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What is being pretended as true? The link was published by Tether themselves! It’s not a scam if I can see that they’re backed by commercial paper. I can then make a decision if I want to use the service.

The big miss with tether everyone makes is that it’s not an investment. It’s a tool to support liquidity. The average investor uses it then converts it, buys or sells.

The companies holding it are the ones providing liquidity to investors. So if anyone is getting scammed it’s these large companies offering liquidity services.
Relax the amount of overthinking people do is negligible compared to the amount of under thinking. Overthinking is not a problem, seriously.

This guy in the article only thinks it's a problem because people are acutely aware of overthinking. They are completely unaware of under thinking.

There are simply too many topics in the world to think about so in order to make sense of the world at a macro level you under think almost everything.

I mean the guy is a software engineer OF COURSE he overthinks software related stuff. Guaranteed he's under thinking most of everything else.
Who wants to be the government that bans Winnie the Pooh?

Ohh... oops.
I have heard of this too, but never looked into it.

So I just looked into it. I found a couple of news articles [0][1]. [2] says:

> Kids remain, as they have been throughout the pandemic, at much lower risk of getting seriously sick with the coronavirus, especially compared with unvaccinated adults. But the recent rash of illnesses among the nation’s youngest is a sobering reminder of the COVID-19 adage that lower risk is not no risk. With so many children unable to access vaccines and their health contingent on those around them, parents and guardians must now navigate the reality that Delta represents a more serious danger to everyone—which means it’s a more serious danger to kids as well.

0: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jul/04/delta...

1: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-06/children-need-covid-p...

2: https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/619712/
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On the contrary, the reason Stalin and Hitler could enact repressive measures unprecedented in human history was precisely new technological developments like the telephone, the battle tank, and IBM cards. Bad people will never value human rights; getting privacy from bad people requires you to make it actually difficult to implement the spying, rather than just lie about it. That's why the slogan says, "cypherpunks write code."
Playing a file without a license is not a copyright violation though
For me, it was the opposite with Stack Overflow. I use the Consolas font literally everywhere throughout my Windows machine. It's the default and most common monospace font on Windows, and I'm used to reading code like that. Yet Stack Overflow started using Cascadia Code instead, which I'm not used to, and it feels like all the code there is bold, and some letters have strange proportions.

Maybe website owners could just use "monospace" in CSS and let users configure the browsers as they wish. But I guess it's too late for that now as users aren't used to do this.
> Plus the usual suspects (infrastructure...

Reddit is the only website in the Alexa top 15 (US) that runs completely on the cloud. Everyone else has figured out datacenters save a bucket load of money.
Knowing how to put a footer on a Word document does not make you a digital native, and not knowing does not make one a digital immigrant.

Knowing to look it up though, does.
There _is_ a way to do it like that. In fact I swear MacOS used to actually do it that way. Microsoft definitely does.
All you have to do is:

- Get your image added to the list

- Order Apple to scan all images not just ones being uploaded to iCloud

- Order Apple to change the reporting threshold or remove the safety voucher system unless you only care about users with many matching images

- Compromise or order Apple to skip the human review and pass the reports directly to your government agency

Really you have to compromise or order Apple to change every step in the pipeline except “compare images to hashes” which is the part an intern could do in a weekend.

I’m sure governments would love to know which users have “undesirable” images on their device. I’m just saying instead of doing the above steps to take advantage of the CSAM system, they could just order Apple to scan for the images they want scanned for. Apple’s choice is the same, comply or risk participation in that market.
Not quite. Silverblue is based around flatpak's (containers) and composing your OS from a set of containers.

NixOs is based on Nix, which doesn't use containers but links binaries against specific versions of dynamic libraries to resolve dependency issues and allow for reliable installations.
Interesting stuff to read. Keep it up.

https://www.myaarpmedicare.fit/
It’s not clear what this sentence is trying to mean.

It may just be saying that wolf culls can only occur during parts of the year when they’re allowed to be culled under federal law, rather then that they have to be culled, although the latter interpretation would be ok too, right?

I’m no expert but wouldn’t unchecked wolf numbers rapidly become a significant risk to humans and live stock?
Your point being what exactly?

Apart from more severe outcomes for babies than what we thought there are children that increasingly have to be treated for pneumonia at hospitals. Also long covid is on the rise. This has been widely reported recently.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/long-covi...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/08/09/heal...
The duration of the responses will be increased to 9 minutes on the next release. We have received feedback from some of the mentors on this and have observed some mentors sending more than one response to 1 question. That said, the experience is meant convert into as a dialogue, which it often does.

