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I've saved a comment I read on reddit that perfectly captures my point of view on this, I want to share because this way of thinking in either-or is what I believe is wrong when playing the card of "but Apple is not altruistic as well" as I'm very aware of that and think many others are:

> Both Apple and Facebook are evil corporations that only care about profits, but Apple’s priorities benefit me and my desire for privacy while Facebook’s absolutely do not. I hope Apple’s new privacy controls are so effective that they put Facebook out of business. Fuck Facebook.
Unironically good advice I got a few years ago was to only ever read the 3-star reviews, because they're the most informative and balanced.
The die shot image comes from the eetimes page they link to.
>first few pixels

The ones I see tend to be triggered by moving the mouse off the page, as if that entirely meant that you were about to leave the page forever.
> Flush Button Push Detected

> Contacting Toilet Cloud Server...

> 503 Service Unavailable

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Yes just like that. Takes between a working day and a few hours depending on the bank policy.

There basically is no fraud. At least i never was involved in a case. European banking is well protected with different tan systems. As well as insuries usually including bank fraud afaik.

Edit:// The only fraud issues i have are with credit cards.
I'm afraid the only thing such one-sided actions will do is to throw them in the arms of Russia and China.
> What's the reason that it can't act like a filesystem image, and keep everything in one file?

SQLite actually provides an example VFS which stores everything in one file, except the one file has to be of fixed size – https://www.sqlite.org/src/doc/trunk/src/test_onefile.c

It is intended as an example of how SQLite can be used on an embedded system which has no filesystem, just a raw disk.

I think someone could create a VFS which stored everything in one file without the fixed size limitation. I think you'd need to have three types of pages in the file – data, journal, and metadata (which marks which pages are of which type, using a bitmap or extent list or whatever). The VFS would present two separate files, data and journal, but actually store them as one file containing these three types of pages. You'd need to think carefully about the ordering of updates to the three page types to ensure atomicity in the case of a crash. A fair amount of work, but doable if someone wanted to. (Maybe even the SQLite developers might do it if they thought it was a good idea, or if someone was willing to pay them to do it.)
I get lot of Junk ads from Facebook. Good riddance
Whilst anything that increases consumers privacy feels good, I wonder if this will increase the amount of advertising on the web. Targeting is being used because it works - if targeting can't be used then amount of advertising will increase to reach the same audience.

Targeted ads do help small business - they let anyone advertise their business cheaply because the ads are getting to those that may be interested. Otherwise you have to advertise so widely only large companies can afford it and we'll be seeing wall to wall coca cola adverts.
I looked briefly at the encoder and it looks like the ad names are truncated on the size 32. Not sure why the threat actor would do that do. I guess they need some size limitation and just picked an arbitrary number
Your laws, which seem right to you, are only right to you because of your cultural values.

So, ideally, companies should follow laws of governments they operate in.

But we have seen over and over through history that companies bring their values and disrupt the local culture.
so much to google embracing the open web
You can always email me (jgc @ cloudflare) with feedback and I will get it to the right people.
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It's quite an assumption they aren't there.
That's fine, I like them that way too! But as a hobbyist, you risk leaving corrosive salts on the board or worse, sloshing them into electromechanical parts like switches, pots, unsealed relays, sounders, etc. Getting to "pristine" is harder than a lot of people think. There's a vicious cycle in production where assemblers will use too much flux, get flagged in an IPC-610 evaluation, try to clean the boards, and then get flagged for high ionic contamination in the next evaluation. You can't see the salts you leave behind from incomplete cleaning.

Beginners should not ever clean flux. Most hobbyists should never need to clean flux. Professionals should have data driving any decision to clean flux.
I'm pretty sure asking for the phone number is standard
Do some handshake to the ISP from the browser or no internet for you. Make walled garden browser use cheaper like Zuckerberg does in Africa.

To be clear I am not advocating this.
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Why concentrate on playing chess when you can concentrate on solving math problems? They are deeper, more fun and also related to the real world. I never liked chess but thinking about random math problems kept me up at night. If you think math problems aren't interesting then you just aren't trying to solve hard enough math problems, there is no end to them.
Several years ago I tried to make a Twitter account. It got banned before I posted anything. I hadn't even subscribed to any users. I was going through the settings, and then \bam\, banned for being a bot, or some such nonsense. Nothing of value was lost.
My understanding is that Red Hat does allow redistribution so long as you do not infringe on its trademarks. Given that no version of the GPL ever granted trademark rights, this is not an additional restriction, so this is fine.
I think suicide is justified if a lifelong dream is unattainable. Specifically if the dream is what makes life worth living for the person with the dream. Basically, I don't necessarily agree with the mentality of others assuming one should be able to just let go of a lifelong dream.
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Well we have access to prepaid/throwaway credit cards that dont need deep verficiation below 10k/year. Most people i know use these for travelling, however booking in Europe or asia usually has a pay in cash option and the cc is only for verfication. And renting cars is kinda unusual if you travel europe or asia.
As someone who is following chess more intensively for over two years now, I wouldn't necessarily say it's just Netflix.

