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Capitalism isn't seen as anything bad in most countries after the cold war.

I would prefer the term privacy prostitution or data prostitution. You sell your privacy in exchange for getting "free" search, "free" news, "free" maps, "free" email. Of course such services cannot be free of cost.

Traditionally Germany had a law that you are not allowed to give "gifts" when selling something. So when offering a car they were not allowed to give a "free" grill or something like that. The goal was to protect consumers from intrasparent pricing and unfair business practices. Some market-liberalist politicians abandoned the law many years ago, because consumers are "mature enough" to make their own decisions.

So how many consumers decide to pay for the internet services they use instead of being tracked?
Can client side certificates be "locked" in the same way that SSH keys can (where you require a passphrase before it is loaded into the ssh agent)?
Define "sensitive populations".

Also, define how you (effectively!) quarantine sensitive populations with less impact on civil liberties than testing and contact tracing of the general population (which has modest privacy implications that can be reasonably managed).
Is the US media defense of China solely due to the exercise of influence through Chinese financial interests in their corporations? There doesn’t seem to be any other explanation for the intense media sympathy. It’s truly bizarre.
Ever since people started using freemail, aliases went away, because you typically register a single address per account.

But yeah, if you had your own domain, then aliases had been a normal part of e-mail/web hosting plans for example, for a very long time.
It's not recent. Their software has always been second rate. So is their hardware - just look at their "Pro" lineup that came out in 2019 with a 2 year old GPU in it for $50k lol.
> it’s more or less impossible to add a defense in depth flow like https://github.blog/changelog/2019-07-01-verified-devices to an api.

Except that email, as described in the blog you linked to, is not a secure means of communication. What would be secure is to use a client side TLS certificate as part of the authentication process. That is, your browser/device sends it as part of the TLS connection negotiation process and then you authenticate via the username and password (via HTTP basic auth).

They're already doing something like that whenever one pushes or fetches from a git repository hosted on Github through ssh key authentication. It wouldn't be much of a stretch for Github to allow an account holder to upload a CSR and then Github signs it and makes a certificate, which the account holder can then add to the browser's or OS's certificate store.
Because closed source software is worse for everyone. Regardless of any other feature, being closed source makes Apple products a non-starter for a sizeable subset of the population.
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I'd say that's the pragmatist versus idealist debate. I'm on the latter side :-)
All you are saying is that whitespace is so significant for you that you use an extra tool to produce it ... like always.
A physically broken device might still be functional though, so personally your terms are backwards.

A bricked device has a slight chance of recovery, if you have the tools/skills/training. It is a brick until that repair with high applitude is completed.
Something that is broke doesn't mean it is functional or not, just not at a perfectly working condition to worse. it might be repaired by doing a reset of a device, or something more advanced.

This is from my experience dealing with non-technical people who are mechanically inclined, but not technically inclined. they will call with a "broke" device that just needs a reset since they have too many users in a system all attempting to run the same device on different things. (Sorry keeping vague to keep me out of hot water). They will also call in with something "bricked" because the device won't function due to a damaged USB port, and they don't have the skill set/components to solder a port on something electronic. And then further down the scale it is a paperweight when it won't boot and is a piece of hardware they hate.
Yes but previously they would have needed a law passed to do such monitoring without a warrant, now people are just volunteering it with the drive by apple and google to publically and very openly track who you hang out with, where you're going, where you've been and then enthusiastically sharing it with the government. This is the softening up. Once covid is over in a few months or years they will be like "well look at all the good we can do, now we can use it to track all sorts of diseases, crime patterns, what you had for dinner and how that ties in with your other webs of interaction TO HELP MAKE YOU SAFER"
What isn’t stated in that post is that we are sending monthly email notifications to any user found using password authentication during the deprecation. As a result, we expect the vast majority of users will have been notified several times before the brownout. The brownout is mostly aimed at unearthing any forgotten automations that will break when we disable support for password authentication permanently.
2% of income at that level where nearly all is discretionary spending, is negligible
100 joggers far apart from each other, on miles and miles of trails, and perhaps with scarves or handkerchiefs, isn't bad.
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Manipulated in what ways? Advertisement is manipulation when it's successful. Asking users for a monthly subscription is manipulation when successful. Do we create a pop-up banner for each site and app listing out how data is used, so people can click X on those?

