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by pbhjpbhj | 2025-09-28 21:40:15+00:00
>given their recent penchant for arresting protesters?

A protest group attacked a military base causing £millions of damage. They got censured, as a terrorist organisation.

"Protestors" decided they wanted to support that specific organisation, taking focus away from their message and chasing after something the government simply can't countenance: allowing protestors to ruin our defensive capabilities, at immense expense to the taxpayer, just to make some headlines.

If these people cared about Palestinians then they should have given up supporting the proscribed 'terrorists' and protested in a way that didn't require the government to crack down hard. Plenty of other non-proscribed protest groups are perfectly allowed.

Private corporation's already know everywhere you go, if you have a mobile phone, or use a debit/credit card, or drive a car. The government already know where you work and when, if you pay your taxes.

What Reform/Tories/right-wingers didn't want was any solution that would ease the problems they're using to try and rile the people into full culture wars. Labour are giving them what they [say they] want: making it harder for illegal immigrants, making it harder to claim benefits. But Farage isn't really there to solve a problem, here's there to create one as a means to weadle into power (presumably so he can refuse to do any useful work with that power, as he did in the EU) so he can fuck up the UK trying to be Trump 2 Fascist Boogaloo.
by tnt128 | 2025-09-28 21:40:27+00:00
A lot of people here focus on the political side of this topic, so I want to share an engineering perspective instead. At the core, solving any problem really follows the same pattern: first you figure out what the problem is, then you set up a way to measure it, come up with a possible solution, and test it against your measurement. If it works, keep going. If it doesn’t, try something else. The key is just running this loop quickly enough. This process applies no matter what kind of problem you’re tackling—engineering, politics, or social issues.

The U.S. has this loop at the company level. China has this loop at the local government level.

In China, the central government decides what the goals are and how they are measured, and then the local governments carry out the implementation. Local officials who perform well against those measures get promoted; those who don’t are demoted.

If the U.S. really wants to build this kind of feedback loop at the government level, voters need to judge election candidates based on their track record, not just campaign rhetoric. And for that to happen, the country needs a well-educated population with strong critical thinking skills.

I should also add that China has been operating this way for thousands of years. It’s not without problems, though—like the old saying goes: when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

For example, GDP used to be the main measure of success. That pushed local governments to chase higher GDP numbers at all costs—regardless of whether the projects were actually practical or useful. This led to overbuilding, unnecessary construction, and even ghost towns.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-09-28 21:40:37+00:00
> In the process, they have surrendered their ad budgets to a "black box" process that they have no insight into or control over and can be easily manipulated against them.

No we were slowly forced by Google to surrender to their algorithm that use tons of data on users.

I wish it was still easy to just put an ad for car when people search « cheap car », but the reality is that they keep removing features, making things convoluted and on the other hand push hard for their automated algorithm.
by GreenWatermelon | 2025-09-28 21:40:58+00:00
Such a blatantly biased and dishonest article.

In addition to what others said about TFA, This part jumped out to me:

> Specifically, I was sent this commit replacing references to Homebrew from late July. As evidence of Homebrew's authorship was being erased and obscured, no additional acknowledgement was added to credit Homebrew for having created and maintained Portable Ruby since 2016.

A paragraph later the author writes

> In fairness to Andre, the rv-ruby repo continues to retain a copy of Homebrew's LICENSE.txt which names "Homebrew contributors" as the copyright holder. Andre also later added an explicit acknowledgement to the README, but that attribution came more than a month later, and (I'm told) only after he was directly asked to credit the original project.

"In fairness" my ass. How can the author leverage a claim of authorship being erased, when the license is sitting there, untouched, for over a year?

And when someone told Andre to credit the original project... He simply did? Seemingly without any issues. In what universe is this an example of "obscuring authorship"?

Of course, putting this section right after the section where Andre mistakingly accused google of copying code without perserving the original license, leads you to think Andre is a hypocrite, when in fact there were over 7 years between the two "events". The storytelling is doubly dishonest because as Andre kept the original license intact, rendering all implicit claims of hypocrisy void.

In short, this article is borderline defamation.
by Apreche | 2025-09-28 21:41:06+00:00
Surveillance isn’t the answer, justice is.

You know how women often don’t report sexual harassment and assault? It’s because if they do report it, they will suffer further victimization and their chances at any just outcome are too low.

Same thing with bullying in schools. Kids don’t report it because if they do so, they will be opening themselves up to further victimization, and the people they report it to will not take sufficient action to stop it.

