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Author says that he develops app in his free time, did not have time to push it to app store properly and that he has 200 beta testers. Apps with a public invitation link for testing are common and if the delay is the problem here, then Apple should have said so.

What's completely unacceptable here is that Apple does not specifically say what the author did wrong and this can't be defended by apologists.

What is surprising or not coming from Apple is irrelevant, stop normalizing this abusive behavior from app store gate keepers.
Repeat after me: Cars do not have feelings. Cars do not have families.
Gotta give it to Glen Cook - The dragon never sleeps. He's better known for the Black Company series.
But to what extent is it 'publicly distributing' when the app has only 200 users. It sounds more like an extended beta than a 'clever' way to circumvent the app review process.

And, as the author extensively explains, the major sin of Apple is not that they removed the app from Testflight, but that threaten to suspend his developer account completely and give no explanation _why_, even after multiple attempts of the author to reach out to Apple to solve this situation.
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> Suboptimal...No. Just no. The best developers I've known wrote code with tiny laptops with poor 1366x768 displays. They didn't think it was an impediment.

I've realized that a stable environment does wonders for productivity. What you got used to (stable) is path-dependent and personality-specific. But it doesn't matter. What matters is to train yourself to sit down and work. If you're opening that laptop lid and thinking about visiting Hacker News first, shut it down, get up, walk away from the desk and then retry. At this point, I feel like doing a "productivity, productivity" chant / rant a la Steve Ballmer's "developers, developers" chant:

original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh_GeBPOhs

remix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRm0NDo1CiY
Innate immunity is more like a built-in mask. It’s pretty much the opposite of building up an immunity.
Games on early access can be there for years...Software can remain on beta for the same duration too depending on how the developer feels.

We see terrible software all the time now because it's rushed to GM because that's what you need to do, apparently.
I agree that Android app security model is much better than desktop Linux (of course, they had the privilege of designing a new system without backward compatibility concerns and after learning lessons from other systems).

The main issue with using that model for desktop Linux is that apps where not developed with this model in mine. So when an app wants to access your webcam, it tries to do it directly and doesn't ask the OS to grant
permission. Similarly when accessing any files.

I guess it's possible in theory to trace any system calls the app makes and accordingly trigger permission requests to the user. Since that didn't happen, maybe it just breaks to many apps to be effective.

BTW, installed apps could create their own UID to isolate themselves, but most developers/distros don't bother doing it. I should not that I did see a significant improvement in running systemd services as separate
users, but I rarely see it for user facing apps.

A better option than only using a separate UID is containerization, and things like docker, firejail, bubblewrap, etc, are useful here.

But Linux containers are not considered secure enough (at least compared to VMs). The real gold standard in terms of security is QubesOS, but you pay for that security in performance and ease of
use.
Handshake took inspiration from predecessors like Namecoin but it’s very different. First is scope: Namecoin puts domain names on its blockchain under the .bit TLD whereas Handshake targets TLDs. It does so because Handshake aims to improve the security of TLS by shifting trust from CAs to its blockchain. The CA model is weak bc only a single CA among the thousands of CAs that your computer trusts needs to get compromised in order for your security to get compromised. And the likelihood of a single CA failure increases over time. That’s the opposite of what you want in a robust system.

With Handshake, certs can be pinned directly on the blockchain, which becomes more secure as more nodes join the network and across time as more blocks get mined on top of the pinned cert. This shifts the system from diminishing security to accumulating security. That’s the main innovation behind Handshake.

There are other differences in the issuance model as well. Namecoin’s issuance destined it for failure from day one since names are registered for a flat fee without restriction. This meant that squatters and early adopters could lock up the namespace without paying the true market price of the name. Handshake uses an auction system for name registration and releases the namespace over time (the release date is determined by hashing the name % 52), which means that names are registered for their true market price and newcomers can still register good names. This difference is critical and already playing out successfully — the highest auction was for 200k HNS, which is equivalent to $20k USD and 7/12 of the namespace is still unreleased.
Well that's the free market at work. If users are unhappy they can move to different platforms and Apple will have be forced to make things more attractive for developers and users.
Perhaps because Nazism and white supremacy are inherently violent ideologies which revolve around openly wish to oppress and murder people in the name of racial supremacy, whereas BLM, whilst violent, is about stoppping violence towards black people?
The author states in the article that it did go through review.
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An interesting spin of the story would be if Apple announced an intel to arm migration kit called "Mignori" next week at WWDC...
> It’s also possible to run a 4k display at native 3840×2160 pixels. It depends on the size of the display, of course, but in my experience, even 27” 4k displays are too small to run at 1×. The UI will be too tiny.

