In this video I discuss how YouTube is experimenting with injecting targeted ads directly into content to bypass modern adblockers. We may be heading into a...
Ich glaube die machen sich gerade ihre Server kaputt, seit kurzem hab ich bei vielen Videos, vor allem aktuelle mit viel Klicks, das Problem das das Bild massiv stottert bis zum einfrieren. Der Ton läuft weiter. Hat angefangen mit den Meldungen über dieses Addgelumpe.
Los Angeles actually used to have a massive electric railway system in the early 1900s, called the Red Car. Jake Berman, the author of The Lost Subways of North America, tells us about how, time after time, when North American cities seemed just inches away from having a robust, utopian future of fast, reliable, and convenient public transportation systems, something gets in the way. That thing is sometimes dysfunctional local politics, sometimes it’s bureaucracy. Sometimes it’s the way our infrastructure favors cars over mass transit, and too often, it’s racism.
Situated right in downtown Mumbai, India is an area of about 55 acres of dense, overgrown forest. In one of the most populous cities in the world, this is a place where peacocks roam freely -- a space out of time. This forest is protected by a religious community. It has survived in a relatively undeveloped state in the middle of this gargantuan city. Importantly, it’s also home to an ancient tradition in crisis -- one that is central to the lives (and deaths) of a particular population.
There’s a certain point in this forest beyond which almost no one can step -- only special caretakers of these grounds can go any further. They go by many names: khandia, nassassalar, pallbearer, corpse bearer. Their work here is holy. They carry dead bodies to their final resting place – atop stone structures that stand gray against the lush green. These buildings are called Towers of Silence.
It's amazing to see the scientific process in action, from how we figured out ways to test the color vision of these spiders to what that teaches us about their evolution. Nature is full of mind blowing adaptations! 😍
How jumping spiders reveal an entire secret world of colors. Let BetterHelp connect you to a therapist who can support you - all from the comfort of your own...
Whether it's pesticides in your cereal or the door plug flying off your airplane, consumers today have plenty of reasons to feel like corporations might not have their best interests at heart. At a moment where we're seeing unprecedented product recalls, and when trust in the government is near historic lows, we're going to revisit a time when a generation of people felt empowered to demand accountability from both companies and elected leaders — and got results. Today on the show, the story of the U.S. consumer movement and its controversial leader: the once famous, now infamous Ralph Nader.
@bigworldsmallsasha has finally released her new book that she had been working on for the last couple of years! I'm really excited to read her memoir because I know she has had one of the most interesting lives, if you're unfamiliar with Sasha I recommend taking a look at her website - bigworldsmallsasha.com
She has been traveling around the world for more than a decade with little to no money and has gained an extensive understanding about our world through these experiences.
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022-2024 2007 Freed from slavery (finished high school). Drove across North America 3 times. Lived in Whistler, Canada. 2008 Lived in Canada and California.
We all know that humans are wreaking havoc on the natural ecosystems of our planet, but it's astonishing to see the actual scale of it all. Go ahead and watch the TROM II documentary if you haven't yet, because it's full of such amazing facts about our world.
TROM II: A Message to the Aliens Year: 2023 / Duration: 4 parts, 5 hours We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires.
I will definitely be more skeptical of data sourced from ourworldindata.org after watching this video. And I'm honestly a bit concerned about how ubiquitous they are, their data often gets cited by a lot of other publications so it's worrisome to see how skewed they can be.
Our World In Data is a credible publication. But they don't represent the broader scientific community, much of which disagrees with their perspectives and a...
I was reading this article by @Mer__edith, the president of Signal messenger app. There's a lot of insightful information there so I recommend giving it a read. I'm glad to see someone openly speak out about this and raising concerns about the increasing centralization of power and control in the hands of a few, both in the digital space and in the offline world.
Disagreement over recent TikTok legislation reveals a deep divide about our current political moment. Should we, like many of the bill’s proponents, assume the existence of a functional…
I haven't actually thought much about this before, but every time you read about how the population of a certain species is in decline or endangered, it means that there's gotta be some people out there to take count and keep track of different populations - this is an important but often underappreciated work done by mostly volunteers from around the world.
@Dima makes these amazing videos giving you a little peek into such organizations and what it feels like to volunteer for them. For example, in his most recent video he joined the Slovakian Bat Conservation Society for their yearly census of bats in Opal mines - videos.trom.tf/videos/watch/77…
Consider subscribing to his channel "Be Brave To Act" 👇
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I haven't actually thought much about this before, but every time you read about how the population of a certain species is in decline or endangered, it means that there's gotta be some people out there to take count and keep track of different populations - this is an important but often underappreciated work done by mostly volunteers from around the world.
