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uMatrix was abandoned. Did you mean uBlock Origin?
Chris Krebs Admitted Today at Senate That Some Machines in Wisconsin Were Online
This is on top of the forensic evidence that shows machines with 4 year old windows install and a sqlserver without a password.

A sqlserver without a password connected to the internet? What could go wrong?
The standard is OSHA writing rules that govern workplace safety. What we have now is a bunch of soft "when feasible" and "if possible" recommendations and no rules save for what each state/county give on their own, which are usually also pretty squishy.

Absent a written standard from the government body in charge of these things, it's a free-for-all of liability. So I open my restaurant following local standards and a customer gets COVID and sues me because I used disinfectant X when I should have used Y, or the staff was wearing mask A instead of mask B, or whatever.

I don't think its unreasonable whatsoever to - again, absent the proper rules - ask for protection in this case. Folks like to characterize this as "protecting big corporations" but if you read the proposal it protects school, universities, hospitals, and so forth as well.
This is why I've pretty well decided that Swing on the JVM is the way to go. I have some confidence that a jar I compile today for a Swing app is going to work in ten years.
> Which Scandinavian countries are socialist? The workers don't own the means of production. In general the Scandinavian countries are capitalist with strong safety nets.

That's what we're calling socialism nowadays (e.g. pretty much anything that's not laissez faire capitalism). That mushiness is what leads some people to think they can condemn social democracy with the example of Soviet central planning.
Or you could build actual things in an actual shed? This is the same impulse that drives people to build furniture, boats, and model train layouts. To me, the real physical objects are much more fulfilling.
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Ah, that makes sense, thanks. I’m past my days of the same episodes of The Wiggles over and over (although I still know all the songs), so didn’t think of that aspect.
I read it. It doesn’t show that Apple broke Preview. It says Preview stopped being compatible with PDF’s produced by ABBYY.

Those PDFs could have been buggy all along, and only now be showing up due to improvements in preview.

It’s possible that Apple broke preview, but having seen how poorly maintained ABBYY is, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was producing malformed PDFs that just happened to work on older version of preview.
This is false. Debian provides LTS with a 5-years timespan. [1]

And there is even commercial support for Extended LTS now [2]

Also, it's worth noticing that Debian provides security backports for a significantly larger set of packages and CPU architectures than other distributions.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases

[2] https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Extended
Oil-industry fees and taxes subsidizes many services in TX.
YMMV I guess.

I have a pretty high tolerance for motion sickness in VR. However, if I play something like No Man's Sky for one hour, in the normal locomotion mode, my mouth will start to water, which for me is a prelude to nausea, so I have to stop. That's goes for other games too, even if the blank the peripheral vision(although that helps).

I can play for 10 hours straight (and I have) if I use the teleportation mechanism.

I'll get nauseous in Subnautica.

A few people have tried Beat Saber, they all seem to have been ok.

Planes, cars, spaceships don't bother me. My wife threw the headset away in Elite Dangerous when the ship banked. But I feel perfectly fine. Shouldn't that make me nauseous too? After all, things are moving and the vestibular system is not registering anything.

Maybe that's because we are used to cars? And could it be that the nausea can be "trained" away?
Why anyone treats PDF as anything but a write-once format is beyond me. It's so finicky that I'm not shocked bugs like this happen. The only programs I'd be reasonable sure wouldn't screw it up are Acrobat itself, and pdflatex and friends.

I think we need a multi-image container format. It could be something that's literally a bunch of jpgs/pngs/pick your poison in a tar container, and given a new extension. OSes would open it and present it as a gallery in order. There's no value in a non-ocr'd PDF existing. For OCR'd text that gets more complicated, but it feels like we should be able to come up with a common denominator that doesn't have the legacy of a binary format derived from postscript in the early 90s.
I've been looking for a FOSS desktop agnostic universal file previewer or thumbnail generator for a while now; if anybody has suggestions I'd love to hear them. Ffmpegthumbnailer for video thumbnails or imagemagick for image thumbnails are fine, but what about previews for things like ebooks or PDFs? Something that provides a one-stop-shop for as many common filetypes as possible is what I'm looking for.

My current solution is controlling a floating mpv window to open image, video or audio files as they are selected. This works well for A/V but not so well with other sorts of documents.
Core developers and infrastructure is moving to CentOS Stream. However the software that is running on said infrastructure is all open source.
This is a clickbait, sensationalist headline. “Saving a PDF with Preview in Big Sur can corrupt OCR text added by a third-party program” is more accurate.
Abbott's BinaxNOW At-Home Rapid Test Receives FDA EUA
Of course there are use cases, but _ideally_, most workloads are staged, deployed, and backed up in such a way that it is a documented, reproducible procedure to tear down an instance of a server, rebuild, and redeploy services.

