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kingvash | 4 years ago | on: Alexa, Ring, and Astro: Where's My Privacy, Amazon?

> But so far, I have resisted the notion of having cameras all over the place, peering inside the home's interior spaces. Sure, I have some Ring devices guarding the front of the house, but there's nothing recording inside.

> I live in a gated community with only one way in and out, and I'm alerted immediately if someone should be let through if they aren't on my regular list.

The whole tone of the article as I read it was Security & Privacy for me, not for thee (people in my community, my dogs, my hypothetical kids).

kingvash | 4 years ago | on: Auditing Io_uring

> The kernel community has surprisingly few rules regarding the addition of new features like io_uring. ... there is nobody with a checklist making sure that all of the relevant boxes have been marked before a new subsystem can be merged.

This is such a stark difference from the big tech company I work at where there are checklists from the security, privacy, performance, and maintenance teams that have to be satisfied before features can be launched.

kingvash | 5 years ago | on: Does Facebook pay Apple 30% of revenue derived from ads made within its iOS app?

Drat, I wish I could edit; I meant deals negotiated off platform.

My understanding is it's potentially illegal [1] to pay someone to post and not tag it as being an advertisement. Instagram added new transparency guidelines [2] that require sponsored posts to be created inside their platform [3]

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2016/03/15/lord--taylor...

[2] https://business.instagram.com/blog/tagging-and-insights/

[3] https://adespresso.com/blog/instagram-sponsored-posts/

kingvash | 5 years ago | on: Does Facebook pay Apple 30% of revenue derived from ads made within its iOS app?

Instagram (Facebook) updated their rules in 2016[1] demanding that off platform deals for sponsored content go through them so they get a cut. Sounds like the exact same situation; You aren't allowed to make money via Ads without paying the platform our "fair" cut. News articles suggest Some of this was FTC compliance but Facebook also wanted their cut.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/business/news/branded-content-updat... [2] https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/12/21135183/ftc-influencer-a...

kingvash | 6 years ago | on: Cleaning algorithm finds 20% of errors in major image recognition datasets

We did some interesting experiments with Go where we inverted the label of who won and measured what impact that had on the final model. This is a binary label so it's probably more impactful (it's the only signal we are measuring)

From memory it had only a small impact (2% strength) with ~7% of results flipped, at 4% it was hard to measure the impact (<1%)

kingvash | 6 years ago | on: Libra Core

It seems like it has the table-stakes features without anything new. And certainly not anything ethereum or a handful of other crypto's don't already offer.

kingvash | 8 years ago | on: Suicide Linux

I've added a counter (of successful commands in a row) to my bashrc. I've seen it as high as 120.

  function promptCommand()
  {
    LAST_STATUS=$?
    # Set title of window to dir, then add new line to prompt.
    PS1='\[\e]0;\w\a\]\n'
    if [ $LAST_STATUS -eq 0 ]; then
      ((successes++))
      PS1+='\[\033[1;32m\][$successes]'
    else
      successes=0
      PS1+='\[\033[1;31m\][0 $LAST_STATUS]'
    fi  
    PS1+='\[\033[0;32m\] '
    PS1+='\w $(date +%H:%M) \$ \[\033[0m\]'
  }

  lastStatus=0
  successes=-1
  PROMPT_COMMAND="promptCommand"
My prompt:

  [0] /home/bar/g3 14:19 $ echo "boo"
  boo

  [1] /home/bar/g3 14:19 $
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