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I used to use this extension, but it broke multiple sites and I decided to uninstall it.

It might be because it doesn't always return the exact resource the site requests, like it will upgrade jQuery v1.2.3 to v1.4.2. It could also have to do with CORS.
> Unfortunately they probably treat this as if you accepted

Sure, but they can't track me anyway :)
You are absolutely true for the release build (sharing the same backend, Zig is also significantly slower in the release build). For the debug build however there may be multiple answers: typing, borrow checking (broadly this is a sort of typing), codegen and LLVM all can contribute significantly to the compilation time [1]. The situation may have been improved since the last time I've checked though.

[1] https://wiki.alopex.li/WhereRustcSpendsItsTime (2019)
I don't see how pi-hole get affected by DNS via https, unless you are leaving out the part about computers, tablets, and phones using hard-coded DNS servers that use DNS via https. This is a trend, but a very small one right now.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24831809
Have you ever tried to cancel a gym membership? It’s a stretch to imagine any gym has a monopoly, and yet…
Not only that but good anomaly detection is easy to mess up you have to be careful with how you amplify the anomalies in the dataset so that you don't wind up predicting garbage anyway.
Money grabs by definition never fail? No, money grabs aspire to make money but may not succeed at it.
You normally have to get wireless internet, as long as you are in range.
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It's any VPN software that is always-on.
> Do people really install Little Snitch (which I've used since 2005 or so) for blocking Apple's own apps?

Yes, Absolutely! My primary use case for Little Snitch is to block Apple "services" that I don't use or want.

I don't use iCloud at all. I don't want Apple phoning home unless I specifically, manually check for software updates.
this is the first time I've seen U3 and U6. I didn't realize BLS had different stats. For those interested, here is their definitions.

https://www.bls.gov/lau/stalt.htm
Most ML algorithms boil down to linear regression with some loss function. Even deep learning networks are essentially just linear regressions stacked on top of each other, with lower layers being trained on features predicted by higher layers.

I think if neural networks or SVMs are AI, then linear regression is as well. Neural Turing machines and other recent developments I think are closer to the layperson's idea of "AI," though.
Sorry but that's clearly something on your end, and you know this.
Do you not see how that is effectively identical to any other backdoor? Just because the mechanism you describe is slightly different -- it's not a third-party master key, nor a clipper chip, but instead some kind of protocol to request to the application requesting the message history -- doesn't change that the end result is the same: unilaterally being able to obtain any message sent by any user retrospectively. Privacy activists are objecting to the end result, not the technical mechanism by which it is implemented.

Also such an active mechanism would be quickly thwarted by even moderately sophisticated criminals, either by not using backdoored communication software or by simply blocking requests for the keys. And if the goal is to only capture unsophisticated criminals, surely old fashioned police work is more than sufficient.
Well, I wouldn't say highly profitable. Unless I am reading incorrectly they haven't been making much of profit lately. Maybe the good parts make a hefty profit but alas, as a whole it has been a pretty sad sight to see.
And also maybe 80% of the blame for starting the war was Russia's too. The war started when Germany invaded Poland, knowing they had nothing to worry about Russia, because they had agreed with Russia to divide Poland between themselves. After Russia entered the war (when Germany surprise-attacked them), Russia received support from the US, who basically financed the war for the russians. The war ended, and Russia -who was an impoverished state before the war- ended as a nuclear superpower who controlled half of Europe. So they started the war, ended the war, and gained more than anyone from the war.
Mars calendar, each year has 24 months: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darian_calendar

Solar system time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycentric_Coordinate_Time
I don't think that's truthful either, given the face isn't attached to anything—it's the clothing in the source image that is altered. The rest of the source image stays the same.
Hear hear. All "just use an alternative" does is temporarily shift the problem. And then tomorrow an article appears highlighting Windows 10's invasive telemetry and people say "yeah just use macOS".
>For one, the template never lasts as long as you need it to. You realize the design isn't working, or your competitor just unexpectedly made a move. So you start trying to make changes. Swapping out the text and images comes easy, but as soon as you start adjusting the layout, frustration begins to set in. You've got a million other things to do and for some reason you can't get the page to look right on mobile.

I've seen this pain first hand when I "rescue" clients from DIY website builders or am forced to use one myself. It remains one of the main reasons our clients graduate from DIY solutions to working directly with a professional. How are your templates (https://www.makeswift.com/templates) different?
Unrelated but has anyone often had Chrome going on cpu usage rampage and unresponsive fairly frequency on 'wakeup from sleep'? It's almost certain to happen if the chrome has been updated and waiting to be restarted.
I have a suspicion in a future war a swarm of cheap drones will do things like take out aircraft carriers and waste a large portion of that arsenal.
>I also want to add that I want to punch an executive every time someone calls his discord space a "server". It's not a server.

