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I disagree with Snowden here. Liability is an extremely bad approach and would not solve the problem at all. It would also fortify companies that can pay for guarantees nobody could ever give.

That we have security flaws is always inevitable. Better languages might help but are no panacea.

I agree with Snowden on a lot, but this doesn't solve anything.

The result would be software certificates. By whom? Take a guess.

Nobody can guarantee absolute safety. This is a trap you don't want to fall into.

It would end open source and any independent development. Quite surprisingly short sighted by Snowden.

The problem with iMessage wouldn't be solved by liability. It is a security flaw that cannot be removed by law.

edit: To clarify: I agree with him in the Facebook example. They collected the data for their business and should be liable. "Bad" or "insecure" code is a different matter however.
I don’t follow this at all. How are PWAs “not allowed”?
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That was probably a problem with their main matrix.org homeserver, more than with the protocol or your particular client app. It was very slow for a while, until they worked out some scaling issues to handle the load.

I’m on matrix.org pretty much every day now, and it’s a lot better than it was. And when I use my own server to talk with other local users, I never have any latency issues.
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If it was voluntary, there would be no need for a app. It’s policing and enforcement. Of some personal morality.
Good way of putting it. Substack, as currently positioned, is for people who are sufficiently motivated to pay the equivalent of a traditional magazine subscription for maybe a few writers who produce engaging content, presumably on a frequent basis, that they find worth paying for relative to free alternatives.

I assume Substack payouts are very power law.
How does the blocking work on a technical level?

How do you prevent uninstalling?
> biggest problem with IE was all the insanely weird shit it did, not missing features

Biggest problem with Internet Explorer was it was slow. That's largely the result of the weird shit you mention. But if Microsoft had kept IE fast, it would have denied the field to Chrome.
The main point of the article (at least as I understood it) is that I could be hospitalized for an open fracture in my leg, tested for COVID while there, test comes back positive (either true or false positive) and be counted as a "hospitalized COVID case".
Oh I did not know that that was a part of the Fairness Doctrine. The balance requirement was much more well know.

> The fairness doctrine had two basic elements: It required broadcasters to devote some of their airtime to discussing controversial matters of public interest ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine

Either way, it's no longer a requirement.
Probably much more expensive.
My reading was that the 2nd off-screen bat caused a collision to trigger when it spawned. Sloppy collision detection registered this as a kill.
IBM has a event where you can get access to a mainframe and complete different tasks https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/education/master-the...

You can also get free access to small vps running Linux on a mainfram on the IBM cloud
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I love Sumatra too. I dislike there is no dark mode so I just used inverted colors and it has worked well. Super lightweight and simple. Unlike adobe which is bloated, slow, and annoying.
A tangent but I think it is a useful behavior to never assume people are stupid or crazy (even if they obviously must be sometimes). The reason is that it’s at best uninformative and at worst just plain wrong.

Instead I would suggest imagining that people are perfectly rational within the limits of their information and ability to reason, and consider what beliefs they could have had that motivated their behavior.
Link is paywalled on mobile, thanks for the archive. Hospital tents that house the plague victims would be safer for regular hospital patients who were not originally infected. Doctors and nurses interacting with plague victims shouldn't work with any other patients and should stay in the quarantine zone until they are cleared.
Comments so far seem to misunderstand the issue. People are not catching Covid in the hospital. They are in the hospital for non-covid reasons (broken leg, pink eye etc) but if they test positive it will show up in statistics as a "Covid Hospitalization". That is terribly misleading because we want to understand if Covid is causing an increase in hospitalizations, this is attributing other causes to Covid.
I think the way we think about this kind of work sometimes leads to a "single-box theory": That whatever we need to do, as an organization, can fit into a single thought-box. We all need to "think like a reliability engineer", or "think like a developer", or "think like a marketer". That every job should be a system of squads, interlinked within squads, interlinked within squads, interlinked within one BU.

But this can get a little over-complicated, and still not quite specific enough. You adopt these 4 practical strategies, and what do you get? Blind adherence to a rule. Empty formalism. Following the letter and not the spirit. And the reason is, all of this shit is hard! It's complicated and requires deep knowledge. Asking a random person to do a thing they don't really understand well isn't going to result in overall better outcomes.

I think the answer is perhaps the hardest one: we need better education. We need an actual school where people go to learn about every facet of everyone else's job in a tech shop. If everyone has the deep knowledge of how each other's jobs work, what their considerations are, and what needs to get done when, we don't have to struggle putting processes in place to constrain the eventual chaos of competing priorities and unknown procedures.

