Rhea_Karty

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by Rhea_Karty 1y ago
A lot of news... not too much technical. The real scandal seems to be the use of data brokers' data, re-selling/owning the data collected from publicly funded cameras, and also using bluetooth and ostensibly other outdated securit
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by Rhea_Karty 1y ago
Background: from this video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ ) Floxk AI is a startup that apparently runs highly suspicious police data collection services. As a fun bonus, it sells this data to private bidders a
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PlateShapez – Tool for generating adversarially perturbed license plate overlays(github.com)
32 points by Rhea_Karty 1y ago|18 comments
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by Rhea_Karty 2y ago
I have a couple hundred books. Has anyone managed to use puppeteer or selenium or something to automate it? This will take hours.
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by Rhea_Karty 2y ago
E-waste, monetary waste (all this work in a good product-- only to be actively destroyed so that you have to buy a new one!), customer rights (it wouldn't be legal for someone to break your item with a hammer, so why with code?), and a
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by Rhea_Karty 2y ago
This is insane... we should not be throwing away good tech because of planned obsolescence and relying on groveling to customer service to use tech that we bought...
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NIH's 15% Indirect Spending Cuts Hurt Hard Tech Startups(nanosilicon.com)
7 points by Rhea_Karty 2y ago|7 comments
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by Rhea_Karty 2y ago
Interesting :). However, I think that EET is the only time zone that works. (This is mostly because is seems that the area follows DST, which most non western countries in the worlf do not).
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by Rhea_Karty 2y ago
Made a more detailed write-up on this: https://rheaeve.substack.com/p/xz-backdoor-times-damned-time...
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by Rhea_Karty 2y ago
TLDR: Some people have been throwing around “China,” but it seems also quite possible that Jia is from somewhere in Eastern Europe pretending to be from China. In addition, Lasse Collin and Hans Jansen are from the same EET time zone. These
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by Rhea_Karty 2y ago
Notes on time stamps and time zones. A few interesting bits that I haven't fully fleshed out. TLDR: Some people have been throwing around that Jia is from “China,” but it seems also quite possible that Jia is from somewhere in Eastern