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kleim | 6 years ago | on: AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds (2018)

"acknowledging that it's possible" Even then, once the poison of suspicion has been delivered the harm is done.

kleim | 6 years ago | on: Britain passes one week without coal power for first time since 1882

(who may be using coal?)

Australia and Germany?

kleim | 7 years ago | on: Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial officer in Vancouver

"facilitating surveillance and IP theft" ... Which is pretty funny coming from the US!

kleim | 7 years ago | on: New Zealand travellers refusing digital search now face $5k Customs fine

In France we have a special health insurance policy dedicated for treating illegal immigrants ("AME: Aide Médicale d'État"). Yup... Too bad that many people will call you a racist if you ever start to say it is unfair for people who already paid into the system.

kleim | 7 years ago | on: Disable SMT/Hyperthreading in all Intel BIOSes

I feel the same, maybe I will switch to AMD next time I upgrade. On the other end, I am happy with my budget dedicated server: its Intel Atom N2800 is so "rustic" that it did not get affected by any of Intel vulns (yet).

kleim | 7 years ago | on: Are we stuck with cement?

Interesting fact: there is actually a global sand shortage (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/sand-shortage-...)

kleim | 7 years ago | on: Caffeine dosing strategies to optimize alertness during sleep loss

Could you elaborate about the headaches in the weekend? I also noticed I can not do much during the day without coffee but I never linked my headaches to caffeine.

kleim | 8 years ago | on: ‘Catch Me If You Can’ Scam Artist Has a Warning for Today’s Consumers

European here. Nope. You are talking about Eurocheques.

kleim | 8 years ago | on: Ubuntu now available from the Windows store

I think he is refering to the Outlook Web App.

kleim | 9 years ago | on: Millions of Men Are Missing from the Job Market

I think it depends on your field/position. From my experience, anything else than management will get you a rather bad income. Most of "software engineers" in France are basically considered as making a job at technician/operator level. Some of these jobs are actually getting exported to India or Spain.

kleim | 9 years ago | on: Is your SSH password revealed when you attempt to connect to the wrong server?

If someone has remote access to your computer then either way you are screwed. Using password or key file won't change anything.

If your laptop get stolen, then just remove the corresponding line in your authorized_keys file.

kleim | 9 years ago | on: Microsoft is now the leading company for open source contributions on GitHub

> IIRC they're still doing that. In India I think?

They still do this in France and they are being sued for this. Actually this is in today's French headlines.

kleim | 9 years ago | on: Why GNU grep is fast (2010)

Somehow this reminds me of this quote from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

kleim | 9 years ago | on: Judge Says IP Address Doesn't Prove Anything in Piracy Case

Same here in France, the owner of the Wifi AP is liable in case of illegal downloads. However a large majority of ISP implemented a separate free Wifi that is independent of your connection. You have access to all the free wifi AP from this ISP if you don't opt-out.

kleim | 10 years ago | on: Netflix to block proxy access to content not available locally

I confirm this the case in France: the license for "House of Cards" was bought by Canal+.

kleim | 10 years ago | on: Firefox: We Don't Need Google's Money Any More

You can force the page to reader view by adding it to your reading list.

kleim | 10 years ago | on: VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris attacks

No. You completely miss the point. Many of the terrorists were westerners recently converted to Islam. Also they did not come from poor social classes. They don't have the "excuse" of having grown in a troubled society, they were not desperate because of their shitty life,... Yet they decided to commit atrocities too.

kleim | 11 years ago | on: What's up with the number 163?

Or you can do it quick and dirty with a simple Google search: https://www.google.com/search?q=y+%3D+sqrt%281-x^2%29

kleim | 11 years ago | on: Introducing free voice calls from Hangouts

Give a try to Netalyzer: http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/

Here is an report sample: http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/restore/id=example-session

kleim | 11 years ago | on: The Satoshi Nakamoto SourceForge account has been hacked

You might find it interesting: http://compnetworking.about.com/od/traceipaddresses/f/ip_loc...

IP locations are kept in databases that have many limitations. Some examples of the limitations I found here in France:

- at best your ISP links your IP with the DSLAM location or simply the city for the most lazy. Sometimes there are mistakes: one of my friend living in the north of France has his IP "geolocated" in the south of France...

- lots of big corporations only give the address of their headquarters

- IP location from 3G/4G network is completely wrong 90% of the time