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>The Clean Network program is the Trump Administration’s comprehensive approach to safeguarding the nation’s assets including citizens’ privacy and companies’ most sensitive information from aggressive intrusions by malign actors, such as the Chinese Communist Party.

Straight up consent manufacturing.
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And the outside (of the freezer) air temp.
Yes, China very selectively bans American companies, just as the US is now very selectively banning the same types of companies. It’s just Mercantilism: be open in all ways except the key industries you wish to develop domestically. I don’t think mercantilism is fundamentally evil (it’s how Japan and South Korea became wealthy first world nations at certain American industries expense) but don’t cry when your trade partners bite back.
can't read due to paywall? what's the angle? uber is almost ruined by the pandemic. so he is looking to score some tax money?
Hold-up time is one of these things (besides long full-load life) that separates cream from crop in power supplies. High-grade ATX power supplies don't just promise 25+ ms hold up time, but actually deliver.
In some Engineering societies maybe, in general you may be liable if you construct a building you shouldn't have.

Software is fundamentally different because until you run it it has no consequences, and even if you run it, it can be contained. I can write a worm and not release it on world. In that regard, it is more like engineering _plans_. I can draw up plans for a building that is designed to collapse with X number of persons inside -- in fact I can imagine either of the two assignments given as an exercise in University.

No reason to make more laws: it should be immaterial whether I chop down the Christmas tree at the local town square or program a robot to do it.
It could possibly target the "Apple-esque" product category by using a smaller physical footprint to emphasize sleek looks, perhaps with a small sharp readout. The small size could be leveraged further by only attempting to provide power for a short amount of time, say 10 minutes, emphasizing and requiring USB connectivity to shutdown the protected computer at minute 9.
Dropped emissions during Covid-19 lockdown will do 'nothing' for climate change
Or vice-versa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man
It has a bit of water in the bottom, it effectively steams things.
But it's ARM and that poses some problems. For example, you can't put windows into it, and some of my apps are Windows.

Also, RDP. I still hope for something so smooth in Linux, using console meanwhile.
The intention of cutting out bad actors seems to be in the right place, but using "Clean" for the terminology is really unnecessarily inflammatory.
Same for me registering a car. The dealer sent me 12 documents and the inspector wanted a few more. The dealer wasn't clear what they were. So I had to waste a few hours for two days. The agent was able to cut the queue and I spent as much time as to expose the engine number under the bonnet. The agent is the funnel for bribe from me to the department.
For some reason, my girlfriend has a lot of random and anonymous people emailing her / texting her.

One person became extremely egregious. So I put a tracking pixel in one of her responses to him, collected his IP address, and threatened to go to the police.
> Do you think people who follow unethical behaviour are quickly fired?

They are fired once the house of cards collapses in epic failure or when a scapegoat is needed. Those are both evidence of systemic failures.
It's very difficult for many people to change their routines, especially where fitness is concerned, even more so when paired with the anxiety of the pandemic.

My wife is just like you. She went from daily workouts in the gym to daily workouts with Nike Training, running outdoors, and Yoga with Down Dog. I'm in the other camp, I went from very regular (but not daily) training in the gym and schedule-permitting Muay Thai to a month of depression to a few weeks of inconsistent home workouts before I finally fell into a great routine that's close to my wife's but with more weight training. My wife had made fitness a big part of her life for years and she was used to changing it up; I had a routine that I was happy with but it was a struggle to even get there and when it changed, I had a really hard time building up momentum again.

These are just a couple anecdotes, everyone is different, but I know more people whose experiences are closer to mine than my wife's or yours. It probably has a lot to do with the circles we all travel in -- I don't know a lot of people who were very fit before COVID so I'm less likely to know them now -- but I don't think we should overlook how challenging it is to change fitness habits. I think we're entering a great age of home fitness options but I'm not convinced that it's going to radically transform the health of as many people as the companies operating in this space would like it to.
One thing I always wonder about these home server is this. When you are leaving house for a long vacation, is it really safe to leave some electrical appliances working?

I used to feel this way, but then I realized that the electronic devices don't know I'm away on vacation, or when I've returned, and they're just as likely to start a fire when I'm down the street getting coffee as on the other side of the planet. And when I return, my presence doesn't magically reset some catastrophe timer and everything's all better because I touched "base."