There is a really nice LG 43" monitor (not a TV, it uses displayport) which is optimal for using 1:1 pixel scaling.
If it's about the supporting the open internet in particular, the NLnet Foundation comes to mind. https://nlnet.nl/
That's why I've ditched all of my Apple hardware and went 100% FLOSS years ago. The experience is polished enough for me as a developer to do what I need to do and after I set it up just the way I wanted it, no other setup can touch how productive I am on my Arch setup.

I've recently got the PinePhone in and while actual Linux on smartphones is very early, it's also an opportunity to have some real impact. I'll never go back to a walled garden, no matter how appealing it may seem from the outside.
Why some people find it harder to drag themselves to bed at night
This is how the Microsoft paid support channel works: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4341255/support-for...
Offtopic: the blog post title alone is taking up my entire phone screen (iPhone 7)
FFII threatens constitutional complaint if Germany ratifies UPC Agreement
You misinterpreted something here.

The phone data is partial data as it is from a single mobile phone networks out of the four. It has been since updated to 2 out of the 4 (the other two supposedly respect their customer privacy).
These number are not about Paris, which has a population of around 2 millions people, but for the whole metropolitan area.

For the actual city of Paris 600 000 people left the city in a matter of days in relation to the lockdown announcement, or about 27% of population.
https://www.insee.fr/fr/information/4477356
Anyone who browses HN regularly will probably enjoy the book "Most Secret War" by R.V. Jones (or the accompanying TV show "The Secret War"). Jones was a physicist working for Churchill directly by the end of the war.

Everyone has heard of Bletchley park and the Manhattan project, but Jones's book covers the game of genuinely deadly cat and mouse that was played throughout WW2 as each side learned and adapted to eachothers scientific intelligence. Radar, Sonar (ASDIC at the time), Magnetic mines, etc.

Its easy to think of it as an intellectual game of chess but it is telling that when the Allies bombed Peenemunde (Nazi area 51) they flew straight over the laboratories to bomb the houses of the scientists.

The TV adaptation is brilliant - thoughtful documentary production, not dumbed down, and most of the people were still alive when it was filmed.

https://youtu.be/GJCF-Ufapu8

Edit: for anyone reading the book look out for mentions of any members of the Cambridge five - Jones was shunned after the war so he is perhaps overly kind to Kim Philby. The same system that allowed the KGB to run wild wouldn't recruit Jones into intelligence work for being of the wrong sort (apparently - according Peter Wright)
I say this little tongue in cheek but it's time to make a www.helpXisthreatningme.com (where X is Google play store, Chrome store, Apple store) and I'm sure it will have at least dozens of new stories like this everyday.
So if you're getting your PyPy through your distribution, we're looking at 3-4 versions lag in total.
i generally agree (and the same goes for amazon). But let's not mix everything, otherwise we'll get no result. I believe there is a real momentum at the moment on the "app store" issue, and we should focus 100% on that until we get some result (then we'll move to the next one).

I hope it's not going to be a talk about which commission rate is fair, because it completely misses the point. If apple wants to charge 30% commission for being able to distribute on the store, use their development tools, their apis, and have people pay using apple, fine. But just let my customers free to install my software on the hardware they own the way they want to.
> But I know how much it sucks writing software that no-one wants

To be honest it does not. If you are business-driven person it does, if you are more into the craftsmanship this is a dream scenario. Suddenly a lot of freedom is granted with the lack of users :)
This title could really benefit from some punctuation.
Sure, a lot of people in government would also think that way. But there are also many very smart people behind the scenes who are using well-meaning but not-so-smart politicians for their own intelligent agendas.
To suggest that armies of highly paid corporate executives are just a bunch of idiots who sit on board meetings and don't deliver any value back to their companies through political manipulation is not credible.
We know that they fund think tanks and that they hire politicians after their term finishes - This is not some conspiracy theory, this is a fact. All the incentives are perfectly aligned towards that end.

Besides, I don't see how stupidity and evil are mutually exclusive. Historically, they seem to always go hand in hand.
> Australia and New Zealand are not necessarily CV success stories.

That's an utterly wacky assertion. In what possible metric are they not a success? New Zealand has beaten the virus and is now completely reopened domestically. Australia has mostly beaten the virus and is mostly back to normal for most people. If NZ and Australia aren't success stories, I'm curious, what would a success story look like?

> NZ seems to have locked down so hard and early that now it can't re-open

That's just factually false. NZ is completely open in absolutely every respect other than international travel. Australia is mostly open as well, other than for long distance travel. Are you saying that NZ and Australia aren't success stories because they're still closed to international travel?

