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peraon Learning to See in the Dark (2018)

To me the results seem vastly superior to those sort of simple DSP algorithms. The video shows a comparison with some denoising: https://youtu.be/qWKUFK7MWvg?t=102

peraon Amazon fires two UX designers critical of warehouse working conditions

> Don't bite the hand that feeds you

Warehouse workers are literally feeding America right now, so I agree with that part.

peraon Amazon fires two UX designers critical of warehouse working conditions

Making requests to improve important safety practices is considered "trash talking"? Such a harsh stance for those working at warehouse during a pandemic from someone probably working from home...

peraon Firefox 75.0

Uhm so if I do two slow clicks I can actually edit without changing my clipboard (even when the first click renders it selected)... and if I want to copy the URL I have to do two slow clicks and then a quick triple-click. It's awful but I least I still have copy paste functionality. Thanks!

By the way, is there any workaround for the Esc issue? (i.e. a way to unfocus the new address bar)

peraon Firefox 75.0

Unfortunately that doesn't work as it selects the doubleclicked word (after selecting the whole URL) which modifies X11 clipboard.

peraon Firefox 75.0

I also use ^L, but many times I just want to modify part of the URL (sometimes even with text from the clipboard buffer). As a web developer this change is going to be pretty irritating.

peraon Firefox 75.0

One of the complains is that the select-all on single-click is anti-idiomatic for Linux and *BSD users, and when text is selected in X11 it is automatically copied. The standard way to select the whole content in a text box is to triple-click it.

peraon Chelsea Manning ordered to be released [pdf]

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-chelsea-pay-her-court-fines

(https://twitter.com/SaveManning/status/1238272105180835841)

peraon Chelsea Manning ordered to be released [pdf]

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-chelsea-pay-her-court-fines

(https://twitter.com/SaveManning/status/1238272105180835841)

peraon Planet is 'way off track' in dealing with climate change, U.N. report says

I was going to mention the ridiculous situation with ghost flights, but it seems authorities are temporarily suspending this rule:

https://www.fastcompany.com/90476154/airlines-will-stop-coro...

peraon San Francisco bans public events holding more than 1,000 people

This one also came just a few minutes ago:

https://kuow.org/stories/seattle-public-schools-closes-for-t...

peraon San Francisco bans public events holding more than 1,000 people

Seattle just declared a similar ban but for gatherings of 250+ people:

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/coronavirus-inslee-announce...

peraon Elixir v1.10

It's called "arity":

https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/basic-types.html#ide...

peraon South American nations open fire on ICANN for 'illegal' sale of .amazon

English is the de facto lingua franca on the internet. English is also the official language of both Guyana and the Falklands. I think that would give these nations a case for a claim.

peraon Scientists discover 'why stress turns hair white'

Some people feel very uncomfortable with the idea that a non-human animal can experience pain as we do, it can make ones reality much more complex.

peraon Glenn Greenwald Charged with Cybercrimes in Brazil

> (b) we don't really have all the facts of the case

According to Folha de São Paulo there is a recorded conversation where Greenwald mentions to one of the "hackers" that The Intercept Brasil had saved all the submitted files, hence there was no reason for the hacker group to keep them:

https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/2020/01/sem-ter-sido-inv...

The plaintiff considers this is a proof of Greenwald assisting the group.

peraon Growing Music: musical interpretations of L-Systems (2005)

Here is an example of a Max/MSP patch that uses l-systems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3hoAuS3qzg

If you are curious about algorithmic compositions you may want to check the British duo Autechre. Their 2013 EP, L-Event, is probably a reference between l-systems and eleventh (interval): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKtrcF_Y16Y

peraon 'Megafire' in Australia Engulfs 1.5M Acres

That seems to me a quite useless and potentially misleading comparison. Scientists should be aware that everything they say can be used against their own work in the wild world of social networks.

peraon People Who Do Not Exist Invade Facebook

> I have 20 friends who use such tools

Wait, do you have 20 friends that ran StyleGAN2 for a couple of hours to generate human faces? Can't they just avoid uploading a profile picture?

When I used Facebook my avatar was an anime and my name was an obvious joke. I didn't need to simulate a natural person identity.

peraon German govt proposes law to force WhatsApp Gmail etc to hand over user passwords

"DOJ" is also confusing: this is not referring the US Department of Justice but the German Ministry of Justice (Bundesjustizministerin/BMJV)

peraon The best Cyber Monday deals according to Alexa: any Amazon-owned brand

Ah the "nothing to hide" + "privacy is already dead anyways" arguments, and even coming from an anonymous user, classic.

peraon Software Security Is a Programming Languages Issue (2018)

Yet some languages are extremely helpful in this regard: see for instance F* and the HACL* library.

peraon PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by former Israeli spy

> I recognize that PIA can do more to provide more comfort to people.

You could start by looking for a new CTO maybe? I mean, Mark Karpeles was such an obvious bad choice.

peraon Superconductivity Theory Under Attack

"attacking" a theory is a very common expression used in many scientific literature.

peraon Lisp-Flavored Programming Languages

Parenthesized sexprs are easy to parse (by both machines and humans) and Lisp text editors already have many convenient ways to work with them. There are though some interesting alternatives such as sweet-expressions[1] and wisp[2], but not too many people care about these.

[1] - https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-110/srfi-110.html

[2] - https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-119/srfi-119.html

peraon The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses

I find my personal /64 quite easy to remember (2605:2700:1:1040::).

peraon OnePlus Hit by Data Breach

Ah yeah I think you are correct, AVS is sometimes required. Sorry for the confusion.

peraon OnePlus Hit by Data Breach

I believe small vendors need it to verify that you really are the owner of the CC (it's a requirement of the processor).

peraon Don’t Rush Quantum-Proof Encryption, Warns NSA Research Director

It's a totally different ball game though: this isn't about NIST recommending a shady algorithm with mysterious parameters, this is about a well-known standardization process that accept submissions from cryptographers all around the world where anyone can review the proposals and make comments.

I don't care what they end up selecting as the winner (and to be honest, I'm so ridiculously paranoid that I don't trust Keccak, for instance), I just think that having a competition where everyone is spending all their energy into looking for flaws on the others candidates is a great thing.

Next year China will announce a similar standardization process. Do I trust China? of course not, but I really welcome this initiative anyways.

peraon Don’t Rush Quantum-Proof Encryption, Warns NSA Research Director

Where did you read that? The only thing she says is to wait the competition to end (by 2022):

> “It's very important that people wait for NIST to do its due diligence,” Frincke said.

This is the standard process.