ycmbntrthrwaway (u/ycmbntrthrwaway)

ycmbntrthrwaway commented on Dot Dot Considered Harmful fuchsia.googlesource.com/... · Posted by u/rohan1024

IridiumFX · 7 years ago

It’s a thing born in google. It shows. The reasoning behind problems and solutions is so abstract that makes for a beautiful paper or a nightmarish reality. In the ‘80s there was a little known machine, called the Commodore Amiga. Paths were addressed by a volume:folder/file schema. Apps had logical volumes too (progdir:) and the os injected others (env: temp: fonts: ..) guess what? Just use that schema and control what an app can access or not. If you don’t give me a volume for a disk, I cannot make my way to it if it’s not collated into a mountpoint thing

ycmbntrthrwaway · 7 years ago

What you describe is called "namespaces". Plan 9 and Linux have them already.

ycmbntrthrwaway commented on The Poison on Facebook and Twitter Is Still Spreading nytimes.com/2018/10/19/op... · Posted by u/dsr12

mcphage · 7 years ago

> The real solution is to switch to Mastodon and similar federated networks, where everyone can select who to follow and receive nothing else. It is easy to subscribe to actual people with similar interests who "boost" (repost) the kind of content you like. They filter out misinformation way better than any of those Facebooks and Twitters can ever do.

You think that only listening to people with similar interests, will filter out misinformation? What?

ycmbntrthrwaway · 7 years ago

I think that actual people interested in some topic and having some expertise in it filter out misinformation better than Facebook and Twitter will ever do. Persons repost news from less trusted sources such as news sites with their opinion about it.

On the other hand, social media platforms inject content that is popular, according to the number of "likes" and "reposts" into your newsfeed. It means the content has gone viral and it has already spread to several clusters around you, most of them centered around some other topic and, therefore, unable to properly evaluate it.

To answer your question, I don't think it will completely filter misinformation, but I think this strategy is better than anything Facebook and Twitter can come up with.

ycmbntrthrwaway commented on The Poison on Facebook and Twitter Is Still Spreading nytimes.com/2018/10/19/op... · Posted by u/dsr12

rgrieselhuber · 7 years ago

Why is this getting downvoted? It's a legitimate question in this discussion.

ycmbntrthrwaway · 7 years ago

Please don't ask such questions. Parent comment already has positive score, but your comment remains. There is actually a rule saying you should't do this on https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please don't comment about the voting on comments".

ycmbntrthrwaway commented on The Poison on Facebook and Twitter Is Still Spreading nytimes.com/2018/10/19/op... · Posted by u/dsr12

orf · 7 years ago

Do we want the current status quo, where misinformation runs rampant, filling eyeballs of people who don't know better with utterly fake news?

Just look at this[1] if you want proof that this is not sustainable. I wonder who benefited from and supported this...

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/11/technology/fake-news-onli...

ycmbntrthrwaway · 7 years ago

"Fake news" is simply an excuse for introducing government control of media, which leads to political censorship. Otherwise government would not care about it more than average citizen do.

ycmbntrthrwaway commented on The Poison on Facebook and Twitter Is Still Spreading nytimes.com/2018/10/19/op... · Posted by u/dsr12

ryanmarsh · 7 years ago

Just so I'm clear here, we're saying we want Facebook and Twitter to be the arbiters of truth right? Does that pass the smell test?

ycmbntrthrwaway · 7 years ago

We, don't, it is the guys who have money to pay for writing such articles.

The problem is automated newsfeed, which makes users read "recommended" content and ads instead of allowing them to choose which sources they trust.

The real solution is to switch to Mastodon and similar federated networks, where everyone can select who to follow and receive nothing else. It is easy to subscribe to actual people with similar interests who "boost" (repost) the kind of content you like. They filter out misinformation way better than any of those Facebooks and Twitters can ever do.

ycmbntrthrwaway commented on The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Amazon and Apple bloomberg.com/news/featur... · Posted by u/Osiris30

lmilcin · 7 years ago

I have worked in card payment industry. We would be getting products from China with added boards to beam credit card information. This wasn't state-sponsored attack. Devices were modified while on production line (most likely by bribed employees) as once they were closed they would have anti-tampering mechanism activated so that later it would not be possible to open the device without setting the tamper flag.

