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by StudentStuff 6y ago
Huawei promised to fix these horrible security issues after a code review in 2012 and the establishment of the HCSEC oversight board in 2014, yet HCSEC found Huawei had not fixed the issues found in 2012 in their 2018 report, at which poin
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by StudentStuff 6y ago
I just picked up a Mac Mini for recompiling a handful of apps. If I were developing daily on it, a better specced machine might be worth it, but 2 to 4 year old Mac Minis are cheap, have the latest MacOS and fulfill my needs.
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by StudentStuff 6y ago
Who is permitted the time and resources to develop breakthroughs and innovations? Surely not the proletariat in modern America, where the vast majority are getting poorer year by year.
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by StudentStuff 6y ago
The browser version of Zoom seems to require a free account be created, and it was audio only in Chromium, I could not get it to use my camera. Zoom refused to work in Firefox. Jitsi and Google Meet seem to work in both browsers, without re
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by StudentStuff 6y ago
I couldn't get it to work in Firefox ESR on Debian 10, and audio was consistently choppy for me in Chromium 80 after I went through their forced account creation process. Zoom wouldn't use my camera either in Chromium :c Jitsi and
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
The spread may appear low in your city, but how much of that is from lack of testing? If your employees can work from home, it is best for you to implement work from home ASAP. Businesses in Washington State have shuttered or gone to work f
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Many sales environments are just fucked, look at the shit happening at Toyota of Kirkland, the town that is the epicenter of the Pacific Northwest Coronavirus infections: https://www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/comments
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
The healthcare industry can't afford to exist if they don't get paid by someone (whether that is the insurers or Medicare/Medicaid). We've seen mass closures of rural hospitals and medical practices as more rural America
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
1. A store location or locations was compromised 2. January 10th was when we notified T-Mobile of the attack 3. Likely sometime between January 17th (the last successful SIM swap attack we experienced) and January 24th. 4. Who knows? T-Mobi
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
I was affected by this, they SIM swapped a line on our account twice, both times on Friday at 5:23pm (followed by swapping the old SIM back at 5:42pm). Just received the CPNI notice today from T-Mobile, we had a 6 digit PIN set prior to the
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
The insurance policy seems super sketchy, take a look at its caveats: - If your balance loses under 20% in value then the loss is not insured - If there are any code changes in a contract, there is zero coverage for 250 days - If the exchan
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Some card types will force usage of the EMV chip when used in a card present transaction. By instructing the cashier to manually key in a card (albiet using a barcode to expedite the process), they bypass the need for EMV.
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Every release mentions the word error rate, its interesting to watch the WER improve over time: https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/releases
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
What value does this provide compared to SSLPing.com? How are you planning to ensure the longevity of your service?
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Mozilla DeepSpeech has seen significant improvements in the quality of results it provides (and RAM/CPU usage) since early December, the accuracy of transcriptions has substantially improved in our testing.
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Those two aren't mutually exclusive, and attempting to frame it in this manner is disingenuous. The ability to book a place to stay is regulated by hospitality law to prevent exactly this type of discrimination by AirBnB against Cadenc
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
If a company acts to suppress & hurt a community then attempts to participate in said communities events, they should be ejected from said event. Pride organizers need to grow a pair and start kicking companies and orgs that have abused
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Running games on Linux is trivial at this point, Valve has made WINE so easy to use that all my games from Windows work without me lifting a finger. Civ 5? No problem. Random Indie Game that only ever worked on Windows 7? Works great. Googl
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
The enterprise support contracts state that the EOL date is the one listed publicly: https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366?hl=en This means the Thinkpad X131e had under 3 years of support if you
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Google EOLed Chromebooks that were sold 3 years ago, they do not give a crap about maintaining a stable ecosystem. These 3 year old Chromebooks don't even get Chrome security patches, you would literally be better off with any other la
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
>All these years later Matrix only has... The ambition to some day try to offer the core privacy features Signal already delivered back then. E2E on Matrix works, plus key verification is easier than on Signal. Managing metadata is hard,
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Thank you for working on Matrix, it has been smooth sailing (after some database cleanup) for me to operate since taking over a homeserver from a frustrated operator nearly half a year ago.
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Yet KaiOS ships on tens of millions of phones every quarter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS Mozilla did not want to maintain XUL or Fennec (which was hard to develop for, jumping between layers in C++ & javasc
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Could I get more details on T-Mobile's abuse of the FCC's TV Whitespace database? I know they currently do spectrum hijacking with License Assisted Access in the 5Ghz band, I'm curious what their other abuses are tho.
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Most eBike batteries are half to 3/4ths a kilowatt hour, though if prices were lower you'd almost certainly see 1kwh & 2kwh batteries becoming standard. The market is already headed this way, EM3ev keeps putting out larger and
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Mozilla DeepSpeech has come quite far and has a very similar streaming interface for transcription. I wonder if on-prem will win the day due to patient privacy concerns?
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
All raised vehicles are a danger to other road users. Most have bumpers significantly higher than other vehicles on the road, resulting in trunks and hoods on closer to the ground vehicles (Honda Odysseys, Toyota Camrys, etc) getting severe
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Why do you need to download an app to reserve a spot to charge your car? Make things as frictionless as possible like PayByPhone has done with their Progressive Web App for paying for parking. Having tried to force apps on people, we often
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
ISPs buying in were OpenNIC's stumbling block (as no normal user is changing their default DNS), ultimately that is why OpenNIC never took off. The only way an alternate DNS could become popular is if Apple, Google or Mozilla (assuming
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Is OP inferring we are entering another AI Winter after this most recent hype cycle for general AI? Considering we use neural networks to encode audio (in Opus), transcribe our speech, secure our homes and much more, this most recent AI wav

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