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I think that's overoptimistic. A shocking video trending on Twitter that reinforces some population's existing beliefs and biases about the subject will find a ready audience of believers.

Every piece of controversial video content will have a group loudly screaming "TRUTH!" at the same time as another group screaming "FAKE!", and it will just amplify the social polarization we're already experiencing.
Just wanted to say this is a really cool use case, and it works pretty well too. Neat.
East Asia adopted the Gregorian calendar as part of the drives to Westernization: Japan in 1873, Korea in 1895, and China in the early 20th century (post-Qing China wasn't a unified country following the same rules).

In the Americas, the Julian or Gregorian calendar would have been adopted at time of European conquest. Similarly, in most of the rest of the world (which was conquered by Europeans at some time or another), civil administration would have switched to Gregorian when Europeans started administration, although this might not imply a change in local usage of calendar.

Islamic countries have had the most resistance to the Gregorian calendar, with Saudi Arabia not using it (de jure, although it was used in private industry de facto) until 2016 and Iran and Afghanistan still not using it.
But you still don't know who that is. How do you know the pirate is Bob? It could be Alice.

Nobody said you were getting the information on which two files to download from Alice or Bob. Those are just URLs, which could be hosted by a third party, and are tiny so much easier to host on a system which is extrajurisdictional or anonymous.

And if you don't know that it's Bob, under what justification would you punish people who download things from Bob?

I mean suppose Alice is Google and Bob is Dropbox and the two URLs are hosted on The Pirate Bay. Which service do you even propose to remove the file from? According to the rules the innocent one is supposed to stay up.
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Deepfakes have the potential to exacerbate existing issues in civil society. If your husband has just been murdered because of a riot instigated by a deepfake, it's not a great comfort to know that it's not really the "fault" of the deepfake but instead the "fault" of a broken civil society.

Plus, deepfakes have the potential to create much more noxious videos than real life. Real life videos depict real life people, flaws and complexities all included; deepfakes will be constructed to depict representations of the target that're most likely to generate inchoate rage of the mob. It's rare that the former happens to be exactly the latter.
How is calling something a "delusion" more helpful?
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Cheating at Online Video Games and What It Can Teach Us About AppSec (Part 2)
I'd like to know how often other email services like iCloud and Yahoo Mail close accounts, since I have accounts on those as well. In the meantime I'm slowly moving off of Gmail, even though I give them money each year for additional storage.
That's what you get for not reading the TOS and cancellation policy [0].

If you let it expire,you keep the privacy settings; if you cancel (downgrade to free), you lose the pricacy and everything is public.

I'm not saying i's good practice, but if these terms don't work for you, don't use the service.

[0] https://support.prezi.com/hc/en-us/articles/360003478894-Can...
I'd believe it. When you know that there is going to be packet loss (whether from the user's spotty internet or from internal load-shedding), building your applications to be as resilient as possible to it makes sense. The infrastructure experimentation platform mentioned in the article is probably helpful for sniffing out potential trouble-spots in applications.
Have you switched on your someuser@pm.me account? That at least doesn't have protonmail in the name.
I have the best of two worlds - I think. My own domain (since 2000), and hosted on GSuite (the last 8-10 years). So I get the benefit of a robust email service but without the risk that I will get locked out. I access it using a desktop IMAP client and keep a copy of everything locally. And the icing is that I was an early user of GSuite when they used to offer free accounts. They no longer do that, but haven't (yet) killed off the ones that were created earlier, like mine. The primary data that's on Google without a copy are the photos backed up from my Android phone. Need to figure out a better solution there.
> No one forces you to use these services. They're voluntary

The problem is that they are a lot less voluntary then you think in certain segments.

* Running ads against a blog without using Google Adsense puts you at a disadvantage.

* Running an online store without Google Shopping puts you at a big disadvantage.

* Bootstrapping an online video show without YouTube is effectively impossible.

So if you are, say, an independent videographer, YouTube is not voluntary. The alternative is to not be an independent videographer, or to kludge together 5 other services that will get you 10% of the viewership and 10% of the revenue.
No problem, hopefully it helps answer some peoples questions about the kind of performance to expect.

I imagine Jitsi isn't taking advantage of hardware encoding capability (It's using VP8/Opus in my testing) but it gives an idea of what's currently possible.

That said, as I mostly work on native code for the communications work I do, I imagine the Pi would do a much better job with a native client and the right codecs.
Ah, I should have been more specific that I only follow this in the English-language media so I’ve seen it newspapers in the UK or Australia (the US discourse doesn’t mention this much).
Trust. If the root signatory is CNN, you decide whether you trust CNN not to do that.

Not really any different from other encryption. Your bank could be defrauding you on the back end despite the verified https session. But you trust they aren't.
The wording on that notice is atrocious, but it seems like the actual behavior isn’t horrible. In reality, they seem to be trying to convey:

If you cancel your subscription, any content which you still have in your account will revert to the privacy options of the free plan. If you don’t want some content to be public, delete it before making this change.

