skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The institutions that write these proposals in the EU have no power to put them into law, though.

Also - I am still shocked how much surveillance there is in the UK compared to mainland Europe. In the UK it's a criminal offence to refuse to hand over passwords for your devices (and encryption keys).

That is not the case in the EU, so I find it quite funny that you cite a proposal that would have to go through the parliament first and could still be overruled by national laws, as a good reason for not being in the EU :D
These things come from EC. Your vote does not influence incoming legislation. Only way to achieve something is lobbying and you'd have to find huge sums to have EC members even consider talking to you. They can make a lot of money from controlling the communication of citizens and you cannot vote them out, so what's the alternative?
It could, but more work would be needed for all those Amiga specific custom chips. It has already been done, so it's possible, but we already have very functional emulators such as UAE. And native simulators such as AROS.

https://fs-uae.net/
https://aros.sourceforge.io/
Directly? Maybe not.
But I do think the OP's post was targeting a sizeable share of the micromanagers out there who are simply unaware of the harm they're doing, and who might change their behavior if their attention were drawn to it. Which in turn could radically improve said working relationship.
I don't think it's possible.
I remind you about how much we protested against the upload filters about hosts being responsible for content their users upload, about the censorship laws in general in 2018.
The protesters were called "bots".
When the young people went out and protested they were defamed.
In the end everything passed by a shady vote.
That is why we need to leave the EU.
How do you fix a dictatorship?
You can't fix it, you can kill or peacefully leave.
The system is flawed, read the Lisboa treaty.
Mostly attitude changes. Like if our group of mostly brown people with kids is at a festival, security gaurds or cops would all of sudden hangout next to us. We would just laugh it off and cops are not rude or anything. But I rarely noticed cops hanging out near us when we are in mostly white group.

Another thing, a little worse service especially at upscale suburban resturants. Now brown/desi people are known to be cheap when it comes to tips, so that does have some effect on the service. However, before 2016, we rarely got bad/slow service. But it seems we had more issues at resturants in last 4 years than before. (Btw I always tip decent 20% standard and more depending on the service)

From cool I meant people now openly sterotype minorities especially on Facebook. Both young and old. Like friends complaining that they didn't get a job because company was trying to hire a black woman. And, in fact, I have heard from multiple of my Republican friends that a Black Woman is the most powerful person in the US. (Ofc, I don't believe that)
Ionizer--probably unicorn shit.

The UV-C one? Probably real--and note it's the one labeled as "Verified by third parties". Moving air at some reasonable rate past a strong UV-C source really will sterilize it against a lot of stuff.
I have seen a few hacky implementations of this, many years back. Essentially you use a dumb secrecy technique (every second letter of every third word). Then put your (secyrely) encrypted message as the payload.

The question of interest is "how to generate sentences that allow the most dense insertion of data?".

The best two I saw were:

* Used a copy paste (with link) of tweets / jokes / song lyrics with trite comments around them.

* Used an html formatted email with images embedded. The images were fiddled to hold the bulk of the payload and the surrounding sentences were just to describe the image to give it authenticity.

The funniest was a dirty poem generator based on an oracled (to inject the payload) monte carlo sim. It ised historic dirty letters and all sorts of poem formats.

This was at a hackathon in Hampshire (uk) ~2014
Hack into their devices and messaging accounts and release their own sex tapes for public consumption.

On the other hand, I'd rather not see explicit visuals of von Der Leyen and gang. The sheer horror!
Well, if everything is working as planned - it is encrypted in a way, that the economy and the people are protected against criminals, but everything is still in control of the government. That is the plan. And it makes sense, from their point of view. But their point of view usually comes from law schools and not technical universities.
I mean, I organize petitions, write op-eds (incl. in major national papers), contribute to OSS, have back-and-forths with major decision makers in public, etc. ...

But I don't seem to reach through. I'd be willing to do volunteer work or start an organization, but can't really run for office as I have another career.

Besides: I don't know what party would have me, because it seems to me that the politicians don't understand the arguments nor the premise – they're no tech-experts, after all (which is part of the problem, I suspect).
I think I might prefer one of these to the real deal because it,s not locked down.

Much of the "insecurity" the author describes just makes it work like older Android versions which don,t "secure" the phone from its own user.

I,m still using Android 7 myself. My secondary device with 8 on it already has bullshit like screenshot blocking.
How is this going to be enforced? The easy thing to do is to ban chat apps offering encryption. But the consequences are much greater. For example, do they need to ban Tor or I2P as well, even SSH? Unencrypted applications will gain encryption and sometimes even anonymization if encapsulated within these. What about abusing legal services using encryption for chat like purposes? All they need to do is to offer collaboration features on shared data?
My serious question is this: how do we stop terrorism and criminals when they have access to military grade encryption technology?

