skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that you can’t leave any room for interpretation, because governments generally interpret things as liberally as they can in their favor, to the brink of absurdity.

In other words, “encryption” needs to be listed there as a right, to remove any room for interpretation. Or explicitly listed as an example of a more general right, like the right to private speech (or whatever you want to call it).
Reasonable MLV article (advert but OK): https://www.secondskinaudio.com/sound-blocking/

And another article aimed at home usage: https://www.snoringsource.com/mass-loaded-vinyl-alternatives...
Yes, thank you. I was speaking from experience: I have a disability myself (though I don't look it), so I've felt the stigma first-hand, but I don't think it's universal.

I've had partners who were ashamed of me before. My current partner isn't but still gets grossed out when my joints dislocate, though they know it's bad and try to help me when that happens. It varies.
So before discussing this I suggest people read the article because the title is misleading

This is (from what I understand) not about a blanket ban on encryption, but the possibility to allow wiretapping on certain E2E comms.

Also relevant is this recent decision by the ECJ https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/06/ecj-limits-government-spying...

(Naturally this is worrying and I think the main issue with security lies on lack of border control and liberal asylum policies, but that's MHO)
That is disingenuous, at best. Apple takes a large percentage on purchases through the phone, so Amazon doesn't allow the purchase through it. It's not an arbitrary decision on their end.
I recently opened 3 bank accounts.

It's not only the challenger banks: nowadays banks will also encourage you to use their app for 2FA. You can use a proprietary token instead, but you'd have to pay for it (the app instead is free). 2FA sms is not supported with some banks (and that's good).

I think the UK is an exception, since for 2 of the banks I had accounts with, they just used a 2nd "memorable" password as "2FA" (avoiding the requirement of a smartphone)
It’s my life. If I want to stick narcotics up my ass then who are you to stop me?
Fortunately, this is not a readily accessible "score" to all apps and is (currently) only used by select apps as a boolean "passing SafetyNet" check. But Google has been starting to take it seriously recently unlike before by using hardware attestation in TrustZone, so it's been a cat-and-mouse chase to find ways to fool it. It's gotten quite ugly, especially for older phones that are no longer supported by the manufacturer — I'm currently appending an invisible character to the phone model name and faking an old security patch level to pass it.

As soon as they decide to enforce hardware attestation for all devices, it's over.
No, presumably most people here realize they want to read more than what ad-farms can push out.

You should learn how to bypass paywalls so that you aren't stuck in that boat. It's a necessary skill for the modern world alongside using bittorrent and youtube-dl.
I'd say using an AGPL tool as a service for your webapp is this scenario:

"Scenario 1: Using an unmodified AGPL binary"
https://medium.com/swlh/understanding-the-agpl-the-most-misu...

which seems to be allowed by AGPL without disclosing source code.
Dictating what you can use on a device you own or else they won't do business with you is rude & clear violation of one's freedom.
Adding OpenStreetMaps to Matplotlib
Anything but. They’ve got validated 3rd party studies. Plus they’re a real Hardware product company with a long history of quality product. Not some Silicon Valley “ai magic virus eater”.
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While that is a problem it's a fairly harmless one to have, the company can't profit any more off of your work than anybody else can and you're not really losing anything by the company doing this. Contrast this to using the GPL where companies can effectively treat your code as proprietary and profit immensely off of it at the expense of everybody else who publicly contribute to your work but don't receive any kickbacks from big companies.
Good find, but it has enough caveats and loopholes to render it useless.

Prevention of not just crime, but also disorder? The economic well-being of the country? Protection of health or morals?

I suppose it's better to pay lip service to Right to Privacy, instead of completely ignoring it altogether. But this is not a human right.
I have a feeling they are going to release something on Tuesday. They just gave the same notice to a-shell too to remove `pip`, `wasm`, and `curl`.
In quite some countries, book pricing is fixed by the publisher and cannot vary between websites according to the law. If AAPL takes a 30% margin, the whole model cannot work and you are much better off not selling anything.
More accurate to say time can be derived from the transmission. It's still not a part of it.

Your latter contribution misses the mark by failing to consider that you all might just be talking past each other, arguing over semantics. That's the most common hole to fall into.

It's a 1 bit transmission with the ever-present time side-channel.
People often talk about the importance of problem solving skills, but there's shockingly few resources that analyze the problem solving process from a general point of view (outside of some problem solving domain). Does anyone have any non-orthodox suggestions for books/essays on problem solving?

