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by jmclnx | 2025-10-02 13:47:48+00:00
Again, I will say, where I worked, due to "security" lots of items were disabled, even for developers. The only item that you could use to get data was SE17, some people (a few) were allowed to have SE16. But due to memory, getting data that way was very slow.

Also, SE16 did and may still have security issues. That was the reason for it being disabled for 99% of the users.
by masfuerte | 2025-10-02 13:48:09+00:00
When Starmer announced digital ID he also talked about the regulation of social media. Sure, nobody has confirmed the plan, but the two things are clearly connected in the prime minister's thinking.

On the other hand, according to The Times yesterday the cabinet isn't happy with digital ID. It's as obvious to them as it is to everyone else that digital ID won't make a jot of difference to illegal working. And may well lose them votes.
by lokicik | 2025-10-02 13:48:19+00:00
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by Aurornis | 2025-10-02 13:48:23+00:00
> some people do exactly that. they refuse to communicate on anything but their messenger of choice. and sometimes keeping in touch with that person is more important than my preferences. oh, and for many people i do not want to share my phone number, which limits the available messaging platforms we can still use. we'll be lucky if there is one.

I’m sure there are some number of people out there who only use Facebook Messenger, do not check their email, refuse to use any other messenger, for whom you do not want to share your phone number with for SMS texting, and for whom one of their friends cannot self-control enough to scroll a Facebook feed when they use the Facebook Messenger app. I agree this scenario is plausible for some very small percentage of users with eccentric habits and specific demands who are unwilling to compromise.

I do not agree that we need to start using the force of government to regulate that companies cater to this exact edge case situation where both parties refuse to bend their messaging habits or exchange SMS contact information but want companies to create an entirely separate app for them to communicate on their platform.
by churchill | 2025-10-02 13:49:22+00:00
For those out of the loop the actions of the Israeli gov. are not some fringe overreaction. This is what the people want. by their own admission, 48% of Israeli Jews want Palestinians to be ethnically cleansed which would constitute a genocidal act, while 79% believe they should get preferential treatment over Arabs. [0]

Both Israeli Arabs & Palestinian Arabs. This is not some, 'oh no! it just happened.' Everyone who has actually spent time studying this conflict, the state of Israel has a policy of systematic rape, torture, mass incarceration, murder, and dehumanization of Palestinians at an industrial scale that's been in place for decades now.

They're just going mask-off in a way Western audiences can't pretend not to know about it any longer.

Israelis and their Western supporters try to make out their actions as that of fringe far-right loonies like Smotrich, etc. Nope. Systematic rape, torture, murder, of non-Jews has been their policy for decades now. You're just finally learning about it after so long. The ultra-orthodox don't make up a plurality of the population and used to not serve in the military until recently. So, if their abominable ideology is state policy, it's because Israelis are okay with it.

[0]: https://www.timesofisrael.com/plurality-of-jewish-israelis-w...
by pixl97 | 2025-10-02 13:49:41+00:00
The improvement of ideas over time is a rather complex process.

It's multiple things working together. Typically you have to have an excess of calories which leads to free time in at least part of the population. While the 'fear of change' as gods fault is more of a post ad hoc rationalization of the horizon problem. That is any change in behaviors in the good times could lead to death in the hard times. Moving away from what works has risks.
by fauigerzigerk | 2025-10-02 13:50:03+00:00
We (small tech company) migrated away from Microsoft 365 because it was extremely buggy and many supposedly simple things are so incredibly complicated and convoluted.

They have several overlapping admin sites for absolutely everything, plus some hidden old sites from the early 2000s that support will guide you to use for some archaic settings that still influence how more modern stuff works.

In my experience, Microsoft support is good in the sense that they are easy to contact and keen to help. But working with them just took too much of my time. Their approach is to schedule a call to guide you through layers and layers of legacy stuff just to try things that often end up not working.

With Google Workspace I don't actually know if support is good or bad because we never needed support in the first place. Google's software is far simpler and less buggy.

We also use Proton now, which has been working pretty well so far. Better than expected.

Microsoft 365 is for companies that can afford to employ a full-time, specialised Microsoft 365 admin.
by toss1 | 2025-10-02 13:50:21+00:00
Yes, quickly skimming your linked site, I saw Pressure, Force, and Vibration sensors, but as you mention no mention of lateral force, nor of temperature.