All schools need to do is make it safe to report bullying, prioritizing the victim’s safety. Then with a report they don’t need blanket surveillance, they can just do targeted surveillance to verify the reports. Once verified, they should take immediate action to put a permanent stop to it.
by mattmanser | 2025-09-28 21:42:24+00:00
Do they teach nothing of European history in America? Magna Carta? Basically the inspiration behind your constitution?

1215, still a few parts left as enforceable law today. If you think US institutions are old, try European ones. We're still supposed to practice longbow on Sundays.

America is middle aged, at best. You haven't even changed regime yet. Only every been a republic. Never changed religion.

How cute. Poor old Spain has been back and forth with absolute monarchy, constitutional monarchy, republics and even a fascist dictatorship thrown in the mix.
by lazide | 2025-09-28 21:42:34+00:00
Plenty of 12 year old morons, and 90 year old razor sharp professors, as counter examples.

Either way, those same old folks are the ones who’d need to sign off on the rules banning their existence and I don’t see them doing that.

So who are the idiots exactly?

Personally, I think it’s the folks who think more rules will make a difference against someone who is explicitly great at violating rules and getting away with it. While pretending to be a moron.
by nilslindemann | 2025-09-28 21:43:07+00:00
Paragraph 1: I speak of a sorting method which splits the filename at the boundaries between numbers and non-numbers, and sorts by the parts of the resulting tuple, the numbers naturally (10 comes after 2) and the rest by numerical char code.

Paragraph 2: I am not sure what you mean here with writing a script. The graphical file manager shall sort its file list using the sorting function I hand over to it.

"That's not really what a graphical file manager is for". Says who? Every software which has a plugin system does that, why should a file manager not?
by majormajor | 2025-09-28 21:44:04+00:00
Just google "is real ID the mark of the beast" or "is social security number the mark of the beast" like I did above.

The premillenial dispensationalism theory is widespread in southern evangelical churches in the US, with big sales of associated media.

The association is "verse says a mark will be required and a number of the beast is mentioned" -> "these are numbers assigned by the government required for commerce" -> "this is the mark." The language of the apocalopytic verses is flowery enough that people pick and choose which parts they take literally, so for a while it wasn't seen as necessarily an injection (or you could also believe that eventually you'd have to get a SSN tattoo, say).
by leakycap | 2025-09-28 21:44:12+00:00
SerpAPI has a free ($0/mo forever) plan that lets you get 100 results for 250 searches per month

https://serpapi.com/blog/solution-to-scrape-100-search-resul...

I have not heard of another offering, and the next jump up in pricing from free to their cheapest paid plan is huge... so it's only a partial solution
by canyon289 | 2025-09-28 21:44:17+00:00
BDA is THE book to learn Bayesian Modeling in depth rigorously. For different approaches there are a number shared here like Statistical Rethinking from Richard McElreath or Regression and other stories which Gelman and Aki wrote as well.

I also write a book on the topic which is focused a code and example approach. It's available for open access here. https://bayesiancomputationbook.com
by Squeeeez | 2025-09-28 21:45:47+00:00
Swiss here, and I do not agree. We used to be able to trust our government, but more and more, as the years go by, tech-savvy people realize how laws have accumulated into surveillance.

Now there are much worse cases out there, sure. But most Swiss citizens are not even aware of those laws.

Nor are they aware of how much the Swiss government has been trying to hide its incompetence regarding anything IT-related. Like data leaks happening several times per year.

So yes, a big percentage of those almost 50% of "no we don't want this" responses were about lack of trust in the different branches of the government.
by majormajor | 2025-09-28 21:47:54+00:00
He's "a prominent politician" and absolutely part of the "Center Left" as defined in US politics.

Good luck with your purity tests of course, and hope you like the Trumps of the world instead!

(Curious though - what parts of homeless encampments are leftist? Supporting them would seem to be more of a libertarian POV vs a collective solution to provide something better?)
by commandersaki | 2025-09-28 21:47:55+00:00
Eh, not really interested in entertaining some hypotheticals that has negligible probability relative to a black swan event occurring. Needless to say there is very little evidence of what you describe with Apple; if anything over the 23 is h years of having used Apple products, the access to the latest accessibility and assistive tech has gone from paid upgrades to free.

Your devices become useless, and the ability to run free software becomes the only way to salvage them.

Free software is a matter of personal self-reliance -- not just some hobby.

Free software provides me negligible utility, I can't rely on it for anything, since it has virtually unusable accessibility and assisitve tech. The chances free software can come to the table with something usable is a lot less likely than the scenarios you have dreamt up, so we'll be fine in the long run.