That said, if I'm gone from home long enough that I turn off (or down) the refrigerator, then I'll unplug everything. So I guess I'm still a bit paranoid.
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$36,640 is actually more than the median individual income in the US, which is $33,706.
Behold! The Clean World Wide Web will be known as Patriot One Web or pow.
You want to be very careful about pickling food of unknown freshness - if the meat had turned pickling will do nothing except provide a wonderful breeding ground for a lot of really fun bacteria.
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Yeah, Brave is probably my favorite as a browser. That said, its sync story sucks, which ultimately forced me over to Vivaldi.
I realize my own experience is merely anecdotal, but I just want to say that this whole lockdown has been hugely beneficial to my health!

Instead of eating out with co-workers every day for lunch, I have been cooking healthy meals and eating at home every day with my little family.

I have lost around 30 pounds since all of this started, and my wife has been losing weight, too!
If Facebook gets sued for its addictiveness and loses, then that would be a pretty solid judgment of its harm, wouldn't it? And it'd be up to the court to decide whether the engineers (and which ones) were complicit. There is room for nuance here.

> I don't see why the software engineers should be partially to blame.

Because they chose to build it! Software engineers aren't ignorant and helpless executors of instructions. They are responsible for what they build.
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that's cool.
https://the-cyber-artnet.vercel.app/

the clean network fights back! we good.
Sure, same as the LLVM example someone else pointed out. Good points. I’ll qualify my opinion then. To the extent that the engineer can know the ultimate application of their work, he or she should be responsible for ensuring it is being used ethically.

So, the engineer writing a binary search, knowingly working on “Project Orbital Death Ray” or “Voter Suppression 2.1” should know better. I hope we can at least agree on that one.

The engineer writing a linked list or moving around Protobufs for their some open source toolset gets a pass because their project as they understand it is ethically neutral. BUT there will be that engineer who then takes those tools and integrates it into “Project Orbital Death Ray”. That’s maybe where accountability should begin.

Everyone’s talking about the managers taking the blame and yes they’re culpable too. But at the end of the day an actual software developer’s fingers type the code in. If that developer knows what he is working on, he needs to bear the responsibility, too.
I think it depends on the problem. Most organizations where I’ve worked have more of a problem with info being siloed, stuck in people’s heads, or stuck in out of date pdfs that people email around.

In that case, I’d rather have the chaos of a wiki as long as there’s version history that shows users. That at least improves the asks to individuals and helps find the mavens of info.

So I’d rather just work on a wiki with search and let the organization happen organically than “burn it down and start over.”

I find it really hard to get the right people to contribute as superficial info from non-SMEs or some contractor whose job is to crank out docs that don’t have usage metrics or quality metrics is worse than nothing.

Currently I’m trying out, not a wiki, but a git repo that takes pull requests and generates a web site that’s hooked into intranet search. It allows easy read and any employee can send a PR or open an issue so all changes are tied back to a specific individual.
I guess I'm just lucky. Thanks for the clarification.
Yes, spot on, this was what I wanted to get across. Thanks.

I fully agree with everything GP said, by their understanding of what I meant. But yeah, to be useful the question has to be forward looking. Would things have to change for the better for this problem to actually manifest.
I'd argue voice and video are substantially more persuasive than static images
Update: there is now a domain, the page can be found at

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re-zoning should be somewhat complex in most cases, as there are many factors to consider.

You can't just construct a steel mill next to a conservation beauty spot, simply because you 'bought' the land. Ideally.
A big mistake is that people still consider PDF as a "document" format. In reality, it's just a convoluted image format. Because it's an image, it doesn't have any logical structure and reformatting them is pain. Worse yet, its syntax is the worst of two worlds - a mixture of text and binary. It's horrible to parse, display, and modify. As if it's like that programming language that everyone hates (and I don't want to name). But really, it's a burden of the future generation. We should eradicate it. End of rant.
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And without a penis, I'd be a woman :) Seriously, I don't think that you have a strong argument here, and if you really feel this way, then you should try and articulate the issues you see with government in a way that might convince others.

And it's not they (unless you're stateless or an immigrant), it's we. We pay taxes so that our delegates (government) can provide us services. It's a worthy trade, in my belief at least.
All run on clean, clean coal

Kidding aside, this is so blatant I can hardly believe I'm seeing it happen.
If server side rendering and a subset of js were sectioned off, the browser could have an alert icon that says "this website has dreadful performance, click here to quarantine it" that allows people to disable js forever. Websites could comply with the new standard or risk being user quarantined.