Thinking briefly about the sensations used in manupilating tools or checking a surface, both lateral and temperature are hugely important.

And, of course the insane density of sensors built into human fingers relative to anything built by humans.

It has a looong way to go
by danaris | 2025-10-02 13:50:33+00:00
There's a big difference between needing a tool to do a job that only that tool can do, and needing a crutch to do something without using your own faculties.

LLMs are nothing like a computer for a programmer, or a saw for a carpenter. In the very best case, from what their biggest proponents have said, they can let you do more of what you already do with less effort.

If someone has used them enough that they can no longer work without them, it's not because they're just that indispensable: it's because that someone has let their natural faculties atrophy through disuse.
by burkaman | 2025-10-02 13:50:43+00:00
The article doesn't say this explicitly, but I would guess the majority of the remaining Windows 10 population is not stubborn users that refuse to update, it's people who just can't because of the Windows 11 hardware requirements. I can't update my desktop without replacing the motherboard and CPU and I just don't want to to spend the time and money on that anytime soon. The computer works fine.
by zobla_dev | 2025-10-02 13:50:53+00:00
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by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-10-02 13:51:03+00:00
There is a very simple metric, called "fertility rate". It is the average number of children born per woman over her entire lifetime. Since the male/female ratio in humans is nearly 1:1, she has to have 2 children (one to replace herself, one for the corresponding man) plus a tiny bit of extra... usually said to be about 2.1 children.

If she has fewer than that, population is shrinking, each generation is smaller than the last. In China and other parts of East Asia (not just China, this isn't the One Child Policy and its effects), it's already at or below 1.0. Heading that way everywhere else. This isn't a prediction, it's already happening. And in Europe, in North America, everywhere but a few countries in Africa (and they're trending towards this too).

This is real, I would say it can't be denied or ignored except most people are ignorant and in denial. Low fertility rates can become social norms, they do become social norms, and after that they never raise back to safe/healthy ones. Little children grow up thinking that having one child or no children at all is normal and they do not buck the trend when they become adults themselves. It's how humans become extinct.
by slightwinder | 2025-10-02 13:51:06+00:00
I've seen in the docs that the config does not support imports and also uses a special function for including config from other files. Will it stay this way? And does also prevent code from loading&eval via network? Maybe flesh this out more explicitly in the security-doc. It's not quite obvious from being in-between the docs.

Also, what about 3rd-partys? Can other webextensions access glides functions? Or even worse, websites? I guess this is prevented by Firefox itself, but explaining this more explicitly might be also an enhancement for the security-doc.
by robertpateii | 2025-10-02 13:51:35+00:00
Being physically fit past your 30s is a series of building habits and making hard choices that obviously is a challenge of its own that many in sedentary jobs have skipped or fallen away from. OP may be fit, but yeah for average office worker (especially in locations that are car-bound on long commutes) I’d bet there is indeed more going on than just autism.
by myrmidon | 2025-10-02 13:51:37+00:00
There is zero reason to assume that fusion power will ever be the cheapest source of energy. At the very least, you have to deal with a sizeable vacuum chamber, big magnets to control the plasma and massive neutron flux (turning your fusion plant into radioactive waste over time), none of which is cheap.

I'd say limitless energy from fusion plants is about as likely as e-scooters getting replaced by hoverboards. Maybe next millenium.
by rayiner | 2025-10-02 13:51:47+00:00
You’re begging the question. Just because the constitution isn’t an enumeration of all rights doesn’t mean you can gin a right into existence just by saying it exists. You still have to identify the source of that right somewhere else. What is the source that establishes that “bodily autonomy” is a right that overrides the state’s power to regulate medications and medical procedures?

