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anaganisk··on Canada starts investigating TikTok over data collection from young users
Yes may be in EU and California, but a far fetched dream in countries like UK, US, India etc. Funny enough, India already has an ID system that requires every citizen to be enrolled in even children who also have biometrics integration. And I can guarantee you, majority dont give a damm about privacy and call anyone anti-national who point out flaws. Will just leave this here.

https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/attorney-general-gets-roast...

anaganisk··on Don't believe ChatGPT – we do not offer a "phone lookup" service
So, based on the BS these LLMs spout and companies start pivoting. The govts should start writing laws?
anaganisk··on Disqualified from a National Web Design Competition for Using GitHub
Yeah, Im aware of that, but why is it on the same rank of Weevly and WIX? It's not a template generator. Im talking about the list of banned things they can't use.
anaganisk··on Disqualified from a National Web Design Competition for Using GitHub
He is talking about Github, but Im more surprised to see Jekyll. On github, there is a slight possibility that you forked something. What does Jekyll do. If that's the case, they could even ban for using nodejs. Sorry folks, you can't use SASS here. But if it's explicitly stated in the rule book, I think the participant made the mistake of not getting to know the rules of competition.
anaganisk··on Poste.io – Complete Mail Server
At least they are hashing and not storing encrypted passwords. But even a baby framework with may be 10s of deployments have switched to bcrypt, etc. Im not sure why they're boasting about SHA512. But I am a little lost on the RFC thing. Could you enlighten me. I thought they were standard ports for legacy,TLS, and SSL ports.
anaganisk··on X-rays used for data recovery from iPhones and MacBooks
Most likely an ad. There is not even a rough outline of what they do. They only mention using x-rays to see if chips are damaged or placed properly after repair. There is no data recovery involved in it at all. Hyped it up as if they were viewing the individual bit states on chip and reconstructing the data. How is this even on the front page.
anaganisk··on Hindu and Indian State Senator condemns anti-caste-discrimination ordinance
While in India, minorities are jailed and lynched upon suspicion of dealing with beef. Here, we see a senator taking offense on the law because caste-discrimination is made illegal. Im not even sure how it's Hinduphobic. The irony is that caste was identifying the job a family used to do back when kids picked up their fathers job. Then some power-hungry people didn't want castes to be mingling and lower castes rising. How is it even relevant in the tech industry or even in this age when anyone is free to do anything. It's a disgusting practice that needs to die. Hinduism had a problem with child marriage and practice of sati(where a living wife was cremated along with dead husband) and hindus managed to move on from it when reformers called it for the horrible practice it was. Imagine if it was still prevalent because being against it is Hinduphobic. Laws are made for people not for religions.
anaganisk··on Pentagon warns poppy seeds might cause troops to fail drug tests
I dont want a high pilot on my flight. But it becomes a problem when the pilot, who is a good aviator, is addicted to something due to depression. The tests are the only way it can be caught. If the pilot was ethical/morally competent, he wouldn't have taken anything before a flight at least longtime before it. It's wise to change, yes, but how many people in denial will do that.
anaganisk··on Bug identified after Alaska Airlines planes bump runway while taking off
Your advice is good, but the spirit is wrong. They do that to save fuel not just to cut costs but also to reduce consumption, which is net positive if you factor in environmental conerns. Some locations require it for noise abatement. Also, reducing the wear on the engine means more cycles and less maintenance/chance of engine damage. These parameters are well tested and are very well understood. Planes take off at mere 150kts, compared to what their cruise at, which is more than 250 knots. If you can take off at lesser thrust, it's not bad to do it. It's not like Airlines are making huge profits out of it too.
anaganisk··on Seattle could become the first city to ban caste discrimination
You've got it wrong entirely. Just because you dissolve discrimination, it doesn't magically kill segregation. Castes were created way back when they were used to classify people based on the work they do, and young ones continued in the steps of their older generations in their job so it was a mere classification of their family's work. Then it started going ugly when people in respectable jobs wanted to protect themselves from "outsiders" taking their jobs away. But it just doesn't make sense anymore. No one is following their elders' job anymore. The caste system itself must be outlawed even to mention it. As long as you still try to identify someone based on their caste, you are encouraging segregation. Govt forms must not include an outdated classification. I shouldn't show proof of my caste to get a college admission. Marriages must not made based on it. I kid you not, I was personally rejected from marriage with the woman I was in a relationship based on my caste.banning Discrimination did snt do shit.
anaganisk··on Show HN: AskHN
I think I should've put an /s at the end. Its kind of strange that I see constant discussions here and people harrassing small apps/libraries about how their error collection is not OPT-IN. The whole audacity debacle. But data collection for training ML models is perfectly fine because we sure do know the companies who fund the research, how they will get an ROI.
anaganisk··on Show HN: AskHN
Nah, it's no big a deal, its not like cambridge analytica will happen again. They're just using your data to train AI. Who knows may be based on the way you comment, you may get suggestions on which medication you need, or if it's time for the Redbull/starbucks coffee. Nah, all is good. Nothing bad will happen in allowing companies to scrape comments and build models. They're very ethical. In fact, people here are suddenly not so concerned that the model is not open. There is no oversight on how data is being used They are just proud to get answers from a text generator.
anaganisk··on Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website
Would that effectively kill adblockers legally, at least those which do cosmetic changes?
anaganisk··on Let's build a Chrome extension that steals as much data as possible
There are at least 100s of extensions that are published by legal corporates, adgaurd extension is pretty sure a legally registered company as an example.
anaganisk··on Seattle could become the first city to ban caste discrimination
I can give you the names, and they will feature in the top 50.
anaganisk··on Seattle could become the first city to ban caste discrimination
We literally select our caste in govt forms,I literally had to get a caste certificate to prove for my college admission.Im not sure you know what you are talking about. Caste based discrimination is illegal not caste, we have a huge problem due to reservation quotas because govt still segregates people based on caste and tries to uplift them, but in turn sometimes it misfires.
anaganisk··on Seattle could become the first city to ban caste discrimination
Now way its an old generation thing? I've seen "gang wars" among young adults of different castes in reputed Indian universities, located in cities. I have first hand experience with people who chose friends based on caste. And caste is not illegal in India discrimination is, but politicians here are mostly caste mongerers and win elections.
anaganisk··on Postman is limiting local collection runner to 25 runs for basic plans
I dont understand the sentiment behind these kinds of comments. They listed an alternative. Since when did alternatives mean open source only? I dont see it mentioned in HN guidelines either. And why is closed source considered to be bad by default? I have no idea. There are wonderful closed source apps out there that are reliable and have been well maintained and never had any issues and nefarious open-source apps that did bait and switch, pulled off out of spite, shut down because of lack of funds and many more reasons. We dont have to be snarky every time someone tries to suggest or do something. We could do better by listing may be a favorable alternative. We are insulting both the developer and the commenter by being snarky.
anaganisk··on AI generates US presidents as Pixar characters
Interesting take, but we've seen ChatGPT posts spammed since the last few days here, too. But no one seems to care that a lot of applications are just APIs to a proprietary model.
anaganisk··on Audacium has officially merged with Tenacity
Is it really your data when they are collecting error reports?
anaganisk··on Audacium has officially merged with Tenacity
But they are not even taking your data or asking you to debug, thats the point. They want to collect the errors themselves and improve the product.
anaganisk··on Someone reached me on Signal thinking I was ChatGPT, it had given them my number
C'mon be realistic. It's like asking every software to support Windows XP. With its native UI toolkit. Every creator has a dream to build a beautiful app, and the majority of the users want eye candy. To balance that, you need to do a few things. Appeasing nerds is good when it's a niche site. MASTODON is positioning itself as a competitor to twitter, you walk forwards and up the game, not run backward. No avg user will ever like to use plain text/image. UI, at least, the major demographic that uses social media doesn't want to. You want to make adoption easier, not harder.
anaganisk··on An instant camera using e-paper as film
And if only e-paper is cheaper than the latest Instamax camera itself! Man, those things are too costly.
anaganisk··on Someone reached me on Signal thinking I was ChatGPT, it had given them my number
Guess because they dont render on the server side?
anaganisk··on Ask HN: AWS account suspended, able to access via keys with no console signin
I suspect your keys got leaked or something? I remember reading a similar experience think. But at least I could suggest one thing which I did a while ago, I emailed from my aws registered email CCing Jeff when he was still the boss. I didn't have business support or anything, but the issue was handled like I was the most important customer of AWS.

