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I'm not a surveyor, but was the IT guy & supervisor for a city's two-engineer surveying team as we went GIS...

Basically you fudge it. Precision losses, errors, and local ground movements swamp continental drift. As you noted, some of the original sources go back over 100 years. A huge, huge amount of the surveyor's time was spent cleaning up data. One of the steps was to map the vectors around a plat. There was always some kind of closure error when you get back to the beginning position. The surveyor's job was to tweak the points to resolve the error. Kind of like auto body work; he used a lot of skill and experience in making the most seamless repair possible. (The most important part of my job was running interference for him, nobody understood why it took so long to "just digitize some maps".)

In general the original surveying records remain the source of truth, and the maps we produced with the tweaked coordinates were working documents. To be technically correct, another map would have to go back to the original documents and re-apply corrections. IIRC for some really egregious problems there were ways for the surveyor to amend the official truth.

Automating or re-implementing legacy systems is always a horribly messy data-cleansing exercise, but I think this was the most mind-numbing, tedious, endless slog I've ever been involved with.
It's not a "few similar incidents", it's that "big poultry" has corrupted govt to the point that free range no longer means what laymen think it means. The label itself is now just a con.

Which is why small farmers who really care have taken to calling what they sell something else completely: pastured eggs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=can8xFpZKRs
Fingerprinting needs the active effort of browser vendors to tackle. Otherwise no amount of blocking will help as it will either identify you more uniquely or cripple browsing the web to such an extent that almost no one will opt for it. Browser vendors should implement a resist fingerprint mode where browsers respond with a set of standard, agreed-upon values, or completely random ones for those that can't have a standardised value. This will probably break browsing to some extent but not as much as the 'nuclear', disable Javascript option that everyone suggests whenever this discussion comes up.

But of course most browser vendors don't have an incentive to resist fingerprinting. And if only one vendor does this then the anti-fingerprinting is likely to be less effective, as the pool of browsers is much smaller.
The site tells me that 41% of users share my web browser, that is Firefox. That seems insanely high given the general market share of FF. Any idea why it's so popular on this website? Of course I would expect privacy conscious people to be more likely to use FF but 40+% seems unbelievably huge especially when you factor mobile browsers and the like.
I worded that poorly, I was trying to illustrate a store of wealth that generates no cash flow or income.
What is most surprising to me:

Apparently my content language (JavaScript) alone is already unique (en-US,en,de,zh-CN,zh). Being a native German speaker who speaks American English (I live in the US) and Chinese and actually has those languages enabled in their operating system.

Without JavaScript enabled the HTTP header for Content language is <0.01% -- (en-US,en;q=0.9,de;q=0.8,zh-CN;q=0.7,zh;q=0.6)

Is there any way to have a language installed in the operating system without leaking that information to the browser?
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Browsers could defend against this (especially in combo with central malicious site protection) : no legitimate page should be using many of these features, and certainly not the combination of features.

Also turning JavaScript off helps (although that becomes a signal too, just like DNT).
I think that I am still going to keep it enabled, as a matter of principles.
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To me, the modem running a closed source blob is okay so long as that entire system is acting as a slave to the host, and isn't integrated with that host. The PinePhone appears to be explicitly designed around a total lack of trust for that modem. In a way, you could think of the modem at that point like any other Wireless Access Point you might connect to. Think about going into a coffee shop; sure you can hop on CafeBucks WiFi, but do you know what firmware the access point is running? How do you know it's secure? Heck, could you even guess the model number? Of course you can't; instead, your security model treats that entire communication line as potentially insecure, and implements SSL/TLS on top of it.

The PinePhone appears to use a similar approach here. The modem's only job is to provide a data connection, and ideally everything sent through that connection is encrypted in such a way that even if the modem wanted to snoop, it would be unable to do so. All it sees is encrypted noise, with the OS and application doing everything they can to keep it that way. The additional hardware isolation helps to ensure that even if the modem is compromised in some way by an attacker (difficult, but theoretically not impossible) it has very limited access to the rest of the phone, and would hopefully not be able to do very much damage. This is in stark contrast to most of the rest of the mobile industry today, which happily integrates the modem into the rest of the memory space, and would be at far greater risk should a modem exploit be discovered.

