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There are several powers in conflict over "control of the EU". Parliament is often a lot more reasonable than the Commission or the Council of Ministers. They may well reject this. But it's also possible that it will have to go through the Court of Justice, which has to restore our human rights more often that it should need to.
Curious, people complain about the monopoly, yet they still purchase from monopoly.
In order to support wiretapping it must not be a truly encrypted channel. It is a back door blanket ban.
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When I moved over from WSL to WSL2, WSL2 was extremely slow. I quickly realized my mistake. On WSL2 IO on the Windows filesystem is actually extremely slow. I moved my projects to the WSL2 filesystem and run my IDE on WSL2 with VcXsrv and I love it.
We could. We won't.

People who cared about this in the UK; our best bet was to stay in the EU which is not nearly so extreme about it as the UK is. The current UK government is looking forwards to jettisoning the protections and human rights that were afforded us by being in the EU.

That said, the current UK government is fantastically inept. Everything they touch turns to shit, and any time BoJo says he absolutely won't do something - he'll crumble in a fortnight (see e.g. every EU negotiation, Lockdown 2.0, the feeding children fiasco, etc etc).

There are current UK ministers whose names have become bywords for incompetency and government fuckup. If the UK decided to ban encryption tomorrow, and the government put their best people on it, we'd be looking at a decade or so before they got anywhere. The EU are heading to a more moderate place, but they will get there faster by virtue of not being British; by not having to do it via the dream team of Johnson, Cummings, and whoever is in charge of screwing up everything they touch this week (Chris Grayling, the man who paid millions to a ferry company that had never owned, chartered, leased or in any other way been involved with a ferry or single ferry route, historically takes this role).
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Yeah: run for office, win, and then effect policy change. But almost no one's willing to actually do that. They just want easy outs like "contacting your MP" or "donating to an org that says they'll try to fix it".
I agree save for the attack on the EU at the start. I'm assuming you're English (or an Irish Unionist), and will point out that the UK has been entirely onboard with the EU's most egregious abuses of power. Hell, some of them were the UK's idea. (EUCD Article 17 comes to mind.) In this particular case the UK already has local laws which establish a legal duty to decrypt data on command of the government. As far as I'm concerned the UK's hands are just as dirty as any other EU member state, and the problems with the EU are not the institution itself but the member states that make it up using it as a policy laundering device.
In GTA 4 (set in the early 2000s or so) you hear that on your car stereo before your phone rings. I always loved that detail.
I love my WH-1000XM3s and was probably responsible for at least 3 of my friends getting pairs... but yes, agreed, the call quality is pretty poor.

Fantastic noise cancelling headphones, though.
It's about your company values. If you put greed above anything else then you won't get business from me. I try to avoid companies who support Apple.
You are able to attach the block devices, but local file systems do not support being mounted on more than one host.

For that you need to use a cluster file system, but that's a different beast.
Yes, the same as surgical theatres and semiconductor labs have positive air pressure. So I'd rather see an objective comparison of:

1. big ass fan on its own.
2. big ass fan with UV gubbins.
3. No fan
4. Someone else's fan
> but they can't arrest and stop the attack based on DIRECT evidence?

Ah but that would require someone to actually do something, that would be too hard. And I guess for some of the "human rights" crowd, some people have all the benefit of the doubt unless they're caught in the act
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That depends very much on the workload. Four hard drives can deliver in aggregate a sequential bandwidth that exceeds any one consumer SATA SSD, or the sustained write bandwidth of most consumer NVMe SSDs. But when people are discussing IOPS, the usual implication is that they're talking about non-sequential access of relatively small block sizes. For those workloads, the difference between consumer SSDs and hard drives are still measured in orders of magnitude.

So, what workloads did you have in mind when you said "generally"?
If you’re geeking out on health data, would you entertain an Apple Watch? It features an O2 sensor which to my knowledge hasn’t been neutered. Do you think it’s a patent issue? I recall Apple modifying the active noise cancellation in the AirPods Pro.
You might be confusing hashed with encrypted.
What will keep being allowed under this? Running your own service? Using a p2p service?
You are of course aware that "having a law that says one more part of the already illegal activity is illegal" is going to do nothing to stop that illegal activity, right? All this does is criminalize the use of e2ee for everyone, which solves the whole "crime" problems for exactly no one. Your kids aren't any safer, but everyone who needs e2ee (journalists, activists, vulnerable/opressed groups) now needs to engage in criminal behaviour. That's the opposite of solving the problem.
If a TV isn't plugged into anything, I suppose it's no longer a TV.
If you're not the subject of the wiretapping, your connection will continue to use E2E, it's not complicated.

