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No, we aren't, there's still so so many more!

- Even if you use the kernel switch you can still ptrace an application on startup, do you read the code for every .desktop composing your launchers?

- You can trivial add say, a modified web browser or terminal emulator to a user's PATH.

- You can add aliases to a user's shell configuration

- You can change a user's entire shell to a shim designed to fool them into thinking things are normal

- You can replace that desktop update notifier with a tweaked one that logs that root password first

- Wayland too will fall when you replace a user's compositor with a customized one, must of Wayland's security improvements have actually just been moving things from display server to compositor. Simply re-configuring the user's session choice will likely be enough to do this. Just like changing your shell.

- The PolKit "hole plugging" you suggest only works if there's no way to recreate a dialog which would look exactly the same, so I'm not sure how it has any relevance here

- SELinux more prevents problems between user accounts, as the isolation is designed to work, not within them and not for authorized escalation tools like sudo

- In the case of desktop systems it's also important to remember that most if not all of the important data will be in the user's home directory. https://xkcd.com/1200/

This will not be possible, as long as the same user controls their own configurations for core stuff like shell and launchers. User accounts weren't designed for this level of isolation. Make a separate user if that's what you want. This is why most distros run all servers under different user accounts out of the box. If you're concerned about the security of say, your browser, you should probably consider adding user account isolation to it too, on Android every single app gets it's own account.

If your threat model involves giving untrusted users access to a sudoer, you're not going to have a good time. User accounts are still the primary form of isolation on Linux, it's not a sandboxed mobile OS, maybe Flatpak will change that someday, but for now we have barely even started on this sort of switch to an entirely different security model.
> 'If we continue to degrade the soil at the rate we are now, the world could run out of topsoil in about 60 years, according to Maria-Helena Semedo of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization.'

I don't personally find these type of 'we only have x years to save y!!!!' statements have much impact on me any longer because firstly there seems to be a new one every week, and secondly humanity would act to prevent whatever cataclysm is prophesied (as it is, in fits and starts, with climate change).

And on this one in particular, and as I always say when it comes to ecological catastrophes: what about population control?
>authentication

Where? Intel sells network chips to OEMs, one of the more shady ones decided to directly clone Intel PCB.
That would be a dream come true for me, but I've been hearing that for a few years, so I don't have much hope.
I like the zip3, I should have thought of that. I think I prefer the mapMaybe, but then I avoid list comprehensions.
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I suppose I could have been more precise in my wording, and clarified that I see it as a solution to a piece of the puzzle. Indeed, you do word it better in saying it is a layer. I agree. It is a solution to facet of a problem which exists at a certain layer.

I don't quite know how my comment led you to believe that I think airgapping is a pancea which solves all the existing computer woes in the world.

I certainly don't think, and didn't intend to imply, that airgapping removes the risk from contractors or a reason to not keep up on patches. Again, I'm confused how you reached that conclusion based on my comment.
Of course there is risk in starting your own venture. It’s not a guarantee of success, but the upside is exponentially greater.

Chasing (relative) peanuts is still a better call for most.
OMG! The internet is so changed I can't even comprehend!
My JS won't run, even backend Python/PHP won't run,
And my mouse turned into a moose.
Much change.
In what way is the paradigm stuck in the 80s?
Sounds like the exercise would be more for the sake of it rather than trying to develop some widespread new decompression method.
It still supports VBA. I've seen multiple manufacturing facilities which are absolutely reliant on VBA macros to be able to produce and ship their products.
Is that really true? Delhi has banned "registration" of such vehicles sure, but vehicles from nearby states (Haryana, Punjab, UP) and others are aplenty on the roads and allowed to fill petrol or diesel. Yes the ban has led to significant impact just pointing out that significant sources of air pollution remain.
I've built a few hackintoshes over the years (probably 1 in 5 success rate), and this is among the best documented projects I've seen. Well done indeed!

[Don't think I've come across GitBooks before this -- looks like something we could use on a project so, bonus find! Thanks!]
This is a great story indeed, but I have to disagree with it in one respect. I do not think that Newton was the "last of the magicians" because I don't think you have to believe in a personal god in order to have the same sense that creation is a meaningful mystery with "clues laid about the world". Seeing "God" as an impersonal force or schema underlying existence (Spinoza's God) can have an equivalent effect on the inquisitive mind, and many great scientists to this day are driven to much the same treasure hunt as Newton was. It is very much in this sense that Einstein said famously that "God does not play dice".

