This just highlights the pervasive privacy issues in adtech. Many platforms today even support server-side events tracking which bypasses client-side detection & prevention like an adblocker would do to a tracking pixel. The true scope is alarming: way beyond clicks and views, they track events like "MakeAnAppointment", "AddPaymentInfo", "LoanApplication", etc.
This is the real reason why TikTok is a national security risk. Their ad platform, widely used by Shopify, Adobe, Segment, WooCommerce, etc., collects intimate data on non-TikTok users: prescriptions, medical appointments, loan applications, credit card details. Millions who'll never use TikTok, Facebook, etc. are still subject to this data collection in the name of "converting users to customers".
At the policy level, we urgently need a national data privacy act to address these types of systemic issues. At the technology level, things like zero-knowledge advertising could mitigate a lot of the user privacy risk.
I tried that exercise after reading the affidavit, and determined they were using Monero (XMR) which makes this task much more difficult if not impossible.
You can find some pretty interesting improperly redacted documents all over PACER. Usually it's defense attorneys who don't realize that blacking out text in Adobe doesn't remove it rather than the government though.
There's one about a Colombian paramilitary leader/drug trafficker turned informant which improperly redacted all the people he informed on: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.184.... This is from like a decade ago but goes to show how this kind of thing can literally put people's lives at risk.
That's not a redaction (these kind of pseudonyms in court filings are different from redactions and are often more about avoiding formal direct statements associating an entity than about secrecy, and are often easily penetrated—e.g., "Individual-1" in the Michael Cohen case), and while one might infer from the interaction of the subject with an SVR TOR server that Foreign Country-1 is likely to be Russia, there is nothing in the affidavit that asserts that the TOR server in question was operated by Foreign Country-1.
Yeah, it was fairly apparent earlier in the complaint what country they're talking about, but that was funny to find. I'm sure it's not the first time footnotes accidently leak info that is supposed to be redacted!
The affidavit indicates that the target selected the cryptocurrency - presumably, he thought he knew what he was doing, but the amounts and times were still cross-correlated after the fact.
Wooow, I hate how that bot tricked me. That was like... too smart; eventually the entire internet is just going to be bots tricking each other into believing they are not bots...
The northern counties of West Virginia have also issued a prohibition order for all non-residents, so that only West Virginians can purchase alcohol because apparently there have been hundreds of cases of Pennsylvanians crossing the border just to buy alcohol.
Some find this order reasonable, but most in WV find this irresponsible of both WV and PA since alcoholics cutting cold turkey can be hospitalized for their withdrawal symptoms.
This is a good report, but I'd also be interested to see focus on GPU performance on both classic GPU intensive workloads and machine learning workloads.
rclone [0] has great support for B2 [1]. The functionality you want is also available with rclone simply by making a B2 remote then a local encrypted remote which saves to your B2. This will encrypt everything locally before you save it to your B2, and it also has functionality to mount as a system drive. Plenty people do (ahem did [2]) the same with Amazon Cloud Drive's previously unlimited storage.
Forget if you're behind a school bus as I'd hope it would stop for any vehicle stopping in front of it. If you're on a normal rural highway (i.e. one with two but oppositely travelling lanes) and a school bus which is coming towards you makes a stop, you must stop so that any exiting kids can safely cross the street to their homes. What happens when a school bus makes a stop and the car decides to keep rolling through the bus's displayed and flashing red stop sign?
Fairly sure (though it likely depends on geographic location laws) that no matter your lane you need to stop if a bus displays its stop sign and lights, because, like you said, kids might try crossing the street at any time/place. So a self-driving car might be a lane or two away from the bus (not directly behind it) and still need to know to stop.
The exact rules do depend on the area. Where I am you always have to stop behind a bus on your side in any lane, but traffic on the other side does not have to stop if there are 4+ lanes.
Much of the material I studied for my learners permit written test has since become just part of how I drive (I hope), but the rules regarding stopping for school-busses have always stuck with me for some reason.
In Florida, the rule is that all traffic going in either direction must stop, except when the road is "a divided highway with an unpaved space of at least 5 feet, a raised median, or a physical barrier"[0], in which case the opposing traffic does not have to stop. It's interesting to me to see how little things like this change from place to place, and how these localized rules will be handled by self-driving vehicles.
Hey HN. Slowly over the past year, I've built Davine on the Google Cloud infrastructure to allow Vine content creators to see where and how their profile has grown over time. Davine is just a side project I whipped up to get experience with Google Cloud and using Go for a slightly larger project than I typically was. I've learned do's and don'ts for next time, so I'm already happy with it.
The current idea was to be 100% open-data, open source, ad-free, open ops, etc. to build a following who would get use from the service. Then, introduce data analysis offerings and offer to watch detailed posts as well for a small fee to turn some revenue.
Let me know what you think or if there's any potential at making this thing self-sustaining enough to just keep it alive and worthwhile.
This is the real reason why TikTok is a national security risk. Their ad platform, widely used by Shopify, Adobe, Segment, WooCommerce, etc., collects intimate data on non-TikTok users: prescriptions, medical appointments, loan applications, credit card details. Millions who'll never use TikTok, Facebook, etc. are still subject to this data collection in the name of "converting users to customers".
https://abs.codes/blog/2024/03/tiktoks-all-seeing-eye-survei...
At the policy level, we urgently need a national data privacy act to address these types of systemic issues. At the technology level, things like zero-knowledge advertising could mitigate a lot of the user privacy risk.