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PappaPatat commented on Thousands are monitoring police scanners during the George Floyd protests   vice.com/en_us/article/pk... · Posted by u/elorant
blantonl · 5 years ago
Hi there! I'm the owner and operator of Broadcastify, which is the platform that powers all the apps that provide police scanners and public safety communications online. I'm an active HN reader and would be glad to answer any questions folks have.

It's an interesting business to be in these days...

PappaPatat · 5 years ago
Thank you so much for the possibility. I grew up with scanners and am truly reminiscing while listening on these intercepts.

Here in Europe there is close to no police still using analog and listening to air traffic control or couriers just does not cut it for me.

Bought the app, hope you'll be able to keep this up.

PappaPatat commented on A collection of videos of police brutality   thishastostopnow.com... · Posted by u/h3cate
3wolf · 5 years ago
They'd probably take the Volkswagen strategy:

Team A builds a feature that detects when the device is in a localized area. (This already exists)

Team B builds a feature that disables the camera. (I could see this being a parental control)

Both features are reasonable by themselves. It's when they are combined that they become an issue. The trick is that Teams A and B don't know of each other's existence.

PappaPatat · 5 years ago
TIL the expression "the Volkswagen strategy" and I love it.

Thanks, I'll be using that.

PappaPatat commented on It’s Time to Get Back to RSS   danielmiessler.com/blog/i... · Posted by u/danielrm26
Thristle · 5 years ago
After google reader went dark i used "The Old Reader" and when they moved to pay only (or they closed? i can't remember) i moved to inoreader

its the only way i consume news/blogs. there is no way im checking 40+ websites every day for new content and that way i won't miss anything

if a site has no RSS or its RSS feed doesn't work right chances are i just won't use that site

PappaPatat · 5 years ago
The Old Reader works like a champ.

I went the same route as you did, and have the same attitude towards sites that do not provide a RSS feed: they drop of my radar.

PappaPatat commented on ChromeGalvanizer – Harden your browser against extension backdoors and exploits   github.com/mandatoryprogr... · Posted by u/mandatory
PappaPatat · 5 years ago
> Using Chrome Galvanizer, you can protect yourself from attacks like this by specifying specific sites that one or all of your extensions can no longer access. For the MEGA case, if users had created a policy restricting access for the MEGA extension to access amazon.com, live.com, github.com, google.com, myetherwallet.com, mymonero.com, and idex.market then they'd be protected from the attack.

You might as well turn off the internet for some.

PappaPatat commented on The faded beauty of abandoned cars across Europe and the US   bbc.co.uk/news/in-picture... · Posted by u/Kaibeezy
WalterBright · 5 years ago
I know that people build replicas of expensive Ferraris. But they always seem to take a shortcut and put a modern engine/driveline in it.

Most of the magic of a Ferrari is in the engine, driveline and running gear. When some Ferraris fetch north of $20m, if I was super rich and wanted one, I'd just have a machine shop build a duplicate - including the engine, etc. It can't be that expensive to do it, after all, the originals were built in a machine shop.

PappaPatat · 5 years ago
> But they always seem to take a shortcut and put a modern engine/driveline in it.

YMMV. For me that is not a shortcut (although it is a lot less valuable) but a prerequisite. I will like modern technology and I like old style.

PappaPatat commented on Ask HN: I've saved up $80k USD. What should I do with it?    · Posted by u/neilgodwin
PappaPatat · 5 years ago
What about: nothing, just accumulate more, stach it and one day a need or opportunity will arise.

Might not be a popular opinion since we all are expected to optimize everything but 50 years in and this non strategy has made my financial live rather dull, which I like.

PappaPatat commented on Love Bug worm's creator tracked down to repair shop in Manila   bbc.com/news/technology-5... · Posted by u/known
PappaPatat · 5 years ago
I would like to say thank you to him, since it opened a huge budget and mandate for my security team at the time.

No more draining discussion if AV needed to be installed on particular systems, the right to wipe any employees desk or laptop in case of "issues", create outbound firewall rules (yes those where new, and yes it saved a lot of damage 3 years later when Slammer hit, but that's another story) and budget to install "monitoring services" on whatever we'd like.

The total data loss was limited, the costs of employees not being able to work was a lot worst.

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PappaPatat commented on Ask HN: I’m already fluent in English. How can I improve further?    · Posted by u/matanrubin
PappaPatat · 5 years ago
I was born in one, lived long in a second and now am home in a third country.

In all three languages I feel confident, can tell jokes, understand and have tested level C2 (https://www.efset.org/cefr/).

Still, every once in a while, I "have this feeling" my proficiency is subpar. Still I learn new expressions and grammar twists that I was now aware about before.

What helps me getting more certain and better in the word craft of the local language is asking locals to correct me and ask them to explain words and constructs that seem strange or unknown to me.

PappaPatat commented on An average family in Tokyo can own a new house for $850/month   curbed.com/2017/2/3/14496... · Posted by u/jseliger
E14n · 5 years ago
The big issues that consistently affects real-estate around Tokyo is proximity to a station and the age of the building. The basic rule is that a condominium must be within 10 minutes walk from a station, and a free standing house up to 15 minutes walk. A house around 30 years old is worthless, and a house younger will be some fraction of its original purchase price. There are exceptions but this is a pretty good rule of thumb. Land is generally the only thing that appreciates in value and only if its in a desirable location. As a point of reference, we live in an 90m^2 home 45min from Tokyo station and it was less then the above price.
PappaPatat · 5 years ago
> A house around 30 years old is worthless

Living in a city which city center was (re-) build between the 16th and 17th century, the 30 years till worthless puzzles me.

Even the house I live in is over 100 years old and in excellent condition.

Why do houses loose their value so rapidly in Tokyo?

u/PappaPatat

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