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How Disney and Netflix run their streaming services and their strategy for them couldn't be more different. Disney+ was always supposed to be a poison pill for the industry, everyone will try to compete against it and bleed out money perpetually.

Other way to think about it: to Netflix, streaming and content is the product. To Disney (especially with the promotion of Chapek over Mayer), it's just a marketing expense for Disneyland.

However, COVID really threw a wrench in that strategy. So it's going to be interesting to see how they attempt to pivot now that shareholders expect it to be the future of the company, whereas internally its literally a ghost town built by the lowest bid contractor.
An OTA firmware update can change this behavior overnight. Unless it's a physical bounce switch that actually disconnects power mechanically, you are still at the mercy of someone else.
No, I am not a lawyer.

I did some reasearch though, and indeed there seems to be an untried case where, if it is obvious that the owner of the data wants to keep it secret, it isn't okay.
It is in danish so you'll likely need som google translate or somesuch, search for URL hacking: https://projekter.aau.dk/projekter/files/305754822/Speciale_...

But as a rule, it is on par with an email sent to a wrong recipient.
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The justice system just moves slowly. Many people spend upwards of years before going to trial. This is nothing unusual.

They moved pretty quick on Martin Shkreli.
1. The NWS does not post only global mean average temperatures

2. My comment specifically said it would be apolitical for a weather service to report this

3. If the New York times were to have an entire issue with just the global mean temperatures over time, that would clearly be both politically motivated and non-neutral.

There are 3 things that you seem to be confounding: apolitical, politically neutral, and factual. One can select which facts to report with the intention of motivating specific policies. That is neither apolitical nor politically neutral, but is factual.

The NWS was commissioned to observe the weather long before climate change was on anybody's radar, so it's clearly apolitical that it does so. The fact that some significant fraction of one of the two major political parties in the US wishes it to stop should be clear evidence that it is not politically neutral. That's fine! There is no demand in TFA, or any of my comments that any or all government agencies need be politically neutral.
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Haha, they don't, but we owe ourselves that so we should submit with that info.
That's great. now find the other hidden mic disguised as a different component.
(Sorry for the delay but I've been swamped since this conflagration.)

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When they say "It’s not something that Chapek and his team can really fuck up, especially as shareholders and people within the company look to it as a core part of their future," I agree, but I read it differently. In theory, it's not possible to fuck up Disney+: Just take content from the Disney Vault, price it appropriately, and slowly convince families to transition away from their expensive DVD collections to streaming. It's an exploitative and rude business model, but solid and time-tested.

But, that said, the circumstances have shifted following The Mandalorian's success. Now, Disney+ has a new baseline for not failing: It must produce a new Mandaloranian-level hit every season. This suggests that, like Fox's TV programming in the 90s and 2000s, Disney+ will have to invest in many risky experiments in order to continue being worthwhile, even though the bulk of their subscribers only care about the shows currently being milked.
I am a brown man who has been subject to many racist attacks. After 9/11 my elementary school classmates called me a terrorist. My father and I (when I was a young boy) was chased out of a car dealership by a mad salesman yelling strawberry picker at us. Walking through the downtown of my city with my white wife, I have been harassed by people who don't like we are in an interracial marriage.

I still do not believe that racism or incidents of racism, including the ones I described above, are 'objectively' human rights issues. They are clearly quite subjective, since they only really exist in my experience. My religion (which most would also describe as subjective) tells me that these experiences have absolute moral character, but barring my reference to that, I cannot say for sure whether or not such discourse is objectively wrong.

I especially have trouble labeling the discourse as 'objectively' a human rights violation when none of the behavior I described above has come from anyone in any position to have power over my life or my rights.

Honestly, to continue to harp on those individuals that have mistreated me would be incredibly childish.
Denmark.

