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Isn't DRM... Completely fucking pointless? I can go on The Pirate Bay and find 4K rips of all movies and shows I want. If DRM can't prevent that, what's the point?

All it does is infringe on our rights to be able to do what we want on our own devices. It's crazy.
It's an interview.

I'm not sure if you're having a problem with the interviewer, or the interviewee.
I have tried a bunch other distros before, but nothing really stuck until I started using Solus a couple of years ago.

No major issues at all, a few packages that I haven't been able to get in the official package manager, but nothing I haven't been able to work around or find somewhere else.
I'm curious about sources for your claim of Python being 100-1000x slower than Go or Java. While the lower bound of the cited range is realistic (but only for certain problems), the majority of the range is highly unlikely. According to my sources, the difference is not that dramatic: depending on a specific type of a problem, it ranges from 1.5x to 100x. For applications using relevant Web frameworks, the composite difference is just 4-5x.

As for scientific computing domain, I would start a new project in Julia rather than Python.
Yes, this is true and worth mentioning in some cases, as some commenters have noted. Although as far as my knowledge goes, almost all cases of issues are where the patient is taking either an absurd amount (>10x what they should be), or has some other very unusual/absurd health issue. We can only provide disclaimers for so much, but for the sake of completeness, this is worth mentioning and indeed correct.
Yes, OCSP is unencrypted (and uses HTTP). OCSP requests only include the certificate's serial number, however, and (AFAIK) Apple does not publish a directory of all issued certificates.

WRT the web PKI, though, yes, the serial number can be looked up in CT logs. Although that same "basic packet capture" will give you the hostname of the server -- at least until encrypted SNI is used everywhere.

(As for why OCSP is unencrypted, chicken and egg... rsponses are signed, however.)
I find Linux issues easier to debug than windows or Mac issues, but that’s as a technical user. It would be frustrating as a newbie. I hear elementary is good for new users
It’s crazy, the people who wrote the constitution overturned a constitution that was only about a decade old. They certainly weren’t hung up on what Henry VIII had intended 250 years earlier.
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No, from the repo mirror[0]:

> Widevine's least secure security level, L3, as used in most browsers and PCs, is implemented 100% in software (i.e no hardware TEEs), thereby making it reversible and bypassable.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25078497
He is in some ways part of the Qanon crowd. If you have the courage to dive into 8kun and other Qanon-related forums, a common refrain you'll discover is that Fauci must be replaced with Dr. Shiva. He's sort of their prophet as it turns out.
Indeed. Thus, to say the article's protagonist is in captivity is clearly a subjective judgement and not a fact.
defaulting to installing and finding packages locally would be a big win for me.
My sister got leukemia while part way through her doctorate. After it went into remission, she was unable to recall new information long enough to read papers and had to put her studies on hold. Eventually a doctor did a blood test that included vitamin d levels, and she was in the single digits (don't remember units but it was supposed to be at least 20). She started supplementing and graduated this spring. Just one data point, but it was pretty clear that remedying a deficiency made a marked improvement in her case.
Cool, will setup this at weekend.

I still heavily use Spotify. Yet I hate knowing some tracks are not playable (permission/copyright issue perhaps?).

Time to re-organize my MP3 collection, then.
I believe you must have been using Windows 7 without updates for the decade, because with windows 10 every[1] update[2] borks the system so much that Microsoft had to pull updates. And last but not the least, a big guide to fix problems caused by a forced, mandatory windows update[3]

[1] https://www.techradar.com/in/news/microsoft-kills-off-window...

[2] https://www.techradar.com/news/dont-install-this-windows-10-...

[3] https://www.techradar.com/in/how-to/windows-10-may-2020-upda...

Meanwhile on Linux, I cannot upgrade to the new kernel that contains a lot of support and fixes for my new shiny AMD Ryzen chip because it completely breaks the Nvidia driver, refusing even to boot.

