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Force press to select a word just doesn’t really work well. I am trying it now in Safari and most of the time the word is selected and the menu pops up and when I release my finger the menu and selection instantly disappear. Other places with force touch actions I’ve found equally buggy.

edit: Oh i played with it a bit more and it seems you have to press gently first, then hard. You can’t press hard straight away or it reinterprets it as a light touch after you let go. That’s quite unintuitive.
What's interesting is setting up a handler for DMARC aggregated feedback reports. I determined that it's not worth doing yourself, even Microsoft do not handle their own DMARC reports.

I ended up outsourcing DMARC report processing, if I wanted to do it in-house I'd have to setup and maintain an Elastic stack[1] which seems like huge overkill.

[1] https://domainaware.github.io/parsedmarc/
No we didn't.
because they let you use the phone number to reset the password
What kind of ass-backwards logic is this? This is exactly the kind of thinking that got us Trump. “Qualified people aren’t cutting it, so let’s bring in somebody completely unqualified to shake things up”.
I've been thinking about to what extent I support regulation of tech companies. Usually I side with software companies against governments (especially in cases like protecting encryption, etc.) But there are some battles where it doesn't seem like a tech issue per se, and I don't see why I need to side with the company:

* Apple vs govts on taxes

* Amazon (even Uber) vs govts on employee status and income

I don't really believe in the 'break up Google/Facebook/etc' case though. It is not likely to address the harms people imagine it will. (As a minor example, consider how cookie prompts solved nothing.) But some regulation on specific features across the board makes sense (like laws about facial recognition, or existing regulations like COPPA.)

I've always thought the Cambridge Analytica scandal was overblown and I think some of the anti-FB ballast provided by that story is fading. I think elite media/political opinion might over-emphasize it. Are average Americans really sitting around asking for Google to be cut apart? I don’t think so…

Plus, what about the beneficial aspects of the SV ecosystem? Reducing the power of Silicon Valley is a great way to let the NSA have more spying power, have fewer immigrants at top executive roles, let Comcast charge extra based on apps you use, enable record labels to shut down Youtube… and mess up many other things we take for granted.
AFAIU, the guys at LibreSilicon have been using Haskell for this kind of stuff...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZq5Ryt3Wto
Socialism, communism and anarchism are the very same thing. Some people are more comfortable with a label or the other because they have been appropriated by specific movements.

Authoritarian communism (marxism) is a historically very tiny branch of socialism/communism, with anarchists being an overwhelming majority.

This tiny marxist/bolshevik minority killed its way to the top, and was used by capitalist empires as a strawman example of what would happen with "communism". Both sides find advantages in confusing communism with marxism, while in practice, dictatorship of the proletariat has nothing to do with communism at all.

Someone claiming one of the three labels without the two others, either has no clue about the history of communism, or just wants to avoid being assimilated with genocidal authoritarian communists.
Not a down-voter myself, but the statement made needs more elaboration, because at first glance it makes it sound like there is a security issue with the site, when it is more likely to be an issue with the password manager.
Can you move to another EU country without a job and receive benefits? If I recall correctly you need a job to be allowed to stay in another country even in EU. I think free movement even without employment is the main reason states can't enact too many benefits in US.
Lately it’s also been feeling obvious & creepy how much The Guardian just runs second rate knock off stories that NY Times runs first, even regarding British or European news. Not headline stories that many newspapers would plausibly cover, but even many far lesser stories, entertainment or sports, pop culture, etc.

The big exceptions are major Brexit stories, but that’s about it.
I think it's wrong to say that in general for EU. There is a huge difference on salaries depending on where in the EU you are.
States regularly fail to reign in their own most powerful industries due to regulatory capture, so other states have to do it. It's better than nothing.
Yeah, because professional technologists are doing such a great job in US. Proliferation of monopolies, privacy scandals and elections meddling are primary examples of how great it’s going. Not to mention your companies are basically demanding tax breaks to actually pay tax at all. Woohoo, greatest democracy on the planet.
Hmm, dischuffed has always seemed to be used simply for unhappy. Superlative Antonym: Chuffed to little mint balls.
Don't save your TOTP codes in your password manager if you are going for the "best" security.

That turns multi-factor auth back into "single factor auth" and leaves you one exploit away from having your password and TOTP code from getting stolen.
I think the similarly to henges might be a coincidence as the rings of stones in this case were the inner and outer walls of a construction that was originally covered with a mound of soil (so more like chambered tombs like Maes Howe).
83 countries, 858 cities, 75 million riders, 3 million drivers.

5 billion rides in 2017. That's 14 million a day on average. I would guesstimate peak days have at least double the average.