And while it may be cumbersome or cause some downtime or headaches if that isn't the case, I find the very need of doing it once every 1-3 years forces your hand to get your shit together, rather than a once per decade affair of praying you migrated all your scripts manually and that everything will work, as your OS admins threaten your life because audit is threatening theirs.
This feels ill thought through and likely to cause unintended side effects.

There's no strong reason why we don't all get our purchases done my machine, it could be much handier if we said "Alexa buy item X from shop Y with such and such condition" (it needn't be Alexa of course).

What does this do to the MSRP by giving it special status? How is competition affected?

What if people genuinely don't want an item they bought for reasons that aren't initially apparent?

Where does buying by machine stop and start? Is the browser part of a machine?

For me the most compelling concern though is that it conflates a proxy for abuse with an abuse - why not simply target the abuse and let reasonable people who have some unstated reason to buy using a machine carry on unimpeded.

There are also trivially easy ways that companies could reduce abuse. You would allocate people a ticket at random perhaps giving no more than one ticket to each pre-registered payment method and then hold a lottery so only certain ones would proceed - then it's no longer about crazy fast reflexes of a machine it's about chance and all participants get an equal chance without needing to resort to legislation.
Google Finance wasn't a Flash app though. It was just the charts which is a much less daunting situation than what you are describing with a Silverlight conversion of a full app.
I think it’s masks without social distancing makes the mask less effective.

Unfortunately early on it was viewed as masks or social distance, with both competing for the top spot in the prevention hierarchy.

The truth is masks help, but no where near as much as social distancing. I also think this was a misfire of harm reduction vs prevention.

Stay home, and if you have to go out wear a mask was probably the right messaging. Along with masks are not fool proof and you can still get sick, so really minimize interactions.
How? I assume it's mostly using proprietary MacOS APIs, and, ignoring that it doesn't really matter beyond apple being an abusive partner, lawyers are a powerful tool (This software is under the Apple don't take the piss licence)
I prefer Firefox over Chrome for better usability.

An example of glaring UI bug in Chrome: https://webm.red/view/XWtg.webm
Mozilla business model :

1. Ask that the DOJ strips Chrome from Google. You can't make the browser, search, and ad platform. Monopoly power. Google needs to exit Chrome right now.

2. Ask the DOJ to force vendors like Apple to allow other browser engines. They can't lock down all "code execution" on generic computers they sell.

3. Integrate Ad Blocking in Firefox.

4. Collect money from advertisers willing to make non-invasive ads that want to be seen.

Brave's business model, but with much more badass tech.

After revenue comes back, make a mail service.
i mean.... where's the law that says that it's _illegal_?
I'd just like to interject for a moment.

I'm confused why everyone is complaining about the "Rocky" part, which is a nice tribute and sounds pretty decent, when the actual problem is the "Linux" part. It should really be called "Rocky GNU/Linux", or "Rocky GNU+Linux", because the Linux kernel is only one component of a complete GNU-based operating system compatible with the POSIX standard.
I don't understand this. It says I need to begin using a "personal access token" and links here. https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/getti...

The target document says nothing about any kind of tokens.

I'm just a regular guy with some github repos. Am I going to get locked out?
Flutter[0] is also very promising. It's like Qt but simpler and more productive. I've already used it in mobile apps and it's great.

[0] https://medium.com/flutter/announcing-flutter-linux-alpha-wi...
That list is not complete -- US is not the first, and India is not the last in the World. A better picture can be seen in the link in that comment.

I think that list is meant to show that a lot of the rich industrialized countries emit much more per capita than developing countries, and even China (which is usually heavily criticized for high emissions).
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I think the Virtualization Framework mitigates that to some extent. The way Docker was required to run on x86 it needed a Linux VM which I believe the Docker images ran atop. Under the new model, I think they run on bare metal and share memory.

Regardless, for me the cost of adding enough RAM to support Docker is less than the headache and expense of spinning up Docker images in the cloud.
Right, the one that is full of crap proprietary drivers and therefore cannot be upgraded freely to new versions of the kernel.
$750 to Zoom with Santa? How Covid changed the business of playing St. Nick
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I don't want to be _too_ pedantic but the M1 macbooks are significantly cheaper than their Intel counterparts. The 13 inch one is around $1300 USD.

But I do agree with you. Cheaper laptops means a worse experience with almost everything.
Unfortunately the dev kits were lacking virtualization that Docker needs so they've had to do this port in the last month.
> "They are using software unsupported by the vendor and blaming Apple for the outcome."