Once this was noticed we started weighing the terminals because we could not open the devices (once opened they become useless).

They have learned of this so they started scraping non-essential plastic from inside the device to offset the weight of the added board.

We have ended up measuring angular momentum on a special fixture. There are very expensive laboratory tables to measure angular momentum. I have created a fixture where the device could be placed in two separate positions. The theory is that if the weight and all possible angular momentums match then the devices have to be identical. We could not measure all possible angular momentums but it was possible to measure one or two that would not be known to the attacker.

ycmbntrthrwaway · 7 years ago

> We could not measure all possible angular momentums but it was possible to measure one or two that would not be known to the attacker.

You only need to measure three angular momentums, all other can be calculated. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_of_inertia#Motion_in_sp...

"This shows that the inertia matrix can be used to calculate the moment of inertia of a body around any specified rotation axis in the body."

On the attacker side, they only need to make sure three angular momentums match.

ycmbntrthrwaway commented on Google pulls Russian opposition leader's YouTube advert ahead of vote reuters.com/article/russi... · Posted by u/LopRabbit

squarefoot · 7 years ago

"The videos are not removed and access is not terminated."

The linked article clearly says that the videos were deleted.

FTA: "Navalny’s aide, Leonid Volkov, said in a social media post that Google deleted the videos after the Central Election Commission had sent a letter of complaint to Google about the advertisement — a demand Volkov called illegal. "

ycmbntrthrwaway · 7 years ago

Here is the actual post by Leonid Volkov, already linked in this thread: https://www.facebook.com/leonid.m.volkov/posts/1935274903161... Seems like it is a misinterpretation or just sloppy wording on Reuters side.

The letter sent to Google is here: https://navalny.com/p/5949/ Video mentioned in the letter (you can see it in the scan) is still available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGhGMhSd99w

ycmbntrthrwaway commented on Google pulls Russian opposition leader's YouTube advert ahead of vote reuters.com/article/russi... · Posted by u/LopRabbit

wk_end · 7 years ago

Just because Google has “editorial control” over their platforms, that doesn’t mean their editorial decisions are beyond reproach.

ycmbntrthrwaway · 7 years ago

Demanding fair play from Google, Facebook and other large corporations is a losing strategy, especially if the government is not on your side. They have too much freedom to rank search results, advertisements and your feed items however they want to, up to the point where censorship is indistinguishable from their algorithms deciding that something is simply of no interest to you. You can't complain if your recommended videos feed is full of "cat videos" and has no political content you are interested in.

The real solution to censorship is federation. We are bad at making decentralized search engines, and projects like YaCy [1] have never been successful, partly because it is hard to make ranking algorithms decentralized. But projects like Mastodon [2], Pleroma [3] and PeerTube [4] already have made federated social networks where you can decide what you subscribe to and receive it regardless of someone else decisions. The technical part is simple and transparent and if your provider tries to censor the sources you like, you can always switch to another one or host it yourself.

[1] https://www.yacy.net/en/

[2] https://joinmastodon.org/

[3] https://pleroma.social/

[4] https://joinpeertube.org/

ycmbntrthrwaway commented on Google pulls Russian opposition leader's YouTube advert ahead of vote reuters.com/article/russi... · Posted by u/LopRabbit

squarefoot · 7 years ago

Whatever our social or political opinion is on the matter it's irrelevant. This is just one more proof that there's no guaranteed continued access to information unless that information resides on our local storage, backed up and kept offline.

ycmbntrthrwaway · 7 years ago

The videos are not removed and access is not terminated. The advertisement campaign is terminated, that's all.

Surely you have to backup your data, but this case has nothing to do with information access.