That is data heavy to me. (-;

https://muchneeded.com/uber-statistics/
To the extent that is an issue, it is an issue with language, not the medium. Verbal communication is more likely to be misunderstood, which is one of the reasons why, when it matters, we want to "get it in writing." Anyone finding it "very likely" that whatever they write will be substantively misunderstood could improve their style.

Furthermore, the existence of the problem does not mean emoticons and tags are necessary for its solution. The existence of a rich literature prior to their introduction strongly suggests they are not.
> What if you lose your old sim?

I'd say it's pretty simple then: you can't transfer your number and just need to get a new one.

I mean at some point you have to draw a line; losing your password and resetting it via email is already a pretty gracious thing, and most support desks will help you beyond the default password reset as well if necessary.

But at some point you have to draw a line - key's lost? Access is lost.
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> I’m curious, are you worried that if everyone in your position doesn’t share data there will never be research on your condition and therefore no cures or better treatments?

You have data sharers to blame for that. They're the ones that are destroying possible cooperation (everyone with that condition sharing data).

> It’s a faustian bargain that people who are sick have to either risk having their information leak, or risk science ignoring their condition entirely.

Indeed, and I think the way to solve it is to go after the leakers and the sharers and the "entrepreneurs". If I give my data for medical research, I mean bona fide research, as in scientists and labs and tax-funded scientific papers, and not "research" into lowering operational costs by selling data, or "research" done by startups partnering with the clinic.
No, it doesn't. Because web sites aren't involved in how your password managers works.

Best guess: the password manager cannot match the title or URL to any of your password entries and now offers you to pick the right one.

Screaming murder doesn't make your comments any more credible or valuable.
Realizing how much incentives matter. Everything around you is driven by incentives: Coworkers, your boss, customers, personal relationships. More importantly, everything is driven by "personal incentives" more so than "business incentives", and those two aren't usually aligned. For example, if you are talking to a potential customer (who may represent a company), it's invaluable to understand what incentives drive this person (not company!). What is he or she trying to get out of working with you? A promotion? Recognition from his boss? A story to tell his family at dinner? What are his current life and career goals and how does that align with choosing you? What is his decision making progress and why? And so on. The same can be applied to your coworkers, or anyone else you're working with. Even to you friends and family, whose incentives may to be simply have a good time, feel loved and accepted, or have someone to listen.

There are rarely true "irrational" decisions. If a decision looks irrational to you, it's most likely because you don't truly understand the incentives driving that person.
It's not done. There is nothing in the market that I want and what I want is achievable. There's a lack of innovation, not a lack of potential for innovation.
I'm from the EU and I firmly believe that some level of regulation is a healthy development. GDPR, the cookie prompts and Article 13 are terrible though. There is no/slim real improvement to privacy and the costs are off the charts. It would have been better to spend those resources on education, healthcare, basic research or space travel. Such a crazy ongoing waste.
>One medical emergency will end it all.

One medical emergency and your credit will be ruined. Wait a seven years without contracting the debt collector and the debt becomes uncollectible. After three years roughly three quarters of the effect on your credit will evaporate. That's what actually happens beyond the hyperbolic political grandstanding.

Remember kids, if you get a bill that you can't possibly pay. Don't pay it. Let it go to collections and pay it for pennies on the dollar (another trick, tell them the most you can pay is $10 a month or something else low. Pay off that debt in 2075) or just wait for it to become uncollectible.
As a UE citizen I very much approve of Vestager's activity, if I'm not mistaken she's one of the main reasons why we now pay close to nothing in terms of roaming charges whenever we visit another country (which is a very, very big thing).

If people like her had been more active even earlier in the internet space (think 2008-2010) maybe we wouldn't have had to deal with the current FANG oligopoly. I personally used to work for a local business directory whose data was almost instantly copied and used by the recently launched back then Google Places. There was no recourse for a company like ours back then (other then keeping our fingers crossed for the likes of Yelp in their fight against Google, which goes to say how helpless we were), so the fact that a person like Vestager now exists and has so much power to control this sort of bad behavior is all for the best.
I suspect that there going to be a divergence between "left-leaning" and "liberal-leaning" in Britain. The British Labour party isn't inherently liberal (as they have shown with their anti-semitism and resistance to gay marriage). I think they will continue further down a path of non-liberal socialism, alienating a lot of people who hadn't previously considered that "left" and "liberal" were different concepts.
> There aren't 'political prisoners' by any means in Spain. There are politicians in prison, and that's quite different.

>> to the twisted fascist mind, their political prisoners are just 'criminals'

QED
I use an iPad Pro and pencil as my primary computing device, and my experience is that I’ve forgotten the Apple Pencil has a battery at all. I’ve never had it run out of charge or even come close.

