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We probably have very different perspectives. I feel like I should warn you that you are very close to an ad hominem attack and I don't appreciate that.

My perspective from over a decade of software engineering is that you cannot ethically build a (privacy) feature that is "only ever to be opt in only" and not expect (privacy) experts to make a big deal about it ("hey everyone should opt in to this thing that makes your privacy better") and/or encourage other (browser) manufacturers to go ahead and make it default option ("this would make privacy better for non-expert users"). That's not an ethical feature, that's a bait-and-switch no matter what the timescale is between "this feature is opt-in only" and "oh no too many users opted in".

I am making a very opinionated judgement in leaping from it's not just a feature that was designed unethically, but that it was morally wrong for them to do so. It's fine if you don't agree that a bunch of people made a morally bad judgement call in building and marketing that feature. I believe that entire hype cycle of that feature did far more to setback privacy debates on the web for years than it did to help. I believe by making some of those morally wrong decisions years back Chrome established once (and maybe for all time) that their privacy teams cannot be trusted to build equitable/ethical/fair privacy systems. I worry that Mozilla is the last big opposition standing up to this behavior and I worry about what will happen if we lose Mozilla in this fight to keep an eye out for what other "privacy" ideas the Chrome team generates that should (rightfully) be deemed 'Harmful'.

I really don't expect you to agree with me at this point. The number of Firefox users left is abysmally tiny according to statistics. Chrome has won, despite whatever it is I (and I hope Mozilla continues to) think about their (lack of) professional ethics. At this point I'm only breaking it down for you as much as I can not to try to convince you, but to feel like I've done my part to say that I believe what Google did with DNT was very wrong, if not very evil, because there aren't a lot of people left to speak out against such wrongs. Because we as a profession don't have a proper ethics board to try these sorts of things in a court of our peers rather than let them fester and rot in the halls of companies that some people still believe the "Do No Evil" marketing despite actions they have taken.
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It's a British/American English difference.
I think that these images are less convincing than "thispersondoesnotexist". The network did well for the extent a tree is similar to a person: long palm leaves look are like green hair, and look passable.

The network did bad where it had to take into account global illumination, or distance to the object and its level of detail: 1) tree trunks are mostly flat and do not depend on the possible sun location; 2) shadows don't match the trees and the rocks; 3) nearby rocks often lack texture and are not properly illuminated (they look flat).

It's not surprising given that the method is fundamentally local (CNN-based). I think better results will be achieved when a generator creates a scene graph rather than a raster. Are there works which actually create a 3D scene (or use it as an internal representation)?
Where do you find the latest digital Alpha/Beta products?
I a huge early adopter when it comes to the latest digital products for better or worse and i'm curious to where folk find these products?

PH is great for newly launched products as is BetaList but where do you go to find products in their alpha and beta phase?

Personally i use twitter and occasionally Reddit.

I recently knocked up a site over the weekend and added about 30 super early stage digital products but i'm looking to add more.

https://betadirectory.softr.app/
Good point. The CPI increased 20.4% from june 2012[1] to june 2021 was 20.4%, but the "Rent of shelter" component increased 29.7% in the same time period.

[1] that was the earliest year that was available at https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/supplemental-files/home.htm
The silly thing is that Apple advertises their phone as something cyber security focused, when it can be totally pwned in so many ways.

And you don't need Apple's resources to make something better, just a more secure phone would have much worse UX. Just some examples for a much more secure phone, where you dont need Apple's budget:

- Runs some barebones Linux with minimal packages. An SMS app is an SMS app, not something that makes HTTP requests.

- app store is very heavily vetted

- forced updates, you can't dismiss update notifications.

- minimal attack interface, no smart connection features or accessories.
A low gloss tough coating will add to the reflectivity, but a high gloss highly transparent coating might look really cool still.
Really appreciate that they have a Protocol project, really helps quickly get a sense of what's under the hood. It's just a bunch of protobuf messages, but that's a super helpful reference, and nice to not have it embedded in one of the various other projects: https://github.com/livekit/protocol

Notably using the well known extremely well reputed super battle hardened Pion sfu, ion: https://github.com/pion/ion-sfu

Looks like the best WebRTC get going experience I've seen. Very glad to see some nice works like this coming about. Good job all.

Still wish XMPP had more of a foothold in this area but that's ok.
I think this is unlikely, but should it become the case, you can easily install an alternative launcher, something presumably impossible on the sheild.

Also, the default launcher happens to be something heavily customized by each OEM (likely extending the AOSP launcher which will never have ads or more typically extending a shared base launcher[0]), and I think routing ads through OEMs would be both a technical and logistical impossibility.

