Jiocus

Ah, yes that's true. I had actually forgot about this type of thing (did study infosec at uni)

Helpful article, thank you!

The author mentions "military grade firewall", as a must have in a vehicle. Genuine question; What's a military grade firewall?

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In the Swedish game magazine Super Play (now defunct) they covered Fable development and the release, but IIRC they advised the reader to take Molyneux's claims with a grain of salt. The final review still made it to 9, or 10 out of 10 I think, but I'd have to check the issue to confirm.

I want to thank my father for giving in and purchasing Fable for me when it hit the shelves. Fable II was my favourite, a fantastic game.

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I've been giving far too little though about AI and the hype around it (might call me a sceptic), but I feel compelled to defend the article as it gave me some new perspectives, and is undeserving of your, frankly, low quality comment. If it was a flame bait, then I got hooked (sorry HN)

You namedrop three(?) artists and insinuate something about two legal frameworks - but provides no arguments or context why they should've been a natural inclusion in the article or how your critique relates to it.

Is that.. yes, a low value comment.

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That's why it's possible to have a default deny rule in robots.txt

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /

And possibly allow-list the ones you accept. This probably won't change the fact that you may allow a vendor at one point in time, only to realise they changed their crawling use case and has been scraping data for AI training for the past 6 months (before they go public about it).

It can be argued that if you are a server operator, you always know which User-agents are making requests to your resources.

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The prediction does not hinge on inheritance (most folks manage to start their own lives, careers and families well before their parents pass), but on the upbringing, milieu and economic as well as social capital available.

"You're likely to stay in the social class you were born into" - is basically what the predictor means.

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"Your girlfriend is just someone else's computer"

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And the American modern Santa Claus has been greatly influenced by the jovian illustrations by Haddon Sundblom for Coca-Cola advertising (1930s). Haddon himself was a descendant of folks from Åland Islands, Finland, mentioned in the article.

It's where I'm from as well, and as a young kid, me and friends would visit the houses in the village at the date mentioned, and receive candy (or else!). It's very similar to the trick or treat tradition during Halloween.

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I'm a paying user so I can't speak about the free Spotify experience, but..

Spotify will only repeat a song during shuffle if you also activate repeat. It will also repeat a song if you actually added the song twice or more to said playlist. You can try it out by shuffling a playlist+deactivate repeat then check which songs have been queued from start to finish.

Smart Shuffle -despite the name- is more a playlist function than a shuffle function. It's like the Radio playlists but with the songs interspersed temporarily in your own playlist. Note that these songs were not already in your playlist - so they do not repeat unless you activate repeat.

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Have you tried -movflags and use_metadata_tags?

    ffmpeg -i $input_file -movflags use_metadata_tags -crf 22 $output_file

Source: https://video.stackexchange.com/a/26076

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While I agree that the article overlooks the security aspects of inline scripting[1], we do have content security policy[2] at our disposal using CSP nonce[3] and hash[4] keywords to allow inline script and CSS. On the other hand, the articles ease-of-use argument of inlining doesn't really hold up after factoring in CSP.

In my opinion, it's consideration as unsafe isn't intended literally. It has more to do with:

- The human error aspect of understanding and tightly implementing CSP,

- Separating style and JS into their own files provides some security as is (and allows ignorance of CSP to continue even though it has it's use case here as well).

Now, if your company takes this pretty seriously, they likely require that CSP should be part of your security process already. If that's the case, any use of unsafe inline in your markup will be blocked by default until concrete steps are taken to have nonce or hash in place.

Edit: I did not intend to sound harsh - just wanted to chip in about the nuances about the possibilites we are provided :)

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[1]: https://web.dev/articles/csp#inline_code_is_considered_harmf...