None of this is perfect, of course. In a perfect and ideal world, a FOSS modem would exist at scale, and the PinePhone would use that and all of the firmware would be open source. But the practical reality is that, at scale, a closed blob for the modem is required; no alternative exists that's cost effective enough to bring to market. So, the phone is designed to give that blob just as little trust as possible while still making the connection work. I think that's a perfectly fair trade.
Probably that number will grow very fast, specially between countries that cannot detect it properly: Africa
Why not intercept the different system calls and randomize their outputs?
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I have the 8gb model running Arch Linux with sway wm. Instead of the default keyboard I have a split ergonomic mechanical keyboard. A bit unconventional, but it's my favorite dev machine! Helps me keep my shoulders and neck happy.
It is obvious to everyone that due to the economic advantages of cheating, there needs to be some kind of inspection and certification program. Not that everyone is a cheater, but there will be cheaters, and it will put pressure on the non-cheaters to cheat too.

The same people who bitch about big government will strangle inspection programs via budget cuts, and then when something like this story comes out, use it as proof that government inspection programs don't work and that even more defunding is in order.

It makes me despair.
Need better data to get better mortality rate. Stop hyperbole, let the epidemiologists call it.
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the reason i am 16 without a cell phone is because i had to move into my grandparents home in september due to my only guardian dying in our home in july. they are not super old but im a 16 y/o girl and they dont trust me on the internet. thanks and im sorry to intrude.
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> Constant scammed grain buyers, meat producers and millions of American consumers for a decade or more. The organic beef and poultry countless Americans were eating during those years wasn’t organic after all.

Uh, no - the only people scammed by him were consumers. All the middlemen and downstream producers unwittingly resold the product as organic. They didn't really lose anything.
I took my Chromebook Go to a 15 hour flight last weekend and it worked great.

Incredible battery life. Amazing keyboard and perfectly usable on an airplane.

Crostini to run Linux in a container supported basically right out of the box however I needed to pass arbitrary USB devices into my container so I set up crouton next to crostini and had:

(1) ChromeOS

(2) Ubuntu user-space running with crouton using the ChromeOS kernel, with full native access to the hardware and also all USB devices.

(3) crostini's "termina" container running its own Linux kernel, with no access to the native USB devices except for the ones whitelisted by Google.

The nicest thing is, you can set up a VPN client in crostini and can enjoy network isolation.

I'd get on my VPN on crostini and do my trading there while everything else on the device goes through the default route, without the VPN.

Also when it comes to how Google called that container "termina" really makes me think someone at Google wrote some quick code to spin up a PoC and then never changed the name.
Same for me. Content languages are all unique. Same for fonts and media devices.

Really wonder how I can hide that information from my browser...
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This is great. I knew fingerprinting in this fashion was possible, but seeing the actual figures attached to some of these headers and attributes is a real eye-opener.
You're putting way too much emphasis on process tech. TSMC 7nm is roughly equivalent to Intel 10nm, so it's only a generation behind. Intel 10nm products, where available, have also not exactly been lighting the world on fire with their performance.
I didn't sign up for "a general purpose UI platform". I got on board when it was a hypertext publication system. They've been boiling this frog for 25 years.

Every year, I'm less and less convinced that JavaScript is desirable to have in a web browser.
so, can you compare this to the OPA? Are you integrating with the OPA?

Also, there was an old project called casbin which is used by ArgoCD.

In my system, I created an Account CRD and let an account controller do all the logic. This way you do not need another api server.
I grew up near a location in Texas in the 1970-1980's where oil well companies would truck in mud from wells, and dump it in a field to dry up and the liquid would run off, the water in the ditches had an oily sheen for miles (would ride my bike around town as far as I could go). I just checked and the field is still there and brown/empty but the company got replaced by a church and it's across the street from a junior high school now (and across a different street from the de facto segregated part of town where most of the African American kids got on the bus I rode to school).
Short answer, surveyors don't use absolute coordinates, only relative ones from locally known points, output as distance and bearing. The actual coordinates "cancel out" of differential GPS, which also makes it much more accurate (and precise) than standalone GPS. Differential GPS (and newer VRS) gets sub-centimeter horizontal accuracy, and has been available for over 20 years.

Same goes for North. You try to get it close, but it's the relative angles between bearings that actually matter. So it doesn't matter if magnetic North changes or if there was an error initially measuring it.

For legal descriptions of boundary surveys, "what's on the ground" is what controls. Meaning an iron pipe set as a corner doesn't "mark" a property corner, but defines it (unless it's an offset, but it's still the defining feature). The legal description is more a treasure map than some idealized abstract legal "truth". This especially applies to metes and bounds.

GPS coordinates are generally not used for boundary surveys, except maybe to drive to the job site.

