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On the topic of nuclear secrecy breaches, there was this recent case. It would aid someone trying to steal a weapon, which would help a lot in creating one, I imagine, though hard to pull off and probably impossible to do so in secret: US Soldiers Expose Nuclear Weapons Secrets Via Flashcard Apps

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2021/05/28/us-soldiers-expos...
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Visual Studio is a copy of Delphi from the 90's.
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> PayPal denied that the shutdown was related to the concerns about Tor, claiming only that “the situation has been determined appropriately” and refusing to offer a specific explanation.

I feel like everyone is ignoring this part. Paypal says it isn't about Tor. Are they believable?
This is why I don't use Twitter.
Your comment makes it sound like stock markets were manipulated by hacking the companies that issued the stock. In one of your stories brokerage accounts were compromised and used to pump penny stocks. In the other someone hacked a few companies that distributed press releases to get early access to them and traded on the information. Stocks weren't even manipulated in that case, they simply placed trades based on how they thought the market would react to the news. That was a targeted attempt to get information, not a destructive attack on the entire company network.
Agree. I do all that I can to avoid using them.
I'll translate "no cap fire" for everyone:

- "no cap" = not lying

- "fire" = cool

- "no cap fire" = definitely cool
The news page linked to in the home page features at least one article for each Month this year: https://www.blender.org/news/ .

A lot of communication is also made through Blender's youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/BlenderFoundation/videos .
Remember that Google is not showing the results the same way to everyone. Maybe others near me are more likely to click on the SO response so I get that one ranked higher, and less likely to click on the reference documentation, so I get targeted the same way.

Maybe if I let Google learn my patterns instead of disabling all the tracking I can, it'd give me better results.

FWIW, I get similar results with DDG, but Google wins hands-down on non-English searches.
Implementing a Better views::split
Everything other than a self signed certificate has technical checks requiring that the person requesting issuance of the domain actually has control over the domain via dns or http challenges. Without those you (or your ISP or government) could self-issue accounts.google.com (or api.stripe.com or bankofamerica.com) and MITM people to steal information that otherwise would be presumed private to middlemen.
Backups are absolutely essential but I think you understate the amount of hours needed to restore an entire corporate network if it's compromised and encrypted at once. (As Colonial apparently found out)
Why is pgloader so much faster? (2014)
Precisely. I'm glad you took the time to understand. :)
The Four Levels of Flow in Writing: What It Means When Writing Flows
Yeah, I guess I prefer when the gimmick takes more than the first couple paragraphs to land.
Some source code of the Flemish government can be found on GitHub fyi
Can you explain some of the terms you use a bit more?

You say that Microsoft's strategy is not about enabling the development of "enterprise applications". Then you say it's about providing tools for "business process applications". What's the difference?

Then you say it's not about providing tools for "applications" but rather "API integration and orchestration". Are you trying to say that the latter is about building headless processes without a UI? Don't a lot of processes require forms and human input? Aren't those "applications"?
Luxottica is the name of the game here.
Has anyone looked at or tried to quantify the effects of paying ransoms for kidnap victims in the middle east and north africa? That's the most comperable thing I can think of...
Seems like the purpose of this article was to defend Barlow when the two situations are quite different.
WhatsApp caves in: Won't limit features if you reject privacy changes
It didn't make me feel uncomfortable. It felt like it was trying to make me "think" but it ended up philosophically hollow. Not sure what punchline I'd have wanted, but I prefer to be surprised.

I guess overall I have no complaints except that it could have been shorter. It seemed like it was building to a conclusion that never coalesced, which is okay for short fiction, but this one was sorta a slog.
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> then it isn't making things substantially worse

At least in the United States, any encounter with law enforcement can potentially end in violence, so anything that makes it easier to get a questionable warrant will make things worse.
Real estate agents,
Laptops with 16GB RAM
> The first recommendation I give to people that want to get into brewing better tasting coffee is to get a burr grinder, even a handheld one will do just fine. With a burr grinder you just get a more consistent grind which helps reduce the fines thereby reducing the bitterness.

I second this, but do get one with a metal burr like a Timemore, and not the oft-recommended Hario Skerton, which has a ceramic burr.

