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Before USB-C Apple had a very good case - every USB connector sucked. With USB-C atleast they've developed a usable connector - its just the cables that are a total mess of unknown power capabilities.

With the new MacBooks and some iPads (I've never figured out why) having just USB-C it would make sense to have a common set of cables and chargers even amongst Apple devices - being able to use a single charger and cable to charge both MacBook and iPhone would be very neat.
Wouldn't that make it impossible to change your password if compromised?
Some people think of Bitcoin as a "store of value", comparing it to gold.. I have a question to people who believe that - What do you think will be the value of bitcoin in 100 years? Do you think your descendants would be happier with $50k* worth of bitcoin or with $50k* worth of gold in 200 years? How about 500 years?

*$50k bitcoin/gold if bought today
Totally agree, my criticism are only for the website, not for the language itself.
The problem with that is that the premium users then become a more valuable ad target, and the free users less valuable. So you have to charge even more making them even more valuable. Eventually you reach some equilibrium. But by this point the premium users are such an attractive ad target that the platform eventually starts sneaking in an occasional ad, and then more frequently etc…

Cable TV used to be ad free when it started out.

HBO is probably the best counterexample, but if you look at what they’re doing with HBO max, even they might not be able to resist forever.
In fairness to ZSA, I did miss that page on printable files. I do still think it's a little silly to need to print a new leg for the board to remedy probably the biggest design flaw.

>The Lily58 and Corne have far too few keys for my liking, but to each there own.

For what it's worth, I used to think the same thing, and now I happily do all my daily programming work on a Reviung41, which has even less keys than the Corne.
It's really not hard to replace the battery yourself, no need to send it back to factory.

But you do have the option if you don't want to do it yourself nor go to a repair shop
Keep falling! Gamers want their gpus back
maybe they 'fixed' it by not allowing any app of this kind (specific Api call) in the appstore? wouldn't challenge you to try and publish an example app though...
I'm one of the devs behind Battlesnake (https://play.battlesnake.com), and what Joy and the Coder One team are building looks awesome :)

Anything that gets more folks coding, especially at non-beginner levels, is a huge win imo. Congrats on the launch!
You can apply this to any interaction where you have to wait for a round-trip anyway. It saves you coming up with a JSON schema and endpoint for the request, and then gluing it all together.

It doesn't mean that you don't use javascript at all, you just use it in a limited fashion for enhancing specific bits of your website. Just like it was in the 2000s when making websites was easy.
I just tried googling "mitmproxy chromecast" and found a bit of a rabbithole of hacks and tweaks that can be done to Chromecasts to alter their behavior in ways they were definitely not intended for :)

I expect there are probably umpteen different ways to block ads with a little digging, although I can't vouch for any as I don't have a Chromecast (or TV) myself.

FWIW, a while back I reached my eye-twitch limit with Raid: Shadow Legends (deeply impressioning irritating ads: ...why...?), and so I stared at YouTube's load process to try and figure out if I could viably block everything.

The technique I ended up using exploited the fact I was running within a Chrome extension and overloaded JSON.parse (lmao), and was specific to the HTML delivered for desktop, but has worked for months.

I reckon it's quite possible the data sent to Chromecasts is similar enough that you could viably block it by MITMing the device then rewriting the JSON (or possibly gRPC) responses being sent to it.

Using YouTube Vanced on a no-name Android TV stick might be an alternative. (Untested but should presumably/theoretically work.)
The rule here is also partly to make life nicer for consumers, which can't really be solved by economical twekas like taxation.

In the same way, mandating the abolition of roaming fees across the EU was great for everyone, and it's not really something that could have been solved with markets and taxes
Welcome to history and prehistory. Brutality was common and limited only by power imbalances between the conqueror and the conquered. The remarkable thing about the European conquests was that the power difference had become tremendous after tens of millennia of isolation, which allowed the Europeans to visit unprecedented brutality on the native peoples. It wasn’t that the Europeans were uniquely evil, but uniquely powerful relative to those they conquered.

> suffering through that does, under most western-ish moral philosophies, give you some status that you otherwise would not have.

This is an interesting point, but I don’t think the common belief is “indigenous have moral title to the land due to great suffering”, but rather due to “they were the first people in the land at recorded history” so in our collective psyche we errantly assume they must’ve been the first there ever. I deed, if it were merely “suffering” then surely their disease experience alone would suffice? These are at least the reasons I’ve commonly heard, including from people in this thread.
It was indeed designed to be a portal for escaping the sandbox, but this has the nice side-effect of allowing the file dialog to be implemented by whatever program is called through D-Bus. This is already being used in KDE distributions to show the KDE file picker in firefox, where it would've required patching firefox back in the day.
Define "understood"
Compare how many cookie/data processing consent banners are in breach (because the "decline" option - if it even exists - isn't as easy to use as the "accept" option) with the number of fines.