The truth is that even today Existence remains a great mystery... the most fundamental questions, such as the meaning of quantum indeterminacy, whether or not infinity is a physical quantity, the ultimate nature of space and time, all remain as mysterious as they ever were, and anyone who is driven to explore them is thus as much a magician as Newton was.
That's not how it works to a reasonable person, but marketers can count however best suits them.
You are conflating the policy with the practice. USA has the same policy.
This reminds me of the time Opera made some big annoucement in 2009 that they were going to "reinvent the web", and when they finally revealed what it was, it was basically host some files from your browser.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/opera-reinvents-the-web-will-a...
There are always tradeoffs. DHT resolution may never be as fast centralized solutions. And as far as I know there's still no general solution to certain attacks like sybil. An intermediate solution that works with today's technology is for people to self-host "partially centralized" technologies, a la federation, but the UX is currently prohibitive. I don't want to manage 5+ instances for all the services I'm interested in and I also don't want to pay $5/mo to have someone else manage all of them, and still be stuck coordinating all those accounts. I'd love to see something like sandstorm.io as a service become popular for federated tech.
My first job out of University was working for a large US custodial bank (not in the IT dept). We were responsible for monitoring corporate actions happening on the securities held by their clients and accounting for the proceeds.

Most of the work was done in some old IBM 390 terminal emulators. The work flow was generally scrape a bunch of information from the terminal into Excel. Reformat it and figure out any discrepancies. Copy some adjustments into another workbook which would automatically enter the data into some screen or other in the terminal emulator to fix the discrepancies.

Someone had built a COM object which could be scripted quite easily in Office VBA. I found a few of the scripts they had written for it hadn't been protected and quickly learned to write my own.

It was kinda fun in its own way.
Why would it not be possible to switch to aquaponics?

I'm assuming the cost would be greater but this article makes it seem like the world would end and there wouldn't be any way of growing nutritious food.
I highly recommend looking into an MVNO (mobile virtual network operator).

There are inexpensive pre-paid plans that use the major cell network towers, and you get the same speeds. I recommend Straight Talk; their plans are very cheap for the data you get, but there might be other cheaper services.

I agree it's taking them a while, but I've never built a phone before, so I am cutting them slack.

I find it easy to believe that it is not vaporware. They have videos of working devices, something that can be replicated in mass, not renders etc. They've shipped dev boards.
Do you have research showing that this is a commonly held belief, or that the belief is correct?
Pune, I reckon, is one of those boom towns since so many corporates are moving there because Bengaluru and Mumbai are too overcrowded.

But the car sales slump, at least, is very well documented. There's been a drastic fall in demand and everyone is bandying about myriad reasons (fuel prices, ridesharing, etc.). I just think people don't have enough money
Thanks for the input.

I meant that US Democracy is still younger then Commonwealth political system was when it had started to turn into anarchy and had been abused by plutocracy and foreign powers.

So Americans beware of Russia meddling in your elections... We had been there in XVIII century.. :-)
Touching somebody while asking them to do something for you works in most situations, not just a traumatic one. It creates a heightened level of intimacy, which makes the other person feel more obligated to help.
>their personal information is being handed out to tons of companies

The sort of information you need to enter a sweepstakes is name and address, which is already public information anyways.
Right, we agree on that, but the above comment lumps all of what you describe (“betting with a weak hand”) under “bluffing” and says the bot learns that it makes more money when its opponent folds.
(I knew nothing about this until 30 minutes ago, but I just did some quick research)

A Quick zero-to-20mph Guide

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How it works

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1. Results in less to load into memory WHY? It has no Just-in-time (JIT) compilation, instead compiles to bytecode ahead-of-time (AOC). By comparison most (all?) modern browsers have a tricky blend of both.

2. Has no effect on application CPU performance

3. Chrome debugger will connect DIRECTLY to the Hermes engine within the app (simulator or device). By comparison, Chrome debugger uses its own V8 engine to execute code, instead of the JsCoreEngine (?) that React-native uses by default

Results

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Mattermost app

1. Time from load until first user interaction: 4.3s -> 2.3s

2. APK size: 41mb -> 22mb

3. Memory: 185Mb -> 136mb
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It's not the same thing. When you need to import a name which is originally written in one writing system to another (here: Latin-based to Cyrillic) you have no other choice, but to re-write it.
https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/Compilers/...

I took Alex Aiken's course in my first year when I started to learn writing code, was feasible back then and pretty interesting.
> I wonder why such deblocking decoders aren't widespread.

There are many, but mostly focused on output quality, and slow, and written in matlab using fancy tools.

If somebody submits a simple patch (written in pure C without dependences) to the jpeg reference distribution, and the code is very fast and good enough, it will most surely become mainstream. The thing is, that the people who know enough math to create a good jpeg decompressor do not tend to be well-versed nor interested in C programming.
Because browsers have an enormous API/file support surface as is, and each new image format can be a significant amount of code to support essentially forever.