Not completely unlike Apples handling of flash.
Some better review outlets test for that, since you can't rely on PSUs actually managing the spec-required 17 ms (I think that's the number, something in that ballpark)
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I recall from my years as a small business sysadmin that some of the Smart-UPS systems that have a serial connector for management access require a special serial cable. If you plug in a “standard” serial cable it cuts power to the whole UPS unit and your whole server rack loses power even if the batteries are fully charged. That was a bad day.
The last line:
"This procedure is to be implemented on the emergent quantum computers with the on-demand thermalizable qubits."

As someone with more familiarity with quantum computer science than its implementation via "computers," I ask: is it feasible to instantaneously swap states as described on any near-term quantum computers? Of course, ignoring the issue of needing sufficiently many ancilla to render the reversal accurate.

It certainly appears to be a novel theoretical result, but I question its practicality. The title was kind of click-bait lol
Cephalopods are magnificent. I knew they were smart and curious but I was caught off guard the first time I realized that a curious cuttlefish was making eye contact with me. No other reef animals exhibit anything like this kind of intelligence; the dissimilarity is striking. When you start to doubt your interpretation they quite literally flash their emotional state through color changes that seem as telling as human facial expressions.

The article mentions [NSFW!] The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife [1] (erotic Japanese art from 1814) and the books Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness [2] by Peter Godfrey-Smith and The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery [3].

[1] NSFW! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_the_Fisherman%27s...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_Minds:_The_Octopus,_the_...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sy_Montgomery

EDIT: added NSFW! warnings.
What's up with the incredible low resolution jpeg at the top of the article? It really stands out from the other images ( which seem fine )
Even _walking_ a couple miles with a stroller is significant!
Paywalled. Please will the OP or somebody provide a readable link.

Edit:

For anybody who had the same problem as me, try using a different device or privacy mode.

I can't access it on my PC due to the paywall but can on my phone (same, synced browser).
A corporate wiki is the easiest and simplest form of corporate documentation you can have. If you really want proper, up-to-date, well-written documentation, a wiki isn't for you. A wiki is the first step towards proper documentation just above the "no documentation" stage.

If you want to improve on the wild-and-easy stage of everyone just using the wiki however they feel like, just have some rules.

For devops work, have a page for all your objects. Track lifetime events (the non-automatic kind) there. Swapped yet another disk in machine b47f8? You'll see the record in the wiki and can maybe also swap the controller or cables. Looking for the local installation procedure of some software? look at the wiki page. Doing another installation on a different host group? put a link in the wiki from hostgroup to software and vice versa. Have page templates for all objects and tasks.

The trick is "no change without wiki change". "No identical second support answer without wiki FAQ entry". The trick is documentation discipline.

(I know that some tasks may be better served with e.g. proper inventory software, however, there is something to be said for everything documentation-like in one place).

Oh, and ffs, never delete history, it will definitely bite you someday.
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I have a line-interactive APC and it most definitely is just a UPS-shaped brick without a battery. Might have changed in newer models, I wouldn't know.
NatGeo Peace Prize Short Films [0] showed me that the suffering of many people can be greatly reduced by just one person. Another great film that showed me the same thing was "The Price of Free" [1].

[0] https://www.nobelprize.org/peace-prize-documentary-films/
[1] https://youtu.be/UsqKz1hd_CY
Good points. We don't even need to tax the billionaires. Lets go with the MMT jobs guarantee program creating a high floor on the labor market. The MMT jobs program provides a federally funded job to anyone above 18 paying a living wage with full benefits. As such, employers, if they want employees, have to bid up from there. Another benefit? No more unemployment. Today, we have an economic system with baked in involuntary unemployment. This skews the "game" in favor of employers because employee's have to pay rent, food, etc.
Apple is pushing the privacy narrative because it's an area in which Google, and hence Android, cannot compete. Google/Android can't compete because the vast majority of Google's revenue comes from ads, which cannot work well with privacy.

Apple is spending lots of money to make privacy become important to the average smartphone user. It's spending that money not just to make itself look good, it's spending it to make Google/Android look bad, and thereby cause more users to switch to iPhone.
I built a relatively simple system over 10 years ago that ran on PHP and MySQL. Over the years, the company I built the product for has come back to me to upgrade PHP and MySQL after a security scan. The problem is the software was build for PHP 5.4, and they want it running on the latest (7.4). It doesn't.

