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This is so weird.

I read [1] which someone linked to, and it all seems to make sense. But it doeesn't!

I tried compiling this with gcc 11.2.0:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
printf("%99 Invisible", NULL);
return 0;
}

And it won't compile. I get:

test.c: In function ‘main’:
test.c:5:14: warning: unknown conversion type character ‘ ’ in format [-
Wformat=]
5 | printf("%99 Invisible", NULL);
| ^
test.c:5:10: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
5 | printf("%99 Invisible", NULL);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

which I would expect; you can't have a field width (the "99") and then the space-padding flag; flags go first. Also I can't find any coverage of %I (capital 'I', as in "Invisible") in the manual page for printf(3) on that system but that might just be an old manual page, GCC does seem to recognize it.

Removing the cruft and trying plain %In gives a warning, but I guess whoever built the car's radio UI ignores warnings.

I guess it's possible that the system doesn't use a standard-compliant enough C library, so it's printf() implementation does something ... creative with this string.

Anyway, classic case of the lovely foot-gunnery that is %n in the wild! Sorry for all the car owners, of course. :/

EDIT: A commenter pointed out that the above are "just warnings", oops. :) More oops on me for not spelling the freaking title correctly, of course it's "99%" and not "%99" .. .need more coffee, clearly. Sorry.

For people less used to C, the error here more or less seems to boil down to passing an untrusted string as the special "format string" for the printf() function. That function will interpret the contents of the string, and the percent symbol is how its special formatting directives start. Characters following a percent symbol will cause it to do stuff. The proper fix is usally to change

printf(string);

to

printf("%s", string);

or use some other I/O function altogether. The above simply says "here's a string", by using the programmer-selected string "%s" as the format, instead of the untrusted string coming from the outside.

[1] https://github.com/Hamled/mazda-format-string-bug#readme
Once again, the Tagesschau correctly reported on the contents of the so-called "study".

They, unlike you, never claimed that the study's "findings" were actually settled knowledge.

Spot the difference.
In this case it's an HD radio broadcast, which is digital.
There must be plenty of not-so-young people who don't have a credit card or passport.

Edit: the article says "Adults would be forced to enter personal information like passport or credit card details", so I guess other forms of ID with a date of birth would be accepted.
Resizing a pool that uses mirrored vdevs isn't the question; resizing vdevs is.
I don’t know enough about the history and I don’t know what forms you are talking about. When I learned ‘vector calculus’ at university, we were introduced to surface/line integrals and div/grad/curl at around the same time.
I take issue with your description of Telegram as "really weird and sketchy". You don't give any evidence other than Durov's personal opinions. And he's certainly entitled to them, given all the weird, often totally illogical beliefs everyone else in the world holds.

You toss out another statement in "TON was a disaster" without explanation. If you're going to make really big statements like this, please go into detail otherwise you're just shooting from the hip.

TON was a disaster because the SEC got involved. TON, as a technical solution to decentralizing Telegram, was a great idea and I'm sad Telegram was forced into a position of paying for all that infrastructure another way, with ads (opt-in, non-tracking, and only in one-to-many channels but still, ads).
Not sure that follows. I would imagine a normal person would be a worse conversationalist than one with quirks or scars or issues.
gah, typo. I will leave it there for prosperity
Changing your diet could add up to 13 years to your life
Kudos to Apple for empowering users with necessary tools to detect such user-hostile behavior.
I really agree with the importance of having gratitude. It's easy to take for granted the miracle of life. Gratitude, as the article explains, can help you appreciate the wealth of experiences and opportunities available where you currently live.

I would add however that in some cases, travel can really enrich your life. You may even, if you have a certain personality and the financial means, find the most meaning in having a life of non stop travel, where your residence is, effectively, the planet Earth.

Travel can also help you discover places where you would prefer living. For example if you live on the West Coast, you may instead prefer jurisdictions with more law and order, where you're not having your personal belonging stolen on a frequent basis, and you're not forced to contend with mentally unstable drug addicts on a daily basis.

If you live in a cold climate, you may find you prefer the opposite, or vice versa.

You may find cities with a better job market, or less burdensome taxes.

You may find a country with a culture that better suits you, e.g. one that is more liberal, or a small town culture that is more friendly and personable.

