TravisHusky

If I am not mistaken, it is an option at 500 karma.

Didn't realize this was a thing, cool that it worked.

As a loosely related note, there has been problems in the past where people come up with meanings for hand gestures without knowing the signed language of the region they are in, which leads to people misunderstanding something a person is signing as something completely different. Although probably not a problem in this case, just something to consider if you ever are so inclined to make a manual language.

If anyone was curious in ASL this is basically "B -> M", not that that was on purpose, just a different way this could be interpreted.

I can understand wanting stay anonymous; many companies are hostile towards people who find security vulnerabilities. If they have a real vulnerability and share it I'd accept their request to stay anonymous.

If they would not share until I paid, or did something sketchy other than requesting anonymity then I would probably consider it more on the hostile side, but not just because they didn't want to share their true name.

Wow; that is a lot worse than I thought. I really wish IPv6 was better understood than it is now, it really is quite a good standard, but it is also quite a bit different than IPv4 which I think scares people away (it can also be hard to remember longer IPv6 addresses).

Of course it has its own website ;)

That looks like a sweet project. I'm happy to see web assembly being used in it too. I'll have to add it my long list of things I want to get around to tinkering with.

It is really nice, OpenVPN is good, but it is definitely harder to configure, and slower. I also like that it is hard to shoot yourself in the foot with Wireguard given it is really hard to mess up and create an insecure config.

ProtonVPN is also at least a bit better than other commercial VPNs, specifically the "Secure Core" feature is quite good. Proton is one of only like two or three companies I actually trust when it comes to their security and honesty.

Yeah; she had the permits. It was kinda funny from the outside because people kept complaining to the county and the county kept pushing back saying it was approved. That shed must've been inspected 3 separate times because of a couple of neighbors who didn't even live on the same street but I guess were just bored.

The neighborhood has an HOA but the HOA actually had no actual rules because they were not properly registering with the county when they made bylaws (where my mom is all HOA rules have to be submitted to the state, otherwise they are not enforceable). Gotta love HOAs.

Alright; fair enough. If I am willing to give criticism I need to also be willing to be criticized.

I stand by my original comment though. I really don't think the team should take my feedback as a personal insult, it is simply my own personal view on it, not a formal critique.

I read the research because I was genuinely curious, and I still think it feels like it falls in line with the old adage "when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail". The fact that the lead researcher was a doctor doesn't change that for me.

I dislike a lot of projects like this because I have had experiences in my industry where people want to optimize and automate everything. Perhaps this will work, but in my experience things like this fall flat; I am always opened to being surprised though, and I certainly will not be upset if this does end up helping people and my read on it was wrong.

Awesome writeup; I used SnapServ and so far the guy that runs it has been nothing but awesome. I am not experienced what it comes to this specific area of networking since it is my first time trying to get my own IP block; he walked me through everything and even corrected dumb mistakes I made in my RIPE registration with great explanations as to what my mistakes were.

Yeah; I definitely think for kids it has a certain novelty that makes the hospital stay more interesting and enjoyable. I don't think this could scale beyond a fun novelty though; but that is more of just a personal opinion on my part.

Darn, your reply reads as super harsh.

Also a reply on hacker news is not the place for me to go into a complete peer review of this research. I am merely pointing out that they are promoting essentially a toy and the hospital is funded mainly by a toy company.

Also, no, I don't think that this research is necessarily a waste, but I would caution people from thinking this solves anything meaningful, and also would caution people from using this technology in lieu of real human interaction.

It is a novelty, a fun toy. My cynicism comes from seeing people trying to automate human interaction in seemingly every facet of life. My point is not everything has a technical solution, and beyond a small research project I could see larger scale versions of this being detrimental to patients since it will be used in lieu of other non-technical solutions.

The cease and desist seemingly has no real legal basis, but I mean you can send a cease and desist for anything you want. My mom was building a shed on her property, some neighbors didn't like it so they had a lawyer send a cease and desist with no legal basis. My mom ignored the C&D and is enjoying her new shed.

The only problem is Facebook is huge and is willing to drag out lawsuits they won't win just to destroy people's lives because they can afford to hold out much longer than everyone else. It's complete abuse of process, and really should be dealt with more harshly than it is.

As a computer scientist who makes a living from developing new technology, I hate that many of my peers seem to think the solution to every problem is a piece of technology or some app.