With the pandemic there was a huge influx of new chess players. You can see it in [0], the player count rose over 50% from February to April.

After that chess suddenly got popular on Twitch as well, which I would attribute mostly to GM Hikaru, who played chess together with well known streamers such as xqc. That rise is well visible in June/July [1] in the twitch chess category.

Queen's Gambit was just recently released (end of October). This of course led to chess being even more popular, but I wouldn't attribute all the chess posts to it. I maybe would even go so far and attribute it partly to frequency illusion [2], now that you're watching out more for chess posts I assume.

[0] Games played per month on lichess (open source chess server): https://database.lichess.org/

[1] https://twitchtracker.com/games/743

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
They optimized for battery life by sacrificing some performance. That's basically what they did.

And even then, I have various family members who are still on a 6S, because they feel it's fast enough. A 5 year old phone that still gets the latest OS updates and feels pretty smooth. You can't get the same from a competitor that targets non-technical users. (I am sure that there is some open source Android 11 build that runs on the Nexus 5X.)
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ios layout (autolayout) is like that. I generally prefer it to css, but it's not perfect either.
Speaking of Twitter UI, am I the only one having to hard refresh every other Twitter page to get rid of the “This is not available for you” message?
Would this significantly impact on targeted advertising?
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I think a lot of Android apps use Sqlite as well. But the achilles heel of Sqlite in my experience is network filesystems - it's well known & documented that Sqlite can suffer corruption on NFS, because of issues with locking. That doesn't really matter for iOS & Android apps, where you know storage is local, but it's a serious sticking point for desktop applications, where e.g. NFS home directories are not unusual.
The concern isn't about CO.
SQLite tries to detect when the database is on a network share and changes it's behavior accordingly.
I was wondering the same. Presumably Netflix would only work through the browser, not through the apps available for various platforms.
> Twitter having a broken service worker (saw this a lot on Twitter discussions in last weeks)

Any references/links for that sort of breakage? I'm looking at using service workers for a personal project (mainly of offlining, but partly for background processing). Being throttled in a background tab is fine, but I'd like it to work fully without manual interaction (a refresh) once the tab has focus.
Ethan doesn't know them personally. He's just speculating for comedic effect.

I remember VERY SIMILAR stories that started circulating in the news when Chromebooks started to take off.
Seems like the problem is in the standards process here...
The process of removing a chips encapsulation is called Decapping if you're looking for a search term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapping
No, I as well always use uMatrix's reload with cache bypass to circumvent the block.
Apple is merely allowing users to OPT IN to tracking.

I think opt-out tracking (if opt-out is even offered) with personally identifiable information is probably not even permitted under the GDPR, especially the broad, unnecessary cross-app tracking.

Apple is actually doing app developers a favor by improving compliance with the GDPR.
It's transcoding that is troublesome on the RPi and can be worsened as the resolution/image quality increases; Direct Play(stream) via Plex may alleviate that pain point, but your stream-playing device needs to be able to decode it directly.

My Xbox One S for example can decode most streams with Direct Play using the Plex app (or all using VLC).

Here[0] is a recent update from a Plex Team member about their knowledge of and intention to fix these issues, no timeline though.

[0] https://forums.plex.tv/t/hardware-transcoding-for-raspberry-...
Since most of the players are going to be early beginners, it is a problem.

It's very hard to balance a game to be fun both for most players and for the e-sports players.

Note also that the "average" player, the one that is average in the sense of being randomly picked among the players playing at any specific time, is likely to spend a lot of time in the game, and therefore is also likely to be exceptionally good - for instance the "most played" games have a median gameplay time of only ~30 hours!
The irony is that Brillo (Things original design) was supposed to be Android, but with the frameworks rewritten in C++.

Somehow along the development, managment decided to impose a subset of Java Android frameworks instead, even the drivers for OEMs were only possible in user space Java code in the very first release.

Thus Brillo was killed and reborn as Android Things.

One could say that forcing Java into their possible audience was the mistake.

However sucessful commercial products like microEJ, PTC Perc, Aicas JamaicaVM prove otherwise.

