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I'm not ex-NSA, current NSA and I have not worked in SIGINT for any country. I cannot demonstrate proof of this.

I do not believe that the Snowden slides show proof of collusion by any of those companies. All the slides do are indicate that data is being collected from those companies and the program is called PRISM.

If for example, there was also a slide that indicated payments were being made in exchange for the data, then that would be an entirely different thing. That would indicate collusion and be more believable.

I am not denying or refusing to accept Snowden's whistleblowing. I think it is highly likely that PRISM exists. What I refute are the speculations that the companies listed are complicit.

I will also add that PRISM and "beam splitting" are a bit too close for coincidence.

Room 641A at 611 Folsom Street, SF is where "beam splitting" was done. That info leaked. The NSA isn't stupid, I doubt they wanted to repeat that sort of discovery - which is why I think it is believable and likely that the companies listed on the slides have no idea what has been done.

[edited to fix grammar and that there was more than one slide leaked]
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I honestly believe this is just a small component, which is a part of the long term strategy of the RIAA and others: a periodical check to test the waters to see where public opinion is at, to be able to guage if they can implement more dramatic and restrictive DRM mechanisms yet [1].

They are either 1) waiting for us to be too exhausted to notice/care/fight back, or 2) seeing whether they have to go further to 'protect content creators' by lobbying for more draconian laws that allow for the use of new DRM strategies. It reminds me of reading about how Corporate personhood was invented to protect freed slaves [2], yet is now used as a way for business owners to avoid personal liability/responsibility. One could even argue that Corporate personhoood is one of the most destructive forces that exists today; causing some of the worst crimes in modern history [3].

It's important we continue to fight back and set a precedent for protecting users over corporations or governments.

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

[2] https://www.history.com/news/14th-amendment-corporate-person...

[3] https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/02/05/corporate-personhood...
Apple VPs who are listening, especially Craig Federighi - here is an early warning for you.

The point is, things like this should never happen in the first place.

They are probably checking how far they can go, before it affects their bottom line.
Do you know of any resources to learn the tricks that the casual game industry has uncovered?
Your assumptions are wrong, because when you run jBridge A B and C are sandboxed. You are essentially running all plugins in its own processes. As I stated in other comments, the performance is improved even with the losses coming from context switching. The effect is I am able to run much more plugins than without jBridge without Ableton having a breakdown and task manager shows better core saturation. I also stated I don't care about latency - I run my projects at 1024 buffer plus plugins introduce their own delays, so sometimes it takes a couple of seconds to hear something after hitting play. That's fine as long as the playback is uninterrupted. I am running very CPU heavy plugins and that bring Ableton to its knees. Other DAWs handle it miles better - especially Reaper. Unfortunately I cannot get used to the workflow in other DAWs so I have to use workarounds.
I am not sure why people keep defending this flawed architecture. It's what makes the Ableton community so toxic, but still better than Bitwigs though - if you dare to comment you dislike something about Bitwig you likely get crucified.
That’s certainly a possibility for GitHub to consider in response to my complaint, but only GitHub is qualified to evaluate the accuracy of that statement, and they’ll only do so if someone reports it. (They can also update the terms of service, if they deem something to be unacceptable but not yet prohibited.)
Even more fascinating, the way I understand it, the mobility data shows that Sweden was able (and also had to) to keep less mobility for months after the neighboring countries returned to their pre-epidemics levels.

I believe Swedes were doing that right, as the neighboring countries for months had much, much less deaths per million.

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToS...

I've also added the U.S. to compare. As it can be seen, until some point in Summer, Sweden was obviously worse than the U.S. But the U.S. persevered, and having much more people, it also shows how strong the spreading was there.

And also to put everything in even broader perspective, measuring in daily deaths per million, there are much worse countries in Europe at this very moment, showing how bad it can be in densely populated regions:

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToS...
They aren't, since they are proprietary software. And taking into account Apple's history, and "proprietary software in a relative position of power", such as the ones we have keeping tabs on our entire lives, chances are quite against users at best.
There is an alternative explanation to the biases people are seeing here, unfortunately, and it would render gender and age confounding variables.

It's known that Valley tech firms of the type studied in this paper have a large left wing contingent amongst employees. We know that being female with a degree correlates quite well with being left wing, as does being young. In contrast being an older white male correlates somewhat with being conservative.