Like if the Stallman life works for you, go for it; but I would've been left stranded in many areas of my life having stunted growth (not physically) if had not found another way to use tech/computers, which would probably involve spending stupid amounts of money on (again) proprietary niche accessibility tech. Stallman and his FOSS sycophants only care about their ideals, not actually empowering people.
by matt-p | 2025-09-28 21:48:26+00:00
I think it /can/ also be to 'multiply a number by 12'. For example lets say I'm a supermarket, who gets their order data out of a 20 year old IT system and as a result I've got a orders table which has a id, user_id and data column with an array of 'sku, price and qty'. If I regularly want to query/sort/filter based on total order value the easiest and most performant solution absolutely is to use a computed column.
by gtowey | 2025-09-28 21:48:30+00:00
> I agree with Microsoft/Google/KDE's order. The author's situation is extremely rare...

Even if that were a valid reason for making it the default behavior, the real issue is they don't even give you the option to have the lexically correct sort order. They just decided to give you something that's not accurate and that's all you get.

A trend which is frustratingly, increasingly common.

It's trivial to allow customization behind menus. But we rarely get that anymore. Especially for sandboxes devices like phones.

It's a giant middle finger to users who want to actually use their devices as a tool, instead of simply a portal for more sales and marketing.
by lxgr | 2025-09-28 21:48:54+00:00
At least for e-marked cables, this seems possible, and once the other side is plugged in at well, it should be clear to the controller what it is and what type of cable connects the two devices (only 2.0 cables supporting at least 3A/20V are allowed to not have a marker per the spec).

No idea why this is not a thing on most devices.
by benoau | 2025-09-28 21:49:19+00:00
Earlier this year I submitted a bug to VSCode about sorting Playwright tests in the alphabetical-and-numerical order that VSCode favours, after Playwright told me it was a VSCode issue.

Some people rushed to fix this as I'd done some diving into the issue and presented the relevant information and code, so now VSCode's Playwright test list uses the same sorting mechanism as the rest of VSCode.

Sadly, the underlying Playwright does not receive that order from VSCode so it still actually runs sequentially-numbered tests in strict alphabetical order. :(
by ivan_gammel | 2025-09-28 21:49:53+00:00
Well, good for you. Your taxpayer money aren’t going to be spent in this conflict, thanks to Trump. What concerns me is that Eastern European nationalists are selling the big war narrative that will make Europe overspend on defense and American LNG when we have plenty of other problems. It doesn’t have to go this way, but that requires really good understanding of intentions and capabilities of either side, at least on the level of Cold War. At the moment there’s no such understanding neither among public nor among politicians. What’s worse, there’s no even attempts to understand - you are great example of such attitude.
by xorcist | 2025-09-28 21:50:08+00:00
So bascially you log in to the login server, which passes a token to the vote counting server that the vote is valid but with no identifying information? And there is some way to verify that these two entities do not cooperate?

How do you override a previously cast vote in that system?

(Overriding a vote is a popular solution to vote buying/intimidating which is otherwise a problem with mail-in votes and e-votes.)
by sega_sai | 2025-09-28 21:50:14+00:00
To me it's a question of benefits vs drawbacks. In my understanding ID cards are beneficial for 1) Running government services 2) Fraud prevention 3) Some immigration control (as at least some reason why people try to migrate to UK is lax document checks) Some people argue that it's somehow becomes authoritarian, when you have an ID card. I personally don't buy that as most of us have already passports, NI numbers etc, so all the security cervices if need be have access to that. Obviously if people start to engage with hypotheticals, that these cards will be used to check whether you can access internet etc, I agree, that would be dangerous, but that is not being proposed. Also the argument that implementing it will take a lot of money and will never be done is not a convincing one, as in that case one should not really try to do anything in this country.
by lxgr | 2025-09-28 21:50:19+00:00
C-to-C cables never have a resistor for identification; those are for devices or legacy cables/adapters to USB-A/B.

“Active” is also somewhat ambiguous: E-marked cables can be both passive or active in terms of what they do with the signal on the high speed data lines (such as amplifying it, converting it to optical etc.)
by pheggs | 2025-09-28 21:50:19+00:00
I voted no in this, but I was on the fence. In my experience people are smarter than they get credit for and the decisions made in these votes are often quite good. There was more to consider than privacy, it's also about the fact that most countries will implement something like this as it is pushed by the UN. So it might become required for some things in the future. Then we currently don't have a whole lot of ways to distinguish AI from people anymore, which will only get worse. Propaganda bots are real and we don't know how that will evolve. It will make a lot of the processes easier as you can do them from home, which is especially useful for disabled people that can not easily appear physically. Plus, it's more or less optional to have one for now.

