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CommanderData

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CommanderData··on Iran school bombing: grounds to believe US was behind atrocity, UN finds
Yes nothing says we care about you and your citizens then destroying a little girls school. Really helps enforce the message of love and peace.
CommanderData··on Iran school bombing: grounds to believe US was behind atrocity, UN finds
Whenever I read the US or Israel wanting to free Iran from it's "horrible regime", remember this incident plus the hospitals targeted during their attack.
CommanderData··on Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
The US governments Nvidia ban on China just pissed them off and China said watch me.

Good on China and their sovereignty. Using mostly their own hardware to get to where they are today.

They gave the slickest fattest middle finger when they released a major model, so much the US is itching to find new ways to stop them.

CommanderData··on Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
Especially those pesky Chinese they undermine everything we've invested, won't anyone think of our investors billions?

Regulation right! now! except for freedom lovin' democracy leading countries like the US. Teehee

Dare they release an open model ever again. Didnt you hear? Someone used AI to create a bio reactor drone NUCLEAR fart machine. We must stop fart terrorism.

CommanderData··on LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'
As much as I detest ACR this seems more plausible than screenshots but I wouldn't trust LG regardless.

Audio is much easier to fingerprint and match against content.

CommanderData··on Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route
Donald duck lies every other minute, especially on Fridays it seems. Fog is a tactic of war and a way to make money I guess.
CommanderData··on Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
The reputational damage for CF would be intense.

Businesses won't tolerate something like this so I find it hard to believe there is any cooperation between the two entities.

CommanderData··on Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
Is there any evidence of this
CommanderData··on Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
What I was talking about: https://newtrackon.com/

10+ BT trackers using CF likely free tier. Low-end EACH 300-500 MILLION HTTP requests/24hr uncached, some exceed a billion reqs/day (using statistics from other open trackers) 20TB-40TB daily, ~1-3 Gbps sustained.

That's a crap load of transfer and compute to process those tiny network connections. As someone that's run a Tunnel on a normal site in the millions, the daemon uses a sizeable amount of CPU and I can't see any reason why it's not the same on the other end.

Whatever source CF has going on, kudos to them and their engineering team.

CommanderData··on Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
They don't have Cloudflare Tunnels which is almost too good to pass up.

I don't particularly understand how CF makes money on it, with the many high traffic sites I have used that I know don't pay CF a dime. Tunnels adds so much more overhead in compute on both ends more than their normal CDN/proxy would.

CommanderData··on 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
So how do we stop this? Laws? Who do we write to?
CommanderData··on 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
"Samba unites TV, digital, and behavioral data through AI to power faster, more accurate media decisions. We help the world’s leading brands and agencies reach the right audiences, measure real outcomes, and access signals no one else has."

https://samba.com/

CommanderData··on 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
Congratulations but I also dislike this type of comment because that is not a solution, a workaround that doesn't happen for 99% of the population.

Soon you won't be able to IoT network or block these devices as they begin to partner with Amazon and the likes that sell Internet for near-by IoT devices. Then your only option then is physically removing / de soldering radios from the board.

Laws needed, like yesterday.

CommanderData··on 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
I posted two comments on similar threads recently. This is only going to get worse.

> Not long until companies partner with Amazon and others to send traffic automatically through their near-by devices like smart speakers, disconnecting will be impossible.

Not surprised if this is happening already. I don't want to remove radios out my TV..

> Samba, a media intelligence company have several partnerships with manufacturers to take screenshots and collect metadata.

Viewer analytics are valuable to companies like Samba, they aren't the only ones. Laws ASAP, these companies will lobby hard to stop anything of the sort.

CommanderData··on LG TVs aren't the only ones spying on you [video]
Not long until these TVs start partnering with Amazon and other providers to send traffic automatically through near-by devices like smart speakers, disconnecting will be impossible.

Vast majority won't know or care.

The way this gets fixed is laws not workarounds unfortunately.

CommanderData··on ICANN de-accredits "bulletproof" domain registrar Trustname
Somewhat related: Public-Key Addressable Resource Records (Pkarr) - Fully sovereign, publicly addressable, censorship-resistant top-level domains

https://github.com/pubky/pkdns https://app.pkarr.org/

I discovered this gem through Iroh.

CommanderData··on IPFS Maintainers Winding Down
Global content discovery really is the missing piece that meshes IPFS together.
CommanderData··on Stopping the smart TV from being used against you
Samba, a media intelligence company have several partnerships with manufacturers to take screenshots and collect metadata.

Who the fuck invited them into the living room? They say it's optional and opt in but I really don't believe that.

Edit: it's called ACR and a much bigger problem then I originally thought. Wow.

CommanderData··on Gemini-3.5-Transcribe
I can't imagine it coming to Chromium thus Electron apps, it is only Chrome it seems sadly.
CommanderData··on IPFS Maintainers Winding Down
I love Iroh but it doesn't quite work the same as IPFS if I understand correctly.
CommanderData··on Initial focus for our partnership with Motorola is a regular non-folding device
Any info on how the baseband / modem is connected to the rest of the phone.
CommanderData··on Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
Personally not sure what the concern is unless you only use Cloudflare for DNS only.

They see everything that passes through their proxy, and if they wanted to perform analysis on a site they're interested in I really wouldn't be surprised if there's a clause in the ToS that allows them to do it.

CommanderData··on The UK's war on anonymity has come to America
Yeah sorry I meant to say in general this whole thing is a power grab like the acquisition on Tiktok.

I can't see any reason that passes the sniff test to say otherwise.

CommanderData··on London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces
They are prepared to arrest 90 year old protestors at Palestinian matches for Israel, they won't stop until all critism of that illegal state is silenced.
CommanderData··on The UK's war on anonymity has come to America
I like this approach but this is a power grab similar to the purchase of Tiktok...
CommanderData··on Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for age verification
Insert X reason to steal user freedom
CommanderData··on EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation
Someone on HN suggested parents set devices up for their kids and Browsers and OS's gate by age. I haven't really been able to fault this idea.

State mandates verification and stuff like this makes me suspicious that this is much more than "protecting the children". More advocacy of alternative solutions please.

CommanderData··on GrapheneOS protections against data extraction from locked devices
Here's an idea: soft duress PIN that wipes a list of apps of your choice however doesn't make it obvious it's done so.

Or restores app data to a restore point of your choosing making it seem like everything is fine.

Make it untraceable you had it setup and it'll help deal with any potential legal issues.

CommanderData··on Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard
It's a pretty easy spot if you're already using an older model daily.
CommanderData··on IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center
The bigger story is how there's a complete media blackout on this and why it's not a bigger news story in places without one
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