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Naron of the long-lived Rigellian race was the fourth of his line to keep the galactic records.

He had a large book which contained the list of the numerous races throughout the galaxies that had developed intelligence, and the much smaller book that listed those races that had reached maturity and had qualified for the Galactic Federation.

In the first book, a number of those listed were crossed out; those that, for one reason or another, had failed. Misfortune, biochemical or biophysical shortcomings, social maladjustment took their toll. In the smaller book, however, no member listed had yet blanked out.

And now Naron, large and incredibly ancient, looked up as a messenger approached.

“Naron,” said the messenger. “Great One!”

“Well, well, what is it? Less ceremony.”

“Another group of organisms has attained maturity.”

“Excellent. Excellent. They are coming up quickly now. Scarcely a year passes without a new one. And who are these?”

The messenger gave the code number of the galaxy and the coordinates of the world within it.

“Ah, yes,” said Naron. “I know the world.” And in flowing script he noted it in the first book and transferred its name into the second, using, as was customary, the name by which the planet was known to the largest fraction of its populace. He wrote: Earth.

He said, “These new creatures have set a record. No other group has passed from intelligence to maturity so quickly. No mistake, I hope.”

“None, sir,” said the messenger.

“They have attained to thermonuclear power, have they?”

“Yes, sir.”

“Well, thats the criterion.” Naron chuckled. “And soon their ships will probe out and contact the Federation.”

“Actually, Great One,” said the messenger, reluctantly, “the Observers tell us they have not yet penetrated space.”

Naron was astonished. “Not at all? Not even a space station?”

“Not yet, sir.”

“But if they have thermonuclear power, where do they conduct the tests and detonations?”

“On their own planet, sir.”

Naron rose to his full twenty feet of height and thundered, “On their own planet?”

“Yes, sir.”

Slowly Naron drew out his stylus and passed a line through the latest addition in the small book.

It was an unprecedented act, but, then, Naron was very wise and could see the inevitable as well as anyone in the galaxy.

“Silly asses,” he muttered.

Isaac Asimov − Silly Asses (1958)
Or early PC software.
Is there a transcript? Not a fan of audio or video forms of information, far easier to read.

However, no surprise. Literally every app anymore ought to be considered from the perspective of, "What can this app possibly get from my phone, by technical standards, regardless of what I think of that?" It's got accelerometer data and gyro data? It's doing something nasty with it. It's got location data? Oh, baby, hope it's precise! Contact list data? Call data? Wifi network data? Bluetooth data? Yeah, all of that going upstream for those juicy revenue streams on the backend.

I mean, RobinHood is literally doing nothing but selling order streams to high frequency trading companies to front-run the transactions people are making "for free."

There is no such thing as an app anymore that works in your interest, as a guiding first order principle.

> Their rebuttal to all this surveillance, of the commodification of our behaviors as users is simple: personal empowerment and regulation.

Oh. Well then. Maybe they'd be so kind as to offer a pony to go with "personal empowerment," and perhaps some recommendations or written regulation that might go with the second?
Lots of opinions but little facts in the comment. I'd love to see an experiment with people using that and their preferred web stack. Is this really slower to develop? By how much? Is this really unsecure? Is this really simpler, faster?
I dunno I think the positives are all actually pretty practical. Probably even more so today where heterogeneous computing is so much more common than it was in the 90s.

I would frequently love to have the ability to just mount a bunch of cpus off a beefier machine onto my laptop and take advantage of that to speed up my builds. I can use DISTCC but holy hell is it a lot more complicated to set up.

Or like, mounting a zip file as a directory, without needing a whole enormous systemd or gnome hairball along with fuse or gfs to make it happen as a regular user. Or hell, mount a usb stick even!

These are literally things I wish were easier every day as a software developer. The vaguely plan9-shaped bits that have been added to linux over the years have brought me no closer to them.
I can't respons to randerson's comment directly because it's dead, I'd recommend he look at Aquinas' just war theory and other Christian ideas on when war is ok. There are many problems with the military industrial complex we have but that does not mean we should have no defense. Guided missile destroyers fulfill a legitimate defense role and would be needed even if we were much less interventionist.
> The mandalorian throws in droids that have machine like precision and just wipe the floor killing dozens of people in a firefight, taking no cover, and missing no shots, 360 no scope dual wielding. It broke a lot of unspoken rules about how the world worked.

The first IG assassin droid appeared in Empire Strikes Back the movie and was a boss on the train level of the N64 game. In canon, most of the IG series are unique one offs so they're not exactly mass produced droids found all over the galaxy like maintenance drones (with the exception of the IG-86?). They're very high value items that get reprogrammed and passed from organization to organization.
> you do need to put back most of the energy yo get by burning the fuel.