And yet, I am still kinda disappointed it passed. We will see how it evolves.
by bootsmann | 2025-09-28 21:50:23+00:00
It's not just government services (such credentials already exist but its a hodgepodge of self-rolled services for each agency). This ID will generally be equal to the real ID so it will be used to verify citizenship to employers, banks and even the store you order alcohol from. You can even use it to prove that you're of age to the barman irl.
by Arch-TK | 2025-09-28 21:50:46+00:00
They haven't specifically said anything, but they have directly compared the ID to phone based payment card systems, which on the google side do rely strictly on a google-blessed android build[0][1][2].

It's also incredibly popular in the security industry (I know, I work in it) to claim that every possible app in existence must:

* Obfuscate

* Do root detection and refuse to work

* Detect attempts to attach a debugger, and refuse to work

* Detect running from a VM, and refuse to work

* Do certificate pinning (although as an industry we've stopped recommending this bullshit practice, although we still insist on it for some things)

* Prevent screenshots from being taken

* Force you to re-authenticate using biometric ID every time you look away from the app

* and... break at the slightest hint of a non-standard build of android

So I don't have high hopes, because the company I work for does work for the UK government, will likely be picked to review this app, and inevitably all that shit is what we'll recommend (although I hope I won't be working here by then because I'm just sick and tired of cargo cult / checkbox security).

[0]: Not because of any specific feature, but solely based on signing keys.

[1]: I believe specifically you have to license GMS integrate them into the build, which e.g. GrapheneOS does not do.

[2]: And no, GOS's sandboxed google services don't fix this problem, Google Pay will still refuse to work.
by idle_zealot | 2025-09-28 21:51:36+00:00
I know this "bullying causes shooters" narrative is popular and makes some kind of intuitive sense, but do we have actual data on it? Is there even a correlation? Because my memory of the last few months of shooters is that most of them didn't really experience bullying (though were definitely socially maladjusted).

I want to emphasize that I am not suggesting bullying isn't a problem, regardless of its correlation or lack thereof.
by pbhjpbhj | 2025-09-28 21:51:49+00:00
I agree with the problem you identify. I was both a bully, and a bullied person at times during my school days. For me the bullying of me brought on the bullying by me, I feel.

I don't see any practical answers in your comment. Recognising schools should "makes it safe to report bullying" is one thing. How though? It seems entirely intractable - you seem to suggest blanket surveillance of all children everywhere?
by kimixa | 2025-09-28 21:52:09+00:00
> But on the other hand there genuinely have been many people arrested (and in some cases convicted) under these laws for statements that are shockingly milquetoast.

Care to name some?

The vast majority of cases I've looked into end up being a lot more than the initially presented "They Were Arrested For Saying Bad Words On The Internet!" story pushed on the internet.

In fact, I can't remember a single one where there wasn't a lot more, but that's not really more than anecdote.
by ameixaseca | 2025-09-28 21:52:51+00:00
It's ludicrous to read the article and notice how hard they are trying not to blame the victim, as if a child going through bullying and seeing that nobody around them cares to actually do something is somehow in the wrong when they react.

I never seen or heard any school doing any meaningful actions to deter bullying, and I don't mean this about the US system alone. Students are often left to fend off by themselves like animals, only punished when they fight back.

The classic victim-turned-perpretator is symptom of a system that is fundamentally broken.

I don't say this to justify any kind of violence, just that it is understandable and baffling that so little seems to be done to address root causes. Almost as if the children going through this are right on point: nobody really cares.

The last paragraph says it all:

> At one point during his senior year, he even asked to meet her team to thank them. “He thanked us for caring about him,” the sergeant said. “Because he felt like no one ever took the time to really care, and he could tell that we cared. It was really nice to hear.”

I read this a few times now and it hits hard every time.

I hope he's well and was able move one with his life. This would be indeed the best achievement of a system that should be like this from day 1.
by kevlened | 2025-09-28 21:53:31+00:00
The lessons are correct, but may be more obvious with better definitions.

"Alive" pieces remain permanent throughout the game. In both 2.16 examples, white can capture black by filling the gaps.

"Eyes" only have one space each and are fully surrounded by a single color. In both 2.16 examples. there are no eyes. Look at 2.17 with this new definition to see where the gaps are not yet eyes.

2.17 (3) is asking you to place a white piece within the black formation. This renders correctly for me in firefox.
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-09-28 21:53:59+00:00
The US mine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Pass_Rare_Earth_Mine

It went bankrupt in 2015, but came out of it and is still operating today. $MP, up 300% YTD

The Japan incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Senkaku_boat_collision_in...

tldr: Japan arrested a Chinese fishing boat captain in disputed territory. China responded by restricting exports of rare earth elements to Japan. Japan responded by forming a new partnership with Lynas Rare Earths which mines in Australia and processes in Malaysia. $LYS, up 150% YTD