It is considered on par with an email sent to a wrong recipient. There might be an exception though, but it is untried in the courts, AFAIK.
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This site is lost in fanfiction and manipulated by at least two organized discords. Come to /pol/ like everyone who values their rights.
Because it's really simple to do? It sucks to be sick, and there's a usually free, probably effective means of avoiding it. Plus, if you're around people for whom it's not "just" the flu it helps protect them.
Isn't activitypub, webfinger (and therefore HTTP etc) just that?
Interesting. I wonder if Canadians insist that only Canadians must be hired by the FAANG companies in Canada.
In this case, part of it was because the vaccines are "...using the same general technique," so it's comparing the vaccines more than the viruses.
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> After a very lucrative exit I was looking at options chains and saw that I could make six figures every month, selling monthly expiring options that were far OTM enough to make me feel like I wasn't crazy.

That's the classic picking up pennies in front of a steamroller trade. You'll make $100k a month for a few years and then one day you will lose $10m in a single day.
I think that most common apps nowadays being "free" contributes to this. "How can there be an Apple tax if the app is free?"

Whereas the coffee is something they can buy at other shops, and it's pretty easy to compare.
That's an assumption. Perhaps if we were able to understand the brain's inner workings, we could see that 'the experience of red' is precisely 'these 3 neurons firing ever 0.0112 seconds at an intensity of X while receiving 0.001 micrograms of serotonin' (completely made up, obviously).

Until we start understanding how the brain encodes and 'computes' thought, we can't really claim to know if it is or isn't simply a computer.
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Agreed.

I wonder about the trolley problem that is medical testing requirements.

It seems like we, as a society, would tend to never want to pull the lever to save more at the cost of risking a few. Social and contractual liability makes it a bad trade.

Acceptable risk is very low which can, paradoxically, cause more death and discomfort.

It would be nice to see a greater awareness of the tradeoffs. These things tend to get emotional, though, so not much gets done.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
Not sure why you're being downvoted. We give multi-dose vaccinations all the time.
Then OP sees newsflash on TechCrunch "Amazon Echo Flex v2 is failing in low humidity conditions". Goddamn it, Andrew (at the reliability lab). OP goes home and opens a bottle of Amazon basics wine.
I'd still rather have an inactivated virus vaccine over an mRNA one because the technology has such a long track record.
I appreciate the correction and the source
As far as I understood from the schematic [0], the power line of the mic is directly connected to the LED.

Looks like when you press the mute button, you both light the led up and pull-up the transistor gate (It looks like PNP so, it turns off when you apply power to the gate). This effectively cuts off power from the mic itself.

So, the LED is not controlled by firmware but, by the behavior of the circuit.

AFAIK, OTA updates cannot re-wire PCBs or do we have nanobots now?

[0]: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vVhoXpEtTXo/X_0iLmz9gcI/AAAAAAAAB...
Same here, that is why you see my rants about developers not paying for their tools and only enterprises being valuable customers.

I eventually switched to hard GPL + commercial licenses for anything else.

Incidently this also to blame for the rise of SaaS, people only pay if the software runs in someone's else computer.
To be precise they've implemented their own version of TOTP.
I assume you are referring to the time the CIA co-opted an immunisation programme as part of the hunt for Bin Laden.

I don't think anyone has ever seriously suggested that the CIA has tampered with the vaccines. They merely co-opted the inoculation process in order to gain a biological sample.
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I have come across several situations where professional network engineers have accidentally left a Mikrotik in a dangerously insecure state by misunderstanding the UI. I like Watchguard or Draytek in the small business space. They are a bit more expensive than Mikrotik though
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There'd be no point: a suspicious end user would still need to test/dismantle the doodad connected to the power lines to see that it behaves as expected and doesn't contain anything nefarious. So might as well use a relatively standard electronics design.
> You've already started to add new things, like a TOTP-ish element, to stymie replays. Then the server has to check what it's been fed, having stored neither the original password nor the hash of the password it's been passed.

