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> You have to trust the website to faithfully scan the dice and not send their state anywhere else.

no, you don't. a) it's open source b) it runs locally

so, yes, you have to trust the software to some degree but at least you can audit it and it _should_ be relatively small amount of code. Also, you don't need to trust any remote site or the network because it doesn't use those and that's easy to test without looking at any code.

You can't audit most password managers and even if you could it would be a pain in the butt because they're so much more complicated.

> And of course a YubiKey or equivalent is the real answer.

as others have pointed out this is used to seed the FIDO2 key which makes it _better_ than yubikey because you can't really replace a lost yubikey.
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To a non-USAian such as myself it's just so marvellous that a case involving, a sort of, corruption has the resulting penalty affected by a "plea bargain".

"Plea bargains", a strange mixture of government approved gambling and trial by ordeal making a travesty of the justice system.
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I've meant what is considered morally acceptable by an average American. I guess that you are describing who manages to get away with the corruption, rather than asserting that bribery by the rich is considered more acceptable that the bribery by the poor.
I would love to read this article on a phone but the top banner is not only highly confusing but also blocking a lot of the content ... please fix this
Reminds me of something six sigma manufacturing types call "building monuments." This refers to over-investing in optimization and automation to the point that there is too much sunk cost. As soon as something changes you're in trouble and all that sunk cost is gone, or even worse you can be stuck and unable to produce until you've retooled significantly.
Wait, compiling the kernel and coreutils is the easy part. It’s when you get to X11/gtk/Firefox that it starts to get bad.
> You mean the same 30% margin that Google, Sony, Microsoft (Xbox), Nintendo, Spotify, etc. charge?

You mean the same argument that Apple fanboys have been repeating over and over, except that I can side load apps on Android and consoles are hardly needed (smartphones are)?

BTW I can buy new and used games at GameStop

Does an AppleStop exist?

Can I buy used apps on the aftermarket?

I can sell the same song on Spotify, Bandcamp, on my website directly and also have a patreon.

Can I do the same with an app for iPhone?

Spotify is also different because they mostly sell copyrighted material owned by a copyright holder which usually is not the author.

It's more like Apple music, which I don't have a problem with since there are alternatives and I can watch the content on other devices (the apps are available on the play store, for example) and Apple is making deals with labels, the same labels that sell to Spotify or YouTube

But to be completely honest, it would be great if MS, Sony, Spotify etc etc were forced to open up their platforms because they are found using unfair competition tactics.

But Apple IMO is the worst offender of the lot.

> Sure it is. SMS.

It isn't though...

My plan doesn't include SMS

I have unlimited data, unlimited phone calls, but no SMS

So, again, Apple is reducing user experience to lock users in.

also: SMS travel in clear text

So much for security...

> It cost more to buy a soda from the convenience store than the grocery store.

Because there is a grocery store available

Where is the Apple grocery store?

> I couldn’t advertise at Best Buy that you can buy the same product cheaper at Amazon.

That's because best buy and Amazon are competitors

And competition is good

Apple, on the other hand, don't like competitors, Apple loves a monopoly, and doesn't let you advertise your own website

So it's like you put your product at best buy and best buy put it out like it was a best buy product

Would you like it?

Of course you wouldn't, you would retire it immediately and sell it on the many other channels available, because there isn't only best buy.

But when it's about Apple you are ok with it.

I guess that's what happen when people suffer from Stockholm syndrome

But I prefer to think that it's just Apple forcing people to defend their abusive behaviour online

It makes me feel less sad for those who really believe Apple is the good guy
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The facts say that such an event has an extremely low probability of happening, as our solar system is still intact after 4.5 billion years and solar systems remain around nearly all stars we look at, so the probability of this happening is so low as to not worry about it.
Pretty much all ground attack aircraft that aren't just multi-role fighters with precision munitions hanging off of them are crap if you don't have air superiority.
Other companies would not be able to run an appstore, but they would be able to list their work on 3rd-party appstores (and maybe have their own direct distribution channel like a website?). The point is to allow competition.

One thing that would enable is narrow appstores with active curation—sort of what Apple promises but, if the store is fully of scammy games, doesn't quite deliver. A company could run a game-specific store with much stricter requirements than Apple's store.
The number is a bit misleading: the quoted performance is for "4-tile" configuration. Per-tile this is still markedly slower than NVIDIA.
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> Apple should be able to make a cut on their app store

They get paid by the phone owner and force themselves to be a middleman.

I work on an app that is forced to use the App Store. It would be far easier for us if we could self-host and users could download the app with a click on our website. The submission process is annoying. A hot fix on iOS can take days just waiting for approval.
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In my limited experience donations are more complicated to justify to your managers
Using the 5700XT with amdgpu has been a complete shit show since day one, and you have success depending on your set-up since QA appears to be "if it works on a dev's machine ship it".