Whoever at Prezi manages this UI should definitely clean it up to actually say that, but the behavior itself doesn’t seem crazy to me.
Is Hell Good News?
Digital signatures do exist.
Brilliant business model. Let's hope that Google never needs more money.
The term you're looking for is "censorship resistant".

China has been on the forefront of this, both in terms of censorship and censorship-resistance.

Unfortunately for the mice, the cats are winning.
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2. helpful if you can include your location, a full CV and desired comp range.
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Probability dictates the rationing of finite resources
It should be, Tesla had about 3X as many charging stations as we needed for our LR Model Y. The thing that really kills the range in the winter is if your car sits outside unplugged for long enough to cool down completely. Which shouldn't happen on a long trip, as long as you book hotels with chargers or block heater outlets.

The main reason I'd not want to do it in winter is the possibility of getting hit by a blizzard while crossing Northern Ontario which is basically unpopulated, and there are stretches without cell coverage. But that's a risk whether you have a gas or an electric car.

One rule for winter driving is to never let your tank go below 50% so you have enough for heat if you get disabled. Heating the cabin in an electric car is really tough on batteries, but you should be able to survive just on seat heating in an emergency, so half a battery should last a long time. Tesla has enough chargers to let you stay above 50% on a cross-Canada trip, but you're going to be spending a lot of time charging. You'll be charging more often, and that last 20% is really slow.

The normal advice is to take I95 instead of the Trans-Canada in the winter, but with borders closed because of Covid, that's not currently an option.
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Not sure if this is close to the problems you want to study, but NASA applied Deep learning to anomaly detection on spacecraft telemetry and has some early results here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.04431.pdf

I'm very interested in anomaly detection problems, so if you find anything good out there do comment back in!
As an example application, it would be cool to have a vehicle know when its shocks need to be replaced or if they are too far out of specification, just from monitoring suspension arms' angle sensor/s.

Yo, your car's shocks need replacing. It is currently underdamped and going to bounce around like a Ford Fiesta in an LA earthquake.

Hey buddy, those pricey tuner shocks are problematically over-damped which will lead to a rough ride, wear issues, and handling problems.
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Recognize that there's some underlying payoff to believing this stuff.

> Psychologists like Jovan Byford from the Open University tell me that a good strategy is to try to get to the bottom of the person's legitimate concerns and to find out how they are feeling.

If you can find the payoff and substitute something else[1] the person will tend to return to "normal" on their own. It takes a lot of energy to fight the whole world.

([1] E.g. w/ the now-deprecated "Six-Step Reframe" https://gist.github.com/calroc/4719702 )

Use the "Meta-Model" from Neurolinguistic Programming.

> It is claimed that the Meta-model “yields a fuller representation of the client’s model of the world – the linguistic Deep Structure from which the client’s initial verbal expressions or Surface Structure, were derived” by offering challenges to its limits, the distortions, generalisations or deletions in the speaker’s language.

https://www.nlpworld.co.uk/nlp-training-meta-model/

Be careful, it's a power tool. You can easily alienate the person you're trying to reach.
Sometimes I feel like a real piece of crap for being relieved that my father isn't around to have these arguments with. I'm 99% sure he would be a staunch Trump supporter if he didn't pass away several months before the 2016 election.

Not to say I don't miss the hell out of him.. but statements like "I don't remember being raised by a racist" when he'd throw around racial slurs to describe the then-current president led to a few fights that I didn't know how to reconcile. It felt like it was out of left field because I never saw such crap in my family growing up, but all of a sudden he was flooding with it because he didn't like Obama.
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If it causes you to act in accordance with the false belief in ways that threaten someone's safety. For instance, you might shoot up Comet Pizza.
MacBooks Pros are “USB powered”, too, but you need a 65W USB-C charger to get them past “Not Charging”.

A USB connector, at this point, is a PHY (like a serial DB-9 connector), not an inter-ecosystem compatibility promise (like a FireWire or SCSI port.) Lots of things use USB for lots of different incompatible use-cases. They just happen to share a connector.

But on the other hand, you can also think of it like a regular PSU: all motherboards connect to all PSUs, and there’s no way for a PSU and motherboard to communicate to “lock out” a mismatch. And a PSU will seem to work for a given configuration of motherboard+CPU+peripherals, until you drive that configuration hard enough to overdrive the PSU, and it shuts off.

The solution in both cases is the same: you overbuy on PSUs. A good high-wattage-rated power supply (whether a USB one or a desktop molex one) will power anything below that wattage requirement just fine. USB PSUs do negotiate power draw with the client device, so you can run a Pi off a big-brick laptop-class USB charger without damaging it.

And that’s mostly why Raspberry uses USB power, I think: if you already have a big beefy USB PSU from something else (as most early-market adopters do), you can use it to power your Pi for playing around, without having to buy the Pi its own PSU, if you’re not sure you want/need to set it up for its own standalone use-case.