@Dima makes these amazing videos giving you a little peek into such organizations and what it feels like to volunteer for them. For example, in his most recent video he joined the Slovakian Bat Conservation Society for their yearly census of bats in Opal mines - videos.trom.tf/videos/watch/77…
Consider subscribing to his channel "Be Brave To Act" 👇
In February I've joined Slovakian Bat Conservation Society for their yearly census of bats in Opal mines. That's the oldest opal mines in the world, for around 100 they been closed, and recently opened for tourism. But it also perfect place for bats to hibernate during winter. And that's why it's the best time to count them to monitor their population.
yeah, it's true. Usually to count any species you need a lot of people. And even if there is a funding for some researches it's never so large that it can include every person who are participating. That's why they all rely on a group of volunteers. Which is great, because people are motivated by the science, nature, animals and many other reasons. They really want to do it. And in turn it's very interesting and fun. That's why I try to show, that's its quite cool thing to do. And every one can do it too !
The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea. Head to https://brilliant.org/veritasium to start your free 30-da...
This is the story of D3f4ult from CWA. He was a hacktivist, upset with the state of the way things were, and wanted to make some changes. Changes were made.
I've heard #cybersecurity experts often say that passwords are more secure than #biometrics, one of the reasons being that you can change your #passwords if it ever gets leaked but you can't change your biometrics. However one of the major downsides of using a password/pin for your lockscreen is that someone could simply look over your sholder to figure out your #password. These so called over-the-shoulder attacks are more common than you may think and the presence of #surveillance cameras everywhere makes the situation worse because now you could be recorded typing in your password!
So because of all these reasons I had mixed feelings about using a password/pin and tent to use biometrics whenever possible. But my opinion about passwords changed entirely after watching this 9 year ol
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I've heard #cybersecurity experts often say that passwords are more secure than #biometrics, one of the reasons being that you can change your #passwords if it ever gets leaked but you can't change your biometrics. However one of the major downsides of using a password/pin for your lockscreen is that someone could simply look over your sholder to figure out your #password. These so called over-the-shoulder attacks are more common than you may think and the presence of #surveillance cameras everywhere makes the situation worse because now you could be recorded typing in your password!
So because of all these reasons I had mixed feelings about using a password/pin and tent to use biometrics whenever possible. But my opinion about passwords changed entirely after watching this 9 year old video on YouTube showing how to use the "picture password" feature on a #BlackBerry device - The ingenuity of this system not only prevents over-the-shoulder attacks but is also fast & easy to use! I'm actually quite surprised that this never caught on to other devices because it really seems like a smart and easy solution to a common problem. Thanks to @Surveillance Report for mentioning this on your #podcast or else I would've never known about this technique.
in the end, that all depends on your threat model, as always. Biometrics have again and again proven to be easy to circumvent, even just from public images: youtube.com/watch?v=VVxL9ymiyA… And depending on where you live, the police might be able to force you to give them your fingerprints, but not a password. But I fully agree that scrambled PIN pads should be more common, that helps a lot against someone just glancing over.
http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_6450_-_de_-_saal_1_-_201412272030_-_ich_sehe_also_bin_ich_du_-_starbug.htmlBei der Passworteingabe über die S...
@thasl P.S. I very much agree that it comes down to your own personal threat model. E.g. I haven't bothered having a password lock on my phone since the dawn of smart phones, and very grateful for all the time and hassle that saves me. But then I hardly ever use a phone, and don't have anything critical like email connected to it, so the risks involved are rather less that for most people
Interesting idea thanks. Though it looks like that depending on the choice of image used, it could be even more susceptible to an over-the-shoulder attack. In the final orientation she is entering as the combination at 2:14, the number 5 stands out as the only number that is centred to a specific element in the picture. For a young person doing it quickly it may well be difficult to spot, but what about for someone with failing eyesight carefully and slowly lining it up for you?
It seems only somewhat more secure than gesture unlock.
It might trip-up video analyzis or surveillance unfamiliar with it, but two captures seem like enough to have a very high probability of identifying the commonality. Depending on user behavior, a single observation could be enough.
The best option, I think, would be some HMD as the sole active display.
Yeah if you got recorded on video and there are multiple instances of it then you might be doomed. Randomly spacing the numbers each time could make it harder maybe, but IDK..... It's not perfect for sure.....
The AOSP-based custom OS GrapheneOS has PIN scrambling, which makes these attacks a bit harder and also improved fingerprint unlock security.
Highly recommend looking into the project because it has many amazing security features on top of AOSP, and is one of the few custom OSes with actual security researchers developing significant improvements.
> A new type of mercenary spyware came on the radar called Predator. It’ll infect a mobile phone, and then suck up all the data from it. Contacts, text messages, location, and more. This malware is being sold to intelligence agencies around the world.
Listening to this episode opened my eyes about the crazy world of cyber mercenaries, a part of the #MilitaryIndustrialComplex profiting off of wars.
A new type of mercenary spyware came on the radar called Predator. It'll infect a mobile phone, and then suck up all the data from it. Contacts, text messages, location, and more. This malware is being sold to intelligence agencies around the world.
Do you remember hearing the news of #Google trying to enable #telemetry by default in the #Go programming language? Apparently they've been doing the same with their #Flutter UI toolkit all this time 😐 Their docs also mention that "By downloading or using the Flutter SDK you agree to the Google Terms of Service." - linking to Google's general terms and service policy at policies.google.com/terms
This is a github issue requesting Flutter to make their #analytics opt-in for complying with EU/ECC laws (#GDPR).