The manual grinding experience with a metal burr grinder is so much better.
Meta Learning: The Skill Everyone Needs for the Future
Initially, I misunderstood the title as referring to pupil (as in student) and went, “Weirdly, that makes sense”.
Kinda a huge ego on this guy.

The truth is you got lucky with the timing and capitalized a tech help forum.
You have the choice of downloading your account history and copy pasting it here for us to see. Can you think of a reason why you wouldn't do that?

Also does Bitcoin give you a "choice" in exposing your wallet transactions? How is Bitcoin's lack of privacy choice "a choice", and your choice whether to keep your bank account history private or not, "not a choice".

It's say crypto gives you less choice. And even worse, the way crypto chose, to expose transactions, makes actually the regular folks more vulnerable.
Why Am I Not Inspired? Thoughts on Why Inspiration Sucks
Let me ask you a question:
How many unarmed people were killed by police in 2020?
I just gave one where it doesn't hold.
Yes, the DOJ subpoenaed Stack Overflow as part of the investigation. It's pretty standard.

Normally the DOJ gets access to all the emails of the target of the investigation, then from there they look through the emails and subpoena any companies that might hold additional information - such as Stack Overflow.
I'm not a native english speaker, so some of my grammar mistakes are due to that! How would you have written it?
Its not a good space for high performers. Regular programmers don't give a fuck. The paycheck spends the same.

Management doesn't give a fuck either, so yeah they'll hire for this limited skill set and probably pay less too.
Yeah on original NES/SNES controllers the rocker physically prevented this. I was mostly referring to some third party controllers like say the 'hitbox' which go through an input cleaner before sending it to the system.

The way emulators handle L+R depends a bit.. For SMB1 specifically you're allowed to use an up to date version of Nestopia, Bizhawk, FCEUX or OpenEMU, all of which by default give neutral inputs if you press L+R (I don't recall if OpenEMU works this way but I believe it does.) There are other emulators like older versions of Bizhawk which gave priority to your latest input, or older versions of Mesen which gave priority to left and down. I'm sure other methods of handling L+R exist as well.

Which method is most correct is debateable, and sometimes contentious! :)
PancakeBunny too! I’m considering to buy the dip…
The funds you deposit with PayPal are held on their balance sheet. They are no longer your property, and in return you receive some rights according to the contract you signed at account opening.

If you want to reduce liquidity risk, store your funds in an escrow account. The funds in an escrow account are legally your property, and the custodian is legally required to follow your orders (simplified).
I think we don’t want those at the top of the military to be motivated by money.
MTP is an absolute dogs breakfast.

I've had multiple experiences of issues on the device side causing the entire explorer.exe process to crash!

Explorers handling of the MTP protocol is not resilient to badly behaved devices, would not at all be surprised if there are security implications where a badly behaved MTP device can get an RCE in explorer.
and being involved with a common question

the more newbish the better
Hopefully it works better than Windows.
Although password routine expiry is not a recommended strategy now, it'a really good indication of how this can look.

For a long time, people like insurance companies had an "enforceable standard" for 60/90 day password rotation. And in every single business I looked at, they "had a password rotation policy", but then three key executives didn't like it so "do not expire password" got ticked on their accounts as some "accepted exemption". This sort of thing always passed audits, and marketing always wrote information about how the business had a strict password expiry policy. And those executives were the most likely to be compromised.

I think if you go too far down a "minimum standard" path, that's the sort of thing you're going to see.
Let's go further with facial recognition?

Let companies use on our children. Let companies/government scan our kids from birth to death.

Put cameras in schools, on every street corner, government buildings, parks, doctor's offices, and of course scan every face that goes through governmental facilities (DMV, Criminal/civil courts). Put cameras in all stores. Put a Ring type camera on every residence.

Government could then predict whom will most likely succeed in our complicated, competive society.

The good kids will go to the best schools of course. The good adults will get preferential treatment in hiring, loan accusation, housing, etc.

Stores will track our every buy. Stores will know I stole an olive from Whole Foods once.

STD's will be a thing if the past. We will know who likes to booze it up. We will know what percentage of fast food they consume, and we will definitely know who uses tobacco.

We can do away with Credit Scores. We can do away with most tests. We will be able to predict a person's future success with data.

