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dalf··on Reveal: Google Plan to Prevent Next “Trump Situation” (Hidden Cam)
Since it is based on news from that moment, the result is a point in the past, yes. In the present day, I can't say. According to this video it is different.

Actually there are no so many articles about google bias.

The method to find bias is more interesting, even it is quiet simple. So I ask myself : is it possible to build something similar now ?

dalf··on Reveal: Google Plan to Prevent Next “Trump Situation” (Hidden Cam)
"Question of Balance: Are Google News search results politically biased", published 14 years ago :

   The data show that articles returned in Google News searches are more likely to have a bias 
   toward a particular candidate than those returned in searches on Yahoo News, 
   but there is no evidence of an overall conservative bias in search results on Google News, as has been suggested. 
   Both Google News and Yahoo News searches returned articles that were, 
   on the whole, equally favorable to both George W. Bush and John Kerry.  
   This is what one would expect to see of balanced search results at a time 
   when public opinion is evenly divided between the two candidates.
   
Found using scholar.google.com

There is also an article "Is Wikipedia Biased?" from 2012. Sum up here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideological_bias_on_Wikipedia#...

[EDIT] About James O'Keefe who formed Project Veritas : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_O'Keefe#U.S._Presidentia...

dalf··on Google to Reimplement Curl in Libcrurl
The irony is when I've searched for "libcrurl" using Google, I got the result for "libcurl".
dalf··on Calibra – Digital Wallet for Libra
Some other links :

- White paper : https://developers.libra.org/docs/assets/papers/the-libra-bl...

- What's Next? : https://developers.libra.org/blog/2019/06/18/the-path-forwar...

- Moving Toward Permissionless Consensus : https://libra.org/en-US/permissionless-blockchain

dalf··on The inception bar: a new phishing method
The number of opened pages is not, especially if it is :D
dalf··on How automatic detection of captive portal works
Firefox uses http://detectportal.firefox.com/success.txt

see captivedetect.* options (about:config)

dalf··on Password Managers: Under the Hood of Secrets Management
What about Thunderbolt device plug into a laptop ? If the device scans the memory using PCI-E ? See https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-934.html ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19216781 )
dalf··on “Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017)
What if the new node version fix an bug / issue / CVE that doesn't concern the software ?

Is it resonable to postpone the upgrade for later ?

Example : the software uses python requests. A new version fixes CVE-2018-18074 about Authorization header, but you don't use this header, for sure. Is it resonable to upgrade a little bit later ?

dalf··on I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back
https://youtu.be/utfbE3_uAMA

video from "Strange Parts", which after multiple tries brought back a headphone jack on a iPhone 7. It is described as not ready for prime time (see at the end https://youtu.be/utfbE3_uAMA?t=1872 )

dalf··on Google may shut down its news service in Europe
What about RSS ? Many news sites have a RSS feed : * http://www.spiegel.de/schlagzeilen/tops/index.rss * https://www.lemonde.fr/rss/une.xml

So as an individual I can use them, but the dead Google Reader would have meet the same issue than Google News ?

dalf··on Paint16b: A 16 byte paint program written in 12 lines
Thanks ! Is there anything about Tetris like game ?

I found this : https://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/02/19/1351213/tetri... but it's in Javascript.

A long time ago I wrote this : https://github.com/dalf/stetris/blob/master/STETRIS-UTF8.ASM

dalf··on The Blockchain Bubble Will Pop, What Next?
Using smart contracts, who does "apt upgrade" ? Where does the data come from ?
dalf··on [R]eal-life Iron Man jet suit is now available to buy – will cost $443,000
> You can fly for up to 9 minutes at a time

> You can reach altitudes of 12000 feet

> The jet engines have 1050 brake horsepower

> The suit weighs 27 kg without fuel

5 engines : one in the back, 2 per hand.

dalf··on Replacing Linux with a Database System
DOS/4G ? sorry ;-)
dalf··on Oblix: an efficient oblivious search index
I found this video online since May : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaORiYln68c
dalf··on Airbus and Boeing are exploring the viability of electric planes
Why not something similar to railgun but at a slower speed.

This would involve few things on the plane.

The draw back is that airports needs to install this system.

During take off, if there is a problem, the system could be stopped.

Perhaps it's not usable in this context ?

dalf··on Ask HN: Thinking to learn about building Smart Contracts.Is der a need for it?
Fun : https://cryptozombies.io/ (HN : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16113133 )

perhaps : https://www.udemy.com/ethereum-dapp/learn/v4/overview

dalf··on Google is offline
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/google.com

Where are you on the Internet?

dalf··on Voyager 1 fires up thrusters after 37 years
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15827369

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/12/after-37-years-voyag...

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2017-310

dalf··on Ask HN: What are the best books to (re)discover philosophy?
Sophie's World

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie%27s_World

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0374530718/

dalf··on DuckDuckHack is now in Maintenance Mode
How it can about "for you" if the instance is shared between different users ?
dalf··on DuckDuckHack is now in Maintenance Mode
searx proxies user requests to different search engines.

https://github.com/asciimoo/searx

there are different instances : https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances

dalf··on WiMonitor: Wi-Fi Threat Monitoring Simplified
This one supports 5Ghz : https://www.gl-inet.com/ar300m/

but : Dual firmware is installed. Nor firmware is v2.25 without 5G driver. Nand firmware is built with LEDE and have 5G driver. Due to a unknown Bug, the 5G AP is disabled by default and you can enable it in the web UI. (according to https://gl-inet.com/product/gl-ar300md/ )

dalf··on Lyft Reinvents the Bus
It will be interesting when self driving starts to be design from these "buses" needs. May be with more seats than usual cars, or larger space to put stuff from the mall.
dalf··on Show HN: Fast C-based HTML 5 parsing for Python
How fast is compare to lxml with the HTML parser ?

I know that lxml won't parse as many cases as this module, but in many cases lxml can do the job.

dalf··on Searx – a privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine
https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/issues/948
dalf··on Searx – a privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine
There is a global timeout. If for some reason, all engines doesn't response before the global timeout, there is no result.

Usually it's work on the second try because the HTTPS connection are already established (which may be not the case on the first try).

One idea to avoid the annoying refresh : if there is no result before the global timeout, searx could wait longer.

dalf··on The 640 K Barrier
A lot of memories pop into my mind with this article including unrelated stuff as the first try of Linux, kernel 1.2.8, and the "how to setup the CDROM reader attached to soundcard ?" question.

To go back to the subject, I remember to have used a "driver" to free up some additional memory, but I can't remember the name and how it worked. May be I found it reading Imphobia ? The name may starts with a R.

There was the unreal mode / flat mode too : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_mode

I've remember to have code a memory allocator for Turbo Pascal. With pure DOS (not Windows), it was easy to use after the setup.

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