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The SVG equation is very difficult to read if you're using a dark OS theme because the blog uses the OS preference for dark/light theme (and doesn't seem to give an option to change it manually, either.)

On the side, not criticizing OP but I hate the word "cosine similarity" and I wish people would just call it a "normalized dot product" because anyone who took sophomore-level university calculus would get it, but instead we all invented another word

Fixed, I think? Let me know

Works now (I noticed the same issue).

This is a really bad faith interpretation of what he's saying. I think a more reasonable interpretation is that he's claiming the 2020 election was rigged (a claim he's made many times already), which in turn means he was able to run again for 2024.


That does actually seem like a fair interpretation. Thank you.


Do you have any examples of stories where one of the subjects was contacted, wanted to respond, but didn't have enough time?


Here's a current story. No idea of this news source but it is widespread. CNN is in a defamation lawsuit directly related to not waiting for a response to straighten out facts.

https://freebeacon.com/media/navy-veteran-suing-cnn-for-defa...

(To the tune of 1b in dmgs and it doesn't look good for CNN)


I witnessed a pretty alarming situation on TikTok surrounding the story about the Dalai Lama asking a young boy to "suck his tongue." Traditional news outlets ran the initial story, and then followed up shortly after to provide important cultural context, as well as the Dalai Lama's apology.

My girlfriend's TikTok For You Page, on the other hand, only showed her stuff about the initial story and then she never heard anything else about it. We both walked away from this news story with completely different views of reality.

Maybe it's a coincidence or caused by some less nefarious reason, like an algorithmic bias towards newer news, but it seems very suspicious given China's relationship with Tibet.


> Maybe it's a coincidence or caused by some less nefarious reason, like an algorithmic bias towards newer news, but it seems very suspicious given China's relationship with Tibet.

My SO who is of Vietnamese origin noticed a similar issue.

VN and China have a very acrimonious relationship, and there definitely is a push in Vietnamese language TikTok to both rehabilitate China's image which has been perilously bad since the 2014 standoff [0], as well as to rehabilitate Trump's image.

It's hard to ascertain how much of it is manipulated via the algorithm, but either way there is a lot of content that is generated and posted on TikTok with a pro-Russia or pro-China slant and to a level incomparable to other platforms.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hai_Yang_Shi_You_981_standoff


It's quite possible that the victims were convinced to try the app by the attacker outside of the Play Store and the app existing on the store was just an attempt to give it additional credibility when they were directed to download it.


Are there any roles at this company that would be appropriate for a hobbyist programmer with an interest in network security, but without any professional experience? I'm pretty comfortable with Python and I've spent a lot of time goofing around in the network security space over the past several decades. The tools I already work with are pretty limited but I am quick to learn new technologies. KnowBe4 has been on my radar for a while now because I am located right next to Clearwater but I haven't seen any positions that seemed appropriate for my low level of professional experience. Even the technical support role says it expects a minimum of one year experience in a similar role.


Hey sp0rk, feel free to reach me via email at the address in my bio and we can chat.

I posted here to hire for my team specifically but I’d be happy to get some more info from you on your background and see if I can point you towards any openings that I think would be a fit.


I think the average person (myself included) does not know that something can be considered ePaper without being bistable. The two are married in my head because all of the ePaper devices that I've been exposed to thus far have been bistable. If I were you, I would find a clever way to communicate this fact without making it sound like too much of a drawback.


The ability to apply a boolean search (as a filter) to the text would be very useful. For example, "-parts" would get rid of a lot of results that I have no interest in.


That makes a ton of sense! Any other keywords you think would help filter it down to results you're interested in?


Just looking through the current results, the only other one that really jumps out at me is "-server" to get rid of the server GPUs that can't be used for gaming.


I've implemented this feature! Let me know if it helps get you better results.


> If you report a minor robbery to the police in any large American city and you aren't a public figure, there is functionally a 0% chance of them following up on it much less solving it.

I have known people that had stolen things returned because the police found the items while investigating/arresting the thief for other crimes. It seems foolish to not bother with filing a report just because they aren't actively investigating every report they receive.


I think "partnership" seems like too strong a word for what appears to be the simple use of an affiliate program. Why would OneRep know or care about an individual affiliate and the content of their site, as long as their behavior with regards to the affiliate program is above-board?


Affiliate programs have application processes intended to filter out bad actors and mis-alignment with a brand. To use an extreme example, a web site promoting terrorism would typically be rejected. Approving data brokers as affiliate partners for a data broker removal service is viewed by many as questionable. To use an another extreme example, how would you feel about an anti-virus software company that approved as affiliate partners creators and distributors of computer virus programs.


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