bravoetch (u/bravoetch)

bravoetch commented on Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri reuters.com/world/us/rubi... · Posted by u/italophil

websiteapi · 7 days ago

I'll never understand this silly take. they just took a venezuelan oil tanker. is that a joke to you? you might disagree with what they're doing, or argue they are incompetent, but joke is very strange take. they are very serious. ask some undocumented immigrants in the USA about how much they're joking.

in fact - any country seeing what trump is doing both domestically and internationally and not taking their actions potentially against them seriously is stupid imho.

bravoetch · 7 days ago

I think by 'joke' people mean "their actions are unreasonable to the point of ridicule, and were they less consequential would be akin to the performance of a circus clown instead of a diligent policy maker."

But the rest of us just shorten that to "joke".

bravoetch commented on Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm theverge.com/report/82065... · Posted by u/evolve2k

emilecantin · 14 days ago

I think there should perhaps be a law that any corporation automatically has a new class of un-tradeable VOTING shares, worth 50% of the overall vote, held by the employees. Everybody with an employment contract with this company is entitled to 1 vote, no more, no less; whether they're the janitor or the CEO.

Employees of a company are the ones who are the most affected by the company's decisions, it's only fair that they have a say.

bravoetch · 14 days ago

How much is a vote worth in dollars? Because there would be a market for those votes, not just a spot market for dollars or internal market using vacation days, it would be reflected in salary and benefits and company policy etc.

bravoetch commented on Bring bathroom doors back to hotels bringbackdoors.com/... · Posted by u/bariumbitmap

darreninthenet · 21 days ago

But how would you know until it's too late and you've already checked in? Doesn't seem to be a very effective way of achieving this... Just means my mate and I wouldn't go back to that hotel again.

bravoetch · 21 days ago

There are photos online and video tours of every hotel room on the planet. Check before booking.

bravoetch commented on France threatens GrapheneOS with arrests / server seizure for refusing backdoors mamot.fr/@LaQuadrature/11... · Posted by u/nabakin

2OEH8eoCRo0 · 23 days ago

I'm torn. I don't want backdoors but I do think police with a warrant from a judge should be able to access your phone.

bravoetch · 23 days ago

There's a top tier DEFCON talk by the Lavabit email guy. He explains where the line is for access to phones and other encrypted information. I'll try to summarize -

1 - Law enforcement have actual information about the probable contents of your phone (like an incriminating filename will do). They can reasonably expect to get a warrant and access to your stuff.

2 - They don't know what's there at all, and have no probable indication of the contents, and in this case they cannot expect access because they would just be going fishing.

Having said that - backdoors are bad.

bravoetch commented on Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon (2021) github.com/jonasstrehle/s... · Posted by u/vxvrs

jmward01 · a month ago

At some point we need actual consequences for sites that intentionally hide their tracking. It should be criminal. It is stalking and has real world consequences. Just because an exploit exists doesn't mean it should be used. That logic is like saying it is OK to break into a house because the lock on the door was weak. If we don't get real protections, at what point does it become justified to go offensive against sites that exploit things like this? If I found someone putting trackers on me with the intent to sell that information (harm me) I would defend myself. When am I allowed to do that in the digital world?

Quick side note here. I appreciate the research calling this out. We need to know the dangers out there to figure out how to protect ourselves, especially since governments don't seem to take this seriously.

bravoetch · a month ago

I think two things keep the status quo where the end-user is exploited and attacked constantly. The first is the VC / Startup model. Because VC is the true customer, and not the end-user. The second is the current marketing and advertising model. Can it keep working well enough to be worth the money? When it's not, the bottom falls out.

Old business model: solve a problem for your customer, add some value, take home a cut. Current business model: solve investment return for your investors, get the returns by addicting your end-user to something they don't need. Future business model: ?

bravoetch commented on Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon (2021) github.com/jonasstrehle/s... · Posted by u/vxvrs

soulofmischief · a month ago

I got different IDs in regular browsing vs incognito mode in Firefox.

bravoetch · a month ago

Seems like Firefox made changes to address this kind of tracking in version 85.

bravoetch commented on AI note-taking startup Fireflies was really two guys typing notes by hand pcgamer.com/software/ai/u... · Posted by u/thomassmith65

bravoetch · a month ago

The Lean Startup.

bravoetch commented on Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model book.sv... · Posted by u/costco

tonyhart7 · a month ago

what about youtuber that build a machine that scrape 3 billions books and make recommendation based on the data????

bravoetch · a month ago

Skip that step. This project enables a Youtuber that automates pulling related booklists from this site, and uses AI to make the recommendation videos. Thousands of videos.

bravoetch commented on If a pilot ejects, what is the autopilot programmed to do? (2018) aviation.stackexchange.co... · Posted by u/avestura

SoftTalker · 2 months ago

A pilot would only eject if the aircraft was uncontrollable with no reasonable hope for recovery. Unlikely the autopilot can do anything deliberate at that point.

bravoetch · 2 months ago

Unlikely, you say? That's why it's being discussed. Like, if a pilot ejected because the engines stop, but the control surfaces still work... Maybe the plane avoids a kindergarten on its dive to the earth-sky interface.

bravoetch commented on Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k threads.com/@nthmonkey/po... · Posted by u/stevenhubertron

bravoetch · 2 months ago

Can a bill for one patient be sent to their spouse? I don't understand how this even starts.