Put simply: we all need to skill up.
This comment is pretty hand wavy, but generally speaking the innovator is not the only part of the puzzle. Our world is still largely driven by investment and risk and something has to balance the scales. I agree that intrinsically motivated people probably care less for the money piece, but there are plenty of innovators that are both extrinsically and intrinsically motivated.
Hell, I assume this is only popping up after seeing Matrix eat their lunch and being chosen over them for the German Armed Forces, French government, and German healthcare system.
Something I learned from floppies is that different drives (or decks, in this case) have different read characteristics, so the "bad" segments of tape are different depending on what you're playing it back with. I once was able to use that random fact to restore some data off an old floppy - it took three drives/PCs, but I was able to get a clean read of each block, and piece them together.

Extending that to DV tapes: the DV format is interesting in that every frame is a keyframe, and encodes an entire image. That's in contrast to H.264 and friends, where frames can be predicted, and/or just the difference between a prior and future frame can be encoded. DV also encodes a timecode into each frame. So if you had multiple DV decks and were able to get a bunch of unclean imports, it seems like it'd be trivial to write a small tool that grabs all of the clean frames from each and stitches them together over the gaps in others, according to that timecode.

(Disclaimer: I've never done that, this is a pure spitball.)
The truncated gestation is sort of taking that into account, at least according to this paper https://www.pnas.org/content/109/38/15212
I wonder where farm workers are from? :). My point is that almost all farm workers are at least temporarily displaced from their homes.
The US has similar laws, you must take a 30 minute break after 8 consecutive hours of driving and you can only drive 11 hours in a day. The point I was trying to make has nothing to do with how long you can drive safely in a day. 8 hours is still within safe limits according to our government.

> Size of the country has no impact on this - people become tired and distracted during long drives.

But size of the country (and more importantly, density) has a massive impact on how far people drive and how frequently.
thanks for your kind words and comment.

As to how we prevent bypasses, we have a many little things that overall work really well. E.g. in iOS, if user disables a vpn profile, we have a way to enable this in a few seconds. in android, with a few additional permissions, we can block force stop and many such ways of bypassing. there are 100s of loopholes with a blocker. we have meticulously plugged many of them one by one. and we're still continuing to plug each day.
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>They didn't? Child mortality was 500 times as high as today in 1800 in the United States, and in the first half of the century, most of the people working on farms were slaves that I'm pretty sure had plenty of mental breakdowns even if nobody was treating and diagnosing them.

IMO farming has an absolutely terrible work life balance (as does owning most low margin businesses) relative to most office jobs but...

To say claim most farm labor was performed by slaves prior to 1865 flies in the face of the results of about half a dozen federal censuses and childhood mortality says close to nothing about the lives of the people who made it to adulthood.
The same youtuber put Jim Carrey's face onto James Bond as well. And face-swapped Jim Carrey and Hugh Jackman.
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I came here after reading the headline hoping for the replies they invited and was not disappointed. Thank you.
no, the "phonehome stats" i was referring to are the opt-in anonymous aggregated usage stats that synapse provides: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/synapse/ap... etc.

All the stuff you enumerate is metadata that your server stores in order to store your conversations. Until P2P Matrix lands, if you're worried about metadata, only talk to people on servers whose admins you trust.
How many people who struggle with porn are actually just using it as a replacement for dealing with more destructive addictions? This was the issue for me, as a problem gambler porn became a scapegoat that I had more control over then gambling. It became a scapegoat for other things as well like not taking care of myself.

The thing is, it was only when I decided to stop having an unhealthy relationship with porn full of negativity and self hatred that I began to focus on my actual issues.

I use porn multiple times a week now, but I make sure to enjoy it, and make sure to think positively afterwards. It is incredible how just shifting your perspective can change things. Porn was not the problem, thinking it was is what put me in a cycle of self hatred.

Now don’t get me wrong, building up willpower and having a foundation to change your life is very powerful, but make sure you are changing the right thing.

A healthy relationship with porn and self love has actually been incredibly beneficial to dealing with my real addiction: gambling.
AI inference on existing model instances need not be very compute-intensive at all. The "training" (i.e. model fitting) phase is what requires a lot of compute resources.
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Would you say the same about quitting smoking? Or harder drugs?
I can't speak for scipy, but I ruled Bazel out for a project that included Python components a few years ago. It was great for C, C++, and Java projects, but, at least at the time, there was no official Python support. I looked into third-party options and the feasibility of building it myself. Most of what I found was a few different conference talks and blog posts where the presenter was enthusiastically talking about how they'd spent a year trying to get it to work and it's not quite there yet but they're feeling really really confident that they'll turn a corner sometime soon. But I could never find any subsequent evidence that the presenter's team actually had turned that corner.

