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Chrome's tabs are nicer to use. They're visually easier to parse at a glance and arguably nicer to look at. Chrome's tab dragging is really tight and predictable.

Chrome's first paint is faster and more consistent. I think when I used macOS, Chrome had DNS preloading but Safari didn't.

It's been a while since I used macOS (RIP my 2012 13" MacBook Air), but Chrome's scrolling behaviour is more effective -- "solid" is how I'd describe it.

The omnibar is simple and usually shows exactly the right suggestions. Safari's address bar often didn't have the thing I wanted, and had extra things that I definitely didn't want or took a second for my brain to parse.

Chrome's context menu has better contrast, being black on white rather than black on silver. The choices are ordered better as well.

This is all that comes to mind right now.

An employee at my old company used a Mac Mini. She's not computer-saavy, but she far preferred Chrome over Safari. I asked her why and she couldn't describe it -- just that she was certain. I think it would be really insightful to do studies where you take tiny features from Safari, like the context menu colour, put them in Chrome and survey users on how they liked the product.
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Termites are going to love this ;-)

Even with termite treated lumber, they will still need annual inspections to look for damage. If they do find out the structure is laden with termites, it would most likely require a complete evacuation of the building and "tenting" to gas them out - which might be tricky if it's in an urban area.

Also, any undetected leaks in the structure could cause slow rotting of the wood.
Good point, i didn't mean to say that getting nuclear weapons and ways to move them was irrational. Just that space exploration was a side effect.
> If it’s possible for Apple to develop a mobile processor independently of ARM, why shouldn’t it be possible for Intel?

Apple holds an ARM architecture license (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Architectural...) and to this day the Apple CPUs are ARM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A12X).
> and the yield was abysmal.

Nit: abysmal means very great/limitless... I suspect you meant dismal here.
This is great. I logged into the website to check if my number was collected.

It is.

So I click on "suggest a better name" in a naive attempt to erase myself from the grid.

I can't because they "don't collect personal information about private individuals in the EU".
I have a very selfish, impolite, and presumptuous request: Your perspective on life in general is very different than mine, and it is clear from this post you are a capable communicator. I would love to listen/read as much more as you're willing to share, written or recorded. I respect if that amount is zero, and realize this is a very selfish request to ask that a piece of you stick around.
Fungi are known to produce biocides.
It’s quite different. A report spam function wouldn’t include (or shouldn’t include!) the identity of a person. If it does then it’s going over and above a spam filtering service.

Reporting a number as spam should then just result in future recipients seeing a “Probably Spam” or “Spam” etc based on reported levels on Spam vs Non-Spam reports for the number.

But I do agree that the journalist should have practiced better opsec and advised her sources that they probably don’t want her name to show up on their phone if she calls them at an inopportune time such as when around the very people she is investigating.

Also, disabling outbound caller ID would have helped.

Lessons learned all around.
I just feel spied upon and completely vulnerable everywhere now by this false pervert voyeur god. Can't even get away from it in national forests.
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May I ask you to explain why you think that having to be signed in to Google in order not to gete fuxored in your Web experience is a good thing?
I will just say the obvious thing. I thought we were supposed to be planting more trees. Doesn't cutting more of them down go in the opposite direction?

I like the idea of engineered wood for construction. I am just suspicious that a lot of this hype is coming from the logging industry and the CO2 stuff is just a marketing coup.
switch from firefox to Brave :)
> Think this nations are just doomed and can't get any better?

I'm not sure if that question was directed at me or to all readers, but if directed to me, no, I certainly don't think that.

> So wealth goes up, life expectancy goes up, birth rate goes down.

Indeed, there is a strong and important link there.
And google and there own data.
If concrete is similar enough to reinforced concrete. Isn't engineered wood similar enough to normal wood?
That's fantastic! I wish you good luck getting back with friends and building up a life :-)
I installed FF on a new Win10 instance recently (March IIRC) and had to go through and disable fingerprinting features and install adblocking.

In contrast I installed Brave, and it appears to have all adblocking and anti-fingerprinting as default settings, easily accessible if you wanted to change them.

The OP reads to me as a PR piece to keep geeks onboard, knowing that regular users won't ever change default settings.

I mean FF have the telemetry they know exactly how many users disable defaults.
Yeah, it's very widely used in the crypto world :)
Starting the authy desktop client opens a window where a phone number must be entered. Are there TOTP implementations for desktops that don't require a phone number?
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Interesting, it should be fun to extend this to the rest of the world
Not to mention Edge moving to the Chrome base; which further disenfranchises anyone from making sure it works in 'x' browser, anymore.

