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Well USB cables use some copper and some have gold-plated contacts. In any case, the EU has been complaining about cables for who knows how long, so I guess they have their own reasons, backed by data, to argue for their standardisation.

It surely doesn't make that much sense to let Apple do its own hypocrite thing where they spew out platitudes about the environment while clearly the only driving force behind their decisions is how they suit their financial targets.
My stack-allocated integers don't need it.
I say the certificate of authenticity can be easily forged or destroyed with no way to know what it once contained. And because the entire reason to exist of an NFT is based on this certificate of authenticity (unlike a real world artwork which can be touched and estimated by a specialist), I see a problem right there. Of course this is a problem only if the NFT has an artistic value, which is an entire discussion per se.
> Does this service include hiring notaries to check state-issued IDs to verify identities?

How would that be without risks? Corruption concerns aside, Nation-States are likely among the biggest identity fakers for their intelligence services.

I think "without risk" meant that discovery of alternative accounts/URLs is signed with a public key you already know of, so impersonation risks are reduced. I don't care to know "who" this is, as long as i know it's the same person.
The android app is good, though I can't compare it to the iOS version. On windows, itunes works okay-ish albeit slow. On Linux, the web app is the only option and it sucks way bad.
Also, Apple's own USB-C equipped iPads are slimmer than any of their phones.
I think by a "charger", the EU means everything needed to charge a device, i.e. including the cables. Which means, that the charging ports should be identical on all devices sold in the EU.
Then they become kind of pointless right? Nobody would get started with this stuff if they didn’t already have a heap of ether from the initial days.
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Fwiw I broke I think more then 10 micro usb cables / ports throughout the time when they were everywhere, it was kind of prone to breaking. Never managed to break a regular usb, mini usb or usb c though. So I don't think proneness to breaking is inherent to this design, but the opposite isn't true either.
How about we solve both problems? Its not like we should solve these sequentially we can always solve problems in a parallel way?
It can be argued that lightning is slightly better, sure. But billions of people use USB-C daily, and even half of Apples product line only has them instead of lightning, so not sure if the difference is that meaningful.
Ban algorithmic account suspensions to users who have derived $250 from a service in last year - all must be confirmed by a human.

Gives Google, fb, twitter, et al time to ban the bots (in first 30 days of an account life), while still protecting users from ever expansive tech cos.
Can't we have protocol-agnostic cables?

I mean, we use hundreds of different protocols over-the-air, so why can't we do the same with cables?
Awesome. Something about the sentence structure... I can't read it without Rod Serling narrating it word for word in my head.
[edit] ... I just realized it's that it's in second person present... and that's so rare in English prose, he's the only narrator I associate with it.
Another great alternative is HiFiBerry which produce their own DACs and cases that you can add a Raspberry Pi to.

Personally I have a RPi4 with the DAC2 HD and a steel case which I’m very happy with.

I think you can run Volumio on these too, but I prefer the simpler HiFiBerry OS distribution. You get AirPlay 2, Spotify and many more ways to play music. All connected to your analog hi-if equipment.

https://www.hifiberry.com/
Methane breaks down though, it only gets worse if we scale up production. Basically eating meat forever is equivalent to a year or so of other carbon pollutants. I'd rather we regulate other emissions a year or so early than ban all meat forever.
Related discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28489516 - "RAD Studio 11 Alexandria" - 11 days ago
Let's hope no advancements in phone chargers come around
On Macs they now have Thunderbolt over USB-C e.g. the port works for both standards.
> the Internet had a hosts file you were expected to keep up to date

I wasn't online back then so don't take my word for it, but my understanding is that different people maintained different hosts files. There was not a single Internet-wide hosts file, although one of these hosts files was somewhat more popular than others (due to who was maintaining it).
Rust's str also checks things like whether you're trying to read in the middle of a character. Rust also has several related string types like Path, CStr and OsStr to make sure the strings passed to the relevant APIs are well-formed. You can also use &[u8] if you want a slice of bytes or ascii string--it has several string methods implemented in the standard library as well.

I like Rust's approach of having purpose-specific string types that may differ (e.g. if your OS is using UTF-16 encoded strings but the C strings are just arrays of bytes). It guarantees that the programmer checks/converts the string is in/to the correct form, or just let the program panic with .unwrap(), when interfacing with the external world. It makes the program safe and makes the potentially expensive string conversion calls explicit. Also, I think valid UTF-8 strings is a good default.

I haven't used Zig yet (I haven't found a good use case for it), it seems closer to C both in spirit and in implementation while removing some foot guns.
> I use the same USB plug everywhere,

That's because of EU regulation. All the big manufacturers had their own connector before that, micro-USB started to look like a common connector among the low end manufacturers.