Based on that, I just sort of assumed that, in addition to all the fairly well-documented up-front challenges that these folks had identified and were talking about, there must also be some impassable barrier lurking around in there that nobody finds until they've already sunk a lot of time and money into trying to get it working. I don't know what that is, and I'm not curious enough to spend the better part of a year trying to find it for myself. I ended up choosing Gradle.
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Pinta crashes very frequently for me, usually after 2/3 operations.
Agree on both points. I am often pleasantly surprised by clever compiler optimizations. I recently saw the following code optimized into a couple of bit-shift operations, with no branching:

uint8_t pattern = ...;
uint8_t result = (pattern & 0x80) ? 0x1 : 0x0;
You're assuming quite a lot about me and not actually responding very directy to what I'm saying. However, reading this and some of your other responses makes it a bit more clear what the concern you're raising is.

> Listen, you know and I know that you can serve a personal website perfectly well with /var/www and a stock Apache config. But the proposal we're discussing here is precisely to take that judgment call away from people like you and me and give it to people like Donald Trump.

Let's revisit that proposal:

> 1. defining legal liability for bad code in a commercial product

> 2. making [website operators] legally liable for any and all leaks of our personal records that a jury can be persuaded were unnecessarily collected

I believe we both agree that neither of these technically apply to the personal website scenario (static hosting not collecting any PII).

So your argument as I understand it is: in order to make the above liabilities legally enforcable for scenarios where they do make sense, we will end up with regulations similar to those for handling "sensitive" data (such as financial/medical information) being imposed on _all_ software / online services (such as basic static websites). This will happen because laws will be written in an environment of near-total regulatory capture.

This argument is plausible, but it relies on a bit of a non-sequitur: expanding the scope of data collection/handling regulations will inevitably extend to regulating the publishing of software.

It might be in the interest of the current software behemoths to push for such a system, but I don't really see it. They derive too much economic value from the current "free as in lunch" open-source to shoot themselves in the feet like that. It seems more likely they would:

1. try and narrow the scope of their own liability (by heavily constraining which categories of software carry that burden)
2. try to minimize the costs to themselves (by demanding compensation from governments for the work required to meet those regulations)
3. try to offload liability to vendors (who can then demand compensation for taking on that liability).

Points 2 and 3 could be a large cash cow for free and open source software, though I doubt many will be able to successfully capitalize on it.
Some serious ground station coverage in Chile, South America already.

EDIT: Deal with the Chile gov to rapidly solve for rural comms [1].

[1] https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/satellite-...
Fuck Biden!

Fuck the CDC!

Fuck China!

Fuck vaxxers!

Fuck maskers!

You want a war? Let's have a fucking war.
I think they're referring to Safari on iOS, not macOS
This is so wrong it hurts. I know businesses that had to decide between making a mobile PWA style website or a native app for their customers to use... and the customers all wanted the website.

No sitting around waiting to download and install updates. No corporate phone-wiping security policies. All the features that mattered, even if Safari didn't look quite as nice and missed one or two.

PWA vs native app doesn't matter at all to the competition, they are gonna be there regardless (esp. B2B scenarios). Whether a website or app works better for B2C is really highly market dependent.
... with still no way for anyone to (reasonably) learn outside of the Master the Mainframe learning system or cranking out thousands for z/PDT.
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I just export my own website[0] from Bear.app

[0]: https://hescaide.me/
> I have tons of apps on my phone that really have no business being apps

I don't like them being apps because of the amount of privilege they gain. But if every site I visit on the web gains those privileges? That's a step backwards for me.
This would be great news. As it is, Safari is a great browser, when you get your new Mac, probably the fastest browser, there is (and economical on resources, as well). So there's reason to adopt it as the default browser, but then it eventually falls behind to the point of becoming incompatible with newer sites and users have to shop for a new standard browser. Which isn't the best user experience imaginable.
Nah they immediately freed themselves from the shackles of the mainframe and woke up the next morning in bed with Bezos grinning at them.
I went to a US emergency room during the peak of a wave. Everyone was masked. They also did COVID-19 symptom tests before admitting people. This isn’t perfect, but it greatly reduces the odds of having some person with unexplained “breathing problems” or whatever accidentally contaminating the ER.
Whole heartedly agree -- though too long in this desert without the savory success can make one feel like they're going mad.

Too many times I've found comfort from laying prone on a hard wood floor...

