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sdefresne | 1 year ago | on: AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU

It looks like IP addresses are considered PII by GDPR:

They are explicitly listed as example of PII.

sdefresne | 1 year ago | on: RCE Vulnerability in QBittorrent

Those are minor if certificates errors are not ignored.

Since the original issue is that the ssl errors are ignored, then all those https downloads are downgraded to http downloads in practice (no need to mitm to attack).

Or to say it another way, due to ignoring ssl errors, all those https urls were giving a wrong sense of security as reviewers would think them secure when they were not (due to lack of validation of ssl).

sdefresne | 2 years ago | on: Google dragged to UK watchdog over Chrome's upcoming IP address cloaking

Isn’t this similar to what Apple does with Safari on iPhone where they can hide your ip address by using iCloud servers as relay?

Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31387019 or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27467798

Why is it good when Apple does it but terrible when it is Google?

sdefresne | 3 years ago | on: Pupils Reveal ‘Aphantasia’ – The Absence of Visual Imagination

I enjoy reading a lots, but I prefer dialogs over long descriptions. I don't visualize how the characters / places can looks from descriptions. Unless the writing is really clear, I may struggle if the layout of the scene is important (say a crime scene with a description of the room, its exits, ...).

I sometimes skip description of the characters physique because I know that I won't remember it a few page later, and it usually do not matter in the story anyway (and if it matters, it is usually reminded to the reader because aphantasia is not the only reason a reader may not remember how a character is dressed or looks like).

sdefresne | 4 years ago | on: Emulating the Sega Genesis – Part I

Part II and III are already available:

- part II: https://jabberwocky.ca/posts/2022-01-emulating_the_sega_gene...

- Part III: https://jabberwocky.ca/posts/2022-01-emulating_the_sega_gene...

sdefresne | 4 years ago | on: Why are German numbers backwards?

Ooops. Yes, I meant right to left. Not enough karma to edit and fix my mistake. Thank you.

sdefresne | 4 years ago | on: Why are German numbers backwards?

Arabic is written left to right, so aren't the number little-endian in their Arabic form ?

sdefresne | 4 years ago | on: iOS on QEMU

Doesn't the EULA also prohibits hackintosh?

sdefresne | 4 years ago | on: When did Neil Armstrong set foot on Mars?

I tried with "... on Earth" and got the same result as with Mars or Moon.

So looks like the Google result ignores the celestial body in the query.

sdefresne | 4 years ago | on: Reviews of Android TV launcher after Google added ads to the homescreen

LG TV don't run Android TV. They run WebOS. So they probably have not been getting those ads.

sdefresne | 5 years ago | on: In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click

I get the same thing using Google search. Three results with the answer in the snippet.

sdefresne | 5 years ago | on: Barcode scanner app on Google Play infects 10M users with one update

The stock Camera app on my Android phone recognises QR codes. This is on Android 11 on a Pixel 3. I think this has been the case for a few versions of the OS (but don't have access to old versions to check).

sdefresne | 8 years ago | on: What should be my next step to become better programmer?

I personally taught myself programming by reading and doing during high-school then got a formal CS education at university.

Currently working at one of the big guys as you call them, and I would say that many coworker seems to have a mix of formal education and self-education by building.