Customized talks for cohorts os users is an excellent idea. What type of talks would you like to see, just out of curiosity? Pre-recorded, customized sessions, and live videos with groups that can send in questions have been discussed.
The article is way more nuanced than the title.

That said, if the virus spreaded the same with the vaccine, the advantaged would be that the virus wouldn't have as much evolutionary pressure to change and become resistant. For example, it could make it harder for lambda variant, which might be symptomatic, to become prevalent
The Freighliner eCascadia (a semi-truck) and em2 (a straight truck) have been talked up since 2018, but apparently will not ship until 2022.

Freightliner is a no-nonsense truck builder in a no-nonsense business. They probably will ship useful trucks. Although probably not with the silly purple LED lighting effects on the nose they stuck on the prototype.

Unless something goes badly wrong, electric trucks are going to be all over the place next year.
Apple can’t even keep settings values correctly.

After they introduced AirTags I went and disabled item detection on all my devices. Yesterday I went into settings and guess what, that feature is enabled again. On all my devices! I’m not sure when that happened, but my guess would be that latest iOS update caused that…

My point is, you will only have things working to the extent you have testing for, and test coverage is likely less robust for less popular features or where perception tells developers that “no one is going turn that mega-feature off”.
Of course you have to care about architecture. ARM has been in the making for a long time now, and I can only imagine how far behind z is in terms of software support. To succeed, IBM would have to get Linux, Postgres/MySQL, Nginx/Apache, Java/Python/NodeJS, and the rest of the whole modern x86 ecosystem to work on z—that project would never be done. Or they could build their own, different tools—but they kind of already have, and why would anyone switch to those? To catch up with the other cloud providers, IBM needs to start with what everyone's already using—x86—and use their capital to build an advantage from there.
Blindly assuming that everybody has the same threat model is also not how security works.
An example will be, a fearmongering web site will say "climate change is here, $someplace just experienced its hottest day on record." Go and actually check the records, and you'll find, e.g., a black and white photograph commemorating a hotter day in $someplace in 1906, or other clear records of hotter days in $someplace in the distant past.

Or they'll say "climate change is here, $someplace just experienced its third hurricane this year!" But if you check the records, you find that $someplace got hit with five hurricanes in 1883.

On and on like that, wrongly suggesting that current events are unusual and scary, when in fact they are not remarkable compared to the historical records that nobody seems to be checking.
>A set of multiple images must match.

How many exactly? The threshold is secret, it could be 1 or 2 or maybe it is dynamic and depends on stuff like your identity.
You mean like there already is everywhere else?
Exactly this. The whole thing is a red herring. If Apple wanted to go evil, they can easily do so, and this very complex CSAM mechanism is the last thing that will help them.
Fdroid and Linux mobile are both free platforms.

Mandatory trusted computing for access to the internet would screw free platforms.
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Not the original commenter but it's because the marketer doesn't want to be associated with the content. It may devalue the product, be the wrong target audience, cause some social media backlash, etc. (e.g. Disney wouldn't want to advertise Disney+ on a revenge porn page since it would ruin their family-friendly image).

> People know how targeting works, their session and the ad networks.

People in your network maybe. If that were widely true you wouldn't see people swearing that FB is listening to you for showing a mattress ad after you spent an hour searching for it on your computer. The average American has no idea what the hell is going on.
You are stuck thinking that just because something is possible, it is easy or even possible for everybody.

Also stuck thinking gmail is involved in every email exchange. It is not.
Ethereum contracts are not 100% immutable. They need to maintain state like a token‘s balance. That’s why Ethereum‘s VM supports contract variables.

You can also use variables to store addresses to other contracts and call external methods indirectly using these pointer like structures. If I understood the bug correctly, the hacker was able to modify such a pointer and redirect all transactions to a wallet contract she controlled.

So this is how you can upgrade contracts: There is the „implementation contract“ pattern. Basically, you define a user-facing proxy contract defining the interface but all it does is delegate user calls to the actual implementation contract by maintaining a variable pointing to it. Using a privileged call you can update that address even after deploying the proxy.
Nice websites, but try actually visiting Vietnam, as I have. You’ll encounter a people who are fairly prosperous by regional standards, and downright rich compared to the colonial era. Government involvement in their day to day lives is minimal. I chose my words carefully.
"decentralised pharmaceuticals project that is initially basing out of"

This sound like a worthwhile project which could be run by a group of passionate supporters. Why does it need a blockchain?
> Signatures typically appear on printed documents. More and more often, they appear on separate signature pages, which don't include any terms or the signature of the other side.