Polya's "How to Solve It" and Paul Zeitz's "Art and Craft of Problem Solving" are both great. Are there other resources on this topic that are worth reading?
Depends on human level exposure. Probably fine as these are mounted on the ceiling.
Also PinePhone is much closer to the ideal on a practical level than Android/iOS phones.
Those are not third party devs, no?
Thank you for bringing up a new angle that I hadn't considered before :)

Yes, we should look into how one can adapt the "free speech" open source spirit to work for services.
I'm sick and tired of seeing tech-illiterate decision makers on both international levels attempt to thwart our right to privacy.

Does anyone know what we or I can do (in this case specifically) to help fight this idiocy?
The pandemic has allowed for European governments to introduce much of the same control as seen in China and North Korea.

So it’s really not a surprise that the idea of banning encryption is on the table.

So encryption as a basic human right sounds like the way to fight this.
No, non-techies do not "understand what encryption is". They'll understand if you explain it to them, but if you ask someone off the street what encryption is, the closest to a correct description they may give you is "it's garbled text you can decrypt".

It's hard enough to explain the easy, obvious stuff like tax brackets. You think people have a native understanding of encryption?
Hardly right-wing propaganda. California passed a law mandating that all corporate boards appoint minority directors. Minorities are nine times more likely to be affiliated with the leftist democrat party than republican. That is irrefutable. Leftists have worked hard to bind social identity with party affiliation in order to control tech companies that monitor and influence the population.

Software engineers have almost no power at tech companies and it is leftist managers who choose the people that conduct interviews. CPO/CDO operatives filter all candidates at tech companies, not only engineers. Their objective in filtering engineers is to prevent too many right wing employees.
Demystifying malloc
I am still uncertain how your calculus work. In the US, at least, if you buy a car and sell it the same day you are still out of sales tax (depends on location), various fees and the depreciation due to not having a clean title. On German cars this is about 20% of the cost (again, depends on location). I am sure a CLA45 (I suppose you mean that, not GLA) head unit with labor is less than $10K you'd lose on selling a $50K car (as you said, 9 payments of 400 pounds). So, as it seems, it could not be a possible reason for a sane person (lose 10K vs lose 4K + some insurance premiums in the range of few hundred bucks over the life of the car).
That's the biggest problem with the EU. There is no accountability and as an individual you have no recourse, even your vote does not matter
I'm in my early 40s. Up until I was ~35 I was very strongly against this, sort of like most you.

Now I feel the EU in general (some member states a lot worse than others) has backed itself into a corner because of the utterly failed integration efforts, union-wide. I live in a EU nation that has seen a very high rise in violent (and sometimes frankly horrible) crime over the past decade. As a dad of a 1-year old daughter I unfortunately find my self welcoming this proposal. The criminals are doing laps around the police because of these apps. :/
You make a good point.

A lot of classical left/liberal and conservative values are not 'opposite' so much as 'orthogonal' and it's a matter of relative importance, focus etc..
It has nothing to do with "nice". It's just cultural activism making a power grab. They'll be happy when no one is allowed to say anything that doesn't fit their agenda, just like any authortarian group.
Do you have any sources on this? I’m interested.
It's long overdue. Mac OS is next inline. Apple is innovator but in completely different space. In locking in users by using mix of influencers, expert talk and compelling hardware design. It pains me deeply and the only reasonable explanation that I find for my self for falling in this trap is that this was deeply hidden under Jobs management. Now it s clear as day.
Worst part: their target demographics is clueless and ready to give trust. Mobile computing will be under strict control and restricted until we have a linux based revolution in this space.
On other hand I find it very healthy for my self using mobile devices only in cases when I cannot use a real computer.:)
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Which is why you should treat the internet like you treated it in the 90s as a teen.

Everyone is a pedophile out to get you into their van. Never mention real names, locations or achievements: The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.

Just use gpg keys to show that two messages are from the same persona. Nothing adds gravitas to a post than a bunch of random numbers after it.

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This is correct, Jennings said (a while back but probably still true) that he doesn't want it. Short version: he doesn't want to uproot his family from Seattle to LA or have to commute between them. He also doesn't really want any more of a showbiz career than he already has.
because of all the pacing?
"Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives..."
Make the most that the owner of the proprietary OS allows you to. I am very thankful of all the people that have been writing free (as in freedom) software which allows us to have alternatives. I do not know about any small-collective agri-mercantile worker paradise, but I am so happy that I can still run Replicant and use things like Mutt+vim+gpg for email. Free software is now more important than ever.
You don't need to sink the ships. Just make it economically i feasible or too risky. Again: look at the Cod Wars.
I had seen the Atom in an electronics store ( the kind which sold resistors and stuff ).

