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> Back in the 90s we had cookie confirmation things. A browser called konqueror even had it on by default. Every time a server tried to set a cookie you got a chance to say no, etc…
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> For users it was as awful then as the experience is now.

Yes, I remember. Back in the 90s you could always choose another browser that didn't do that, and we didn't yet have the rampant data collection and exploitation that we have seen since. Back in the 90s it was a novel thing when $known_company got a website at all. In the intervening years a huge amount of our life and identity has moved online.

> The people who made this law seemed to be under the impression that sites would react by removing cookies. This is naive or plain stupid. Instead what we have now is that every single site has a popup saying "Lorem ipsum" (nobody reads this), and you have to click "fuck off" to get to the content.

Where there is no way of opting out of the data collection I leave, and I have taught my family to do the same.

It is possible to run a website that doesn't use cookie popups. Amazon UK sets 3 essential cookies (i18n prefs and two session cookies) on first page load. https://basecamp.com/ doesn't set any.

> ACTUAL security problems now, or ACTUAL choices, now cannot be warned about. Because if users were not good at reading actual meaningful warnings before, they sure as hell don't read them now.

Sorry, which websites were warning users of potential security issues before? What choices were users being asked to make? I am not sure we were browsing the same web.

> So not only is this law (1) not helping, people still have cookies. It's also (2) annoying absolutely everyone every day, with up to four "fuck off" buttons users need to click per page load, and (3) actively hurting via huge externalities, as described above.

Remember that this law isn't about cookies. It's not a cookie law, it's a law about data privacy and control. Cookies are just one part of it. The law also deals with the safe and appropriate handling of user data, and when a website does pop up a huge hard to use banner that uses dark patterns to get you to click it then it's not the EU being annoying and forcing users through this annoying process, it's forcing websites to effectively tell users that they want to do extra things with their data. It's like forcing bank robbers to dress up in stripey shirts and use bags labelled "SWAG".

Any website that is doing that is basically being forced to wave a big red flag "I AM DOING DODGY THINGS WITH YOUR DATA" when you visit. You can at that point blindly click the "Accept" button if you want, I choose to leave.

The web industry, and avertisers in particular, have had over 20 years to pull their shit together to avoid this, but they didn't, so now we have this.

> Oh, and for extra bonus on a weekly basis I run into websites that chose to simply block users from EU IPs, presumably after a ROI calculation. Thanks, EU.

I've hit very few of those, and to be honest it's not been a particularly big deal. It's also their choice. Don't want to stick to the EU speed limit? Don't drive on the EU roads.

> Are you in Europe?

For now.
Australia are great at this. They manoeuvre their armoured and armed navy vessels between Japanese whalers and whales, then say "sure, go ahead and shoot your little harpoon, see what will happen".
They do this endlessly until the Japanese give up and go home.

They do this in International waters around Australia, and it's a huge point of pride among Australians.
A heat recovery ventilator works fine in the winter. Its whole purpose is to introduce fresh air into the conditioned space while preheating it with the heat in the dirty exhaust air stream.
It's not really true that everyone committing a crime will use cryptography. Most people (including criminals) do not care or think about cryptography that much, but the providers of the services and devices they use to commit crimes do think about it. In that way, lawful service providers help haphazard criminals cover their tracks. I believe the idea is to change that, so that lawful service providers will not provide that level of security anymore.

All that being said, obviously countries outside of the EU will continue to allow cryptography. So, unless they create a "great firewall" sensible people (including sensible criminals) will just move elswhere, possibly weakening the EU's presence in the Internet as a whole (which seems like a bad move to me).
This is an emulator! everything runs inside a sandbox within sandbox.
umunhum:

> I believe that my body is living off of more prana and less oxygen now that my kundalini is active.

> Stopping the diaphragm is extremely important because your egoic thoughts (or life situation) is tied to the diaphragm. The ego needs time to exist – a past or a future. You are consciousness and exist only in the present moment. I have not read this in a book or been told this by anyone, I have experienced this. I don’t understand all of it yet but I know my thought patterns have completely changed since activating my kundalini – time no longer exists in my thoughts. The only thing that matters to me is this present moment.
GDPR isn't a cookie law, it's a data privacy law. Cookies aren't the problem, it's what people are doing with the data that's the issue.

You can track people with all sorts of other means other than cookies, you would also need to get people's permission to do this.
Yes this thread is just by people not actually reading the thread in the top in combination with a misleading support article subject..
Is "aurora" a term used at the time, or was it added later by people who thought they knew better?
I think the main intent was to reduce the volume of the cylinder deactivation cycle(it does drone a bit in 4 cyl mode) but it rarely activates that mode unless I put it in "Eco mode". I would use that if it didnt also remap the throttle response to be so lazy. It adds what feels a few seconds latency to the pedal response.