Apple may suck, but it still sucks less than the alternatives
Which is essentially the hyperloop idea, no? Electric cars on skids in tunnels.
Do we not have a social safety net? What were the $600/week checks? Did we stop paying for Medicaid or ACA? Did Trump cancel SNAP?
Is unfocused light in real life actually probabilistic?
> That will be Windows.

The only operating system left that you still have to pay for and get third-party ads anyway, with ""telemetry"" you cannot permanently disable and an inconsistent Escheresque nightmare of a UI.
They deployed a mystery closed-source software update right before the election. No matter which way you slice this, it's sheer incompetence and smells fishy (even if it isn't fraud).

If you want to project security, you don't do this kind of thing. It's insane. It's like the plot of a Hollywood movie.
Their crawler is whitelisted by all the websites.
I'm guessing that the people who have this cracked keep it a secret so only their inner group has the method which lets them leak all of the new content and Google has no idea which key or process has been cracked.
That may be true, but it's the problem that a lot of us actually have. First and foremost, I want to get money from my customer to me, reliably and in full compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.

On that score, using a direct payment scheme, such as Direct Debit here in the UK, beats charging cards using a service like Stripe on every important point. Lower fees. Much lower involuntary churn due to charge failures. Outside the scope of SCA and all the complexity that introduces. Even for international payments using similar direct payment schemes in other places that have them, if we compare GoCardless for those with Stripe for charging cards, the currency conversion is much cheaper via GoCardless as well because they now work with Transferwise.

It's 2020. Unreliable, overcomplicated, fundamentally insecure, expensive methods to collect some money from a customer and give it to a merchant should have gone extinct a long time ago.
Whichever one your device has. Its a technology that google licenses out. If you are making a device that has a secure enclave you can apply for a license for level 1 widevine.

If indeed level 1 has been breached, presumably it happened via one of those weaker secure enclaves.
I would have agreed with you had I not witnessed the passing and renewal of the patriot act. Back then I was in favor of it, too.

I think it’s naive to think contact tracing will ever be rolled back. I fear it will be a new permanent surveillance tool.

I would rather keep my personal liberty.
Use google scholar for academic search... Wikipedia comes up most of the time for me
This service name makes me viscerally angry.
I link this[1] every time I see it mentioned, because the standard depiction of it bears no resemblance to what's in their paper.

[1]: https://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/07/07/what-the-dunning-...
I wonder how working at Microsoft will turn out different than working at Google did?
In the UK, installation, bases and navies are very close to or embedded in cities. PJHQ is Northwest London. The Royal Navy is based near large cities on the South Coast and Scotland. Thermonuclear attacks on these bases would affect millions of people.
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> I don't understand how you can say the Election was the "most secure" when you literally have a Court in Pennsylvania throw out 10,000 ballots!

Because that wasn't an election security issue, and it wasn't (at least you source does not say it was) 10,000 ballots. “It is unclear how many ballots will be affected by the ruling, but [...] Philadelphia County, the largest county in the state, only flagged 2,100 ballots that had identification issues.” And this wasn't affecting all the ballots flagged with ID issues, only those that were cured after the original deadline and before the challenged extended deadline.

> If the system was so "secure" it shouldn't have even gone to the Courts in the first place and instead the electoral system should have found out the discrepancies on its own!

It...did detect them on its own. The Court case is about the legal authority for the administrative mitigation.
Worth noting that it's a promo price only for the first 1000 purchased
I'm curious if there's any big businesses using these platforms or do they all use in-house solutions? For example, if nvidia used one of these platforms for their 3000s launch store, would they have better or worse performance. Can these ecommerce platforms support _really_ high traffic volumes at their highest price tier?
Isn’t the point to generate license revenue for the DRM IP holders?
One of the main reasons it is taking so long is the volume of mail-in ballots is extremely high compared to prior elections. And on top of that, in several states, Republicans were adamant that vote tabulation not begin early to deal with this volume, with the entirely foreseeable result that counting took far longer than necessary.
If it would hard or impossible to produce evidence of tampering, it’s easy for that statement to be true.
> I suspect quite a few of the amendments in the 60s/70s would have a tremendously uphill battle if on the table in today's political climate.