"It works in Chrome and Edge, which is based on Chrome, so what's your problem, again?"
I'll just leave this here. The US has been spying on the world forever, but what we are seeing here, is that if you want to be a truly global organisation of any kind, then the US is the place you don't want to be setting up in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
Not genetic engineering but Acetylation technology can increase wood durability [0]. The company mentioned on the wikipedia page is [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetylation#Acetylation_of_Woo...

[1] https://www.accsysplc.com/
No. In the US the logging industry plants more trees than it cuts down every year. Wood used in building materials sequesters the carbon for as long as the structure stands.
And this is why researchers should state and stick with a (short) disclosure deadline.
Which part are you referring to?
I think word that the CEO plus family use iPhones was out there for much longer than the huawei ban, so they either were planning ahead or it's actually true.

As for the PR hack I wouldn't go as far as calling it a hack... It just sounds very Chinese from my perspective. They do go full trump sometimes but usually there's this harmony thing going on. Keep in mind that this is the translation of an interview given to Chinese media, it was primarily directed at Chinese citizens.
I had a serious problem with bots spamming my forum. I implemented all the usual captchas but none of it worked. What I found interesting was that I was able to defeat the bots simply by "tricking" them. I kept the old forum up but basically set this forum to auto delete the content on it. I then setup a brand new forum and for whatever reason bots don't spam it, at all. It is almost like the bot goes to the original forum, spams it, and then moves on thinking it has completed its mission. I even flat out disabled the captcha to see if anything changed and nothing did. The new forum never got spammed. I have no idea why that happened but it strangely did work. When I do get spam, I don't think that spam is from bots. It is from humans posting instead but that is at least manageable to clean up.

It kinda leads me to conclude that each developer has to create "out of the box" solutions instead of some plug and play solution. If a plug and play solution is developed then all the spam bot creators start figuring out ways to crack or simply create a service for human based cracking. If unconventional methods are used on each site then it gets more complicated for the spammers.
I guess the argument goes that if demand for timber increases more forests will be planted.

Sustainable forestry generally involves replanting the trees you cut down, often several times over. Of course, as the article states it's pretty important that the timber comes from sustainable sources if it's to actually have a chance of benefitting the environment.
The monopolistic position of qualcomm has ~~not only~~ perhaps driven up prices, but of even greater concern, has created a single point of failure for phone security.

I have concerns that, even as full device encryption has evolved and many of us have moved communication to more secure media (Signal, Riot, etc), the very baseband chip of the phone is still acting like a bug in our homes.
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> there simply is not any Intel x86 offering even close to the power envelope of ARM

They are very close. Intel has many x86 chips consuming 3-4W: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_M_microproc... Some older Atoms were under 1W.

> the reason why ARM is so utterly dominant on mobile

The economy. When you sell complex chips for $10, you have to sell a lot of them to return R&D costs. That's why they shut down cheap Atoms introducing Core M series: technically the two are close in many respects, but Atoms were sold for $10-20, core M's for $200-300.
Surely, but why don't those problems exist elsewhere?
I remember reading a study a while back about the B12 found in unfiltered river water being sufficient for maintaining healthy levels in humans. It would be interesting to see a human study on this - albeit not useful for most people, as river water in most places if very much contaminated.

Also for something more anecdotal, I worked as a labourer on a couple of farms for a while (which had a lot to do with why I went vegan...), and the animals had to be supplemented to the teeth to get sufficient vitamins and minerals. My guess is this was because their feed was all from processed grains and legumes, and their water came from the filtrated mains system.
planting / cutting flow would displace cement which may still be a net positive in terms of CO2 emissions
Could have been my comment.
Concrete rots away if it is not protected properly from water. It soaks up water, the rebar rusts, expands, and splits the concrete.
I have a fairly expensive ThinkPad and it also runs out if battery if asleep for more than about 4 days, and frequently freezes on suspend or resume when it's been both suspended and resumed docked and undocked. (Linux, of course.)
Having worked with healthcare (not strictly natalty) data in the US: there is a distinctly weekly pattern to data, and very pronounced dips on holidays (NY, LD, ID, LD, TD, XM, NYE. Usually with a bump immediately after, summer holidays especially.

A seven-day smoothing realy reveals this.
> Instead it'd be sent to a landfill and decay at which point its stored carbon would be released.

Even then it's still carbon neutral. Or am I missing something?

Or, since carbon is gonna be released anyway, we could burn it and make some energy as a bonus.
I'm trying to suggest that there is a middle ground between outright banning all tracking, and the current state of affairs. Not that the situation I described is where we are today.
No jail time for Qualcomm officers just means they'll restart right backup when nobody is looking...
My brain is unwilling to accept this.

