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> How can one app alter the behavior of another?

In Defcon 2, author finds a log with intent:

{act=android.intent.action.VIEW

Android will handle The URI with default app. The malware sends HTTP url, so it will be opened by default browser.
Nice work, really appreciate you went through the trouble of generating multiple types instead of going the interface{} value route as sync.Map does.
It's not a feature for anyone used to standard alt+tab (and ctrl+tab). Often I wish switching between tabs was on first level too.

I don't appreciate the Mac/Gnome way.
Show HN: Gimlet CLI brings conventions to GitOps
Hey folks, the creator here.

Gimlet grew out of my solo consulting practice where I built service platforms based on Kubernetes.

Generally found that I'm keep reimplementing stuff which is annoying, and I also want to do less in CI.. instead my goal is to factor release logic out of CI as much as possible. I find GitOps to be the way to unlock this goal.

Gimlet CLI out there and you can try it.

Right now you can use it to manage your GitOps repo - Gimlet brings a few conventions on the structure - from your laptop or CI. More about the conventions here: https://gimlet.io/gimlet-cli/concepts/

I'm planning to add a server side component too for advanced workflows: a design draft https://github.com/gimlet-io/gimletd/blob/main/docs/design.m... and perhaps a gui.

If you are curious to try it, I would appreciate all the feedback you have. Thanks
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Sorry to burst your bubble, but so far it has been rather clearly demonstrated that de-platforming works for diminishing interest and engagement with some of these more dangerous groups. It raises the bar for alternative systems, makes a casual redirect difficult (c.f. algorithmic push towards some of these groups due to perceived higher engagement/controversy), and generally puts the nutjobs into their own little echo chamber where we can watch them.

Must be a bitter pill to swallow, but you are simply wrong. There are few platforms that cannot be diminished, and the further out these groups are pushed the harder it becomes for them to maintain the interest of a large potential audience. While there is always a signup bump after big events (c.f. the parler and Gab bumps when some of the more egregiously intolerant Trump groups were dumped from reddit and other places) this never lasts and eventually the only group that remains on these sites is the core nucleus of nazi assholes that no one wanted in the first place.
Who cares what twitter is written in? They've gotten rid of their fail whales eons ago, so this seems like a fever dream of an elitist engineer to argue that the biggest issue with Twitter is it's engineering backbone.
So much this. I actually studied a joint course of Engineering and business, which was supposed to be two thirds of the Engineering course, two thirds of the business course. When you put it together the Engineering was still about two thirds of the total, with the business stuff mainly being simple things that took a long time to read. Everyone thought it was unsubstantiated just-so stories (Betamax, five forces, etc), but the point was to know the stories so you could communicate with business people.

If you look at things that are actually hard, nobody keeps you from getting the info. You're just not going to understand that graduate seminar in ergodic theory, though you're welcome to attend.

The reason they keep you from the info is of course you'll see the naked emperor.
The nature of the censorship is inherently political, even if a private organization is doing it. “Political” actions do not require a government edict.
And our university staff and students have to upload numerous files per week in that way and since you claimed they're doing it wrong I'd like to hear your alternative to that.
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Since it’s P2P, I don’t think there’s anything stopping actual Nazis from using the service in practice.

The stuff about values is wishful thinking.

Truly illegal/unsavory content is unlikely to use the service since IP addresses are public.
That's funny, I agree with a lot of the article because I've been experimenting with creating different types of video conferencing.

I created:

https://drinkingclass.com

To host these experiments. For instance, if you want to chat with people around tables organized by pubs in the golden mile (from the movie The World's End), go to:

https://drinkingclass.com/go/goldenmile.cfm

If you want to watch random questions from jeopardy with others:

https://drinkingclass.com/go/jeopardy.cfm

I am looking for creative and interesting uses for video conferencing technologies. Also interested if you find any issues.
That’s actually part of the Federal Arbitration Act; It’s not specific to California. However, California’s labor laws do have some restrictions on arbitration in the workplace.
I think funding and margins are the thing that are actually causal here: when you're swimming in funds, can afford to hire whoever you like to do whatever you like and you don't need to be turning a profit for at least 5 years, the organisation can be run very differently to one in which quarter to quarter cashflow really matters and there are margins to think about.

Funnily enough I work at a software company which is bootstrapped and where cashflow matters, I'd love to run things like a fully funded SV startup but I can't. We just can't afford it.
Yes. If "do everything in their power" includes crippling global resources. Of the US did this to the regular internet, the rest of the world would be pissed.
> Autism was a disorder and now it is a trait. Instead of a disorder with certain obvious/extreme traits.

