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New comment by kolmogorov in "AI slop is killing online communities"

kolmogorov — Thu, 07 May 2026 22:37:39 +0000

world.org is doing exactly that including the privacy aspect. the iris scan aspect is scary but the alternatives don't seem to solve the problem either.

New comment by kolmogorov in "'The Secret Agent': Exploring a Vibrant, yet Violent Brazil (2025)"

kolmogorov — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 02:21:54 +0000

it's actually from credit ratings which predate baseball leagues

New comment by kolmogorov in "The "email is authentication" pattern"

kolmogorov — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 04:23:17 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-Mail also was an attempt

New comment by kolmogorov in "WhatsApp Messaging Interoperability"

kolmogorov — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 22:28:57 +0000

this reads as if they can for 60 consecutive days and on day 61 they'd be disconnected from interoperable messaging

New comment by kolmogorov in "Mailbox.org discovers unencrypted password transmission in myMail"

kolmogorov — Sun, 07 May 2023 06:05:47 +0000

the OS won't let you do that reliably unless the user also keeps opening the app. background processing is heavily limited for the right reasons.

New comment by kolmogorov in "Bolt announces layoffs"

kolmogorov — Thu, 26 May 2022 07:22:41 +0000

What do you mean by <2x burn multiple ?

New comment by kolmogorov in "Don't build useless features"

kolmogorov — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 20:45:25 +0000

This sounds like Facebook rooms, too.

New comment by kolmogorov in "What a Math Party Game Tells Us About Graph Theory"

kolmogorov — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 16:15:04 +0000

While the title is entertaining this doesn’t seem to be a very good candidate for a game at a party.

New comment by kolmogorov in "My interview with Steven Levy re. leaking of my Facebook Goodbye post"

kolmogorov — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 04:24:26 +0000

FB does not do business in China. This is rather a risk for Apple given they store keys in the cloud and do business there fwiw. I agree it’s a risk for almost all other countries.

New comment by kolmogorov in "My interview with Steven Levy re. leaking of my Facebook Goodbye post"

kolmogorov — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 14:42:03 +0000

How do these two align? Why would FB sending messages that are sent encrypted (not e2e) and stored on US servers allow China to read messages? If you allege hacking then why wouldn’t they be able to hack the devices?

Re misinformation: why would misinformation not simply happen in e2e group chats like it is already happening in e.g. Brazil or India? What’s the difference between posting to a group of friends on Facebook vs sharing a group message to those friends?

I do think messages should be encrypted but the trade off isn’t as straightforward as you make it sound.

New comment by kolmogorov in "U.S. FTC says Facebook misused privacy decree to shut down ad research"

kolmogorov — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 14:13:12 +0000

Does good faith research in the public interest justify collecting any data through any means and storing it in any way you like ? On paper fb seems ridiculous but I don’t want to assume that said researchers collected and stored data appropriately. Those skills aren’t necessarily available to them easily

New comment by kolmogorov in "Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal"

kolmogorov — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 19:16:15 +0000

https://signal.org/blog/there-is-no-whatsapp-backdoor/

New comment by kolmogorov in "Telegram publishes users' locations online"

kolmogorov — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 04:12:05 +0000

that's incorrect. WhatsApp is end to end encrypted using the signal technology as confirmed by moxie. are you suggesting Facebook tricked the signal team into believing that WhatsApp is using end to end encryption when it isn't? a source: https://signal.org/blog/there-is-no-whatsapp-backdoor/

New comment by kolmogorov in "Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa program requiring higher pay"

kolmogorov — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 08:40:56 +0000

it is not only due to quotas. there is BS request for evidence as well as random changes. for example, they added some disease to the process (I believe gonorrhea or syphilis) and then the exam I took entering the process wasn't sufficient at the time they actually looked at the exam. then it took them a long time to send that notice, then I got the new exam and the clock started again adding around 6 months from the "we need you to test for a disease that can be easily treated if you had it" to the approval. this is with highly paid lawyer support.

New comment by kolmogorov in "Unilever is latest brand to boycott Facebook"

kolmogorov — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 02:34:09 +0000

ebay just stopped paying for people who search for "ebay" and related. (these are called "brand" keywords). that's a completely different statement than saying advertising is a fad. depending on the business it may be but ebay definitely spends a ton on keywords with buying intent. FB is in a very different market from both brand keywords and non-brand high intent keywords.

New comment by kolmogorov in "Shopify CTO: our platform is now handling Black Friday level traffic every day"

kolmogorov — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 02:33:43 +0000

Those are accounting tricks

New comment by kolmogorov in "False Friends of the Slavist"

kolmogorov — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 23:09:42 +0000

That’s only true for some of these or some equivalence class . Take gift and gift for German - English or bekommen and become and many more .

New comment by kolmogorov in "California Can Expect Blackouts for a Decade, Says PG&E CEO"

kolmogorov — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 14:39:20 +0000

It’s the same in Brazil. We are basically converging to become Rio de Janeiro minus the natural beauty. Well and the shantytowns in rio have better views.

New comment by kolmogorov in "Germans Grow Frustrated with Their Slow-Poke Internet"

kolmogorov — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 11:59:32 +0000

I agree with your comment but the same is true for San Francisco / Silicon Valley. The connection is often times terrible and try having a VOIP call on the 101.

New comment by kolmogorov in "London's billion-pound guilds"

kolmogorov — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 19:31:18 +0000

General cultural fit = ideally you are far right wing . Some also still require having a noble title (even to attend their parties unless you are a woman ). My hometown has a lot of these and some of my fellow high school students were very attracted by these . I went to a few non noble title requiring parties because my friend asked me to and it was quite shocking tbh (people singing the full German anthem including the forbidden part , a general bias towards German music and even more towards songs with excessive patriotism, a lot of “jokes” about people from other countries etc. ). They’d claim not to be racist and proving that by saying they have friends from Argentina or Chile (that happen to have German names ). I’d bet a lot that most of these fraternities vote AfD. I also remember them throwing expensive glasses down from the balcony laughing about how poor people would have to use the same glass twice .