Compare the total fine amount for Facebook to its revenue (of which a sizeable chunk is earned by breaching the GDPR).
That is like asking a Spring Framework developer using all those juicy annotations the reason they do it vs rolling their own in pure 2006 Java code.

Knowing how to do it vs using a higher DSL is always going to be nicer especially to gain new users. Look at the sega genesis/mega drive SDK. Many 2020+ Sega Genesis/Megadrive games are built using it. It is C. Why not use 68000 assembler like every developer before now? Documentation, ease of use, community, cross domain developers can pick it up easier...

Same thing applies here.
It blows my mind that a community dedicated to technology would support this.
Its not ccp only. Many asian countries were very obedient and self controling, contrary to many western places.
That is just one of many relationships in play.

Regulation also can help mitigate many forms of corruption. A systems analysis is one good (systematic!) way to consider all the factors.
Definitely the same vibe!
The problem comes from the fact that educated, wealthy middle classes are not fungible I'm the same way peasants are.

You can crush a thousand peasant farmers and replace them easily, you can't do that with the middle class without heavily setting back your economy and therefore being less competitive on the world stage.

The CCP will need to decide whether they want to release control and let their population produce value, or keep control and be unable to compete as a world power.

That's my take.
TL;DR:

Btrfs is usable in mirror mode.

Raid is still unusable (as in: you will lose data)

Usage and tooling are unintuitive and dangerous.

I have to say, it doesn't sound so bad when you know what you're doing. The example from the article - the fact that you need to re-silver and re-balance a mirror after a failure - yes that is dangerous. But then again, when you're starting with zero ZFS knowledge, you also need to learn the particular way it's designed.

And let's remember that some mdadm raids don't auto-scrub periodically. So the essence is: Storage is still hard, it's still necessary to think before you manage disks.
But why, I don't understand. These conversations need to be had somewhere, why not in a bug tracker where developer said they won't fix it? There already is an argument not to fix it, why can't others support fixing it?
I think this is an accurate assessment but I think authentication and account management should be seen as separate from 'identity'. Authentication can be useful without being associated with a real-world identity; for example, it can be useful for spam-prevention as an alternative to signups with captcha. You could theoretically log into multiple services which you don't trust by signing messages using your private key without revealing your passphrase to any of those services.
Pretty much that's why they say you need to let money work for you.
Dwarf Fortress: Ten hours with the most inscrutable video game of all time
If the game is completely symmetrical, it would be funny if someone comes up with an "AI" which just mirrors the opponent's moves. If it acts faster than the frames, we would always get a draw.

Edit: Nevermind, just read about the power ups.
A lot of the energy consumption argument against bitcoin stems from this study [1]. Some have pointed out flaws in the study that over inflate the consumption numbers. This has sparked various indexes that have tried to measure the consumption in an unbiased way [2].

Additional studies [3] have shown that 39% of bitcoin miners are using renewables.

The energy consumption argument has led some to investigate the energy consumption of other assets such as gold with some estimating the energy requirements for gold to be 50x that of mining bitcoin [4].

Whenever energy consumption of other assets are pointed out to be higher than bitcoin the debate then shifts to utility; e.g it’s ok if Y consumes X energy because Y provides Z to society.

Some bitcoin miners are finding interesting way to utilize the heat produced by their mining equipment [5]. And some say that bitcoin mining can help reduce the cost of producing new green energy infrastructure since excess power that would’ve been wasted could be used for bitcoin mining to offset costs.

I agree with you that it is tough to find unbiased info on the subject.

- [1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328581842_Bitcoin_e...

- [2] https://cbeci.org/

- [3] https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2021-cc...

- [4] https://simon.medium.com/bitcoin-and-pollution-the-definitiv...

- [5] https://braiins.com/blog/green-innovation-in-bitcoin-mining-...
> virtual currency does not have the same legal status as legal currency

> they are not legal and should not and cannot be used as currency in the market

So, you're not allowed to use it as a currency. Can you still use it as an asset?
In what way is this even remotely similar to vaccine passports?
Its not complicated. It is not necessary for crypto PoW to be powered by CO2 emitting fuels. It can be powered with renewables. Therefore the power usage of Bitcoin can't be used to infer its environmental impact. You need to know how much of that usage was on the back of fossil fuels.
But the rise in invincible spam would make sites like StackOverflow think twice about accepting questions from Texans.
When a big story like that breaks it gets covered by the big newspapers first like the New York Times, goes on the AP newswire, gets covered in the small newspapers, next week it will be talked about in 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑡 and 𝐵𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑔 𝐵𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑘.