If the actual discrimination here is against "people likely to be conservative" - which is absolutely likely to be happening given what's going on in these firms - then setting quotas for gender and age wouldn't be addressing the underlying problems, only symptoms.
With Android is the same. I have an App Firewall on my Android phone and since then the standard Android gallery app does not work really anymore. A lot of things break, for ex. when I_ like to send a file with Threema, I have to go offline, choose the file and then go online again. Otherwise the file dialoge does freeze. It's just standard these days. Also a lot of things break, if you are just on a network without internet connection. Welcome in 2020.
I bought the business cousin of the XPS 17, the Precision 5750. The screen-to-body ratio is amazing. And the 4k screen is beautiful, the build is attractive, thermals are good and the speakers are nice as well. (From an Apple perspective these are the things that others often get wrong)

It has some design flaws („hybrid power“) but what is really messed up is the QC:
I have ProSupport and already had 4 technicians over and am currently awaiting my third full replacement.

Issues are all over the place: faulty trackpad, extreme coil whine, broken display, etc.
Perfect device for me if they could figure out their QC.
If the next one is bot perfect, I am getting a G14 which is the best performance/watt, performance/notebook volume and one of the best performing notebooks in general.
Honestly Covid-19 was actually quite reassuring for me. There was a few brief blips of panic buying, and a bit of "flee to the countryside", but broadly things kept functioning. People and organisations stepped up and kept things moving.

All those people who fled to the countryside eventually got bored and returned to the city, where things hadn't really changed much.
This is wrong and harmful, or fossil troll.

Whether is a subject to chaos theory.

NOT climate, climate is long term pattern. Climate predictions are not if its going to rain on Thursday at 11 in 2050.

If a go to desert and its raining it doesn't mean that you should start planing your apple orchard there as its clearly not a desert.

Same people who claim:

> We can't even predict weather very well beyond 2 weeks.

Will go to bookies to bet on sports games as the figured out pattern of who will win.
> As someone who has been using Linux for decades, I find the setup and user friendliness of something like Windows far inferior to to Linux. Yes, part of that is due to familiarity. On the other hand, some of it is inherent due to there being fewer restrictions with open source software.

Non-tech people don't want (or don't know how) to "setup". The most user-friendly setup won't ever beat "no setup" (e.g., macOS).

Besides, marketing plays a huge role as well. Ask people to name a few "computer" brands: Apple, Microsoft, Google. No one would name "Linux". So, it's not just that people should be able to buy Linux computers with no setup (Dell is selling them, I think), it's also that these kind of computers should get enough marketing so people know about them.
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He's also getting PCR test results in the next ~20hrs. This might get interesting.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1327126667651932161
Here's a wild idea: don't block executables from running.

Or if you do, only do it for a set of known bad ones, as antivirus products do.

Do not put a cloud service (or anything for that matter) between the users and their ability to run what they want.
Is this a leak? Was it previously publicly known? Will this allow me to watch netflix on my arm linux box like DeCSS allowed me to watch DVD's in early 2000's?
The majority of most business' costs do not primarily scale with electricity usage.
Skia is an awesome C++ library.
1-page intro to WebAssembly
I recently condensed a few Recurse Center blog posts for a writing sample, sharing broadly in case there's interest

https://payments.posthaven.com/intro-to-webassembly
Switzerland, along most western countries due to ratifying the relevant WIPO treaties, has copyright laws broadly similar to the DMCA: https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classified-compilation/19920251/...
It's alive and kicking, but certainly not on "hacker" "news" or SV.

See all the events like CCC and the fediverse.
There is no proof that Apple allows the CCP access to data, however they cannot prevent it: https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/02/24/apple-to-move-chi...

Don't forget that Apple is a multinational megacorp, and is user centric only when it suits them. Consider Tim Cook speaking at the conference used by the Chinese government to promote internet regulation, saying that the vision of the conference is one that Apple shares.
I think this year is filled with stories to tell, in various angles. It's just, they need to change their perspective of what to 'rewind'

So many videos for them to choose from, especially video with human touch and what people did and show it on their platform in this time of pandemic.

Youtube team however, seems to obsessed with videos with most views & likes and glorifying their top creators, and intended to make it cringy as possible...so out of touch.
True, the reasoning falls apart on its own.
The blog posts in full can be found here https://payments.posthaven.com/tag/webassembly

These build on Lin Clark's excellent series https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/02/a-cartoon-intro-to-webasse...

For minimal examples on compiling and running WebAssembly https://github.com/savarin/minimal

To speed up Python with Rust via WebAssembly bridge https://github.com/savarin/bridge
I have free health care through my university here in Finland and my doctor writes me any test I can back up sufficiently. If I want to go the private route, a basic blood panel with minerals and vitamins is somewhere around 100 euros. Not cheap but definitely doable.
MacOS, is usually the answer.
As an "older" coder I get where your hinting at but your view on Zoomers in tech from your high horse seems very narrow and entitled.