Travel can add a lot of value to your life.
old job used zoom, didn't trust it from the get-go (didn't even know who was behind it), just that software that provides extremely granular controls to admins gives me the heebeejeebies in general, my workflow was:

open zoom, join a meeting, then pkill -9 zoom when done. Didn't trust having it around.
To be fair though, you could have your cat just randomly jump all over your keyboard and Kitty would get herself published in Forbes. They're not known for their high bar.
> east of that is W

Because of course it is. Facepalm moment right there.
Firefox user here. Right click on image -> Open image in new tab. Then kill the connection and could "Save Image as" just fine. Or print screen it and get it in PBrush.
Also, out of the "popular" IM networks (network effect is a real thing), Telegram is the only one that has a sensible API to interface with your own systems.
What is so wrong about watching porn?

I accidentally saw some pornography when I wasn't sexually active. I had no clue what was I looking at. I found it to be disgusting, like those extreme cancer photos, and didn't watch it again until many years later.
I have the feeling it depends on how much your culture has been "graced" by puritan ideals at some point.

The rest of Europe has a much more relaxed cultural stance towards nudity that can be seen by minors.
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If you let air into my high vacuum electron microscope I will not be passing moral judgement on the air but will nonetheless be unable to study my specimens.
Jitsi is a winner, especially with non-techy people. Literally just click a link and you're in.
Yup. Don't do stuff (repeatedly) that have an absorbing barrier - https://medium.com/ml-everything/nassim-taleb-absorbent-barr...
> Covid is only a small share of patients in hospitals.

Yes.

Exactly

Because the measures we have in place are working. Saying the measures are not needed because they are working exactly as intended is...odd.
This is the kind of context where Docker would be useful, I don't know if it can be used for something like Zoom.

Docker images, by design, don't anything while not running. So you wouldn't even have to uninstall it. Just stopping it guarantees it does nothing.
I'm certain the TA toggle is broken in my 2019 Hyundai i30N. Disabled every radio-related setting, somehow an FM station managed to force the system to switch to it from Android Auto every 5 minutes. TA is also not used in my country. Infuriating.
Top 10:
1. Lesotho
2. Guyana
3. Eswatini
4. Kiribati
5. Micronesia
6. Suriname
7. Zimbabwe
8. South Africa
9. Mozambique
10. Central African Republic
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Private key was uploaded to cloud storage that Feds had access to with a search warrant.
Is that why the room of names was created? I can't recall which game it was, but being able to view everyones names within the game when a developer/publisher didn't want them credited.
I would rather my passport number to be honest.
I believe it is poor form for a company to dictate what software it will use to videoconference with you during an interview. Now you're not just a bit nervous about the interview, you're also stressed that the mic and the camera and the connection will all work on some software that you just installed and have never used before.

A more humane solution would be for the company to ask the interviewee which videoconferencing software they prefer, and accommodate that. Decent-sized companies could easily set up a few computers in a spare room loaded with Zoom, Teams, Skype, 8x8, Webex, etc and have the interviewer use that computer with universal compatibility with the interviewees' application of choice

I've never seen this happen, however.
Pavel Durov was Russian's Zuckerberg until Putin chased him out.
You are putting way too much trust into "professionals" here. Adult ADHD was essentially not a thing people believed was real a few years ago. Where I live there was no reimbursable stimulants for anyone over 18 until 10 years ago.

Now that people are catching on to the fact they're not actually lazy but just have a much higher barrier to starting and maintaining focus on things they're not extremely passionate about some doctors handle 5-10 new patients a day.

ADHD is not rare. At all. The super strict guidelines exist because people are afraid of Ritalin and they're extra afraid of giving it to children, so double up on your "this is not actually a real thing" hysteria.
Remember What Used to Work, Then Do It Again - this one really resonated with me. Recently I've taken up meditation with an app, and a recurring theme of it is to "Just begin again" - in context, meaning begin again, when you mind wanders. But I've found that the idea is very applicable to almost every faced of life. For example, I wish to start working out, but my willpower is low and I tend to miss some days. By just beginning again, without judgement, without guild, I'm getting back to the problem and working on it again. Sounds like this is the same idea. Remember what used to work, then do it again. Just begin again.
Equating content management systems with SUV-s doesn't do justice to CMS-s or your argument in general, considering the multitude of environment and other issues with SUV-s.

Also, car's simplicity is only an illusion. Anything is simple when other people fix and maintain it for you.
I'm in the same situation (50 Mbps uplink at one place, 100Mbps at another) and that's enough to do all hosting for hobby projects at home, which I really love.

Instead of exposing my home directly using DynDNS, I got a really cheap low end server (currently a VM w/ 1 CPU, 512MB RAM and 400mbps traffic flat) for 1€/month that proxies all traffic to the (hidden) servers hosted at home.

