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I can't bring myself to be bothered by this - and wouldn't be even if I were using these devices.

For crying out loud, equipment with unique recorded serial numbers was stolen, so the company is blocking the specific stolen devices. That makes perfect sense to me. Objecting to how they do it (bulking up software with a list of serials, requiring software to phone home, whatever) is fine and their customers have a legit basis to be unhappy if it's impacting their use, but people with the stolen devices? Those aren't SDRPlay's customers because SDRPlay hasn't been paid for those devices.

Quoting from the article: In a PR disaster the manufacturer gives "Because we can" as an explanation to make end user devices worthless.

I'll note that this complaint very carefully leaves out a key word: STOLEN. I'm not seeing the PR disaster except that it's going to seriously hurt their image in the community of people who steal stuff from warehouses. tiny violin plays sad music

If you've purchased one of these, as I said above you're not a customer of SDRPlay or one of its distributors because payment is part of a vendor-customer relationship. You're someone who bought "Bose" speakers out of the back of a white van in a parking lot. Get your money back from the seller - you may even be able to get the police report from SDRPlay if you need it for a chargeback - and tell SDRPlay where you bought it so they can try to track down the thieves.

Edit: reading the original SDRPlay forum posts, they ID the specific ebay sellers, note that this is the third time they've had things stolen like this and sold by the same accounts, and note that "We will NOT penalise innocent people so that assumption that this is our intent is frankly WRONG!!" Basically they're likely looking for anything like saved packaging, shipping return addresses, etc. to be turned over to the police. Also, this whole thing is about (in this case at least) a total of 39 devices. We're not talking about thousands of people affected.

SDRPlay: https://www.sdrplay.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3225
I know you're talking about windows, but remember this controller is targetted at xbox, which is even more locked down than any of Apple's platforms.
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Leaving out AI, Robin Hanson has an entire book on what happens when we "only" start to emulate existing human thought in machines, what he calls "ems". Given only that, no new algorithms, just an increase in speed, he goes into some detail predicting economic effects.[0][1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP-p-O200jo

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Age-Em-Work-Robots-Earth/dp/019875462...
It's not just a USB breakout box. On the back of it, is has standard inputs for assistive devices that map directly to Xbox controller buttons, as well as settings for different input profiles. $100 is a totally reasonable prize, especially in this market.
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If they’re into this connoisseurism, they are. How do they know they “enjoy red wine” if they don’t even know the taste difference and can be fooled by food coloring?
Yea, it's great. We run adtech entirely out of Germany, we've found lots of talented folks but we operate in a village, not Berlin.

But then also, we just need AWS, payment processing (stripe) and a bank account.

24/7 power, high-speed internet, hardware.

Every service is dirt cheap compared to the US.

Hookers are beautiful.
It's possible to indoctrinate without violence, you know that. It's possible for educational institutions to be ideologically motivated and coercive without starving their subjects. In fact, perhaps the it's the case that the more effective such institutions are the less violent they have to be.

Thankfully, enlightened western nations like Canada have not been so cruel since the distant, distant year of 1996 [0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_...
This. I found out if I showed up everyday in high school and focused in class I could get a B or A in every class without doing any work at home. I still did some homework but it was in school. My time outside of school was mine. It was great.

I had a very rude wake up call when I got to college.

I know high schoolers now and I encourage them to actually do the work. It's not that x,y,z topic may be important someday... It's the skill of doing the work, even when you don't want to, that will be important in life.
> "Leading to what a U.S. commission on China last month said is “the largest mass incarceration of a minority population in the world today.”" Oh the irony.

You really need specify exactly what you're referring to, otherwise there can be no discussion and your comment is content-less snark.

I'm guessing that you're referring to the high numbers of African Americans imprisoned in the US. However, the situations are clearly not comparable. These camps appear to be the result of high-level Chinese government policy that explicitly targets this ethic group. There are no contemporary parallels in the US. If you think there are, do you think Obama was in on it? The US situation is unfortunate, but it's more the result of poverty and lower-level racism, not a policy to imprison blacks.

It's exceedingly frustrating that whenever there's an article about Chinese human rights abuses, there are dozens of comments that seem to just want to deflect attention from them. We never actually end up talking about China, just the US.
Can still harvest them for spare parts. A strong market Apple created by making OEM spare parts hard to buy.

At least until Apple totally shuts down DIY repairs by authenticating the LCD, MAC, keyboard etc. upon startup.
What are you babbling about? The web is technology. JavaScript is a language. And WASM is shipping in all major browsers already.

You don't have to wait 10 years. You can start using WASM today.
He died as he lived: by regrettable inventions.
Complex data structures often need unsafe; writing them isn’t a good way to learn Rust. Most already have implementations you can just use, so it’s not something most rust programmers do often.
Google AMP is terrible for many reasons.

