licheness's comments

On: Is it possible to have SSL certificate for IP address, not domain name?

[licheness]

Well, yes, e.g., you can self-sign a certificate. Other ppl on the internet say "yes" under certain circumstances: https://sectigostore.com/page/ssl-certificate-for-ip-address....

On: New ways we're tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search

[licheness]

Interesting you bring this up. We saw something similar happen at another FAANG where the fake review detection mechanisms that had worked so well were suddenly removed from the codebase, among other quality control safeguards.

[xyzzy123 → licheness]

Safeguards can hard to fight for when they make key numbers go down but improve something else that doesn't (immediately) show up in metrics.

[licheness → xyzzy123]

Agreed, metrics such as customer satisfaction, customer retention, and brand trust.

[plumeria → licheness]

I wonder if Google does something to detect fake Android reviews or coordinated review bombing? It seems to me, at least anecdotally, that they don't have effective mechanisms for this.

On: Roku Issues a Mandatory Terms of Service Update or You Can't Use Your Roku

[licheness]

Price and convenience. I don't like Amazon Firestick or Google Stick. Apple is nice. Also I can add Pi-Hole and limit a lot of the Roku data mining that happens.

On: Anthropic says its latest AI bot can beat Gemini and ChatGPT

[licheness]

Not holding my breath. ChatGPT is at a level far beyond anything else. Hopefully it's a sound model.

On: FBI's LockBit Takedown Postponed a Ticking Time Bomb in Fulton County, Ga

[licheness]

FBI, with its flashy antics, has made it incredibly difficult to penetrate LockBit moving forward. You solicit the public to help you take down major ransomware groups, and then you pull stunts like this, which in many ways only amplify the risk. Thanks, FBI.

On: US Used AI to Help Find Middle East Targets for Airstrikes

[licheness]

Because common AI attacks like data poisoning and model drift are a thing of the distant past...

On: Mario Kart 3.js

[licheness]

Minor issue: if you go into the water and then try to drive out, the car disappears behind a layer, e.g., https://imgur.com/a/UrUyNef. I can't seem to get out of it.

On: How The Pentagon learned to use targeted ads to find its targets

[licheness]

Never underestimate the power of metadata. An expired ID that patterns quite similar to a new ID is quite easy to identify.

[neves → licheness]

it looks like you stay with "no id". There is just an option "get a new advertising id"

Here how to delete it in Android and Apple: https://www.eff.org/pt-br/deeplinks/2022/05/how-disable-ad-i...

[crtasm → neves]

If you have Android 12+, well that's another reason for me to replace my fairly old phone.

[crtasm → crtasm]

Turns out I do have the option on LineageOS Android 10 and my ID is already "deleted". Perhaps I clicked the option myself at some point.

On: Texas earthquakes starting to rival California

[licheness]

The Ross Perot museum has a whole installation explaining this phenomenon: fracking.

On: Google steps up Microsoft criticism, warns of rival's monopoly in cloud

[licheness]

Gotta make a competitive product to claim monopoly, Google. You know that.