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Re:IPinside: Korea’s Mandatory Spyware on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @07:34AM (#34517498)
You'd be surprised, there are many sites that don't even support names longer than some arbitrary limit like 5 or 10 characters because Korean names are typically 3 to 4 characters long.

The phone number is typically required for real-name verification. Pair that with the low character limit above and a lot of stuff just breaks.

I think non-Korean customers just are not much of a consideration for Korean companies unfortunately.

Re:Military seizes control in Myanmar on Monday February 01, 2021 @12:22AM (#25985804)
Unfortunately in many countries even prepaid SIM cards are directly tied to government ID verification. I know this has been discussed many times, but I agree that it would be nice to be able to use Signal for secure communications without a phone number.
Re:GnuPG 2.2.23 on Friday September 04, 2020 @01:42PM (#24377149)
The argument for people using age to replace GnuPG (PGP really) is that there are better signing tools that you really should be using (minisign/signify) and PGP should not be used for the web-of-trust anymore anyway. There are many good arguments against PGP for all of these things.
Re:Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it? on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @02:38AM (#22810560)
I was curious about the same thing and it turns out he does indeed have a post about how he built his blog right here:

https://paulstamatiou.com/about-this-website/

Re:List of Twitter mute words for your timeline on Friday January 24, 2020 @11:43PM (#22144739)
I think they couldn't care less about lists. They are super annoying to access and ever since the last update which brought the mobile layout to desktop you can't even create a new list from the "add to list" screen anymore.

Sadly the entire update still feels half-baked and not thought-through and given that it's been months I don't feel too optimistic. There's so many small things that worked fine before and are just missing completely or broken now. It's a shame because I've been using Twitter for a decade but it's hardly useable now.

Re:Having Kids on Saturday December 14, 2019 @08:21PM (#21793743)
If you have the money, sure. Not everyone is in the silicon valley tech bubble and can afford it.
Re:Ask HN: Starting an Anonymous Blog in 2019? on Friday November 08, 2019 @12:09PM (#21484256)
You won't be anonymous to the VPN company so a specific corporation can identify you though. Something like Tor would be a better choice.
Re:Setting up a home VPN server with WireGuard on Friday November 01, 2019 @02:06PM (#21421938)
It's faster. But if you already have a working system that you are happy with it may not warrant a switch. I think it's main strength lies in how easy it is to set up though. First time setting it up from scratch I had a working VPN in less than 5 minutes.
Re:Ken Thompson's Unix Password on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @02:00PM (#21205959)
The password is only the last 8 characters, everything before the colon is the password's hash.
Re:My Talk at Microsoft on Monday September 23, 2019 @09:45AM (#21048858)
Open source software isn't necessarily free software.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....

People are actually working on something very similar to this in research [1]. By applying random noise to location data the user's individual privacy can be protected while still allowing for collection of usage (or in this case location) statistics etc. This is the key idea behind local differential privacy (which Apple also uses to collect anonymous statistics on usage data [2]).

[1] http://www.shivakasiviswanathan.com/ICDE16b.pdf

[2] https://machinelearning.apple.com/docs/learning-with-privacy...

Re:How Fragmented Is Android? on Monday May 27, 2019 @02:55AM (#20019992)
You should try disabling deep battery optimization in Settings -> Battery -> Battery optimization -> Advanced optimization. Unfortunately that feature is known to cause these kind of problems on OnePlus devices.
Or you could burn them to bluray if you have a device.
From their about page: "Our AI is trained to detect persons as foreground and everything else as background. That's why it only works if there is at least one person in the image."
Re:Algorithms for Reinforcement Learning on Monday February 18, 2019 @09:59PM (#19196294)
I believe AlphaGo Zero used reinforcement learning. I would say that's quite an impressive application of it.
It is stated in the article that the figure is an estimate for what she is likely making from advertising revenue on YouTube.
Re:Firefox 65.0 released on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @10:24AM (#19035750)
> I don't have any proof for this

That sums it up nicely.

Re:DeepMind StarCraft II Demonstration [video] on Thursday January 24, 2019 @02:31PM (#18992069)
They select 5 agents and then put up the professional player against a different agent in each game of the series. So it's a single agent, but a different one in each of the five games.
Re:DeepMind StarCraft II Demonstration [video] on Thursday January 24, 2019 @02:03PM (#18991828)
Apparently there is going to be a live exhibition match after showing the replays of the matches against TLO and Mana.
Re:Inside China's audacious global propaganda campaign on Saturday December 08, 2018 @05:41PM (#18637961)
SCMP
Original paper can be found here https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.07386

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