What is the purpose of those choices then?
I share that concern. The policies referenced in the article emphasize interventions short of compulsory treatment.

In some cases even these "door knocks" can lead to admission, for example if the person visited exhibits strong signs of psychosis or potential for self-harm. The judgement of police officers may not be perfect but it is better than nothing.

I know that there are trade-offs to be made and caution is to be exercised, but in general I think it's worth a try to prevent escalation of mental health crisis.
That's false. Tor Browser actually advises the user to keep the window at the default size to avoid it being used as a fingerprinting vector.
Keep in mind malaria also kills lots of animals besides humans.
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Ugh these bloody birds. There are big flocks of them in London, and they are now moving out into suburban areas like northern Surrey. They are really loud and annoying, and just don't look/sound right in leafy England! I'd support a cull.
There's a great deal of land that could be covered with planted trees, which pull CO2 out of the air. When they are mature, then they can be used as building material, and a new tree planted.
If we assume average value of GDP at t = g(t)

Energy usage per point of GDP = f(t)

Then we can obviously construct a hypothetical scenario:

lim t->inf g(t) * f(t) = C

This is obviously possible if one flips it over, making economic growth depend on the rate of which we reduce the energy cost for producing a dollar of GDP.

This obviously means that production must be decoupled from the sheer AMOUNT of physical goods, as those are necessarily limited.

To increase GDP, we do not need to increase the amount we produce but the value of what we produce.

Sure, one way to increase GDP would be to produce two cars for the same resource use as one car would need. And that has limits.

But if I can produce a rocket that can propel something to orbit with the resource use of a car, I’m am not only enabling more rockets being built, but also actively reduce the energy cost of one.
This definitely reads like a cry for help to me.

Depression is a disease, and it can make thoughts like this seem rational. They aren't.
>Those storefront and traffic sign captchas are not useful for training ML models.

Not to get all tin-foil-hat, but this is going to sound like it, but if you have a car that has 9+ cameras upon it that drives in areas full of these, then maybe there would be some use for it for Google.

Bear in mind that I'm not saying that they are doing this but to dismiss it unequivocally as something that can't or wouldn't be done entirely ignores the premise that it could prove useful to other areas of their business, which might have a vested interest in such use (say, for example, if Google or it's parent company were trying to break into the self-driving car area[0]).

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waymo
I don’t think that’s right. We all make decisions with imperfect knowledge, but there are well-tested ways of improving the quality of those judgements. You seem to be arguing that because we can’t make perfect judgements we are therefore condemned to always make arbitrary judgements based on bias, a sophomoric skepticism that isn’t supported by real-world experiences.
I know this is perhaps besides the point: but I'm surprised that traffic incident reporting is so low - but then aren't you scraping more intellectual news media than what I would imagine most people would be reading? Not very familiar with the English/American news situation.
Which system? More smoothly?
Roman concrete doesn’t have the same chemistry as modern concrete.
Privacy laws IMO have multiple purposes, only one of which is protecting the citizen’ right to their own data.

Another big one is balance of power. If a entity — be it a state, company, individual or a group of indivdiuals — knows everything about you, they thereby create a asymmetry of powers they can leverage for their own interest. In addition to protecting the individual, privacy laws are also meant to reduce or limit that kind of asymmetry to avoid the social consequences that might be linked to it.

Not without a reason it is Germany which has one of the strongest privacy movements in the world, because many of them know first hand, what data in the hand of fascist and communist governments can do to the life of individuals.

When the Nazis marched into the Netherlands, the having the religious orientation in a central database was was made the difference to many lifes. And that is, what makes data different than somebody’s knowledge in their heads: if the Nazis march into your nation you could take the decision whether to tell on your jewish neighbour or not, while in the case of real data you can’t.
What an unusual life cycle. Taking up residence in the lungs of a warm creature before moving to a cold creature in hopes of winding up in a warm creature again, where it climbs up into the brain of all places for childhood. What's the advantage of that? Hiding out from the immune system?
I'm logged in on a Chrome browser with a residential IP and get a reCAPTCHA 1-3 times a day when programming. It's the kind that I don't need to solve puzzles but still need JS enabled to click the button. So after the first few (SEO optimized) pages I either get fingerprinted or temp banned. Ugh this is getting ridiculous.

