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e38383··on Aphantasia: I can not picture things in my mind
For me it's an analytical process: I start by a round object ("ball") and try to figure out how the lines should be so that it can fit together. I remember (barely in my case, but that's because I'm not that into sport) that there is a difference between a football and a basketball, the football has pentagons and hexagons and the basketball has bigger shapes. I also remember the color, but not as picture, but as word, say "brown".

All this together and a bunch of more subconscious processing will result in a very bad picture of a basketball which wouldn't win a prize and probably would fail us another round of "guessing the picture".

OTOH, tell me about the structure of a house and how long something is, I can probably wind up a good 3d picture and even tell you how to walk around in the house. Maybe best described as "blueprint recognition".

e38383··on Aphantasia: I can not picture things in my mind
We have these common concepts which are actually very personal everywhere. Even with good eyes the color perception differs a lot between different people. For most it's obvious that this is red and this is blue, but in between the colors it gets very fuzzy. The same goes for sounds and smell and touch, so for every sense.
e38383··on Aphantasia: I can not picture things in my mind
If you close your eyes and only see the dim light coming through your eyelids, that’s it. If you can visualize anything, then no.
e38383··on Aphantasia: I can not picture things in my mind
Haha, I never thought of visualizing the images described in a book. To rephrase: it’s like knowing the words from a book, but not how the described image looks like.
e38383··on Aphantasia: I can not picture things in my mind
I just „visualize“ a map or blueprint, not as an image, but as concept. Think of it as an image of text and lines.
e38383··on Aphantasia: I can not picture things in my mind
Yep, that’s how it works for me too. Maps of all kinds are really easy, following someone saying „and on the red wall left“ is impossible.
e38383··on Aphantasia: I can not picture things in my mind
I still counted them, it just didn’t make sense. It was more a spreadsheet - spreadsheep? - than visualizing real sheep.

And it didn’t help me fall asleep at all.

e38383··on Aphantasia: I can not picture things in my mind
I can confirm that this is real. It also isn’t much of a problem job-wise. I can’t do creative work like drawing a picture, but I can (and do) think up algorithms and write code. I would describe it as: I can’t do creative visual work, everything else is fine.
e38383··on Aphantasia: I can not picture things in my mind
I do dream, but most of the time not with a visual representation. It’s more like reading a book.

There are very few occasions when I wake up and really have the memory of an image. But this fades so fast that I’m not able to really describe the image. I retain the memory of having a picture in my head. And it’s boring most of the time, because it happens in the middle of a dream and it’s basically just the last frame paused.

e38383··on Aphantasia: I can not picture things in my mind
Every time I’m reading about Aphantasia, I’m confused again that people really see stuff in their head. I have basically the same as the person in the article. So, if you want to know anything, AMA.

I’m also trying to respond to a few questions which are already asked.

e38383··on Apple won't roll out AI tech in EU market over regulatory concerns
I can totally understand why Apple is doing this. And I hate it. Mostly because the regulations are not technical enough to get followed within soft- and hardware. The EU is just preventing any (most, maybe just a few, but „any“ from my perspective) new (consumer) technology now.
e38383··on Ask HN: Who has had a successful PWA product?
I‘m using https://thelounge.chat/ as PWA on all my devices and it works very good. Maybe you can contact them or look around the source yourself.
e38383··on ICQ will stop working from June 26
That’s the end then. 2455876 signing off ;) I even remember my password.
e38383··on llIlI.lI: a URL shortener using only I/l to encode domains
Thank you, internet. I needed that today :)
e38383··on Apple's decision to drop iPhone web apps comes under scrutiny in the EU
Just let me pick if I want multiple browser engines. I would rather have only WebKit, but still being able to use PWAs.

Especially since this is a stupid geofenced restriction: "only because I live in the wrong part of the world I can't get notifications" sounds like quite a stupid thing to do.

e38383··on SMTP Smuggling – Spoofing Emails Worldwide
I don't understand the hate against Timo. It's pretty obvious from the article that he only thought about the recipient side and not about the sender (postfix). Postfix does behave wrong (according to e.g. RFC 2822 section 2.3), but it still was not in scope of the article.

The disclosure did go to the parties who he (or SEC Consult) seemed vulnerable.

If anything it just shows that Wietse have a way better understanding of SMTP than most of us normal humans.

e38383··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2023)
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE (at least 70%) | Worldwide available (EU/Germany based)

Technologies: Linux, postfix, dovecot, NIST, MITRE, Azure, Operations

I'm a cyber security expert with 6 years experience in infosec and another 15+ years experience in linux and networking. I worked in insurance/finance and built a mail archive (in my linux days) and also managed a larger security incident.

I grew up in the BBS-time, I've seen everything from acoustic couplers to cloud (other people's computers). I can read source code, write shell scripts, talk to engineers and management, lead a team or project or build another mail system.

Rate: 120 € / h (depending on remote/on-site) Contact: uwe@iq42.de - https://www.linkedin.com/in/uwe-schwarz-282531294

e38383··on How Bear does analytics with CSS
If the data gets stored in this way (hash of IP[0]) for a long time I'm with you. But if you only store the data for 24 hours it might still count as temporary storage and should be "anonymized" enough.

IMO (and I'm not a lawyer): if you store ip+site for 24 hours and after that only store "region" (maybe country or state) and site this should be GDPR compliant.

[0] it should use sha256 or similar and not md5

e38383··on Mango Mail – an unlimited email host
"All at $1 a month." but the cheapest plan is $1.50 per month, something doesn't add up.
e38383··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2023)
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE | LOCATION: EU

I'm a cyber security expert with 6 years experience in infosec and another 15 years experience in linux and networking. I worked in insurance/finance and built a mail archive (in my linux days) and also managed a larger security incident.

Mastodon: https://infosec.exchange/@e38383 E-Mail: uwe@iq42.de

e38383··on visionOS
“Inside a Full Space, an app can use windows and volumes, create unbounded 3D content, open a portal to a different world …”

How far do these portals reach? How many lightyears can we expect?

e38383··on Attacker with access to XML config can trigger keepass.exe to obtain passwords
I'm unsure under which thread I should post, so here is a new one.

Most responses look at one installation of keepass and that you already need to have access to a user. On the other hand in an enterprise environment it is most likely way easier to modify a configuration file than changing anything (without being monitored/alarmed) in the context of the user.

An possible attack scenario might be to change the default startup-script to generate (or manipulate) the xml and after a few minutes try to upload the exported file to a remote location. Sounds like a promising way to get passwords from many users without the need to do anything on a per user basis.

I'm not saying that with the same rights you might also have the right to do stuff as the user, but it might be less prone to detection this way.

e38383··on Zero point leet seconds (2018)
I had no idea that I needed to know that, but now I don't know how I could live without it.
e38383··on Apple Removes Flag Icons in Monterey 12.4
I haven’t used a second layout in some time, but thanks for a clear indication and gering rid of these stupid icons which never made any sense to me. And they were way harder to decode.
e38383··on Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
Are you going to add smtp relaying / sending mails too?

Otherwise this is a one way street, you can receive mail on your domain, but not send from it.

e38383··on Ask HN: What things that tech recruiters do, annoy you the most as an engineer?
Calls. Everyone wants to talk or even video chat. It’s the most annoying thing, not only by recruiters; everything is a voice/video meeting nowadays instead of mail or text.
e38383··on Show HN: ijq – Interactive jq
Is there something I'm missing to get the autocomplete feature? I installed via brew and started

  ijq file.json
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