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ParanoidShroom··on How a WhatsApp status loophole is aiding cyberstalkers
I agree, and you do have that right, it's a gradient and yes this is up for debate. It really isn't this black and white.

That being said, I would like to see a platform for discussion from BOTH parties instead of blogposts with no real communication.

ParanoidShroom··on How a WhatsApp status loophole is aiding cyberstalkers
There seems to be a hive mind attitude that bashing big tech is the "right thing" to do. And sensation ofcourse. "a typical example of what happens when companies don’t think about abusive relationships when they’re making their design decisions.". I'm annoyed about making assumptions and exposing them as truth. Who said they didn't? I'm not defending the creepy abuse of those people at all, but I feel the focus is aimed at the wrong creator here.
ParanoidShroom··on Swap Curve Fitting
Why? Is this unusable naive or why would they build it? Excuse me for my lack of knowledge, far from my field.
ParanoidShroom··on Cracking of encrypted messaging service dealt major blow to organised crime
Kinda true. If they are talking the truth, they said they could see the phones turning on around the harbor of Antwerp, Rotterdam and in Colombia. The 3 key points for probably 50% of europe's coke. How that they can see them being turned on might be something to do with your comment.
ParanoidShroom··on Facebook is pushing back on Apple’s new iPhone privacy rules
Like Google in China?
ParanoidShroom··on Facebook is pushing back on Apple’s new iPhone privacy rules
So do most news websites, anyone that sells targeted ads. Is this really a surprise from people here that companies that sell ads earn most of it with targeted advertisements?
ParanoidShroom··on Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal
I doubt it. By the same reasoning they would also have access to iMessage and other apps that aren't banned. Not sure what WhatsApp or fb has to do with this.
ParanoidShroom··on Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
XTC tablet reverse image search app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=be.harmreducti...

Since COVID people are using it less, but consumption is not all that low surprisingly. And yes it's not 100% compared to a chemical test I know. Same tech but better use than facial recognition.

ParanoidShroom··on Analog TV Station on ESP8266
Highly recommend the channel. His journey of reversing the Valve Lighthouse is also fun.
ParanoidShroom··on Ask HN: How can I quickly trim my AWS bill?
I was in the same boat and this is good advice!

I stopped using gpu's, "Vectorized inference isn’t bad at all!". This soo much, I was blinded with gpu speed, using tensorflow builds with avx optimization is actually pretty fast.

My discovery:

+ Stop expensive GPU's for inference and switch to avx optimized tensorflow builds.

+ Cleaned up the inference pipeline and reduced complexity.

+ Buying compute instance for a year or more provides a discount.

- I never got pruning to work without a significant loss increase.

- Tried spot instances with gpu's that are cheaper. Random kills and spinning up new instances took too long loading my code. The discount is a lot, but I couldn't reliable get it up. Users where getting more timeouts. I bailed and just used cpu inference. The gpu was being underutilized, using cpu only increased the inference to around 2-3 seconds. With the price trade off it was a more simpel,cheaper and easier solution.

ParanoidShroom··on Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?
Making people aware they should test their drugs. MDMA testing is illegal in lots of places, we ship test kits where available.

And I created a reverse image search to look up pill data: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=be.harmreducti...

ParanoidShroom··on Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
A reverse image search for detecting dirt XTC with machine learning. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=be.harmreducti...
ParanoidShroom··on Show HN: Finding dirty XTC with machine learning
I created a reverse image search for a harm reduction group as a side project. Many people don't test their MDMA, this at least makes it easier to search for past lab results. It's not a replacement for a chemical test.

It was my first project getting into machine learning.

It's made with 2 models, a Retinanet model for localization and a triplet loss model for generating image embeddings.

Those are then compared in an Annoy database and voila.