Which ones?
Yes movie DRM does seem completely pointless. Game DRM on the other hand does seem to hold up for the first few months which is where most of the sales happen. It would be nice if devs dropped the DRM once it is cracked though.
Because it doesn't have to be 100% effective to do its job. If your choices are to fork over $20 for a copy, pay $10/month for a streaming service, or pirate it from a shady site, most people would go with the first two options. The main goal is stopping casual piracy, aka. asking your friend to make you a copy.
I am writing this post on a Moto G3 play running e/os.

The user interface is simplistic and kinda reminds me of iOS. I don't miss Google apps at all.
Top cyber official expects firing: White House frustrations over elections
A laptop and USB drive used to program voting machines were stolen right before the election according to the Associated Press. [1]

The company who claims they cannot be used to manipulate machines has a laundry list of serious security lapses and incompetence. [2] Including remote-access to voting machines?!?! uncovered by the New York Times in 2018. [3]

[1] https://apnews.com/article/voting-machines-voting-custodio-e...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_Systems_%26_Software#...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/magazine/the-myth-of-the-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Ayyadurai#%22EMAIL%22_in...

He also claims to have invented email — after it was invented.
Too much Vitamin D without sufficient Vitamin K can lead to high levels of serum calcium that are not absorbed into the bones. One function of Vitamin K is to shuttle calcium into the bones. You can often purchase combined Vitamin D and Vitamin K supplements to avoid those issues.
> Do we not have a social safety net?

No.

> What were the $600/week checks?

Temporary.

> Did we stop paying for Medicaid or ACA?

Yes and even with them healthcare is inaccessible.

> Did Trump cancel SNAP?

Proposed double-digit % cuts every year.

America is in moral and economic decline. If you don't have kids, enjoy the harvest while the fields go fallow. If you do have kids, get the hell out.
Fedora is the new Ubuntu
How would you compare ADOM to other rougelikes? (Nethack, DCSS, Angbad, etc.)
Vitamin D2 + D3 per 100g portion of mushrooms, according to this website from the USDA Agricultural Research Service (https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/)

- Mushrooms, raw: 0.2 µg (7 IU)

- Mushrooms, Chanterelle, raw: 5.3 µg (212 IU)

- Mushrooms, enoki, raw: 0.7 µg (29 IU)

- Mushrooms, maitake, raw: 28.1 µg (1123 IU)

- Mushrooms, morel, raw: 5.1 µg (206 IU)

- Mushrooms, oyster, raw: 0.7 µg (5 IU)

- Mushrooms, portabella, raw: 0.3 µg (10 IU)

- Mushrooms, shiitake, raw: 0.4 µg (18 IU)

- Mushrooms, white, raw: 0.2 µg (7 IU)

As you can see, there are many types of mushrooms and most of them do not have much vitamin D. Some do, but unless you are a mushroom nerd you are getting the wrong kind.

Young adult daily recommended dose = 1000 IU
The full title is "Top cyber official expecting to be fired as White House frustrations hit agency protecting elections"

I had to shorten it to meet HN guidelines
I thought all light transfer was probabilistic. (You should read Feynman's QED for more)
Hmm. Good point.

I suppose if you have the entire decoding process in a secure enclave you could also make it watermark the resulting file with which key was used to decrypt.
> claiming men are the one injured by sexism

Weird that it can be only one or other that's injured and not both. Which is what both parents are referring to. GP even points to the asymmetry of the injuries done to various groups, but the point remains that every conceivable group is harmed by sexism in a variety of ways.
Not at all. Docker on a raspberry pi is a massive pain in the ass. Half the images are not compiled for ARM.
Making a tiny 0 cost CSS-in-JS solution for React components and apps
For anyone looking to test their GeoIP implementation, we have a tool here: https://www.geoscreenshot.com
> verifiable ballots (including online verification)

Is this at odds with secret ballots?
Still too expensive and too wimpy looking. Make it look like a death machine with razor bladed spinning rotors ready for civil war. And burgers would buy.
Exactly. I'd use a different term than captive in this case. The situation isn't as extreme as for a cult member.
> Big Sur delivers a spacious new design

Spacious... Please, no.