Another thing I would suggest is never trust any cloud to be your only source of backups. Always have your own copy, I have an unraid setup(it's cheap too to build), with an 8tb capacity that regularly backs up to Hetzner storage box. That redundancy is enough for me. If one goes, the other stays.

For anyone else reading this, this has become so common that people using any cloud service should be aware at this point atleast users of HN to have redundancy measures for anything important. You may not win the HN front page lottery all the time.

anaganisk··on OpenAI bought the domain ai.com for $11M
Google domains didnt exist in 1993, lol. They're probably the current registar.
anaganisk··on Audacium has officially merged with Tenacity
Why is error reporting telemetry bad? Im really lost at why this is such a big deal. They're not collecting personal info. They are just looking to make the product better.
anaganisk··on Tax raids at BBC offices in India enter second day
You do realise that you are literally turning gears in your head to come up with some witty line but end up justifying my comment yourself without even trying to understand what I said. If the BBC documentary can provide new evidence or some common person comes up with new evidence, they can literally repoen the case, and who knows may be the accusations may be found with a guilty verdict. There are several cases that have been re-opened, and verdicts reversed decades later. Supreme court giving a clean chit doesn't mean a permanent certificate of innocence. It just means evidence was not strong by prosecution during the trial.
anaganisk··on Tax raids at BBC offices in India enter second day
Supreme court or a local mobile court, all function based on evidence. And evidence can be tampered. And dont tell me in India people dont say "If he has money/power he will be free". Courts dont investigate. They listen to what prosecution has to provide, if prosecustion has new evidence decades later, the acquital can be oveturned. Doesnt mean someone is innocent forever. Its not a certificate of innocence.
anaganisk··on Tax raids at BBC offices in India enter second day
You are clearly in denial, tell me what are the two parties that can form the central

BJP or Congress?

> India has had Prime Ministers from even very small regional parties that formed giant coalitions.

Key word is "has" what about the last 3 decades?

Having to choose between 2 or 1000 parties from is not democracy, India terribly suffers from incumbency peoblems. Most of those regional parties you talk about unless there is a significant change, most of the time, many seats are won back by incumbents.

During every elections there is horse-trading, bribing of voters, rigging, there have been major scams all which are not signals of a robust democracy.

Thousands of farmers protesting against a govt rule for almost an year is not a robust sign of democracy.

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