I can say without a doubt that having bypassed it completely has had little to no audible effect. My Jeep came from the factory with a loud exhaust(is a Grand Cherokee SRT- so no off road intent in this vehicle) and I kind of like the way it sounds(though it isnt really that loud tbh)
"Progress" does not in fact have to happen, and it's not at all clear to me that online voting constitutes progress.
As much as the computer types can argue the fine details, I think the 8008 started the computer revolution. We carry some ideas from the 8008 in our x64 processors. I remember "The Computer Hobbyist" producing a two-column monthly newsletter using a computer-connected typewriter, and a program on their 8008 that justified the text right-and-left for those two columns.

My question is: I recall there was a "-1" version that was somewhat faster than the stock version. Did they accomplish the extra speed by doing silicon tweaks, or did they just sort the lots into speed grades? And if so, how fast can one push these chips?

Last question is about why the Osbourne and other such portable computers took so long to appear; I had a battery-powered B&W TV set (used 9 D batteries) that worked great in those days; and it could have been easily driven by an 8008 battery-powered system, making a truly portable computer.
The wording of the app store guideline is here:

>https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#sof...

>Educational apps designed to teach, develop, or allow students to test executable code may, in limited circumstances, download code provided that such code is not used for other purposes.

"in limited circumstances", "provided that such code is not used for other purposes". This is worded generically enough that they can pretty much ban anything that downloads code with it. They also have this:

>Such apps must make the source code provided by the Application completely viewable and editable by the user.

Arguably, allowing a user to download binary code instead of source code is expressly banned.

While it would be nice if apple took the stick out of their ass for once, I can't say I'm surprised by this development.
It's not a free Internet if there's a hidden price the visitor has to pay, which is being tracked and monitored wherever they go.
Great job!
Also, I think a combination of dropdown (to show possible words/tokens) and non-dropdown could be interesting

I tell myself is it possible to use your solution for autocomplete (code/content) writing?

Do you use tokens?
I switched from BSDs to Linux as main OS about 10+yrs ago, Linux got good enough. Linux has a wide range of apps. BSD is reserved for very specific use cases. If I want to run Unix on a very weird hardware maybe NetBSD. If I really care about everyday useable secure hardware then OpenBSD. I might explore FreeBSD for networking if I'm really convinced that network is the bottleneck and I'm hitting scaling issues granted I almost feel it's cheaper to just throw money at the problem and get more Linux boxes.
I conscientiously disagree. At the end of the day you can't seperate the obfuscatory encryption mechanisms from those for repudiation, and even if you did, nothing would stop a government from tending to create carve-outs for itself for obfuscatory encryption, and by denying it to everyone else you've paved the way for abuse of those without encryption by those who do.

You're right in the sense Encryption does not fix the problem of securing human rights. That is absolutely true. By definition though, the only safeguard one has from their self-sovereignty (in the John Locke-ian sense, not the Sov Citizen sense) being violated is the tools, technology, and relationships at their disposal. Human Rights security is not guaranteed for anyone from anyone. There is only a collective commitment amongst particular groups of citizens to only breach those rights in certain ways, and the agreements brokered between that particular group, another groups on how things will be done.

Also, to be frank, ubiquitous end to end encryption merely resets us back to the pre-telephony or dragnet metadata collection days of investigation. Before SMS, and internet traffic was all in the clear with enough third parties collecting enough metadata to make a data trail, no one had the ability or means to know your thoughts or social network, or all of your interactions trivially. Before digital payment processors, the couldn't even know what your financial activity was with a quick call to your bank/Credit card company.

This is what everyone out there seems to hope everyone forgets. Investigation was hard. It was necer intended to be easy, and arguably, shouldn't be. Networking, and by extension Third Party Doctrine changed the face of it. Encryption may restore some of it.

People may be uncomfortable with the idea, but at the end of the day, tge scale of atrocity enabled by preventing people from looking after themselves is always greater in scale than that resulting from the small portion of the population that abuses it. You can work around that small group. History has proved that is a rare thing indeed once something has been taken away, for it to either be restored, or for it's restriction to do anything but disempower the law abiding citizen, who was never the issue anyway.
Asked for an invite.
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I have idea on how to solve for this. I am currently on a military deployment and would like to turn this into a business when I return. The idea basically involves inverting the web to create a decentralized operating system. If both end points are IPv6 there is no server. Crypto will primarily be used for certificates and signatures as a trust scheme in a new security model. I don’t care what people share as the prototype I am working allows direct sharing of the local file system, like copy/paste in a GUI but different file explorer windows may or may not be different devices/users.
Data Science in a Serverless World
Where's the novelty of the idea? The media do that everywhere. Just look at the four year of the Trump administration and all the lies imputed to him.
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No questions but I just wanted to say thanks for this series and all the work that went into it! I did a digital logic course in college but haven't used any of it since, and we only ever built simple circuits in the lab. Seeing how these old chips are actually implemented is great, especially all the design choices that they had to make. With my relatively limited background knowledge I find them very readable. Like, I do know what a Karnaugh map is but I haven't done one in years haha.
Does the idea you're proposing enable recording reputation scoring on the scope of a single post/message?
Out of interest, what electric car have you ordered? A VW ID3 or something?