As far as I know, they don't even internally use that name, but call it a "guild", which is kind of a bad name in its own right (because not every community using Discord is a "guild" - not even in gaming, since mostly fantasy-MMORPG-style games call their game-internal groups "guilds", other games often use different monikers, "clans" or "corporations" or whatever fits the game world). However, I must admit that it was a genius idea to market the thing to users as a "server", because that invokes the idea of an actual dedicated server as they were typical for earlier Teamspeak/Mumble solutions, which usually was a significant time and money investment. By calling Discord communities "servers", people who switch over from one of these classic self-hosted setups subconsciously think they are now getting the same thing for free that they usually had to pay a significant sum of money for.
> Dude, this is basic theory at the high school level.

No, Tyson's claim is not "basic theory at the high school level". It is a particular interpretation of a theory (Special Relativity) that does not work, for the reasons I gave.

> Photons put it all into the X, Y, and Z components, leaving nothing for the t component.

Wrong. The spacetime vector that describes a photon's trajectory does have a t component.

> Seems that a fellow named Maxwell got a lot of mileage out of the concept

Dude, if you think the concept Tyson described is the same as the concept that Maxwell got a lot of mileage out of, then you are the one who needs to learn more about "how it works".
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> any backdoors Apple builds for its own apps

Apple hasn't weakened the security of their devices to provide a secret way in, in fact, they made their systems even more robust.

The question absolutely is whether Apple can be trusted. Little Snitch works for other apps, just not Apple's apps. The remaining slice of the pie you're arguing for is whether or not we can trust Apple.

So what delta in security and trust over Apple are we getting by asking for this change, and how much insecurity and brittleness are we inviting to all other users with our ineffective software based firewall?
It’s ironic how folks waffle back and forth on the value of underemployment as political seasons change.
The "AI" part of this report is clickbait. This is the case of any extended automation.
The NBA, MLB, NFL, and MLS have limited exemptions from antitrust law. The MLB has a complete statutory exemption from antitrust law. (See https://sportslaw.uslegal.com/antitrust-and-labor-law-issues...) However, their monopoly status doesn't prevent competing leagues from forming; indeed the modern NBA and NFL are the results of the merger of smaller leagues. The MLS itself is the third iteration of professional soccer in the US, the first two having failed quite miserably, and multiple professional football leagues have launched and failed in just the past decade despite healthy ticket sales due to mismanaged spending.

UFC is not a monopoly but does engage in anticompetitive behavior, including for example restricting its fighters from competing for other promotions, controlling the sponsorships they can receive, and even the sponsors they may promote in the ring. Their practices affect their fighters, but have no discernable effect on their audience. You can easily choose to watch one of the other promotions, like Bellator.

WWE is the oldest and most successful wrestling promotion, but it has a dozen or so major competitors, and there are hundreds of wrestling promotions at the local and regional levels.

Gymnastics and the other Olympic sports don't have monopolies, why do you think they do? Track athletes compete in multiple professional events over the course of the year (most of which aren't televised in the US due to lack of audience but many of which are broadcast globally), and most olympic sports, gymnastics included, are not commercial draws outside of national championships and olympic qualifiers.
There's Barycentric Dynamical Time, which takes time dilation into account: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycentric_Dynamical_Time

NASA has actually thought through this problem and created SPICE, which lets you convert between different time systems, some relativistic and some not, as well as doing conversions between various reference frames: https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif/index.html
I'm kinda new to Lambda and didn't even realize that you could bypass the Gateway. You do it with the aws-sdk[1]?

I didn't think that setting up the Gateway was all that hard -- though admittedly it was just one of what seemed like a thousand steps that I was following by rote, so it was a little hard to say.

Still, I'd have thought that at least for a big corporation (the kind where you can get called on the carpet by a CTO), it would be worth having everybody do the same thing the same way, for maintainability. What am I missing?

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-browser/
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It's not a bad idea, but to be realistic about the expectations, here's what happens.

1) site owner receives complaint

2) if offered, site owner looks up the user agent

3) site owner finds that the user agent matches one that is sub-10% of their traffic and samples the complaint signal accordingly

High-volume sites don't actually optimize for 100% of potential users (because the marginal value for one more user is low). If it's a low-volume site that happens to attract FF users for some reason, complaining is likelier to succeed.
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I had the same question. More generally, it's a "design smell" for me to see something like this:

// define a new timely dataflow computation.
timely::execute_from_args(std::env::args(), move |worker| {

Why would something as fundamental as creating a new dataflow need a comment? In other words: why is that not self-evident from the syntax?

Not to denigrate the technical accomplishments. And elegance/readability is a very personal thing. But it does seem jarring when the language constructs don't obviously map cleanly to the design intent.
My ad-hoc monopoly test has always been customer service.

