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Kremlin spied on activist's Telegram chats(wired.com)
2 points by alfongj 4y ago|0 comments
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by alfongj 4y ago
> Say what you want about their security; they have the absolute best UX of any (primarily 1-on-1) messaging app, bar none. > Discord is a close second. But the quality and polish of telegram blows me away to this day. User experience
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by alfongj 4y ago
WhatsApp got there faster with no ads either
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by alfongj 5y ago
Narrative violation
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ComposeJS – a whole backend inside react(github.com)
2 points by alfongj 5y ago|0 comments
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Bringing child drawings to life with AI(ai.facebook.com)
1 points by alfongj 5y ago|1 comments
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by alfongj 5y ago
There's so many possible confounding effects that it's hard to take this at face value.
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by alfongj 5y ago
This is the right answer. Matching user data without consent is becoming fairly risky from a data regulation standpoint, as well as user perception.
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by alfongj 5y ago
Right, but that doesn't compromise the security of the service necessarily. Users can catch a malicious server injecting incorrect keys by looking at security notifications and comparing security codes. This is part of the Signal proto
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by alfongj 5y ago
What's your concern?
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We're not prepared for the next solar superstorm(independent.co.uk)
8 points by alfongj 5y ago|0 comments
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Estimated yearly improvement rates per technology(fastcompany.com)
1 points by alfongj 5y ago|0 comments
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by alfongj 5y ago
I got mine two days ago
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by alfongj 5y ago
Please point to a single source from Apple claiming their mission is privacy.
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Berkson's Paradox(twitter.com)
127 points by alfongj 5y ago|39 comments
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Berkson's Paradox(twitter.com)
2 points by alfongj 6y ago|0 comments
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by alfongj 6y ago
WhatsApp group chats are end to end encrypted too. You must be thinking of... Telegram, where only secret 1:1 chats are end to end encrypted
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Quantum computers may be able to break AES sooner than expected(bloomberg.com)
3 points by alfongj 6y ago|0 comments
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by alfongj 6y ago
Would e2ee really be guaranteed if a user sets an 8 char password? Because if so an attacker with control of the server could brute forcedly decrypt the encryption key, and in turn all DB contents for a user, no? Apologies if this is covere
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by alfongj 6y ago
Check your biases. https://oversightboard.com/meet-the-board/
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by alfongj 6y ago
I love my Fitbit hardware but loathe their apps. After 5 years or so, they still suck at data synchronization. I hope Google fixes this
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DIY Covid-19 Vaccine(radvac.org)
13 points by alfongj 6y ago|2 comments
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by alfongj 7y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6948742
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Real-Time photorealistic landscape in UE4 [video](youtube.com)
2 points by alfongj 7y ago|0 comments
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by alfongj 8y ago
From what I can read on the twit and GitHub, the researcher hasn't proven this works at scale. The point of recaptcha is blocking "captcha farms" or automated bots from abusively creating accounts, buying tickets, etc. The au
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World's first psychopath A.I(norman-ai.mit.edu)
2 points by alfongj 8y ago|0 comments
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by alfongj 8y ago
Apple has ads. Have you read their ToS / privacy policy?
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Island tips for surviving a nuclear attack(medium.com)
3 points by alfongj 9y ago|0 comments
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[DIY] Google Assistant on Amazon Echo(hackster.io)
2 points by alfongj 9y ago|0 comments
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by alfongj 10y ago
Hi dmitriz! Yes. We have it (currently in iOS and Web, soon on Android), and we're eager to get feedback and work to improve it! If you try it out, ping me at alfongj at google dot com and let me know what you think!

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