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A Flock camera hit put an innocent woman in jail [video](youtube.com)
3 points by smalltorch 2d ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: You have unlimited resources, what software would you build?
4 points by smalltorch 2d ago|5 comments
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by smalltorch 3d ago
It's marginally cheaper to install flimsy chains and surveillance than to pony up for a slightly thicker gauge chain get out of here with your common sense /s
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by smalltorch 5d ago
Hi NSA. I don't envy the NSA position. I mean honestly it seems like an impossible task to sniff all the packets and find anything useful. A mission to secure the people whilst not infringing personal rights in today's world is a
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by smalltorch 5d ago
Tangentially, attaching a video of yourself reading your own blogpost is a really great format.
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by smalltorch 5d ago
I guess that's what I meant. Dead, but most times I just end up deleting if posts show dead cause what's the point.
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by smalltorch 5d ago
Here's a decent write up https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
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by smalltorch 5d ago
Its a unlocked feature once you have enough points
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by smalltorch 5d ago
All the stuff I post that I find interesting gets instantly flagged now. Not sure why.
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by smalltorch 5d ago
There were significant performance improvements to write the engine in assembly. The project started as a pure python version, but it's pretty slow.
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by smalltorch 5d ago
I don't think it's really the utility of deniability, rather a slippery slope of and loss of freedom from a mechanism that stamps every photo taken and silently cryptographically ties it to the photo taker. That could obviously be
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by smalltorch 5d ago
That's makes sense because I am the only key holder in existence to decode! It should decode with other 'keys' but It won't be the correct message. The text decodes to 'hello world'. Also, this engine won'
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by smalltorch 6d ago
Nice read. Am a fan of this idea still. 11y later and it doesn't seem like it happened but that doesn't mean it won't happen. Who knows. I think it would be great if everyone maintained their own slice. The obvious canidite c
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by smalltorch 6d ago
that's a weird thing to say
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by smalltorch 6d ago
I think he's saying the existence of a camera signature is the privacy issue maybe.
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by smalltorch 6d ago
Here's a toy for embedding text inside random HN comments. https://gitlab.com/here_forawhile/edasm Example: After wholly implemented our logging layer with dagger, I posit that the real regression was not the aws
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by smalltorch 6d ago
Wow they seem to have a really detailed understanding of the the threat actor.
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by smalltorch 6d ago
Wasn't this predicted the rug would be pulled at some point for these sorts of plans across the board? They all offer subsidized usage rates that were a really great value.
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by smalltorch 7d ago
>Several years later, I now avoid spam mail by simply no longer reading my emails anymore... I realized the other day I haven't even checked my main email in months and I missed absolutely noting important.
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by smalltorch 7d ago
What are your thoughts on everyone just using onion services and becoming their own cloud again? I think the model for self hosting actually works and scales again here. I really don't even understand why anyone bothers with jumping th
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by smalltorch 7d ago
here is a mirror https://archive.is/Xpn4c
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by smalltorch 7d ago
It's not clear from the article if this is a mass intake of all internet usage or simply within their own platforms.
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by smalltorch 7d ago
What even is the marketing strategy though? Generate a buzz headline so people engage and speak about the company? Isn't commenting falling for it? Posts here with no activity can't climb gravity without engagement.
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by smalltorch 7d ago
I noticed this awhile back. Check out the network traffic during typing. https://postimg.cc/k2tbxQSx
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by smalltorch 7d ago
So interesting to see a variety of productivity suites recently. I am taking an alternative approach and utilizing v3 onion services for networking. Websockets over tor prove to be very snappy for real time collaboration, and I really enjoy
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by smalltorch 11d ago
Hey cool sounds like everyone's on the same page. Here is a start. https://gitlab.com/here_forawhile/tmailplus
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by smalltorch 11d ago
I've had this happen as well. Same exact name, and concept and highly specific application. It was extreamly niche too.
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by smalltorch 12d ago
A kill switch may be effective for an agent driven attack or something. But I would think that what ever hypothetical national security endangering threat that was created would be something a deterministic program would handle, not an agen
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by smalltorch 12d ago
That sounds like this prediction from 2003 https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/#SI_an...
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by smalltorch 13d ago
The attached webinar is worth a watch. They are very deep into profiling and estimating crime. That's not a good idea in my opinion.

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