I'm sure there are Zoomers out there who can code rings around you(and me).
An open computing device doesn't need to be unusable, and a usable computing device doesn't need to be locked up. There's a lot of space to explore between those extremes.
Gen Z can get real general-purpose computers with a development environment for cheap. The new Raspberry Pi 400 is a modern take on home computers like the C64, but 15 times cheaper. Pi 400 full kit: $100, C64: $595 (1982) / $1576 (inflation adjusted for 2019).

The computers are not just getting cheaper, educative material is easier than ever to find.

Because modern computers are much more complex and do much more than before, you don't do much bare metal programming anymore, but then again, nothing is stopping a kid from buying a microcontroller and playing with it. It cheap and information is plentiful. I would even say that it is easier for Gen Z to play with electronics than it was for millennials.

But that unprecedented availability of computers didn't turn everyone into a nerd. Just because someone has a smartphone doesn't mean he has any interest in computing. When computers were limited and expensive, only those who had some affinity with them had them, now everyone have them, so mechanically, you can't expect the same average level of interest.
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It's not that I want to spied or don't care, it's more that it just doesn't overwhelm the decision to use Apple products. I don't care enough about it for it to affect my choices. And the reason for this is: the alternatives. There are none that are genuinely better. There are trade-offs. Can I use my Adobe suite on Linux? Not really. I'm enamored by the relative purity of Linux but I know it would use up a lot more of time in my short life to do certain things compared to a commercial OS, and my time is my greatest commodity.

Is Windows overall a better choice than mac? No, it's just different. Every Apple product I've owned has outlived products from other companies by an average of 2x, so I'm also saving a bundle in costs over the long term. (I used an iPhone for seven years before I upgraded to the iPhone 10, and my old iPhone still works perfectly but just doesn't support the latest OS).

I think the problem is that motivations widely vary and there is nothing wrong with choosing something that "just works" the vast majority of the time.
This seems like misleading advertisement to me.

They claim to be 30x faster than the Arnold CPU renderer, but of course most people use the GPU renderer, which this tool doesn't support and which is potentially 100x faster.

So they are comparing their main speed claim against an outdated and known slow implementation.

Also, vray (another renderer) ships with a variety of lens shaders and if I recall correctly already decouples main rays and camera focus rays.

What I agree on is that having more realistic lens shaders is great and that they should be fast to calculate. But since doing bokeh in post is good enough for Hollywood movies, I'm not sure if their solution offers a large enough increase in image quality to justify the surely large increase in rendering costs.
I've spent far more of my life trying to getting development environment shit working on a Mac than I ever have getting touch pads working on Ubuntu.

For example, the latest version of Mac OS broke docker - literally today we discovered this.
They wouldn't, IMO. Skia is robust, has a large feature set, has exhaustive automated tests, is well maintained, and portable. Even if this library is "faster" (for its specific use cases), Skia is well optimized and used in lots of performance-sensitive software.
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Not just Apple. The entire world is heading in this direction
It comes with the cost of a comp science student debt and manhours to poured into.

It wouldn't be necessary if people standardized & automated the sharing of workflows and finding of problem solutions.
About your experiment: TCP BBR should behave better, I suspect.
Well they have changed Git, but it has been in a mostly open and upstream way, though they have used their market dominance for force changes inside of the Git project "google style" where by they tell upstream what they are doing and if upstream wants to continue to be "Github compatible" well upstream better adopt it as well....

Also the idea that mono-culture is less of a threat because git is a DVCS ignores all of the data in issues, wiki, network effect, and all of the other non-git things that make up github, none of these are distributed or really portable and for many projects this makes them decidedly not a "mirror service with discoverability"
This often happens when companies make a good product and then let salespeople entirely take over the customer facing culture.
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Almost every western country has ratified the 1996 WIPO Copyright Treaty, which requires laws broadly similar to the DMCA. The DMCA is just the US's implementation of the WIPO treaty.
There's probably a business opportunity in that ;)
Why are you so quick to defend proprietary software against users?

No way to show from proprietary crap that whatever potentially bogus encryption iMessage clients pretend to have isn't bypassed on the server side. And Apple has historically been hostile to user privacy.

Users are the weakest link on the chain. They should be pre-emptively defended. Not the trillionaire companies. They should have the burden to prove - by providing the source and reproducible builds to their paying customers.
That's the opposite of what happens. My own experience has been that women benefit dramatically from a "being a woman" bias that makes them much more likely to be hired - exactly what this study now quantifies - and in addition be basically unfireable even if they have severe skills or attitude problems.

The whole idea that there's a competency bias towards men is false. What's actually being observed is that women are hired even when they aren't competent, to please feminists and diversity advocates, which then by definition would make men "appear" more competent even if they were of only average competency.
I used to be too, until they changed them
That's a very good lectures!