I use it on-and-off all day, and when I’m not using it I either toss it on the table or click it back onto the iPad, based on whichever motion is easier. I’ve never thought “ugh, I need to click it back onto the iPad to recharge”.
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She has a track record of understanding tech quite well. Cannot see the downsides of her also being an educated politician.
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Saying she's unqualified is a bit of a stretch - five years as a competition commissioner shows she has some relevant experience even if she's lacking in terms of an academic and industry background.
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> of course you will be able to, but your e-mails won't reach most customers

Unfortunately, I found this to already be somewhat of a reality. Even with all the best practices I went to, many MTAs simply don't trust my IP address. Most "sane" MTAs seem to greylist me rather than blacklist outright, so it just adds a bit of delay to users receiving their emails. Thankfully it seems to be gradually getting better, but gone are the days of simply pointing your apps at sendmail letting them go.
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EU is pretty captured, too. The copyright stuff that passed earlier this year is one massive boondoggle for the publishing industry.
Yeah time and the self.. a harsh lesson to get.
> Why does one need the "fastest phone"?

We shouldn't need them, but we do, because the quality of consumer software is very poor these days. To enable "rapid" and "agile" development, where "customer value" is delivered "continuously", developers write under-optimised, resource-hungry software that never gets refactored.
Socrates was probably also rumbling about the millennials of his time.

Ah, those kids...

And he was right, it is close to impossible to preserve knowledge between generations, there is always huge losses, unfortunately, but still he was wrong, obviously, because books scales much better than talk.
At least she's elected by the people of Europe. No, sorry, I got that wrong. As with all the other commissioners, the only ones able to initiate legislation affecting everyone in the EU, she's appointed by an elite clique who know how to deal with recalcitrant folk in Denmark, France and Ireland whose majority vote is ignored. As someone remarked ' We have no power to sack them. They don't
have to account for their actions. We can't elect them but we can download a poster picture of them.'
How does that help? Surely the attacker is a real person too.
Isn't texting usually used in 2-factor-authentification?

What was the other factor?

I thought the whole idea behind 2-factor-auth is that two somewhat secure authentification methods combined make a stronger one.
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IIRC, there are three lanes: immigrant, family reunification and refugee. The OP was probably asking if an American could qualify in the refugee lane, and the answer is no. The first lane is the biggest one and the best one for most; an educated, English speaking American shouldn't have trouble qualifying in that lane.
Ah, OK, that does make a difference. I have a Plantronics headset that has a similar charging point, and it is great to be able to almost throw it onto the charger and just have it work.

But - the heatset also has a micro USB port built in, so if I don't have the charging point (or the charging case, which it also came with), I can just use a USB cable. This seems the best approach, IMO.
That is just not true. In the UK at least, the ICO has begun prosecutions for breaches. There is, to me at least, a real change in awareness among devs about privacy and data security. Surely a sign it's working.
Regarding Asia, forcing unfinished bleeding edge features into products just to be able to say ”I was first” isn’t innovation, but greediness.

Apple is rarely first to put certain component or piece of technology into their products, but is usually first one to do it properly and create first actually usable product. That’s why pretty much every actual innovation only takes off after Apple has implemented it.
There are still ways to make the system more secure.

For example, you have to physically go to a store to port the number unless you have the old SIM.

Then it's not done immediately - there's a 72 hour period in which multiple texts and calls are sent to the old SIM asking for confirmation. If you physically have the old SIM this is instant, but if you claim to have lost it you need to wait 72 hours and provide a signature and mugshot at the store.

If a member of staff "forgets" to do this stuff, they go to jail.

People don't usually lose their SIM card, so this process wouldn't happen very often.
I think at this stage it is not companies vs governments but companies vs people.

An average user has no idea what is happening while using an Android phone or chatting on Messenger. As anecdotal evidence i was showing to people that I cannot send a particular website over to them over messenger because Facebook classified that website not suitable to be sent over. 9 out of 10 was shocked that Facebook reads their messages. The recent developments about audio recordings also crazy.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/13/facebook-...
It will be interesting to see if, in the aftermath of all this, we end up with a more formally defined constitutional system, or if we'll just carry on as before.

I can't see us adopting a "big ideas" written constitution any time soon, but perhaps some of the structures may become more explicitly defined in legislation (in the way fundamental rights were enshrined in the Human Rights Act).
I feel like a time delay would help with this too. If it takes an extra 24 hours and you get notifications by SMS and email during that period with the chance to call "fraud" it stops most of these attacks which take control of e-mail and phone simultaneously.

I get that makes life much more difficult when you are travelling and have your phone (and therefore SIM) stolen, but given the severity of the current issues it seems minimal disruption. You get a burner phone for 24 hours?
The problem is that pretty much the only way to be thoroughly qualified is to work for one of the companies that is about to be regulated. That is called the revolving door and it's bad.