That's why they call it "The News Cycle".

Consider a case like

https://news.google.com/topics/CAAqKAgKIiJDQkFTRXdvTkwyY3ZNV...
Yeah it drives me crazy that I can't even plug my new iphone into my new macbook without buying additional cables
I’m convinced that the modern role of US political parties is to simply keep the masses squabbling. I wish we could get rid of gerrymandering and the two party dominance.
Here I was thinking that they would randomly discontinue features and products, like caller ID and answering machines.
Not true. Pretty much the only thing that is in "ruin" is the old defense ministry building which is kept that way for the current governments propaganda purposes.
How do we know it's the best argument?
Keep in mind there's no downvote button for posts. I suspect it would be a completely different story if there was.
The worst bit IMO is that that promptly followed:

> I've created a new thread that hopefully is a bit more relevant. Continue the conversation here

> ['here' marked as duplicate of 'this' and closed]
> The same account could be used by multiple independent services and this removes the need for a signup process altogether.

This is only marginally better than SSO with Google/Apple/Facebook/whatever. It dodges the "Google closed my account" problem, which is a meaningful improvement. But I'm not fully certain why you need the public key to be part of a blockchain for this to work. Couldn't you just publish your public key identity on any number of considerably less wasteful systems? As far as I can tell, the only advantage here is the mapping between the name "UncleMeat" and my public key would be able to be reused across services... but in so many cases I don't want my identity to be consistent across services.
This post is talking about what is essentially a signing setup. If your private key is stolen in such a setup, the person who steals the key becomes you.

Essentially yes :)
https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2021-September/030397.html

The release is the thing that still needs to happen, but that is close to.
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I don't think GP means it's good or that they agree with it. Just like 'oh yeah, that's to be expected there...'
Absolutely agree about the bizarre textbox that pops up if I accidentally press a key while the filename box isn't selected... what on Earth is it supposed to be doing? Does anyone want that feature, someone who thinks, "Yes, when I hit a key in a Save dialog, I'd like to have a strangely filtered list of the files that are there already!?"
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> The reason why we have inflation and debt is to keep the value of our currencies stable.

I'm not following. By definition, inflation is what happens when the price of a currency is not stable.

> Remember: Currency is not an investment. A good currency has a stable value over time; otherwise it's very difficult to conduct commerce

Agreed. But in countries with high inflation, such as mine, you will lose money if all your wealth is stored as fiat.
I have seen people using various different size rubber feet on the bottom to tent their lily, I believe they used a mixture of large rubber bumpers intended for roombas, and the normal small bumpons.

There should also be a variety of 3d printed solutions too, I've seen tenting feet you can screw on to the bottom and cases that let you use large screws on the outside to create tenting legs
I got about half way through the article, and all I’d read was a bunch of poorly attributed motives the author had invented for the people who participate in cryptocurrency.

Did they actually get around to talking about cryptocurrency at any point?
Since this is arstechnica, you should really check if that is actually true. That wasn't the case for arstechnica 10 years ago, but certainly today.
> centralized

If you want to trust a conglomerate of folks who have a vested interest in keeping you small and poor to solve your problems, then there is no advantage. If you do not, then the advantage is exactly that it is not centralised.
You probably live in the first world and had never to worry about inflation or politicians/bureaucrats just straight destroying the fiat currency and your wealth in the process. That's why crypto sounds so "wasteful" to you. BTW, if we give the government the power to judge what is a waste of energy and what's not, I can assure you life would be 100% more miserable, to everyone.
It can be argued that by uploading the photo to a public website they have granted everyone a license to instruct computers to display that photo (that's literally what embeds do)?

Also, since Instagram has an embed feature, surely they have something in their ToS that ask the user to grant a license to Instagram to display the content not just on the main website but on any website that embeds the Instagram-hosted content?
Honestly, I'd rather look at subtle Google ads than the large, brightly-colored eye-sores that span our landscapes selling adult book stores, fast food, and Jesus.
Economists talk of the public good, ethicists and privacy folks talk of a right to privacy of a citizen (in some countries, at least)... but has anyone had an actual "experience improvement" from all this blocking? Do you see less ads or "better" ones? Has your business picked up due to this change, in that poor-but-targeted ads have ceased and "contextually relevant" ads let your business thrive?

That is, this action by Apple should have remedied some consumer harm. While de-anonymyzation of advertising data could reveal, in some cases, identities and geo-behaviors, this seemed proof of concept more than actual impacts.