Taken from wiki regarding the DSM IV definition of ASD in 2000:

> ASD is a subset of the broader autism phenotype (BAP), which describes individuals who may not have ASD but do have autistic-like traits, such as avoiding eye contact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism_spectrum#DSM_IV_(2000)

> Let me define the "The Broader Schizophrenia Phenotype Constellation-Disability Matrix Paradigm" and redefine Schizophrenia as being moody and day-dreaming kind of person. It also stands for creativity and thinking out-of-the-box.

It appears that similar links have been drawn for schizotypals vs schizophrenics vs control:

> Another study found creativity to be greater in schizotypal than in either normal or schizophrenic individuals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity_and_mental_health#S...

> We usually (medically) treat disorders (not cure them) and we certainly neither treat nor cure traits. In that context it makes sense, but one has to see the shift of disorder to trait.

From the article:

> McDonald said she now knows what causes autism but it is not something that could be cured and, honestly, she wouldn’t want to do that.

And this echos the thinking of an autism advocate I know. There's been some evidence of pre-natal biomarkers that predict autism, and they worry that people may, in the future, early terminate - and people like them won't have the chance to exist.
It seems to be down. And Twitter migrated to Scala a while ago (from RoR).
+1 to the answers here. Mine offers QR reading as another selectable mode, in addition to the "Still photo" and "Movie" modes. My previous phone had it integrated in the "Still photo" mode: it would simply detect and read QR codes automatically when pointing the camera towards one.

But, the phone I had before those two, had a Camera app which didn't read QR codes. So maybe it's a matter of expectations now: old Camera apps were just for Camera, while modern ones are now generally expected to be able to read QR codes? (I would, anyway)
Homosexuality was once considered a disorder, and is now very broadly accepted to be a trait. Could you at least entertain the idea that this could parallel with autism?

In anticipation of some pseudoarguments in the vein of, ‘a disorder causes trouble for the individual; homosexuality does not while autism does,’ consider that, until recently, being openly gay was very much a social hinderance. In a better-structured world, we may have significantly more suitable accomodations for autistic people that would alleviate the societal difficulties they currently face.
I'm still not buying it. As you said, the actual changes Trump offered were but a pittance. And, the economy, well, that was actually Obama's economy he inherited and then destroyed with his tax cuts.

I'd gladly take Jeb Bush over Trump. Not that I'd actually vote for either one, but, at least Bush seemed competent.
A lot of users just think that Telegram is E2EE by default. I really don't see why a user would make a conscious choice to activate E2EE on Telegram but not verify the fingerprints on Signal. In both cases a manual step is involved.

As others have pointed out, there's no good reason to have no E2EE by default in 2020.

Signal also protects against a whole lot of passive attacks (e.g. bulk collection), which Telegram doesn't. Any vulnerability in Telegram's servers and all your chat history is made public. I don't know how Signal secures their servers, and I don't have to care.

Security-wise there's no good reason to use Telegram vs Signal.
Only half the truth and a common misunderstanding. Define "visitor statistics". GDPR is about personal information, yes, but the cookie directive is also about tracking features in general. See the current so called "cookie verdict". To break it down: If you just count page impressions, you should be fine. Everything beyond is complicated. (Besides that, it does not matter where you host the data, on-premise or on foreign soil or if you use cookies or any other storing technology.)
If you wanted to do Cloze questions, you can use saveall.ai (a tool that I built) to generate them automatically from fragments of texts. We also plan to work on automatically generating questions from a larger chunk of text, but it is very difficult. Some people have had some success with GPT-3 but it's unreliable
It’s 2021. Handwriting at scale has no business in the world. Printing letters is a legible way of conveying information if it needs to be.

The amount of school time wasted on prescriptive joined up writing for kids who won’t even be adults until the 2030s is distressing.
I actually have it set to not raise even on click; I often want to click just one thing in a window that is behind other windows. Moving a window brings it to front and I bind windows-click-drag to move a window. That lets me raise any window I like.
> I don't know at what point these cross into "utility" territory

I think there's an obvious midpoint missing in the discussion between private and utility, which is monopoly, which do have additional set of laws and checks in place precisely for their strength against the free market.

preemptive "there are plenty alternatives so they are not monopolies" - if turns out these alternatives are acting in concert, it configures a cartel, which can get regulated in all the same ways.

the economical concepts behind these events aren't so alien as the folk around made them to be, their novelty is in their application to intangible assets (views and online services) but most of the issues are the same as they were decades ago and the same concepts apply, to the same conclusions.
> Imploring people to find grace in fault is one thing, but imploring people to find forgiveness for those who would murder them for who they are is another