It seems like there is a lot of ideological push for freedom, but as criminal activity moves to the virtual world, have we not created a problem for ourselves?
Can you explain how average Brit had more power?
As someone who learned video editing with Premiere I tried using Resolve and I can't get used to it. The forced workflow and node based effects are annoying. I cut out Adobe to cut costs and I miss it.
The problem is that in a democracy, you cannot "not act politically". Even holding political views will influence what you tell others, and who you vote for or if you choose not to vote. All that is acting politically, since you're participating in the activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power.

So I take it being apolitical in a democracy is akin to saying you support the majority who voted.

That's because you can't act without regards to politics, you are forced to abide by the political rules and laws, and even your choice to not vote is a choice for the majority who voted.

So like, the most apolitical thing you could do would be never talk politics, never let any of your value judgment known to others about any topic, and randomly cast a vote at every elections.
Yes, should’ve been more clear on that they sign a cert without your knowledge and hand to to someone performing mitm. How is that risk present when you roll your own PKI and validate against your private CA (or intermediate) only?

Regarding CT I’m not aware of any clients other than browsers actually enforcing that.
Its a shame this probably won't make it to the front page. Its one of the most interesting posts I have seen for some time.
>hundreds of illegal

Citation needed.

Basically all of these articles tries to spin Chinese distance fishing fleets operating largely in international waters, at the edge of respective country EEZs, legally as... illegal. This article specifically:

>nothing blatantly illegal to report to the Ecuadorian navy, the Coast Guard was relegated to watching,

There is nothing to stop enforcement of isolated illegal behaviour, which actual analysis of transponder behaviour shows, is limited to handful of boats and such behaviour is consistent among other distant fishing fleet. CCP doesn't give a shit when other countries enforce on Chinese distant fishing vessels unless behavior overlaps with disputed maritime areas. Plenty of Chinese ships detained or even sunk by foreign coast guards, central government just shrugs and say tough shit. Though it's a sufficiently annoying diplomatic issue that China is trying to reduce it's DWF size in the next few years.

> devastate local fish populations

At the end of the day, China _UNDER_ fishes per capita, including the Galapagos drama. Ecuador & Peru, two countries with 1/28th population of China, captures about about 1/4 of China, who also has 1/2 the EEZ of these countries, which incidentally means China has to fish more in international waters. In fact Ecuador & Peru catches as much fish annually as US with 1/10 the population... so if anything these two countries need to fish less and China needs to fish more.

BTW top 5 DWF fleets by size: China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Spain. Adjusted per capita China would rank behind Taiwan, Korea. In terms of transshipped fishing (offloading catch to support vessels) which allows fishing fleets to fish longer with less traceability, China ranks behind South Korea, Japan, Taiwan.
If America was governed like EU:

Instead of the Office and President, have a commission of 50 presidents. Each state chooses one commissioner. But not by election, instead let the state legislature choose the commissioner for the state. The House needs to approve the members of the commission.

Instead of Senate, have regular meetings of all state governors (or someone from their offices). Also, state governors are not chosen in elections, but by the state legislatures.

Keep House as it is, but House cannot initiate new legislation. They can only approve/deny proposals from commission and the governors-senate.
To me it appears they admit that iSH allows scripting (ummm, obviously), and that scripting is against Apple’s policy (as we all know). From one of their articles: “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”.

They argue that Apple’s policy should be changed to allow scripting: https://saagarjha.com/blog/2020/11/08/fixing-section-2-5-2/

It looks to me that Apple’s main reason for not allowing scripting is to prevent an app from deploying other apps within itself (preventing any competition with the app store), with a secondary reason being security for users (harder to argue against).

I can’t see Apple ever allowing a shell app into the store, as that would turn your iDevice into a general purpose computer.
It,s not a ,,line,, it,s a general standard I apply to any software I build on.
Schools are still open, the lockdown is pretty useless without schools remaining closed. Kids are asymptomatic carriers and infect their parents back home.

https://imgur.com/d2mLyhY
While every EU member state has the right to veto important laws, there is no way to abolish a law unless all member states agree. So even if 90% of all Germans agree that a EU law should be abolished, they can't overrule tiny countries like Malta or Cyprus. This is a fundamental, undemocratic flaw that most politicians and supreme courts in Europe have yet to realize.
> Software developers can’t build on a foundation that is constantly, capriciously shifting.

This is the conclusion that I came to, as well, as a developer of several open source utilities for Macs.

Apple has fostered an ecosystem that is hostile to developers, but infinitely beneficial and profitable for Apple.

