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It looks great. Congrats on the release (and welcome too)!
Re:OBS Studio Gets a New Renderer on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @06:58PM (#46307307)
The linked post is about a new Metal-based renderer for OBS Studio on MacOS. The software you linked is for Linux.
Yes. There’s a whole family of papers by Chen, his students, and other VMware folks in this vein.
Re:Never, Ever, Ever Use Pixelation for Redacting Text on Monday May 20, 2024 @01:52PM (#40418101)
That would make it even easier to determine the length of the redacted word.
Re:Never, Ever, Ever Use Pixelation for Redacting Text on Monday May 20, 2024 @01:23PM (#40417795)
You are correct. Font character-width analysis + NLP = Exposure
Re:Never, Ever, Ever Use Pixelation for Redacting Text on Monday May 20, 2024 @01:21PM (#40417765)
It's still not a good idea. Analysts may attempt to de-cloak the word with varying degrees of success by analyzing the width of the redacted word against font character widths and using techniques from the study of Natural Language Processing to identify likely word candidates that fit in context (e.g., with respect to the rest of the sentence or document).
I think it would just be:

  docker logs -f CONTAINER
If you want to watch logs from a specific file within the container then I would just use 'docker exec' and whatever shell commands you prefer.
Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase on Saturday May 09, 2020 @02:39AM (#23122781)
It's a SaaS world, baby. Product updates (can) happen everyday. I'm not sure what that proved.
Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase on Thursday May 07, 2020 @11:51PM (#23111225)
I didn't see you respond to my comment in this thread unless you post under two different accounts.
Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase on Thursday May 07, 2020 @11:49PM (#23111223)
I didn't claim that. I believe in investing in security. I'm a security professional.
Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase on Thursday May 07, 2020 @01:28PM (#23105616)
At this point, I'm confused, and I'm not sure what point you or the other commenter are looking for me to concede. Zoom is paying some security consultants, pushed out some product updates, and bought Keybase, so it's a story book ending?
Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase on Thursday May 07, 2020 @12:53PM (#23105161)
I'm doing neither. I'm pointing out a logical fallacy in the parent comment. Hiring people part-time and buying a company does not, on its own, convey anything about improvements to product quality, security, or the corporate culture of either. I can only infer from your comment that you might think I have some beef or issue with Zoom. I said no such thing.
Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase on Thursday May 07, 2020 @12:25PM (#23104776)
> The fact that they hired Alex Stamos and ...

Call my cynical, but "hiring" a bunch of infosec celebrities and critics as part-time consultants or contractors should be considered nothing but a (brilliant and silencing) PR move until the day that product updates and analyses reveal otherwise.

In addition to Vault, an administrator can easily set up an SMTP route through the admin interface to copy-and-forward all inbound or outbound mail (delivering copies wherever they please). Of course, this would only catch messages sent or received after setting up the route.

Edit: an administrator can also create an API token with org-wide credentials, allowing her to read, write, and delete messages from any user's inbox.

Re:Meet Q, a Genderless Voice on Thursday March 28, 2019 @08:45AM (#19511603)
I mostly agree, but it is lazy, sloppy, and unnecessary to combine “gay” and “flight attendant” at the hip as multiple people have done in this post.

As for deciding “what that makes me”, I was trying to obliquely save room for the case another poster brought up, namely being gay or bisexual.