Yes, wiretapped connections are not E2E while they're being monitored, obviously
> Because in case you're not aware Amazon isn't some mom and pop store. It has enough clout to negotiate terms with publishers.

Not everywhere, as GP wrote. In France, the price of a book is fixed: it sells the same price whether you’re Amazon or a small bookstore (you’re allowed to offer a 5% reduction max).
GitHub's own gh tool is really useful for things like this, as its builtin api subcommand¹ performs authenticated requests. Using that you can also see private repos and GitHub Enterprise usage is pretty seamless. Just replace HTTPie, with `gh api <endpoint>`.

¹ https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_api
The reviewer that reinstalled the package manager with wget is my favorite part of this whole debacle.

The reviewer could in theory reimplement an os in python or javascript in one of the already approved scripting applications. Then implement apt-get or another package manager and install all sorts of dangerous codes!! /s
> leftist democrat party

There is no such thing in the United States. There are leftist parties (with no actual electoral success at the state or federal level), and there is a major party called the Democratif Party (which is not leftist), but there is nothing that could reasonably, even approximately, be described as a “leftist democrat party”.
China’s Global Lockdown Propaganda Campaign

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/china-covid...

> On July 7, FBI Director Christopher Wray disclosed that the CCP specifically approached local (USA) politicians to endorse its pandemic response
I would really like to know why you quoted the full message you are responding to. What’s your rationale for doing that?
They think it is.
I don't think he's talking about the guy who mugs him.

More like about the guy who mows down a crowd with an automatic weapon, the guy who drives a truck through the center of a Christmas market or the guy who blows up a metro station.

That kind of people.
The kinds of people who call for eliminating international institutions rather than reforming them are generally less interested in the actual problem they cause and more interested in NIMBYing other human beings.
The practice of rigging app store removals as a means of increasing launch-hype is becoming an increasingly utilized marketing technique for apps. The "Hey" e-mail app successfully used this tactic recently. This marketing technique is a form of social engineering and fraud that spurs artificial discourse regarding well-known legal hurdles affecting apps. App developers then re-publish a compliant app that capitalizes on the very marketplace that the app developer and their pool of new users claim some deep-seated issue with. The old switcheroo!
The 3rd party studies are quite unimpressive and lack basic elements of rigor like a control. They don't seem to show anything except that fans mix the air.
The upgrades being provided are for the purpose of maximising the value to you of what you paid for with your money (and nobody else's).

It is not like the company is making ongoing changes that benefit the company's business at your expense.

(This is satire.)

In some cases, life is easier when you decide "I do not have a choice". This allows complaining to be substituted for having to make hard choices and taking responsibility for the consequences.
You don't need a cookie for that though... Even a window variable would suffice
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It's strange that it can get installed through apple testflight for years before reaching the app store only to be removed after two weeks.
The XM3 had a terrible design flaw which made it basically unusable in cold climates. If the XM4 fixed this I would A/B test them with the Bose 700.
Why should it be different other than servers are mostly Linux?
Supervenience
The general idea of “governments should have powers not available to the general population” isn’t one I oppose.

However: the way to get the security you want for your family is not to mess with encryption. Mess with that and everything breaks.

It would genuinely be less bad to require every display to, on command, transmit to the authorities what it is currently showing, to the than to mess with encryption.
I tried both the Sony XM3 and Bose NC 700 and went for the latter. Mostly personal preference for size, weight, fit as ANC and sound quality are pretty even. The Bose though is superior for calls. Never had a problem.
I've always taken it to mean "not acting politically"; possibly I take it this way because I'm a consequentialist.

This is the problem when we use words! To me, "to be political" means "to act politically", and definitely not "to hold political views"; so "to be apolitical" means "to act without regard to politics". Possibly I'm just using a different definition from everyone else.

Oxford English: "not interested or involved in politics". Even that is ambiguous; does it mean "at least one of 'uninterested in politics' or 'uninvolved in politics'", or does it mean "neither interested nor involved in politics"?
Illegal foreign fishing within a country's maritime borders should be deterred by its navy.
Always a terrorist. This is starting to sound like a well known recipe for pushing new laws of this sort.
Being apolitical is an attitude, not an outcome. It is not actually possible to be apolitical in outcome. All your choice of doing or not doing have political impact. That's just the nature of existing with others.

When discussing the attitude, the question is about how much you care. If you are apolitical, you don't care enough about other people's political issues to put any active effort behind or against it. You can pretend to care, like I really care about gay rights, but don't have time to help. That only means you care more about other things, and not enough about gay rights. Someone might challenge your pretentions here, for example, they could say well isn't there anything you can do if you do care? Donate? Make sure you vote for people who support gay rights? Retweet pro gay rights information? Put a sign up on your lawn? Or just tell others in casual conversations why you think gay rights is important, etc.