As for neighbors: the only people who can decide where a property boundary falls are the adjoining land owners. It's sort of zen, but the boundary is whatever you agree it is. It fits with the "local first" philosophy. In the absence of agreement, prescriptive acquisition (or judicial delineation) is the general term for when the courts have to become involved in a dispute (because the judge prescribes). "Adverse possession" is a type of positive defense to claim prescriptive acquisition when the party has no good-faith claim to the title. It's what most people think of as squatter's rights. Philosophically, it's not for cleaning up mistakes, but returning idle or abandoned real estate back into active commerce. "Good-faith possession" is if you think you have a legal claim to the property, like if you bought a bad title, or a property owner sold the same lot twice, and has a much lower burden of proof and required period of possession (generally ~30yrs adverse vs ~10yrs good-faith) Judicial delineation is more for bad boundary descriptions or cleaning up mistakes, but there's no need for judges if the neighbors can come to an agreement on their own. They just have to file an amended plat with the conveyances at the courthouse.
In my Firefox it says "Not supported"
I've changed my language to only "en-US,en;q=0.9" and it show as 8.05%

You can do that in Chrome from Settings > Languages, remove what you don't need, but i guess you will lose auto-correct for those languages
All time : However, your full fingerprint is unique among the 1556046 collected so far.

Android - default Chrome.

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Fyi, this whole tracking thing isn't that hard to circomemvent. You only need one parameter to change to generate a unique hash.

With all the parameters they include, this should be done fairly easy.
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correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought this map isn't at the high level. It is a map of every single neuron connection for this region of the fly's brain. As low-level as it gets.
That is my worry. Not expert but is it confirmed ？
Same question from me. At what point does dedicated hosting become more efficient than encrypted everything?
It accurately identifies my model of iPhone and that I’m running an iOS beta, but it doesn’t appear to know anything that isn’t “I am an iOS developer”. That’s probably still something that can be tracked, but it boils down entirely to User-Agent which will vary weekly in lockstep with thousands of others.

I am hesitant to extend the result that I can be uniquely tracked to category “iOS developers” beyond that.
It's been 172 years since the workers of the world were asked to unite. They've realized in the intervening period that not only does the roofer in North Carolina share less in common with the road layer in the Philippines than the roofer business owner in NC but also he doesn't want to share more.

I, for one, don't care to shore up the race to the bottom. It's a physical law. I'm just going to aim to be wealthy enough that I'm not at the bottom. That will do.

Systems that require "if we all do this, it'll work" will not work and life being limited, I'm going to optimize elsewhere.
Wait, do you really think that "insect residue" is a bigger health risk than carcinogenic pesticides? Seems pretty far-fetched.
> Is there any room in our politics to acknowledge that agencies sometimes overreach

Yes, but what we're seeing under the current Trump administration isn't a "sometimes" thing. It's become an effort to systemically rollback as many regulations as they could in order to allow for greater profits. They have gutted anybody of power within the EPA and replaced then with pro-corporate drones and climate change deniers.

> The new rules make it easier to take out protections for threatened animals and plants and allow federal agencies to conduct economic assessments when deciding whether to protect a species from things like construction projects in a critical habitat. The rules also remove tools used by scientists to predict future harm to species from climate change. [1]

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/24/5-major-trump-climate-rollba...

> The White House and the EPA had tried to stop the report from being published. [2]

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-water-foreverchemical...

[3] https://www.voanews.com/usa/trumps-epa-moves-loosen-radiatio...

Note that these are just from the past few weeks. There has been much more over the past few years that you can google if you'd like to dig it up.
Oh fun times. At my high school we ran Macs with an extremely tight allow-list of programs. For example, we were locked out of Safari and had to use IE5.5. I think even the text editor was locked out. Shameful.

Come to find out one day that 1) This was enforced only at the Finder (file manager) level, and 2) the AppleScript tool was on the allow-list(!)

A quick "tell application terminal to open" was all I needed to get into a fully-open environment. Not having a quarrel with the school, I didn't mess with anything. I just used it to do real work (like SSHing to my home server to fetch docs I forgot to bring in, or working on my AP Comp Sci stuff). But I also found out that the AirPort admin passwords were simply the SSID, so on the last day of my Senior year I changed a bunch of SSIDs to funny things. I also dropped a line to IT (via long AirPort SSIDs) letting them (and the students paying attention) know of the vuln :P

Bonus story: Years later at uni, I accidentally discovered that the shared "podium" account (used by guests to give presentations, but usable on any machine) was being used by someone to store their, uh, video collection. Much to the chagrin of the multiple presenters that accidentally ran across it during their presentations. Not to mention the rich browser autocomplete.
With some elevation (like standing on your car) and a cheap 6 foot antenna (made of PVC for $10 or so) I've hit repeaters 100s of miles away. But sure if you are in worse terrain you might need a HF radio instead of a 2M/440cm HT.
it says it is down for them too...and i know the creator is on this website so im hoping he/she would stop in and say hi and tell me what is or isn't going on
I've just tried the same, but the HTTP header user agent and the javascript one are different. Maybe TOR varies some attributes?
Just resolve the IPs of the links as the page is being served.
> Need I say More?