And who exactly is Google’s customer? The Gmail user, or the ad buyer?
There are many usability improvements that can be made to this for speed of slide creation.

Feedback

1. For me, it's not a good user experience if I have to click a button on toolbar, that opens a popup, to click through categories, and select a shape. That is too many clicks. Why aren't they just open on the left side or somewhere, especially making it easier to select in widescreens. Keyboard shortcuts fix this, but there's a learning curve.

2. If I have to create 5 different box shapes with different colors, I have to go through that process 5 times. Yes, I can create it once and duplicate it multiple times, but there should be a recently used shapes or something that makes it easier to pick. Google slides has the same issue. Keyboard shortcuts fix this, but there's a learning curve.

3. When creating a shape, I like to drag it vs. click it and have it show up on the canvas. There is no drag option in Pitch.

4. Connecting two shapes using an arrow/line should be possible from the shape on the canvas, and not by creating a new line/arrow and dragging their endpoints to connect the shapes.

Edit: fixed typo
Yev, since you seem to be in the comments, if it isn't company secret sauce, what is the primary driver to retire drives at Backblaze? Power consumption, storage density/colo space, drive days, mfg specifications?
> Is the world better or worse due to this change?

This is the false shortcut behind any attempt to weaken security. Security makes access harder, therefore let's weaken security to improve access.

The fact is that weakening security also makes malicious behavior easier and/or more likely. Changes like this are bad particularly because Apple users pay for a protected walled garden.
It's a partisan hack job. Even if you agree that Google is being monopolistic, this was poorly done. It seeks no specific remedy. It's a last-minute "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks" Trump administration move. Just the list of which states filed alongside the DOJ shows you precisely how this is a right-wing attempt at punitive action. Not justice.
"No representation without taxation"? Our forefathers would be proud.
Hm, I'm looking at it right now in Firefox 82 with uBlock Origin and everything looks fine to me. Do you have any other details? Thanks for the report!
I think this is the beginning of the end of the internet as we know it.

Once upon a time, we would assume that we could use the internet as a reliable source of information; that was the great innovation of such a network.

Nowadays it's fake news, SEO content, ads, fake images, fake videos, fake reviews, market manipulation.

In a couple of years you won't be able to trust anything that you don't hear from another "real" person in presence, and we'll pull back on a lot of tech things.
Photoshopped nudes have been a thing for 20+ years, especially for celebrities. Is this suddenly news because "deepfakes" is the new AI bogeyman?
The default route verification is separate from the keyboard issue. I don't know exactly what is going on here, but in the above post what I mean by the system applying a default route is that the route isn't propagated to the system configration's dynamic store and whatever macOS uses for netlink, i.e. the route doesn't show up in `route monitor` until the check finishes. However, I do believe it would still be used at some level, either on the T2 or in the kernel to do the NTP stuff.
There is the “⌵” icon on the right side of the tabs that pulls down a list of open tabs.

I find this more useful than the ever shrinking tabs on Chrome. I have a hard time find a tab in Chrome once the number of tabs gets large.
Boeing HQ was across the street from Boeing Field while the 777 was engineered and built in Everett. There’s a huge engineering building in Everett that was nicknamed the “Taj Mullaley”, after Alan Mullaley, who ran the 777 project (and later Ford Motor Company).
It sounds terribly fishy... For anyone who tried doing any CCD astronomy, "1 photon per bit" sounds like an absolute lie.
Wouldn't pi-hole be the 'resolver' the other end of the request, the party it's encrypted for?

Sure, Apple (or whoever) could just bypass it and use something specific, but can already just use an IP, no DNS anyway?
It doesn't matter how much money they make, what matters is how much they're making per user, and how much it would cost per user to provide them to full customer support. You can get decent Google customer support if you pay 1$/month and get Google One (one top of extra storage space).

https://one.google.com/about/support
I don’t think people complained that IE6 was the only option. People complained because it was buggy and didn’t follow standards so that, compounded with monopoly, meant that apps only worked in IE6.

Sounds like the current Firefox situation only because 1. Google deliberately ignores Firefox support and 2. Firefox does not support some standard APIs that even Safari supports.

The former is only Google’s bad politics while the latter is just Firefox playing catch up. Neither attributable to the monopoly.

Even if I don’t use Chrome, it’s currently the best browser by far from a user’s standpoint. This was not the case for IE6.
I remember their raise announcement - I also remember not exactly understanding why you'd need $50M to build a web-based presentation software (plenty of those exist and I'm almost certain none of them raised anything even close). And now that I read they have close to 100 employees before launching I'm even more confused.
> I'm finding it very hard to get an intuitive understanding of this.

Yes, it is certainly not intuitive. That's why Bell took the time to write a paper about it years ago.

