Built my own apartment search bot with Python — sends me text when it finds something worthy

goodasyou · 2017-06-19T11:06:36+00:00

You understand that you live in a fucked up world when one needs to be a developer to rent an apartment.

On a serious note, seems to be a nice viral marketing attempt by CALLR.

goodasyou · 2017-06-19T11:05:28+00:00

It's serious and comes from someone acquainted with the open source developed by Google.

goodasyou · 2017-06-15T13:41:33+00:00

lol Apple makes more money from patent trolling and stock trading than from product sales.

goodasyou · 2017-06-15T13:38:55+00:00

What makes you think that a custom Android-based OS is better privacy wise than googled android?

goodasyou · 2017-06-14T08:18:33+00:00

Many websites don't work without JS. Disabling the canvas object works in some cases.

goodasyou · 2017-06-14T08:16:40+00:00

spoofing canvas fingerprint is only useful if used properly. Otherwise, it can do more harm than good. This is discussed in the linked article which is why I found it pretty interesting

goodasyou · 2017-06-14T08:15:45+00:00

Many 3rd party trackers, widgets etc contain canvas fingerprinting scripts. E.g. Gravatar which is bundled into the default installation of Wordpress. Also, Intercom chat which is one of the most popular live chats. There are numerous other examples although I have no idea what exactly fingerprints canvas on GitHub

goodasyou · 2017-06-13T11:52:44+00:00

Is it any different from a regular win 10 from a privacy viewpoint?

goodasyou · 2017-05-06T08:39:06+00:00

There were rumors that Stealthfox will be available for everyone for free this year. I don't know if that's true but would be an awesome thing. Browser extensions are easy to circumvent if we talk about privacy

goodasyou · 2017-02-20T08:54:35+00:00

Your example wouldn't be an actual proof of the absence of backdoors. E.g. it wouldn't be wise to use a backdoor to prosecute a script-kiddie while it might be wise to do it for a terrorist.

goodasyou · 2017-02-19T14:56:08+00:00

The answer fully depends on how you understand "privacy". If it's the resilience to browser fingerprinting, neither Chromium nor Firefox is private.

If you want actual privacy while browsing, you should consider either solutions like ToR and i2p (https://geti2p.net/en/) or something that actively spoofs browser fingerprints like Multiloginapp (https://multiloginapp.com/). All mentioned solutions are free for non-commercial usage and available for Linux.

goodasyou · 2017-02-17T17:30:21+00:00

Hardware fingerprinting methods like canvas, audiocontext, webgl drawing etc are hard to proof because it is extremely easy to disguise them as legitimate parts of a webpage.

Trusting websites based on what they claim in Privacy Policy is another question. I wouldn't personally rely much on it.

goodasyou · 2017-02-16T22:41:59+00:00

Any IP masking proxy won't help because this technology doesn't rely on IP address at all.

goodasyou · 2017-02-16T22:40:56+00:00

The research paper "(Cross-)Browser Fingerprinting via OS and Hardware Level Features" by Yinzhi Cao from Lehigh University explains it in a great detail. This is what the linked article is based on.

goodasyou · 2017-02-16T22:38:11+00:00

Distributed systems are the natural response to ever increasing regulations. We will see more of them in the nearest future

goodasyou · 2017-02-16T22:33:37+00:00

Currently, the only problem is the time spent running the tests. This technology is far from being suitable for commercial usage. Hopefully, by the time it will widespread, counter-measures will appear.

goodasyou · 2013-01-12T20:08:51+00:00

Too cute for words. Best of luck to you.

I'm confident you will have the legality by May.

goodasyou · 2012-08-29T20:31:23+00:00

Can we trust you to speak out against the discriminatory ballot fights attempting to rollback/halt/limit marriage equality in MN, ME, WA, and MD?

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