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> "removes security warnings informing users that they need to update their CPU microcode"

If you update your CPU microcode to something that can't be checked, you're already sacrificing security.

EDIT:

But yes, I understand people complaining that FSF rejects proprietary software but is OK with some forms of ROM which in turn may be very similar to "proprietary software you can't change".

Well, I never asked their reasons to someone from inside the FSF, so I my knowledge about it can improve. Nevertheless, I can see some points:

- AFAIK, the form of accepted code is only for "secondary processors" and can't take over the system or compromise it,
- having things in ROM forces manufacturers to maximally simplify it,
- having things in ROM forces manufacturers to implement more features in software that can be checked and
- having things in ROM forces manufacturers to be extra careful when implementing it.

I don't think FSF would consider IME acceptable if it was ROM.

But indeed, it would be very good if someone from FSF could better explain it.
This is very reassuring, thanks.
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It's possible to be OK sharing information with one company but but not another? Especially when MS has a large history of security f'ups.
Yes, I did not intend to be offensive, but you're right. I regret that now.
The current scientific publication model is only benefits the gatekeepers in publishing industry. It directly goes to the packet of publishing industry by ripping off the tax-payers twice with a steep price. Nowadays research institution pay high fees both for paywall and open-access. No matter you access or publish you some how give tax-payers money to these publishing industries. It has been shown the steep price is also un-justified as peer-review are done freely (for credit, not money) by science worker themselves and there are plenty of open-review and open-science projects which prove the price is not justified.

It might worth it to repeat part of my comment in [1]:

> The current business model as a whole is a legacy institution based on earlier monopoly by a charlatan named Maxwell [2]. He basically lured scientist by shiny hotels+extra packages to build the initial reputation and then monopolize the entire industry for decades. You can find a good review of this scheme from below YouTube video[3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29218202

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PriwCi6SzLo
Can't dispute until posted, and the way the scam works is they get you on the phone as quickly as they can in order to continue to the scam.

Obviously, in hindsight the correct way to handle this is to call the bank yourself. The way the scam works is they spoof your bank's caller ID, and you get a standard "do you recognize this charge? Press YES if you recognize, NO if not".

When you type NO, you get a message stating "our fraud team will be reaching out to you momentarily to resolve this issue", followed immediately by a call from a very convincing "customer support" person, again coming in as a caller ID from your bank.

At this point, I made some "rookie" mistakes as I'd mentioned, but hindsight is 20/20 in these cases where they are trying to keep you on your toes.
Not american, so it's kind of insane when I hear talking them wanting to quit there job, but can't because of the health insurance.

Basically being held hostage, either stay at your crappy job, or risk massive debt and bankrupty becaue of medical bills. It's insane this is what's considered "freedom".
It wasn't canceled. It not available to stream outside the US anymore.
> I hope we soon get to the point where companies that do not properly invest in cyber security get wiped out and ones that take matters seriously survive

Could you provide some more detail on this viewpoint? Because I find this quite infeasible and toxic.

While the most obvious security failures could be patched, it’s near impossible to guarantee perfect security for most reasonably sized companies. And for most non-tech or smaller businesses, it’s prohibitively expensive.

Would you rather theft insurance also be outlawed, since the fault is on the home owner who failed to secure their home well enough?
They hit the ground at the same speed but with significantly more impulse.
Did they edit the article after you posted this comment? Even if they did, I can see how the tone of “should not be” (which you can’t really hear in text, of course) would mean something different than the way you understood it. This is how that sentence appears to me:

> The app is not the only way to access the cars though, Stuart Masson, editor of The Car Expert website, told the BBC.
A lack of price transparency is indeed deplorable, but it isn't the root of the problem. The root of the problem is that demand for emergency treatment is inelastic. Inelastic demand curves result in wildly volatile prices. And when the service is a basic human need rather than a luxury, to prioritize a free market solution is to prioritize the market over the human. Markets must operate for the good of people, not the other way around.
yeah its kinda sad..
you have to look at older models.
currently im using a Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact with linage os (android 10).
> There is no reason technical that ENS could not run root .eth servers and have these in the global DNS namespace.

Unfortunately though, .eth already collides with the reserved 3 letter country TLD made for Ethiopia.

> It would be a centralized service with decentralized records.

That is the best way to describe ENS. Your .eth domain is still sitting on a single TLD managed by so called 'trusted' centralised key holders.
> get wiped out

like a real biological virus, these ransomware people would likely reduce their ransom to something the company can bear, and leech parasitically rather than ransom so much that their victims die off.

The cost will be borne by the ultimate consumers, as long as cybersecurity remains more expensive on average than the cost of the ransom.
> but there are other chains with subsecond finality and fees in cents.

We should be careful with these claims in this context.

The layer 1s that have sub-second finality tend to be heavily centralized either relying on a very small pool of DPoS-backed and I slash able validators, or a completely centralized protocol component (relay) that is a trusted component of the system.

