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You saying that US judges lack the integrity to issue impartial judgement?
Yes, I’m partially implying that and the records speak for themselves.
Not isolated incidents, rather something suggestive that one could confidently bring a sympathy-based argument in deference of law and expect a high probability of succeeding.
Could be useful for taxi drivers to figure out how to get the surge fares.
I've never gotten this question before, so maybe Yandex has gotten more aggressive in how they treat drivers recently?
What are the short-term and long-term implications of this? I assume a drastically increased attack surface and potentially a boon for open-source development? Anything else?
Eating into their business would require much more than source code, but of course an analysis of the code could lead to finding more security issues.
> potentially a boon for open-source development?
That'd be an absolute copyright/licensing nightmare, just because the code was stolen and published doesn't mean it is now "open-source".
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>This generation seems very sensitive to the prospect of computer crime. You're right. I remember a time, maybe 20 years ago, when stuff like this would be generally appreciated by any community of hackers.
I think the problem is people are entering a matured industry, all they know is the professional buttoned up culture we have today. People have no further curiosity beyond working and making money in tech. They do not have memories of a time when people tinkered around doing all kinds of crazy and possibly illegal stuff, just for fun, just to see if the could. Sad really.
Not everyone has to share a political point of view, so while some people are anarchists and are happy to just have a giant free-for all others believe in the concept of ownership. That isn’t a lack of curiosity or a professional buttoned-up money-chasing approach.
Ukrainians probably hacked Yandex, because they thought, it is a Russian engine, but it is actually from Netherland/EU. They should be careful, otherwise Netherland will stop helping them with weapons pretty quickly.
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I wonder if that's a function of their technology or their database. Google's image search used to be good, but regulations have forced them to cripple it in some ways, and they might have chosen not to surface results in some contexts.
Not only regulations, Chrome's builtin image search uses Google Lens to find products to sell you instead of simple reverse searches. It has become useless.
In some browsers/profiles I use a "Search by Image" extension that still works properly.
When Chrome first made Lens the built-in image search, there was a way to turn it off. Does anyone know if that's still possible by some more-hidden method?
Yandex reverse image search is very good. I use it more than tineye, bing, or goog. It either gives you the exact matches if it can find them, or else it can infer what is desired and show many similar matches.
What are the short-term and long-term implications of this? I assume a drastically increased attack surface and potentially a boon for open-source development? Anything else?
Yandex might be the most popular search engine in Russia, but also they're by far the most popular logistics company for private people here. They do deliveries (food, groceries, other goods), taxis, moving vans and so on - all strongly Yandex branded. If you walk around the streets of Russia's big cities, their brand is absolutely omnipresent (and also in some former Soviet countries, like Armenia). Eating into thei…