I managed to get it running on the latest security release of 7.1 with a few days of work (I had to make code changes in the framework I used that weren't supported in PHP 7 anymore). If they want future security upgrades, it's going to require a even more significant rewrite of the software because it relies on old PHP behaviours that have been removed in recent releases.

So, I completely understand why 20 year old systems would still rely on floppy disks.
I did a lot of research before I bought a UPS. The constant that I saw across various brands was that these batteries will die after a few years without any warning. They have to be replaced proactively. No if’s and’s or but’s.
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Isn't it ridiculously easy to set up attacks from within a "clean" network? It probably does increase costs marginally (you have to fly people to "clean" countries, set up ISP access with third parties, etc) but are there any public estimates how much it does that vs the increased costs to run this network? I would think it's marginal.

Seeing the partner list this seems like more of a ploy by telecoms to attack tech companies than any legitimate attempt to secure networks.

> To prevent U.S. citizens’ most sensitive personal information and our businesses’ most valuable intellectual property, including COVID-19 vaccine research, from being stored and processed on cloud-based systems accessible to our foreign adversaries through companies such as Alibaba, Baidu, China Mobile, China Telecom, and Tencent.

Am I missing something?
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The specific point that NSA halted SELinux development at Microsoft's behest (I had never heard of this) is more demanding of citations than Microsoft's general lobbying of the federal government (which they certainly did). There's no mention of NSA or SeLinux in that NYT article.
It's notable because the field is mostly male. That's really all there is to it. It's right there in the subhead "an overlooked Japanese cartoonist who smashed both gender and genre norms".

Males who insist that there is a political agenda in articles like this make the same mistake as the feminists who argued that missiles are phallically shaped because they were invented by men
Since in reality you are paying for grandmas house and medicine and there are more of them now and will get proportionally more tomorrow I suggest we simply do away with that polite fiction.
Why not if you give away everything, otherwise its such a waste of resources ...
My experience has been that inexpensive UPS units create more problems than they solve in the long-run. Spending more money up front to get a corporate-production-grade unit is worth the money.
I disagree, PDFs provide a consistent, as intended layout from the author/publisher/editor. EPUBs are great for novels and text-heavy literature, but they're awful for anything that has pictures, code snippets, etc. I usually prefer to buy O'Reilly books in PDF format because they're extremely well formatted and designed - just as if you're reading a physical book.

In addition, typography and style are poorly adapted in EPUB format whereas with PDF - it can be read instantly on any device, any where and usually without installing a reader or fonts. There is so much inconsistency between Windows/Linux and Mac, iPhone, Android when reading an EPUB book.

EPUB = Great for text only literature.

PDF = Great for pretty much everything else.
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I assume you've seen John Regehr's "Proposal for a Friendly Dialect of C"? https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1180

The basic idea is to replace various common UB scenarios with "defined, but unspecified", in order to move the compiler's interpretation of the program closer to the programmer's.
I think conducting research like https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3392847 but specifically on groups that are banned for hate speech would be fascinating.
>Hopefully the pendulum will swing back in the other direction soon

Narrator: "It didn't."
Octopus intelligence is phenomenal achievement when you consider the restrictions they have:

1. No social interaction or learning. Octopuses[1] live alone.

2. Short life span. Most of them live only few years in the wild.

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[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/the-many-plura...
There seems to be some dichotomy between what Americans as workers and Americans as consumers want. And they just want corporations to figure it out and fix it.

This is not how socially ethical societies operate.
I'd say that the biggest change is that you now can use that same app to effortlessly hail a car in New York, Hong Kong and Sao Paulo.

The fact that I don't have to stress and figure out a new taxi system every new city I visit is a big plus. On the flip-side, the taxi system quirks of new cities could also be charming in a way. Double edged sword I guess.
There hasn't been a reported Polio case in the west for over 40 years. Likewise, according to Wikpedia, LGBT individuals represent 5% of the population.

I don't mean to downplay these accomplishments, but I think the impact of Uber/Lyft is greater than these on a simple per capita basis. Maybe that's a American-centric view but it's far more realistic for many Americans than "no polio cases"
I built an invoicing / international shipment documentation generation / stock control / production tracking system with Excel and VBA and it's been in production for close to 20 years! I am conflicted as to whether or not I should be proud of that. ;)
I can't read the article at the moment to judge, but going by some of the comments, the original famous essay of this ilk (exploring the idea of consciousness by imagining experiencing life as an very different species) might be of interest.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_It_Like_to_Be_a_Bat%3...