> that makes navigation easier

Typically this looks like as if the OS has been made for to be used with a touchscreen, God how much I hate that. Why does my desktop OS look like it has been made for a tablet?! Heh, not really though, I do not use Windows, nor will I use macOS Big Sur, but honestly, this is just kind of a shitty direction from their part, IMO.
> This simply isn't true, 2 of the 3 cases I know the dad got 80/20, primarily because he had a more stable situation, such as a full time job as a nurse, and/or owning a house.

I like my refutations with sources.
Not only are they closed source, but insanely sometimes they have REMOTE ACCESS enabled. [1]

The companies involved can only be described as utterly incompetent in security. [2]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/magazine/the-myth-of-the-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_Systems_%26_Software#...
Does any company offer a competitive voting machine with open source software?
Out of curiosity, does TripAdvisor provide its own mechanism for hosts to dispute misrepresentations in reviews?

If so, would its investigation hold a candle to what takes place in a conventional legal proceeding?
I agree with the general idea that women in the US are often expected to do lots of unpaid, under-appreciated work at home and beyond, but her framing of it as a problem with the US, capitalism, and white supremacy is pretty ridiculous.

Anyone who has been to several less capitalistic countries, or non-white countries, or just beyond the US in general can tell you that women still do a lot more work at home in most countries -- and in fact I'm hard pressed to think of non-white country that does a better job than several capitalist, predominantly white, western countries in allowing women the cultural freedom to do what they like with their lives.

I think it's gotten to the point that people in the social sciences just throw out these terms about any topic. But they shouldn't, because this is a real issue that she's undermining by stretching the argument so thin to try and make it about white supremacy.
This particular issue is easy to work around for technical users; the _problem_ is the philosophy that made it possible.

This is the reason I can no longer use Apple computers - the continuous battle they are waging against the users freedom on all fronts - the anxiety of what they will do next to _my_ computer is too much.
Mail-in ballots are secret ballots. The way they work is that they have two envelopes: you put your ballot in the inner envelope, which has no indication of who is casting the ballot. All of that information is on the outer envelope. When processing the ballot, the information is checked on the outer envelope; once verified, the inner envelope is then handed to another station to be opened and fed into the counting machine while the outer envelope is discarded.
do you have a source for this? i don't doubt it's true, i am compiling evidence for claims like this
Ok, now I really wanna see a photo.
> A certificate revocation request signed by the private key is proof of private key compromise.

There's no such thing in this case. In the blog post, I quoted from Apple's Certification Practice Statement: "The Subscriber may initiate a revocation request by sending an email to productsecurity@apple.com. The request for revocation will then be evaluated by Apple."

Everyone wants to make an analogy between Developer ID code signing certificates and web server certificates, but the usage of the two kinds of certs is completely different.
The Machine Learning behind hum to search
A proposed budget cut doesn't really matter when congress chooses to ignore it
Vitamin D taken via pill is not the same an that manufactured by sunlight. The pill form has side effects like causing too much absorption of calcium in the intestines, which leads to other problems. This is something that doesn't happen from sunlight.
> Was there a reason CISA needed to release a statement? I haven't seen anything controversial in the news.

You haven’t been paying attention, then. Trump has been screaming fraud for days. This statement is a direct response to a completely baseless, evidence-free claim he made earlier today that 2.7 million votes for him were destroyed.
"Risk compensation", to use your term, is a perfectly rational way to deal with these issues!
I don't know the full situation, but your "over communication" is something I expect my senior engineers to do. If it is as you say, it could be your manager expecting you 1) read his mind or 2) just do what he says. If he seems like a reasonable guy, I'd try to talk to him so both of you can understand each other better. You need to understand what they want in order to build it.