They get low fees and speed by keeping central control, but unlike the large brokers we’d traditionally use. The difference is that they don’t protect their users or have any consumer protections while still having the same ability to censor you or extract value from you.

Layer 2s can solve this, but they currently have training wheels on which give operators a high level of control (in some cases, they can freeze assets). Once training wheels are off, layer 2s will give us low fees and fast finality while users are still protected from having their assets frozen or stolen.
If you want some detail then here's a charging comparison of five EVs, including the Kia EV6:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J46mG7I78Q
> If anything iPhone mini has shown the market for expensive, mini iPhone is rather small.

Maybe, but Apple released the May 2020 iPhone SE 4 years after they released the previous SE, and without announcement, they released a Mini in September 2020. I would expect many people who had wanted a smaller phone to have jumped on the May 2020 SE, and then why would they get a Mini 6 months or even 18 months later?

> iPhone SE starting at $399 is already considered expensive for a small phone.

I would like to know what alternatives are available for cheaper that are the same quality as an iPhone SE.
It's not secret knowledge at all. Just invested 2 minutes in searching:

> US health insurers report billions in first quarter as small providers face stress

> UnitedHealth Group, reported $4.9bn in profits in the first quarter of 2021 while CVS Health reported $2.2bn

- https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/may/08/us-health-i...

> Major U.S. Health Insurers Report Big Profits, Benefiting From the Pandemic

- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/health/covid-insurance-pr...

> The health insurance industry continued its tremendous growth
trend as it experienced a significant increase in net earnings to $31 billion
and an increase in the profit margin to 3.8% in 2020 compared to net
earnings of $22 billion and a profit margin of 3% in 2019.

- https://content.naic.org/sites/default/files/inline-files/20...
https://www.motorola.com/us/smartphones-razr-gen-2/
The lobster one?
> You can choose Equinix for colo. Best in breed provider.

Bold statement there, you sure you're not an Equinix rep ? ;-)

I can think of a number of geographical markets where Equinix exist but in reality they don't deliver anything the competition doesn't deliver, and in certain geographies the competition is actually better.
There's where you can WALK and where you can CAMP. I'm talking about where you can CAMP. The only countries in Western Europe where there's a lot of freedom to camp are Scotland, Norway, and Sweden.

In the Alps, where there is the most dramatic scenario, in France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, there aren't a lot of areas where you can just pick a spot and camp there.

You don't need a permit to stay in a hut/refuge, but you usually need a reservation, which is sorta the same thing, a limit to the number of overnight visitors. Effectively a permit.

There are very very very few places in the USA where you need a permit to just hike for the day. Places where they are required are either very vulnerable like "The Wave" in Utah or dangerous when overcrowded like Angels Landing in Zion.
> On a given Tuesday, are famous scientists in the field super-busy?

Not necessarily. It depends.

1) Scientific work is not linear like driving in a highway, it happens in bursts and is full of dead ends. It deals with complex problems that hadn't being solved before (or you don't know how to attack it), so there is a lot of try-miss. You can do more work in a day that in two months, specially if you work with alive organisms and must to respect its cycle life (Cetologists can't do much field work in winter for example). When I classified my first giant deep sea crustacean I lost several weeks trying in all the wrong groups, first locally and then worldwide search. After realizing my mistake and discarding all, solved it in ten minutes.

2) Researchers are often teachers also. Is not the same calling them in August than in May when they hide under a 50 cm high stack of tests and homework to review

3) Some really famous scientists, have a lot of non famous scientists doing the real work. They mostly build the team and design the experiment and then wait, check a few times and sign the result.

4) Journals take time to answer, is not uncommon to wait a couple of months to just being forced to resend the article to other journal.
Owning the token representing a claim on a JPEG is equivalent to owning the token representing a claim on moon land.

In 1995 most of the uses of the internet were stupid. Eventually, they became useful. Hopefully the same happens with crypto
Network Performance Update: Full Stack Week
2020 or 2016?
Rollbacks are a minor feature, I never found any use for in either Guix or Nix.

The main advantage of both of them is that installation and 'making available' are decoupled. Meaning you can install five different versions of the same app and it'll be totally fine, as they don't sit around in '/usr/bin/foo' and clashing with each other. They sit conflict-free in '/nix/store/${HASH}/bin/'. For making them available for use you have to add them to your profile/environment (i.e. $PATH and symlinks that point '/nix/') or just run them from their '/nix' directory if you prefer. This makes development and testing new versions much easier as nothing ever really breaks to begin with. You can just spawn a new environment, fill it with whatever you need and use it. And it all happens at the packaging level, so it's pretty quick and you never end up with snapshots that capture far more of your filesystem than you planed.
SaaS book will falter as FAANG make SaaS business models a feature

Can you expand on this? It seems as if even DTC businesses are being consolidated as well
> "Never again will a terrorist be able to breach the cockpit simply with a box cutter or a knife. The cockpit doors have been reinforced, and passengers, flight crews and air marshals would intervene."