Cops can give up patrols, and just use AI programs to catch bad guys, or prostitutes.

This is Not the future I want.

I cannot believe Americans are even putting up with the surveillance we already have.

(The only thing I like about cameras/surveillance is it might make cops a bit more honest?)
I hate to exercise my lawyer brain, but this ordinance is tailored in a somewhat weird way that it seems to me it would prohibit the county sheriff and other agencies from posting any kind of photo on Facebook, which has the ability to segment human faces and tag people, or an application like iOS Photos or Google Photos.

The ordinance is here if this is a permalink. https://mkcclegisearch.kingcounty.gov/View.ashx?M=F&ID=94173...
I was just thinking the same thing today!
The other thing that tends to go unnoticed is that many people at a very young age experience the death of a dear loved one they were deeply bonded with. This can have profound and unimaginable effects on the stability of their psychology in ways that are poorly understood. It’s very possible for ones own internal primitive neural structures to permanently throw themselves completely out of chemical balance through self inflicted damage through stress mechanisms caused by the activity of these structure.

The reason this is possible is because the most physiologically potent aspects of the limbic system develop well before the prefrontal and other more modern structures can completely solidify. Because these structures are grow slower and are more elaborate, the homeostasis necessary for their stable growth is much more delicate.

There are likely periods of chemical vulnerability during development that can act as transformation pathways of the entire development of the advanced structures. They will continue to express their growth/maturation genes and develop in some way but it leads to a completely different operational configuration and also one that relies heavily on conceptual and even chemical aspects of the external environment for internal conceptual and chemical stability.

The one of the main functions of limbic system is the main component in the fear/flight/fright mechanism. This system exists because its operation of generating chaotic action and bias of reaction has in some way granted its host a significant increased statistical advantage toward surviving and reproducing whereas, although it can make a big difference, the more advanced structures have not adapted the capability of continued existence as a species on its own.

Natural selection favors whatever social genetic traits confer an increased rate of survival of an organism to reproductive maturity and then what personally governing traits lead the individual to reproduce. It is fair to presume that all traits of the human mind developed completely for only two purposes, to reproduce and to behave in ways that ensure your offsprings survival which unintentionally contributes to widespread survival advantage of humans outside ones family, increasing the chances that there will be similar individuals to confer a symmetrical advantage in return. Pretty much a cloud of increased likelihood for the species as a whole in that area to survive. Pretty much everything we think is important in society can be traced down the bias in the limbic systems chaos system
In my occasional interactions on Reddit it seems a very large proportion of users are on the "new" Reddit, the mobile site, or an app. I'm sure it varies by community though (especially ones that heavily use custom CSS and things that don't work on the new site).

Just as one example I can recall, you can do things that are kind of like "quote retweets" with the cross-post feature that don't really make sense on the old site (on "new Reddit" when you crosspost the original post/title are displayed in a little window so you'll see people make titles that are actually commenting on the original post and not on whatever the link actually is). On old Reddit these just show up as links to whatever the original post linked to, but with the "meta-commentary" title. More than once I've encountered one of these with confusion until a comment explained, or I thought to check the tab that shows where else the same link has been posted.
Watch Netflix' Coded Bias if you want a deeper understanding of the political motivations here - and they really are almost purely political.

I'm not for an instant saying that there aren't any implications in terms of how the technology can and should be deployed - but some people just want to be angry and offended despite a lack of understanding of what they're actually on about.

Facial recognition struggles to accurately identify black people and women.

The difficulties around both are probably around edge and contour detection:

Black people have darker skin and less angular features - the shadows on their faces are not only harder to see (due to blending with skin-tone), but softer to begin with.

Women routinely leave the home wearing enough makeup to not only look less like themselves, but often look more like other women.

There are ways to mitigate these issues to some extent: cameras that work better in low light and codecs that do a better job of encoding relative rather than absolute light levels will do a better job of preserving the information in the faces of people with darker complexions.

As far as makeup is concerned, it can misrepresent the shape of a face - if you only have one angle.

Treating the face shape as invariant as Δt -> 0 and running on video (even better with multiple synchronised cameras) will allow for topography extraction despite dealing with someone deliberately misrepresenting what they look like.
There are many tools to help make feature activations in Computer Vision interpretable by humans.