I don't see how this is any different from Valve "reinventing" SSL by using RSA. This isn't a new concept or roll your own crypto. I just don't want my password to be in plain-text. The only thing the server should get is the hash. If you are using RSA on the password, that means your password is going to be in plaintext on their servers eventually.

> It cannot be allowed to have the hash because the has is now the password. Now you have all the problems of server-side hashing and comparison coupled with extra client-side hoops.

The original password? Ok go ahead and encrypt it (and also hash it). But only do it once and not every login.

> Do you think that perhaps there might be other reasons to consider here? Such as debugging, logging systems, and so on? Perhaps there are design goals beyond blocking direct attacks. On an average day, most of these systems will be more likely to be accessed and used by authorized administrators than by external adversaries

It just seems strange to me that you would have trouble trusting your administrators to accidentally leak logs. What happens if they need to debug or log the app server behind the SSL layer? How likely is it that the dumb SSL termination layer is causing a problem and not the app layer?
Human beings really are disgusting, despicable creatures. The only thing to do is get on our knees and beg God for forgiveness.

I’m not even kidding. As I get older, I am just more and more disgusted by our kind. Any redeeming aspect of a human being is inevitably outweighed by their cowardice, greed, gluttony, ignorance, cruelty.

Get on your knees and beg God for forgiveness. Every human being is wretched just like the class of phony business leaders. You, me, every last one of us.

Edit: to the concerned (thank you):

I’ll live. I have found this realization to be liberating actually. We can and should hope and aspire to better the world around us, but it is ultimately doomed by its inhabitants and the only investment that ultimately makes sense is to recognize our fallen nature and hope that God exists so that someone may forgive us.

And the flip side of this is that there is so much potential for joy and happiness in the world despite our fallen nature. Enjoy what you can find but remember that you will in the end be disappointed by both your fellow man and yourself.
Not to mention software updates to ensure your credentials aren't leaked in plaintext...
Same can be done shareware.
I've had good luck with MikroTik hardware, but I really didn't like their OS and just went with OpenWRT.
Currently I have the ones that passed away during my adulthood that made a big impact in me:

- Aaron Swartz
- Carl Sagan
- Stephen Hawking
- Paul Allen
i’ve come to the conclusion it’s impossible to be unbiased and to pretend it is, is a total farce. the best we can do as readers is read multiple sources from different sides and try to piece together the truth from it. journalists are 99.5 percent hacks, we shouldn’t pretend otherwise

my personal preference would be a world where we just have like reuters and AP sources that try to give purely factual info..(though even they are biased somewhat) and then just substack. we don’t need nyt
You could always suck it up and get a managed switch.
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Which ssh client do you use? Is it free software? And if not, how do you trust it not to steal your keys?
the bbc is pretty biased. there is no totally unbiased source
Perhaps you could disable the button, but I don't think a firmware update can change the red LED on == microphone off behaviour. This is a good compromise IMO, as if the microphone off button stops working then you can deduce that the firmware may have been tampered with.
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Ah, that does sound difficult.
Indeed, this is a great example of a fallacy like survivors bias, where you only hear about a tiny percentage of cases because of x, which makes for a poor representation of the entire population.

The vast majority of our interaction with CEO behaviour is via true crime stories and exceptional rare cases. I see Bill Gates and Steve Jobs as rare cases of an executives playing a huge role in their companies but I could list off countless billion dollar company CEOs people have ever heard of, let alone 99%+ companies are small/medium sized, many companies aren’t even public, countless play a much smaller and far more boring role, etc etc.
> If we perfectly understood the human brain, the sensation of red would be defined as a sequence of neurons that need to be turned on and off at the right time.

A sequence of neurons firing is not equivalent to the sensation of red. It doesn't even tell you anything about the nature of the sensation of colour more broadly, or why the sensation of red looks the way it does and not like, say, the sensation of blue or yellow instead.

All you have is a material correlate -- a merely descriptive physical "law".
> You don't have to let fascists and Nazis on if you don't want to.

Which is exactly what all these companies did. They decided they didn't want them as users or customers.