Perhaps true, but Scott Alexander implored no such thing. I'm sure that he is quite intimately acquainted with the concept of people who would murder him for who he is

> not treating nazis and German Jews as somehow morally equivalent in conflict, even rhetorically

You really, really misunderstood the article
Brilliant summary. Let's not pretend it isn't. Everybody would agree that it was cogent, persuasive and utterly compelling. Good to be know what world outside the US thinks and I like the cherry on top: 'reality is biased against Trump'.
I'm no sure that anyone would use a machine-written code from a specification for a fusion rector, spaceship, or industrial robot software...
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Is that a file picker, or just the file manager?
To me, it was click-baity in the sense that from the title, I expected to get a product roadmap of the library.

I think that if the title actually mentioned the need for funding, it would get more relevant eyeballs.
The idea behind a checkbox is that it’s an affirmative. You are stating that you did read them. And as long as that checkbox was unchecked when you opened the page, that’s enough.

However, your idea of an installer is novel. The problem is that it adds friction to the install process than would turn many users away.
> Whereas in America we fiercely defend the principal of having fundamentally different worldviews.

> Both of those extremes seem to be poor solutions.

I'm not american and thus usually refrain from commenting in US politics threads. From my outside perspective i wonder if that's not an effect of having too few different worldviews in only two tribes. If you have more smaller tribes you just have to learn to live withem because crushing all the others is not an option. Of course that doesn't magically make all problems go away either. But i'm just not convinced yet that having different world views is actually the issue, vs a tribe (or two) becoming too dominant.
No, it's the literal definition of "fascism":

> Fascism (/ˈfæʃɪzəm/) is a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and strong regimentation of society and of the economy which came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe. [0]

This is what Trump wants. This is why he's tried to overturn a democratically held election. This is why he's incited his followers to riot.

You seem to be assuming I'm a Democrat. I am not.

BTW, I love how you've disingenuously implied Harris funded bail for the DC protesters. She did not. It was for the BLM protestors, who, are clearly not fascist, if you look at the definition.

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#Definitions
The way you wrote that makes it sound like you got that from a "non-mainstream" news organization. How do you know it's true?
This whole story points to one obvious yet very conveniently ignored fact about free software and their UIs in particular - implemented is whatever is convenient to be written and whatever the author thought would be okay, and not to the user... because, well, because it comes without any warranty and this is a great excuse to deliver only what oneself (the primary dev) needs and not what the potential users would need.

Occasionally the two (needs) overlap and then great piece of feee software is born...

And because there is no warranty and typically the top devs are also (sorry) somewhat narcissistic - they would seldom enquire end users about the perceived usability of UIs.

Take arbitrary open source appliance targeted at end-users and you can easily argue that it’s somewhat broken from usability pont of view.

Sad but it is what free software is.
Ex-AOSP hacker here. I felt it strongly at the time too that Android didn't need anti-Malware [0] but I don't anymore.

Some 5 years ago, I switched to Firefox Mobile out of annoyance because Chrome refused to block all those popups random websites would show with some prompting an app install.

Google has since made a lot of improvements including tightening up which apps can install other apps (not a blanket permission anymore), running the Potentially Harmful Applications program, narrowing down fingerprinting (still some way to go as evident by TFA). Google is even locking the code up that runs outside of Android in crosvms [1]. I'm positive, things will improve [2] even if slowly because Android, at this point, is the most widely distributed OS and they can't move as fast anymore without hurting developers and users.

Google did implement what they call AppOps (2013) which paved for tremendous amount of user control over app permissions. They removed AppOps citing that it was never meant to be used by end-users but by AOSP and app developers [3].

Fortunately, if Android is rooted, one can use AppOps [4]; but then rooting exposes one to an incredible amount.

Besides, there are LittleSnitch-esque firewalls for both root and non-root devices [5].

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2011/11/mobil...

[1] https://youtu.be/edqJSzsDRxk

[2] https://android-developers.googleblog.com/search/label/Secur...

[3] https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-removes-awesome-but-uni...

[4] https://github.com/MuntashirAkon/AppManager

[5] https://awesomeopensource.com/projects/android/firewall
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“As soon as they hit the fence line, the fight was on,” Sund said. “Violent confrontations from the start. They came with riot helmets, gas masks, shields, pepper spray, fireworks, climbing gear — climbing gear! — explosives, metal pipes, baseball bats. I have never seen anything like it in 30 years of events in Washington.”