Server side has an idea on how things are supposed to be rendered for content-based documents.

Games and complex apps need JS, but readable documents don't. Not everything should be "an app".

Animation is often not accessible and it's a problem that needs to be fixed.
Well, if humans haven’t changed in 10,000 years then the author’s thought that domesticated animals are different is also false.
It depends on who you are: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_...
Haven't those been found time and time again to be trivially exploitable?
Not yet, but I'm working on readying the v1 [PATCH] submission.
Is PoW really a “clean distribution mechanism”? Economically, it’s like proof of stake, but all stake is divided up among the small set of people who have the electrical connections and equipment to mine profitably.
It sounds like you live for the future but don't have any vision of what that future is or know why you are trading your time now for time later.

You could try living in the present more. Alan Watts' The Book is a good way to explore that perspective shift, if you enjoy reading philosophy.

If not, try questioning your assumptions and getting out of your comfort zone a bit. The prison exists because we forget that we made the walls and the bars.
I'm not performing an ad hom. Nor do I want an appeal to authority. I fully wish them the best of luck in making a better build system, and I look forward to things they learn making it to other systems out there.

That line caught my attention pretty hard. It is mentioned in passing, and I have been part of many failed systems that were able to say the same thing. :) That is to say, I'm making my comment from experience. Not a desire for them to fail or give up.
It's where two footpaths cross each other? :)
> Edit: Imagine this is because you want to use SLAAC.

Not just because of SLAAC, prefixes smaller than /64 are likely to mess with all sorts of assumptions built into networking gear. It may not be "correct" since there are valid reasons for subnets as small as a /127 (though they are used infrequently enough at least), but a lot of networking gear cheats with IPv6 routes to keep the amount of TCAM memory needed down. Why spend 128-bits per route and quadruple the memory required when you can double it and go 64-bits per route and dump the longer ones to slower DRAM (I mean, you only use /127's for point-to-point links that don't need link-rate switching anyway)?

Regardless of anyone's philosophy of address assignment strategies, prefixes smaller than /64's in IPv6 are un-wise unless you want to degrade into worst-case routing paths on your network gear.
The devices didn't stop working, just the remote control features. You could still walk over to your thermostat/lock and press it's buttons. I'm not sure if there is a remote control infrastructure that doesn't use "the cloud" that is feasible for consumer products.
I'm still surprised that no company has been able to de-throne Twitter.
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> In reality many chips are fabricated for cryptocurrencies other than Bitcoin.

OK, so replace "Bitcoin" with "Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies" in the title. The point remains the same: blockchain-based technologies are extremely inefficient with energy. That's the nature of "proof of work" algorithms.
>Could they create a way to host a service at your home for direct connect from the app so connectivity doesn’t rely on a cloud service?

I believe that's how Apple does it. The local host device is either an AppleTV, or an iPad.
Is gesture a universal language?
i suspect it's because nest is a bit of a (niche) data play.

i don't necessarily care that much about that, but i do want such a product to work perfectly fine whether there's a connection to their servers or not.
Casually I was just speaking about this with my HVAC technician yesterday and he told me that here (Italy) the raise was even steeper, something like 2.5 or 3 times over the last two-three years (cannot remember the actual prices he told me).
I the the idea was you wouldn’t have to give out the key to renters and could just give them passcode/phone access, so it actually would be removing an attack vector.
I think lvh's comment here is more appropriate for mature sysadmins who actually use key auth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17091990
Note that 200,000 transactions per day equals 63 million transactions per year. It’s hard to compare figures if the units are different.
His post is mostly nonsense, but not entirely. First while the burden of proof is not necessarily on the purchaser, if you have in fact purchased stolen goods, you must still forfeit them to law enforcement. There are no jurisdictions that let you keep stolen goods. In most jurisdictions you then need to get restitution from whomever sold you the device, and they can obviously face charges.

The manufacturer can definitely brick, or do whatever they want. The devices are still their rightful property, this isn't a gray area, they were stolen, no one has rightful claim to them except the owner, who was the manufacturer.
What do you mean about "cost of verification"? Verification is not too difficult, it's reaching a consensus among trust-less nodes that is.

PoW solves the problem by making it so that any node which receives two valid but conflicting versions of blockchain has an objective metric to decide which one is the "right" one. The answer being whichever has the most work put into it. Since you can't fake work you can't arbitrarily create a new chain that would take over the others (unless you manage to work harder than all the rest of the network combined, hence the 51% attacks).