Yes, actually. Can you demonstrate how this actually resulted in the pandemic rather than subtly shaming a cultural practice you don't agree with?

(I don't agree with it either, but "need I say more" pointing to the specific practice is not the same thing as "here's a resource which links bat game consumption to outbreaks." The tone is ever so slightly edging in the wrong direction.)
Exactly what I was thinking. How can you get lost on a such an easy road?

They were 60km off the main road. That didn’t give them any clues? Like worsening road condition. A road between two major cities of mud and ice? That’s just kinda common sense.
Coal ash is a thorium and uranium concentrate, and as you say the Department of Energy publishes the release statistics. They aren't too difficult to find. Each year in the US, we release more than a thousand tons of thorium and uranium into the environment via coal ash dumping, with limited controls.

There have also been population health studies in communities that live adjacent to where coal ash is dumped in the US. As I recall, it is correlated with a small but detectable (around 1% IIRC) increase in cancer incidence rates relative to local control populations, and largely attributed to the thorium component of the waste.
Agreed, some of those stats are questionable.

A basic Microsoft Edge installation with en-GB content language header has a similarity ratio of 0.18% -- really?

Java enabled: true -- 0.26%

Java enabled: false (on Brave) -- 8.75%
Is HN now part of the misinformation bubble? The paranoia, national agenda anti China hate brigade are strong here.

Seriously, can people take a chill pill and stop spreading fud?

I read https://promedmail.org and I'm waiting for them to panic before I invoke contagion metaphors. It's way too early to state the infection and mortality rates
There is (I'm assuming you mean to the web, not to the browser).

On Firefox: Options -> Language -> Choose your preferred language for displaying pages
Sure. But the question was - is every brain the same. I would say it’s similar, but not identical.

Kind of like the first human genome sequenced. It’s just one humans DNA, but any give human has very similar DNA. Small differences matter greatly though.
Will this be crosschecked to identify known illegal aliens and notify ICE to come and grab them for deportation?
I don’t know if you do this intentionally or if Hanlon’s razor, but you intermix source backed claims with made up ones.
Nature does not claim the mortality rate is 11%. They do make a comparison to SARS’ mortality rate which was about 11% and argue that Wuhan coronavirus is lower in that regard[1].

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00166-6
Wouldn't it have been easier to submit:

#!/bin/bash
Rscript myscript.R
ah- i meant i don't like those guys ' who rebuilt downtown Seattle in their own image.. (it's silly, I know, but I hate to write corp names as proper nouns once they start to abuse peoples trust, and HN is filtering the asterisks I would have used on another medium. ... i mean a$$azon is openly monopolistic.. that works.)
In a nutshell, to my best understanding;

User-Agent is divulged publicly with all requests to all sites, so no protections exist around using it, because it is freely offered up by the user without requiring consent.

Client Hints have to be specifically requested by the remote website, which demonstrates intent to collect data, and thus falls under data collection laws.
Not supported is 3.96%

So anything that's not QWERTY nor "unsupported" makes up the remaining ~95%?
Probably because must of that website users worry about their privacy and use Firefox instead of Chrome
But Chromium show as 0.66% share and Chrome show 38.28% usage share
Part of the appeal of organic is to be better for the environment. That is not something that is inherent to the product produced, but is an externality.
> How is that even economically viable?

You bribe politicians into removing regulations to lower the costs
> WebGL Renderer

Wait, any website knows what sort of graphics card I have?! Or how many CPUs? That's just ridiculous!

No wonder folks can write and target exploits so perfectly nowadays! If it's an integrated graphics, you have the processor family, easy. Wow.

Why would any random site need to know this sorts of information when all I'm trying to do is read text and view images?
All the fingerprinting tools I've seen so far do not include JA3 signatures, which in my opinion make for an interesting bit of information - they introduce few bits of entropy since they depend on the TLS implementation, but for the same reason they can't be easily spoofed.

Plugging in an article and demo I wrote some time ago: https://jwlss.pw/ja3/
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>What would it take to convince you an attack is real when it has been 100% mitigated and you never saw it in your backend infrastructure?

I was running node_exporter, which exports a lot of detailed network info from my kernel to Prometheus. During the time intervals leading upto, during, and after the attack, there is nothing there. Not even a blip.

I don't find it likely that OVH completely prevented any kind of volumetric attack from hitting me with zero detection latency. I just have doubts about there existing a perfect technology that doesn't have any false positives and also kicks in instantly. I'll keep an open mind.