Seems like the mob was pretty well armed.
I think it does, let's say TV tech, or space travel. Yes, it's not very well defined, but can make some reasonable assumptions.
it's interesting that feeling about software is so much different.
While this certainly seems to be redefining ASD as other commenters seem to suggest and we can debate if that is a good thing or not, it seems like it would be relatively straightforward to test the validity of this theory (perhaps not easy but straightforward.) Simply look at autism occurrence rates in countries where partner choice is still socially determined such as India/Pakistan/parts of the Arab World(?) etc. and see if there is any correlation between some arbitrarily defined scale of partner choice freedom and ASD rate, after factoring out individual genetics :S.

PS. I haven’t read the actual paper yet so I don’t know if they have already done this.
I don’t even judge her for the 1970 courthouse shooting, but the New York Times is publishing flattering pieces on her even as she continues to support terrorism against Israel.
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Gnome seemed always vary bad to me. Missing a lot of convenient features. I used KDE instead which had all the features I expected plus some more that Windows didn't have yet but totally should have.

I was always wondering why Gnome is so weird and broken. Why does it exist? Who uses it? I found out when I got my hands on first Macbook in my life. While KDE mirrors Windows, Gnome mirrored some version of MacOS. Using MacOS was as horrible for me as using Gnome. A lot of basic features that I took for granted in Windows and KDE were missing or hidden so weirdly that I couldn't find them without googling. And I had to google each time I needed them because placement was so weird that my brain just refused to remember something this stupid. And yet some people used Macs, liked Macs, adjusted their daily routines to work with something that for me was missing basic functionality. And praising it! "Of course! That's how it works! That's what the plunger is for! That's completely intuitive!"

M1 chip might be all the rage but I refuse to touch Mac again till their os gets decent free window manager and file manager as alternative. Same way I'm not touching Gnome.
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they are not going to notice anyway. just look how difficult it was for Uber
And what about these NPM modules is not auditable?
with this prediction, i'm not sure if it's realistic or dystopian )
That seems to me to clash with the concept of an "autism spectrum" that includes both Asperger's and extreme forms where people are nonverbal, self-injure, and are completely unable to function independantly in any kind of society. How could the latter possibly not be a disorder?
I don’t have any evidence, I have conclusions on behavioral patterns.

The Democrats lack physical presence. It’s been an ongoing issue for us for a very long time. We had extreme issues with getting our youth vote out, getting our minority votes out. It literally took a black President to get that demo to show up, and for some reason they stopped showing up right after he was gone (for Hilary). The kids don’t turn out at all for decades now. Many could argue if we didn’t literally send out mail in ballots, the turn out would have been lower. Republicans don’t have this problem, so no, I don’t think a warcry works on the Democrats because we have been very weak on physical presence for decades now.

But in terms of madness, of course, all mobs are susceptible to this. Virtual turn out on the left is disproportionately high. The #metoo and BLM movements are clear examples of this. But again, the physical presence is lacking. The riots last summer were a blip and not coordinated, and led to zero legislation. I’ll concede #metoo inevitably entered into madness territory.

The Republican tea-party people have been practicing for years protesting in DC, and they have their physical turnout covered in almost every election.

If anything, I envy the right-wing’s ability to rally, and do not fear rally-calls on the left because we can barely show up for an election.
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Hi. We are not making money yet so no reports to show -- but I agree a 404 is a terrible way to explain that. Will fix, thanks.
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I said “ If autism is defined as having a slightly different brain structure...” than an average/typical brain structure.

_If_ this is true, and I think autism could cause distinctive traits or disorders that impact quality of life.

Thankfully this is hypothesis is actually testable. If proven true, then autism would logically be able to cause changes in brain operation that are positive as well as negative.

Thus “traits” is a helpful word to include in the discussion.
> Where is the boundary between kicking gays out because you hate them and kicking then out because of potential harm by means of god's wrath?

This is an apt question and there's no solid answer because motives are private. Failure to understand that motives are necessarily private causes otherwise well-laid plans to fail. Imperfectly, we can examine the behavior of the person to determine whether their behavior is consistent with one motive or another. This is not guaranteed to be correct but if done sincerely and charitably can help to catch the more egregious cases.
That's an answer to a question I didn't ask though, because it was obvious.

Is sedition illegal? Should it be? When did the consensus arise, if it did? The historical laws against sedition are not generally presented in a good light, in school, from what I can tell.

I'm not questioning whether the attack on the Capitol was problematic, but why sedition is the go-to term. I feel like there's an echo of the awkward term "collusion" that eventually allowed people to say there was nobody charged with collusion.