Re:Meet Q, a Genderless Voice on Thursday March 28, 2019 @08:24AM (#19511459)
That’s my point. You can call me gay all day, every day because of my hypothetical lisp. That doesn’t make it so.
Re:Meet Q, a Genderless Voice on Thursday March 28, 2019 @07:43AM (#19511193)
If I can say it another, simpler way: I decide when and what I do with my body and what that makes me. No stranger’s perception nor insistence can change that. However, repeatedly being subjected to such judgements over subconscious or natural expressions of behavior, whether voice, gait, etc., is a vehicle for psychological harm, much like gas lighting.
Re:Meet Q, a Genderless Voice on Thursday March 28, 2019 @07:16AM (#19511043)
You can pull the ripcord if you like, but I said nothing irrational. Some may purposely choose to express aspects of their identity through vocalization—I don’t disagree—but counter examples abound.
Re:Meet Q, a Genderless Voice on Thursday March 28, 2019 @07:00AM (#19510981)
We’re not talking about the same thing. There are likely gay people in nearly every occupation. That you think you can tell by their voice is ignorant and prejudicial.
Re:Meet Q, a Genderless Voice on Thursday March 28, 2019 @06:56AM (#19510966)
I know what’s real and I know people both gay and not gay (both adult and children) that have to deal with prejudicial treatment simply because of how they “sound”. But please, continue to defend yourself judging people or putting them in a box over something so superficial if you like—just don’t expect anyone to find it endearing.
Re:Meet Q, a Genderless Voice on Thursday March 28, 2019 @06:34AM (#19510886)
It’s disappointing to see you pull out such an easy, cheap, and tired stereotype.
Re:Meet Q, a Genderless Voice on Thursday March 28, 2019 @06:27AM (#19510846)
> … a very obvious gay male flight attendant

I’m not a fan of these kind of characterizations. I can think of two things that make someone obviously gay: (1) they tell you, or (2) you see that person engaging in homosexual conduct.

Nearly anything else is probably a prejudicial stereotype.

Re:Free Hotel Wifi with Python and Selenium on Thursday December 13, 2018 @11:46AM (#18673717)
Thank you for calling this out for what it is. This isn't free wifi. People may believe it should be free or may feel that it's unethical to charge additional fees for access (or even to ever charge for Internet access)—I won't wade into that argument—but taking something by force (whether physical or virtual) isn't the same as it being free.

Edit: Hell, just call it "liberated" wifi ;-)

Re:More Information About Last Week’s Takedowns on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @06:41PM (#18445953)
It is the same; they were “re-instated” after a lot of complaining and media interviews, but had to start again from zero followers. The 5k followers they have now is from the last few weeks and is orders of magnitude fewer than what they had prior to deletion. Their content was not restored either.

I can’t tell if your question is based in simple curiosity or implies some form of skepticism that mistakes were made or that problems actually exist.

Re:More Information About Last Week’s Takedowns on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @06:01PM (#18445725)
Punk Rock Libertarians is a group a colleague of mine ran for many years. They live-streamed video/podcasts every week and had an active posting and discussion-based community. They were removed without notice and for seemingly ambiguous reasons. Their group was a community in the vein of what, in my opinion, is not much different than a particular dog breed community group I belong to on Facebook. Meanwhile, I have made numerous requests for Facebook to remove a clearly non-existent person claiming to work for my company who regularly attempts to connect with me and other employees. Facebook does not respond and no action has been taken.
Re:Using CSS Grid where appropriate (revisited) on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @12:51PM (#18016898)
No, but also yes... in the way that a table or div elements and css styles are also alternatives to flexbox.
I'd recommend the Hook Theory "books" (there are two volumes). I put the word book in quotes because they are available as both interactive ebooks, i.e., Kindle & iBook, and mobile applications, i.e., iOS & Android.

The authors do a nice job of introducing basic (and then advanced) music theory concepts with text and audio/video examples using recognizable pop songs. They also have some tools for exploring themes further on their website.

I've read the books a couple times and it has given me the ability to reason about existing songs as well as better compose and improvise with songs myself.

Re:Brave files adtech complaint against Google on Thursday September 13, 2018 @09:13AM (#17978316)
That's a design consequence, not a design consideration. Local TV stations can't control the way you consume their signals either, but it's not as easy to for you to filter out the content and disregard the pulp, i.e., inline advertisements.
Re:Brave files adtech complaint against Google on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @06:58PM (#17974270)
That seems like an overly rigid and adversarial perspective. I don't think online advertising is always done well or ethically, but in general, I support the notion that having access to good content requires a way to compensate content creators.
Re:Brave files adtech complaint against Google on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @06:52PM (#17974237)
Free and ad-supported are not the same thing. Similarly, advertisements don't require that the provider disregard your privacy entirely. I just don't understand why anyone would think it's ethical to block ads for an online news source that pays its content creators with ad revenue. It's part of the implied contract of consumption.

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