As usual it is the traditional not caring enough from Google.
>HAMMER

No ZFS
Send a few ICBMs to China and get their attention. They need to change, the CPC needs to die, and the Chinese citizens to realize censorship should never be normalized.
> If you render positions into a pixel buffer and normals into another pixel buffer, you can shade the pixels and avoid shading lots of fragments that will be hidden.

Avoiding unnecessary shading is only one small reason to use a G-buffer - you could just do a depth pre-pass for that. The bigger advantage of deferred shading is that it gives you a lot more flexibility with lighting, letting you decouple lighting complexity from screen complexity. This is especially useful with many tiny lights that only affect a small portion of the screen.
Enhance it in other areas? I doubt it. If you go by Barkley's model, ADHD is mainly executive dysfunction and might just as well be called intention deficit disorder. Hyper focus conversely is what is called perseveration and it is actually not a good thing in most cases. If you find an interesting angle that keeps your mind in the zone then that's probably how you could learn chess more deeply (aka if you really like studying chess openings and books from Alekhine, and if you enjoy finding those patterns in your own games for instance). Of course there are ways to improve the situation, break down your tasks into smaller tasks and so on. Or do boring small tasks immediately. Get enough sleep. Exercise. Also I would strongly recommend medication. Meditation seems to help some people as well.
In my experience bots are not that common, but it's very common for the same person to have multiple accounts.
The quality of comments in this thread is atrocious. I wonder what makes so many presumably technically trained people, to make confident claims about topics on which they very clearly have no bloody clue.
How does turning off ID tracking help the users experience? We're still going to be seeing ads, only this time they won't be relevant. How is that a good thing? Am I missing something?
Russia is not a modern enemy. Really. It's bullshit rhetoric parroted by the media and citizens who don't know much about the country. My wife is Russian and while there is a lot of poverty it's a great country.
> you do something right or don’t do it at all

Down that path lies madness. The Boy Scouts rule is to leave the camping ground cleaner than you found it. It doesn’t say the campground has to be spotless.
Hope more company decide to go full cookieless!
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Not sure if this was in jest, but a single not-targeted-against-my-personal-data link in a footer is not what I had in mind.
> the only reason the fees are that high is because Apple owns both the market and the only player

The fact that Google enforces the same fees while allowing competing app stores and varied OEMs access to that market paints a different conclusion than yours.

I agree with the "free market" point but in reality the market is just about as free as the biggest players (with the most capital, whatever that may represent) allow it to be. Sure, consumers have the same power as a whole to sway the market. Unfortunately it's fragmented among billions of people all veering in their own direction, uncoordinated. On the other side the power is concentrated with a few big players who just happen to have more or less the same goals and aim to achieve them almost single-mindedly.

And unfortunately the free market comes at a cost even when it works: a sort of dictatorship of the majority. The free market will want cheaper and will accept the compromise of paying in other ways. You don't get something for nothing and since laws aren't keeping up with this it's up to the tech giants to police themselves. You pay with money and with your data, the ratio is up to each company.

The reason this works to to the user's advantage (read: more money - less data) with Apple is because they saw the business opportunity of this policing. They wanted to compete with Google and Facebook at their own game but had to admit defeat so they realized a much better business model is to position themselves as the antithesis of those and cater to a different market Google and FB cannot target, by design.

There probably are ways in which Apple can open up the store and still retain control on what is allowed or monetize on that but make no mistake, if an app is present on Apple's (spun out?) app store for $1 but free of any shady data collection, and also present on the Apps'R'Us store for $0 but encrusted with data collection modules we all know what most users will pick.
That could be circumvented with a browser extension though.
It's true. Often reviews are split between excited and outraged people. Those who write 'yellow' (as opposed to green or red) reviews on Metacritic are often those who can see nuance, weigh pros and cons.
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Twitter aggressively tries to get phone numbers from new users - providing it is the main way to get unbanned in cases like this.
I think the question was whether dropping the accents make reading a text difficult. Of course that may change words so requires a bit more effort but in general it's not that big a deal.
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I don’t think they will. The unfortunate truth is that iPhones are just so much more expensive that this will not happen.
Yes, but why do we need to depend on Apple to regulate this market? Regulation performed by a company sounds like to worst of two worlds.
You need to clear your service workers for twitter

Edit:

- on chrom(e|ium) based browsers: chrome://serviceworker-internals/

- on firefox: about:debugging and scroll to service workers section
> The only thing that can stop China is China itself.

Why this sentiment is not applied to Russia then? instead of making sanctions, countries can say, only thing that can stop Russia is Russia itself, same should have been applied to war in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam and any other war happened in 20th century.

