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seanlinmt | 8 months ago | 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 | 1 year ago | 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 | 6 years ago | on: ‘Invisible barcodes’ could improve sorting of recycling [video]

Also a good way to detect hidden surveillance cameras at night.

seanlinmt | 6 years ago | 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 | 6 years ago | 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 | 6 years ago | 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 | 7 years ago | 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 | 7 years ago | 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 | 7 years ago | 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 | 7 years ago | 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 | 7 years ago | 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 | 7 years ago | 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 | 8 years ago | 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 | 8 years ago | 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 | 8 years ago | 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 | 8 years ago | 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 | 8 years ago | 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 | 8 years ago | 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 | 8 years ago | 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 | 8 years ago | 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