Perhaps your argument is that we've been TOO successful relative to the rest of the world? Perhaps we should have let the disease run rampant bit longer.
> Xorg already provides a full suite of security protocols that allow fine grained control over every aspect of any application down to the single pixmap via access control hooks.

One notable exception is OpenSSH, which uses the SECURITY extension with the -X flag (which is their recommended way to use X11 forwarding).
They won't. Go leans very hard towards "there is exactly one way to do it".
Artificial Hibernation in Mice
Mozilla maintains a list https://blocked.cdn.mozilla.net/

It would be nice to have it in Chrome https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=109643... (star it please)
> a mistake is a mistake even if you get away with it.

I've had this exact same feeling making mistakes on a motorbike, didn't get hurt, but scared me shitless for a few weeks nonetheless.
I think it's likely that some EU politicians saw how bad the data retention act was and how it'll only be getting worse. They decided to do something about it, but when it got time to put down the details companies got involved and the end result helps those companies without most of the politicians noticing. I'm sure a decade from now they'll be confused about how the EU is still lagging behind in tech.

This isn't the first time the EU has done something that screws small businesses. VAT on digital goods was another case (there was no minimum threshold). At some point it'll start to seem intentional.
Yes, stockfish is programmed to consider a queen as being worth "almost 13 points", and no, "naïve" piece values have absolutely crucial, primarily role to do the search and complete the mission.
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I've done a bit of climbing. I think it takes more bravery to accept that conditions are bad and you need to turn around, than to continue on with the rest of the group.

It's not clear-cut, either. If you turn around and the group continues, and they don't die, it's really hard to accept that you made the right choice. Just because they got lucky and survived, sometimes the right choice was still to turn around. But there's no certainty, and it's hard not to second-guess your choices.
Pretty standard at protests that have teargas.
There is plenty of evidence suggesting that Zoom collaborates with the CCP without it, there was undue pressure to terminate activists without users from China.

It is best to focus on these sorts of links rather than someone merely being from China.
Hanlon's razor is great. I feel it's important to always keep it in mind once you see something stupid (or evil) being done. Stupidity is the most likely explanation, but malice is the most satisfying.

I think politicians really care about these things. But these big sweeping laws and changes are because of hubris (but then again, the job selects for that).

Society is damn complicated, everything affects everything. Making a change in one small part propagates quickly and unpredictably. But politicians don't internalise that (of course, if they did they would never get elected on the platform of "stuff is complicated, I don't know if this will help!").

So they see a problem. Our information is being used maliciously! We need to stop that! Protect the people! So some massive law gets passed with tons of unintended side-effects and it's captured by big corporations at the speed of light.
The circles in the map match what a number of offline (TLE based) standalone Linux and Windows satellite pass prediction tools will show you. They assume that each ground location is on a flat plane with no hills or mountains, and the size of the cone extending from the satellite to the ground is the full coverage of everything the satellite can see (such as if you had a magical laser on the satellite capable of illuminating any ground location visible from the satellite).

Such as if you had a theoretical, nonexistant ground terminal that was capable of communicating with a satellite at only 1 degree look angle elevation above the horizon.

Of course in reality this is not the case and most systems that communicate with LEO satellites will have minimum elevation look angles of 15-20 degrees above the horizon.

The circles do, however, provide a useful approximate scale of how much ground area is visible at any given time from the point of view of a satellite. It's not intended to be perfect.
Cellebrite and NSO are unrelated and are offensive cyber companies.

Companies like SimilarWeb and Alexa (not Israeli) do the thing OP describes.
The funny thing is, back in the day I wrote a 8080 emulator that could run CP/M programs on MS-DOS, and then I went the extra mile and adapted it to run ISIS-II programs for the Intel blue boxes we had. There were some 8051 Dev tools I thought were worth bringing over. But that would have been in the 80s, and the 8 inch drives went to the landfill decades ago. So yeah.
> The only trustworthy extensions are uBlock Origin and EFF's Privacy Badger. Everything else is best viewed as potential malware, no different than random downloadable executables.

What about Ghostery?
Nope. If it is annoying, then it is not an informed consent acceptable opt-in because you are pushed into accepting to make it go away.
You make it sounds like ad companies are more trustworthy than cyber espionage companies. Do you think the ad companies actually keep all that data? It's resold, hacked and shared.
This is a pattern that is seen under every answer on Stackoverflow. I do wonder what the implications on upvote button would be and how a "Thanks" differentiates from upvoting an answer.
I wonder if Stackoverflow and creators could benefit from a program like Github Sponsors. May the Web Monetisation API can help
The Dubliners is my desert island book. I can happily just sit there and re-read The Dead over and over again and never bore of it, there's so much there. Especially the way it builds to that incredible ending passage.

