serenissi

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s done locally. You can try training wake word models for any open assistant and see how much computing power it needs for even simple phrase.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s well possible and previously tv mic had been used as bugging device. The problem is, way too many security researchers look in system level software of iOS and even other components of the device that such practice will be too risky for apple (same applies for mainstream android products). Also processing realtime audio, finding potentially unrealiable topic from it and doing realtime ad is actually too much work as of today’s tech (might change sooner than you think though).

  What, I think, is more practical is to use the whole query after the wake word to show ad, and potentially use other app tracking data, which is way much reliable than voice for targeting purpose. Voice data is useful for bugging purpose, primarily (ab)used by nation states and LE.

  I bet in the medical procedure case mentioned in the blog the user searched/talked about that in other apps and average people aren’t good to notice these privacy leaks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ah yes producer knows characters better than creator...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know who 2B or 9S is and I’m too afraid to ask.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨critical latex mod⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a mod btw.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  newpipe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some basic info about USB⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The text. And probably images too (but the only mistake being the wrong port depiction (all c) says more human).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make this thread look like it's your first day on the internet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  best

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some basic info about USB⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ai gen low effort content

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit | Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  hCaptcha, Microsoft CAPTCHA all do the same. Can you give example of some that can’t easily be overcome just by better compute hardware?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit | Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There isn’t a good way to classify human users with scripts without adding too much friction to normal use. Also bots are sometimes welcome amd useful, it’s a problem when someone tries to mine data in large volume or effectively DoS the server.

  Forget bots, there exist centers in India and other countries where you can employ humans to do ‘automated things’ (youtube like count, watch hour for example) at the same expense of bots. There are similar CAPTCHA services too. Good luck with those :)

  Only rate limiting is the effective option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit | Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The objective of reCAPTCHA (or any captcha) isn’t to detect bots. It is more of stopping automated requests and rate limiting. The captcha is ‘defeated’ if the time complexity to solve it, whether human or bot, is less than what expected. Now humans are very slow, hence they can’t beat them anyway.