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I love this article and enjoyed it and the writing style, but I wish we would stop countering bad-faith arguments with bad-faith, or in the case of the comments, assumptions of complete stupidity.

Gohmert, who asked about “moving the moon”, knows very well that task is beyond our capabilities. He was suggesting that effecting the earths climate -at all- is beyond our capabilities. He’s completely wrong, and being a jerk, but he didn’t genuinely ask if we could move the moon.

This reminds me of when the last president said “I could shoot someone and still be popular” and people genuinely thought he literally meant that. Being an asshole is worth calling out - we don’t have to pretend they’re completely brain dead. The more interesting conversation is: can the BLM and forestry services effectively curb climate change with a bigger budget?

In this case it was malice, and not stupidity, although the rule of assumption stands - this is the exception to that rule. One could argue being unaware of how we -do- effect the climate is stupidity, and I’d agree - but if you comment “this guy really thinks we can move the moon!?!??!” You’re falling into a well constructed trap designed to prevent a real conversation between the isles.
They alternate between the two sections, so they do one stack every 2 hours and you can see how much labour, 2 man less than 5 mins. Remember, this isn't how they run it all the time and it is the backup system. With that in mind, most backup plans for anything if not a like for like, are always more intensive. Compare writing a letter by hand too sending an email in effort and this, for me, this looks way easier.

Worth noting that even in the vid, you have crew members of senior rank watching on as they have never seen it done before, which indicates how uncommon it's usage is.
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My family is gone for the weekend and I'm bored. Eager to tinker with something but not alone.

Any interesting (pet) project ideas?
>win32 stuff removed

Win32 was not removed from Windows RT, but your access to it (if your name wasn't "Microsoft"; because that low-level access was reportedly how they got Office on it) was.

And because of Secure Boot, which (unlike x86, for now) is mandated enabled for Windows on ARM systems, you had to wait for an unpatchable security hole in the booting process (which, while it exists, wasn't relevant until past the end of the Surface RT's lifecycle), you couldn't run full Windows 8 or a tablet-first Linux distro.
I'm not sure I get your point. The notifications are sent when system detects you were in contact with a person that tested positive, so mass messages don't make that much sense.
Unless you are referring to using the sms as a marketing way to encourage people to install the application...
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> STAY AWAY! You do NOT want to ever work here (Amazon India).
Most of the comments on that app as well as here are probably wrong. I'd suspect that everyone who had the app "installed without their permission" opted into the Android COVID-19 Exposure Notification program. This was deployed by Google as part of an update to Google Play Services.

When you go to your phone's settings with this update, there's an option to enable COVID-19 Exposure Notifications. When you turn it on, it prompts you for your location and will download your region's app that uses your phone's new capabilities to connect to the appropriate health authorities.

Massachusetts just opted into this program in the last couple of weeks. I'm honestly not sure why they did it so late - this would have been helpful earlier. Apple iPhones also have this capability, including interoperability with Android phones, and iPhone users in Massachusetts are also able to turn on this setting.

Now, if someone can actually prove that they didn't opt into the COVID-19 Exposure Notifications, then I'd be concerned. But my guess is they opted in when it came out, but there was no app for their region, so nothing was downloaded and the feature did nothing. Then, Massachusetts rolled out the app now and lots of people who configured their phones earlier in the pandemic got a new app. They granted permission for it, perhaps months ago.
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Even then I don’t get why someone would object. But of course hindsight is 20/20 so that may be why. Having a black box in all aircraft would help me too, because other crashes are better understood. Then again I also do want my death to be maximally useful to others should I die, so that at least I don’t die completely in vain. I don’t want to live forever, but I don’t want my life to end abruptly and outside of my control either, and I have plenty of things I want to do still before I leave. So that may also be why I don’t understand that POV you suggested.

Also, if I was a pilot, I would appreciate the fact that the black box can potentially help my friends and family get closure, because if the black box survives then my friends and family can learn what happened that caused the crash.
This may explain why Microsoft have created so many email clients and none of them 100% work.

* Microsoft Mail
* Windows Messaging
* Outlook Express
* Microsoft Outlook
* Windows Mail
* Windows Live Mail
* Mail.app

There are also Microsoft Entourage for Mac OS, few different apps for mobile, and at least two web clients, Hotmail and Outlook.com. Did I miss any?
I think it's far more interesting to think about what went wrong so that the MassNotify app actually displays as installed on these devices. All of the Android COVID exposure apps for US states are simply the Google Play Services COVID Exposure Notifications code with an icon, splash screen, and possibly some text. The idea is that you enable the setting by installing the app, but in this case it seems that rolling out the setting itself has caused the app to appear as installed. I wonder if there was a misconfiguration on the part of the MassNotify developer, which caused this. The push to devices enabling the setting is likely automatic on Google's end, so I doubt a human did a check to ensure the MassNotify app behaved as expected.

