I'm not sure I follow your train of thought. What sort of repercussions are you alluding to?
I’m just saying it’s not “corporate jealousy”, it’s a rational strategic decision. If you want it to stop, you have to affect the rationale.
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voiceblue commented on Dumped orange peel transformed a barren pasture (2017) sciencealert.com/how-12-0... · Posted by u/metadat
> But a year after the contract was signed — during which time 12,000 metric tons of orange peels were unloaded onto the degraded land — TicoFruit, a rival company, sued, arguing the company had “defiled a national park.” The rival company won the case in front of Costa Rica’s Supreme Court, and the orange-peel-covered land was largely overlooked for the next 15 years.
Sounds like corporate jealousy on the part of the competitor. I wonder if the supreme court decision has set a precedent preventing future projects like this from going ahead. I don't think anyone would describe the land after 15 years as being "defiled" – quite the opposite.
There were no repercussions at all to their competitor (and, the Supreme Court sided with them), so it was logically the right move for a corporation. If the country or its people don’t bring the repercussions now, why wouldn’t these things continue to happen? It’s not a corporations job to regulate itself. If anything we can only blame the short sightedness and pettiness of humanity, which is causing bigger issues to flourish today.
voiceblue commented on Does “building in public” work? laike9m.com/blog/no-one-b... · Posted by u/laike9m
I really dislike that so much of hacker culture is $$ focused now.
1. Being a hacker means walking the world being constantly dissatisfied by all of the inefficiency you see on a daily basis and wanting to fix it.
2. Being a hacker means feeling like most of the software world is fraudulent and you are going to build a solution that actually works.
3. Being a hacker means building something because it is fun or cool.
Making money is a side effect of doing what you would do naturally because if you didn’t you would lose self respect.
> I really dislike that so much of hacker culture is $$ focused now.
I don’t think that’s hacker culture. It’s just the mainstream adoption of hacker culture, don’t let it replace the real thing in your mind. When lots and lots of people started playing candy crush on phones, it wasn’t gamer culture that changed, just the public perception of gaming.
There are still people out there who conform to the description you laid out. Are there lots and lots of them? No. It does seem to be a growing segment though.
voiceblue commented on They stole my voice with AI jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/sounds
That's even worse imo. There's a reason nearly every major world belief system includes a proscription against necromancy and this is exactly what they mean. The living should not speak with the mouths of the dead.
It seems more likely that necrophilia was a major problem (compared to today), given how the Egyptians handled it and stories like Botan Dōrō. Very strange that you’re saying cloning voices with AI is “exactly what they mean”…?
Since everything is stored in their DB, they supposedly can audit logs and sources for boosts themselves to confirm if anyone was actually impacted.
Can you explain? How are they able to check whether someone did a quick “in and out” keylogger or cookie extraction? I doubt they can, because I doubt they store every request (that would go against what they claim for privacy) and I also doubt their DB backup happens on such a high frequency that they could catch this (e.g. minute-to-minute).
So…how? Are you claiming they have oodles of logs and a perfect dork* to find suspicious JavaScript? If they had the latter wouldn’t they already be using it for security?
If you have some method that works do tell.
That's how you ruin a company reputation. Not saying it is or not deserved, but how could anyone trust a browser that had such a big security fail.
And what about all the other that have not been reported or may be exploited ?
From now on, every time someone is going to suggest arc browser, there will be another one to remind everyone of that. That's going to be very difficult to overcome when your software already doesn't have that big of a market share.
It's a little worse than that. From now on, blackhats will have a favorite #1 browser to pentest, at least for the next few weeks.
And who's going to take the bet that they'll find nothing? Not me.
Not just that - seems like it allowed running privileged JavaScript (full access to your system) on the preferences page as well.
It is very strange to me that their attitude is "no one was impacted" and this is "hypothetical". Any serious company would immediately consider this to be a case where everyone was impacted! This is like coming home to the worst neighborhood on the planet to find your door wide open, and immediately putting on a blindfold so you can continue to pretend nothing's changed.
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This is a really satisfying animation to watch. The thick, bunched-together lines of ships all turning the corner at some cape or strait really show you how the cargo is moving.
Does anyone else understand the UI? It does not make sense to me: the giant "play" button blocking the middle of the display seems not to play, but to stop playing, replacing the moving-dot animation with colored streaks. Clicking it again causes the map to zoom out! Then I reloaded the page, and this time instead of trying to click the giant "play" button, I clicked "options", which did not bring up any options, but did move the "play" button out of the way to the corner.
The play button is for an audio overview, afaict.