The phone space is such a competitive market, and the cost of switching (launchers/to a different Android phone/to iOS) is so low, and the risk to future sales so high, I really doubt you'll see ads on the launcher.

[0] https://cs.android.com/android/platform/superproject/+/maste...
I agree with your logic. Anecdotally I had an experience that proves your point. The ASVAB [1] test had about a dozen incorrect questions. I brought this to their attention and was told to pick the least wrong answer. This was exactly the mind-set I dealt with my entire time in the military. Incorrect questions meaning that either all the answers were correct or incorrect based on the question

[1] - https://www.todaysmilitary.com/joining-eligibility/asvab-tes...
There’s a fixed layout version of the ePub standard too, allowing PDF quality if that’s what you’re after.
Indeed, a fee market exists and should exist. But I would not increase the block space indefinitely, only as long as there are no double-spend attempts that succeed.

The current cost of a 51% attack is roughly $1M per hour [1], which I find an obscenely unnecessary and wasteful amount of security.

[1] - https://www.crypto51.app/
The UK has a favourable human rights record compared to almost everywhere else in the world. It is a significantly better place to live than most countries on earth if you are in any minority category.

Civil amenities are also significantly improved, as well as one of the most effective (physical) and cheapest health care services.

For all the crap it has received over the last decade, much of it justified, it is still an excellent place to be.
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> ave some way to achieve that in a way that Apple's vast resources can't.

I think "can't" here runs up against "choose not to". So far as we can tell opsec tends to be a pain in the ass in ways that are fundamental, not a problem with tools. Apple, like any other consumer focused company, doesn't lose focus of this.
Walmart's self-serve system(s) appear to be the most reliable of the stores that we shop. B/C scanners for big stuff are wireless, keypads and touchscreens are functional and responsive, the scales read produce very fast and are more accurate than the local Vons/Stators/Ralphs (I have done several 'calibration' runs at all of the local markets), system latency is the least of all other stores, and when I screw up, an 'associate' quickly arrives to render a fix.

And that is about the only good experience to be had at walmart.
The recommendation if your fridge starts showing ads one day is indeed that you throw it in the trash and get a fridge that, you know, doesn't do that.

Same goes for an STB, or car, or any other thing that abuses you. You don't have to sit and take it simply because "that's the modern world".

Consumer choice is an important and powerful tool. Don't buy or use crap that abuses you, and don't shop at vendors that think that abusing their users is ok.

We got into this situation because people tend to throw up their hands and suffer.

> I also generally like the Google stuff including the assistant integration.

Google is an advertising company. Everything they do is in service to this goal, despite whatever side perks it may deliver to you occasionally. Liking the Google stuff while not liking ads is a mistake, because they are inseparable.

If you don't like ads, don't give your money and data to an advertising company. Don't run Android TV.
This is the problem with how the whole climate movement is being handled. The vast majority of the problem is corporations, but the media focuses on individual action.

I get why people are skeptical and think it is simply the government is reaching for more control.

Here is the line of reasoning:

Why am I not allowed to have a gas stove, but I can see huge amounts of pollution from factories and power plants being dumped into the environment? If it were an actual problem wouldn't politicians focus on the bigger portions of pollution? Wouldn't they focus on the things that wouldn't affect average people?

It is easier to demonize these people as "anti-science", but they have a valid point. Look at this past year with COVID, virtually all traffic and personal emissions stoped and we only saw about a 10% drop in emissions.
Isn't there some confirmation bias (not sure if that's necessarily the correct term here, but you'll get the gist regardless) here in that you're more likely to remember the situations in which you catch up with the person who passed you (i.e. "look at this idiot getting nowhere"), and less likely to remember the situations in which that person makes a light that you don't and you never see them again? Massively depends on the specifics of the roads you're on too of course (and also how the lights are timed).
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I urge you to read the sets of rules invented by the senet historians referenced in the wikipedia article. I think you are overstating their knowledge of the game. From wikipedia:

"Although details of the original game rules are a subject of some conjecture, senet historians Timothy Kendall and R. C. Bell have made their own reconstructions of the game."

Here is the citation[0].

My belief is that these are two completely different games, and therefor probably completely different from any ancient iteration of senet.

Using the same game board and (some of) the same pieces is totally insufficient to call a game a "variation". Is old Japanese text, which adopted the Chinese writing system, a variant of the Chinese language?

0. http://www.gamecabinet.com/history/Senet.html
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For those of you not on iOS, here's what one of those notification spams from Apple looks like:

https://twitter.com/Reaperducer/status/1393380938642563072

See also:

Ads for Apple Music, Apple Arcade, and Apple's fitness thing at the top of the Settings app.

https://twitter.com/Reaperducer/status/1390696646854397955

Fake notification alerts in the App Store to get you to tap on the Apple Arcade button to show you a subscription ad.