But by this logic, no software other than those that Apple sells you directly (their own or through the MAS) is "supported software". If Apple makes a change and all of them break rendering it useless of anyone using software not bought from them, would you still be making this same apology?
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I think particular robot side projects, if you can afford it, make use of LIDAR partly because it makes dealing with things much easier than the amount of time invested attempting a vision-based system.

It's been a long time but I remember lidar being common (or at least a divide between rich/poor college clubs) a decade ago in competitions like http://www.igvc.org/
Here is an example thread of many users experiencing resource utilization issues with various root causes:

https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/3499

Some root causes have been addressed. If they are significantly changing the architecture with the Apple Silicon rollout, I'm very much looking forward to see if that improves things!
Also, it is finally a replacement for all the IOUs in the financial system. The financial system is currently IOUs all the way down. Caitlin Long talks about this on a recent Real Vision interview.

"The market structure is fundamentally built on layers of intermediaries and settlement of both securities and payments happen on a delayed net settlement basis. By contrast in crypto, the markets are decentralized, no layers of intermediaries, settlement happens on a real time gross settlement basis..."
So Preview opens a file, which is apparently valid per Preview (Preview handles and displays it correctly). After changes, preview then saves a file that is not valid per Preview (OCR text layer is corrupted).

It is very difficult for me construe a situation in which this would not be considered errata in Preview. Even if ABBYY is writing unusual PDFs, it's popular enough software that this issue will be encountered in the real world multiple times. Having to deal with unusually formed PDFs is just a general trait of writing PDF software. If you consider it a non-issue that your software writes corrupt PDFs when the same situation is handled correctly by Acrobat, no matter how unjust you feel the cruel world to be, you should not be in the PDF business. There's a reason most PDF viewers only present a highly constrained feature set, and it's because writing a capable PDF editor is very difficult. Apple has decided they are up to the challenge, and in this case has failed.

As a general rule, if your software package opens a file fine, then writes a broken version of it, seems to all the world like a bug in your software package.

The idea that this behavior in a PDF reader can be excused because the software that generated the PDF was not approved for the operating system the viewer is running on per the vendor... kind of stretches credulity. I don't usually inquire as the OS used to generate the PDF when I receive one.
This is amazing and honestly it makes me a bit emotional that we have this technology now. It might be seen as a breakthrough on the level of the development of antibiotics, not yet but if the technology can be expanded and adapted, it could.
Im surprised at how much time Ive clocked in this game. I've been playing it with a friend who lives a few hundred miles away, and we just put around for hours while catching up in virtual space. Highly recommend, if you know someone with an Oculus Quest 2 (not you, OP, just anyone reading this.)
> To save a few lives, the majority of whom will be dead before 2030 anyway?

The majority of whom were already older than the average life expectancy. We'll see excess deaths this year, but are going to see a shortfall for the next few after that.
Only minority of cars are responsible for majority of pollution.

A single badly maintained diesel car produces as much pollution as thousands of legal new cars.

Same goes for trucks -- the low in air pollution you felt was likely not due to less cars but less trucks (and possibly busses, depending on where in Europe you live)
VR will become mainstream when you can play Mario Kart in VR.

Forget about photorealism - cartoony, Nintendo Wii style graphics are much more forgivable on VR hardware. Currently, VR is bad considering the cost.
I switched to MATE a long time ago, and never regretted it.
I suppose GIT implementations are mostly transport-agnostic, and specific apps connect them to remote transports. E.g. JGit is widely used and has no notion of SSH keys, but GitBlit can serve a GIT repo over SSH using JGit, and JetBrains IDEs can access GIT repos served over SSH using some kind of pure Java SSH implementation (not sure which); I remember they used to use JGit, too.
Since I have your ear, in hindsight do you think the promotion of IndexedDB over SQLite/WebSQL was a good move?

I think persistent SQLite is on the verge of returning to the browser via WebAssembly but it needs a proper POSIX-like WASI [1] (WebAssembly System Interface) implementation in the browser. If you are looking for (very) small footholds in the market for Brave, a WASI implementation supporting a SQLite VFS [2] extension has my vote.

[1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI

[2] https://www.sqlite.org/vfs.html
I work with a ton of PDF's between my Mac and iPad, and it mostly works but there are still just way too many bugs.

It's a lot of little things, like in Catalina where opening up the sidebar for annotations (comments) seemingly randomized their order. (Big Sur, fortunately, fixed it to be page-order again.)

Or how printing a PDF from a website (in Catalina, also seemingly fixed in Big Sur) would look right on the page... but if you copied and pasted the text from the PDF to somewhere else, something like 10% of the glyphs were scrambled ("lik3 thZs"), like some sort of character table corruption.