Without PoW if you receive two valid but conflicting chains you need an other metric to decide which one you select. This paper describes such an approach.
What is the standard for virtuous use of energy?
> You'd still have the problem of someone being able to copy your "do not duplicate" key

Only if you distribute the “do not duplicate” key, but the whole point is to not do that.
Those who bought stolen devices should return them and ask for a refund from EBay. You are generally not allowed to resell stolen goods, although I am not sure if EBay is liable here.

> Back in October 2014, the FDTI manufacturer shipped a device driver that ... would make any operating system stop seeing the device by setting its USB product ID to 0 , basically killing the USB device.

Well, if that id can be set to 0, it can also be set back to original value, isn't it?
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If something starts making a noise I'll update my posts and let people know.
Whataboutism is more about distraction than justification:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism#Methods:

> "[Whataboutism] functions as a diversionary tactic to distract the opponent from their original criticism. Thus, the technique is used to avoid directly refuting or disproving the opponent's initial argument."
Did you read the article?

Particularly "Minimum Powershell concepts to learn before you rant about how much you hate Powershell"
I'm sorry the actual choices free people make seem to disappoint you so much. What do you think should be done about it?
Not to mention the increase of product placement in movies these days too!
I have a project that I am working on and would like to know more about CodeAI as it seems interesting. What languages does CodeAI support?
You don't understand. They mean the laptop literally called just the Macbook. It's a 12 inch fanless laptop.

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook

This is why these 'simple' naming schemes are confusing.
It's just pure marketing - create a problem where it doesn't exist, and sell the solution.
>Some Bitcoin users have become so wealthy that they are donating millions to charities

Are you serious? Like, that’s a serious argument? Cartel bosses donate money... same thing right?

>Transactions don't consume energy. This is the biggest misunderstanding floating around here.

The misunderstanding is that you think there is a difference between transaction number and miner power. We don’t care. It’s the same thing because what we’re looking at is total power used (massive) and dividing it by a transaction number which is effective output which is transactions.

Bitcoin is a resource waste, you’re defending it in part because “some people have donated to charity. Good luck with that.
Just as an fyi, with an iPhone at least, you can get this same behavior of queuing with the apple tv youtube app + iOS youtube app. Not sure if this functionality is available with android, as the apple tv shows up as a cast option.
Wouldn’t it be pretty trivial to remove the blacklisting code?

It’s not like this is a cellphone sold to my mom. It’s an extremely specialist product aimed at a group of users with vast electronics and reverse engineering knowledge. Probably won’t be long before one of them reverse engineers the device and releases the code to ignore the blacklisting.

Anyone know the technical details of how the blacklisting works?
We don't judge people on their internal thoughts because they are fleeting and can even be random.

I disagree. I think we don't judge people on their internal thoughts because we can't see those internal thoughts. If they became visible, people would start judging each other on them.
Great data for getting your insurance rates raised.

All it takes is for Snake Farm to pay to find out how many times your smoke detector goes off. Or even if it doesn't fully go off, how often it senses anything.

With your thermostat data, it's possible to build a profile of when you're home and away. Hmmm... he seems to work an overnight shift. Better jack up his premium!
SSH tunnels do not do TCP-in-TCP. They just take the content of a tcp stream (not the packets) and forward them over an ssh channel.
You've gotta be kidding me. What in "western politics" is the equivalent of detaining free adult citizens charged with no crime, with no evidence toward any imminent threat, denied legal representation and speedy trial, in the hundreds of thousands?
From your own link:

"A person can be found guilty of that offense only if all of the following facts are proven:
The person received or concealed or stored or disposed of items of stolen property.
The items were moving as, or constituted a part of, interstate commerce.
The items had a value in excess of $5,000.
The person acted knowingly and willfully."

So that doesn't really answer the question asked, because it's only a federal crime if the goods are known to be stolen and a part of "interstate commerce."

Now, at the state level, this may differ. But neither of us has that information.
The insurrection of the safety valves is real.

This week on Everest: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bi1lmwJDyrG/
It'd be interesting to do a study of how many device outages can be fundamentally attributed to the 32-bit IP space. :-)

(In case it's not clear, many of the reasons devices use cloud rendezvous have to do with NATs and firewalls and the difficulty of doing direct node-to-node communication in today's very fragmented Internet. Not all - some are security and complexity.)
I hear this argument all the time, and asside from being unfounded, it makes absolutely no sense. Even in it's infancy, H2 cost is just a little higher than gasoline at the pump (1).

From someone who works in the sector on a daily basis, H2 production from offshore wind powered electrolosis is (and will continue to be) growing to meet increasing demand.

