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seanlinmt

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my public key: https://keybase.io/seanlinmt; my proof: https://keybase.io/seanlinmt/sigs/IiNGcDn3GD0W8jTlv2uf6ElRm-Mlgxa5rjfqilvr8Dk
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seanlinmt··on Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023)
Singapore is a strange outlier among successful democratic countries. There's always stories that are untold. For example,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lim_Chin_Siong?wprov=sfla1

Operation Spectrum untracing the conspiracy' https://share.google/2mRpZk3RGaYUKCRXS

seanlinmt··on Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks
Is this similar to Briar? I reckon a cool feature would be the ability to create a poll.

Use case? You're in the middle of a protest. Where to next?

seanlinmt··on APNIC: Big Tech’s use of carrier-grade NAT is holding back internet innovation
But how do you host services through CGNAT though?
seanlinmt··on ‘Invisible barcodes’ could improve sorting of recycling [video]
Also a good way to detect hidden surveillance cameras at night.
seanlinmt··on “We have no reason to believe 5G is safe”
So what happens if you're standing in the path of a milimeter wave beam from a tower trying to reach a user behind a wall?
seanlinmt··on Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source
While that's great, there should be instances where crawlers should ignore noindex directives. For example, all .gov sites.
seanlinmt··on Google Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch
And if you don't want to switch, there are things like privacy badger[1] and ghostery[2]? Although, strangely Privacy Badger does not seem to mention their chrome extension[3].

[1] https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

[2] https://www.ghostery.com/

[3] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-badger/pke...

seanlinmt··on Welcome to Shanghai, the capital of the future
Isn't Shanghai sinking, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/05/from-lon...?

Or has that been solved?

seanlinmt··on Sorting in Japanese – An Unsolved Problem (2011)
Interesting. I didn’t know this was a problem. Kanji uses chinese characters. If sorting has been solved for chinese character, I’m assuming that the existence of Chinese dictionaries mean that sorting is no longer an issue, then why can’t the same method be used for kanji characters?
seanlinmt··on How to increase your chances of finding a hidden camera
Scanning isn't going to work if its an IPv6 network. I would just use wireshark and the busy device would probably be your camera it it's on the network.

And probably don't use an IPv6 network if you're the host unless you want to hide a device on the network.

seanlinmt··on Is there hope for IPv6?
“No one uses IPv6 only."

I had a go using only IPv6 recently. What surprised me was the site that broke it for me. Github.com.

seanlinmt··on Malaysia seeks $7.5B in reparations from Goldman Sachs
All because of a whistlerblower. http://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/justo-world-needs-good...

The world needs more whistlerblowers. Or at least better tools and protection for those who plan to do it

seanlinmt··on Don’t Shoot Messenger
What bothers me is that if Facebook has to reengineer messenger to comply with the government then what’s stopping signal having to reengineer its infrastructure to comply with government demands?

And wouldn’t it be more secure to setup your own infrastructure instead of depending on someone else’s infrastructure where you are unable to determine with certainty that serverside code is unmodified?

seanlinmt··on Intel hit with 32 lawsuits over security flaws
Does anyone know how one could take part in these class action suits? And are they limited to US citizens only?
seanlinmt··on Borneo Lost More Than 100k Orangutans from 1999 to 2015
I'm all for the boycott of timber and palm oil products to end demand [1] for this destruction. But there's also the problem of the livelihoods of indigenous people [2]. But, at the same time, they are being exploited by the larger players [3].

[1] http://borneoproject.org/updates/indigenous-leader-appeals-t...

[2] https://www.borneotoday.net/discrimination-against-palm-oil-...

[3] https://theconversation.com/palm-oil-politics-impede-sustain...

seanlinmt··on Vietnam Deploys Cyber Warriors to Fight ‘Wrongful Views'
IMO, here's a site that gives some pretty good analysis for countries around the world, https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-press/freedom-press-...

Edit: Sorry. https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/freedom-net-2017

seanlinmt··on Computer Vision by Andrew Ng – Lessons Learned
What books or articles did you read? I found his course to be a little boring.
seanlinmt··on Fraud Scandals Sap China’s Dream of Becoming a Science Superpower
Not trying to say a little bit of cheating is fine but that's total number of retracted papers right? I can't seem to find a list that shows it as a percentage out of published papers for comparison with other countries. Is there one?
seanlinmt··on 'Our minds can be hijacked': tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia
One thing UN's declaration of Human Rights doesn't seem to cover is the right to free will. http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/

Perhaps it should?

seanlinmt··on Britain Moves to Criminalize Reading Extremist Material on the Internet
I find it a little strange that people don't look into the reasons why terrorism exist. Wouldn't it be more efficient in trying to stamp out the root causes of terrorism?

People don't just wake up one morning and go, "Ah. Such a beautiful morning. I think I'll start terrorising people today."

Do they?

seanlinmt··on Solve large jigsaw puzzles using genetic algorithms and OpenCV
Reminds me of the lego sorting project, https://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-lego-the-software-side
seanlinmt··on Shadowsocks, the tool China’s coders use to blast through the Great Firewall
How is this any different from setting up a VPN? The user still needs technical knowledge to setup a server outside the GFW.
seanlinmt··on Why English is such a great language for puns
That would be this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_Mud_Horse
seanlinmt··on Lucida: Infrastructure for Emerging Intelligent Web Services
You may want to check out https://mycroft.ai/. This one just works out of the box.
seanlinmt··on A Multibillion-Dollar U.S. Spy Agency Few Know Exists
If you didn't know the agency exists, how would anyone know what to Google for?
seanlinmt··on Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?
You are right that work in these areas tend not to be hampered by technology. It sometimes may even be hazardous to ones health considering the value of timber. 20 years ago is a long time ago, GIS must be still at its infancy then. These days one could pull free satellite images from NASA and probably could just diff images if not for those pesky clouds. Oh wait actually I think NASA does do earth imagery at various spectral ranges, https://www.odysseyofthemind.com/aster.htm.

Curious to know what sort of methods you used then if you don't mind sharing.

seanlinmt··on Powerwall 2 and Integrated Solar
Is the patent for Powerwall v2 available somewhere as well? As per https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you? Just windering if it contains enough info for anyone to built a unit themselves.
seanlinmt··on The Rarest Pig
Or maybe because there's research that shows that women tend to have girls when food is scarce.

[1] https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6551-boy-babies-less-...

seanlinmt··on How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username
Interesting that GoDaddy does not keep an audit trail for account detail changes that might help detect malicious activity. I guess they'll rather lose customers and reputation than do this.
seanlinmt··on Syrian Electronic Army hijacks Microsoft blog and Twitter account
I'm guessing DNS Hijacking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pp72gUYx00&feature=youtube_...
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