When you sign multi page document you sign every page. This is standard legal practice.
The truth is that some car manufacturers actually request it to be somewhat fool proof, but very few.

It costs hardware to run and cost to develop/test, and car manufacturing is all about price.

But also:

Today the algorithm knows the 3D geometry of your head, and knows that it does not makes sense with a flat face. But it is more important to get it to work good on everyone than to catch foolers.

Disclaimer: i'm one of all the developers behind camera monitoring.
If you recently purchased an iPhone with your Credit Card, now is the time to file a dispute. I called my company (the American one), and the person I was connected to was instantly aware when I mentioned my Apple phone was now spying on me. 5 minutes later I have a dispute and some semblance of hope. YMMV of course, but what other choice do we have than to hit them in their pocket book on our way out of their walled garden?
What's fishy to me is the fact that they are letting this be known. Like, if you're trying to capture people who share CSAM or have it on their phone, why would you go around saying that you can now scan for it?

I think this announcement would have been well known to cause a major outrage so why say anything? I'm wondering if this is a cover up for something else. Get people talking about this in the news and getting outraged about it while something else goes unnoticed.
https://news.wisc.edu/tolerance-of-wolves-in-wisconsin-conti...

this article seems to have more. Reading it sideways, what seems to come out is:

> “There was a notion held widely in the scientific literature and said at public meetings that a public hunting season would increase acceptance of wolves,” says Adrian Treves, professor in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and co-author of the study.

> Treves isn’t certain whether most hunters in Wisconsin will ever embrace wolves because the predators feed on the white-tailed deer that hunters value.

> “It’s easier to talk about and tally the costs of dead calves than it is to talk about improved populations of endangered plant species or the other ecosystem benefits that come with wolves.”

Sounds like it's basically that hunters dislike wolves (I imagine rural populations aren't fans either...) and that's kind of the default position. And Wisconsin seems to have adopted this hunt as a way to keep the population under control and "release pressure" from, for example, trying to get them completely wiped out.

Pretty nasty, though my impression is that wolves are not really accepted much anywhere in the US? I don't know if this is more cruel than other mid-western states or not.
how many kids with steamdeck will say "BTW I USE ARCH" after this?
So that sounds like the way invalid floating point operations give NaN, and then the NaN propagates everywhere. I've always found this super annoying because its often hard to figure out where the NaN comes from. Does your solution differ from this in a way that's less annoying?
I haven't heard of this tool before, but I don't think it would work for obfuscated code. Check out the graph image on my wiki [1]. While this image doesn't show the exact scenario, imagine that the first instruction is a `JUMP_ABSOLUTE 100` and the rest of the instructions between offset [3,100) are just garbage or invalid.

A naive disassembler (like the `dis` module in python) interprets the bytecode linearly -- i.e. one instruction after another. Rizin's diassembler [2] seems to take the same approach. The way I do disassembly is to only disassemble code paths that are potentially executed by queueing non-conditional jumps, both targets of a conditional jump, and the next instruction when the current instruction is non-jumping instruction.

[1] https://github.com/landaire/unfuck/wiki/Obfuscation-Tricks

[2] https://github.com/rizinorg/rizin/blob/e3d1b967854c33cf9dfbb...
As I said, I already do it with uBO. I don't need another addon.
I love the list and optimism is a breath of fresh air, but climate change is the elephant hiding between the lines. It is linked in many ways to many of those improvements.

It also threatens to wipe away many of those, especially if societies or ecosystems begin to collapse or conflicts increase.
My comment is accurate. We are talking about CFR. Whether that is a key metric is a different discussion. I provided the numbers and the source.

P.S. That article did not age well.
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If the vaccine is effective then mandates are unnecessary.
Disclaiming expertise doesn't have to arise out of fear of lawsuits. It could just be letting people know as a friendly gesture that you're not an expert and that your comment may reflect a layperson's best understanding rather than specialized education in the field.
By those standards, nothing can be measured. Everything is measurable only with a degree of uncertainty.

Some things have more uncertainty than others (compared to what the number would be used for) but we have created techniques to deal with that in practise too (hedging, optionality.)

Maybe you have a personal threshold for a level of uncertainty below which things count as measurable and above which they don't, but you're imbuing the word "measure" with subjective characteristics at that part -- not to be confused with its objective meaning.
> The natural resources board, made up of political appointees, ignored those pleas. And it brushed aside a lower quota recommended by a state Wolf Harvest Advisory Committee, made up of biologists, hunters, wolf advocates, and tribal members.