Mainline (let alone stable kernels) was almost unusable for like 4-5 months after release, you were completely out of luck unless you followed the right incantations and used a precise firmware binary that had been available at some point at an AMD developer's personal repo but you later had to get through someone else's Dropbox. After that period it got stable-ish for me. Occasionally Mesa/kernel updates made some games stop working or freeze the system but workarounds. Yesterday I swapped a monitor for a higher res one, and I triggered a bug where DPM essentially shits its pants and you have to switch to manual power management. Meaning a year after release the card can't handle basic multi-monitor stuff.

I've had AMD CPUs exclusively ever since Athlon II, always coupled with Nvidia cards. I wanted to support them also in GPUs given their open source work but for me it's been a complete mess. If Intel GPUs are actually any good and don't shit the bed I'll sell this card for whatever I can get.
If this "average person" is going to get such a false impression from clear and correct information, then maybe there's no use them knowing it anyway? They're obviously not even trying. I know someone who thinks the Milky Way is the same thing as the solar system. That person won't be reading an article about astronomy and it's OK. They have their own life and don't care about it.
Totally, unless they're doing time it's just a business expense.
In theory yes, but there’s going to be serious diminishing returns. At what point does doubling the reward no longer double the number of person hours you’re incentivising to work on the problem? At what point does doubling it increase the effort expended by less than 10%? Compared to spending that money on your own research teams, where the Cost/effort your buying is likely to be much closer to linear.
Similar to your argument, but another way to think is that efficiency adds dependency on a higher form of skill (ability to multi-task) or a complicated system.

I dread the day when Google Maps, Traffic stats, Uber has actually delivered us the "perfect people transporter system" maximizing the heck out of existing infrastructure (cities, roads) and then the inevitable happens.

Systems become too big to fail.
passwords don't prove you're you either. They just prove you're someone or something that knows the appropriate password.
It implies that they particularly value predominantly masculine virtues in their work, like physical strength and aggression. Which is sometimes reasonable and sometimes not.
I'm really glad I saw this article - I tried spotify on my work desktop browser for the first time on the 19th and when it didn't work I assumed I just wasn't able to listen to spotify through my work computer's browser. Didn't even occur to me that spotify might be having an outage. Glad to learn I can listen to spotify at work.
I don't know if you're referring to the Linux From Scratch part or the desktop customization part of the comment you're replying to, but if latter:

Visit here for inspiration: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/ (safe for work, despite the name).

Pick a window manager, learn how to use it, and go from there. Popular options are i3 (i3-gaps if you want some space between windows), sway (i3, but for Wayland), bspwm, awesome wm. Usually they're used in combination with polybar (highly customizable status bar) and rofi as an application launcher.
There is no way those 450k are not being traced right now like a hell, most likely it was allowed just because investigation said so, its matter of time now
yeah Samsung bloat is annoying. you can still enable usb debugging and disable a good deal of it, but it's still there on a read only partition.

I'm curious what your views are on the Play store services, and binary blobs needed for 4g/5g chips and what not. I believe Lineage is an attempt at "un-googling" Android and there's f-droid for APK's. Have you gone that route at all?
There are always blind spots. You covered a blind spot, but not all of them. Some of them are surprising.

https://www.wthr.com/article/news/investigations/13-investig...
Just in case anyone is wondering. The 'official' vote count for Thikhanovskaya is 588,622.

So regardless of how unbiased a sample it may be the Telegram poll shows over 2x as many people (or phone numbers to be exact), willing to vote for Thikhanovskaya (at the time of writing).

Use this information as you wish.
Probably because they keep replacing products with other products and don’t want to maintain "old" products. Not saying this is a good thing.
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Please, no. One of the biggest problems IMO for Linux desktops is that everyone decides to rewrite most of it from scratch. (e.g. gnome 2 -> 3, Ubuntu's varied and changeable desktop UIs, etc...)

No-one can be bothered to fix bugs in the existing desktop environments because they are all too busy working on a rewrite that will be the new 'perfect' desktop, with its own set of annoying bugs and missing features compared to the previous revisions.

Linux needs desktops that get incrementally improved, fixing the countless minor but irritating 'paper cut' kind of bugs that hinder users. But the problem is, that kind of development work is boring, and the people who spend their free time writing open-source desktops naturally want to work on their own interesting projects instead. Reading and fixing existing code is just not fun.

This all sounds very harsh and unfair on the OSS developers, but it is just a fact of life; if you are volunteering your time and effort on a project, you probably don't want to do the boring and dull bug fixing work.
correct battery horse staple, but longer and sensible but still unique, and optionally without space.

Make up a sentence that makes sense to you, and remove all the spaces, use all lowercase and no special characters.