And we can get this energy from sunlight.
Trying to predict reflections by processing building geometry sounds very complicated and error-prone.

Wouldn't it be easier to query Google Maps & Waze telemetry for impossible position jumps? Then you could make geofences where Google Play Services ignores position jumps and falls back to Wifi-based location and integrating the accelerometer.
The best I can say is no one has found a place where they've lied, and I'm sure that at this point some jailbreaker would have published something. They certainly had no problem doing so with the iphone4 (I think?) era bootrom bug.

On devices with a secure boot chain (Android verified boot on the better android devices), chromebook's secure boot (which a brief googling would imply is distinct from android's), or fuchsia's VX there is similarly an absence of independent audit.

So the question is, do you think Google, Apple, etc are lying about how their secure systems work? If you do, then the same applies to any other piece of hardware with a secure boot chain as well.

If you don't think they're lying, lets look at how a device reset works on apple hardware, to see how hard it would be to break device reset.

To understand how device reset works, we need to understand how apple devices work (at least the modern ones: Axx, Mx, intel devices with a T2 coprocessor). On these systems all storage is encrypted by keys held in the secure component of the SoC/T2. This encryption is done in hardware, in the interface between the system and the nand. It is impossible for anything at any privilege level, or in any other part of the SoC to ever see the raw bits in the nand.

"Erasing" the storage means resetting the storage keys. That's it. Because those keys are now gone it isn't possible for any malware (or anything at all) to have data persist across a reset. The only way it would be possible for anything to survive would be if a reset did not actually reset the encryption keys.

Even if the bootrom did fail to reset the storage keys, it doesn't read anything from the nand (why would it?), so nothing in the nand can stop the next step: the bit where it loads the install image being pushed over the physical connection to your computer (this is the bit that the limera1n exploit hit). The bootrom verifies the signature of the install image (using keys also burned into the rom), and starts that. The first thing that does is create a new filesystem[s?], so even if the bootrom had a catastrophic bug that meant it hadn't reset the storage key, the OS installer has blown away the content of the storage.

Basically, on an apple device, getting something to persist across a reset would almost certainly get you a golden pwnie :D

If the device you're concerned about lacks a secure boot system, then yeah, I would not be surprised if someone did manage to make malware they could persist a full reset/format/reinstall. I'd be really impressed, but not surprised.
A Global Perspective on AI with Eric Schmidt [video]
In practice, in most states, bail is a system that moves the cost of enforcing failure to appear from the state to private industry. That is, bail serves as a mechanism to give bail bondsmen a significant financial interest, so that they then make their own risk evaluation in setting the price of a bail bond. The cost of locating and detaining those who fail to appear (skip tracing, bounty hunting, etc) is then covered by the pool of bail bond payments. It is essentially an insurance scheme for failure to appear.

Cash bail seldom exists in any meaningful way without the bail bond industry to support it, otherwise no one would ever be able to post bail and pretrial detention would become an unamangeable expense.

One of the arguments for elimination of cash bail and replacement with a risk scoring approach is that it is essentially taking the existing system and moving it from private industry into the state. Currently, when bail is set for someone, what really determines whether or not they go free in most cases is a data-based risk evaluation made by a bail bondsmen to determine whether or not to offer a bond and, if so, whether or not to do so at a manageable price. CA has set a limit on bail bonds (as have many states) at 10% of bail, although they are usually lower, so one way to look at it is that bail bondsmen must make an evaluation of whether the risk-weighted cost of finding the fugitive or losing the bond is less than 10% of the bail amount. In other words, they must compare the expected value of the bond rate to the expected value of the bond owed to the state. This is something that the bail bonds industry has increasingly systematized, and states are hoping to take advantage of that effort to cut out the middleman.

Cash bail is so closely tied to the system of bail bondsmen that it is seldom useful to discuss one without considering the other. There have been cases where states have largely eliminated bail bonds, such as Oregon, but they have tended to pose significant difficulties that made the need for bail reform even more apparent (essentially that not a single person could ever make bail, since it is quite rare for bail to actually be set at an amount that the accused can come up with).
Years ago, I was working at a small startup here in Austin (named “Ihiji”), and it was my job to completely rebuild their cloud systems infrastructure. They wanted to use lighttpd instead of Apache. It took a while, but with a bit of a kickstart from a friend who worked at Opscode Chef (thanks, Matt Ray!), I was able to get that done.

With Apache, at their current max load, the systems would just completely fall over, but with lighttpd, at that same load, the system breathed a little hard. I could push lighttpd 10x more before it fell over.

Then we started looking at replacing the haproxy solution, and I looked at nginx. I tried it out. I also tried out replacing lighttpd with nginx. And no matter how hard I pushed nginx, I couldn’t get the damn thing to breathe hard. I couldn’t even push the load average up over 1.0.

