seanw444 (u/seanw444)

seanw444 commented on Browser Fingerprint Detector fingerprint.goldenowl.ai/... · Posted by u/eustoria

NoboruWataya · 16 hours ago

Perhaps I'm missing it but does it explain what aspects of your setup contribute the most to your score or suggest remedial actions? I wasn't that surprised to find that my standard setup is highly fingerprintable (for one, I use Firefox which alone is enough to single me out in a crowd) but I also tried using a vanilla Chromium install via a popular commercial VPN and still got a rating of 100%.

seanw444 · 15 hours ago

I'm curious as well. Ran a stock Vanadium config with Mullvad enabled, and got 100%. Maybe Vanadium isn't as focused on fingerprinting as I'd thought.

seanw444 commented on South Korea: 'many' of its nationals detained in ICE raid on GA Hyundai facility nbcnews.com/news/us-news/... · Posted by u/rntn

hebleb · 4 days ago

This is all xenophobic nonsense

seanw444 · 4 days ago

Excellent counterpoint.

seanw444 commented on Protobuffers Are Wrong (2018) reasonablypolymorphic.com... · Posted by u/b-man

xmddmx · 4 days ago

I share the author's sentiment. I hate these things.

True story: trying to reverse engineer macOS Photos.app sqlite database format to extract human-readable location data from an image.

I eventually figured it out, but it was:

A base64 encoded Binary Plist format with one field containing a ProtoBuffer which contained another protobuffer which contained a unicode string which contained improperly encoded data (for example, U+2013 EN DASH was encoded as \342\200\223)

This could have been a simple JSON string.

seanw444 · 4 days ago

That's horrendous. For some reason I imagine Apple's software to be much cleaner, but I guess that's just the marketing getting to my head. Under the hood it's still the same spaghetti.

seanw444 commented on South Korea: 'many' of its nationals detained in ICE raid on GA Hyundai facility nbcnews.com/news/us-news/... · Posted by u/rntn

nkozyra · 4 days ago

If there's a dichotomy that I can't really reconcile politically, it's the fundamental idea that people coming here is bad. That we cannot allow anyone else in. We can't even allow things from other countries to come here.

The effects of this insular isolationism can only be explained by simplicity that doesn't hold up in reality: things will be more prosperous for us if we keep what we have to ourselves. But in truth growth is growth. To build prosperity, we need more production, which means more people. Perhaps your share gets bigger, but the pot gets smaller.

seanw444 · 4 days ago

Well it's easy to reconcile when you don't oversimplify the concerns.

> it's the fundamental idea that people coming here is bad

Too many people coming here that don't integrate and don't assimilate is bad. A nation cannot thrive with too many conflicting demographics. Multiculturalism working to the degree people want it to these days is a total fantasy. People coming here and extracting value from the economy to send home is also a problem.

> We can't even allow things from other countries to come here.

We don't want to be reliant on other nations. So we incentivize internal production, and disincentivize importing. You can argue that the way that the administration went about it was ineffective at accomplishing that, and that'd be another conversation.

> To build prosperity, we need more production, which means more people.

So incentivize the native population to have more kids. Incentivize technological innovation that doesn't require mass importation of foreigners.

seanw444 commented on Some users have noticed settings that let Meta analyze and retain phone photos zdnet.com/article/meta-mi... · Posted by u/mdhb

knallfrosch · 11 days ago

> putting Messenger on my GrapheneOS phone is dumb

Depends on your intentions. Privacy, security?

seanw444 · 6 days ago

Both. Without completely cutting myself off from friends.

seanw444 commented on Sig Sauer citing national security to keep documents from public practicalshootinginsights... · Posted by u/eoskx

aerostable_slug · 11 days ago

P320/M17/M18 trigger weight is not the problem. Glocks have roughly similar weights (except for the NYPD horror show), so do S&W, Walthers, and any number of other pistols.

Trying to equipment-ify your way out of a training problem resulted in NYPD equipping its pistols with a trigger so heavy that their already-easy qualification course became a problem for many recruits. Their hit percentage in actual shootings is awful, and that ~12 pound NYPD-spec trigger didn't help it any. They finally saw the error of their ways after making their officers suffer needlessly for years.

https://www.police1.com/patrol-issues/articles/nypd-should-i...

seanw444 · 11 days ago

12-pound duty trigger is absolutely wild. I wonder how many cases of collateral injuries there were because of it.

seanw444 commented on Sig Sauer citing national security to keep documents from public practicalshootinginsights... · Posted by u/eoskx

aerostable_slug · 11 days ago

They might have very zealous web filters. Something like Websense would categorize that site as "Weapons" related and visiting the site, even if not blocked, would result in a scoring change to the user's profile.

I don't blame them for playing it safe. I've personally had to help Bay Area HR types understand that looking at "weapons" sites by itself was probably okay when the company we worked for had thousands of employees across California and at least some percentage of them hunted, went target shooting, etc.

seanw444 · 11 days ago

We really do live in a lame version of a cyberpunk dystopia, don't we.

seanw444 commented on Some users have noticed settings that let Meta analyze and retain phone photos zdnet.com/article/meta-mi... · Posted by u/mdhb

seanw444 · 11 days ago

GrapheneOS is too precious. Being able to pretend like the app has full access to my gallery, while only specifically allowing certain directories or photos, is awesome. I've actually discovered that selecting a photo in the gallery and "sharing" it to a Messenger chat skips the need for it to be in the allowed directory, so I've been doing that too. Anyone know if that's working as intended, or if it's a potential security hole?

And yes, putting Messenger on my GrapheneOS phone is dumb, but my normal people friends all use Messenger, so that's where our group chats are. Best I can do is fail to convince them to install an XMPP client and join my self-hosted server, or minimize the impact of Messenger.

seanw444 commented on Some users have noticed settings that let Meta analyze and retain phone photos zdnet.com/article/meta-mi... · Posted by u/mdhb

Workaccount2 · 11 days ago

Meta is by far the most shamelessly insensitive tech giant. They must actively seek out the most morally depraved devs, I can only imagine the people in those meetings when discussing some of these implementations must have been laughing at how devious they are.

seanw444 · 11 days ago

The devs get paid a fine salary, and can't afford it lose it, or they'll probably miss payments on their expensive vehicles and houses. So they do as they're told and don't complain.

seanw444 commented on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android 9to5google.com/2025/08/25... · Posted by u/kotaKat

hbn · 14 days ago

> Makes sense why they had to get rid of the "don't be evil" motto.

I hate how this always gets brought up because:

1. Evil has no definition, so it means nothing. They get to define what evil is for themselves. They stated their reasons they think this change is good. You can't prove it breaks their code of conduct.

2. It's straight up false, it's still in their code of conduct:

> And remember... don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!

https://abc.xyz/investor/google-code-of-conduct/

seanw444 · 13 days ago

> They stated their reasons they think this change is good.

Right, because someone doing something evil would say outright what they're doing is evil.

> It's straight up false, it's still in their code of conduct

This is news to me. I think it's interesting that they removed it from the opening and put it at the end though.