Must there be a board AND an advisory committee?
Virtual vaccine passports will be forgotten long before they affect even a small fraction of people on this planet.
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I've written more Terraform than most people outside of possibly the folks at HashiCorp themselves and probably Gruntwork. Have been using it at 10^5 scale of systems and haven't had nearly the kind of problems that you're describing.

Also the treadmill is really not any different than integrating with _ANY_ Google service. In fact I'd say it's an order of magnitude better. Google has set a standard of breaking changes without notification and if that's one of the providers you're using then I understand.

And well, if it was Azure (as it likely looks to be) the state of their public facing APIs is/was an absolute fucking mess and the preferred way to do anything in their system still seems to be using the UI. I've talked to several people at Microsoft at Azure teams responsible and there's multiple compounding problems there. For one you have 200+ engineering teams with no unified approach to exposing services. Then you've got multiple regions in their cloud that for years didn't have the same authentication system, didn't have consistent features between regions, etc.

There's very little you can lay at Hashicorp's feet for this when the underlying systems themselves have very poor automation.

And then you talk about having 200+ repos and services that haven't been deployed for months and all I can say is the consensus around the need for CI/CD is over a decade old now and infrastructure needs these things just as much as code does.

100% of my Terraform is in a CI/CD pipeline. Yes it was a lot of work to set up, but the alternative is nothing but problems. Terraform is just a tool. It's not a panacea. It will not make all of your problems go away -- it's up to the craftsman how good it is.
I'm well calibrated on what CFR is, and I don't disagree that there are better measures. However, the parent made a comment about CFR, and so I updated them with more recent numbers, about CFR, which are 20x higher, so at the very least hints that perhaps their numbers are off.
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Not in the United States. Where is your experience?
It could be 1 or 2, but the claim is that it is set to only detect people who are actually building a collection of CSAM images because Apple doesn’t want this system to flag people who are unlikely to be actual criminals. I.e. they don’t just want no false positives, they don’t want positives that aren’t highly likely to be criminal. I’m guessing it’s a lot more than 2.
Apple was always pro “think of the children”, not just privacy.
Interested in what’s the issue here, next.js’s image component has been amazing and a breeze for me so far.
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I turned off iCloud photos tonight. F** Apple. If there is a collision, then it gets manually reviewed by a human...so now my private pictures are on display for someone to see who I've not given permission. Just Say No.
How does one compare encrypted forms of hashes?
> Converting an existing gas station to EV charging just wouldn't work in most cases because they don't have the space to charge, say, a hundred cars at the same time.

On the contrary - have you ever noticed how gas-stations don't have an _upstairs_? Without the massive fire-and-explosion risk from pumping gasoline, a typical urban filling-station could be converted to a multi-storey charging plaza at a a reasonable expense, imo.

I remember there was a brief fad in the 1990s to quickly build additional storeys of parking spaces on bare concrete/asphalt lots using metal superstructure: it worked and it was relatively cheap, but the results weren't long-lasting (my university tore-down their metal-based parking lot after it had been up for about 10-15 years IIRC) - I assume something similar could be done in this case.
Are you open to using a tool like direnv to manage env vars on a directory-wide basis? I used to also suffer from the same paranoia, but direnv has allowed me to take back control regarding directory-specific configuration.

You can configure it to set your git user name/email based on your working directory, for example. This is how I keep the separation you mentioned between personal and work on the same machine
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That has nothing to do with TikTok explicitly limiting the suggestion rates of certain video categories.
My understanding is that not denying your app to run on M1 Macs means it appears in the Mac App Store.

So a user who has never used the app on iOS can go in the store, pay money for the app, and try to use it on their Mac.

So yes, that does create an implication of support by the developer for that app running on that platform.

That is a different scenario than removing access to download an app on your phone that you purchased in the past. You can remove the app from the store and still allow downloads for existing users.
No, it's based on ostree for system distribution (which Colin had been developing since 2011), and using flatpak for applications. This had been a goal of the Red Hat desktop team for a while (see also: Stateless Linux from the 90s), but it took a long time for the community to realize the benefits. Other approaches here are the ChromeOS image style updates, CoreOS's image style updates, systemd's btrfs based OS distribution, and quite a few more throughout history. It's a good idea.

Collabora's SingularityOS they built for Valve for the original SteamOS was going to use ostree, but for various reasons (poor ones), they didn't ship that.
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