But if you did any of this, you'd be political, not apolitical. So you'd need to say, actually I don't care about gay rights, and I'm not going to do anything about it. Only then are you truly apolitical to the issue of gay rights. But that choice will have a political impact either for or against gay rights, so while your attitude is apolitical, your inaction still is.

> I perceive this as being one of the areas where there is very strong social pressure to Not Seem Like An Arsehole and so there is no clarification in the downward direction

This is just you being now personally affected by a political matter. As more and more group interactions make you feel like an Arsehole about the topic of being apolitical, you begin to suffer personally. This in turn will motivate you to stop being apolitical on this very issue, and here you are actively commenting about it and trying to influence other's opinion of it. And this is where certain people are saying, you cannot be apolitical if you arn't privileged. As soon as the current politics start to affect you personally in a negative way, your intrinsic motivation to become politically active goes up. Now you're commenting, because it affects you only slightly, if it became a huge problem you might start knocking door to door about it.
Almost everything we buy do own is about status we want for ourselves or show to others.

There are way too many counter-examples to just declare this false.
They can build on it... developers have been building on it for years and making money doing it.

Don't make an app that allows users to run unapproved software. I think that's a pretty clear rule.

If your app makes money (directly or indirectly), pay Apple whatever portion of your revenue that Apple demands. I also think that's a pretty clear rule.

If there's something that should obviously be regulated out of existence, it's allowing them to use terms like "buy", "own", etc. for platforms that you clearly do not control. You are renting the software and the device just comes with it.
Ultimately the problem with any idea like this is that encryption is as basic as mathematics and trying to ban it will only harm everyday people and the dumb criminal.

The criminals that want to stay hidden will continue to do so because you will always find open source projects that provides encryption.
> We shouldn't do business with a country that steals, doesn't play fair, is the embodiment of 1984, and above all, commits genocide.

I do not understand how you can say this about China? [1]

> I think the future posed by Communist China is nightmare fuel and has the potential to eclipse the future we are trying to build

Seriously? [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3LFbOSPfrE
Ah, good. Just what the rest of the world needs. A lecture from an American about being needlessly inflammatory.
Oh, rats. I was just wondering if a-Shell would get hit with this too. I get a lot of mileage out of that app.
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Considering governments have about the same capacity to store data securely as a twelve-year-old, those decryption keys basically open up the door for everyone who is willing to put the effort into retrieving them.

And considering the retrieval would certainly be breaking at least a few laws, the people who are going to pull it off are going to be

- nation states

- APTs

- large criminal organizations

- large corporations (corporate espionage)

So you arguably defeat the entire purpose of having encrypted data streams. Sure, the barrier of going and "stealing the keys" is still there, but given the track record large governments have at not leaking data, it is safe to say there would be little barrier aside from legal ramifications if caught.
It is in the context of Trump supposedly “making it cool to be a racist”. You’re not replacing Trump with a pure and just candidate like Sanders, but rather with another racist (if you believe Trump deserve to be labeled a racist) who’s been on the wrong side of history for the majority of his political career. The only difference is that the mainstream media has abandoned all journalistic integrity in order to protect Biden and attack Trump at all costs. They’re really no better than FoxNews at this point.
But if you disable location services, you cannot get your location at all. This is unlike more privacy-respecting platforms like Android, which let you get your location from the GPS sensor without enabling location services.

Suppose Apple occasionally sent "anonymized" screenshots back up to Apple as part of "screen services." You could say you could disable screen services by not turning on the display, and that is what disabling location services is like on Apple devices.
I don't understand how this was permitted in the first place. Everything about this is against the app store guidelines. Unfortunately I don't see how you can have this be compliant at all.
If I was iSH developer and I wanted to fuck with Apple I would make iSH run in WASM and browser. Good luck banning that desktop shortcut.
Soo, how do you handle this on the client?

If wiretapped, then dummy_encrypt(message) else encrypt(message) ?

Or will they just dummy_encrypt anything and read the stuff that's "wiretapped" at the moment? Because that sounds way more probable.
Brexit was founded on the misunderstanding that it was "faceless unelected bureaucrats" that run the EU. I'd argue Britons wielded more power than most others in the EU, and that the EU parliament is quite a lot more democratic than the British one. The british are now stuck with the UK parliament without adult supervision.
You do know that "think of the kids" is a terrible argument?

And, more importantly, why do you think that your daughter won't want the same freedoms that you had? Or should she be protected from those freedoms?