The spec is enough to reliably run a HAproxy that can max out the available bandwidth w/o sweat and it allows me to do failover between servers in my two "home datacenters" + possibly cache assets.
There is ASAN https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/AddressSanitizer which may work for stack variable though.
Thanks for your answer. I will keep track of your product. The eject feature is very interesting.
Hi, I tried Retool hosted on-prem and I was satisfied with that. My issue was the "per-user" billing, as I can have many users that use the application very seldomly. I will send you an email.
Yes I like AppSmith. I can always wish for more features or better things, but between all the no-code/low-code tools I tried recently, AppSmith is the one I decided to use.
As someone mentioned somewhere, there are more articles in mainstream media mentioning Ku Klux Klan than there actually are KKK members.

The far right exists and is potentially dangerous, but overconcentrating on it will let other dangers fly under the radar.
protocol is weird

You’re repeating weird, but working with both bot api and tg api weekly or so (tg api through a wrapper, but I’ve read about lower level calls and used these in gramjs) I can’t see what do you mean by that.
What I don't see being brought up often.. So, the universe could be infinite right? Or at least many orders of magnitude larger than the "visible universe"?

If that's the case, the occurance rate of life could be very very small, and we are still practically gaurenteed to exist, along with many (infinite) more life.

But it's entirely possible that they are all over a "visible universe"'s distance away. Which with an expanding universe, would mean that we could never meet or even observe them.

In some ways, that's maybe more lonely, or at least sad, than being entirely alone.
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Maybe some evolutionary steps prevent them from happening again in other branches, because they take over the world so quickly?

For example human intelligence might have quickly wiped out or constrained to small populations all other mammals on the path to the same level of intelligence?

Early forms of life may also have multiplied so fast that all chemical resources useful for it became involved in the "lifecycle" of life and hence were not available for other types of life to evolve.
Not what was said. What was said: if you DON'T take the Nth step, you then WON'T take the N+1 step.

"Not A -> Not B" is different logic than "A -> B". A is necessary but not sufficient for B.
> But Teams is probably the last piece of Microsoft code I would complain about.

Really? I mean, even if you're restricting yourself to user-facing software, vscode doesn't prompt any hatred, and quite a lot of users have always seemed to like Outlook. Teams doesn't appear to be in the same league.
I agree that "literally" is used to mean "not literally".

My beef is that such usage diminishes the language, rendering that word ambiguous.

And I claim that a significant minority of readers find these usgaes sufficiently jarring that they stop reading, or at least have their attention diverted from the writer's meaning. Therefore I think these usages should be avoided, simply in order to achieve the writer's intent. And I think lexicographers should signpost usages that are likely to repel some readers.

Dictionaries are used (a) to help decode a text, and (b) to help construct a text. In the former case, you need a descriptivist lexicon, in case the text involves dubious usages. In the latter case you need a lexicon that at least warns you that certain usages are annoying to some people.
I guess their hall-effect thrusters didn't have enough impulse to help or long enough fuel?
The power of regret: We’re taught it’s bad but it gives us the strength
Bitcoin buying will be banned the same as in China the first time it is proven to fund a terrorist attack. Mark my words.
Definitely. I suppose it's like an on-call engineer with a dodgy metric that "cries wolf" very regularly. There are hundreds of deadly conditions that have "flu-like symptoms", cancers that manifest in a myriad different ways (from anemia to blurred vision), and other serious conditions that start out as plain old lethargy or listlessness and get diagnosed as depression. I have encountered a complacent doctor who misdiagnosed my sister's cancer as "pain" (??) prescribing pain killers for weeks while the cancer spread and additional symptoms appeared. [Edit: I misremembered as months not weeks, but it was about 6 weeks]. (She died). My father is 95 years old, and had extremely low blood pressure for months, making him constantly sleepy. My mother accidentally made the discovery after she bought a blood pressure monitor for my sister (who has high blood pressure). They took him off the medication, and he's back outside chopping small pieces of firewood and taking short walks. As far as the doctor was concerned he was tired because he was old, and his body was "winding down like an old clock". Too lazy to take his fucking blood pressure. Doctors get extremely complacent, burnt-out, depressed etc. They frequently miss the 1:1000 time that the symptoms are something serious, so I literally never trust a doctor to make a diagnosis without carrying out actual tests. If I'm ever ill enough to need one, I'll have done my own research before visiting one. I don't care if it pisses them off.
The name of the podcast is "99% Invisible", not "%99 Invisible".