Spam from Apple that I can't seem to stop receiving, even though I'm unsubscribed from every Apple list. I've gone as far as to contact AppleCare about it. I spent an hour on the phone with someone at AppleCare who couldn't explain why I keep getting Apple Arcade spam in my e-mail.

https://twitter.com/Reaperducer/status/1394843930932523015
If there is no escalation path, that's a big problem, and nobody here is pretending otherwise.
Amazon could do it if they wished; they don't want to.
The first hit for "dodgy dossier suicide" is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly_(weapons_expert)

Edit: I can't reply to the child but here are some salient quotes from the wiki...

"I will wait until the end of the week before judging – many dark actors playing games. Thanks for your support." - Dr Kelly

"it was subsequently established that neither the knife nor the blister packs showed Kelly's fingerprints on their surfaces"

"The former leader of the Conservative Party, Michael Howard, and the former Liberal Democrat MP, Norman Baker, both think Kelly was murdered.[173] In 2007 Baker published The Strange Death of David Kelly in which he argued that Kelly did not commit suicide."
I always see this is trotted out as to say that Iraq did not possess WMDs, however technically it is wrong, as WMDs (chemical weapons in this case) were found after the invasion, (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destr...). While there was no evidence of nuclear weapons or an active program I believe that a better quote should be used since the pretences that it is quoted for are technically wrong.
I agree that eggs are a big deal, and I have a non-stick pan that is pretty much only used for eggs, hand washed, and then put away in a cupboard (vs the hanging rack that we use for literally every other pot or pan)

I don't believe I've ever measured the amount of oil/butter in which I fry in my life, but I am aware of the opposite end of the spectrum lol. I assumed this was probably the difference in our pan preferences: my solution to sticking is "add more fat".

I also tend to make a lot of pan sauces, and non-stick kills that a lot of the time (no fond = sad sauce).

While the coating is PFOA free, if you're using metal utensils, SOME of that plastic is coming off. Technically fried/burned food is a carcinogen, so IDK what your tolerance for this risk is but for me non-stick has always felt unneeded and knowing that some of this plastic is winding up in some of my food sometimes.(I'm weird though and find washing dishes meditative, probably due to my years in restaurants)

Interesting to get others opinions on this stuff. I could talk knives/pans/kitchen tools for days.
Anyone else know about senet from the Rick Riordan series The Kane Chronicles?
How about never assume ignorance when you're dealing with a giant corporation's systemic problem that the giant corporation benefits from ignoring.
Yes. Don't get me started. Quite frequently recently I've searched for answers to things and the "smart" answers they give are flat out wrong or dangerous because they misinterpreted a text. I should probably start to keep a list..
> Does it matter that much that the artifact of saving a page be a single file in your hard drive?

Yes, it matters a lot. Word/Excel files are actually a zip archive containing many files and sub-directories. Can you imagine people working with exploded Word files, sending over mail and WhatsApp complete directory trees?
Eh, the issue was found by a random (Chinese) guy on the internet. And it was reported to Microsoft in the beginning of January. It got leaked and once you have the exploit chain - yeah, pretty much any random guy on the internet could use it for hacking. A few days after MS disclosure there were in fact independently produced exploits by other random guys.
I don't understand people who use these launchers. But I suppose it's just a difference it how I consume content?
> If you don’t believe Tiktok is a national security threat you are hopelessly naive.

Yeah, it's pretty much a bomb waiting to be used. It might not have been used yet, but that's no reason to claim it's harmless and sleep next to it.

Though, Facebook and Twitter are not much better, and only somewhat less exploitable by the same adversary (there's capitalism for you).
Apple can do it (create a security focused phone), it just isn't anywhere near what they want to do. The instant security (or privacy for that matter) gets in the way of profit for Apple they will back away.
1. There are many, many more Western countries other than the US.

2. Even if they develop their own tools and research their exploits, using NSO provides a layer of plausible deniability and hiding behind someone else's fingerprint (think about the command and control servers, for example).

3. Even if they develop their own stuff, most governments have multiple arms which can use these tools (think about FBI, CIA, NSA, various military intelligence branches), and they tend not to share between them. This makes smaller government branches which don't have the resources and expertise of the others (think DEA, ATF...) buy from 3rd parties.

4. Zero days are a scarce resource, if I ran an agency I'd rather use someone else's every day and keep my own just for the special stuff.