(Also, the Pi will run just fine on a wimpy 5V1A iPhone charger if you don’t tax it very hard. Just like a cheap desktop PSU will power a gaming rig with a beefy GPU, if you never open a game. And most embedded use cases, e.g. PiHole, don’t tax the Pi very hard. So there’s a lot of cases where people get along just fine with the cheapest possible configuration, where forcing them to buy an actual power adapter would make things a lot more expensive for no gain.)

> or they could design Pis to use less power

You know that they stop selling old-model Pi’s, right? It’s not because they want to. It’s because those chips stop being manufactured upstream; and Raspberry doesn’t do enough volume to drive production of SoCs all on their own.

Raspberry is constrained by what parts they can put in a Pi that are both available and sufficient for the use-cases their customers have (e.g. driving monitors at native resolution.) Those chips have minimum power requirements. The power requirements never go down, because there’s no high-volume customer with exactly Raspberry’s use-case (where that use-case is “using process-shrinks to build a graphical desktop SoC of the same performance at ever-lower current draw, rather than achieving ever-higher performance at the same current draw.” An SoC process-shrink that is taken as-is with no commensurate re-layout for increased perf, is extremely rare in the industry. Not rare in microcontrollers, but an MCU can’t drive a desktop computer.)

You might suggest they undervolt the newer chips — and they do! — but there’s only so far you can undervolt a chip before it just stops functioning at all. (Especially an SoC, that contains DRAM that must get refreshed, IO controllers that must drive peripheral lines with to-spec line voltage, etc.)
You could just do that anyway.
I've seen spam email trying to extort people threatening to release indecent images of them (that they don't have. supposedly, they've been captured from the victims selfie cam).

In this case, you don't have to be accurate, you're just trying to call someones bluff, in the small case they've actually done said thing (and in addition believe you can prove it AND that payment will silence them)
How long can immunity typically last? Is 6 months some sort of specific break point, or has it simply been that six months have elapsed?
I love the concept! I’ll be following along for sure.
Starlink has just started beta service (without requiring an NDA like the pre-beta service did). ~100Mbps and a competitive 20-40ms latency (although I think sometimes you can get worse as the constellation isn't yet fully deployed... some satellites that have already been launched still haven't fully raised themselves to operational orbit, but this is still a Beta service, so that should be addressed within weeks). It’s spendy at $100/month (which is comparable to other, FAR worse, satellite internet options... and some non-satellite broadband in the US costs this much for worse service), but rural folk should qualify for the rural broadband subsidy which should help a lot.

This post shows some unboxing of Starlink: https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=48297.msg2...

I’m really excited about these LEO satellite constellations just solving the rural/urban digital divide. As launch costs continue to go down (SpaceX’s partially reusable Falcon 9 has already made a massive difference in making this feasible, about a quarter the marginal launch cost per kg, and Starship should enable an order of magnitude improvement on that) and competition increases (OneWeb has been brought through bankruptcy but is starting to launch again, plus Amazon’s Project Kuiper and the potential of launching on the partially reusable New Glenn), it’s an exciting time for the ending of digital poverty in rural areas.
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Be sure to disable gmail’s spam detector if you do this. I’ve seen > 30% false positives in a setup like that.
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I would say it didn't work for thousands of years. It just was the best we had.
So you can drop all that traffic and the users are unimpacted... So why not just always drop that traffic and don't even bother writing the code to implement those features that clearly nobody cares about?
This is only true to the extent that the IT department has complete control and is insulated from user opinion. That tends to result in choices like WebEx or the ever popular shadow IT option. This is especially true now that everyone is doing this and the odds approach certainty that if someone is having problems they’ll suggest switching to a different product they know works.

Given the number of IT people I’ve heard express concerns about UI quality and eventual cancellation even for enterprise purchases, it’s also far from a given that the IT department is just blindly pushing a product.
I've assumed this for a while, because so many companies appear to be doing this - do you have any links to the tax savings as I'd like to understand this in more detail?
The Bell & Howell version came in Darth Vader black too: http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/appleII-bell-and...
Anecdotal, but polyp removal for me and some of the people I know didn’t result in any additional post-surgery recovery time.

It was simply: go home, and don’t drive or operate any machinery today, just like any other procedure with light sedation.

That’s it.
> Back then and still now, I think Google need to make it easier to handle this situation. Strong end-user support in these situations is hard because genuine fraudsters will happily file support tickets and socially engineer support to get their accounts back - I even witnessed auto-generated pleas to support once.

How much are accounts currently worth on the market? It seems that making the recovery procedure more expensive than the worth of the account should resolve that issue. At the same time legitimate users are probably willing to invest some money in order to recover their account.

For example offer a $20 option to send a registered letter to an address provided by the user. Then Google can check if: 1) The name on the credit card matches the name on the account, 2) a given address hasn't been used too often, 3) the identity check done by the postal service (checking if the recipient actually has a given name) succeeded.

This won't be a perfect solution and there are definitely edge cases for which it won't work (in countries without registered mail, if someone doesn't have a credit card, etc.). But it should be able to cover the majority of cases where legitimate accounts have been locked.