> OMG that's the most terrifying thing I have seen in ages.
Too late.
NTechLab scraped vk.com (Facebook-like Russian social network) profile photos and were running a public website "FindFace" that allowed to find profiles by photo of a face. They provide services to Russian government, e.g. it's used to find people from protests. Also FindFace was used to find and harass webcam models.
> Intel, SpaceX, Philip Morris, and dozens of other US companies were in a leaked database of users for a Russian facial recognition company
> The NTech Lab user list, which was shared with Insider by an anonymous source, includes more than 1,100 entries, with businesses and government agencies from more than 60 countries.
> In 2017, NtechLab face recognition algorithms were built into the Moscow city video surveillance system operated by the Moscow Department of Information Technology . The system uses the database of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to find correspondences to it on video. The alleged use of the system is the search for criminals and the fight against terrorism.
> In 2022, NTechLab was accused of assisting the Russian and Belarus government by tracking thousands of political activists which led to their unconstitutional detentions and arrests.
> In 2016, FindFace generated controversy because it was once used to deanonymize Russian pornography actresses and alleged prostitutes. These efforts were organized by users of a Russian imageboard Dvach who claimed that women in the sex industry are “corrupt and deceptive”, according to Global Voices. In addition, FindFace has been characterized as a major step in the erosion of anonymity.
The controls are quite inconvenient. A common type of controls for top-down games is WASD movement relative to camera + mouse to rotate and shoot. If you spam shooting button, it starts showing the same "not enough power" warning many times. For shooting it would be better to simultaneously play the animation and spawn the bullet, not waiting for the animation. The tutorial windows can be replaced with text on screen to not block movement (controls, level objective; power warning replaced with animation maybe)
https://tts.cns.wtf/ - I made a tiny website with Firefox'es Narrator module (used in FF's Reader view). Alex voice on macOS is a little robotic, but seems decent for me.
https://hn.cns.wtf/#32380045 - Also I have HN reader with comment reading feature, it's not so polished though (no settings, no announcement between comments)
I guess moving admin to a non-default path and dropping connections on default paths should work. nginx has a special 444 status code for dropping the connection [0]
Python 3.6 EOL date is 2021-12-23 (in 2 weeks) [0]. There's also PyPI download stats you can check for your package. E.g. requests has ~20% downloads from 3.6 [1], but for your package it might be way lower, so you can base your decision on that.
Too late.
NTechLab scraped vk.com (Facebook-like Russian social network) profile photos and were running a public website "FindFace" that allowed to find profiles by photo of a face. They provide services to Russian government, e.g. it's used to find people from protests. Also FindFace was used to find and harass webcam models.
https://www.businessinsider.com/intel-spacex-philip-morris-l...
> Intel, SpaceX, Philip Morris, and dozens of other US companies were in a leaked database of users for a Russian facial recognition company
> The NTech Lab user list, which was shared with Insider by an anonymous source, includes more than 1,100 entries, with businesses and government agencies from more than 60 countries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FindFace
> In 2017, NtechLab face recognition algorithms were built into the Moscow city video surveillance system operated by the Moscow Department of Information Technology . The system uses the database of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to find correspondences to it on video. The alleged use of the system is the search for criminals and the fight against terrorism.
> In 2022, NTechLab was accused of assisting the Russian and Belarus government by tracking thousands of political activists which led to their unconstitutional detentions and arrests.
> In 2016, FindFace generated controversy because it was once used to deanonymize Russian pornography actresses and alleged prostitutes. These efforts were organized by users of a Russian imageboard Dvach who claimed that women in the sex industry are “corrupt and deceptive”, according to Global Voices. In addition, FindFace has been characterized as a major step in the erosion of anonymity.