In summary, it's exceedingly appealing for bodies like the Dutch police to use NSO tools and NSO's association with the Saudis and other provides a convenient masking to their operations.
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I just wanna know how big are your pants pockets
You can use a weapon without firing it. For example, in this video[1] a rioter stole an M4 carbine from a police car. A security guard pointed a pistol and ordered the rioter to drop the weapon. He did. No shots were fired and the police carbine was recovered. Had the security guard not had a gun, I doubt the situation would have ended as harmlessly as it did.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVAMUejexa0
The Internet Archive has a collection of those shareware samplers, maybe yours is there? https://archive.org/details/cdbbsarchive
There is more than the most recent Iraq war. There is Vietnam (Gulf of Tonkin) and the Spanish-American War (USS Maine sabotage). Several others.

It's not disingenous and it's not discrediting _any_ future allegation, but to appropriately raise the threshold before belief.
I drag excess tabs into their own windows to group them by subtopic. Too many tabs makes it too hard to track what all the tabs are. When there are more than 2 windows of 10 tabs I’ll move over to collecting and grouping annotated links in notes.
Did I say it does? It might. But what you said was that it is "officially considered pure evil with no legitimate medical use". There is an official schedule of drugs organized by how evil they are and whether they have a medical use. Cocaine is listed as having medical use. This is, to the maximum possible extent, the official opinion of the United States. Where are you getting your official statements from?
You just pwned yourself.

- Forced Updates? The FBI takes over the update server, forcibly sends out an update that sends all messages to the FBI immediately, and there's no way to stop it. That suggestion is idiotic. Or even better, install Pegasus on all the phones, have them be quietly reporting back to home for a few weeks, with journalists having no way to prevent updating.

- You forgot Hardware Root of Trust and Secure Enclave, like on an iPhone. Otherwise, the FBI can install a tool which just guesses PINs over and over while resetting the PIN attempts counter. It is not possible to build this protection in software only. You need chip-level hardware, and only iPhones in Fall 2020 and later have the Enclave set up to block repeated PIN attempts even if Apple-signed code is loaded. No other phone is safe from their own manufacturer like that.
In this market, three interviews tops. They are playing grabass for no reason, consider this a warning about how they do things internally.
It's amazing to think about chess and how rules have been changed slightly over time for 1000 years.

Medieval chess was a very different game. For the most stark example, the queen did not get her modern move until around 1450.

The game has since been stable for about 500.

And yet something as basic as, "white moves first" was first suggested in 1857.
>If you think the government and taxes are responsible for the weakening of the middle class, you are sorely mistaken

Yes I do think the $4100 in taxes I pay a month in Europe does affect my life, my future and my home ownership ability if that is the question.
Very Bad Chess by Zach Gage is the best I’ve seen of this. It’s on the iOS App Store, might be on google play. Worth a look if you like “bad chess”
That's a source that a man killed himself. It was suggested he was actually murdered by the Brit govt. Source for that claim?
> Your post contained a paragraph to this effect.

0 > If your entire cooking knowledge is boiling a pan of water, just get a damn microwave and stop ruining things for everyone else.

1 > 0: Quoted in full because it disappeared while I was writing my answer.

2 > Good for you? The most Chinese thing I make on a regular basis is frozen orange chicken (from <checks freezer> Foster Farms, apparently), so I don't really care.

3 > In any case, I've yet to encounter a electric stove that's fit-for-purpose for anything more sophisticated than boiling water. That's not to say they don't exist, but someone else, somewhere else having one is rather irrelevant to me.

4 > FWIW, I'm pretty sure most uses of "Chinese food" on eg HN refer to American-adaptations-of-Chinese-food, similar to how "pizza" generally bears little resemblance to the traditional Italian dish, so this doesn't mean much either way.

5 > I appreciate the implication that I'm not most people, I guess?

Which of those reads like "electric stoves are even worse at cooking chinese food (in particular) than they are at cooking most types of food" to you?
There would need to be some actual violence involved to constitute terrorism. If you spy on some journalist and then us that info to catch him and cut him in pieces while he's still alive, then the dismemberment may be considered terrorism and the spying was aiding that terrorism; if you spy on many people and the end result is just that some officers laugh about their naked photos or deny them jobs or disallow crossing borders, then that's just "ordinary" mass surveillance with no relationship to terrorism.
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> So then the question becomes Did Amazon let police gather evidence before touching anything?

Why does that become the question? If I fire a customer, must I ask the police for permission first?

America isn't a police state. And we don't have general data retention laws. The First Amendment contains both the freedom of speech and freedom of assembly; there is a balance between Parler's freedom to spew rubbish and Amazon's freedom to not assemble with them. With NSO Group, the free speech question is sharply constrained; Amazon's rights are thus stronger.