[2]: https://www.w3.org/TR/CSP/

[3]: https://content-security-policy.com/nonce/

[4]: https://content-security-policy.com/hash/

[5]: https://web.dev/articles/csp#use_case_3_ssl_only

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Started seeing consumer 10Gbps back in 2018 (in Sweden). The problem was there wasn't many consumer router devices around back then to support that kind of link. It might have even been unheard of, so one ISP solved it by designing their own custom device to specification - just so they could offer 10Gbps asap.

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To iterate on mikl's question: also nice, but I wonder why IBM did this.

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You might not see it right now, but seemingly random bits of knowledge can come up useful later. I once wrote a IoT monitoring software to watch closed-source locked down devices. My view of these devices was antagonistic, and it was my responsibility to keep them from being abused by our end users.

I named my project panopticon inspired by the original idea.

On the other hand, I don't think it's application on humans is ethical nor effective, but for devices, maybe.

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I also worked in digital signage a few years back. We had a similar kind of refrigerator in our office, likely with an LG screen. The door/screen was transparent glass like the old fashioned ones and a layer of LCD. The upside of that kind of design is that the see-through door still works if the screen is off. And of course, you actually would see the real contents of the refrigerator once it's digital signage content deactivated (e.g. detected people by camera). On top of that, depending on the animation you would see through darker parts of the door to get a peek of the actual products inside (useful if you're unsure what you're looking at).

IIRC we displayed our office calendar on it, among other things.

On the other hand, the screens in the article seems to have made away completely with the glass, leading to completely opaque, black rectangles if they are not running. What a mess.

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The hard part is knowing what parts -and why- you need to load into your head, so work can even begin.

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I've tried journaling my dreams but I found it to be tedious due to the amount of dreams and their various contents. Some dreams consist of strong emotions and what I sense as I wake up is not the dream, but the feeling of have been separated from the dream. That's hard to put into words in the middle of the night. In the end, I tend to recall my dreams quite well, many of which have a permanent place among other episodic real life events.

I have a few dreams that are like a long running TV show, suddenly I'm in this certain universe and the plot continues, even though it's been a few years. In a single sleeping session it's often the rule that dreams continue even if I wake up in the middle. It's so consistent that waking up from a nice dream doesn't mean it's lost but gives me something to look forward to.

Lucid dreaming in my experience is very much an Inception-like (the film) experience. Once you have "woken", there's a fine line between controlling the dream, and the dream noticing what you're up to, eventually booting you from the matrix.

For something more on topic and for anyone that will be experiencing a lucid dream in the future: Take a moment to really appreciate the extreme level of graphics, and other senses the mind can render.

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If I remember correctly, aphantasia is inability to visualise images, objects or memories in the mind, and this seems to be what the author actually refers to. The alternative, to actually perceive imagery with the eye that isn't there is usually called hallucination. The article doesn't get at this difference and seems to be based on Youtube videos about aphantasia.

If you've ever had a dream with vivid first person eyesight (like most people during dreams) then it's easy to see that we should be very capable of producing high quality visuals without external stimuli.

I've been practicing on this kind of thing as it's a technique for dropping into a lucid dream. In my case, I manage to find some kind of repeat pattern in the visual random noise of my closed eyes. Slowly and consciously I manage to see clouds or waves on an open sea, maybe add color. Then I can try something more advanced. If going to sleep, these images get more vivid and might classify for something called hypnagogic hallucinations[0], but then it's not quite the same level of conscious involvement steering what to see. In any case, it's nowhere near what I'd imagine as useful for an on-site photo session, more like a high effort meditation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia

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Like others noted in the thread about grandparents, in Scandinavia we'd say morbror (mother-brother) and farbror (father-brother).

What's fun though is that 'farbror' can also be used (in Swedish) for any neutral/kindly spirited or acquainted old man, so maybe we're not too practical after all.

Submissions

Steganographia and other occult writings (Johannes Trithemius 1462-1516)

VRML Virtual Reality Modeling Language (1995)

SANS: Security Policy Templates

Theories Used in Is Research

Taiga Project announces major release of Taiga

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