If you turn deaf to world, world will make you deaf.

I think economy almost survived huge pandemic, this proves taking radical actions is possible, yes it will impact lots of people, but end result could be best for humanity. I know people individually can not boycott Chinese products, because more people, more difficult to come to consensus, there will be excuses anyway. But, western government can come to consensus and decide not to buy anything, literally anything from China, this will hurt really hard everyone (people living in China, in big economies and everyone else). If this action will take place, then history will remember it and anyone who wants to work against human rights will know there will be huge hurting actions.
CSS "visual formatting" was broken since day 1 due to inconsistency. Take for example "height: auto", a key component in vertical (absolute) positioning.

According to section 10.6.4 "Absolutely positioned, non-replaced elements", "height: auto" is the height based on the content except when top and bottom are both auto and it suddenly changes to the the height of the containing/parent element. This breaks vertical alignment based on content.

Also in the same section, if height is auto, then a top or bottom of auto is calculated, unless both are auto and then suddenly top is set to 0 instead of spreading evenly. For that you need to use margins, but they only work if top, height and bottom are all non-auto.

As a result millions of developer hours have been spent on frustrations, fixups and workarounds.
I think Google shares IP range blocks so you could implement a check like "if(isGooglebot(user_agent) && isGooglebotIp(ip_addr))" in your system.

Edit: ah no, they stopped https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/.... I don't think 2 DNS lookups are acceptable to block a GET request but I think it can be done out of band, i.e. isGooglebotIp function can fire away a Redis query and if nothing was found, to put the ip into the DNS verify queue. A few requests later, the bot will now get banned thanks to a new record in Redis.
And I agree with you that it's the right thing to do. But saying it will work better is probably not true.

Except maybe if you include a line like: "were not going to ask you for a 5 star review like others do, but reviews really make it break us and we're trying to be honest. Thanks for the support"
Maybe because not everybody who is good at chess is also good at math. I knew a chess prodigy who could not add two three digit numbers if his life depended on it. It's a bit like catching a ball: when looked at it analytically you are solving a whole bunch of equations in real time, but in practice it is a skill that even a dog can perform with remarkable accuracy. Obviously, chess requires some analytical skills. But it does not necessarily indicate an ability - or a desire - to do maths.
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And if the concept described in the article is valid, how do you differentiate between plain and “time-reversed” version of those waves?

Length compression and other relativistic effects, as I understand relate to those properties measured in time. How does that manifest when we’re talking about a static snapshot?
Open source software has "more" vulnerabilities because more of them get reported. With proprietary software black hats are gathering exploits in a weapons silo ready to be sold on the black market.

For some reason businesses prefer to cover up their vulnerabilities instead of fixing them. When you report a vulnerability as a white hat there is a big risk that the company will use you as a scapegoat and sue you. For a business it is much easier to claim that they "caught a hacker" rather than admit their weakness in public.

Hackerone is basically a "vulnerability blackhole as a service" because researchers are dependent on bounties for their income. Disclosing an ignored vulnerability publicly weeks or months after the hackerone report can lead to getting banned on hackerone and thereby ruin your ability to collect bounties.
If you have a few minutes, would you mind giving some technical overview of what's going on?
Google should create an annual dead product event each year, say on Halloween / Day of the Dead. It would be easier to keep up.

Instead of waiting for the latest product announcement before buying, it will be, wait until November before building on Google so that you know you have at least 11 months of runway with the platform.
Ultimately you can't make people want something and shouldn't get too caught up trying to please their resisting minds. Lay out the information, people who want it will take it.

Judgment and shame shouldn't enter the picture. Your body is a biological machine. Cheating is a misplaced word. You put the materials in there, they get digested and used for storage or energy. It's not some kind of magic or divine thing. Thinking in terms of failure / guilt / success etc. is bad altogether. The mental model becomes [ritual I do] -> [the fatness/fitness gods are pleased or judgy] -> [I get fat or fit]. Instead, you need to think in terms of [put this piece of food from hands to stomach] -> [it gets digested and enters the blood stream, etc] -> [I grow my fat cells] -> [I am fat].
Also, people shoulnd't expect a next-gen game to run well on prev-gen hardware

That's the whole point of consoles. I absolutely expect to be able to buy any game where the box says "PS4" and have it be playable on a "PS4".
Of course - but Apple here are working to make that much harder, to get to a state where harvesting and selling data won't really be an option regardless of if you're paying for it or not.
Would those positions not reverse for described “time-reversed” waves? Or would the simulated time-reversion look like normal wave because, after all, it’s generated normally?