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> My serious question is this: how do we stop terrorism and criminals when they have access to military grade encryption technology?

You don't and technology has nothing to with it either.

Terrorism is as old as government itself and doesn't need the internet in order to function.

Radicalisation takes place in many places and law enforcement as well as national intelligence agencies have put their focus away from good old-fashioned police work, infiltration and observation towards telecommunication.

There was no internet in 1972, yet the Munich Olympiad Massacre happened. Just take a look at a random year pre-internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in...

Terrorism is neither a new phenomenon nor boosted by the internet - it's our perception that has been boosted. Today, every single incident is instantly known and international news.

People just seem to have forgotten that terrorism was pretty much part of daily life in past decades, too (the German version seems to be more complete, listing terror attacks without fatalities as well: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_von_Terroranschlägen_im_... )

Exchange of information and coordination doesn't require encrypted internet technology at all.

In Spain, ETA declared a new ceasefire in 2010 presumably because political parties with ties to them were banned and a leading member died (of undisclosed cause).

In Germany, the left-wing terror group RAF disbanded in 1998 after key members had been arrested and the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Germany reunification and the subsequent disintegration of the communist bloc basically robbed them of their ideological base, support structures and legitimisation.

The whole IRA business seemed somewhat sorted with the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, but in the aftermath of Brexit tensions seem to start to raise again.

Basically, politics, old school police work and having a close eye on organisations are much more effective than mass surveillance and technology.

You won't be able to catch every "lone wolf" - be that the right-wing extremist who starts a mass shooting or the Islamic extremist who randomly stabs people.

But you can avoid a lot of it by enforcing a zero-tolerance policy (most of the recent extremist terrorists had a criminal record), deporting criminals, shutting down organisations that support terrorism (including mosques if applicable) and drying out sources of finance.

Mass surveillance, bans, and thought crime (i.e. "hate speech", which is basically a blanket term for "I am offended" these days) are not viable solutions.
For one thing, he literally didn’t. Prove me wrong.

Also, he figuratively didn’t.
I wonder how one can test if the amount of UV light reflected from the surface is dangerous? Alternatively, determine what is the percentage of the UV light absorbed?
The few choices are Librem 5 and PinePhone, native GNU/Linux phones.
You already pay $99 / year for being on their app store
> Saying Trump brought war to American soil for example isn't anywhere near true and also inflammatory.

I believe that he was quoting the New Yorker there

He posted the link as well

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/how-trump-brou...
No, AltStore has a server for Windows as well
Are Ubuntu repositories being scanned for this sort of thing?
Will Davinci ever have ProRes RAW support? Can it?
Restoring a 37 Year-Old IBM F Mechanical Keyboard
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But you have to go through the hassle of signing the certificate every 7 days. It's not exactly the same experience.
I would ask you this question. Let’s start by referencing the supposed incident in question. Where did your eyes/ears see and hear this?
Previously posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25012469
I don't get the obsession with how EVs will change the world. Cars represent a fairly small percentage of our energy usage, and EVs take significantly more energy to manufacture. Do you also have electrically-powered domestic heating and hot water? It's the same argument.
Nim is garbage collected, Zig is manual
Personally, I think this proposal does not mean much unless it actually passes parliament, which I find very unlikely (if it actually bans encryption like the title suggests, that is).
No, your biggest risk when building your business on iOS will be selling nothing, which is the most common result. So many people try and the expected outcome is nothing.

People tend to like iOS better because the app ecosystem is better and it is that way because of restrictions. The restrictions aren't necessarily the exactly correct set to achieve the quality and profit apple seeks, but if they were all that terrible, the iOS experience would be terrible and it isn't.

It'll essentially keep staying just bad enough that it doesn't get regulated to hell or abandoned by users... and no better.