It isn't worth the time investment when the rug can be pulled out from under me if Apple figures that they might benefit even slightly from doing so.
We expect privacy in "unencrypted" phone calls, but seem happy that law enforcement can eavesdrop on 4G when they have to. Not sure how much more privacy people expect. If you explain to people how much privacy they give up just clicking a random facebook questionnaire - they nod and then still do. Privacy and integrity is important but it will never match e.g. "terrorism" or "safety" on the list of important issues I think.
The only downside here is that you have to have a Mac (or some hackintosh, I guess) to do this. Anyone have any idea on the state of the art for running an OSX virtual machine?
Watch it on CSPAN. That's what CSPAN is for, showing complete government events without interruption or editorializing.
I just noticed this project is using a bit of code [1] I put up on GitHub over 4 years ago to create Alfred workflows in Go. I never realized people other than myself were actually using this, wonderful!

[1] https://github.com/pascalw/go-alfred
This would never work, just like anti-piracy:

- People following the rules would be hurt by it

- People not following the rules will continue as-is and not care
It does not exist because there is no public awareness. One of the parties could start looking into it and make noise. But if it won't catch up with the public it won't happen, however without EU at least we have a chance.
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I’m actually not sure about that, as far as I can tell there’s no way for me to build the app without having access to another Apple machine running the full MacOS. I just have an iPad and a Linux desktop, which generally suits me fine.

So, the App Store fiasco sucks, and doubly so for those who are not already entirely inside Apple’s walled garden.
To decry accountability as "public flogging" is not an example of accountability and apology. It's a pretty good example of a non-apology. It reads as evidence that he's really detached from the harm.

You are not the authority on what constitutes "trivial matters". You read as someone extremely privileged, and entitled, who would rather have their own trespasses swept under the rug.

I don't, by the way, give a fuck about the Democratic party. I am not a member. I do not care what their reputation is.
https://github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox

Pretty bulletproof and automated.
This is my last time I’m going to respond, but feel free to reply again and get the last word.

Being stupid and insensitive is when you complain you’re not sure how to spend your bonus to your cash strapped friend. Protesting with Nazis and the kkk to defend a statue of the leader of the confederate army, is a blatant act of white supremacy. I see there’s a fundamental disagreement here, where you think this act is not racist and I do. I don’t think either of us are going to be convinced by the other ones argument.

To add some more color here anyway. These people marching through Charlottesville were also chanting “Jews will not replace us”, again I don’t see how a very fine person hears people around them chanting that, sees people carrying nazi flags, sees members of the kkk and continues to protest with them. This is not stupid and insensitive, this is white supremacy.
That sounds like a bug on Android's part. If you disable something called "location services", then you would expect that the GPS sensor no longer works.
What do we call someone who breaks laws, then? We already have other words to designate serious offenders, like "felon" or "convict". And we have offense-specific terms, like "murderer" or "rapist".

The word "criminal" might connote a gravity that offends your sensibilities, but it's accurate. The disconnect arises because modern man sees himself as mostly above the law: Some offenses aren't offenses because (nearly) everyone commits them. We all (hopefully) learn from a young age that this is preposterous: "If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?"

I think you'll find that honoring the actual meaning of words makes communication easier, not harder.
We have to find these covid deniers wherever they are hiding right?
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The brexit crowd is probably feeling vindicated.
Yes they can, but this makes the barrier to entry much higher.
I see your point. Thanks.
> So, no, it does not help Amiga emulation directly unless someone adds Amiga hardware emulation support to QEMU based on top of this work.

It may also be possible to add virtualized hardware support to the Amiga OS up to version 3.9 (which runs on 68020 and up), by whoever has legal rights to do so.

It may fail to run games or other software that expects access to the Amiga hardware, but if you want to run well-behaved Amiga programs, it should be possible.
I do feel like iOS is moving in this direction.

My photos are in the photos app (and they're not "files"). I can tap share, and send them to WhatsApp / Telegram / Email.

This somewhat unifies the "photo selection and sharing" interface of all applications in one place. It's also good for security since I can deny all these apps access to my library.

Also, on any app when saving an image, it also goes into photos. There's no filesystem, it goes into a dedicated "photos" storage, and I can later find it there to use it for whatever (also, copy-pasting images in modern OS's is fabulous).

It's quite clear that he proposal from the article aligns well with slowly shifting away from a "files" mentality. Honestly, I'd love to see a "Photos" app on Linux that handles all my images files, and stop using the cli / file manager to treat them as files (e.g.: drop one level of abstraction).
Homomorphic encryption could be seen as one method of implementing a zero knowledge proof. Traditionally, zero knowledge proofs are implemented with more statistical methods however.