The energy to perform electrolosys comes from renewables like wind and solar, the efficiency of which (primarilly concerning the fully burdoned CAPEX/OPEX of renewable power plant to shipboard fuel cost - i.e. tnhe "cost at the pump") is certainly competitive with diesel fuel prices when you factor in efficiency gains of fuel cells over diesel engines over the full range of power loading. Not too mention the indirect envoronmental gains cost avoidance engine integrators realize by not having to buy additional pollution abatement systems (e.g. EGRs, Scrubbers, SCRs, etc).

It's really a no brainer.

1. https://cafcp.org/content/cost-refill
>There is a black market for it because equipment that uses it doesn't simply work on newer approved stuff.

There's a black market because laymen flip out if you tell them you're refilling their A/C with propane/butane and lubricants.
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No. There is a simple explanation too. Once a valid sale happens ownership changes. They still own these devices, because they were stolen. That means they can do whatever they please, the devices are still theirs.
That, and they just made it militarily important that they continue to exist.
Painting by numbers: visualizing IP addressing plans [pdf]
It does give extensive rationale: not only is it easy to configure (much easier than OpenVPN, let alone anything IPsec), the trusted codebase is tiny, and the cryptographic protocol is significantly more trustworthy.

Respectfully: I suggest you check out the research and design that went into wireguard first, because he trustworthiness of the two protocols is not the same just because you’re unfamiliar with it.
Not the GP but you really should avoid being deliberately obtuse. Also, I agree whataboutism is a problem, but most of us live in the US. It makes sense that we would talk about our own country.

Lastly, you are wildly off the mark regarding racialized drug policies in the US. Just two references:

https://www.aclu.org/issues/mass-incarceration/racial-dispar...

https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-rich...
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The thermostats still worked and you could walk over and manually turn it up/down. You just couldn’t use your phone to do it, which is not too big of an issue.
I don't think your post shows that any public ledge must provide a timestamp server (which I think is your claim?). For instance PBFT (with a fixed validator set) works perfectly fine without providing a timestamp server since it's asynchronously safe - you can take as long as you want to complete every PBFT round.

Basically, PoW provides consensus by providing an absolute timestamp (we know that at the difficulty adjustment equilibrium, a certain block header must have taken 10 minutes to produce), but this does not imply that a consensus algorithm that all public ledger consensus algorithms must produce an absolute timestamp (the later claim is stronger).
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FYI: At Bits & Blocks Press I've collected some bitcoin myths and facts, see Best of Bitcoin Maximalist - Scammers, Morons, Clowns, Shills & BagHODLers - Inside The New New Crypto Ponzi Economics [1] or Crypto Facts - Decentralize Payments - Efficient, Low Cost, Fair, Clean - True or False? [2]

[1]: https://bitsblocks.github.io/bitcoin-maximalist
[2]: https://bitsblocks.github.io/crypto-facts
MyNoise.net also has that, along with some other interesting audio effects.

https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/shepardAudioIllusionToneGe...
Not to mention the internet and gps, both which have roots in the DOD.
> BUT I still don't see where Heaven and Hell as anything to do with stewardship

Huh, seems self-evident to me. If you have to keep a thing, you're gonna be motivated to treat it nice. If you're gonna throw that thing away after you're done with it, you're less motivated to treat it nice.

Since you are a Theological student, I'm sure you're familiar with 2 Corinthians, where Paul goes on at length about the evanescence of our terrestrial "tents": "For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands."

Now this certainly sounds like it would be quite conducive to a "sinking ship" mentality. At the very least on the face of it! You might disagree for more _Theological_ reasons, but if you can't recognize the most obvious, exoteric implications of the text, then I can't help but feel that you're not considering what I said in good faith.

In another sense, it's a question of enforcement. All religions explicitly name the consequences for sin, so if abusing the environment is a sin in Christianity, what is the consequence? I mean, I assume even Christians have some vague sense that you shouldn't torture animals, but where exactly in the Scriptures is even that prohibited?

This is all rooted in Christianity's anthropocentric "ranking of souls." Since only humans are made in the image of God, we have a special status, which is why it's fine to eat the flesh of animals, which God specifically exhorts Peter to do, no?
Why isn’t it a great long-term solution in your view? I have been using it effectively for 10-15 years.
Read the SSH documentation again. Especially the -w option
We do the same thing, we just create laws out of thin air first. Black people smoke marijuana? Make marijuana illegal! Now we can put them in prison!
> 1 party has 100% of the information, 1 party has 0% of the information, and the burden is on the party with 0% information. That's absurd.

As I know the law requires you to return stolen goods even if you didn't know they were stolen. So this sounds fair.
What was done by you there has been seen by me.
The issue with all of this is most people are rule abiding citizens, that's why it's so easy to game the system and get away with it.

(Thinking about businesses & politicians)
Deezer is also quite good and nice to have alternatives to Spotify that respects privacy.