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https://calyxos.org uses Mozilla's location services

I just tried it with internet turned off in both the photos and standalone app, and it did not work.

cucumb3rrelishon Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD [pdf]

wouldn't p2p mean that the client receiving somehow participates in the sharing too? that wouldn't go well with some internet plan caps

cucumb3rrelishon Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD [pdf]

this guy enhances

cucumb3rrelishon Windows 11 available on October 5

full redesign, it's significantly better than before

cucumb3rrelishon Windows 11 available on October 5

you can change the location of the icons to the left, if the centered layout is what you mean

cucumb3rrelishon Windows 11 available on October 5

They redesigned the app store, the settings, the file manager, added android emulation and changed the update cycle. it's also snappy with more agressive caching from what i heard. the search was also overhauled to be faster and more relevant

i would have loved for them to include more privacy and security features instead of the widgets panel for instance (which only allows microsoft services anyways so far) but it still looks like a decent release

cucumb3rrelishon China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week

i can't imagine tencent and the like are happy about this in the slightest

cucumb3rrelishon CCP publication calls Tibet policy a template for other ethnic minority regions

> Break their lineage, break their roots, break their connections, and break their origins. Completely shovel up the roots of “two-faced people,” dig them out, and vow to fight these two-faced people until the end.

Guess who said this? The Chinese official for religious affairs, on his weibo page. They aren't stupid. You don't need guns and executions for extermination of a minority, you can force resettle them across the country until nothing of their culture and little of their gens is left

Here is a few statistics:

> Since 2017, Chinese authorities have used various pretexts to damage or destroy two-thirds of Xinjiang’s mosques; about half of those have been demolished outright

> In 2017, according to official statistics, arrests in Xinjiang accounted for nearly 21 percent of all arrests in China, despite people in Xinjiang making up only 1.5 percent of the total population

https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/19/break-their-lineage-br...

cucumb3rrelishon CCP publication calls Tibet policy a template for other ethnic minority regions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Order_(Nazism)

> Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf argued in the chapter "Eastern Orientation or Eastern Policy" that the Germans needed Lebensraum in the East and described it as a "historic destiny" which would properly nurture the future generations of Germans

> [...] was to be carried out through a rapidly enforced process of Gleichschaltung (synchronization). The ultimate intent of this was to eradicate all traces of national rather than racial consciousness, although their native languages were to remain in existence

> [...] After Germany had acquired her Lebensraum, she now needed to populate these lands according to Nazi ideology and racial principles

cucumb3rrelishon Show HN: 59a34eabe31910abfb06f308 – NeuralHash Collision Demo

american nonprofits which also supply cloudflare afaik, it needs to match multiple databases

https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/13/22623859/apple-icloud-pho...

cucumb3rrelishon Show HN: 59a34eabe31910abfb06f308 – NeuralHash Collision Demo

imo this would only be relevant if there was no human verification or if apple as a whole went rogue

cucumb3rrelishon Show HN: 59a34eabe31910abfb06f308 – NeuralHash Collision Demo

> Is it possible to view the database and if so, in what form?

Not for the general public, it's also in encrypted form on the device

I can tell you how they will make it auditable without revealing hashes to all of their users: by only showing them to experts, just like you don't publish the entire databreach credentials in cleartext but hand them to someone experienced who acts as a middleman for public transparency

cucumb3rrelishon Urban Dictionary on Hacker News (2013)

not even 5 messages in and there is the first nazi carricature. certified 4chan moment

cucumb3rrelishon Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work

If you focus on start-up environments, how about synced browsing for multiple employees to see the same thing? it might have an edge over screen sharing in that it doesnt compress/blur the image and you could built on top of this with annotations etc.

I'm not your target audience and also not active in start ups so this is just my 2 cents

cucumb3rrelishon nsfw.rest – Keep your platform safe of NSFW content, all for free

Amazing accuracy, I tried to trick it but it got everything right

cucumb3rrelishon Security Threat Model Review of the Apple Child Safety Features [pdf]

good luck finding a replacement, you'll end up using a custom rom if you are serious about tracking and privacy, and that custom rom will be... fully dependent on donations.

cucumb3rrelishon Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources

On device != Scanning your device. It scans your iCloud uploads and if configured, iMessages (which you didnt mean, because that doesnt work with hashes)

cucumb3rrelishon Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources

Something tells me people with access to nuclear arsenal are not going to take pictures of it with an iphone and share them via imessages

cucumb3rrelishon Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources

It's not scanning your device, but your iCloud uploads, and if configured, the imessages of your children

cucumb3rrelishon The deceptive PR behind Apple’s “expanded protections for children”

By the same logic, how do you know there aren't bad actors working at Apple's software teams? Or your insurance company or bank?

cucumb3rrelishon The deceptive PR behind Apple’s “expanded protections for children”

if your cloud account gets hacked you have other things to worry about than someone stealing your child's photos (which for whatever reason are explicit enough for apple to report the detections to authorities), spreading them on a honeypot forum and you ending up in court where the judge doesn't believe that the minor on the image is your child

cucumb3rrelishon China releases a five-year regulation blueprint for broader crackdown

they really are keen on annoying investors aren't they. i wonder for how long tencent and the other conglomerates will obey these orders

cucumb3rrelishon Balena Etcher Pro – Fast write to multiple cards or USB disks at once

You should add for context that the two things it collected in the past were IP adress and a timestamp

cucumb3rrelishon How Sweden became the Silicon Valley of Europe

https://content.sifted.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/1111224...

The UK and Germany appear to have the most active venture capital out of all European countries, significantly more so than Sweden.

cucumb3rrelishon Sci-Hub is fundraising

> It's okay. Just let the whole thing break down. Eventually it'll sort itself out.

This seems like one of the worst ideas ever

cucumb3rrelishon Ask HN: Best privacy preserving alternatives to Apple products?

I don't see why you switched to Android then in the first place, because only iCloud uploads will be scanned on iOS. Also I can't think of a single manufacturer with better privacy practices than Apple except for custom ROMs.

cucumb3rrelishon Ask HN: Best privacy preserving alternatives to Apple products?

Android user here: 90 % of Android devices have all the stuff you think you avoided by switching preinstalled and running in the background. Either because it's in the Google contract to use Play Services or because the manufacturer uses proprietary solutions they want to push. And they certainly aren't always removable

cucumb3rrelishon Show HN: Reddit clone built in no-code in two weeks

that twitter clone is down

cucumb3rrelishon CSAM Detection Technical Summary [pdf]

Isn't this far fetched? There is few things I can think of that would get you into legal trouble but are morally acceptable. Like whistleblowing