We went back to lighttpd and haproxy because those tools gave us better monitoring and logging, but we always held nginx in our back pocket in reserve, in case we needed another 10x beyond what lighttpd+haproxy could do.

And yes, I did get invited to Edinburgh to do a nice little talk on the subject.

They had their ups and downs over the years, but ihiji did end up getting acquired by Control4, and the founders are now off doing other weird and cool things.
I think he was detained recently by the police because there is a claim that he started Nginx while employed at another company. Seems like some sort of shakedown by politically connected people.
Maybe this article isn't supposed to be a review of a specific product with a sidebar giving you tech specs.

Go crush it!
So Huawei got Unix certification for Linux? If so, that’s a pretty big deal!
I'm not sure it's about anti-authority. You can accept authorities, refer to them and trust them when you lack own knowledge, even legalistically follow them, yet have a strong resistance reaction once you decide that what the authority does is hurtful and/or doesn't make sense to you.

To me, this seems very connected to how autistic people interact with other people. Social rules? Those that "make sense" to me have to be followed, or I'll be lost and uncomfortable. Those that don't? Fuck them. Now, it would sure be easier if everyone agreed on what "makes sense" and what doesn't, wouldn't it?...

Codes? Laws? I'll gladly follow them, usually. Speed limits make sense to me, so I won't be speeding even if nobody sees it. Mask wearing? The same. I can even be legalistic about minor issues ("well, it's kinda stupid, but that's the law so I'll follow it and maybe lobby for changing it"), and it's not just about potential legal consequences - it's about the principle. But total abortion ban? It's stupid, morally wrong and hurtful at its core, so it doesn't exist to me and I'm going to help people break that law should there be a need for it. Copyrights? Sometimes make sense and help society, sometimes don't and hurt it - so I sometimes fully respect them and consider breaking them wrong, and sometimes the other way around.

To be honest, I have no idea where the line between "minor issue, comply" and "doesn't make sense, resist" actually lies. Not even an intuition. Food for thought, I guess.

When I was young, countless of stupid arguments with my parents could be avoided if they didn't insist on making me do something that seemed unnecessary to me without telling me why. I think they were interpreting my questions as undermining their authority, which ironically made them less likely to actually answer me, but it's not that I didn't want to listen to them - I would be glad to comply immediately if only I knew that it makes sense. If I don't feel like it does, I'll have a hard time doing it (even if my conscious self actually decides to comply). If I weren't so lucky to be able to work in a field where I generally don't have to do things that don't make sense to me, I'm pretty sure I'd have been fired from several jobs by now (just like my parents were warning me about back then ;)).

Most people don't seem to think this way at all, and I don't think that it can be described as "anti-authority personality trait".
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> part of this I think is the end result of cash bail reform initiatives from 3 years ago

So we should continue to jail innocent people based on their income level?
1 billionth of a second is an age in the world of radio signal processing. That's 1 GHz. Wifi goes up to 6GHz. 5G gets up to ~30GHz!
Highest rewards but highest merchant cost. Turned out to be a pretty bad model in the end
I actually think that may not always be for the best. Games are released in beta, and qa takes place in the months and years after release, if ever.

Updates can be issued, but it increasingly means that things are released in a state where updates NEED to be issued
We've had sandboxing for a decade on mainstream operating systems with mainstream browsers. I doubt that just adopting Plan 9 would offer any meaningful security improvements over the status quo. It would just be switching a big pile of non-memory-safe C++ for a big pile of non-memory-safe C.
Even if capturing uses more energy than emitting, it can still be useful since we can Maxwell's Demon the whole process.

We can decide only to emit CO2 at the times when we don't have clean energy ready to use and decide to recapture CO2 when we do have clean energy to use.
Buildings too, and those are often privately owned.
Wait you made Flaticon? I would like to to say thank you. Before I truly got into software I was a humble associate consultant and I honestly don't know how I would have made all those decks without you.
Hate is the new normal.
Sure but you're moving the argument to something else, closer to your linked article and other things entirely. I don't really plan to debate either the history of US policing or chattel slavery - my point is only that if you're going to correct someone in such strong language and cite something as the basis for your correction, the cited thing should support your claim. I don't think it does.
GANmouflage: 3D Object Nondetection with Texture Fields
Slow degradation is a common case, but a day with bad skew due to spam or other unusual activity can cause a previously optimal query plan to never complete.
Okay, well, if it helped, it helped.
There may be one perfect truth but humans can only try to achieve it and being imperfect, none of us will. So we may come to different approximations of one truth.
The situation with medical care in prisons has long been severe and COVID has only made it very apparent. In state and county systems it is very common for prisons to have not a single doctor and nurses only on part-time contracts.

