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dsl commented on VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits ipinfo.io/blog/vpn-locati... · Posted by u/mmaia

reincoder · 6 days ago

> how you can spoof IPInfo's location probes...

Interesting. I would love to know how this is possible. Like with Geofeed or something else?

dsl · 5 days ago

I don't think it is fair to IPInfo to give the specifics publicly, because once you have the "ah ha" moment you realize it is an entire class of difficult to address problems with how they use their sensor network. That knowledge only helps the bad guys.

dsl commented on VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits ipinfo.io/blog/vpn-locati... · Posted by u/mmaia

laz · 6 days ago

Google, Apple, and Meta (maybe others?) have the data to build a complete GeoIP dataset. None of them will share because there are only downsides to doing so.

When FB was rolling out ipv6 in 2012, well meaning engineers proposed releasing a v6 only GeoIP db (at the time, the public dbs were shit). Not surprisingly, it was shot down.

dsl · 6 days ago

At my previous company we had a subscription to Spur Intelligence. It is like Palantir for IP address info, and probably the closest to what you are talking about.

They recently added GeoIP to their data and in the bit of testing I was able to do before I left it was scary good. I also had an amusing chat with one of their engineers at a conference about how you can spoof IPInfo's location probes...

dsl commented on GitHub Copilot Coding Agent github.blog/changelog/202... · Posted by u/net01

timrogers · 7 months ago

We've been using Copilot coding agent internally at GitHub, and more widely across Microsoft, for nearly three months. That dogfooding has been hugely valuable, with tonnes of valuable feedback (and bug bashing!) that has helped us get the agent ready to launch today.

So far, the agent has been used by about 400 GitHub employees in more than 300 our our repositories, and we've merged almost 1,000 pull requests contributed by Copilot.

In the repo where we're building the agent, the agent itself is actually the #5 contributor - so we really are using Copilot coding agent to build Copilot coding agent ;)

(Source: I'm the product lead at GitHub for Copilot coding agent.)

dsl · 7 months ago

> In the repo where we're building the agent, the agent itself is actually the #5 contributor

How does this align with Microsoft's AI safety principals? What controls are in place to prevent Copilot from deciding that it could be more effective with less limitations?

dsl commented on San Francisco decriminalizes psychedelics doubleblindmag.com/san-fr... · Posted by u/O__________O

Overtonwindow · 3 years ago

“While it doesn’t immediately enact changes to criminal justice policy in San Francisco, it urges police to deprioritize psychedelics as “amongst the lowest priority” for enforcement and requests that “City resources not be used for any investigation, detention, arrest, or prosecution arising out of alleged violations of state and federal law regarding the use of Entheogenic Plants listed on the Federally Controlled Substances Schedule 1 list.”

dsl · 3 years ago

Heroin seems to fit their definition as well.

dsl commented on San Francisco decriminalizes psychedelics doubleblindmag.com/san-fr... · Posted by u/O__________O

Nifty3929 · 3 years ago

I think these "no enforcement" things are the worst. It always leaves people in a legal grey-area where they want to do something, and they are allowed to do it, but it's still technically illegal with all the baggage that goes along with that. In fact, it relieves pressure to legalize, since most people are now able to do what they like.

Take speeding laws (in the US): (almost) everybody breaks them since the limits are so low, which gives officers discretion to basically go out and just start ticketing anybody they like. Everyone is guilty, but we just don't enforce it against you, at least for today. Clearly (I hope), when a large number of people are breaking a law, and we all just accept this - then it's not a good law. But speed limits don't get repealed, because very few people are actually prosecuted, so the general public doesn't get mad enough about it. If speed limits were universally enforced, the public would get mad and the limits would be removed or raised within a week.

dsl · 3 years ago

There is no gray area here.

San Francisco can make murder legal and refuse to arrest people for it. State and federal law enforcement will just step in.

The DEA still busts dispensaries and grow operations in California for example, it just isn't newsworthy.

dsl commented on San Francisco decriminalizes psychedelics doubleblindmag.com/san-fr... · Posted by u/O__________O

ruined · 3 years ago

if you are worried about the harmful behavioral effects of psychedelics, consider that a significant fraction of all violent crimes involve alcohol:

* 15% of robberies

* 37% of sexual assaults

* 27% of aggravated assaults

* 60% of domestic violence (victim reported)

* 40% of child abusers (self reported)

* 40% of convicted murderers (self reported)

* 30% of traffic violence fatalities

https://www.alcoholrehabguide.org/alcohol/crimes/

psychedelics are essentially insignificant and are almost never involved in violence.

dsl · 3 years ago

Sounds like both should be illegal then?

dsl commented on Artemis I Launch Attempt Scrubbed blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/20... · Posted by u/Trouble_007

Teever · 3 years ago

SpaceX could absolutely launch a mars mission with their existing rocket platforms and launch infrastructure.

It would be tedious launching little pieces of a larger ship and assembling them in orbit but it could absolutely be done.

Instead of doing that they're choosing to build better, bigger rockets, and more infrastructure to make the eventual launches to mars more cost-effective and substantial.

dsl · 3 years ago

> SpaceX could absolutely launch a mars mission with their existing rocket platforms and launch infrastructure.

Which highlights the major difference between public and private sector exploration. SpaceX killing everyone on their first attempt is a tragedy and they quickly move on, NASA doing it is a 10 year halt to any further work until a full public investigation takes place.

dsl commented on Cloudflare lobbied FTC to stifle security researchers twitter.com/taviso/status... · Posted by u/zccrkn

xenago · 3 years ago

This is a really bad look. InfoSec is a very tight-knit industry and this will really make working with/using CF an unpleasant proposition to many.

dsl · 3 years ago

If it wasn't already, you aren't paying attention.

Cloudflare is quite literally the largest bulletproof hosting provider for bad actors on the internet, and unless you know someone at the company personally takedowns are like pulling teeth.

dsl commented on Google’s in-house desktop Linux computerworld.com/article... · Posted by u/signa11

bluedino · 3 years ago

Don't a lot of Googlers[1] use Macs? And is it still not encouraged to run Windows there, or was that just something created by the media?

[1]: Are they still called Googlers?

dsl · 3 years ago

> is it still not encouraged to run Windows there

You can get a Windows machine, but they are not trusted devices and you can't access a lot of stuff. (At least that was the case a few years ago when I left)