Electron's were dumped by Acorn at the time and obtainable for a very fair price through a Dutch retailer/discounter (Quantum, which sold carpets and stuff).

My school actually had a fully equipped BBC B classroom, with server, with coprocessor and networked. But this was an exception, it was quite an elite/forward-thinking school.
I’m an iOS user and a kindle user. Having to go to another place to purchase kindle books doesn’t bother me. But it is mostly about how often I do it. If I was purchasing books every hour it would really bother me. But I only purchase books once a month or less. So it’s not a big deal for me.
Trebek and the Jeopardy crew used to tour military bases around the world to greet the troops and give the qualifying exam in search of potential contestants. I got to meet him as a goofy young officer fanboy at Yokota Air Base in Japan in the late 1980's.

I asked to get a photo with him, and of course he was perfectly gracious. Still have it somewhere.
Interview Often, Fail Often
One big issue with DaVinci Resolve on Linux, is the fact that it doesn't support h264, and you need to transcode all your files to a supported format, before using them.

There's a whole thread here: https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7805...
I don’t think iOS does have a way for apps to disallow screenshots. Do you have a source?
> We probably have left at the last minute.

If that means you’re British: the GCHQ initiated this. Nobody is more under video surveillance than you guys. Enjoy your chat loicense.
Best thing I read along those lines was a prop guy talking about how for the second Star Wars moving how they carefully made a full sized model out of galvanized steel then gave it a bad paint job followed by hitting it with a blow torch and a water pipe.
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This makes me sad and somewhat angry. How does mass spying help in cases like the Vienna attack? If the authorities had done their work as I would expect as citizen and tax payer (the government already admitted massive failures, basically they clearly failed to act on existing intelligence) this would not have happened.

I also think this could spawn lots of Signal-like, self hostable chat-server solutions that will be much harder to spy on. So this could be a shoot in the foot.
Maybe even the term "leader" is starting to show its age. Successful decision-making is (has to be) distributed in modern society, where skills are fragmented into so many specialties.
I think he was saying it's not just Russians doing it.
If by “we” you mean “the UK”, I’d like to point you in the direction of the UK’s Investigatory Powers Act, which is much worse than “we don’t like encrypted chat”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Act_201...
Let's try this differently: what would you accept as evidence that they are extremists? What evidence can you cite that they are not?
It's in the planning stage only.
Decisions&Disruptions: tabletop RPG about security in industrial control systems
It really isn't [0].

[0]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17855487/

> The persistence of disparities in HIV between heterosexual individuals and [homosexual individuals] in the United States cannot be explained solely by differences in risky sexual behavior between these two populations.
The EU doesn't see free speech as a basic human right. They are of the opinion that some ideas are dangerous in and of themselves, even without a call to violence.

It is doubtful that it will see something like encryption that allows speech and communication at a distance without government knowledge or control as a basic human right. After all, if some speech is so dangerous that it cannot be posted online, then we should make sure it is not spreading to who knows what kinds of people without government knowledge.
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

B. Franklin, 1756

Yet here we are in 2020.
That's your experience, others have, well, others. I grew up and live in a place where some people attribute a lot of value to certain branded shoes (which retail for more than iphones). Airpods are a status symbol.

TL;DR, it matters to some people. Those people are not you or me. I don't get it, but I do.
> Amazon chose not to allow users to buy books from the app. Apple is not stopping them.

Internal emails show how an Amazon ad prompted Steve Jobs and Phil Schiller to block in-app purchases of Kindle books on iOS https://9to5mac.com/2020/07/30/internal-emails-show-how-an-a...

Why You Can't Buy Books from the Kindle app on iPhone or iPad in 2018 https://www.techspot.com/article/1597-how-to-buy-kindle-book...
> "If you have any empathy and care about any people in those positions, you can't just be apolitical."

I always assumed apolitical implied having apathy, which is the opposite of empathy. Thus this statement seems logically coherent to me. If you have empathy about something, how can you be apathetic towards it? That's contradictory.
> Has everyone forgotten that the Bush administration used similar magical thinking and logic:

> > The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' [...] 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. [...]'

That's not really magical thinking per-se, it's more akin to "might makes right" or "he who has the gold makes the rules". The most charitable interpretation I can think of is that it's stating a form of realpolitik first-mover advantage (which in a very narrow sense, isn't wrong).
When you say monetized do you mean buy a car or buy an island type money.