Forgettable: 5uP3r53kr17P455w00r[)!!11One

Memorable: ilikestartrekandhamandbeans

I used to have full-disk encryption on one of my machines using a password of the forgettable kind. But then the machine had an uptime of months until a power outage, and I realized that while I was fairly sure of the sentence I had no possibility of remembering all of the uppercase and lowercase and symbol and number substitutions. I lost quite a bit of data that day.

After that I began using a sentence that makes sense to me but which is not from a book or anything like that for the FDE on my desktop and external hard drives, and I use the pass phrase frequently. Simplicity and repetition is the key to remember your master password.

As for websites I use a password manager, and I sometimes generate passwords with my own diceware software https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen but most often I am on my phone or on my laptop and then I use the password generator of the password manager that comes with those Apple devices.

I haven’t lost any more data since switching to managing my data encryption and my passwords this way.
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Pledge, only if you adopt a motion that Mozilla will never fire Christians again for their political opinion that was held privately, nor Mozilla will participate to any attempt to sway the Internet towards the Democrats’ political talking points. Seriously, how’s that hard to understand? Neu-tra-li-ty and we fund you.

Seriously, EVERY YEAR I write to open-source charities telling them I’m ready to commit 4k, 9k, 18k (the sum of undonated money is increasing) to any organization that commits to not advantaging a race and a religion over another, including Christians and Whites, and every year I receive the same answers, « I’ll send it to the chief of diversity who’s currently working on helping girls from Africa » and so on.

We, startups from everywhere who make loads on money, want to fund fellow software makers for the open-source software we rely on, because we believe in a free, generous internet. We want that to be separate from political opinions.
Twitch charges $5.99 for a subscription to a streamer in their app but $5 on their website. Are they breaking this rule too? How are they getting away with it?
It might be more because Epic is forcing their hand. Up to this point, Apple either just nudged smaller players or secretly negotiated deals with larger ones. With Epic shining a light on this, Apple has to more blatantly enforce this across the board. Now, in a legal setting, Epic can't point out how inconsistent Apple is with this policy.
Physics isn't considered worthless, but alchemy is, even though it laid much of the groundwork for modern chemistry. My contention is that the fundamental tenets around which gender studies research is framed - things like the definition and concept of gender identity used in that paper you linked - could end up being so misguided that research based on them is unusable no matter how rigorous. The strength of our modern castle-building tools won't help us if the foundation's made of sand.
USC had, as of last year, a $5.7B endowment. I suspect they don't really adjust their tuition based on the level of donations they get.
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This is such a genius move by Epic / Tim Sweeney. Apple's case hinges on them being consistent with all developers - no special treatment. Apple even says as much in their filing to the court:

"On July 10, Apple responded that "Apple has never allowed this... we strongly believe these rules are vital to the health of the Apple platform and carry enormous benefits for both consumers and developers.""

Except, Apple does allow it. For the WeChat app from China's Tencent:

CNET (2019): WeChat messaging app brings its own 'instant apps' storefront to iPhones and iPads

"This is a big deal because WeChat's catalog contains over one million apps, separately from the iOS App Store. Ordinarily, Apple would strictly prohibit such a practice -- for security reasons at least, if not for platform cohesion -- but if a western company wants to do business in China, concessions must be made."

https://download.cnet.com/news/wechat-messaging-app-brings-i...

The former head of App Review for Apple, Phillip Shoemaker, even said this week "WeChat's continued presence on iPhones amounts to a special exception":

Apple lets China's WeChat bypass its rules, former app review chief claims
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/08/15/apple-chin...

If we've reached the point that former Apple executives could be testifying on behalf of Epic... wow, this got really interesting really quickly.
A question for Jeremy, perhaps. For the longest time the fast.ai courses have used Adam and one-cycle, at least for CV tasks. More recently Ranger and flat-cos have been dominating the Imagenette leaderboards. I guess I'm curious if fast.ai intends to switch over to teaching that policy instead of one-cycle?

I guess more generally I'm curious what criteria the fast.ai team uses for deciding what techniques to teach. My feeling is that the courses have always taught the training techniques that are a healthy mix of SOTA, generally applicable, and easy to use.

Ranger + flat-cos has seemed like a really robust combo, and easy to use. So yeah, just interested in whatever internal discussions fast.ai may have had about it and other potential replacements for Adam + one-cycle.
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I wasn't aware Vienna sausage had any flavor in the first place. In my view, Vienna sausage is in the same category of food as spam, baloney, and wonder bread: total garbage.
They said today. Those sites were not started today. Furthermore, Facebook literally invented a new language because PHP wasn't good enough. PHP has since adopted some of the features of that language.
Why would developers need to run their own app store to compete with Epic? It sounds like if Epic gets their way there would be a plethora of app stores which would all need to compete against each other for developers. The end result would be store fees dropping to the point in which they are more closely aligned with the value the store provides. That is good for all developers (although whether it is good for all users is debatable).
30% is only the standard because Apple set it so high. All of the others just copied them - "Apple charges 30% so we will look reasonable doing the same". It's basically the figure you can get away with if developers have to publish in your store.