I'm saying that platforms should not, on general, want Nazis, fascists, terrorists, and conspiracy theorists as users and customers. Giving them a platform helps them organize, recruit, and coordinate to achieve violent ends. Why would anyone want to be a party to that, unless they were okay with their intentions?

> I worry that things might slide from deplatforming the above groups to deplatforming anyone [..]

"Might" slide? We're well past this. It happened to sex workers en masse not too long ago. It happens to NGOs and human rights activists who expose uncomfortable truths. But unlike the terrorists, these folks were not trying to achieve violent ends. I'm much more upset about the negative impacts on these innocent folks versus the insurrectionists.

But let's be clear on one thing -- mass-moderation is not a new concept, and flows directly from private property rights. Freedom of speech does not entitle you to use someone else's audience, servers, and distribution network. Also, the fact that you own the servers also makes you at least partially responsible for the things that happen with them, just like in the physical world. Banning violent insurrectionists from your servers is a way of hindering violence.
How does a firmware update change the hardware on the board?
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I don't know enough about the UK to comment on Brexit.

I am familiar with rural, depressed regions of America, in particular in the Rust Belt (and the South). We need to figure out a way to address the lack of upward mobility, the lack of a social safety net, etc... People want some pretty basic things here. Like healthcare, affordable housing, decent schools, and jobs that pay a living wage. Nothing crazy. These things were the bedrock of the Sanders campaign, both times.

From their perspective (and from mine, too, though today I live in a place where _most_ of these things are being met)... If the Government won't ensure these needs can be met than what purpose does the Government serve?
"high income earners" ah, those salaried folks in the 30% tax slab.
tiny minority, so their votes do not matter.
the tax is deducted before they get paid (TDS),
they cannot afford smart auditors to legally escape taxes,
they face very high expenses: city living, schools, home & car loans, child-care,
and hence most of these people have one or zero children per couple.

and everytime there is a new tax/cess, these are the folks happily sacrificed by every government, every finance minister, irrespective of which party is in power.

the rest of the population:

very poor people (80% of the population). they cannot be taxed.

politicians and business class: they write the rules, so they exempt themselves.

army , govt employees, farmers : they form a large chunk of the voter base, so they are always spared such increased taxes .
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As I understand the teardown article, it is impossible for a firmware update or any malicious SOC code to enable the microphone without also turning the red led off.

Not as good as a physical switch I guess, but better than some implementations of laptop webcam activity lights at least...
I figure this is the case, but with admittedly no stats in front of me I have a suspicion that the skew is worse in the US due a larger population and higher ceiling of the upper class.

Regardless, my skew is apparently more off the mark than I recalled as another poster pointed out.
Thanks for sharing this. What is the solution though?

"Paying salaries competitively" can also be rephrased as: "Raise as much money as you can and keep salaries on an upward trajectory". Optimising for profit is normally a good, healthy thing, but given the cheapness of capital (printing etc) sloshing about, how does one go about and build a profitable and steady company with good talent without getting yanked into this cycle?

All companies want talent, and capital has been freely available for the past 15 years in amounts previously unimaginable. It doesn't seem like there is any way to avoid this treadmill.

*Note, I am perfectly on board with paying competitive salaries, my point is that given the heavy market distortion because of all the VC money, that "competitive salary" isn't actually an accurate descriptor.
IMHO, this is the point, where the line should have been drawn. DNS is an essential Internet service, and responding 123.45.67.8 to "ar15.com?" is in no way an advertisement.

IMHO, GoDaddy crossed the line here, and should be punished. Personally, I am already not using GoDaddy because they are terrible, but now I will actively discourage others from doing so.
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Hacking the semaphores is also plot device in "Count of Monte Cristo" causing the financial ruin of a villain.

I wonder if Dumas was inspired by Blanc brothers.
The product lineup has also gotten pretty scatter-shot. What is Ubiquiti doing selling solar panels?!