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Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23240575

Isn't that like going back 10 years, when phone were small and will do all the basic stuff? (Of course they weren't "wearable")

Looking at the trend, I wonder if a time will come when the good old "Nokia" phones will be the new "hip".

mavihson DEF CON and Stack Overflow: What Our Traffic Says About Cybersecurity

Not to compare CCC and DEFCON, but there are quite a few "non-hacking" things going on at CCC. I was there last year and was surprised to see such a diverse background of attendees—ranging from humanities, arts, to hardcore hackers. In my personal experience I've never seen this kind of a diversity within one event.

Overall it was an amazing experience. Although, a little knowledge of German would have been helpful :)

mavihson DSVPN – VPN using TCP at port 80 and 443

Maybe because in some networks UDP traffic is blocked by their administrator?

mavihson Fruit machine (homosexuality test)

On the subject of pupil dilation, in the book Thinking fast and slow, Daniel kahneman explains that for any mentally taxing task pupils dilate in proportion to the difficult of the task. If the task is too difficult, they don't dilate at all.

mavihson Cameo raises $50M to deliver personalized messages from celebrities, influencers

If the celebs are just doing pre-scripted videos with fill in the blanks, how hard would it be to alter the audio and fill in the blanks yourself using a machine?

IIRC there was a Google deep AI project or something similar which was able to "match" a human voice.

mavihson OnePlus 2: Invite system opens, here's how you could secure your invite

Yeah, me too.

mavihson That email you wrote as part of the SaveTheInternet campaign is now public

TRAI makes all responses public, including your email ID and personal information. Here is the complete list: http://trai.gov.in/Comments/Comments-List003.pdf