Transparency of data use is important, but simply saying people don't know isn't going to help. It seems like people want to shove transparency of data use in everyone's face until no one uses that software anymore. What is the win in this situation?
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A key difference for me is that it is way easier for the government to get a company or individual to give up keys or data than it is to get them to write the code to gather data in the first place. I'm sure there are those in government that are quite pleased that Apple and Google are doing it willingly.
That's a fair point. It doesn't make me feel any differently about the proposition that, in a society that preaches values like rugged individualism and fiscal responsibility to its poorest members, it's strange to me that 99% of the government's per capita expenditures are going to places other than the people. Literally 99%. And by blindly subsidizing every single business, including like hedge funds and other speculators who partially caused the liquidity crisis, the government in sowing the seeds for the next meltdown and disguising insolvent firms as economically viable ones. All of which is bad for society and the economy.
Yeah but as soon as they lift their draconian measures they are going to get hit with it. This virus is too infectious to contain or control. Meanwhile, economic suicide is going to bring poverty and ruin to billions of people if this carries on.
One issue with HTTPS client cert auth is that it can be non-trivial to support at the application level when you have a multi-tier architecture where TLS termination happens at the edge of your infrastructure.
> I recently analyzed the trading activity of Senators [0]

How is this relevant? Surely any senator knowingly engaging in insider trading wouldn't do so directly. They would get someone else to profit from the info and give back to them in either untraceable or legit ways.
This a beautiful display of "1%er" tone deafness and ignorance of reality, like Mitt Romney's advice that people should simply borrow money from their parents if they want to go to college and start a business.
Mostly poor quality passwords and password re-use are the problem. The replacement tokens are generated by GitHub, so you can't choose "bad" ones, and if you were to re-use them it ought to be pretty clear that's crazy since GitHub chose them in the first place.
> Received wisdom about Write-Host, by the way, is that one rarely wants it.

Yeah, totally got that. But how else you can generate colorized easy-to-read output, where yellow warnings stand out?

There should be something like Write-Host that outputs colors to console stdout handle and silently drops color properties when writing to (anonymous) pipe stdout handle.

Color escape codes could be even better.
I see what you are saying. But to me it's uninspiring. It cannot be replicated. It's a simple tool that's overblown. There isn't a technology behind it. I just saw a piece of news saying it took their engineering and design team many months if not a year to rollout a simple design change. That's not inspiring at all. If anything this would be something I would strive hard to avoid.

Neither the technology nor the product seem to jump out of the paper... Just like toilet paper. Which is not bad but doesn't require more attention.

The other problem is around this set of ideas that grab users attention for quick bites that are essentially empty calories. I feel that these are gamified, product hacked versions that are hard to replicate but ultimately not inspiring.
I build everything with Yesod. I'm sure the others are good too; Servant seems great. But this is the one I started with, and it's served me very well for the past few years.
Every year, new tablets and/or phones have to be ready for Black Monday and Christmas.

Every year, the phone OS has to keep up with new tablets and/or phones.

Every year, the laptop OS has to keep up with the phone OS.

That's basically it. At Apple, where the phone goes, everything else follows.
I don't know if there is an equivalent. The beauty of conferences are the unscripted, chance encounters with other attendees. I gave a talk at last year's PyBay (bay area python conference) and the magic of it was in the side conversations leading up to the talk and then after it. Heck, I even nailed $20k worth of consulting work from hanging out at a random table. This cannot happen in a virtual setting.

I run the SF Django Meetup and we're hosting a nationwide virtual meetup this upcoming Wednesday. We have over 350 people RSVP'd and though I'm excited about bringing so many people together, it's not lost on me that those magical serendipitous moments aren't going to happen.
I used in home instead in it's official release. Also I sudo-it when launch it, so it will have full rights. On some packages it didn't work, no matter what I did. I had to use official apt from repositories for those packages (lucky me they had that).
When you generate a private key using openssl, it will prompt you for a passphrase.
People don't get wealthy without being hungry for money. Money hunger isn't satiated by money.
> So how many consumers decide to pay for the internet services they use instead of being tracked?

Relatively few? Those services are available for people who want to pay for them.

Personally, I use Gmail, Facebook, and a litany of other free services. I'm fine with the exchange.

Are you accusing me of not being mature enough to make this decision?
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This sounds a lot like Schopenhauer. He said, or perhaps someone summarized him, something like: Life is hell, and the main goal is to choose a room farthest from the flames.
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