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soohyung | 3 years ago | on: IPinside: Korea’s Mandatory Spyware

You'd be surprised, there are many sites that don't even support names longer than some arbitrary limit like 5 or 10 characters because Korean names are typically 3 to 4 characters long.

The phone number is typically required for real-name verification. Pair that with the low character limit above and a lot of stuff just breaks.

I think non-Korean customers just are not much of a consideration for Korean companies unfortunately.

soohyung | 5 years ago | on: Military seizes control in Myanmar

Unfortunately in many countries even prepaid SIM cards are directly tied to government ID verification. I know this has been discussed many times, but I agree that it would be nice to be able to use Signal for secure communications without a phone number.

soohyung | 5 years ago | on: GnuPG 2.2.23

The argument for people using age to replace GnuPG (PGP really) is that there are better signing tools that you really should be using (minisign/signify) and PGP should not be used for the web-of-trust anymore anyway. There are many good arguments against PGP for all of these things.

soohyung | 6 years ago | on: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

I think they couldn't care less about lists. They are super annoying to access and ever since the last update which brought the mobile layout to desktop you can't even create a new list from the "add to list" screen anymore.

Sadly the entire update still feels half-baked and not thought-through and given that it's been months I don't feel too optimistic. There's so many small things that worked fine before and are just missing completely or broken now. It's a shame because I've been using Twitter for a decade but it's hardly useable now.

soohyung | 6 years ago | on: Having Kids

If you have the money, sure. Not everyone is in the silicon valley tech bubble and can afford it.

soohyung | 6 years ago | on: Setting up a home VPN server with WireGuard

It's faster. But if you already have a working system that you are happy with it may not warrant a switch. I think it's main strength lies in how easy it is to set up though. First time setting it up from scratch I had a working VPN in less than 5 minutes.

soohyung | 6 years ago | on: iOS 13 now shows you a map of where apps have been tracking you

People are actually working on something very similar to this in research [1]. By applying random noise to location data the user's individual privacy can be protected while still allowing for collection of usage (or in this case location) statistics etc. This is the key idea behind local differential privacy (which Apple also uses to collect anonymous statistics on usage data [2]).

[1] http://www.shivakasiviswanathan.com/ICDE16b.pdf

[2] https://machinelearning.apple.com/docs/learning-with-privacy...

soohyung | 6 years ago | on: How Fragmented Is Android?

You should try disabling deep battery optimization in Settings -> Battery -> Battery optimization -> Advanced optimization. Unfortunately that feature is known to cause these kind of problems on OnePlus devices.

soohyung | 7 years ago | on: DeepMind StarCraft II Demonstration [video]

They select 5 agents and then put up the professional player against a different agent in each game of the series. So it's a single agent, but a different one in each of the five games.
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