In looking at my own iphone use, the blocking has not resulted in any improvement in ad frequency, relevance, or enjoyment. My android ads on my tablet have also not shown any measurable improvement. The businesses I help are not benefitting from this change.

So, other than the satisfaction of "job well done, privacy is preserved", has anyone found any direct improvement to user experience from this action? I know none was really expected, that wasn't the point, but just wondering what the HN community has experienced so far.
I don't get this. The concept hasn't changed since and those genuine artists are still there you supported.

Or things are only cool until they are not mainstream?
Yes but it also makes it a LOT less likely that your passphrase would be compromised because it is never sent to any service over the wire; with blockchain signatures, your passphrase never needs to leave your own machine. So the service providers you log into never have any opportunity to even see your passphrase; they only see your signatures which proves that you know the passphrase. You could use a different program for signing login messages so that you don't even need to insert your passphrase inside third party UIs. You'd use one trusted program of your choice to handle logins for all the different services; just copy paste the signature into the different services.

There are some stateful blockchains which allow changing the passphrase but of course there is no 'forgot my password' feature; a malicious actor who manages to steal your passphrase could potentially use it to change your passphrase and lock you out of your account but at least you don't have to live in doubt if you suspect that your passphrase was compromised.

The idea behind the blockchain auth approach is that you would only need one passphrase for all services but you would have to secure it carefully since losing it would cause you to be locked out of all services associated with that account.
Could the US ever make a similar move?
> Neither, strictly speaking, is anything that a normal person would really need to know or care about unless that normal person is the victim of a ransomware scam, or wants to buy drugs on the internet...

Ah right... because normal people never donate to journalists. Never pay for online subscriptions, never buy hardware off newegg. Just because the author has no exerience using cryptocurrency he assumes everyone is like him and repeats the FUD.
That's the massive problem with decentralized "currencies". Even if the Colombian peso is used by 0.6% of people in the world, it's still a currency because lots of people can pay with it in almost all their interactions with the economy. If a decentralized global "currency" is used by 0.6% of people, it's not a currency because almost nobody around you accepts it. Even at 6% it would not be a currency. Maybe at 60%, but how do you get there from 0.6% in the first place?
> The point, despite your defensive posturing about Europeans

I’m not defensively posturing? I’m not even European. Sometimes people are just interested in the truth—no need to suppose some nefarious motive.

> I'm not pretending there was anything more or less noble about the residents of the Americas vs. those of Europe (although the latter do have a spectacularly bad record).

Terrific, I’m glad we agree here (although again Europeans have a bad record because they kept a written record, not because they were uniquely barbarous).
Best explanation I've heard was in Darknet Diaries about Zero Day Brokers, which was a fantastic listen! (https://open.spotify.com/episode/4vXyFtBk1IarDRAoXIWQFf?si=3...)

The short version is that if the bounties become too large they'll lose internal talent who can just quit to do the same thing outside the org. Another reason was that they can't offer competitive bounties for zero days because they'll be competing with nation states, effectively a bottomless bank, so price will always go up.

I don't know much about this topic, but surely there are some well structured bounty programs Apple could copy to find a happy middle ground to reward the white hats.
The Founder’s Dilemma (2008)
I had the exact overheating in a bag problem described here with my 2012 15" MBP within days of buying it. It had all sorts of sleep problems for a very long time.
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Many excellent points -- and this is a key part of the discussion when it comes to fine.

The post above has emotion -- and I'm personally ok with that -- but I think it would be better received without the two letter abbreviations for swear words.
China vows ‘clamp down’ on cryptocurrency trading, bans crypto mining
Why're you necro'ing just to be wrong?
> are susceptible to this narrative of foreign powers trying to keep Serbia down.

They would be correct.
My GF has a M1 mac and is quite happy with it. I have a problem rewarding Apple with another purchase, given the dismal performance of this machine.

The 2018 mac was a top of the line purchase. I think it came to about $5000 AUD if memory serves. It's essentially worthless now because I can't sell it in it's current state.

I might cave when they update the 16in to M1X sometime soon, but I won't be happy about it.
Huh TIL. Apparently the mainline kernel got a lockdown feature in version 5.4 that prohibits this. Ubuntu started shipping with a version of the patches in 2018. So I guess you'll have to disable that "helpful" feature first if you want to restore functionality.
Do you know of any lines of research that are out to prove mathematically that it is impossible to have these desirable characteristics simultaneously? I.e. any improvement in consensus efficiency necessarily gives up some amount of decentralization, appropriately defined.
I'd wager billionaires donate a lot more to charities than they spend on nfts. Look at the Gates Foundation.
Great for everyone? I think it is not great for the companies who charged the fees.
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