People are generally upset because the barrier for entry to create an app is low and the profit for winners can be very high, which means there are an enormous number of people trying and regulating that is hard.
I've used gh daily for months and didn't even realise it had an api subcommand! Fantastic, thanks.
He is wildly _underestimating_. There won't be any prosecutions even, criminals would buy already 100% working tools on a darknet forum.

Source: worked for 3 years in threat intelligence
A vicious culture war is tearing through Wikipedia
We absolutely didn’t. Show me if you know otherwise.
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There was a Toyota and Tesla partnership in 2010, producing a small number of RAV4 EVs, combining Tesla's battery pack and electric drivetain with Toyota's chassis.

I haven't found many details outside of wikipedia, not sure the nature of the partnership. If it was about Toyota getting tax credits, Tesla testing an EV drivetrain without having to engineer an entire vehicle platform, or something else.
So why do many indies do have Linux versions (Steam is a good source for those)?

From what you wrote it should be next to impossible to find them.
This is brilliant workaround, wonder if apple will try taking this down or let this be.
> In the US there are two parties so leftists fall in either one or the other

No, in the US there are dozens (hundreds, IIRC) of parties, and leftists mostly don't fall in either of the major two, when they are in a party at all.
Thats because of legal reasons. ECG is a medical feature that most countries require meets medical accuracy standards which it likely does not in many countries.
yea, the silly thing is that we all really underestimated or at least accurately estimated the involvement of Russian actors in the rise of trump in 2016. This is cannon, and the report was written by republicans.
> Soon after we released iSH without apk, we found users who had figured out a way to get apk back using wget and were posting about this throughout the internet. We suspect this was the reason why our rejection notice mentioned wget specifically

As the writer of one of the links in that sentence, I almost feel bad for making the post I did. Almost. If I hadn't someone else would have, clearly. I'm not some super hacker that discovered a hidden backdoor here.

It's frustrating, to say the least, that Apple won't let me do what I want with hardware I own. Yep, I know it's a long standing issue, and I'm not the first one to have this gripe, but this sort of nonsense is why I'm moving away from the Apple ecosystem. Once you piss off your power users, I wonder if the ecosystem will survive for long.

Then again, maybe I'm just having a "get off my lawn" moment, and Apple is on the right path. I'm not clairvoyant, I just want to have a nice Mosh client that can run a Python script to find an IP and open a firewall hole. But nope, that's evil scripting, I guess.
ZDNet Calls Windows Ransomware “Linux”
Switzerland is not part of the european union but has to follow some rules to have access to their market. If Whatsapp breaks E2E it will possibly affect multiple countries.
If it works on windows why does it need the server at all? If it is just making requests to Apple can't you do the signing on the phone? (Other than the bootstrap procedure)
I want to also give some perspective why this is bad even IF we can make sure that only governments will have the keys. We have just uncovered an organized crime at the top levels in Slovakia where even the President of police is part of it and they influenced many court cases and were accessing secret information and databases on citizens, basically a mafia. And we are part of EU. I don't trust our goverment to use they keys only for good purpose. And I speak from the recent experience.
>They were all in the one box that got lost (stolen?) when I moved out of Seattle

I'd like to imagine the karma involved in the thief thinking they'd made it... only to discover what they'd nicked. My condolences for losing the physical objects, but I'm glad you have those memories. Thanks for sharing!
Several EU governments use Matrix - so yeah, there's a paradox here. On one hand Element (the company set up by the core Matrix team) depends on government work to keep the lights on for Matrix work, but on the other hand we feel a clear responsibility to push back on backdoors, given backdoors are intrinsically flawed and dangerous. This is why we're proposing a (hopefully) better alternative instead (and this is also why we're soliciting funding to support reputation work via the Matrix.org Foundation at funding@matrix.org, just in case any YC billionaires happen to be reading this...)
And this is why the democrats can’t figure out what they’re doing wrong. What you said is a hilarious fantasy. Please, show me the proposed legislation that would suggest minorities can’t exist. I’m dying to see how that could even be worded.
They are actually quite responsive when ypu write them! While it was not enough in the end to stop it I had a 50% response rate when I wrote to the Czech representatives in the european parliament due to the article 13 last year.
iSH is an open source hobby project, not a product. I fail to see how what you accuse Hey of as fraud and artificial discourse either.
I trust my current government, I don't trust most foreign ones and I don't even trust my own next government. I think we now have the two key pillars of the dilemma: we can never have back doors (broken encryption which is as bad as no encryption), and neither the public (I'm guessing) nor authorities will allow a situation where even a court order doesn't allow eavesdropping. And between these two there is no middle ground.
Being better than North Korea is a pretty low bar

