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Airplane mode leaves WiFi on.

For others that, like me, do not know… a Mersenne prime is when the n is prime and the resulting M is also prime in the following equation.

M = 2ⁿ - 1

I’m interested in the structure it created - is that it in the hero image? The article needs to highlight it more! There should be at least a paragraph with a figure of this 75% structure petal looking thing that an Arabian horse could crush.

The article says the video is interpolated with AI. Why can’t we strap a GoPro on there and get some high quality 4K video footage?

> “I don’t want to oversimplify it, but how are you going to fly one [spaceship]? You got to have somebody in it. That seems to be pretty simple,” Burchett said.

“Simple” is not the word I’d use to describe this conclusion.

Should be .2833333 1337 seconds

Sucks when there are false positives but I am glad there are efforts to reduce the likelihood a human has to watch and flag a video that could be “revenge porn”. Plenty of threads on the lasting affects of exposure to this type of content on moderators. (for example here’s a HN thread on a Facebook content moderator’s resignation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26819883)

Seems like additional signals should play into a confidence score though: how new is your account, what content is your account viewing, etc.

The article provides no detail on new privacy risk, yet it is the title of the piece… is there some new vector? I agree with your sentiment that it’s not like Microsoft just gained access to some entirely new portfolio of information about you, they already have access to the superset of this data since they own Xbox (PlayStation provides a million data points on the amount of time, progress, and trophies I earn in games that are not owned by Sony - i assume the same for Xbox?)

Fine if you want to postulate as to what these privacy risks are but wtf, the article provides no detail whatsoever here lol.

The default settings for Google Analytics are not GDPR compliant. But changing these settings affects collection for all of your GA traffic. I'm curious what most people do here... the way it's presented it feels like you have to nerf GA so that it's compliant in the EU, but then it's nerfed for all traffic. Do you manage multiple accounts: 1 for EU 1 for the rest?

> If you use Google Analytics, you process personal data of your website visitors with the analytical cookies. That has consequences for their privacy. In principle, you must comply with both the Telecommunications Act (informing your visitors and asking for permission) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

> Note: use of Google Analytics may soon not be allowed

> The Austrian privacy regulator completed an investigation into the use of Google Analytics by an Austrian website in January 2022. According to the Austrian supervisory authority, Google Analytics does not comply with the GDPR in this investigated case.

> The AP is currently investigating two complaints about the use of Google Analytics in the Netherlands. After completing that investigation, in early 2022, the AP will be able to say whether Google Analytics is now allowed or not.

“Respectfully I am no longer going to support fortune 500s…with my free work”

https://web.archive.org/web/20210704022108/https://github.co...

For anyone looking to jump to the part about background programs:

> 9.2. Does Riot run programs on my device while I’m not using the Riot Services?

> (We may, for limited anti-cheat purposes.)

> In order to prevent cheating and hacking, we may require you to install anti-cheat software. This software may run in the background of your device.

The language here implies you will be notified and consent to install the anti-cheat software - it doesn't seem like these programs will install and run without your approval but that's just based on the very brief summary here which might not be accurate.

I don’t understand how breaking Facebook up solves people posting fake shit to the internet and other people believing it… If you got a text message about the same thing from an unknown contact would you blame Apple since it was sent via iMessage, or ATT since that’s your service provider?

The crux: "In essence, Subspace has created its own real-time mapping of Internet traffic and conditions, similar to the way Waze maps traffic on roads and highways. And like Waze, which uses the information it gathers to reroute people based on the current traffic conditions, Subspace can do the same with Internet traffic, seeing beyond any one portion controlled by a particular operator."

Link is broken - it's a 404 page. Interesting though, are you queuing this up for future HN karma? Or am I mising something.

I think you intended to link to a different video showing rockets landing on pillars of flames. Can you edit your comment or drop the real video link because I’m very intrigued?

> Like Waze for the Internet, Subspace gives the Internet a GPS of sorts, finding the absolute fastest and most secure and consistent path for real-time data to travel from endpoint to endpoint. As a result, latency and lag are reduced, and real-time applications reach their full potential.

Article kinda focuses on speed/latency but the “security” aspect is interesting too. I am not a network engineer, but I anecdotally would think additional security / privacy comes with a trade-off of latency (like SSL/TLS negotiation). Is subspace network more secure? Do you see a relationship or tradeoff in latency/security?

I didn’t see it mentioned but a common use case for 3rd party cookies is correlating session data across your own multiple domains (if your company owns multiple domains). Publishing companies typically own multiple domains/verticals and can increase ad revenue / seo / traffic quality by linking properties together. It’s important to be niche as a site (verticalization) but also broad as a publishing operation (own many verticals and shift your marketing spend daily).