I fail to understand this. How would the passengers and flight crews intervene against armed (with knife) assailants?
Your theory makes sense, but practice strikes me as the reverse: Long-term: Stuff in ROM is significantly easier to track because it happens slower, mostly by large trackable entities and processes. Stuff in RAM? Always changing and "under attack" all the time.
Hosting torrents is very inexpensive.
It's not that easy
Was the plane high enough?

Also, I would presume that's not a simple switch flick. Is the a process / procedure that might prevent doing that?
Beartype: Fast runtime type checking in Python
SMS is not, and never has been, a secure means of communication.

Do not hold the carriers responsible for shit we've done.

Hold the carriers and ISPs responsible for their actual crimes, like selling our data to the government and marketing companies like the world is about to end.
You can't just install the app on another device with the login details, you need to talk to the bank and go through a whole process when changing a device (in one of my banks it can only be done in person even).
I do understand having skin in the game, but at the same time it pushes away candidates, particularly during this labor shortage[1]. And it has disparate racial impact, because oppressed minorities are less likely to have the finances to invest in their own tools.

My thought is that any good company should be able to create emotional skin in the game (i.e. caring) without needing financial skin in the game. If a company isn't there, it needs to sell its mission better and link the availability of tools to that mission.

[1] if you subscribe to the view that there is no shortage but only an unwillingness to pay fair wages (which is totally valid if there are no upfront costs to getting a job), consider that after months of losing savings to a pandemic, candidates may literally not have the cash to buy tools needed for a new job, so in this case it is truly a shortage of candidates with the ability to get the tools
Oh, well, that's pretty obvious, they revealed all the plays already.
The ash tray and the paddle game. That's all I need!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZTdqh-a0tU
Non sense. I trust my CPU provider or I wouldn’t have bought this CPU. I would much rather use an updated microcode than one known to be insecure. I wouldn’t check the microcode anyway and I don’t really trust the people who might more than the company providing my CPU.

Sure it might contain code making me vulnerable to a state actor but that’s not a threat profile I care about.
> Kia and Hyundai will make good competition on the low end

The low end in price or quality?

Because it’s price, yes, and quality, no. Hyundai and Kia make some of the most quality cars available and have extensive warranties, both far better than Tesla.
Less sales may come from lack of TouchID. Even if not pandemic, there are plenty of people wear mask in winter. Such people stick iPhone SE/8 because it has still enough spec thanks to great SoC.

Balmuda releases joke. Not considered to viable option for who prefer smaller phones.

"mode1 GRIP" is lower end but interesting mini (width) phone. Its width (56mm) is smaller than iPhone 13 mini (64mm). It's sold only in Japan but I believe base ODM model exists somewhere. https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/column/hothot/1360240.ht...
Enabling Nvidia DLSS on Linux
Proxmox works fine for that, in my experience.
I think the real winner here is consumers. As the more competition in the space the better.

The article doesn't have a lot of details, but it would be interesting to know how long ago the Tesla set that record, as they continuously improve on their vehicles.
Mick Rock, photographer of rock stars David Bowie, Queen and Blondie, has dieD
While there are a few compact Android devices, the latest version of Android is not really well optimized for smaller screens.
I think it is a very silly idea to think that breaking up big companies would wipe out trillions in value to the US economy.

The whole reason there are anti-competition laws is because many smaller companies are better for an economy than one large company.
Singapore is sparkling clean. Like walk down a back alley in the center of the city and you will not find trash. It’s almost creepy.

It’s mostly certainly not due to civic mindedness. Join the Singapore subreddit and examples abound of locals throwing trash everywhere and generally being dicks.

It’s clean because the government has a pool of cheap labor they can use to constantly clean.
Why can’t I just use a message signed with my existing private key to access my car? Why does Tesla need to have servers in the middle?
If a blockchain has the highest legal authority, there’s no way I’d use it for anything worth more than $1K or so.
Unless you're really weird with money you'll still come out ahead.

I imagine if you lived across the street from your office, and didn't need to pay for a commute then you'd have a point. Commuting, even with public transportation is still at least 120$ a month. You then also have the stress of having to run to catch the train, of occasionally being late, etc. I guess you are correct in that you will have to bear some modest upfront cost, but what professional programmer doesn't at least have a desk and a chair for their own personal use.

Let's just assume you get a job at Big box Corp. Big box is based in San Francisco, when working in the office you'd need to obviously pay San Francisco rent. Then they go remote I can't imagine any world where giving employees the option to move to Alabama or wherever and keep SF salaries wouldn't put more money in the employees pocket.