This is the next step for that regulation and has been in the cards for some time.
It does apply to modern day humans in some aspects and is a reason for a lot of misery and suffering in our world. Obviously I'm not saying that we have a lower quality of life than our hunter and gather ancestors, but a lot of the things that go against our evolutionary environment are the direct causes for much of our suffering. But going back to the actual argument, the the degree to which our lives differ from that we evolved in is obviously much smaller than for livestock.
This is not about what connector is better. It is about everyone using the same connector. I believe if Apple allowed others to use their connector for free, they could "beat" USBs and become the only existing standard.
I have another thst doesnt support data or quickcharge. But does charge devices so OK for me. A basic one.

Actually stumbled on this right now and if I ever need another one, will give this a go.
When looking at air quality in Europe, the west coast of Ireland is the best place to live.
So if China moves millions of Han Chinese to Xinjiang (which by the way they've been doing since at least the 50ies), so that they become the majority there, then the plight of Uyghurian self-determination and independence ceases to exist? Doesn't work like that. People remember.

>Qing territory

Both China and Russia have been oppressive identity-suppressing culture-destroying mutli-ethnic empires (something very very very very bad) since forever. (The identity-suppressing culture-destroying part really started up in the 19-20th century, when it became evident that the empires won't survive without colonization and suppression in the modern age) "Qing territory" doesn't say more to me than the British Empire's "territory". Same for Inner Mongolia, Tibet, Xinjiang, and arguably even Canton.
What is a chargeback, and who do you file it with?
I agree in theory that it’s good. It’s a pain having to also have a lightening cable with me.

But I will say this - the lightening connector is a lot more reliable than my usb-c connector. It fits better. It falls out less. And it breaks less often - it’s not as bad as the old usb connector but it’s not as good as lightening.
Not really. You could do Cloud to Cloud but Cloud like RAID before it is NOT a replacement for proper 3-2-1 backups
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For inexplicable reasons well beyond my understanding mainstream development had always gone into the most masochistic state.
Apple switched? Switched what? I'm not up to date :)
but without writing in law apple will never care about environment right? They are getting money from each connector so why would they? Is it possible to solve such issue without law?

What solution do you propose? If you have solution let us know?
I don’t see that as the central issue here. On gut, I generally think Trump is at least five times more guilty than Biden, per the reasoning you gave.

The issue is that we’re verifiably living under a pervasive propaganda machine that has most well-meaning people, intelligent ones, fooled. That it’s supporting the lesser of two evils, is beside the point that the truth is being deliberately concealed.
The valuable part of the charger and the cable is not actually plastic. The point is that replaced chargers account for ~ 1_000_000 kg of e-waste per year.

Cable is 30% copper, 24% stainless steel, 16% other non-plastic materials. EPS is 13% copper and copper alloys, 7% aluminium, 6% steel, 37% other non-plastic components.

According to EU studies, 31% of the EPS and cables are incorrectly disposed.

https://op.europa.eu/o/opportal-service/download-handler?ide...

They are not _especially_ bad compare to other waste, but it is the waste that be easily avoided.
>USB-C more vulnerable to e.g. dust

A trouble with lightning is the dust etc. gets stuck in the phone socket - I've had to replace two at like £50 a go. Getting a new cable is often easier.
The standard rhetoric of some groups is "do your own research, don't trust the authorities". Does this qualify as thinking for yourself? They say yes, I see a problem.
Some things travel back to windows 1.0 - windows 10 UI.
Qt's corporate owners have been openly hostile to the community for a while, and have been trying to get away with shady stuff. The license terms for commercial use are terrible, you need an active license to distribute existing software, not only develop new software, the prices are excessive and keep increasing, and once you get a commercial use license you have to keep it forever or you won't be able to distribute your existing work. Commercial license users are prohibited from contributing to the community version. They also made registration mandatory for all downloads, even of the GPL/LGPL licensed stuff, which information they use for Oracle-style license shakedowns. They keep delaying GPL/LGPL releases and have stated an intention to delay them by the maximum permitted amount (one year) meaning all community contributions are effectively blocked because contributors don't have access to the current codebase. While the contract with the Qt community does prevent the Qt Company from going completely closed, they're certainly not someone I'm comfortable with.
Ah, yes, news from the Delphi universe...

As a guy who used to work with Delphi professionally until ~10 years ago, I find it fascinating how a development environment can survive for so long while completely flying under the radar. I guess it's mostly legacy applications? I mean, COBOL is considerably older, but still a thing thanks to legacy applications.
Well - once upon a time they WAS amazing.

But later they become CodeGear and later their R&D division is moved to Romania. Products become unstable and unreliable.
Maybe that’s the only viable business model.
Yes, if your mobile app is a PWA, you would definitely need to transcode most videos. I'm not sure of how you did that so far, but in my experience, all web browsers support some specific codecs, and nothing else. Same for container formats. For example I haven't been able to open a Matroska (MKV) video with either Firefox or Chrome. And if those browsers have their limitations, I can only assume iOS Safari is even more strict with what it can consume!