At the end of the day, there likely wasn't actually anything more than a package ID installed on user devices. It didn't opt anyone into exposure notifications, and it most likely didn't include any executable code.
stereotype-much?

Individuals' life experience isn't the average of a regions, or defined by headlines. For the most part, it's family and immediate community that define childhoods. A lot of good childhoods is otherwise dysfunctional places. A lot of bad childhoods in otherwise wealthy places.
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> Why do this at this late date? A year ago it would have been useful.

Because it took time to develop, and now they just shipped it?

Maybe if the US had had a functional federal government prior to January then a national exposure notification app might have been developed, rather than relying on the states to do their own thing. Or not. But it's too late now.

I'm not a USAian so I don't know what the take-up of a federal government app would have been. Probably insufficient given what seems to be the ambient level of distrust and misinformation.

I've been running the UK/English NHS tracing app since the start of the second wave here, and I have no complaints. I'm happy with its approach to privacy, and that I've never had an alert from it despite living in a region with high covid incidence has been reassuring.
There were more than 2500 ineffective clinical trials on Alzheimer.

The loss of life for patients and loss of quality of life for patients and caring people is extreme.

It is often mentioned that this results in a high cost to public health budgets. But what is difficult for me to understand in this absurd situation is why the pharmaceutical companies did not realize sooner that something had to be done, when their research costs run into the billions.

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?cond=Alzheimer+Diseas...
Were you just guessing their motivation before, when you wrote "Claimed their users were too ill-informed to know the difference."?
I'm not from NL, but I am someone that did not install the COVID tracing app that our government provided (for voluntary installation).

My reason was that I was not convinced by the PR that it is actually privacy safe. Just repeating "it uses a safe API, trust us/Google/Apple" was not enough for me.

The subcontractor that made the app did dump some source code on GitHub saying "see, we have nothing to hide". However it was very obviously not the same code as the app published on the Play store (for start, it had a different version number), it had a cleared out commit log, etc. Questions about that went unanswered as far as I know.

I try my best to prevent COVID spread, wear a mask, got vaccinated as soon as possible, etc. I think it's more likely that the thing with the app was just developers not wanting to bother too much with things they were not paid for than anything nefarious going on. However it raised enough red flags for me that I was not comfortable installing the app on my phone.
The ecosystem was never uniform. In the 95/2000 days there was a lot of 3.11 UI everywhere, in the 7/8 days a lot of XP UI. Office always had its own UI conventions, often being the playground where new ideas were tested.

It's not so much that microsoft let things go as it was taken from them. When computers became networked we needed ways of easily distributing applications across that network in secure, reliable and always up to date ways. Windows never had a good solution to that (not even today), because every install was fraught with peril, and every app had to roll its own update mechanism. Meanwhile the web was sandboxed and up to date by definition, dramatically lowering the barrier to entry for networked software. Anything that could move to the web did move to the web, which opened the door for chromebooks, which in turn fragmented the OS market, which made it uneconomical for companies to invest in a windows native codebase. Microsoft could have stopped this had they leaned hard into the concept of an app store and sandboxing around 2000, and hadn't stumbled so badly when it came to extending windows to mobile.

I'm pretty sure that modernizing the entire windows UI doesn't change a thing for windows market share. But the reason to do it is not because it makes economic sense, it is because they should have pride in the products they make, and want them to be well-made.
>But science has not yet reached a consensus

Can we please get rid of this idea of some entity named "science" reaching a "consensus", already?

Please just say we don't know. Because it promotes the idea that there is some divine "science" out there that is disconnected from human beings
Seconded, I've used it for a couple of years and it's a great package that I find quite understandable (a docker-compose stack).
I’ve been using YunoHost (https://yunohost.org/) for my VPS setup for years, including emails, and the setup is such a breeze. It takes care of everything from certs to spam detection, includes IMAP, and you can even choose you webmail interface.
Maddy sure looks like a great alternative if you just want/need emails.

Edit : typo
Is this a thing with Big Sur? I haven't moved to it yet, but reading here [1] it doesn't seem like bad changes?

[1] https://www.macworld.com/article/234382/macos-big-sur-learn-...
Psychology. (Ortho)pedagogues. Even some psychiatrists. It's incentives versus how human minds work.

https://www.kansascity.com/news/special-reports/article23820...