I would expect from the greatest democracy and country in the World to be in the top three, not a little bit better than those at the bottom
That's the OSI definition. Not everyone may agree on that definition especially as views change. Only one thing everyone agrees on is that "open source" is software for which the source code is published, and an "open source license" is a license attached to such software. This is not an extermely useful definition as far as the license is concerned, so if you want to be more specific you (and OSI) have to use more specific terms instead of the broad term "open source".
We have a right of privacy so it's stupid. Now maybe we could limit size of private group chats but i am not sure what is the reasoning anyway.
Here are the top H1b-Sponsors and the number of visas they sponsor per year. Take out the handful of "Big Tech" FANG types and JPMorgan and what is left? Is this not then exactly a list of consulting firms importing cheap international labor and then farming them out at their true worth?

1 Cognizant Technology Solutions 28,526

2 Infosys 21,473

3 Tata Consultancy Services 11,868

4 Google 10,577

5 Ernst & Young 8,893

6 Capgemini 8,411

7 Deloitte & Touche 8,258

8 Amazon.Com Services 7,705

9 IBM 7,237

10 Microsoft 6,041

11 Accenture 5,654

12 Hcl America 4,688

13 Wipro 4,291 $77,533

14 Tech Mahindra (Americas)

15 Larsen & Toubro Infotech 3,625

16 Facebook 3,212

17 Wal-Mart Associates 2,277

18 L&T Technology Services 2,117

19 Syntel 1,893

20 Jpmorgan Chase 1,796

21 Salesforce.Com 1,722

22 Amazon Web Services 1,711

23 Apple 1,708

24 Intel 1,683

25 Compunnel Software Group 1,667

Tata explicitly advertises their services are "Onshore-Offshore".

When a FANG like google hires an H1-B employee, their average salary is $143,373. When Tata or Cognizant hires an H1-B employee, their average salary is $86,453. If we take the number of H-1B visas sponsored per year at Tata and Cognizant and compare their average salaries to their FANG counterparts it suggests a short changing of $2 billion per year.
Search for what brings you satisfaction. Maybe its some obscure scientific stuff, some weird compiler work or something as simple as beer brewing or gardening. Experiment, hack, enjoy the process. Try a lot of things and find what you are passionate about. Not necessarily one thing, switch often and return to previously dropped things. You are in wonderful position to explore all interesting things in life without worrying about finances.
Android certainly does have a feature to block screenshots in apps though.
I don't see "print(x)" being in any way worse then "print x". If you want to save some characters, you can always just write the symbol in the REPL line:

>>> x=42
>>> x
42

This already works in the standard python REPL, no need for ipython. You can literally just omit the print call/statement:

>>> print("the answer to life is %d" % x, "not 0")
the answer to life is 42 not 0
>>> "the answer to life is %d" % x, "not 0"
('the answer to life is 42', 'not 0')
By this logic home ownership is an offensive technology because it allows you to safely coordinate an attack.
Sadly, no one actually has any battleships these days, not even the governments... :-(
This will have limitations on notifications and features like icloud sync I guess?