Webp now is supported by pretty much every browser, but a lot of image viewers don't support the format yet. There has to be a certain amount of momentum to justify supporting a new image format.
Most people I know are conceptually aware of the bystander-effect. It could be that awareness stops the effect.
Whenever I'm in a group like that, people start turning heads, looking at each other, asking if they smell/see it, what do you think it is, etc, and then leaving or reporting it somewhere.
I was like "oh no, not another JS engine", and then I've seen it's on bellard.org... and I thought to myself, ok, this is the future!
yeap, that's the case with the older models too. A53 has also virtualisation extensions. The main difference about the Pi4 is the GIC which removes the need for emulating interrupt handling.

Other than that, the A72 handles VMEnters/VMExits by trapping in/out of EL0/EL1/EL2.
Anyone know what's the feature shown in the banner video where a seemingly hand-drawn griffon is then used to generate a 3D model?
I actually like the idea of this type of hyper-local "social networking", but I think my fear of it being run by Google is valid. I would love to see another company do well at this, but I'll be skipping over Google's iteration.
For example Spanish, Catalan, English and French would hardly be an unusual combination.
On The Media did a good episode on this https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/131359-the-witnesses-that-...
They aren't "porting" apps.
Huawei founder says his new OS is faster than Android
And is it just me, or hopping on OpenOffice Calc or Google Sheet felt like a different device altogether: They all look like bikes, but accelerate differently, change gears differently etc?
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What about encoding/decoding performance?

> Current research works on designing and developing more energy-efficient BPG hardware which can then be integrated in portable devices such as digital cameras.

I guess it doesn't really matter that much, but I'm still curious.
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> unbelievably better

I don't know that this qualifies as unbelievable. This is just good marketing and spin. The image in that link is exploiting the fact that modern codecs specify upsampling filters, so the HEVC half looks smoothly varying while JPEG can, per spec, only look pixelated when blown up like that.

There's absolutely no reason that thing couldn't have shown you a jpeg image rendered with bilinear filtering, which of course is what you'll see if you put that JPEG on a texture and scale it up using the GPU.

But it didn't, because it wanted to convince you how much "unbelievably" better HEVC is. Meh.

I mean, to be clear: HEVC is absolutely better, to the tune of almost a factor of two in byte size for the same subjective quality. Just not like this. If you've got a site where still images are a significant fraction of your bandwidth budget (and your bandwidth budget is a significant fraction of your budget budget) then this could help you. In practice... static content bandwidth is mostly a solved problem and no one cares, which is why we aren't using BPG.
> Shoelace is currently in an invite-only testing phase

So Google is using their proven method of building a social network. It's proven to not work, mind you, but it's proven.

Are there any reasons why Google might be doing this apart from broken incentive structures?
Nuclear was always less than 15% of Germany's primary power consumption. Renewables something like 5%. We need to get to 100% carbon neutral. Whether we have to replace 80 or 100% with wind and solar shouldn't make that much of a difference.
I wrote a quick summary on /r/reinforcementlearning: https://www.reddit.com/r/reinforcementlearning/comments/cc9g...
Yes, check out the two books by John Walkenbach, Excel 2013 Formulas and Excel 2013 Power Programming with VBA. Not too much has changed since those versions-- I originally read the 2007 versions of them and it all transfers over because Microsoft is incredibly good about maintaining backwards compatibility.
Agile, by all means I've used it, _requires_ testing to be first and foremost.
Rob Pike was born in 1956 so he didn't have anything to do with the original Unix. Maybe you're thinking of Dennis Ritchie?

Pike's account of how UTF-8 was invented is a fun read: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt
other error find from android termux:

InternalError: out of memory in regexp execution
at test_regexp (tests/test_builtin.js:427)
at <eval> (tests/test_builtin.js:594)
There was real money at stake in this experiment. The pros were guaranteed $0.40 per hand just for participating, but that could increase to $1.60 per hand depending on how well they did.

To answer your question, no, I don't think human players would play at their best when not playing for actual money.
I think the main purpose of building those houses was making it impossible to fell the trees around them.
> It's not like there's visible smoke or flames.

I get your desire for lack of panic, but the lollygagging around fire alarms terrifies me. If you wait around to see smoke, you are now dramatically more likely to need rescue, or just die.

Remember how obnoxious it is when campfire smoke blows in your direction, and how quickly you scramble to get out of the way. How you still have to blink for a couple seconds to clear your vision and the pain.

Structure fires are 100x that. The smoke has nowhere to go and collects so, so fast. And it's disgustingly choking compared to a simple wood fire cause of all the plastic and oil smoke involved. It'll fill a room top-down in under a minute, and if it hits you you will be as incapacitated as if you had been hit by pepper spray, with no recourse because it's all around you. Meanwhile even if you do escape every breath is ticking years off your life...