I was wondering about the ID3 because the batteries are built into the floor and seem to only have a 100k miles lifetime, which is nothing for a VW and will destroy the secondhand market in the name of "progress" and saving the environment (but with non recyclable battery tech to do so).
I've heard of stuff like that, but I'm wondering why your coworker was even trying to bridge an air gap.
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> interference with [...] correspondence

Imagine that some unnamed corrupt government treats your telegram messages as correspondence, but not encryption keys. It then orders Telegram to release said keys (pinky promising not to do anything nefarious with them) because they aren't considered correspondence.
Stop defending Apple and their shitty behavior.

> unapproved software

> unapproved software

> unapproved software

> unapproved software

How is it 2020 and we're okay with this phrase? What the hell happened?

Apple is an enemy of computing and the DOJ needs to break them up.
The policy absolutely was intended as a deterrence:

the heads of the three major immigration agencies wrote to their boss, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, to present her with three options for how to step up immigration enforcement at the border. They recommended “Option 3” — prosecuting every adult who crossed the border illegally, including those who came with their children — because it would “have the greatest impact on current flows.”[2]

> No matter what, arrestees can not bring their kids to jail, ever.

And yet through some miracle they reversed this policy and issued a new executive order reversing the "zero-tolerance policy" that says:

"The President’s executive order issued on June 20, 2018, directed, among other things, that the Secretary of Homeland Security maintain custody of alien families during any criminal improper entry or immigration proceedings involving their family members, to the extent possible. This order stated that the policy of the administration is to maintain family unity, including by detaining alien families together where appropriate."[1]

This is a return to how it used to be run - families were detained together.

[1] https://www.gao.gov/assets/700/696788.pdf

[2] https://theintercept.com/2018/09/25/family-separation-border...
Suppose X is "become forty years old".
Seeking:

> Another word on Kechari BE CAREFUL IT IS LIKE PLUGGING A LIVE WIRE INTO THE BRAIN. Kechari is many things but this can be one of them and you must have self dicipline and know when to break the connection bliss is hard to turn ones back on but bliss can lead to unhappiness later when you resume your daily life. BALANCE, CAUTION, DISCIPLINE, PATIENCE is needed you are already in God Realization it is just a matter of time until you develope awarness through practices.
Paywalls are making a big comeback on digital publishing news websites
Exactly. I could easily download almost all of my company's code and send it wherever. But, nobody is going to be able to make any use of it, because they don't know how all of the various pieces (services) go together necessarily, and you'd probably still need a bare minimum of 50 engineers to run it (although that's just a guess).

And, even if you did all of that, and replaced the very few things I'm not allowed to access with your own stuff, you still don't have my company's data, which is way, way, more valuable than the code.

The moral here, I guess is that "code is not a company." Even if I handed you the code, you couldn't replicate the company I work for in any reasonable amount of time.
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Eh, I think it's "get off my lawn" folks supporting this -- I'd like to see a tally of folks who've actually built GraphQL apis.

I do agree a lot of software is built just for the sake of software - there is loads of needless complexity in things. But GraphQL is not that imho.
'Price they're willing to accept' is interesting. Here, Spotify is $1/month more than Netflix. And $4/month more than Amazon Prime. This makes Spotify look very overpriced, since intuitively we think Video & Movies should be more expensive than Music. My gut feel is Spotify needs to be priced a lot cheaper for general acceptance, because people don't evaluate pricing of these services in a vacuum. I think this is why households are subscribing to two or three video streaming services, but not Spotify.
You're looking at it.
the company’s first fully-electric model to be introduced in 2025

The news is always [major car manufacturer] will have a huge range of EVs available in [3 to 5 years - pick one].

I mean, good luck to them, but I'm weary after all the years of announcements and then not much actually happening on the ground.