As an aside, having the verifier choose the desired confidence interval is a rather nice property of interactive zero knowledge proofs.
Flying squirrels need to eat truffles as part of their diet, so maybe the truffles make the squirrels glow pink as part of their reproductive strategy. Since truffles live underground, they can’t reproduce unless some animal digs them up and eats them, so it would make sense to try to confer some sort of social status to the animals that are good at finding them.
This is the reminder to call your MEP and tell them what a bad idea this is!

The few times I've called, they do have people who pick up the phone and listen to you. It's actually quite cool.

Have your story ready, and remember to be polite. (If only because a lot of MEPs really do deserve our respect.)

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home
> Being apolitical is an attitude, not an outcome.

Crux successfully found, thanks! In all the interactions I can remember where this has come up, this has not been made clear to me, because people usually equivocate between attitude and action, or are unclear which of the two they are referring to. Even in the original comment, I think I misunderstood what was being said:

> If one of the main parties running wants to prevent you from marrying the person you love, you can't just be apolitical.

I interpreted this as "you are compelled to act"; apparently in fact it means the much more obviously-correct "you can't avoid having a political opinion".
They don't work for public good. You would have to convince them how encryption could make their businesses more money than the ban.
There is nothing in my statement that is personally insulting to you.
You're focusing on the wrong part. The contention from iSH and many other posters in the thread is about AppStore rules being inconsistent which in turn makes it unsustainable as per the GP.

The comment is that it's clearly sustainable and stable enough to allow persons to make a significant profit from it even which shouldn't be possible without some stability and predictability to the platform.
Why would a "larger nation" such as China agree to such a treaty when they can blow you out of their waters, and you can't blow them out of yours? What's in it for them? It's not in their interest, so a treaty is a non-starter.
They call so you are not prepared and there isn't a ready record. It's probably in the antitrust trainings..
With the UK, I've found (as a foreigner with voting rights previously) that it's best to build your relationship with a seniorish MP, and if that doesn't work, cough up to donate around 8-10k to the parties every year (for much more senior access). You'll pop a few eyeballs in Labour with such a donation, while the Conservatives have their own special interest groups for donors (although these usually end up as mass grilling sessions for the MPs).
There are quite a few things at play here. Let's start by admitting we're not comparing apples to apples. Alcohol is a widely available mostly non-addictive substance that hundreds of millions of people use on any given day without any real side effects aside from whatever the alcohol does. Obviously drunk driving, fatty liver disease, etc., are health problems caused by alcohol.

Heroin (if we're going to keep on this drug in particular) is currently not widely available, however the effects of the drug are far more severe and it is without a doubt more addictive than alcohol. I find it quite strange that you make the statement that: "alcohol disproportionately affects people around alcoholic through various forms of abuse". First, these are rare occurrences given the amount of alcohol sold and used on a daily bases across the planet. Aside from specific genetic mutations, it's not exactly easy to get addicted to alcohol. Casual drinking =/= addiction. Second, you're not considering how heroin affects those around the addict. People who are addicted to heroin will do nearly anything to get a fix. It's a completely different level compared to alcoholism that I've seen. You don't see a lot of functioning heroin users. There's a reason people are talking about the streets of San Francisco being littered with used needles. Why aren't they talking about the streets being littered with bottles of Jack Daniels? It's certainly worth investigating since if you compare alcohol consumption to heroin consumption, heroin is a rounding error (at the moment).

Finally, your statement that the effects of heroin being more localized to the drug user are... frankly, laughable. Do you think people are just sitting around quietly shooting up and then going about their merry day? Maybe taking a nice bike ride to Golden Gate Park or picking their kids up from school?

I honestly do not believe you have had any experience around any actual hard drugs based on what you're writing here. Obviously experience is just one data point, but when you're saying "Alcohol is a hard drug too" when we're talking about actual hard drugs like heroin or cocaine I have a hard time really trying to figure out what to make of your statement here.
> "what's a computer"

Also Apple: "There's an app for that"
For someone currently living in Germany, I'd say that protection against government surveillance is one of the main arguments for encrypted conversations between citizens.
Well, half of the EU has already backed itself into a corner.
Why would you expect that? If you deny an app the location permission, you would expect that the app cannot use GPS, and that is exactly what happens on Android. If you want faster location information in return for sharing "anonymized" location information with Google, you can optionally turn on location services to do so. This is considered a big enough privacy invasion that Android devices with Google services ask the user about it on initial set up.

On iOS, if you want to get your location at all via any app, even an app that keeps the locations it receives on the device, you automatically consent to having your location sent to Apple, and Apple doesn't even tell the user that they're doing this unless they go out of their way to find the privacy policy.
I always point it out to people when I go to IKEA, as they use them, and it makes me chuckle. I wondered about that myself...