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Do you remember hearing the news of #Google trying to enable #telemetry by default in the #Go programming language? Apparently they've been doing the same with their #Flutter UI toolkit all this time 😐 Their docs also mention that "By downloading or using the Flutter SDK you agree to the Google Terms of Service." - linking to Google's general terms and service policy at policies.google.com/terms
This is a github issue requesting Flutter to make their #analytics opt-in for complying with EU/ECC laws (#GDPR). That issue was closed in 2021, now three years later and the telemetry is still there enabled by default. And even if you try to opt-out they'll still ping Google's servers to let them know you've opted out, as per their docs.
When Google tried to add telemetry to the Go language last year it made news and there was significant backlash from the community, enough for them to reverse course and make their telemetry opt-in rather than turning data collection on by default - theregister.com/2023/05/17/goo… Unfortunately the same didn't happen with Dart/Flutter so far, which means you're likely to face more data collection there by default.
My mind is blown away by this video! 🤯 I wouldn't have believed if someone told me they made this shit work today, let alone in 1910. Sometimes the ingenuity of humans is unbelievable!
So-called "free returns” aren’t free at all. In this video, I share the surprising truth about the lies corporations tell you to make you buy more, and what ...
@AntennaPod surprised me with this cool feature today!
I think Spotify had a similar feature for the songs you listen to, but I haven't been on Spotify for a long time so I don't know what it's called now. But it's cool to see this on a FOSS podcast app like #AntennaPod, and the amazing thing is that they generate it locally on your device so it's privacy friendly 🙂
I feel like the statistics is a bit skewed here because I've put some podcasts under a custom tag named "Bookmarks" and excluded them from my inbox, I certainly can't listen to 48 podcasts at once, lol 😂
If the #AntennaPod team is reading this, having a default built-in bookmarking feature in the app would be useful because sometimes you wanna keep an eye on some podcasts without actually subscribing to them and having all their episodes show up on your inbox. Just a suggestion 🙂
TBH I've probably used AntennaPod for a bit longer because I've my switched phone once and started fresh. But yeah I've never really had any reason to change the app since then, this has always been my favorite FOSS podcast app 🙂 Thanks to the #AntennaPod team and all the wonderful people contributing to this project!
1. Stuff you should know is an educational podcast where the 2 hosts talk about a different topic in each episode, the topics can literally be anything from science to nature to history or various cultural elements of our time. It's pretty easy for me to listen to and they release a lot of episodes, so I'm not surprised to see it's the one I've listened to the most.
2. This American Life is a podcast that's mostly focused on storytelling, sometimes fictional but mostly real stories told by real people. The stories can be funny, strange/surprising, emotional or enlightening depending on which episode you're listening. It's hard for me to put this one into words but you'll have to listen to a couple of episodes to get the hang of it. Definitely one of my favorite podcasts, and a shout out to my friend @frankie for introducing me to it 🙂
3. Radiolab is also one of those educational/storytelling type podcasts, you'll learn about something new in every episode and it's fun to listen to.
4. CrowdScience is a podcast which, like the name suggests, is mostly about science. On each episode they try to find the answer to a listener question, people from all around the world have called in to ask different questions and they reach out to the experts from various fields to answer those questions.
5. Science Vs is a podcast trying to separate out the science from all of the misinformation and exaggerations we're bombarded with these days. This is the first podcast I've ever listened to and it's still one of my favorites. Science Vs is probably one of the most scientifically rigorous podcasts I know of and they provide transcripts for all their episodes with lots of citations so that you can verify the information they present and/or to just learn more about the subject.
I feel like the puzzles are getting a bit too hard for me on #AdventOfCode, so I'll probably be slacking off from now on. Solving last day's 2D pipe maze with a loop was hard enough, and today's puzzle seem to be of a similar kind so I'll probably skip - I feel like these puzzles have more to do with math and geometry than programming itself
> I feel like these puzzles have more to do with math and geometry than programming itself
I think that's accurate, and I see it resulting from the attempt to make a puzzle that works for *any* programming language a contestant might use.
If they can't assume any particular library or framework, they're left with puzzles that require only the fundamentals of computing and data processing. That doesn't leave much outside of text, data structures, and mathematics.
@bignose I can't summon up much enthusiasm for AoC this year. I don't need to:
* Learn a new language * Learn to program * Write yet more string parsing code * Wrestle with algorithms that are vanishingly rare in the real world * Prove anything, to myself or others * Invest time/energy I could usefully spend elsewhere
But I'm delighted others enjoy it at least as much as I've enjoyed it in the past. Plus it's a great spectator sport.
This was actually my first year trying out AoC, as a beginner to programming it was kind of a fun learning experience, but being a beginner also means I'll have to stop sometime as the puzzles get harder. Last day's puzzle was a bit too hard for me, maybe today's is better I might give it a try but I certainly won't put any pressure on myself 😄
I hope you inspire more people to do these things through your videos! 🙂
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