In any event, whatever right to bodily autonomy you think exists, the constitution is plainly more concerned about the right to bear firearms. The document devotes a whole amendment to firearms. But the most you can say about the right to bodily autonomy is that the constitution’s silence on it doesn’t preclude its existence.
by supersrdjan | 2025-10-02 13:51:58+00:00
My stack is org mode plus the Denote package which has a nifty journaling feature. Each day has its own file. The date is in the file name, but more useful to me, the file name also includes a signature that looks like this today:

2025q4w40thu

I find that the week number and day of the week is a more meaningful coordinate than the date itself to orient myself when browsing through the files.
by ajsnigrutin | 2025-10-02 13:52:04+00:00
Because requiring an ID to register for eg. a facebook account is hard... how do you input your physical card into a computer? There's potential for abuse when taking a photo of it, and as soon as one photo of an ID appears online, everyone can use that.

By having people get digital IDs, you can require them to use it when registering for social network accounts, etc., because it's already in their phones and requires just one tap to 'sign' the account with your real identity. Want to complain about a local politician on r/uk on reddit? You'll need a valid UK account to even post there, and it'll be tied to your real name. Want to join a discord? You need UK ID and your real identity tied to it. Organizing a protest? Well, your real name is there, the police will be visiting soon.
by 4gotunameagain | 2025-10-02 13:52:39+00:00
Yeah but not all places are California (constant sunshine) and even there the battery storage solutions so far are what, not even 20% of demand or something ?

Energy policy is very much locale dependent. The solutions that work for California do not work for most other places. In Germany we have periods where there are two weeks with no sunlight. Sucks, I know.
by sneak | 2025-10-02 13:52:55+00:00
I’m not a government and I have no legal authority to build extermination camps. It’s not the same thing.

> A society where every progressive person refuses to hire rednecks is also a society where every redneck refuses to hire colored people, immigrants, LGBT people/advocates, feminists.

Yes, I’d like to live in that world. Freedom of association is a good thing, and a powerful force to shape the world for the better. If idiots want to kneecap their businesses, they should be allowed to.
by niek_pas | 2025-10-02 13:53:18+00:00
Some useful context here is that the Netherlands is holding a general election on 29 October, which is why the deadline of two weeks was imposed. If Meta does not comply with the two weeks deadline and instead pays the (tiny) $5 million fine, that could have serious consequences for the democratic process in the Netherlands. Escalating after two weeks might be too little, too late.
by lopis | 2025-10-02 13:53:48+00:00
But at same time, Facebook & co need so much ad revenue and tracking because a) they are greedy and want to profit a lot, b) their tracking and ad apparatus is very complex and expensive to run, possibly more expensive than the actual product. People don't need half the shit that facebook offers, which is why people moved to instagram without a problem; then instagram became equally bloated.

So yeah, I understand that Meta wants a lot of money, but I reject the idea that we need to suffer this much to have the social features we need.
by z3t4 | 2025-10-02 13:54:03+00:00
This is generalisations and doesn't work as all autistic people are different, but I'll give some tips anyway. Let them do what they are good at and gives them motivation. Ask for their opinion, and you will likely get a straight answer. If it's a highly ambitious and motivated person you need to protect them from over-working. Protect them from internal politics and bullying. Also be a good example for social interactions and culture because they will do like you do, so better be nice and smile.
by bcrl | 2025-10-02 13:54:09+00:00
By that line of reasoning, no feature could ever be merged in a filesystem. You simply cannot prove complex code has no bugs. Testing increases confidence that code may be stable, but that isn't a certainty as there's no guarantee that testing exercises all possible conditions. I know as code I've written that stood up to a lot of testing has resulted in data loss when a series of very complex conditions aligned to trigger a corner case.

Bugs are a fact of life. Bug fixes are a fact of life. Sometimes those bugs will cause data loss. Adding code in and -rc to support data recovery when a bug caused data loss to occur is a good thing for users. Portraying it as a bad thing is the worst kind of bike shedding.
by whalesalad | 2025-10-02 13:55:05+00:00
This is government overreach. These are novelty/fun apps. They are not critical infrastructure or needed in any way. This would be like a court ordering a local bar to serve more than just beer and wine, to accomodate people who like sake and soju. You have free choice to use the social platforms that you want to use. Really don't understand this kind of action tbh.
by mikepurvis | 2025-10-02 13:55:08+00:00
It's a bit unusual for a type to be wrapped in both an option and a result, since they have a lot of overlap. They're both union types, but semantically, Result takes the place of throwing an exception (Ok is your return value or here's the error) while Option takes the place of a pointer (Some is an instance of the underlying type, vs None which the null case).