I think your idea was the safest one: transcode the file in the main PC, then send it out to a <video> tag in the phone; I'm surprised that didn't work. What protocol is the transfer done with? Maybe iOS Safari doesn't support it, or if it's plain and simple HTTP, it might silently fail if the source is not HTTPS with a proper certificate.

You could try WebRTC. Safari supports it, and it's well tested at this point. It's more complex, having to send SDP messages back and forth, and having to care about browser limitations (e.g. videos cannot autoplay if they have audio, things like that). If you decide to go that route, this project might be just what you needed for this task ;-)
Micro-USB was the standard back then. All phone manufacturers had custom proprietary (though most jack-based) connectors, but due to european regulations they all switched to micro-USB to comply with standards... all, except Apple of course who went another way.

Apple was not exactly unaware of these developments, as they have repeatedly signed the memorandums of understanding surrounding charger interoperability, according to wikipedia.
I don’t own a single usbc device, I have lightning on my phone, and tons of microusb-usbA devices/cables

“Billions” sounds like a HN bubble statement.
Could they do this given current or near-future technology? My understanding is wireless charging is ~30% less efficient then using a cable, and degrades the battery more. I'm not sure it'd be much of an environmental win to have to use more energy/replace batteries more often (although perhaps Apple would see it as replacing lightning revenue with battery replacement revenue)
And miss out on selling all those accessories? Doubtful.
I guess I misunderstood it and falsely applied it to make my code clearer and more effective. I failed to become "more clever" in the process and now I'm doomed to write unclever code other people understand better.
This is weird. My experience has always been the opposite. I’ve broken lots of usb-c cables with the metal bit coming loose. Lightening hardly ever. Any connection problems are usually pocket lint in the hole and fixed with a paper clip.
> we'll all starve

Please, every time someone proposes farmers lead a less cushioned life we get these huge bitter fights from somewhere. They don't also have to exist here. If you have a vested interest and want your subsidies to continue, that's cool! But there's no need to peddle your salty response to it when literally everyone everywhere has already heard them said many, many times.
Now now, I have some self respect, I consider every single one of them a complete scam.
First off, I am not sure we need to improve on it in the short term. USB-A has existed for ~20y by now on the desktop and is still going strong. If USB-C lives as long, we'll get a break from having to buy different cables for quite some time, which at least is great for /my/ nerves. When I threw away old phone chargers from 1996 and later, it was literally 10 different models.

And if USB-C doesn't cut it anymore, who's to say that industry can't move to a different system? EU legislation usually isn't outlandish but follows industry practices. If device manufacturers bring up a pressing need for USB-D, EU will allow both for a transition period and then mandate USB-D (or split up mandatory standards by device class if need be).

I don't see how every tiny iteration of a standard has to result in a different plug system - the incentive for companies to iterate plugs just to force consumers to re-buy gear is just too high.
It's only really possible to move the needle on global warming with an industrial-scale society. The medieval era could just about manage deforestation, but to achieve climate change the sheer volume of coal to move is huge.
It is terrible, adds heat and is worse for the environment. See any long-term review of the Magsafe wireless external stick-on battery for the iPhone.
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Which is exactly how the "think for yourself" logic works. They call you specifically to ignore authorities, and once you filtered out the specialists, what is left? Opinions of loud nobodies where the results will be all over the place.
Why is email still so terrible?
> This seems like a fairly direct response to the recent spate of DDoS attacks in NZ.

If so, they got the plan together rather fast.
Some people confuse energy efficient with market viable

Many products are way more expensive than the energy required to mine them. Gold, Bitcoin, Kobe Beef, etc. etc. etc.
Science is not economics.
You need to create a market for cruelty free meat.

200 years ago, slave labor would have been the most "cheapest option" and any system to replace it would have been economically unviable.

The point of veganism, vegetarianism, or animal rights in general at any level is a moral issue, not a utilitarian one.

If it costs more to be a more moral society we will do so.
> They probably considered Lightning to be superior but couldn't make it the industry standard without loosing their ability to charge absurd amounts of licensing fees for it.

I don't think it's this. Lightning was superior to micro-USB, but it's certainly not superior to USB-C.

I think the problem is that everyone remembers the transition from the 30 pin dock connector to Lightning. Apple has a huge reputation for just changing their cables all the time.

This is largely unwarranted. For the portable devices they had 30-pin for ~10 years, then lightning for ~10 years, and it looks like it's on its way out soon. I think 10 years is a fairly reasonable time to keep ecosystems the same. People don't have 10 year old cables and chargers around.