You see, if you look things up you will find that psychology is good at exactly what you'd expect it to be good at if you look at their methods: describing behavior "in the large". Think "Of 100 drug addicts, 10 will commit crimes due to drugs", those types of statements. Or "100 kids with IQ>130, 10 will develop severe autism".

It can also often describe what people here call a "funnel". 100 kids go into kindergarten, 10 will fail, of those 10, 5 will get into youth services ... and so on and so forth. Problem is that this makes people always focus on the worst possible outcomes (when reality is that the vast majority of psychological problems (and "problems") go away after a relatively short time, very short time in kids (think months, a year at most), and attempts to treat them make them worse rather than better for the large majority of clients. 3 main reasons are that, especially in kids, psychological problems exist outside of the kid, they're generally the result of repeating very bad experiences at school. Obviously nothing can be done to "fix" the kid that won't be undone 2 weeks after they rejoin school. Second reason is that treatment, especially residential, takes away the information the client needs to fix their issue, and thirdly treatment takes away the need to fix the issue. But ignoring such considerations has been how psychiatry has grown)

Like any statistician knows: predicting numbers can be done extremely accurately. Predicting one concrete situation, also known as "diagnosing", with incomplete situation and everyone lying about it, is utterly impossible.

This means that attempts to change these situations ("help these kids") fail spectacularly and often work extremely contra productively (I mean, everyone knows the reputation of CPS, who do nothing BUT this. Saying they don't produce healthy kids just doesn't do justice to HOW bad these organizations are for kids. Just the suicide numbers alone ...). Psychologists, orthopedagogues and even psychiatrists often CAUSE mental health issues in healthy kids because they interfere, against the wishes of kids and often parents too, without having any ability to make accurate diagnoses.

And of course, the worst of it are the incentives. Especially with kids, the problem is the environment. Generally not the home environment, but the school. However, CPS, psychologists, orthopedagogues have to keep in mind that they get "referrals" (against the wishes of children and parents) from schools, school-related (sport clubs), even sometimes police. So problems in schools grow and fester, because these professionals can't react to problems in schools, they would lose all their business. That even goes for CPS.

Because it is unfortunately not hard to explain why organizations, perpetually short of money and paid per-child (VERY short of money in the CPS' case), refuse to use the "leave them alone and in 6 months 2/3 issues go away" paradigm that research suggests to be used.
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In a lot of ways, good faith, "fix people" institutions are the worst. Belief in a system, religious, psychiatric, social or whatnot can allow good people to override their common sense interpretations.

Early modern prisons were designed to help/fix people. Some were designed by moral philosophers, experts in ethics. These became nightmarish, producing more psychological injury than many intentionally punitive models like "hard labour."
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They should ask Ubiquiti how to handle this. Their Unifi range of products don't start doing anything unless they're at least at 65°C
When you opt-in, does it notify you of all the permissions the app will require?

- view network connections

- pair with Bluetooth devices

- full network access

- run at startup

- prevent device from sleeping
> With the USA split Mexico could have grabbed Texas, or parts of it

Some people imagined the other way around https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_the_Golden_Circle
Inventor: this is my indestructible black box for recording aircraft crashes.

Reviewer: drop it.

Inventor: this is a safety feature that will allow us to iterate plane design and save thousands of lives in the future!

Reviewer: drop it.

Inventor: this is extremely important for the future of aviation!

Reviewer: drop it.

Inventor: I WILL NOT storms off

Reviewer: I just meant...show that it won't break? Never mind.
Aren’t those basically what they put onto Japanese $5 convenience store bento boxes? Those probably are not vegan kosher but that would be the only difference.
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It wasn't designed for a car, but they did run additional tests on it.
> ToS is the least of it

I'm afraid I disagree. Google running code on your phone implies it believes you have consented to that. That consent was not given in the app store, so it must have come from the ToS.

Consent is an exception to virtually every protection that exists: Wiretap Act, state wiretapping laws, the CFAA, and state computer trespass laws. Remember, consent is the difference between a home invasion and a dinner party.

So it seems that Google would have to cook up a pretty implausible stopping principle to argue that whatever allows them to do this does not also enable the hypothetical I described above.
You sure about that? You can easily see the permissions granted on the app page.

This app has access to:

Other

view network connections

pair with Bluetooth devices

full network access

run at startup

prevent device from sleeping
>I can only conclude either that they do not see it as a problem, or that they are incapable of fixing it.

They really shot themselves in the foot 10 years ago when they decided to go all-in on making their desktop and server OSes a giant advertisement for their tablets.