You could definitely market it well enough to sell some merchandise or similar, it's just not going to make you a billionaire.
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My understanding is that Amazon also takes their chunk of flesh from book publishers/authors. Honest question then: how is that different? You can publish a book but if you aren’t on Amazon you drastically limit your exposure to potential readers.
I note that here I am in the UK, and the current home secretary appears to be Priti Patel. Who is far more hardline on this than the EU, and not in the good direction.

If we left at the last minute, it's so that we can go faster. One of the things we are deliberately jettisoning is the protections afforded us by being in the EU.
I would say most of the companies on levels are not in the same league as your average startup and do not attract the same talent nor need to pay so well.

You can't measure on average only on the top tier, and to compete with it would be foolish IMHO.
GDPR talks about balancing business interests against individual rights.
I mean, if you put it that way, assumption of innocence is also a scary concept; being the police and having to let someone you know is a murderer or terrorist go because you can't prove what they did is routinely touted as a genuinely terrifying prospect in plenty of TV shows.

Privacy is a human right in Europe. I don't think it's a pipe dream to give encryption some good PR, especially when it powers the internet, keeps your payments safe, protects you from bad guys, etc.

Pushing hard on the concept that Encryption == Privacy is very important. We should not call intentionally-backdoored crypto "Encryption", but something obviously bad such as "Open-Door Fake Encryption", or whatever actually speaks to people.
One last thing:

Conflating secrecy with security lies at the heart of many election problems in the US today.

Secure vote records mean those vote records, once cast, are kept consistent and not lost, so that confidence in a publicly visible count remains high.

Not identifying votes to voters is the basis for secrecy being conflated into reasons why the public is denied visibility into the process.
You need to store some kind of state if you want to protect the form from CSRF attacks. You usually want to protect the form.
We’ve got a beautiful newish library in downtown Austin, and they use Big Ass Fans in a number of the outdoor spaces, balconies, patios, etc., including the enclosed balcony in the children’s wing, with the brand name clearly legible on the fans. While it’s not something that bothers me, I do always wonder whether and how often they get complaints from parents about the word “ass” being there for children to potentially read.

The fans themselves seem to be well designed and beautiful in a stark kind of way.
case in point are the left and right's rhetoric on abortion, which each intentionally bypass the other side's argument. i.e. pro-life rhetoric does not acknowledge that women are inherently stakeholders, while pro-choice: woman's right to choose doesn't address whether the fetus has rights (or choice). It is difficult to make progress when rhetoric pretends that the other side does not have reasoned arguments, but is instead based on toxic masculinity/sexism/paternalism while the other side pretends that those who get abortions are just loose immoral women.

I see no end of this, and that is why I choose to think about actually constructive policies: e.g. free, prevalent, effective birth control for both men and women.
Well then maybe it's not compliant with data protection legislation if they need to analyse user behaviour without consent.
https://matrix.org/blog/2020/10/19/combating-abuse-in-matrix... is our attempt at Matrix to spell out what a catastrophic idea it is to backdoor end-to-end encryption (and to provide an alternative proposal in the form of using decentralised reputation to mitigate abuse. We're kicking decentralised reputation work off in earnest tomorrow, so watch this space to see how it goes).

I guess we'll be weighing in on the EU proposal as well as the 7-eyes one.
well there are many services people use proudly. Previously authors of opensource projects used to run consultancy for their softwares. But now days, many such projects get ported to public cloud in no time. So for these projects, public cloud providers are only (direct) customers.

IT IS TIME TO UPDATE YOUR LISCENSE TO ADDRESS PUBLIC CLOUD PROVIDERS else sooner or later open souce gonna die
Not just in China though, western culture also has a knack for having / showing off status symbols. Like clean / unworn sneakers, or vintage T-shirts, or early Magic / Pokemon cards, or mechanical / customized keyboards (to be used in photoshoots on minimalist and/or vaporwave-themed workspaces of course).
I missed pointing out GPL2 is rather easy to abuse, i edited my original post.

Yes, Large Companies is scared of the GPL3 and we are told specifically never use any GPL3 software where I work :)
I am from Slovakia and yes - this idiot actually went to our capital city (near border) to a gun shop and tried to buy ammunition for his AK-47. Of course you can't buy anything if you are not a citizen and you don't have a gun permit. So he didn't buy anything, the seller contacted the police and they did a background check and found out that he was sentenced for radicalism, he tried to go to Syria to fight a war and so on. They sent an official warning in June to Austria. Austria didn't act. You will find lots of news on this. There is actually a scan of the official letter Slovakia sent with all the details floating on the internet, but it's in Slovak: https://i.imgur.com/vxCU6tN.png

They want to ban encryption, but they can't arrest and stop the attack based on DIRECT evidence? Please...