Findus23

See https://noyb.eu/en/irish-dpc-greenlights-facebooks-gdpr-bypa... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28857461) for the initial post about this.

I think Textsecure[1], the predecessor of Signal, is even older (2010)

And Wikipeida also says that the first version of the Signal Protocol is from 2013[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TextSecure [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Protocol

While I agree that 1.7k issues are a lot, also keep in mind that there are 9.6k closed issues and they are bugs and feature requests over 11 years that never get closed as there might be someone else coming across some feature request one day who wants to implement it.

for reference, this is the source of the Austrian contact tracking app: https://github.com/austrianredcross/

Maybe also report it to the Italian data protection authority directly: https://www.garanteprivacy.it/

related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22180164 [Russia blocks ProtonMail]

Thanks for linking, I intentionally saved all files to archive.org as I was sure a lot of people would only notice when it is too late.

You can see all links with their hash here:

https://forum.matomo.org/t/maxmind-is-changing-access-to-fre...

Unfortunately it seems like they are also using this as a chance to change the license from a Creative Commons BY-SA to something else.

And the announcement is really short dated as I am sure a lot of services will have to be updated now over the holidays.

At least the last files before the change will stay under the old license forever.

And speaking of WordPress analytics: There is now a new official WordPress plugin that contains a whole Matomo instance, so you don't need to set it up seperatly.

https://matomo.org/blog/2019/10/matomo-analytics-for-wordpre...

I want to question the "global" a bit. I zoomed into Vienna and there was just the normal OSM tileset (showing lots of public transport) without any additional data.

Unfortunatly the linked nginx module [1] seems to be unmaintained since 2016. While there is a more maintained fork [2] it seems like neither the Ubuntu [3] nor the Debian team [4] want to package it due to open bugs and security concerns.

It's really surprising considering how widespread Brotli support is, that there isn't a better nginx support for it.

[1] https://github.com/google/ngx_brotli [2] https://github.com/eustas/ngx_brotli [3] https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nginx/+question... [4] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=919320

This idea already exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code

The on-device Machine Learning sounds pretty amazing. Does anyone know if this will be a part of AOSP or be a closed-source extension (like digital wellbeing)?

Check https://www.hot.at/aktivierung/index.html for details for HoT users.

Asked by the interviewer if this isn't the same as asking bar owners to check the ID of every visitor just in case a bar fight breaks out, the minister answered:

"Das ist ja ein Blödsinn, was sie da reden" (This is total nonsense you are talking about)

In case anyone wants to know how this should work, this is the explanation by the minister:

There are "technical possibilities where software can run on the backend that can immediately identify: Does the registered mobile phone number match the name and address or not?" - derstandard.at/2000101678440/Minister-Bluemels-Ominous-De-Anonymization-Software (from https://derstandard.at/2000101678440/Minister-Bluemels-Omino...)

Translating it as "backend" is very friendly as he literally said "a software in the rear end".

I can claim to have experience [0] with generating funny nonsense based on Stackoverflow data (what a wired thing to say :))

Seems like you beat me to my plan to make a Neural Network based variant and I really like the results (especially that they stay a topic instead of totally drifting off into fun nonsense like my Markov Chains.

Have you tried also using other Stackexchange sites as a source? In my experience they result in more fun questions as they have more "human" interactions (especially the more personal advice based sites) which creates things like: - Do Greeks driving affect the whaling industry? - Essential windsurfing equipment to fish? - Do mountaineers eat grass? - Can I toast

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16947038

And these Stack Overflow/Exchange questions don’t exist:

https://se-simulator.lw1.at/

Disclaimer: Fun useless side project by me (And contains no machine learning, but just plain Markov chains)

I just stumbled across this post. If someone has questions about Matomo, just ask. I'll try to answer or forward them to the rest of the team.

Matomo uses a simple community-contributed list [1] of domains that were reported by multiple people to create referrer-spam.

Of course you can use the same list for every other software.

[1] https://github.com/matomo-org/referrer-spam-blacklist/blob/m...

Hi,

You can configure Matomo [1] to both not use any cookies [2] and to automatically delete just the raw data or all data that is older than x months. Log Analytics is also possible.

If you want something that is far more minimalistic, but also Open Source and self-hostable, you can take a look at [3]. (Not sure about how they use cookies)

(Disclaimer: I am part of the Matomo team)

[1] https://matomo.org/ [2] https://matomo.org/faq/general/faq_157/ [3] https://usefathom.com/

Hi,

I have to agree that one should be using PHP 7.2. It also gives a nice performance boost to Matomo. The required PHP version for Matomo is shown in [1] (5.5.9 or greater) Can you please send me a link to the FAQ page mentioning 5.3 (e.g. to lukas@matomo.org) so they can be updated?

[1] https://matomo.org/docs/requirements/

Generating fun Stack Exchange questions using Markov chains https://se-simulator.lw1.at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16947038

Disclaimer: This is by me, but it is definitly both funny and stupid.

Just FYI: With Piwik/Matomo you can replay your access.log and therefore never miss any data even if the instance goes down completely: https://matomo.org/faq/log-analytics-tool/faq_19221/

It does, but again via an own implementation of web sockets (I think) which creates an additional connection that drains power.

Just FYI: Matomo has nearly none impact to the loading performance as it is always loaded async and deferred (so only after the page has finished loading).

If this is still too slow for you, you could try the official QueuedTracking plugin [1], which tracks into a redis or mysql database and processes the requests afterwards. That way you should get to about 30ms for the request.

[1] https://plugins.matomo.org/QueuedTracking

This is really the chance for a great open source project. So many open source apps (Signal, Mastodon clients, riot.im, telegram-foss and more) have to do hacks to be able to deliver push notifications without GCM/FCM

What if there was an open source software one could setup on a server that would provide push services for all these apps and would interact with one open source client running on android.

That way one would have the energy saving benefits of only handling one server connection, but the privacy benefits of a private server for oneself/friends/people one trusts.

This is definitely not easy and would require coordination between many open source projects and also additions in Android to run on a system level (maybe in lineageos and similar), but I really think it would be worth it.

But you need to know how to write the word and in which grammatical case the word is or otherwise you end up on the wrong end of the earth because every homophone also maps to a real location.

I'm not sure I understand their idea of localization.

The center of Vienna is "decays.jump.graver" (if those are simple words is questionable).

But when I switch to German the same block becomes "fahrende.hügeligen.ansprüche" (driving, hilly, demands). So the words I get by default are again just random strings for someone who doesn't speak German)

And even someone who speaks German may get the inflection of the words wrong and end up in "fahren.hügelig.ansprüche", "fahrend.hügelige.ansprüche" or any other permutation of the many ways the same word could be written in another context.

And worst of all, all those permutations exist and map to other locations somewhere on earth.

Sounds nice, but my plan was to find out how much data I can handle easily on my plain simple desktop PC.

You may have seen, that you can filter by site [1]. Code quite ruined my chains as it didn't appear in blocks, but rather everywhere, so I went the easy way and filtered all code blocks.

I didn't filter math as I couldn't find a proper way to do it, but you can see that it gets quite messy [2]

[1] https://se-simulator.lw1.at/s/math.stackexchange.com

[2] https://se-simulator.lw1.at/q/a-e-3-how-to-span