Which nobody bought, of course. Didn't help that it took them 4 years to get up to feature parity with what you could do on iOS and Android out of the box (like support for SQLite) or that the sandboxed nature of WinRT/UWP meant that you had to jump through a bunch of extra hoops if you so much dared to save a file to the local machine.

They just haven't recovered from that, have had zero incentive to improve, and it shows (MS lost the mobile OS war just as hard as IBM lost the desktop OS war); workplaces are going to buy licenses no matter what, and home users only got the ability to pass through a subset of consumer-level nVidia GPUs (which IIRC doesn't apply to laptops, so you're still stuck there) to a Windows guest VM thanks to a recent driver hack, and that's only for technically competent users who are running Linux on hardware that isn't cutting edge (yep, it's still a problem for Linux) and who are willing to accept the associated 5% performance penalty.

No free solutions to force MS to clean up their act means they just won't, no matter how many collective years of human life is wasted clicking through 5000 different boxes now.
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fwiw, I'm using postfix, dovecot and rspamd for a year now and it is working like charm ever since. However, gmx.de rejected emails due to reverse dns issues.
We don’t have self walking shoes yet, do we?
Already a thing and quite widespread deployment. Mandated in the US, Japan, and Korea for many years now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_data_recorder
Aurora has compatibility layers and you interact with it as with normal MySQL, MariaDB or PgSQL. Of course there are some underlying differences, but the code and most of the tooling stay the same.
What google requirements are you referring to? SPF/DKIM/etc?
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LSF seems to be the OG HPC scheduler, most of the others (Slurm, SGE, PBS, ...) have interfaces which are very similar to it.
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Possibly their size means they're remote trackable (e.g. radar) already by gov/military when over or near land. This may not be the case with small aircraft.

Total guess, of course.
I hit `esc` on that page (no idea why) and it looks like a cool way to modify the content (or send a request to). It did confuse me for a moment!
Please don't waste your time and talent on GNOME.

The GNOME project burnt all their good will and capital building a touch focused UI (for all those touch devices running linux, you know) at the cost of their very desktop orientated userbase (sound familiar?). The core project members are more interested in social justice witch hunts than creating a good product and it shows.

Open UNIX's are desperate for a light comprehensive desktop environment with modern features. GNOME ain't it chief.
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For simply supporting older versions while also maintaining up to date versions?
> In day-to-day usage, I have rarely been annoyed by these "inconsistencies".

Don't you ever have to change sound settings? Because I have to deal with that every week, and have to dig through 3 different style of UIs and several different windows/dialogs to get to what I need.

Everything related to control panel / settings is a giant mess, and it's often really hard to find the settings you want, especially if you don't already know where it is. Some things is in the new UI, some in an old UI.

It's actually one of the main reasons why I really don't want to use Windows for my home laptop. Windows does have it strengths, and I don't mind using it at work, but I really don't want any of that bullsh*t when I get home from work.
This article is the most thoughtful, insightful and well written article I've read all day, perhaps even week. Maybe they are not novel ideas, but well put together, connected and balanced.

OTOH, I fail to see the connection between anti-vaxx, off-grid and Facebook (nor is it in the article).

> we live in a capitalist system almost everything is for profit

If I count up my daily interactions, most of them are not for profit - people have families, friends, are kind and helpful to each other. Much less so when doing it for one's own benefit.

Fear comes from past experience. The mentioned phones likely make them trust the system even less, though they may consider it an acceptable or necessary trade-off or not know what it entails. If I offered to track all information about you, or jab you with a needle (no vaccine) and you had to choose one, which would you pick? Can you conceive of someone choosing differently?

I don't think you will find many instances of your idealized anti-vaxxers, which is partly the point of the article.
If you've got a stock Android device you've obviously consented to Google running some code, and even updating to add new code after you bought it. On the other hand, apps are restricted based on permissions, and Google bypassing that would belie a consent theory.

You're making out like code is code and there aren't already existing lines and stopping principles, which just isn't true on its face.
This was as fascinating and engaging than the best documentaries I've seen. Thank you!
This is a great explanation for whats occurring. I'll be interested to see what comes of all of this.

So far what I guess is:

- This is likely a government action via telco and not something done via Google* (*Unless they've opted into a program like the one you stated)

- These phones being affected COULD BE all Carrier Locked phones which have specific terms to allow such behavior.

To me, this is pretty clear cut violation of Google's Device update policy and could be considered Malware or stalkerware (by their definition):
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...

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I think we should all slow down on putting Google for full blame here and focus on Government abuse and overstep of powers.