Seriously, this is sad, and feels so cold. As others have mentioned we have service dogs in hospitals to visit kids. And also as others have mentioned, the hospital that piloted this is funded partially by the toy company Mattel, so I question the bias in this study.

It is kinda funny, right before this whole Facebook thing happened I started trying to explore BGP more. I actually found a really cool guide(https://labs.ripe.net/author/samir_jafferali/build-your-own-...) from RIPE that walks you through setting up an AS to do anycast.

I have been doing some pretty heavy networking stuff for years, but I finally got an AS number and IPv6 block assigned to me. My thought is that if it is cheaper to just do something to learn it rather than taking a class you should just do it.

At least for me, a big part of my problem with Facebook is both its size and blatant ethical breaches. Obviously most large social networks are guilty of similar problems, but Facebook jump out at me as bad because of how they use information to manipulate people's emotions to increase ad revenue.

Just look at how they realized that misinformation upset people which in turn caused them to interact with the site more, so they allowed that misinformation to spread.

There is also past research that involved trying to manipulate the emotions of users without the user's consent (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17470161155995...).

They take a lot of the things that I dislike about social networks and technology and turn it to 11.

Yeah; it sounds like that is maybe the case. Reminds me of the concern around a "dark start" if the power grid goes down where you can't bring up certain power plants because they need power to start.

Interesting; I have been noticing a lot of service are unstable today. I wonder if there is a larger outage.

I did this when I was in high school for fun. I used a poorly designed comment system somebody designed and used it to transfer files around hidden in gibberish comments. Maybe not the most common thing, but more common than you would expect.

Not sure how that is marketing to criminals. Looks like they are selling privacy, which is something many people desire, not just criminals.

There is an argument to be made for having some things remain closed, and obscured from public view. If a company/group has an experienced and large internal audit team that reviews systems, and they are building something that is likely to be placed under extreme amounts of targeted attacks (military crypto, banking systems, etc.) it sometimes makes sense to not allow just anyone to see/poke at the whole thing.

Military cryptographic systems, IBM mainframes, and many other products use this approach as a layer in their security framework and it is actually pretty successful.

If I asked you to break into the a PFSense box you could just Google "PFSense version X.X.X CVEs" and you would probably get a way in if the box was enough out of date, but if you tried to find the same thing for something like the General Dynamics TACLANE you would have a hard time even finding where to start.

This whole thing was the final straw to get me to switch away from iPhone. I decided to get a PinePhone, even though they are not ready for primetime, I am an embedded OS developer by trade, so I figure I might as well give it a go and see what I can contribute. I only use my phone for web browsing and Telegram anyway which are apparently usable on PinePhone.

Seriously? For one, this is basically a warrantless search which is illegal (obviously they get around this because Apple is a private company). Also, trusting algorithms for critical things like this is beyond absurd.

Wow, I am surprised Apple is taking this route. It's not like iCloud was a haven for sharing illegal content. I love the security features of iOS but honestly this may have pushed me to move to an Android device running GrapheneOS.

Honestly, any time there is a new policy to "protect children" it is almost always incredibly invasive and it always feels like there is some other motive and "protecting children" is used to scare anyone who tries to question it.

To counter your first point about school vaccination, I live in the US and the state I live in has very few exemptions which also apply to the COVID-19 vaccine. There are religious and medical exemptions, and the religious exemptions are hard to get and basically are not available for 99.9% of people.

So yeah sure, if you have a specific medical problem, or very very limited religious reason, you can be exempted from vaccination, which is the same for the COVID vaccine.

Literally nothing has changed, the COVID vaccine is now just part of the list of required vaccines (and as of right now COVID vaccination is actually not required at most universities as they are waiting for final FDA approval which will likely be here sometime in late August).

I bought a commercial TV from Samsung because it had basically no smart capability (it has some very limited smart features but they are easily disabled and ignored). I wanted something that would just not get in the way and would let me boot right into my Apple TV. Maybe it is not the traditional "dumb" TV, but it was nice to not have a ton of pop-ups and ads on a TV I paid for.

Yeah; it is kinda weird because in a normal context the wording is okay and makes sense. The problem is really that exfiltration means something specific in computer security. So if you are a security person, you look at the title and you are thinking "oh no" (at least that is what I did).

I have never heard of MVT (Mobile Verification Toolkit) before this article, but now I may just have to test it out; seems like an interesting project.

It is cheaper than AWS's Casio as a Service and for small sites you barely notice the difference.

This sounds like something out of a Franz Kafka story.