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You don’t need to know the “contact name” of a spam caller, algorithms when reporting spam should work just on the number and so when it calls you, it should just show a Probably Spam flag, nothing about the identity unless of course the caller has given their consent to provide that info.
As a blind/braille user myself, I'm curious as to what they replace them with. Some publishers just omit pictures, while some try to describe them, particularly when they're significant, not just for decorational purposes only.
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Those animals now not dying, might cause further ecological damage. Ecosystems tend to have a rather delicate balance and viruses play their part.
Funny that this topic is coming up, we're currently in the execution of building a house made of this material. We did choose the CLT because of the spruce interior look. But not all walls are like that. Most part will be covered by clay plaster. This should also help with soundproofing.

As for the glue. We asked the producer and they use a glue which has no negative side effect when finished hardening but is not that nice to breath while being in production.

Apparently there are no better glues. Another option would be to use only wood, but this is not CLT, it has another name, but the same result. The difference is that the interior has to be covered by something because the wall looks rough. And it costs a little more.

Termites are no problem in Europe and leaking water is a problem in every type of house, but it won't go undetected for long.

As we live in areas with houses made of wood around 300 to 500 years ago and those houses still standing and being ok, I plan our home to be here for the same amount of time :)
Intel CISC with 0.65W TDP: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/35472/i...

Sun RISC of the same era, 84W TDP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UltraSPARC_T2
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My understanding is that Google is allowed to use their own renderer and their own Javascript engine - as long as it doesn't do JIT compilation. The ability to mark pages or files as executable is a platform security model thing.

Chrome uses WebKit because Google would rather use a WebKit/JSC engine than a slow Blink/V8 engine - especially since Blink is a WebKit fork.
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It's not about Salesforce per see; it's about Benioff's perceived suitability to be elected to political office in CA in the future.
>The researchers say their aim is not to make the insects extinct but to help stop the spread of malaria.

Nothing ever matters less than your, "aim". Intentions are massively overrated. What matters are the actual effects as measured in objective reality. One of the many reasons society is the toilet that it is is because so many judge initiatives and propsals on what they are "intended" to do or what the "aim" of a proposed action is. The Inquisitor who burns you alive because he intends to purify your soul is just as bad as psycho who burns you at the stake because he wants to watch you burn.
It doesn't and it also doesn't matter. There are lots of license agreement, in tech or not that takes a percentage of your selling price.

And if it wasn't a percentage, it will be a fixed price for everyone, while it may sound fair, all of a sudden everyone selling a phone would be paying in total ~$50 to Patents license. That might not matter to higher end phones, for the lower spectrum that is a huge increase in Total Cost.
I've no idea what you're trying to say. All I'm saying is

> ensuring that text is losslessly convertible to other UTFs

is a truism, it can't not be true. You can always convert back and forth between UTF8 and UTF16 with no loss or alteration of data.
it was iphone X, they had access to phone, so not sure what encryption they broke, maybe some threema archived chats storage?
The evolution of phishing attacks: why are they still effective?
There's no mention that this doesn't contain insulation etc, and does explicitly mention that glue is used.

I'm not sure you could use that building technique for anything over a few stories.
It might be worth considering a honeypot approach. E.g. having a field in the form that isn't visible for users that, when filled in, indicates that it is likely a SPAM submission.

https://www.projecthoneypot.org/
The ’I want to be a product and you aren’t letting me’ department.
The fungus is supposed to be deployed on a rather small scale. It is not infectious for other insects, so it's probably not able to spread very far. Most of all, it is already freely spreading in its natural form, and does not lead to mass extinction of these malaria mosquitos, proven by the fact that they still exist...

On top of that the spider venom is probably bad for the fungus. Apart from taking away resources from synthesizing actually useful proteins, it kills the hosts much more quickly. The fungus probably prefers to kill the host slowly in order to cover more distance.
wait, no. even at an epistemological level news are data outliers, otherwise they'd be journals

while lots of outlets do are manipulative, it's the concept itself of news that shift the reporting bias here.
Unsure, but for a person with thoughts that someone is following her, revealing that they are putting something in their drink might be catastrophic.
> I add the domain to an add-on I made to hide links to it on any page.

That sounds interesting. Have you published it or made source available? I'd love to try.
I find, after some testing, that Privacy Badger has quite some impact on the speed with which pages load, think around 1 second in some cases, which I find a lot. I therefore recommend against this setup, which I have run for months now, after finding out about the performance impact. Instead I'd recommend using Firefox with its built-in blocking and adding ublock origin to that.
Truecaller is one of those "it just works" apps. It is completely transparent to the user. You can use it as a dialer to make and receive calls.

A lot of people don't understand that it's silently uploading their contact lists, personal information and call behavior off to the internet.

The customer service agent in the article from truecaller is correct about the usefulness of the app. A friend of mine was able to track down the owner of a fraudulent dishwasher service center in Bangalore because of truecaller. The photo and name of the owner in the app attached to the business mobile number.