Anyways, google has been writing a spec for “first party sets” to help replace the use of a 3rd party cookie to connect domains you own. https://github.com/privacycg/first-party-sets

I believe this will need to be implemented before Chrome moves aggressively against 3rd party cookies.

You can use Prebid Server to provide ad competition on AMP. So I would imagine that it’s less about competition and more about removing the very negative web performance impact of JS header bidding.

I got into building flash sites because of videos like Salad Fingers and Scrotum the Puppy on newgrounds.com. So disturbing, so amazing.

Looks like BBC’s Brave project was the inspiration for this: https://github.com/bbc/brave (specifically the gst-WebRenderSrc) Brave is a real-time remote video/audio editing app. Looks neat.

Unrelated but wow, BBC has quite a bit of interesting and relevant open source projects. Simorgh, their react SSR framework, caught my eye “used on some of our biggest websites”. Encouraging for those looking to build out performance react/amp platforms https://github.com/bbc/simorgh

More detail in other comment below but we use pokerstars.bet.

We use pokerstars.bet which has an option to obtain free tokens and to host a “home” game. You share your “club id” so your friends can register for and join your game. Some friends observe the game without playing. Separately, we join a zoom while playing. $20 buy in and the software allows optional buy-backs for a period.

It scales automatically to number of players so we’ve had multiple tables going at once in a game that collapse down as players are eliminated.

Pokerstars is a beast, it opens a million windows, but I gotta admit, it’s also got a million features - though once it did incorrectly decide the winning hang which left all of us scratching our heads and 1 person very upset.

An anecdote: I play a “home” online poker game with friends every Friday since quarantine started. It has been a great way to have some weekend fun and hangout (we zoom while we play). I love the “all-in” moments when you see the odds displayed for each hand and there’s still at least a turn/river left to watch. Watching the odds play out and seeing the occasional 3% chance win is so fun. I’d love to see odds annotations on more things, maybe it would be a cool AR feature.

Google says a flat white doesn’t have milk foam. So 1/3 less ingredients than a latte. A latte, cappuccino, and macchiato all seem way more similar. I’m here to argue that coffee is more normcore than hipster.

Are you sure? Seem to recall needing FB SDK to manage marketing pixels that provide detail on marketing campaign analytics. If you’re spending money on those platforms to drive traffic you’re going to want to optimize your spend and see performance. To do that I believe you need the FB sdk - are you saying there’s an alternative or are you saying “just don’t optimize performance”.

I imagine these sites need to look/be legitimate in order to be approved to buy advertising on FB. Automating them from press releases is a cheap way to do that. FB does some rigorous checks on ad-sets - I’ve had to honeypot their process to debug why on earth they kept rejecting a site (was an automated scraper flagging it? Or was a manual reviewer rejecting it after clicking around? Was the content, user experience, or something else in violation of FB ad policies?): https://facebook.com/policies/ads

Anyways, if these sites want to buy advertising on FB they need to pass this scrutiny. Would be curious to see which urls/content on these sites MassMove sees as nefarious. What landed these sites on the list?

Edit: Oh I see, there’s a short list of site operators.

My professor deducted a point for every instance of the verb “be” in my papers in college. Refactor “was, is, are” out of your sentences and you’ll see your writing improve - it forces you to think very critically about the subject of each action in a sentence and your writing will sound more precise for it.

Very cool. A few years ago at NFL we built a CMS similar to this for managing sites and apps. It was called Component Builder and similarly you could cobble together pages of components (and deeply nest them however far you wanted) and configure each component and persist the final outcome in a database. The frontend was not open-sourced, but the backend was: https://github.com/nfl/gold

Your project appears to be generating a static SPA, but if you wanted to consider making this a full-fledged CMS you could look into using gold or something similar.

graphql really shines on the CMS side where your Component schemas practically write the cms UI for you. Your cms UI can leverage introspection to make for a really intuitive and efficient experience - especially considering that your atomic component library will grow very large over time.

I like how you split up component types (atoms, layouts, functions) and nest that under the app component types (pages, templates, flows) Is this done in code or are you using proptypes or some schema to manage the organization?

Safari does more than other browsers to prevent cross domain tracking. 3rd party cookies disabled by default, cookies in iframes considered 3rd party (so, blocked), and TIL it maintains a separate local cache for each domain to prevent fingerprinting a user across domains. I have a hunch you could probably drop 3rd party cookies using a <video> element (maybe for DRM stuff? Just a hunch I have because video-ad CPMs are consistent or better on iOS over android/desktop indicating perhaps advertisers know the user somehow). Awesome article, great reference links, super interesting!

You can drop cookies that are “essential to running your business” without consent, the gdpr tcf 1.1 consent management platforms drop a “euconsent” cookie to store your consent choice lol.