His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
I just bought two new monitors this year, and went with 24 inch 1440p. My reasons were:

* At the distance I sit they look fine to me. In particular I don’t notice any jarring loss in resolution compared to my MacBook retina display which sits next to them.

* The “native” text size on a 24” 1440p monitor is perfect for me. Any smaller and I would struggle to read certain things.

* I was concerned about HiDPI scaling on linux. Fractional scaling was still “experimental” at the time I looked.

* I actually care more about other factors like the stand than 4k resolution, and would prefer to put my money towards that.

* When considering buying a single large monitor and running at native 4k resolution, I had concerns about screen sharing. Would people on smaller monitors have trouble with scaling? Also, having two separate monitors helps me with window management.
When Daddy Was A Little Boy: https://archive.org/details/WhenDaddyWasALittleBoy

A delightful read from my childhood that I still revisit about once a year when I've had a bit too much negativity from the news and socila media.
NYC-LON are already connected by shortwave systems built using huge-ass yagi-uda antennas and special bespoke modem + amplifier systems. Shortwave based systems have even obsoleted well known HFT microwave paths such as Chicago-NYC.

source: I know some of the people who built several of the Chicago-NYC links.
There are already 2 text coming that significantly change it. Mostly to make it more protective. Search for "ePrivacy".

On top of that, there is a wide range given to the DPA which they are using. It is just that the EU agencies prefer to try to educate first before hitting companies hard, which makes sense.

In practice, if it had not been for Covid, the UK DPA would have killed multiple adtech company during the Summer. They had announced having planned it earlier this year.
Using Chrome without extensions is probably as secure as it gets.
In general, a lattice can only be partially ordered.
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Similarly, the most general form of rational decision theory or rational choice theory is based on lattices. That makes intuitive sense, since preference relations ~are~ partially ordered sets.
Then, analyzing rational (vs. for example boundedly rational choice behavior) is equivalent to analyzing lattice optimization problems (monotonicity).

Then, parameterizing the choice situation and / or introducing strategic dependecies between actors leads to analyzing sub/supermodular correspondences on these sets. In fact, the most general version would make use of quasi-supermodularity. I think Milgrom&Roberts 94 show that this is the most general way, one can think of coherent (rational) decision theory.
For what it's worth both Google and Mozilla are paying customers of competitive intelligence from said companies.

It's super easy to blame some semi-known Israeli company where in fact it's a way for companies like Google to bypass their own security policy and restrictions.

- Google does not collect all website data

- Google creates an extension model that allows a third-party to collect all analytics data

- Google buys said analytics data and has access to it.

It's done in a somewhat semi-regulated way, but the whole thing is a regulation bypass companies like Google do that will (hopefully) eventually be plugged.

This is similar to the toolbar and installer industry of 5-10 years ago.
I'd definitely prefer angle brackets. With everything being parantheses I just get lost keeping track of what is what - they're now used for type parameters, parameters and return values, one after the other with no separation, and two of them are optional. Quite confusing if you ask me.
> TestFlight is a dev tool. Its not for production deployment. Its meant for beta testing.

If that's the case, surely the better action would be for Apple to just remove the app from Testflight (and maybe reset the list so testers have to sign up again)?
> If there are apps on MacOS that can't handle high dpi mode, I haven't run into them as a developer (or doing photo editing, video editing, plus whatever other hobbies I do).

The version of pgAdmin not based on electron had pixelated fonts on a 5k iMac. I haven't checked recently.
There is a lot of interest, but EU DPA far prefer trying to educate and move the needle slowly than hit a lot of companies, killing them.

I would point out that, if not for Covid, the UK DPA had planned to kill multiple adtech company during the summer. They had announced it.

There is enforcement. It is just slow because the DPA prefer working with companies and the business side so they can become compliant instead of randomly hitting.

They are here to enhance everyone rights, not to collect fees to fill state coffers.
I did a tiny bit of development on the very last version of symbian and was disappointed that it didn't get any support. It got a lot of things wrong, but it also got a lot right. Could've been a contender imo.
Not "PII", personal data.

PII is a US legal term and means precisely nothing in the context of the GDPR.
The companies that want to sell dedicated support and the people who want to buy it are already selling and buying it. And since, outside of FOSS that the customer controls hosting of, and some other special cases, only the original vendor, with whom the user will have interacted to get the software, will be able to provide support, so there's not a lot of matchmaking/discovery to be done to justify a middleman taking a cut.
Create a class instance (without a class) by using functions in Swift