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The huawei user account hardcoded in the firmware that has sudoers permissions for insmod/modprobe is really blatant. I would have guessed the Chinese would at least attempt to hide their way in?

So they sell enterprise infrastructure equipment with such an obvious backdoor? It seems the US boycott of Huawei was fully justified after all, I didn't really believe them.

> The contractor heard private conversations, sex scenes, and violence including "a woman who was in definite distress".

I think this is a bit disingenuous and intentionally sensationalist, nobody has any reason to believe that the Assistant is always listening or will just trigger randomly or on demand by Google because they want to listen to particular conversations, that doesn't even really make any sense. Also various parties have access to the source code, so if it were malicious, there can be evidence of it. That there isn't any evidence is important to mention in this context.

In reality its just that it can randomly miss-classify "Ok Google", nothing malicious about that, and obviously the purpose of the annotator is to look at unrecognized samples, so obviously they are gonna frequently hear those cases, that's sort of the whole point of this.

Maybe "well, duh, how do you think it knows your voice? magical pixie dust?" is a bit of a cop out, but honestly there are two options, them doing what they are doing right now, and not have Google Assistant.

I thought that was something Minecraft came up with

remember this idea how weird it is that everybody runs around with spying equipment, you have a always-online device with multiple cameras and microphones. I think people would be uncomfortable knowing that someone was listening or recording video without their knowledge, that's why people put stickers on their laptop cameras. I think its obvious by now that manufacturers aren't capable of developing software that keeps the cameras/microphones secured. In the future we can just assume that any camera/mic in any phone is recording at any given moment and sending it to some malicious entity. Since there is no practical way of disabling the cameras/mics on phones, we just have to learn to live with it.

Your ISP could still see the servers you connect to and how much data is transferred, they don't need to look in any packets to know you browse YouTube or PornHub, and when, and for how long.

But its also about hiding your identity from the sites you visit (dependent on how well your browser protects your privacy).

> So, it seems that ExpressVPN have a good marketing budget and little else.

you don't happen to work for any one of the competition do you? anyhow I have been very happy with them, their servers tend to be pretty fast. So add that positive anecdote to his negative anecdote, how useless.

seems like you just go way out of your way to still be able to continue to deny that the US is reverse engineering UFO tech for a long time.

Its sort of amazing that anyone can still openly advocate that raising taxes on the rich "only ends up hurting middle class" or for "no minimum wage" slavery, without getting the shit kicked out of them. The really crazy thing is they think they are good people, not at all rotten and viscous as they truly are. The cliff between rich and poor is ever more increasing, and you think giving the rich more is going to stop this, you deserve whatever is coming to you when the poor have reached their limit and come knocking on your door.

Maybe at least you will realize, that the poor that is going to kick your head in, is not reading Hacker News.

America already has robots that kill civilians including women and children all the time (drone program), but that doesn't seem to bother most Americans. I don't see why robots like these, killing children in the middle east (/south america in the future) will be any different.

I suppose nobody believes him, zero reactions around this. Should've just released it right away.

thats such an idiotic thing to say considering they offer dedicated servers with NVMe raid drives.

why is running as root in the docker a problem? Isn't the whole point of containers to isolate the container? So what is the difference in a container running root or a user? If there is, wouldn't that be more of a docker bug?

I always wondered why it seems we've get automated trucks pretty soon everywhere, but there is almost no one talking about self driving trains?

personally I have JS experience (browser/node.js), as well as asio in C++/Boost, EventMachine in ruby and Twisted/Tornado in python. I strongly disagree that people who dislike asyncio only do so because they don't like the event loop. That just sounds like a typical quick dismissal of criticism. No, its a objectively awful convoluted API.

But if you think you can write correct asyncio applications of any significant complexity, that's great. Doesn't change the fact that a lot of highly experienced developers struggle to do so.

of course not, this is just opinionated rubbish, in the real world people use react dom/native

I have the same opinion about asyncio, its such a bad API that its almost impossible to use correctly. But still, probably better than nothing.

Are there really? I do watch a lot of let's plays and sometimes download them in bulk, but I don't keep them around for long. 1080p60 takes a lot of space and recently a lot are even in 4k.

Unfortunately disk space is still expensive and rather limited, its unfeasible to really preserve YouTube in any meaningful sense. Maybe someday, like Google Video, YouTube videos will disappear forever.

> Lots of attention to detail on the wrong things before they have the basics, IMO.

thanks you pretty much perfectly summarized KDE

every few weeks KDE forgets all my panels because of connecting/disconnecting external displays and KDE having horrible multi display support. KDE is so full of bugs like that its really frustrating, like the task manager forgetting which screen they are on or shift getting stuck when connecting an external keyword, etc. etc. But I've made my peace with all the bugs being a fact of life, using it for 8+ years.

I don't really believe this myself, but HN just loves it if you defend corporations doing evil shit. They are all gullible fools on here and I just had some fun manipulating them.

I too, wish governments would get their shit together and regulate them. The corrupt governments (especially US) of today wouldn't even regulate regular banks, quite the opposite.

There are lots of horror stories about Paypal, but there is an obvious problem, nobody is going out of their way to write a blog post about how Paypal always worked for them. You can find pretty much the same horror stories about any Bank or credit card company.

it should be mentioned that even with WPA2-PSK wifi you are vulnerable to arp spoofing

that's something Apple would do, but unfortunately Microsoft doesn't give a shit

jason scott was recently talking in his podcast about this sort of thing: https://textfiles.libsyn.com/the-podcasting-episode

To be honest, as someone who listens to podcasts for 14+ years now, I always found it completely hilarious when the dead tree media talks about podcasts.

> Facebook [...] I would absolutely trust them

there is no hope for you then I suppose

its not productive conversation with any american, as you are all brainwashed anyways by your corrupt government and media. As far as I'm concerned any american is complicit in war crimes.

I was reading the Wikipedia[1] article about smart contracts, I still don't know what a smart contract is.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_contract

frontend in python?

misses a ton of important datasets and corpora but anyways, interesting how so many of them are non-commercial only :(

Especially annoying are european universities and other government funded institutions