Class Activation Mapping [0] and Salience Maps are some of the most used and intuitive approaches. Lime and Shap [1] are tools to visually represent feature activation in an understandable way.

The idea that we have no idea what is going on with machine learning models is just flat out wrong.

[0]http://cnnlocalization.csail.mit.edu/

[1]https://github.com/slundberg/shap
Operation Moonwatch
For your analogy: yes, guns should be banned. That bottle has been opened in most places in the world, and some countries have actually put the genie back in, and it has resulted in dramatically lower gun death rates. The UK for example, as it has one of the lowest gun homicide death rates in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_regulation_in_the_Uni...

Moreover, yes, other deeply awful weapons are also banned. Biological weapons and Chemical weapons are both widely banned by all decent countries in the world. Nuclear weapons should join this list. They almost did, during the Reagan era: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/ronald-...
At a past job, they used to call phases of a software project "Days" e.g. "That's a Day 2 feature, not a Day 1 feature."

Since the "Days" seemed to last forever, I used to joke "Are we measuring project progress in Venusian days? Those are like 243 days per regular day"
There's a great book on ~roughly this topic - Ghettoside, by Jill Leovy. The thesis is that police in some cities (her work is in LA, but I lived in Chicago for a while and the idea transfers seamlessly) do an abysmal job of solving homicides.

That has all sorts of knock-on effects: people close to a murder victim lose the sense that the state will do something about their loss, so they take the matter into their own hands; people who commit homicide are a tiny minority but if they're not apprehended, they can keep committing homicides, which makes a broader society feel less safe; people sense that the state, their city, their neighbors, etc don't care about them because if the homicide was of someone in a richer neighborhood, it would be more likely to be solved; etc. Been a while since I read it so I'm forgetting a lot.

I think this goes some way towards explaining why people in neighborhoods where lots of violent crime is committed have such ambivalent feelings about the police - they are at once underpoliced (police don't solve major crimes in their neighborhood) and overpoliced (police bust people for all kinds of small-time stuff, which has devastating long-term consequences).

At the same time as all of the above, it's also true that it's basically never been safer to live in a big American city (ok ok, at least since like the 1960s - before then the picture gets significantly more complicated). So it's safer than ever, but big crimes don't get prosecuted or solved, unless they happen in the "right" neighborhoods. The solution therefore isn't more of the same police; maybe it's more policing but the policing itself needs to change.
That piece, and KOMO's larger project, are toxic right-wing propaganda. Please don't consider that a reliable source.
I don’t think regular person/organisation can host Tor node or VPN server in China.
I won't lie, I truly understand the knee-jerk reaction to Orwellian surveillance by a police state. It's creepy, but is somewhat in place via semi constant NSA tracking that gets re-upped by private Senate hearings, so that's neither here nor there.... However, as far as facial recognition tracking goes, this doesn't seem like it needs to be an "All or Nothing" agreement, as you say Why can't we use facial recognition software with mugshots to narrow a list of suspects. Or use facial recognition software to enhance police work instead of doing a prosecutor's job. It's possible to ban facial recognition in certain arenas instead of alltogether.
> This isn't a problem Apple's software stack saw so often

Apple had the exact same component object model problems which is why it took the long way around discovering exactly the right way to deal with it and eventually gave up and bought NeXTStep. Objective-C exists in large parts to solve the same problems that COM does! It also has a reference counting component memory model and a component message model designed to handle compiler name-mangling issues.

> closed-source binary blobs that could expose objects

Component systems aren't just for closed source, though. They are also for deployment management and trying to solve problems where multiple apps from different teams need to interact and trying to avoid strong coupling to allow better flexibility/resiliency.

Even in Open Source there have been plenty of COM-like projects. Gnome 2 built a lot of early things on Bonobo which was pretty directly a COM clone. Since then things have migrated to D-Bus, and while D-Bus is not a COM clone in the way that Bonobo was, it is still there to solve a lot of the same coupling problems so that individual apps can communicate without directly depending on one another. D-Bus just takes more of a publish/subscribe approach than an object model for components that more directly communicate.
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