Tldr if you hear a fire alarm, stand up and leave without a moment's hesitation. No need to run, just get out quick. Please!!
I just setup Windows on a machine for the first time in a decade, it was a very gross experience indeed. I do recall it asking a series of questions about sending data to MSFT that were all by default, opt-in. One of those options sounded a lot like a key logger. The entire install process was so full of dark patterns it was really quite unbelievable to me.
If your design requires a plugin to be readable, it's a bad design.
The interface is impressively bad. I think it is the only program for which I had to Google how to close a window. I am glad that they are taking it seriously.

Unfortunately, as a casual user (opening it maybe once or twice a month), this release has the side effect of breaking all the interface tutorials out there. It is probably still for the best in the long run, but I've had to keep both 2.79 and 2.80 installed.
Surprised it took so long
I don't think this is about using Sci-Hub. It looks like the journal is trying to prevent mass-exfiltration of its articles to Sci-Hub.

Why would they do that based on IP-addresses and not based on accounts? Maybe they're actually combining those. So when an account used the same IP-Address like a "ripper" account, it will get associated with it. And the blocking message shows the old address. This can easily happen at a university where a lot of accounts access the journal through the same IP-Address.

Well... Sci-Hub doesn't have these blocks. So just use that service if you want to get work done.

Also, WHOIS says the IP-Address 86.168.188.188 is used by British Telecom: AS2856 BT Public Internet
Another nice tool (written in Haskell rather than Lisp in this case) is Greenclip, which integrates a clipboard into rodi/dmenu: https://github.com/erebe/greenclip
Thank you for describing our current system to me. I am advocating for a new system that lets people take more risk even if they are not wealthy. There is nothing magical that happens when you make $200k per year, if you make $199,999 per year you are not an idiot that needs the government to protect you from bad investments.
negative reaction times are unlikely

Oh, right. I was thinking along the lines of 100m dash, where people often do have negative reaction times (which we penalize as false starts).

In poker we don't have much of an incentive to react instantly to any play.
Thanks for your feedback, I did some changes based on it.
This isn't really new. Top soil in cut down rain forests barely lasts two years of harvest.
Purism pretty much is doing what you're suggesting.

They're working with upstream packages so that when you install Linux on it, it just works, no hunting for additional drivers to make it work.

Those apps already exist. Again, they're working with those apps to make the phone "just work" when you install the apps/programs/packages/whatever. They don't need to reinvent Firefox, they can let Mozilla focus on that, and Purism can focus on what they're doing.
You are describing closed source proprietary services. If you buy software for your local device(s), the license is generally not revokable. Which OS requires automatic updates?
The hand logs from the 5 humans + 1 AI experiment are included in the supplementary material of the Science paper.
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It sounds like a fun idea... no knocks against it... but

Even in well lit environments you find things that shouldn’t be there, or the order gets mixed up. I guess as long as it’s not toxic, it’s plough thought it obliviously.
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As a frequent traveler who very much shares your cynicism on the aforementioned, I've used that negativity to motivate me to work on a blog specifically against disrespectful, mindless, and destructive behavior while traveling internationally. Not that it offsets the damage done by these "influencers", especially since their attention dwarfs content like mine, but hopefully more of us can utilize these negative feelings to contribute more meaningful and responsible content to the digital landscape. wanderandponder.com
Sure. I mean that is pretty obvious. But I think what I was surprised by is that solar is generating half as much energy while being below the 'noise floor' in terms of visual impact, such that I have no recollection of seeing any large solar installations.
Agreed, this echoes Rosling's points in videos and in Factfulness about how societies actually progress.

India will have a special challenge from mosquitoes and diseases like dengue and malaria, but maybe the best approach to malaria will be turning mosquito-borne diseases into diseases of the rich. We probably can't fully appreciate the solutions a wealthy India (or wealthy Nigeria) would develop, applying new resources, the latest science, and metis to deal with the world's deadliest animal.

[0] https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Factfulness#

[1] https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/Most-Lethal-Animal-Mosquit...
Motion capture for animation comes to mind. Another is to project peoples' motion into VR space.
Aren’t most accounts site licenses? I assume it’s like a raspberry pi running on a university library network somewhere
Give the TLD to an NGO trust fund benefiting the peoples of the Amazon river basin, funded by a 99-year lease on the TLD paid by Amazon. Any problems with this arrangement?
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This new release of Blender sounds awesome! How can I learn Blender effectively?

I've tried in the past but got frustrated quickly with the low quality or with how out of date the videos were. I don't mind paying for quality.
> Half of the mess that makes excel hell comes from the fact it's too easy to put two tables of data + some random constants on a single sheet and refer to them by H3

This is certainly true, but that is also where almost all the power comes from, its generic nature. I had a startup that tried to reinvent Excel for 6 months and we kept moving closer and closer to the excel "sack of undifferentiated data" paradigm...