Hell for my next remote job I'm looking to get a 3 monitor setup.
I'd like it for you to spend 5 minutes watching a historian corroborate my changing my view on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLiPPtxKRAA
My friend has a little bookshop stocked to the brim with sci-fi from the 60s and 70s. You have to explore to find stuff.

If your ever in CT lookup Relay Bookhouse
I don't think it's strange. Aren't businesses in the area more likely to be closed on Sunday? So people are more likely to go shopping and run other errands on Saturday?
And “steal” union jobs?
Yes, that's true. Maybe I should say that it's effectively context-sensitive. In any case, the grammar as specified by the standard is context-free and the restriction of where case labels can occur is a separate semantic requirement.
I’d love to see 2/3rds of the class admitted on long-standing, well-tested policies and the remainder allocated via whatever other processes the school wants to test.

Want to let in 1/9th via pure random lottery? Have at it!

Want to let in 1/9th via racial or socioeconomic profiling? Have at it!

Then look at successful completion rates of year 1, degree by year 4, degree by year 5, and position (as self-reported) 10 years after admission for each group.

Either we’ll discover that there’s a better way to do admissions or we’ll discover that the current way is close to optimal.
Posthaven[0] by Garry Tan. There's probably others making it happen but from my experience he does support all by himself and is very involved in this project.

[0] https://posthaven.com/
From the link I shared:

“Users do not need to unlock, show, or hand over their device to present their ID.”
In a ecosystem with permanent hostilities all creatures become crabs.

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

Its a nice example of self-taxation. If one refuses to pay taxes for the police and state, one pays his gains to a guarded community, a armored car and insurance against criminal acts.
Wolf Game
"Are you guys ready? Okay. Let's roll!"
As other users on the thread I also needed to change phone recently (the old one was already 5 years old and was begging for a replacement).
I wanted an Android with a headphones Jack connector, and a "you can reach all the screen comfortably with you thumb while using one hand" size, nothing else (not even camera, I simply don't use it other than the occasional qr reading).
All "good" results are from even more than 5 year old phones and obsolete versions, and no sign to change unfortunately.

In the end I simply searched for the narrowest possible, and ended with the Xperia 10 III.
68mm wide, Android 11 from 2021, and decently fast. It's looong however (21:9 screen) but very usable with one hand because you can grab it without issue.
A chain of responsibility.
If someone tries to scam me, I can call the bank and get the transfer reversed.
If someone robs me and steals my wallet, they can't empty my bank account.

Convenience and simplicity (from the user's perspective) is a big factor too. Crypto exchanges solve this problem, but then we're back to square one in terms of trusting an institution, rent seeking etc.
Have you seen the kind of responses in this thread calling for ostracisation of the unvaccinated? The sentiments expressed are just short of calling for them to be put into camps. Especially when vaccinated don't even have much of threat from the unvaccinated and the Western world is already 3/4th fully vaccinated at least. And these are the educated, progressive people of the "first world", leading us all into light and freedom? Alarming...
An unfortunate comparison at the start there, considering that the "native" and recommended language for performance on Fastly Compute@Edge is Rust. JavaScript support is in beta.

Try the experiment again with a Rust service compiled to WebAssembly and I'm sure the results will speak for themselves.
Have to say you're right, apart from the 360 cam. It allows me to park confidently in a way that just can't be done without it. Also if you have kids is good to know they aren't going to be squashed.
It's a strange old world when someone says "governments working together will help deal with CO2" and I have to immediately wonder if this seemingly boring statement is actually meant to rile up people from a certain sub-group.

Googling his name and climate change brings up a tweet in which he says he's been in the room when climate scientists attempt to make climate change seem worse than it is, which is fascinating.
What happened to the 'vanished' colonists at Roanoke?
> “ Ben Thompson is just John Gruber without the sense of taste. You couldn't design a better sycophant if you tried.”

Oh please. There’s no point in discussing further. This is just nonsense.
For the airplane to have reached this position, whoever was at the controls at this time must have disabled the other well before, as it is utterly implausible that the other pilot could have been persuaded to cooperate in the flight path to that point, and only slightly less plausible that the pilots conspired to follow that flight path. From these considerations, the other pilot must have been incapacitated at least by the time the airplane flew past Penang, a more-than-adequate airport for an emergency landing, and probably at or before the alleged emergency that started the events.

As for the pilot's motives, if this holding pattern did occur, we can only speculate - and I, for one, can speculate that the pilot was balking at taking the final step that would lead to his death, but he was flying a planeload of people killed by his own hand...
$ENS Airdrop Comes with a Tax Bill
Bearing in mind Apple sells 8 different form factors of iPhone, 10% sales seems viable. They can't all be the best seller. Even if you only count 'models' and not the different sized versions there are still 5 of them. In that context 10% of sales seems enough to justify doing a mini or SE version every other year at least.