  Resolving upload.wikimedia.org (upload.wikimedia.org)... 185.15.59.240, 2a02:ec80:300:ed1a::2:b
  Connecting to upload.wikimedia.org (upload.wikimedia.org)|185.15.59.240|:443... connected.
  HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
  Length: 237484 (232K) [image/png]
  Saving to: ‘SUN_microsystems_logo_ambigram.png’
  
  SUN_microsystems_logo_ambigr 100%[=============================================>] 231.92K   821KB/s    in 0.3s
  
  2024-05-14 17:33:32 (821 KB/s) - ‘SUN_microsystems_logo_ambigram.png’ saved [237484/237484]
  
  > vtracer --input SUN_microsystems_logo_ambigram.png --output SUN_microsystems_logo_ambigram.png.svg
  Conversion successful.
  > svgo --precision 1 -o SUN_microsystems_logo_ambigram.png-opt2.svg -i SUN_microsystems_logo_ambigram.png.svg
  Done in 73 ms!
  63.162 KiB - 76% = 15.148 KiB
  >  ls -lah
  total 114M
  drwxr-xr-x 2 wis wis 4.0K May 14 17:34 .
  drwxr-xr-x 4 wis wis 4.0K May 14 17:29 ..
  -rw-r--r-- 1 wis wis 232K Jan 12  2019 SUN_microsystems_logo_ambigram.png
  -rw-r--r-- 1 wis wis  16K May 14 17:34 SUN_microsystems_logo_ambigram.png-opt2.svg
  -rw-r--r-- 1 wis wis  64K May 14 17:33 SUN_microsystems_logo_ambigram.png.svg

Makes you think how much the Wikimedia Foundation can improve the loading experience for users and save in bandwidth costs, if they optimize all the PNG raster images that can/should be optimized, which this file is a prime example of.

2 года назадdiscuss

Oh wow, this book cover art-piece has the same concept, but even more impressive; the Sun logo has 3 "sun" words in the logo not 4 (I know I also thought they were 4 initially), but this art piece has the word "Al-Khwarizmi" 4 times, one for each edge of the square.

Edit: I can't count, both have 4 words, one word for each edge.

2 года назадdiscuss

The logo SUN Microsystems had is a 4-way ambigram with rotational symmetries. Designed by Professor Vaughan Pratt of Stanford, the logo features 4 interleaved copies of the word "sun", forming a rotationally symmetric ambigram, with the letters U and N in each word forming the letter S for the next word. You can read the word "sun" if you rotate your head by 45°, 135°, 225°, or 315°.

* Objectively according to me. :P

2 года назадdiscuss

> For the threat model of most users, where hardware-based targeted attacks aren't a big concern, this is a bad tradeoff.

> hardware-based targeted attacks

You mean physical-access attacks, correct? Is it really just these kinds of attacks that a T2 chip protects against?

AFAIK if malware has super user privilege, it can access the RAM of other processes, and therefore it can access the encryption keys stored in RAM by other processes.

If those processes could have used an encryption API that does the encryption on the chip, and therefore not need to store encryption keys in RAM, they'd be protected against this kind of attack, a kind of attack that is not hardware-based.

2 года назадdiscuss

I think they're migrating to this domain; I don't think it's a temporary change from an outage or something like a fallback on a second domain.

2 года назадdiscuss

It's fun to think about a technical solution that if implemented by the state and porn websites it would be privacy preserving, I have a hunch some form of cryptography can be part of this solution. some form of cryptography that would allow the website to check if something like a hash of a state identification number is of a real ID number, but this hash-like thing would not allow the website nor the state to know to what ID number it belongs to (e.g. with a database lookup of the hash), it would allow them only to know that it belongs to some real/actual ID number.

does anybody know of any form of cryptography that would allow anything like this?

2 года назадdiscuss

This is the future!

:)

2 года назадdiscuss

Hoaxers hoping to drum up enough news stories to impact Apple's share price to make money on shorting it?

3 года назадdiscuss

probably with the help of AI, as I think they are otherwise very unimaginative people

this is the most amount of likes that I've ever seen on a spam comment that is this recent, it was the second most top comment.

I see these types of comments on almost every video that is finance related, e.g by CNBC or Business Insider but rarely see them on a video like this, which was titled "Rainy Jazz Cafe - Slow Jazz Music..."

I must admit, at first I was like aww this is a sweet comment, until I read "I was introduced to a woman named ____ _____ _____ info@___.com"