"99% Invisible" produces the expected result: https://godbolt.org/z/Mc9zPKWdq
> I'm not convinced that starlink is cheaper or better for than ground based cellular infrastructure - its closest technical analog.

Starlink is a miracle for people with shitty or no cellular infrastructure. There are places in Australia that have exactly one cell tower for signal and they get 3G speeds at best. And if that tower has a fault, they'll be out of access for days or weeks.

$99 per month for Starlink is a no-brainer.
OK, but to be fair, at least MacOS also asks for file access permissions, and indicates if the mic is being used with the orange dot that this thread is about.

So when running zoom in the browser, it could still keep the mic open and listen, until closing the browser tab. That would be equivalent to closing the native app.

I can see a small advantage when running in the browser, but it also comes with additional privacy risks. For example, if I want the browser to remember my settings for file and mic/camera access, I can't run it in a private tab, meaning that tracking via cookies and other techniques becomes a lot easier.
Some remarks:

- replication is way too expensive for what it's worth. As soon as you can afford it you really should go for some kind of erasure coding. The exact moment when erasure coding is more efficient (storage wise, transport wise) and more robust (in terms of devices you can lose) depends on the size of the objects (fixed cost of metadata).
- you don't need distributed consistency for the data storage actions just for the meta data (the map that tells you where the data is). You can start pushing data, and if the metadata for the object metadata never is created, you just pushed garbage which can be collected.
Descriptions like these always miss one crucial thing: The time component. In a similar vein, there's this saying that if people get in a terrible accident and lose a limb, they are back to their normal happiness after a year.

Now imagine, you are in an accident, you lose a limb. Exactly one year later, you are in another accident, lose another limb, and this goes on and on and after 80 years in your death bed, you look back on a miserable life of being traumatized every year.

Now imagine, you make new experiences, before they become your daily box, as the article shows. Say, it takes a year to become the new normal. After a year, you find something new that excites you, before it becomes the new normal. And this goes on and on and after 80 years, in your death bed, you reflect back on a life that kinda was never dull.

Is this a defense of the hedonic treadmill? No, make what you want of this, but I guess that is why many people find it enticing. The counter argument almost always misses the time component.
Are they being humiliated though? Feels like they get lots of press when announcing this kind of stuff which sits well with some target part of the electorate, then when the whole thing gets abandoned it happens with almost no attention. The current government seems to be well aware that most of the time announcing a policy has a much higher ROI than actually implementing one (cf all the times pre-existing spending commitments get recycled in new announcements)
Yeah, no. You can simply set up a bank account or paypal or whatever and get currency that you can actually buy bread with. One platform closing a founding page does not justify going all the way to bitcoin.
How modified would a Tesla Cybertruck need to be to run on the moon?
Hehe Awesome. Good to hear :)

For wasm we are collecting feedback so def comment on that GitHub thread. There is a blog post describing the API preview.
Dosage and timing is key.
Where do i see the salary and equity. May be I'm missing something?
Sol orbits the galaxy independently of all other bodies. We don't know where most of the magnetars are, never mind their orbits, which are anyway unpredictable. (The nearest we know of is ~5kly? away. Or more, or less.) We don't know where any but two of the black holes are, although there must be a billion or more. Less than ten million years ago we flew into a dust cloud left over from a recent supernova.

We could have been in sterilization range of a magnetar dozens or hundreds of times since life evolved, so we're just lucky none erupted when we were. The core supermassive black hole blew somehow just 100Mya, fortunately pointed somewhere else.

The only safe-ish corner is very far from everything else, and off-axis from the central black hole. We are deep in the thick soup.
What happened in the EU? You don't need a credit card to access porn or Facebook in the EU.
Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?
In the last few months Twitter has went from letting you browse the site without signing in, to now prompting you to sign in to do pretty much anything. Even something as simple as scrolling down with my mousewheel in Twitter prompts me to sign in. This also happens with official government communication pages. I thought courts already decided in the US that the public has a right to access official government communications on social media. When requiring users to sign in and agree to the companies terms, wouldn't this be considered a form of preventing access to those communications?
If you have true e2ee, you can't enter your login/password and see all your chats right there, instantly.
Wow. Not many automakers can claim to have an infotainment system notorious enough to get coverage on local public radio and a design-oriented podcast.

Weird intersection.
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At this point one must assume that all traffic is monitored and stored, maybe it is or maybe it is not, but assume so. At least all metadata is stored for some time.

Using a VPN moves the point where this occurs and may obfuscate some things, but also realize that many VPNs are probably in some form associated with nation-states and therefore makes their job easier.