This reputation is pervasive though. I think they're holding off until they can drop the cable entirely in 1-2 years.
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Hmmm, I actually remember some of Android keyboard like that, it had two letters per key, so one tap - first letter, 2 taps - second letter. Allowed for bigger key size.

Worked a lot like a good old phone numpad, just faster. Crashed a lot.
Previous submission and a few comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28615737
So only the top 100k domains get to keep their names, and the rest of us can find new ones because we'll be domain squatted by early miners with tons of coins?

> They're actively thwarting ICANN's overreach and centralisation of control by redecentralising the internet again.

I'm all in favor of that. ICANN and its affiliated TLD/registrar mafia is screwing everyone. However, Handshake depiste the good stuff (distributing lots of cash to free software project) is not effectively decentralizing DNS governance, it's centralizing it in different hands: who controls the Handshake source code? what is the treat model of its blockchain in regards to Sybil attacks? Can the persons with the biggest wallets control the network? If so, it sounds like ICANN all over again, with "coin" speculation added on top.

> a legitimate use case for a blockchain

A blockchain in itself has many usecases as an append-only ledger. However, i've yet to see a legit usecase for a public blockchain, because trying to establish global consensus among unlimited untrusted peers is "hard" to say the least.

DNS sounds like a good usecase for a DHT, where Sybil-resilience has been better researched in the past decades. The root zone would simply be a well-known entry in the DHT, much like it currently is a set of well-known IP addresses and DNSSEC keys.

I strongly recommend you watch ICANN's "Emerging identifiers" session [0] from ICANN66 where both Handshake and GNS are presented. I found it very informative that Handshake is more concerned with the domain acquisition process (auction) while GNS is more concerned with solving actual problems we have with DNS (security and privacy).

[0] https://icann.zoom.us/recording/share/M8N-Duq935XheIZoBedIwm... <-- sorry for linking to Zoom, it appears ICANN doesn't have a Peertube yet
It can modify the state of the blockchain based on the inputs.
Great news but needs serious enforcement and vigilance against various tricks that manufacturers might employ to "encourage" users to buy their own charger. Example: if a phone sets a lower charging current when it is not connected to the same-brand charger, no matter if that charger can source the necessary current, that would trick the user in believing the original charger is better by shorting the charging time, so the user would be lured into buying one, and we could end up in a even worse situation in which for most people a product and its charger would come in two packages and two shipments.
Sure, be happy about buying an overpriced raspberry pi with a DAC that only plays Spotify.
ISIS is probably an extreme example, more recently there have been moves to brand many non-mainstream movements and groups "terrorist". For example, Antifa is considered by many to be a terrorist group and if Google were operating in Hong Kong they would likely have to view supporters of the Hong Kong protest as terrorist.

My concern with actions like this is that there is rarely a clear line between what is acceptable and what's not, instead decisions are made in a highly political manner either by companies themselves or more authoritarian governments. So the question I have here is whether Google is simply respecting and enforcing national laws against owning illegal terrorist materials or are they making their own decisions about what is and isn't terrorist material?

IMO this just touches on a wider problem that in many countries simply owning concern books without a good excuse is illegal. To be charitable I suspect Google doesn't have much of an option here. If the government has classified something as terrorist material, even if Google disagrees with them doing so, Google probably should still respect national laws on not allow that material to be stored, or worse, distributed on their platform.
Now also force them to allow us to install our own OS.
I absolutely refuse to accept the premise. Email is the best of all the choices, especially plaintext.
The parent comment asked:

>What's Apple reasoning for not abandoning Lightning for USB-C on their phones?

I would think that "what connector is better" definitely plays an important part in Apple's reasoning.
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Why not just walk around in the Forrest? I mean, why do you feel it's desirable to shoehorn doing work into any and all type of human activity? GP has a good point: that sounds terribly dystopian.
Same applies in reverse.

I don't own a single lightning device, but everything (minus older devices) has usb-c. Even rechargeable battery inside a flashlight.
It seems to me thr EU is very good at making plans without considering second and 3rd order consequences.

This seems like a good idea on the surface but look at the shit-show that the cookie/data regs have created on the web today.

I hope whatever law they write is encompassing enough that we don’t get the equivalent of horrible workarounds - maybe apple just stops having a cable and we all have to buy MagSafe now…..
So you never travel?

I travel a significant amount of times, sometimes for work, mostly for leisure. Nowadays I carry one single 65w USB-C charger, it charges: my work laptop (if travelling for work), my personal laptop, my phone, my book, my NC headphones for the airplane, my TWS earbuds. I only own two chargeable items that it doesn't charge: my watch (which I charge with the reverse wireless charging my phone does so I still don't need to carry a charger) and my car (lost cause, obviously usb-c will never replace CCS).
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