When developers don't have to publish in your store, you have to lower your cut:

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2018/05/07/a-new-...

That is why Microsoft and Apple are so keen on pushing the Mac/Windows stores, and on making running unsigned code a huge pain in the arse. They want that sweet sweet 30% cut on desktop too.
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Android is also kinda a walled garden. At least in this context play store terms is not more developer friendly than app store in ios. While installing APKs is more easier than codesigning custom apps for iphone, I think it could be used in rare cases.
This isn’t really too correct. A lot of things are neither stable nor efficient.
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> But why would that human commander have to be in the air, putting his life on the line more than when they would be further away and on the ground/in a ship?

Latency + Bandwidth.
It really depends on what "app store" means. Is an indie Mac developers's web store an app store? I'd say yes. They just sell their own apps, not the apps of other developers. I'm not sure why legally this would be restricted to only app stores that contain the apps of multiple developers.
Enter Bob Saget

> Yeetlock says "Let me guess... You're Bob Saget."

You hear a loud "Tch." from the other end of the line.
"Correct."
"Then why did you call?

> hacker1 opens a hatch on the side of the Pony to find Bob Saget hiding inside.

You hear a loud "Tch." from the other end of the line.
Bob walks out and reveals his lupine form.
"I thought only werewolves could change during the full moon.

> hacker1 says "Tch"

"I have a plan... But I need you to distract the guard at the cockpit so I can get inside. You look tough enough, and this uniform should do the trick.
You agree to help Bob.
"

> Yeetlock casts a spell on Bob Saget making him very small.

The guard at the cockpit doesn't even bat an eye as Bob enters the cockpit.
"Alright, I need you to push the button that says 'Play 40's Hits' over there."

> Yeetlock pushes the button called 'play 40's hits'

The music begins to blare out. Bob gets his revenge on the guard and dances along to the music.

> Yeetlock says "How did you know that the guard hated 40's hits so badly?"

"...Because I took Chemistry."
"...What?"
"I took Chemistry... And I know that all carbon based life forms have a sense of rhythm. Go check his pulse."

> Yeetlock checks the guard's pulse.

There's a faint pulse, but it's very weak.Bob dances to the music in the cockpit. Meanwhile, you sneak back towards the door where the guard is standing.

> Yeetlock calls Bounty the pony to come over.

The pony walks over to the doorway.The guard turns around to look at the pony, and Bounty immediately kicks the guard in the head, knocking him out.

> Yeetlock says "Thanks Bounty, you're the best."

Bob says "Alright, the ship is mine." He begins walking through the hallways of the ship.

> Yeetlock says "So what is your ultimate plan Bob?"

"...I'm going to get the original plans for the ship so I can rebuild it's technology to use as my own."
"Really? That's bold. I didn't expect you'd go that route."
I am from Slovakia and the country is pretty corrupt. But I feel that the moral boundary is somewhat different. In Eastern Europe, preferring your friends and family is more acceptable, whereas in the US it seems to be stuff that could be classified as, maybe, "lobbying" or "ecnomics".
The kill switch is used to wipe the phone when the pin is extorted from the protester. Enter a kill pin once and bye-bye.
It’s not about cost.

It’s about not being able to run bash on your phone.
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Braess Praradox is fake news.

Price of Anarchy it a legitimate issue.

See beefmans link for how they tie together better.

I'd like to know if there's anything interesting outside of a lab to the result.
First of all, the app store is not a level playing field. Many companies get special treatment, important apps like WeChat (which is effectively an App Store) get to ignore the rules.

A multitude of App Stores on iOS would create competition among the stores themselves. For instance, if you want to publish on the Epic Store, they only take a 15% cut, therefore games on there can be cheaper.

Lastly, who says you need to run an app store to publish apps? Being able to publish directly is viable on other platforms, after all. iOS has a good-enough security model so that even malicious apps are limited in what they can do. Apple does not and can not scan for malicious behavior within that security framework anyway.
Well, Apple doesn't actually allow you to sell an app for $5. You can only choose $4.99 or $5.99.
"At another point in the discussion, a man spoke of some benefit X of death, I don't recall exactly what. And I said: "You know, given human nature, if people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing. But if you took someone who wasn't being hit on the head with a baseball bat, and you asked them if they wanted it, they would say no. I think that if you took someone who was immortal, and asked them if they wanted to die for benefit X, they would say no."

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aSQy7yHj6nPD44RNo/how-to-see...