And while not very likely as it will be hard to differentiate a real developer from this, Apple could still revoke Apple IDs or developer accounts whenever they want.

edit: also no way to have updates suggestion? (an app can be updated, but the AltStore app can't know which app is installed or which version?)
For example Netflix uses it. Want to tell a friend how amazing this show is? Not on Netflix's watch!
The alternatives are GNU/Linux phones (PinePhone, Librem 5) and companies respecting users, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24866279
My bad, I checked Costco website for the price and they only list GLA 250 trim in the GLA model, sorry about that.

> And(once again, for the 3rd time), this wasn't a reason to swap.

So why did you bring it up as a reason to swap? Obviously people lease or whatever their cars and get new cars after 3 years and the new cars have new features how does it contradict my point that people do not sell their cars for the gimmicks?
Only with signed ints, since unsigned overflow is defined behaviour.
It seems to be UV.
It could have been Toyota but it seems it's going to be VW that's going to bring EV:s to the masses.

Around here, a Tesla Model 3 costs 50,000, Hyundai Kona 45,000 and VW id3 40,000.
It works different, you can always screen record but apps can detect it and stop playing content while the screen is recording.
Are you suggesting they are doing it in violation of some law? This law isn't even a law yet, it's a proposal. Obviously eavesdropping and storing data with a court order is a valid use case under the GDPR. The GDPR might help ensure authorities properly delete old data though. I'm hoping that's already sorted since I hope authorities like law enforcement comply with the GDPR.

There is nothing inherent about eavesdropping that would violate the GDPR.
You’re simply wrong. Do they have a position on it? Yes, obviously. Is it why they voted for Trump? Not even a little bit. And obviously they would have been pretty disappointed if they had, because he didn’t do anything to oppose gay marriage, nor did he say he would if re-elected. Yet 70 million still voted. I’m not going to call you dishonest, because like most on the left, you simply don’t understand folks on the right.
This sucks. Please don’t do this Apple
This is one of those examples where the cake is shrinking so everybody will get a smaller piece. Now if all participants would cooperate the cake could be made to grow. But this will afford people to not take as big of a piece as possible for a while. And because nobody trusts each other, every participant instead focuses instead on keeping the future pieces at least as large as they used to be which means taking relatively speaking an increasingly large chunk. And that's not sustainable so everything breaks down at some point and wars start over getting something from the cake.

Same shit with carbon emissions, now fishing and soon water.
In the UK? Voting is a paper tiger for stuff like this. The bill was supported by both Tories and Labour, and I was living in a Tory safe seat. I mean, I could’ve moved to Scotland and supported the SNP bid for independence or Wales and Plaid Cymru (but not NI and Sinn Féin given their policy of not taking their seats), but realistically there was nothing I could do about it other than what I did do about it.

https://votes.parliament.uk/Votes/Commons/Division/80
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I just dropped a blog post covering how I restored one of the original Model F keyboards: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25029571
I’m sad. I used to watch Jeopardy! with my family almost every night.
The rest of the phone’s components are secured with metal rivets that are punched together, which effectively make the phone disposable

I disagree --- as anyone who does repair on other, more mechanical appliances and such can tell you, rivets can be easily drilled out and replaced. Not as convenient as screws, but in fact I'd much rather deal with rivets than glue.
It's not like Britain is any better than the EU in how it treats encryption. I remember them demanding private keys from Whatsapp. Though I agree it's much easier to lobby for change in a single country than to lobby change in a democratically deficient structure like the EU, where you first have to change local governments in EU countries, which in turn have to change eurocomissars, who will propose new legislation to the European parliament, where you too have to have the majority on your side.
It can be done - an ex-coleague of mine got elected to the European Parliament last time - ot took two tries but wprled out & he is doing a good job there as far as I can tell. It's hardky an insurmountable barrier.
Syria's disinformation wars destroyed the co-founder of the White Helmets
You can do the signing on the phone (though there is some nuance here as logging in to the account is hard and the techniques used by AltStore involve injection into other Apple software; this is at least theoretically fixable, but does mean that it wouldn't be trivial), but you can't do the installation from another app on the phone in any obvious way (at least without restricted entitlements). AltStore is acting like Xcode doing over-the-network installs from AltServer (and then also happens to do the signing there, but that's again simply to make it easier to develop it).

