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g09980 commented on Hijack of Amazon’s domain service used to reroute web traffic for two hours doublepulsar.com/hijack-o... · Posted by u/coloneltcb

quickthrower2 · 7 years ago

Also do a dry run before each usage, generating a throwaway wallet, and inspect the network tab / use fiddler to check if there is any suspicious sending of data.

Even this isn't 100% as they could seed keys if bad person gets control of the website. This has been done many times in the IOTA community for example, albeit those sites were dodgy from the get-go.

So I'd probably get a snapshot of their client code when you trust it, and serve it to yourself locally thereafter.

It's a sad state of affairs that people use services like this. I have done so myself :-(

The reason is that the Ethereum desktop clients suck. More than suck, they are untenable. The official client never synced even after running for 2 weeks. I tried this twice. It is awful.

g09980 · 7 years ago

Also, you can save the MEW webpage locally and use it.

g09980 commented on Ask HN: Who else hates iTunes? · Posted by u/dzohrob

qalmakka · 7 years ago

I honestly have stopped buying iPhones just to stop having to deal with that utter pile of rubbish that iTunes is. It was maddening riddled with bugs and just hopelessly hacked up on Windows, way beyond the amount I could find acceptable.

g09980 · 7 years ago

It seems like Apple has been doing away with the iTunes dependency, albeit slowly. You have been able to update without iTunes for a couple of years and more recently the awful Apps syncing was removed too.

Also, introduction of iCloud sync for files and backup vs. iTunes local sync.

g09980 commented on Former Uber Backup Driver: 'We Saw This Coming' citylab.com/transportatio... · Posted by u/mgiannopoulos

g09980 · 7 years ago

In Japanese rail, conductors and drivers periodically point with their hand [1][2] to indicate awareness of the task. Reading the article, perhaps these distracted test drivers could use a similar approach.

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

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LmdUz3rOQU

g09980 commented on Startups not status: Japan's top grads rethink success asia.nikkei.com/Business/... · Posted by u/raleighm

hardwaresofton · 7 years ago

While I think this trend is growing (and moving at a snail's pace, like most things that aren't engrained in japanese culture), I want to point out that students from the University of Tokyo (colloquially "toudai") are the most likely to attract funding/find the connections to be funded as startups.

Toudai has a reputation as a school full of eccentric people (quite often literally called the equivalent of "weirdos"), likely because of the high percentage of "smart"/obssessive types who go there (this is probably some equal percentage stereotype, truth, and self-fulfilling prophecy). This is also probably a big contributing factor to the fact that the percentage of people doing startups instead of other options.

I think Japan could be a really huge place for startups to be honest -- the ~4 years of undergrad in college here are actually really really lax, and could have so much potential as a time to try ideas. The right school, with the right hacker-space and the right supporting generalist classes could produce an amazing set of entrepreneurs, but no one's doing it yet.

g09980 · 7 years ago

the ~4 years of undergrad in college here are actually really really lax

Is this because undergrad does not prepare you for a career and the bulk of the "useful" learning happens later on the job?

g09980 commented on Facebook is America’s scapegoat du jour washingtonpost.com/opinio... · Posted by u/grej

Agustus · 7 years ago

1. Look at the playbook from an agnostic position instead. The reason the media gave candidate Trump the press was because, just like candidate Obama, sold eyeballs; Trump more so because he got both sides mad. Recall the puff pieces and the discussion of Michelle Obama's fantastic arms, that is nothing but puff and she moved the papers, so they covered the candidate more; to Hilary's detriment.

2. You need to think about the emails as compromised material and a failure to secure information. If you are an IT person that circumvents security protocols that then end up with trade secrets being exposed, would you be in trouble. The reason this was covered in the press was that it was classified information on an unsecured server.

4. I shake my head at this, Obama for America was doing the exact same thing in previous elections and no one batted an eye. Now that the people who were okay see that detrimental effects could happen there is concern. The simple thing to do would be to delete / minimize the information on your account.

Just remember, the media is horrible at their job; you have people who do not have the time to dig into a story, are influenced by their editors to drop stories if they attack a major sponsor, and then write stories that are stacked with grammatical mistakes.

g09980 · 7 years ago

So the use of Facebook data was lauded as genius and now isn't. [1] Now you got me curious if the media would be saying all the same things if Cambridge helped the other candidate get elected.

[1] http://thehill.com/opinion/technology/379245-whats-genius-fo...

g09980 commented on The great Pacific garbage patch is largely abandoned fishing gear news.nationalgeographic.c... · Posted by u/sohkamyung

spodek · 7 years ago

Cleaning it up doesn't fix the problem: we're producing disposable garbage.

We can stop buying disposable stuff -- plastic bags, coffee cups, stupid gifts people use for thirty seconds before throwing it away, etc.

How much stuff within your reach or eyesight will be used for under a month then never again that you could have not bought?

It's a start that will improve your life not to get the stuff. Yes we can do more, but let's at least start with what we immediately control.

g09980 · 7 years ago

But you're right. Gifts aside, we can at least reduce the packaging. Recently I had a chance to spend some time in Japan and the overuse of plastic bags and packaging was startling. (I expected a modern island nation to be more environmentally efficient.)

Sources suggest this is "customer first" culture-driven:

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/13266062/ns/world_news-world_envir... (2013)

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-plastic-bags-in-Japan-so-overu...

g09980 commented on Facebook’s Surveillance Machine nytimes.com/2018/03/19/op... · Posted by u/imartin2k

g09980 · 7 years ago

Am I understanding correctly is that the primary blame on Facebook is in enabling apps (via API) to collect data?

This stuff has unfortunately existed for years, no different from an Android "beautiful waterfall wallpapers" app that also happens to ask for permission to access your contacts/messages. People consent to their data being public (sometimes in second-degree through their friends), data gets collected. And what about all those helpful Chrome extensions that want access to all of your browsing tabs?

I never authorize third-party apps on my accounts (or even install non-local Chrome extensions), but I'm likely in the minority.