However, there is one thing is regrettable to me in lectures that talks about the micro-architecture of superscalar processors: they never talk about the register bank micro-architecture. The focus is always on the micro-architecture of the compute units.

Knowing that the wire area of a conventional register bank grows by the square of the number of read/write ports, and that superscalar processors require an increasing number of read/write ports, the micro-architecture of the register bank quickly becomes critical with the number of issue.

But there is very little information on the right micro-architectural strategy in this regard.
There is some information on GPU register banks, but very little about modern CPU designs.
Right clicking didn't work. The main menu also didn't offer the option.

You need to open a burger menu in the top right corner. And then the new folder button is purely an icon and it doesn't show a folder.
Exactly. Certain SAAS companies (cough Datadog cough) seem to have very old school sales processes in place. I don't love the larger cloud providers, but at least they lay out their standard prices, supply a price calculator, and I can figure out if I want to use them without hearing someone tell me they'll have to "clear it with their director".
History repeats itself. 10 or 15 years ago the problems I had with Linux were related to Wi-Fi and graphic card drivers. Nowadays these issues are solved, but new ones appear (the ones you mentioned). I'm pretty confident these issues will be solved in the future... but again, new issues will appear and Linux will always be one step behind.
> Isn't DRM... Completely fucking pointless?

> All it does is infringe on our rights to be able to do what we want on our own devices.

No, but this is exactly the point of DRM and the legal protections around circumventing it. It never was about copyright protection. Copyright infringement was already illegal before the DMCA, and the introduction of DRM didn't make a dent in the amount of copyright infringement.

The point of making DRM circumvention illegal is for me to be able to sell you a bunch of bits, but ensure that I don't have any commercial competition in regards to how you use those bits. You can't legally make a device that plays DVDs without the blessing of a cartel known as DVD FLLC. You can't legally make a device that plays music from iTunes without the blessing of Apple. Etc. It's about retaining monopolistic control over media distribution and use, by forbidding certain forms of competition in the market.

Getting a law passed that forbids market competition (in many countries! not just the US) under the guise of being about copyright protection, is one of the greatest cons I've ever heard of, but that is what has happened.
By saying nothing years ago when "diversity" became popular and people started arguing there weren't enough women in computing. I'm as guilty as anyone, in the beginning it all seemed harmless enough. It wasn't, it was based on sexism from day one, and now we see the consequences: proven and massive bias towards women at an institutional level. And good luck trying to fix it.
Or a polite request to github, apparently, which seems to work too.

I don't feel as bad about it here as about youtube-dl. I disagree, mind you -- I'd like github to act as a neutral service provider -- but this one is a place where I can see why githu might hold a different opinion. It's an ideological split like abortion, gun control, or similar, where reasonable people can violently disagree.

The whole "Sensitive Data takedown request" is also a github thing, but this one is a written policy:

https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-...

It has nothing to do with the DMCA.
> It's not your "fault" if you decide to use AWS services and become deeply integrated and they increase their prices by 10% and you can no longer afford their services... It's no one's fault. It's just unfortunate and all you can do is try to work around it, or close the company.

It's your fault if you chose lockin. If you don't want to talk about fault, fine, but then don't go on to talk about fault :)
That also killed support for bitmap fonts, a terrible shame.
In Haskell you can use & (equivalent to OCamls |> operator) to compose the other way around.

edit: s/corresponding/equivalent/g
You always think that if one of these people joins your company it won't matter to you. You won't see them in the halls and they probably won't do "normal" work.

My wife used to work at Dropbox when Guido worked there. Apparently he was quite active on the company-wide mailing lists, even talking about mundane things like the food or parking.

So MSFT employees you may get a chance to chat with Guido!
It's a good point. Apple always had terrible QA. It just wasn't as bad as all the other vendors. The other vendors have possibly surpassed them now so it's more obvious.
Woah, I didn't know that.

For anyone else: https://theculturetrip.com/pacific/australia/articles/why-gr...

So the idea doesn't seem that crazy.
A few tips from living in the Netherlands

1. Find a different huisarts, one that specializes in expats. Check on google maps reviews. I found a great one that will give me referrals whenever I ask.
2. Go to that doctor and tell them you've been tired and want to check nutrition levels.

We found a local huisarts that does walk-ins in the mornings which makes it much easier.

My partner went and said he was having stomach pains and that we recently went vegan, that was enough to get a referral for a blood test.
Nice catch! I used the first regex I could find on SO.
While it might be true that nuclear war will not end the human genome, it could set may communities back to the bronze age in a relatively short amount of time.