A few things are finally happening now, granted.
Yes, it would. Thanks!
Apple has said from the beginning that apps that don't meet App Store TOS should be moved to the web.
Gore might disagree with your assertion that paper ballots work perfectly. And the question about sharpies, this year, throws a question in there.
Personally I would love to see digital voting. But paper ballots do leave a paper trail that is much more difficult to change. But they aren't perfect.
Well the adapter I bought is a MITM attack on the CAN BUS and extracts the un altered audio signal from the head unit. It does the following:
1) Ignores ADS
2) does not apply the vehicle equalization that sounds 'good' to the average listener.
3) provides 5v line level output for front rear and subwoofer outputs.
4) retains all safety functionality (front collision detection beep, blind spot detection, and backup sensors

if you want to see more its made by PAC audio

https://pac-audio.com/
This bit about seeking out magicians resonates with me. It is partly why I've gravitated towards technical things. Literally controlling electricity to do my bidding. Yeah, that's magic.

But finding those people who possess a skill you thought yourself competent at, but at a completely different level than you are is a humbling and exhilarating experience. It is addictive. The best is when they do what they do by tossing any generally recognized best practices out the window and reinvent the discipline from first principles in an entirely different way.
Simpler yes, but I think we also need some consistency. Every state has their own way of doing things. And it seems like everyone is reinventing the wheel and using the non invented here paradigm
> I don't find myself patching stuff all the time, and would hate to go back to half-assed leaky-abstraction kludges like Ansible.

Speaking of half-assed kludges, NixOS itself is a held together by duct tape of scripts patching shebangs and whatnot.
It might be too basic for you but I'm really enjoying working through some of the Art of Problem Solving book series (Introduction to Counting and Probability). I have a PhD in biomechanics but still find many problems to be a fun challenge.
The strategy (in the US and worldwide) seems pretty apparent to me:

individuals: wear masks, wash your hands, keep your distance, stay quarantined if you are sick, protect vulnerable people

businesses: post and follow public health regulations, reduce density, improve ventilation

public health agencies: test as much as possible, trace contacts when possible, try to develop and deploy a vaccine
An application I am working on now already provides file system GUI in the browser with utilities like hashing for both local file systems and those in other devices. I do not provide support for compression yet, like a zip, but I plan to.
Personal note: During the period of Talabya Kriya practice, fried food and oily food should be avoided.
So much for the free internet. And to think all it took was some SSL cert company to waltz in and assert itself as God almighty. With a bit of help from Google perhaps. And we allowed it to happen. In fact a lot here on HN encouraged it.
I live in Vietnam and I can believe it. Here's a map of the world showing where people eat fish. It is basically a list of places where Americans are unlikely to go.

https://imgur.com/Snc2PvR

Asia accounts for 71% of world fish consumption. In places like Bangladesh, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia fish makes up over 50% of all animal protein consumed.

Unless you've travelled widely in Asia, especially outside of the rich up & coming cities with restaurants catering to foreign tourist palates and ate in local places, it would make sense that you haven't seen it.
On the other hand you have no proof of who you voted for, and this have no way to determine if the vote was counted was the one you made
You'd think so, but BMW did it first, as far as I'm aware. Anyone know of an earlier system?
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Thank you so much for sharing this. I think this is the exact advice that everyone needs right now. The young and the old.
I guess it depends on definitions - you can just type in the AACS number if the calculator has enough digits.
Just to see if it would work and then a little science demo for my kids. I never did it outside of the house.
You'd be very suprised.

Hardly, but that's irrelevant.

Not to mention, if it was so trivial, tons of other companies would have made the exact same design before, not copy it after it was released.

Gee. It's almost as if it's what's inside that matters, and lacking the technology inside the iPad, those other companies had no reason to adopt the corresponding product design.

(Except, of course, in the TV and movie industries, where any number of prop designers did exactly that, decades before Apple.)
Mathematical problem solving by Alan Shoenfield
Kate is definitely my favorite text editor on Windows (on Linux I use it occasionally, along with featherpad, bluefish and vscodium).

I tend to only use it for relatively simple stuff (editing config files and keeping notes), but with what I consider one of its coolest features, Language Server Protocol support, you could just use it as a full IDE.

Hint for Windows users dissatisfied with its lackluster tooling: The KDE community provides Windows builds for lots of KDE apps.

Here's the entry point: https://community.kde.org/Windows

Here's the CI page: https://binary-factory.kde.org/view/Windows%2064-bit/
and Hamler too ...

https://www.hamler-lang.org

https://github.com/hamler-lang

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23491516
The details are a little foggy at this point, but ISTR that I tried Ubuntu 18.04, tried installing the GUI drivers both from packages ("apt install") and from scripts ("tar xf; ./install.sh" or whatever), both for ATI and NVidia boards. I could always get to the point where the drivers were working under the normal test programs, but Resolve would never find them. Godspeed.
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