AltStore is based on the signing code I developed and also used in my Cydia Impactor (which lets you install apps over USB); I actually did develop another tool called Cydia Extender, which would run on your phone, but I dropped the effort when I couldn't get stuff to install on the phone (the technique I came up with relied on an entitlement that was only able to be installed by users with developer accounts; I even somehow failed to notice this until after I released it, which was awkward: I still can't believe I messed up my testing that badly). (Actually... maybe I have a way to pull this off now? It is a long shot, and somewhat risky ;P.)
I'm Austrian as well and I don't think lawmaking would go in the direction of surveillance without the EU. Austria's main ruling party has too many show politicians - I think they can do what they do now because they don't have to say in public what they do. In short: I don't think Sebastian Kurz would say in public that he wants all encryption (or chat app encryption) to be illegal.
Company made to change name that could be used for XSS vulnerability
You addressed the first question, but I popped in to bring up this neat video I came across a few years back regarding the second question.

How about this guy, who "built a like-new (but really refurbished) iPhone 6S 16GB entirely from parts purchased from the public cell phone parts markets in Huaqiangbei."? :D

https://strangeparts.com/how-i-made-my-own-iphone-in-china/

Making-of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leFuF-zoVzA
>at least show a sensible error message

The only way to do this typically is to either already be aware of the issue so you can add an error (And in that case you would have just fixed the issue)

Or to dump a stack trace.
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Autistic research subjects more ethical; neuroscientists frame this as deficit
As far as I know Nim is both.
My point is NK is a lot worse, not “a little bit”.
Is Apple really expecting developers to port their tools to the arm macs with their iOS policies (that I’m sure they are salivating to establish for macOS).

Good luck to them and their iOS developer minions.
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Its slightly wrong. You can't allow an app to scan for bluetooth devices without giving it location permissions because bluetooth scanning can be used to detect precise location.
I decided to pick a naming theme and name every new experiment folder accordingly. Works pretty well, surprisingly as/if your project evolves you tend to find connections with the (randomly picked) name.

I'm using sea creatures lately :-).
Don’t build software for Apple devices. It’s a pretty straightforward solution.

Apple has shown time and again that they’ll crush your project/business in an instant without recourse or a second thought.

Nothing on the App Store, regardless of whether it complies with Apple’s policies currently or not, has any guarantee it won’t be disappeared tomorrow for non-compliance when the wind blows in a different direction (like any number of parental control apps prior to Screen Time).
AltDaemon [1] runs on the phone and does this - it does require a jailbreak however.

[1] https://repo.dynastic.co/package/altdaemon
The status quo today is that various encrypted messaging apps exist without any apparent backdoors. This has been the case for several years already. The status quo from not long before that was that mobile phones and text messages didn't exist at all.
Perhaps some groups want to ban encryption to get more information, for example to force politiceans to resign. That is to know small bad things about people to make them resign. For example Madrid President (*),
or Dominique Strauss, or Monica Levinski case. Many people rip off their clothes in outrage when their minds are conveniently manipulated. Getting information for pouring shit into your political adversary, who is going to ban that before banning encryption?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/25/madrid-preside...,

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/10/dominique-stra...
Thanks for Matrix.

This proposal seems to address general abuse, spam, propaganda, filter bubbles, and so on. While these are worthy issues to tackle, the authors of the 7-eyes statement are not really interested in them.

What they say they want is for terrorism and child pornography to be detectable or meaningfully reduced. Do you think a relative reputation system will solve that problem?
Ok, I agree, but a similar thing can be said about vacuum cleaners, coffeemakers, washing machines, ... you get the point.
I've been in a position where I had to find my next opportunity. While I was considering options, I asked a ton of questions and got to know the people/tech/processes extensively, and I believe I got a better offer because of it.