Trump is incompetent and corrupt.
Although I generally hate regulation, I must say that as a European I see a lot of good that comes with the bad. It's a shame the EU is somewhat forced into this leadership role, because it would be best to organize regulation of Big Tech on an even more international scale. If we could get more people at the table, we wouldn't have all those stupid cookie warnings and we could have regulation in place that succesfully targetted the root cause (the Ad tech cowboys).
This is essentially a blockchain database, correct? I scanned the post and saw the words block and ledger, but never the phrase blockchain.
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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/sahilsaif; my proof: https://keybase.io/sahilsaif/sigs/WOSQYprViUgeDaTEFOSQZ1cPoHPcOi2rLHWRYLvxTAY ]
To be more specific, I live in Denmark. Last time I had to transfer my number, it was quite a hassle. I had to show up physically in a store, and they needed to scan two ID cards of mine. In addition, because I have a legally hidden address, the guy in the store needed to contact someone inside to confirm me. Essentially, he was not able to do it on his own.

In fairness, that was me moving from one carrier to another. I assume, if I were to get a new SIM with the same carrier, it would be a lot easier. I have been trying to figure out what it would require for me to change SIM within the carrier, but their help articles aren't clear on this, besides mentioning it is possible (my impression is that they will ship the SIM card by postal services).
Almost 100%.

I'm always pleasantly surprised when some outlet does seem understand the GDPR, or at least not weasel their way out of it in a most obvious manner.

Following a link to theatlantic.com just a few hours go was such a pleasant surprise.

What's more: I noticed I trusted the reporting more. If an outlet can't or won't understand the GDPR, why should I trust their journalism?

It also made me wonder why, apart from non-deceptive "I accept" and "I do not accept" options, there was a "Set my preferences" option. Turns out they also offer cookie tracking without 3rd parties, which is fair enough, I guess.

The bottom line is that it's a sad affair that transparency and clarity are not a given for serious news outlets and protecting their readers' privacy is very much seen as optional.

It's nice to see some--if few, do try to make an effort. I hope the effort is enough to give them a competitive edge, at least until the various enforcing agencies get around to weeding out the non-compliant ones.
Or you have your existing corporate IT team manage it the same way they're managing other internal apps.

There's no way it suddenly needs a new team of dedicated full time resources.
Yeah, all the power in EU is vested within unelected officials. Their so-called parliament is a farce to give EU a veneer of democracy.
I am both glad that Margrethe Vestager remains in the same position and sorry that she hasn't been promoted to even more important posts.

She has done excellent work so far, keeping companies in check. It is largely thanks to her that the ridiculous roaming charges which telecoms used to gouge us with are gone. Her work shows that this kind of regulation is necessary, because "the market" will not magically solve everything.

Contrast her work with the ridiculous decisions of Ajit Pai at the FCC to see how you can run things differently.
A woman should be called a Tsaritsa (Царица). A Czar/Tsar is a man.
In what way is Vestager not qualified? Is there an example of an action she has taken that a more qualified person wouldn't have?
Bootstrapped startup here. Our default response is that the feature is on our roadmap but lower position. If they're willing to upgrade to a higher plan or pay extra because they need it urgently we can move it up. I think 1 out of 50 ever paid. Some start arguing why they need the feature, that's good, that shows us it's more than 'nice to have' for them. In (very) small companies you need to say 'no' to a lot of requests not to get distracted.
kudos to Kirill from the security research team who worked on this discovery as well as providing the fixes (!) and many thanks and appreciation to the Sequelize project maintainers who worked with us on the responsible disclosure and promptly issued fixes to vulnerable versions where necessary.

Sequelize is a pretty popular ORM for Node.js projects so you should probably test your project with snyk and ensure you aren't vulnerable (npm audit is still lagging behind on this vulnerability for 24 days currently).
How could one save a TOTP code in a password manager and use it later? It would be useless in 30 seconds time.

Am I misunderstanding something? Or did you mean OTP rather than TOTP?
Sure it is, but mostly by EU companies.
I think this is going too far. It's easy to lose your SIM - in particular, whenever you lose your phone (you left it somewhere, it fell into a river, etc.).

Why not just require that if you don't have your old SIM on you, you have to jump through extra hoops involving physically showing government-issued documents and otherwise leaving enough paper trail for the police to find and jail you if it turns out you were a fraud?
It's the write transaction latency from that region. Fauna is a global database and data always commits to multiple global regions for durability.

As you can see, the write latency is pretty consistent regardless of source region, unlike databases like Mongo that are homed in a single location and fast from nearby but slower and slower the farther away the client application is.
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That was not the requested ask.