Don't get me wrong, douchebags exist. Nonetheless, however well intentioned any of this starts off, it opens the road to mass surveillance at a level that was never practical before. And that is just as a big a danger, if not bigger, than any you might see today, and I don't discount extreme religious nuts.
The west has terrorists - "we're different"
Lol, what?
> Even worse, due to the irritation the GTK+3 move caused to developers, many switched to QT4 or QT5, which requires use of C++, so a typical linux distro now has a mix of GTK+2, GTK+3, GTK+4, QT4 and QT5 applications

I mean, even on my Windows and Mac machines I have software using GTK2 (GIMP), GTK3(Zim, Geany), Qt4 (various proprietary software), Qt5 (Strawberry, music player, etc)... plus a ton of other toolkits (Juce, Fltk, TKinter, the various Windows APIs, Cocoa, ...). And unlike linux every app has the DLLs duplicated.

It causes exactly zero problems.
You're not fooling anyone with those green bubbles.
Unfortunately most of the resources that I know of are more geared toward landing a technical interview. Thanks for mentioning those books though -- I'll have to check those out.
Which is a great theory, but if you're a small island being stared down by Red China, are you really going to take her on over fish?
> That is true, but you will be able to vote for a party in power to reverse it. Not possible in case of EU.

Explain this logic to me please.
What makes you think this would help? In the specific recent case of the Vienna shooter, he had been in prison for trying to join ISIS, he had gone to Slovakia to try to buy ammunition for a Kalashnikov AK-47 and the Austrian authorities were warned.

They had all the necessary information to know that guy presented a risk and they didn't act on it. What makes you think that having more information in the form of unencrypted chats would have helped the authorities?

The question on banning encryption always comes back, but so far I haven't seen any cogent argument for why it would really help the police stop crime. And, what would stop criminals from using an illegal chat app that uses encryption? Or from using their own code words? This kind of law will only reduce the rights of the innocent majority while doing very little to stop criminals.
For decades, American businesses and consumers have been happy to let the Chinese government get away with anything so long as our plastic widgets could be made - and bought - for 5 cents less. But the Chinese government is an incredibly malevolent actor by any measure, and the rest of the world needs to rethink its willingness to be complicit in their actions by way of economic cooperation.
Since its creation.
It's common that people become much more concerned about possible threats to physical safety after having children. That strikes me as reasonable, even if it leads someone to take a different side than I would in a freedom/safety question.

With that out of the way, how do you propose stopping criminals from using encrypted chat? You can make it illegal, of course, but making it impossible for someone who doesn't care about laws to install software that's available on the internet and use it to send and receive data over the internet is... difficult.
In the youtube videos on the page, it shows a big microphone mounted next to the passenger's left ear.

My first question is: is this for measuring the sound waves for the purpose of the video, or is it part of their ANC system?

If it is part of their system, how much worse does the system perform with a less well-placed and conspicuous mic?
> When the government later stops applying this force and business can reopen with persecution, will the virus not just continue from where it left off?

This is the strategy New Zealand followed, and now their lives are back to normal. Here's a pic of one of their sports stadiums[1]. Notice how nobody needs to distance or wear masks because they got control over COVID spread.

[1] https://images.indianexpress.com/2020/06/New-Zealand-rugby-1...
Could you please name a party who's against this? The Pirate Party UK recently disbanded. There is no one to vote for and practically starting a party won't achieve much. Seriously, give me a party to vote for to reduce the state of surveillance in the UK.
Persuading masses, that there's some higher good worth pursuing is how all ideologies work (including religion).

For creating a us/them group, any shared/diving trait can be used. It can be tribal, religion, or it can be class (bourgeoisie vs workers), or ahem intersectional.
The XM3 had a terrible design flaw which made it basically unusable in cold climates.

What was the flaw? I've almost decided to buy a pair.
You might make treaties with larger nations who could use various other negotiation methods (or, failing that, navies) to try and reach a global balance.
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Why not reliably?

And why would you compare it to a regular software "vendor" when it produces free open software for 99.9% of the people, and non-free open software for 0.1% which are large corporations?
You're saying X is actually Y based on a different context. I keep asking you why you skip context and only use Y and you have no answer other than to say it's different from X and is the "real" answer. This is, quite literally, redefining the terms to support your bias. Why are you so insistent on saying there is "no real left" in the USA when there clearly is? Who cares about these outdated global definitions? You're disagreeing with the entire country to do what exactly?

I take great care in my discussions to be as objective and concise as possible, while focusing on the actual arguments and asking questions to get to the root of the matter. You clearly haven't read my thousands of comments on this site if you think otherwise. However I find that you constantly use the same "good faith" excuse every time. Why is that? If your position can't be clearly communicated and so easily breaks down under light questioning, then it's a failure of your position.

But since this isn't going anywhere, I'll end it here.