With the many complexities of COVID, we have a situation in this state where prisoners are now routinely failing to make court appearances because the jail did not have the resources to transport them to the courthouse, and nowadays the even more extreme situation that prisoners are missing court appearances because the jail did not have the resources to get them into a room with a working computer for a Zoom conference.

While defense attorneys are increasingly making the argument that this constitutes a violation of constitutional rights, and judges are clearly fed up with the numerous delays this is causing, there is very little will to actually address the problem because it would be expensive.
> Pair it with a better, more modern, and safer native-compiled language and get the same effect. Zig, Nim, Go, hell even Carp.

I love how trollish it is not to talk about Rust in that context.
I use immersed on the Oculus Quest 2 and it's pretty fun to code but not super productive!
Because there's already Java/C#/Go/Rust/C++ in that space.
That sort of dark pattern could ostensibly be audited and statistically analyzed by researchers in the wild. To be fair, much of what we knew before the whistleblowers and leaks was due to this sort of analysis.
DHCP advertise an http proxy to it with a PAC file and block non-proxy communications. It should do the right thing eventually, at which point you can catalogue the usual traffic exchanges and then block anything not in them and/or just the software update URLs (which requires inspection over time, as there may be many).
They called three different experts and incorporated their answers. I don't remember any instance of, say, some blogger actually calling someone. The tactic seems to be completely unknown outside of traditional media.

So, yeah, it's a style people here don't like. It doesn't quite get the bit-per-sentence ratio of, say, a phone book. But there's more effort in there than meets the (strained) eye.
Nietzsche wrote a fascinating book about this - The Genealogy of Morals.

If I remember correctly, he uses the ancient city of Rome as a symbol of the pre-Abrahamic, natural han ethic. Power is good, sex is good, wealth is good, strength is good, competence is good.

This contrasts with the Jerusalem ethic where an almighty god is worshipped, not perched on a mountain or a cloud, but while nailed to a cross. So now self-sacrifice is good, and the whole story revolves around the weak, the poor, the downtrodden.

We’re still in the Jerusalem phase, despite having replaced the church with the state. Perhaps one day, in a few millennia, the wheel will turn back around.

It’s a good book!
Why did you buy an analog watch as opposed to just go without?
> Ah, but you might say, if a shared library is compromised, it's easy to push a fix! But how to you think it got so widely compromised in the first place? Perhaps because it was a widely shared library? Sharing is a double-edged sword.

By this logic, every game developer should be writing their own versions of Vulkan for every GPU they want to target. They would have to ship their own set of GPU drivers with every game.

Also, every app that wants to make a TLS connection would have to develop its own cryptography primitives. Hope you enjoy writing ASN.1 parsers (in C, because that's the Plan 9 way).

Sorry, but this "no dependencies" utopia is completely impractical.
While that is only one datapoint, this only reinforces my absolute motivation to not give Sony another €, ever, again...

They've done themselves in, imho starting with their CD rootkit fiasco and, since then, they've time and again proven that Sony is a company that is not sincere, to say the least.

Sony TV? nope..
Sony camera? not for me...
Sony whatever? yeah, no...
Society needs to bring everyone with it, otherwise there will be revolt. Its an ebb and flow. Living in a place where previously white people got police protection vs living in a place where there is more white people having crime committed against them?

This is exactly what the startup unicorns do - they disrupt. The scam world is computer savey, and feeds of information that hackers distribute. It could be said that we are part of the problem. Has your code been used in scam?
From what I have read its best to blow them on a fault line or near a underwater mountain to create a landslide.

The power of the blast itself is not powerful enough to have any real damage.
Bottom line: You own your computer and you pay for your communication bandwidth and what is allowed to make use of it is entirely your decision.

Advertisers don't own your computer desktop and have no real right to dictate what happens on it --- much to their chagrin.

The most amazing part is that it was even necessary for a court to make this ruling. Anything less would have given advertisers partial ownership rights to your attention span.
I remember writing CGI scripts in Perl in 1993 ( the year before Netscape ). I am not sure when CGI even became a thing but it could not have been long before that.

Not only was “not so long ago” kind of at the very beginning of meaningful web history but it was also for a very brief moment in time ( if we are talking pre-Perl ). Pre-Perl CGI may have never been a thing though as Perl is older than CGI.

I recall PHP being the next wave after Perl. One could argue it never lost its place even if it now has many neighbours.

Not a Perl advocate by the way though it did generate some pretty magical “dynamic” web pages from text files and directory listings back in the day. Similar story with PHP.
And just to follow up for anyone who may genuinely be wondering: Yes. Yes they were. Not quite as ubiquitous or well known as "9/11" is today, but they were up there with the statue of liberty as far as Icons of NYC and to a slightly lesser extent icons of the USA. They were, as they say, a big deal, even before they fell.