Feedback is appreciated. Thanks

ParanoidShroom··on The weird, get-rich-quick world of dropshipping
I did it before the hype and found some trending items. Check the google adwords and the math added up. It worked, no record profits tho. Then big local sellers started undercutting me a lot. I assume they have some data mining trending processes running. Ad costs spiked and it wasn't profitable anymore. It was a fun try, but not worth it for me.
ParanoidShroom··on Ask HN: What physical product do you make?
Cool to see your process making the busts!
ParanoidShroom··on Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?
Reverse image search for dirty XTC: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=be.harmreducti...

Custom Android tablet with speech to text: getting my deaf grandmother out of social isolation.

Converting an old school moped to an electric high performance version: On hold due to COVID-19 ...

ParanoidShroom··on Ask HN: Non-cloud voice recognition for home use?
Android has a local speech recognizer, maybe give that a go ? You'll have to make an Android app tho.
ParanoidShroom··on Ask HN: What do you regret you didn't know when programming for iOS or Android?
haha been there, should have left for a different company with our cto thinking xamarin was the best.
ParanoidShroom··on Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run
I'm currently serving an api that uses a 500mb resnet v2 model. The bootup takes to long, so now I have a single instance that can't handle any peaks and costs too much. Doesn't your model take to long to spin up before being able to serve a request ?
ParanoidShroom··on An investigation into the smartphone tracking industry
What special API is this ? Can you post a link, thanks.
ParanoidShroom··on Face recognition in European police forces
Yes the poster changed it, sounded a bit clickbaity prolly.
ParanoidShroom··on Chinese telecoms must use "AI and other technical means" to identify phone users
Registering a sim card in Vietnam also requires your photo to be taken. Is this an Asia thing ?
ParanoidShroom··on MDMA as a Probe and Treatment for Social Behaviors (2016)
Sounds a bit paranoid, but there is definitely some truth in your concerns.

Also that is very depending of your local laws. I know for a fact that this feature is currently being developed by a harm reduction group of the EU.

Surprisingly I would much rather have it owned by the EU.

ParanoidShroom··on MDMA as a Probe and Treatment for Social Behaviors (2016)
There is a beta app for reverse image searching pills. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=be.harmreducti...

Its still very alpha, but could make it easier for people that don't have access to kits.

It's not chemical validation tho.

ParanoidShroom··on Ketamine May Relieve Depression by Repairing Damaged Brain Circuits
So does Ketamine have any other ways of action besides neurogenesis?

There are compounds like NSI-189 that are going towards this path, but they come up short in trails.

ParanoidShroom··on Google removed my ads-free app for “deceptive ads”
Advertising your own apps/games in a different app of yours is still an ad.

If you click it, it will probably point to the play store to install it like any other ad.

Change the copy to "install more of my apps" and they will allow it.

Yes since they employed lots of manual labor, many false positive have hit me as well. And it's very frustrating.

But this is just another empty "Lets hate on Google". Following the guidelines this IS a deceptive ad.

Simple reply them in the policy form and they'll get back to you why within 2 days.

ParanoidShroom··on Are You a Human at Google?
Too bad I have to agree with this one. Their process of manually checking is really very poor. Looking at Apple their process I never thought it was that hard, but I'm wrong. It is just very complex.

But as an indie dev that has 50% of all apps currently suspended for bogus reason, I'm frustrated, angry and looking for a more stable platform.

ParanoidShroom··on The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet
Or a power plug...

Article: https://www.hln.be/regio/antwerpen/rechter-straft-it-special...

Check out the image in the article. They attached keyloggers and sent the strokes to the box. Saving them and once in a week dump them over to a car in the parking lot.

The original article is great, but the guy was really not putting any effort into it.

ParanoidShroom··on Underclocking the ESP8266 Leads to WiFi Weirdness
Love the guy, definitely check out his youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/user/CNLohr

ParanoidShroom··on Show HN: TensorSpace.js – Neural network 3D visualization framework
Wow, this looks amazing.

Going to check out how to process my model from keras to use with this tool. Doesn't like that complicated.

Gonna give this a shot :)

Great work !

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