mimimi31

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by mimimi31 7mo ago
So-called "cookie banners" usually ask for your consent to much more than optional tracking cookies. By accepting you might be giving your permission to e.g. track you through various fingerprinting methods, build a profile and sh
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by mimimi31 9mo ago
It shows you the automatic account matches on import, allowing you to double-check and correct any misclassified ones.
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by mimimi31 9mo ago
>Isn't this suitable for a Bayesian classifier? I think that's what GnuCash does by default. Even with years of past transaction data it still gets some very obvious matches wrong for me. In my experience it's about 90% ac
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by mimimi31 11mo ago
>There is a sign-in/create account screen, but this is easily bypassed if you know how to edit an sqlite file. You can also just add "SideloadedMode=true" to your "Kobo eReader.conf" to achieve that. This removes
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by mimimi31 1y ago
>Add special signals you can change on your server, which the app will understand, such as a forced update that will install without asking the user. I understand the reasoning, but that makes it feel a bit too close to a C&C server
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by mimimi31 2y ago
I tried the the linked example search for "baby cat" and it returned the same three AI cats you can see in their Google search comparison screenshot on the first page. None of them labeled as AI generated. Edit: When I explicitly
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by mimimi31 2y ago
>I don't remember where I've used my YubiKey in the past. I track this in my password manager. Accounts where the YubiKey is enrolled are tagged "YubiKey (FIDO)".
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by mimimi31 2y ago
I don't get those prompts with Google Photos. Have you tried selecting "Use without an account" in the account menu at the top right?
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by mimimi31 2y ago
>Not if this is one of a few dozen or few hundred similar ongoing operations. The risk is always there, they have to expect some amount of failure. That actually makes me think it's not happening at a larger scale, since we'd l
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by mimimi31 3y ago
>OpenWRT's hardware table seems not very useful; I can't, for instance, filter for at least two ethernet ports. You could download the CSV dump of the hardware table [1] and filter in e.g. LibreOffice Calc. [1] https:/&#x
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by mimimi31 3y ago
Last time I checked the Linksys E8450/Belkin RT3200 was widely recommended.
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by mimimi31 3y ago
That wouldn't work for dynamically injected ads that could be at different timestamps and have different lengths for each user.
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by mimimi31 3y ago
There's a great summary from LWN[1] with lots of references and links to other articles for further reading. [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/631631
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by mimimi31 3y ago
More of these can also be found at https://old.reddit.com/r/CrowdPulledOnStage/top/?t=all .
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by mimimi31 3y ago
>simply making the username equal to "[deleted]" is likely compliant. What if any of the comments themselves contain a name, username or other personal data that could be used to connect it to a person? "Anonymization&quot
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by mimimi31 3y ago
I've been using OpenSnitch on Linux for some time now as well. While the user interface can be finicky at times, it's generally working very well. My biggest annoyance would be creating robust rules for applications using runtimes
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by mimimi31 4y ago
Don't all Firefox extensions have to be signed by Mozilla in order to be installable (in non-developer Firefox editions at least) these days? Even if they're publishing it on their own site, it should have gone through the review.
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by mimimi31 4y ago
>imagine that every spam mail receives a masterfully crafted response showing utter fascination and interest in SEO That would necessitate reliably detecting the emails as spam in the first place though. False positives in particular cou
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by mimimi31 4y ago
I agree, it's a little weird that some very basic quality of life features are missing from such a popular and relatively mature product. Folder management in particular seems to have been an afterthought. You create a subfolder by set
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by mimimi31 4y ago
More like a canary I think.
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by mimimi31 4y ago
>No cryptography can protect against this scenario I remember reading about how MITM is prevented in U2F [1] by using information about the connection as part of the challenge that the authenticator has to sign. Could something similar b
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by mimimi31 4y ago
Reminds me of Bytebeats [1]. My favorite being echo "g(i,x,t,o){return((3&x&(i*((3&i>>16?\"BY}6YB6%\":\"Qj}6jQ6%\")[t%8]+51)>>o))<<4);};main(i,n,s){for(i=0;;i++)putchar(g(i,1,n=i&
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by mimimi31 4y ago
>If the permissions included "can star repos", instead of just "can read/write repos", then sure. There could be perfectly legitimate reasons for a "can star repos" permission as well, with no way for a
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by mimimi31 4y ago
Does something like that actually affect a company other than in the very short term? Won't the stock value just go back to where it was before, because nothing about the company and how it should be valued has actually changed?
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by mimimi31 4y ago
The name is unfortunate since there's already Vul n hub [1]. [1] https://www.vulnhub.com
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by mimimi31 4y ago
For Reddit I've just been relying on uBlock Origin to block trackers, with some custom rules to get rid of all the superfluous sidebars, header bars, banners, avatars, achievement icons etc. The cleaned up interface actually looks very
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by mimimi31 4y ago
I wonder if you could train some machine learning model using the data from SponsorBlock and achieve good results on podcasts as well. That way you wouldn't be dependent on a crowdsourced online database for your offline listening. Alt
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by mimimi31 4y ago
I didn't see one either until I turned off my dark mode browser extension. If you also use an extension that modifies stylesheets, you might want to try disabling it for this site.
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by mimimi31 4y ago
>on the one hand it's insecure because it is a 1/12 chance of guessing right, but also who remembers what month they created an email account? IIRC, they require both month and year, so there'd be a bit more guesswork invo
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by mimimi31 4y ago
I recently created a new PayPal account. Got locked out almost immediately after adding 2FA via TOTP. First login worked, on the second login I just got a message that they were unable to verify it's really me. When contacting customer

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