Especially if he's non technical, I don't know how much he's in a position to judge your work. How would he know what's over complicated or not? I do think bad deployments and wide estimates are fair criticisms though. Do you think your work is over engineered?

What type of work are you doing? I run full stack web engineers. Typically, I'll see over complicated data models from newer grads who try to third normal form everything or engineers who want to rewrite functionality our framework gives us. Some engineers think the problems are super complicated and make the solution match. Some engineers just overlook a different way of doing a thing and back themselves into a very complicated corner.

I don't know if there's a book that can give you the answer either. It's really a problem solving challenge where you need to find the solution with the least amount of steps possible while optimizing for your requirements. Without a team behind you, it's tough to change your perspective (assuming it's an issue at all). I'll have my engineer diagram the system then ask what we can remove, then we go over things together. Maybe finding similar open source projects could show you other solutions?

Agile as a solo developer is more of a expectation tool in that your manager will be able to see what % of work is done and what's holding you up. Agile could be a Trello board you share with your manager or just an excel sheet where you list out the requirements (and the sub-chunks) and the status of each. The important part is breaking out the work into manageable chunks.
I think there's a few ways of looking at this, and none of them are particularly compelling for your broader point.

First, you're (I believe) misquoting the length-of-stay in non-hospice LTC facilities as life expectancy. There's a few reasons that's wrong and a significant underestimate. Most LTC patients leave and live a few years beyond the end of their stay in other facilities (hospice, or more intense care facilities). Additionally, some patients leave because they're healthy (I assume you go to a care facility because you have a broken hip, or something, but leave once you're healed). These patients have, as a group, significantly shorter stays, so the median stay length among terminal inhabitants is actually longer.

But let's assume you're correct. In fact let's go further and say that those people's lives are irrelevant, or unavoidable losses, because they were going to die soon anyway. In fact, let's assume the same for everyone over the age of 75 (who I presume make up the vast majority of the LTC deaths as well). They were close to death anyway, and Covid just got them there a little faster.

We're still left with more than 93000 deaths and counting. Deaths that can't be blamed on long term care facilities, or even age. Deaths in people who might have lived for 30+ more years in many cases.

Certainly nursing homes and the very elderly may deserve special and additional protections, but claiming that because old, frail, and colocated people are highly impacted that we could relax is a disservice to all of the not-old, not-frail, and not-colocated people who still may need protection.

And I think you're vastly exaggerating the impact, both on the economy, and on the way of life, that a well managed set of guidelines have. Mask mandates + closure of certain non-essential businesses + restrictions on others means that relatively few things shut down. Certainly some do, your mall and movie theater may have trouble, but grocery stores and restaraunts can and are surviving and adapting (and imo the changes to enable urban outdoor dining that are happening in SF, Chicago, and other cities aren't a change that should be repaired, they should be embraced).
Correct. Perhaps even more important than vitamin D is nitric oxide. The summarised advice is to avoid the sun when it is high in the sky (noon-ish), get some sun in the mornings/evenings, and supplement vitamin D. This ensures good levels of vitamin D and nitric oxide while reducing skin cancer risk.

Details here: https://youtu.be/Kvh4D_osFXs
Many threads, SIMD, cache hierarchies, and calculations often being "free" due to general memory pressure means the classic version of any algorithm is pretty much guaranteed to be bad at it's job while a seemingly worse algorithm might actually perform better. You likely won't learn any of that from your algorithms book.

If you tried to implement those algorithms on my team without a very good reason, there would definitely be some serious conversations that followed.

In any case, vomiting algorithms on command doesn't seem to correlate strongly to programming ability. Almost all programming problems have a lot more to do with handling much higher-level complexity issues. The knowledge and art of knowing how to poke some undocumented third-party API to implement our system is much more practical. Knowing how to think at a high level is much more practical. Leave algorithm questions for research positions in that area.
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I remember cheap chinese hdmi splitters used to inadvertently strip hdcp; is that still current?