This article might help:

https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/what-is-the-bell-spac...
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So it was leaked, not hacked, right?
Desktop linux still kind of sucks because there aren't enough people writing desktop linux software which does not suck and not enough people paying for that.

Also there are enough people in linux community who still hate/disapprove all the integration efforts (e.g. systemd). And the thing linux sucks the most is integration.
Explaining black box models with LIME
Just wait until you go to google and see an advert for chrome!
Or Wireguard.

The absurdity of sitting in front of a frozen keyboard and trackpad for up to a minute before I can unlock the screensaver on a 2k machine has driven me spare. And now has driven away from these astounding lemons.

This is the last Apple laptop for me.
The most likely scenario was a phone hack with disinfo injected.

Who has copies of their text messages on their laptop? Who has PDF copies of emails?

https://www.balloon-juice.com/2020/10/19/betty-cracker-asks-...
This ties in with the theme of this newsletter https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/p/take-the-role-and-pr... about Nikola Tesla and starting your first job in an industry you're new too.

"Many a-times, brilliant young people join an organisation and want to start right at the top or at a glamorous role. They get aggrieved when they are not given the shiny, glamorous role that commands respect or gives social proof. This tends to result in them doing a poor job of whatever role they have been given.

I posit that we can learn from the Tesla story described above. Take the job and prove yourself once an opportunity presents itself. It might not be what you envisioned last year before the pandemic and lockdown. It’s important to get into the door and then set the standards to where you believe you belong."
> for some inexplicable reason

Google has a huge collection of data sources (search query correction, document translation engines, the Books project) to refine a spellchecker against.

The open-source solutions have never had access to that volume of data, to my knowledge.
> that's evidence of phone manufacturers using their power in one market (phone sales) to extract cash out of another (search/ads).

That's an example of how competition is supposed to work. Phone makers sell their audience to the highest bidder. There's no shortage of phone makers. The issue is that google bought them all.
This phenomenon is both depressing and heartening. If anything, I feel like the general CS community needs more "gotcha" moments (feat. Schmidhuber-like characters) that can bring previously-buried prior art to the surface again. That said, maybe it's a matter of wilful ignorance. I wonder e.g. how many folks looking to create new languages have browsed through HOPL...
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The US government sues Google for alleged anticompetitive abuses in search
I'm not fully aware how Matrix works, my comment is more related to their statement trying to make equal "lawful access" and an E2EE backdoor.

Why would anyone run closed-source clients for federated networks when there are open-source clients readily available?

It doesn't have to be closed-source, it can be open-sourced and still have the functionality and send the plain text to the server upon request.

Why would anyone spend time implement it? Well, that could be defined in the law that for open-source the government would have to provide the pull request for it a fork.

Why would criminals use such software? Because many criminals aren't that operational-security aware so they use SMS, Facebook Messenger and other easily intercepted messaging software/channels. A popular open-sourced software with E2EE decryption mechanism would still be used by criminals just because is popular.
I'm not being defensive and it was not my intention. I did not communicate that clearly.

Not going to dismiss the inertia parameter, but neither DDG nor Bing ever returned what I was looking for and they never were as good as Google Search for my particular searches (yes, even in private navigation). I'm not saying they're not good, I'm saying they never returned good results for me.
God could grant some of you immortality and you'd complain about not being able to instantly transport anywhere.

Firefox is a decent product that you get for FREE, the output of all these groups' work is free and reproducible, but you don't like a once-in-six-weeks underwriting message when a new version comes out.
>Try to bypass kexts and you’re just asking for kernel stability issues and Mac customer crashes

why would that be the case? All you'd need to do is provide some sort of private network api, and only allow apple signed code to use it.
I had the same observation years ago. Like 2001. Folks that were 40+ at the time used ellipsis for pause or dramatic effect vastly more than the younger, tech savvy kids at the time. I've been downvoted previously for the observation. :shrug:
There is no solution because by definition any solution must be some kind of backdoor -- the explicitly stated goal is to allow retrospective access to encrypted communication without the consent or knowledge of the parties involved. To me, that is almost a textbook definition of a backdoor in an encrypted communication protocol.

The blanket opposition isn't out of stubbornness and lack of understanding, it's because there is no way to simultaneously satisfy people who want a backdoor in every E2EE communication protocols and those who don't.
A lot of this is because of a lack of data literacy throughout the org and leadership.

Instead AI is thought of magic, something you hire a data scientist and they just do. Few in product, leadership, and other disciplines can think critically about different approaches to provide the right kind of data driven (and data skeptical) leadership.

I think it’s similar to how software was treated 20 years ago. You hired for it and effectively delegated it. You could supposedly manage software devs without technical knowledge. Now code literacy is heavily sought after in many disciplines. We need to get to the same place with data.