Normally these union types would be handled with a match, or an if let, eg:

if let Some(x) = fn_returning_an_option() { do_thing_with_x(x); } else { // handle that it was none }

The unwrap functions are basically just shortcuts for this, with the most extreme being unwrap() itself, which simply returns the Ok/Some value if present, and otherwise triggers a panic state resulting in the program exiting.

But all of this is rust forcing the developer to either address the null case, or explicitly put in an "unwrap" to acknowledge that they're not addressing it. This is in contrast to C or C++ where you just myPtr->lol wherever you want, and if myPtr is null then it's a segfault.

So that's the worst of it. The rest is the function chain, which is a bit obscured by lack of indentation, and that the functions are being passed lambdas.
by hamelcubsfan | 2025-10-02 13:55:15+00:00
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by deltarholamda | 2025-10-02 13:55:26+00:00
>They're doing it because they have the money and feel it's worth the risk in case it pays off.

If the current work in AI/ML leads to something more fundamental like AGI, then whoever does it first gets to be the modern version of the lone nuclear superpower. At least that's the assumption.

Left outside of all the calculations is the 8 billion people who live here. So suddenly we have AGI--now what? Cures for cancer and cold fusion would be great, but what do you do with 8 billion people? Does everybody go back to a farm or what? Maybe we all pedal exercise bikes to power the AGI while it solves the Riemann hypothesis or something.

It would be a blessing in disguise if this is a bubble. We are not prepared to deal with a situation where maybe 50-80% of people become redundant because a building full of GPUs can do their job cheaper and better.
by niall00c | 2025-10-02 13:55:40+00:00
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by kragen | 2025-10-02 13:56:56+00:00
Trains also enjoy great economies of scale, so once you have high ridership and an extensive network, you aren't taking a financial hit anymore. For medium distances, like 300–3000km, trains also provide speeds that passengers can't get any other way, because they avoid the huge overhead of going through an airport. It's an investment, not an expense.

But China has also electrified a lot of its cars and trucks, and continues to do so rapidly.
by Mouvelie | 2025-10-02 13:57:06+00:00
What you wrote resonated with me, I think the same way and so, allow me the pushback. :) Does it have to be that way, a severance type of scenario where the work life is opposite of the "life" life ? I feel that it should, perhaps could, be different. Yeah, it depends on what you do for a living, your need for money and so on, but do people that win at career always lose at life ?
by mcpar-land | 2025-10-02 13:57:25+00:00
especially if you have a custom domain with google workspace (or whatever it's named now). my switch to pointing my domain from google to proton was totally painless, you can migrate all your old emails, etc.

i imagine if you just have an @gmail.com it might be a little more annoying what with having to do forwarding, but still worth it.
by n4r9 | 2025-10-02 13:57:36+00:00
I'm not sold on the food delivery front. In the UK you used to be able to just ring up a local restaurant and order a free local delivery, especially indian, chinese, kebab, pizza, and chip shops. My family did it once a week in the 90s and early 2000s and it was always quick and easy. The restaurants clearly had enough demand to offer it as a service each night they opened.

I suspect that delivery apps crafted a moat by building a network effect with cheap prices, and now people just use them out of habit. If you know what kind of food you want it can be cheaper just to order directly from the restaurant, and you often get better service. Our local Indian restaurant has a 10% discount for directly ordering through their own app website instead of a delivery app.
by darkwater | 2025-10-02 13:58:19+00:00
You can actually pay for Instagram, if you don't want ads. You still have messages tied with the feed.

Now, one must also say that Instagram wasn't the incumbent messaging platform in any place in the world. It's just that newer generations always cannot tolerate to do things like their parents did, so if their parents primarily used Whatsapp or Facebook Messenger (oh, wait, all of them owned by Meta!) to communicate, they ought to find a new platform to get locked in.
by alecco | 2025-10-02 13:59:25+00:00
Solar, and renewables in general, are very unstable. You need nuclear or fossil to stabilize the grid.

From that page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Iberian_Peninsula_blackou...

I'm pro-solar, but by EU politicians sugar-coating it things are getting out of control. Worst part, it seems there were warnings for months. But since it was raised by the opposition they were ignored.