Or reading a PDF with Books on my iPad, maybe 10% of the time bookmarking a page... doesn't bookmark it. Or removing a bookmark... doesn't remove it. Or a handful of highlights you just made have inexplicably disappeared the next time you open the file.

Or whenever you open the PDF in Books it remembers which page you were on. Except sometimes it doesn't, so you can't really rely on that for saving your place.

Or in Books, if you select some text to copy but accidentally hit the adjacent "select all" in the pop-up menu, and you're dealing with a 400-page PDF, it just locks up and you have to restart it.

Or in Preview if you want to convert a PDF to black-and-white, there's an option for it but your PDF will balloon in filesize to 10x larger or something.

I mean, I could go on and on. It's weird, because Preview is an incredible app, really. But it really is like they build it and then never bother to test if basic workflows reliably work.
It had great potential, the tools they launched were better than Yahoo Finance, but Google Finance never felt finished to me. There were always big pieces of their toolkit missing. Someone mentioned one of them I'd forgotten about which is a portfolio tracker where you could effectively track your cost basis.
It's unrelated to OCR, but there have been other Preview issues. We ran into an issue a few years ago where saving a PDF with forms in Preview would set some style setting so that in most other readers, the form fields would have no background color and use white text, making them unreadable. They were still perfectly readable in Preview, but had the style issues in Chrome, Firefox, Acrobat (and Reader), and Foxit. We have a project where we programatically fill in PDF forms using PDFtk and one day, our editor just starting spitting out empty PDFs. After troubleshooting, we traced it back to the style changes Preview was making after another dev had accidentally done a CMD+S on the template file and committed the template.

In short: NEVER save a PDF with Preview. You should probably just avoid opening it in Preview period, frankly.
Like...is this an actual question? Of course people are bound by the actions of their predecessors - that's why Americans are still apologizing and making things right to native Americans, that's why things like affirmative action action exists to put things right for how people were treated half a century ago, that's why Germans still apologize and pay reparations for WW2....we can keep on going. Of course you have to take responsibility for the things you've done to the world. Otherwise you've reaped the benefit at the expense of others but hey, it was in the past so it's fine?

>> They can't do anything about it.

Of course they can. If not them, then who?
It would be in line with pregnancy tests. You can do an at home test that gets results in a few minutes, but they always tell you that if you get a positive result you still need to verify it with your doctor and a blood test.

I assume the messaging would be similar.
Researchers Measured the Efficacy of Every Kind of Mask. Here's What They Found
Assuming the License is that restrictive, only those who are financially invested in Preview working well (and only on macOS) will have any incentive to contribute code.

I can't think of any company other than Apple that fit this description.
Oracle Linux might change the rules in the future. It kind of just happened with CentOS :)
In which case the people getting Linux running on an M1 likely aren't working for free. Either way it's not a very good criticism.
This is true, but probably in exactly the opposite sense of what you mean.
> It really isn’t Apple’s fault if someone else is producing bad files that they happened to previously tolerate, especially if that somebody isn’t maintaining their software.

I think it is. Preview used to correctly handle the thing, and now it doesn't. Users cannot be expected to inspect the raw PS code of their PDFs to determine standards compliance. What they can do is assume that something that works yesterday, and appears to work today, is in fact working.

The PDFs didn't change, the application did. It's the application's fault.

If you have compatible behavior that you remove, it's on you to alert the user of the reduced functionality.
It's a valid concept, but the concept is already existing - infect a machine and have it blink a light or emit RF.

I guess it isn't very interesting, for me, compared to passive side channel attacks (interpreting naturally generated RF).

'“this isn’t a complete attack by itself and is therefore uninteresting” seems myopic to me'

I think you are misunderstanding me. I do agree that how attacks are put together and coordinated is interesting. I just don't see much to get excited about for this exploit. So viewing this from a larger perspective... Most of the time if you are attacking air gapped systems for data exfil, the physical site will have security countermeasures, especially for RF. I would be more interested to see an exploit that doesn't use RF (at least not in the known data bands like wifi in this case) to rely data since RF is so scrutinized in the target setting.

So my position isn't that I don't like it because it's not a full attack, it's that I don't like it because the author is basically recycling old ideas and I view this idea, for the intended use (air gapped data exfil), to be lacking when evaluated from a systems thinking perspective. It's like giving someone a knife and telling them to sneak into a secure facility with metal detectors to stab someone. Can it work? Sure, but probably not as well as other options. It isn't very imaginative either.
No this is not correct.

ABBY hasn’t updated their software for Big Sur, i.e. ABBY themselves say it hasn’t been updated yet and is not supported by them on Big Sur.

That’s what unsupported means. It has nothing to do with whether Apple supports it.
> You have to completely close the file and reopen it, only then will you realize that it has been destroyed.