I'm not asking to remove the stress completely - it would just be nice to feel like I can afford a small nap pad underneath me.
IBM has amazing support software for mainframes. Their fix tool, for example (SMTP/E) makes individual tapes for each customer to ensure that fixes go on correctly. All the dependencies are resolved for that individual customer by IBM before the tape ships. That's one-on-one service that makes sure your machine doesn't go down from a patch.

In a high availability environment (like banking or airline reservations, as mentioned), mainframes never go off, even during upgrades. When physical machines need replacement, the entire system is run in parallel on a second machine.

These boxes have both incredible I/O hardware (there's never been anything like IBM channel I/O) and the software to keep everything humming. On a typical day when I worked there, we'd have a 1,000 devs using the same box (and that was a small installation) with multiple operating systems, virtualizations, etc. with zero hiccups.

IBM also has amazing software for getting stuff done. Documentation, for example, is universal and available worldwide from any terminal. When you want a printed manual, the system figures out which big, fast printer is near you and offers to print it down the hall. Every IBM employee has access to all the company's resources from every terminal, and it all just works.

Yes, PCs have caught up to emulating many of these features, but they definitely don't have the robustness or ease of use that System/370 (z/OS) did.
There's still no proof that Near is dead.
The vaccine is rendering infected people asymptomatic. So they never think to get tested because they don't feel sick. Then they break their leg, go to hospital, get tested as a matter of course, and now get counted as someone hospitalized with COVID.

Or they feel vaguely sick, it feels like a flu (due to delta having more cold-like rather than covid-like symptoms) and go to the hospital without getting tested for COVID first, and then get tested in the hospital.

We don't know, the data doesn't say.
Is the Telegraph a paper of good repute? The article feels to me as somehow manipulative however I'm not local to the UK. I am wondering if this is propaganda or if these results are actually plausible.
but couldn't this also mean? :

false positives
new variant that infects but doesn't overtly affect
or maybe a larger number of asymptomatic types than originally thought.
SumatraPDF is one of the thing I dearly miss after having switched from Windows to Linux. It's just perfect for reading PDFs.
Of course China can be criticized, but lots of Americans think the USA is a force for good in the world, fighting against the "evils" of these other nations, while never reflecting on our own similar evils. That's what makes it irrational. The USA is A) already powerful, B) does the same with our own ethnic and racial minorities (e.g. the extremely racist criminal justice system and our centuries of poor treatment of indigenous Americans, just two of many examples), and C) has states like Florida continuing to cover up COVID. Pointing this out gets called "whataboutism" because many people have the romantic idea that the USA is a force for freedom and justice in the world, an idea that is demonstrably untrue.
i guess these are studies that indicate the harmful effects. but, the question was about whether quitting porn can make people happy. i guess that's not quantified. also, happiness is quite difficult to quantify in general.
Totally agree. I spent a lot of time when I was a kid playing through each of the Exile games and their Avernum remakes. I’m in the middle of playing through Avernum on the IPad, and I love the setting of being outcasts sent to an underground cave system. The game it self is old, but it is still a good story.
The problem here is your initial recommendations is to "Break autofill for everyone on your website so there's not a security risk in a very few edge cases".

Note all of those edge cases are on computers that should have Auto-fill disabled as part of an IT policy.
Oh no! Safari refuses to support some "standards" that were unilaterally fast-tracked so that some PM at Google could put it in their promotion case. This is unacceptable!
Most palestinians suffer from this situation, but it's important to remind everyone that palestinians torture each other because there are 2 camps, Fatah led my Mahmoud Abbas, and the Hamas, which is heavily influenced by Iran.

I don't like Israeli extremists either, but at some point, I don't think Israel can just sit idle when rockets are fired from civilian positions and fired on Israeli civilians.

Palestinian terrorists are evil cowards and they don't hesitate to put civilian in danger and talk about martyrdom.

Palestinians have been protesting Mahmoud Abbas, and as long as Palestinians are unable to gain leadership and organize, violence will continue. I really dislike how people have been blaming Israel as a whole. The extremist government surely has responsbility, but I'm curious about how de-escalation will be possible.
The He/She angle reads like the author started with an idea and just filled in the blanks to a story that is a bit of a nothing burger. A grad student discovering something in their supervisor's lab does not get the recognition for it. While you can absolutely think that it's an issue, but it has little to do with sexism in this case.
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Hailing from Poland (like the author) I see this write-up as a yet another manifestation of the toxic culture of overwork prevalent in this country.

I lived like that during the first years of working remotely and it's both inefficient and unhealthy.