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jscissr··on Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode”
I noticed the CGI cars in this clip don't have drivers in them.

How would they add a driver for an actual ad? I think cars are much easier than humans to do photo-realistically in CGI. Or do they just show the car in a way such that you can't see that there's no driver?

jscissr··on Web scraping case fails under Supreme Court's Dastar doctrine
Actually, you still have a copy of the data, in memory.
jscissr··on NewSQL databases fail to guarantee consistency and I blame Spanner
There is a "Datacenter-aware mode": https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/configuration.html#data...

Here is some discussion about linearizabilty in fdb: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16884882

jscissr··on JavaScript Equality Minesweeper
But then you have the problem that typeof null === 'object'.
jscissr··on A response about dep and vgo
Maybe deno will implement something like vgo. (If you don't yet know about deno: https://youtu.be/M3BM9TB-8yA )
jscissr··on Chrome 68 Released: HTTP Sites Marked as “Not Secure”
The actual issue is http://crbug.com/394518, which is not public.
jscissr··on Chrome 68 Released: HTTP Sites Marked as “Not Secure”
Not related to the 'not secure' marking, but on the page it says they fixed a medium severity security bug reported in 2014.

> [$500][394518] Medium CVE-2018-6169: Permissions bypass in extension installation . Reported by Sam P on 2014-07-16

And given the relatively low issue number (e.g. http://crbug.com/394520 is from 2014), it's not a typo.

jscissr··on From Java to Kotlin and Back Again
Ok, I forgot Symbol, so you were correct.
jscissr··on From Java to Kotlin and Back Again
Actually no, all keys are strings in JS, and if you use something that isn't a string as a key, it is converted to a string (unless you meant Maps[1], which don't use object notation).

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/...

jscissr··on Another flaw in Signal desktop app leaks chats in plaintext
I think escaping quotes only matters for attributes (which can use ' or "). Example:

    <img src="$url">
Exploit:

    foo.jpg" onload="alert('pwned')
jscissr··on A camera that snaps a GIF and ejects a cartridge that displays it
Yes, there is a fade in effect (but no shaking). It is mentioned in the post, you have to click 'Load 13 more images' at the bottom to see the whole post.