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I have two external Dell monitors, one M1 air mac bought in 2021, so only one works. I bought a dual HDMI plug but it's not supported.
What cheap device (displaylink hub port?) would you suggest people like me to buy to connect the second monitor? At
> direct exploitation is only really a short term problem - at most for one generation of people growing up with friends making funny videos of things they didn't do

For sure, but there's a window of opportunity in which an attacker can really do a lot of damage. Not much can be done about it, but it's worthy of keeping in mind.

> Now that's a scary though - it's unfortunatly already all too commonly accepted that people can't be trusted to decide what to run on their devices.

Yeah. Not that long ago banning general purpose computation seemed fanciful, but it's not as taboo today (and flipped to being the norm on device classes like the portables).
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There's major Linux progress and I'd expect more to come soon. JUCE 7 introduced LV2 and I think more developers will release to Linux sooner than later.
I block outgoing ports 80 and 443 quite regularly when I need to get shit done, coding-wise. Takes some getting used to, but it's no major obstacle.
As I read before, this article[0] summarises quite well what I think about people who spout this bullshit about economies and markets during a fucking pandemic. It's their Moloch.

For this kind of people, capitalist supremacists, sacrifice of human lives to the market is ok, might be "sad" but it's necessary in their worldview.

[0] https://kitanyaharrison.medium.com/the-economy-of-moloch-hum...
that's exactly how i worked for 10+ years at the beginning of my career... with a bunch of ( Oreilly's ) books on my desk.
Absolutely. My very modest blog (manypossibilities.net) has helped me maintain an independent perspective and brand. The real value of the blog is the opportunity to reflect and synthesize ideas that have been percolating in your brain. I find writing very hard but every piece I have written has brought me satisfaction in having distilled something, if only for myself. It is also true that giving away real value to others in any small way through your blog/website is something that will come back to you a thousand times.
Fun fact, the browser limitations used for lockdown mode are very similar to the existing restrictions that Apple already had in place for rendering captive portal screens :)
if there's one thing I hate, it's websites "supporting" tor by redirecting from a specific article to the main page of their (in this case non-functional) onion URL.

twitter did this too a while back, they made a big show of how they're supporting tor now, and now whenever i click a link to a tweet via tor, it redirects me to their frontpage.

thanks, can you stop supporting tor now please, so I can use the site with tor again?
You're probably right the terms would be harder. Personally I don't care. Even if it means I have to pay more in taxes.

At least we'd be part of a progressive union, even if its run by bureaucrats.

It may seem small minded but having to change currency, go through passport control, pay more import duty for shipments from mainland EU, reform the progressive data protection and human rights laws and renegotiate trade deals with the whold world is just all such a personal pain. A pain that I feel isn't alleviated by any benefits. Naming a single definit benefit of brexit is difficult - the Leave campaign was built on lies and the current "Brexit Opportunities Minister" Moggins isn't achieving anything noteworthy.
Ahh okay I think I get it now, you are saying if chess is win for black, that immediately implies zugzwang for white from starting position.
In the same way, chess being a win for white implies zugzwang for black starting position.

So chess being a win for one side is equivalent to starting position being zugzwang for the other side.

It's obvious now, but so interesting to me, I never thought about it that way! Thanks for taking time for explaining yourself.
Site's certificate expired a few minutes ago (at noon, UTC), I've emailed them about it.

Also, the content is far more badass than expected.
In practice I wouldn't expect many devices to have lockdown mode turned on, and the people who are turning it on probably aren't also using the same device to play Fruit Ninja in a browser. This is a feature explicitly designed for people who have reason to believe they're being personally targeted by national intelligence agencies, or other extremely well funded organisations.
At scale? Can this be implemented globally in a few decades? What about making it work in places going dry?

Desalination plants and wastewater treatment plants have existed for decades, but are expensive. Today, many people don't have access to clean water because of this.

Rifles and ammunition are cheaper than new water infrastructure so war over water will take place everywhere before water conservation technology is deployed.
EU is not one of the richest places on the planet thanks to the museum tickets, obviously there's lot's of innovation happening.

In fact, EU is taking the lightweight and pro free market approach here. US tried to destroy TikTok instead of regulate it.
That's... so weirdly ironic I can't even! Blogspam websites are made by real humans with little oversight, while a literal AI with oversight generates better results.

That said, with a little tweaking, these technologies can - and probably already are - being used to churn out blogspam websites left and right, fully automatic.
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I assume larger companies can deal with temporary mistakes on the order of one engineer’s salary.
I think something weirder is at play. I can still read the article no problem without a VPN. Set my VPN to exit in the States and I hit the paywall.
Really? I thought it failed completely on the mona lisa painting. The result looks more like a completely different face colored green but otherwise mostly ignoring the style of the painting - more like existing face swap apps than any kind of deep fake.
How to quickly (and successfully) onboard engineers
Apple with just European users would be worth much more. If a company really wasn't that big just in Europe, there would be a case to exclude them. Apple certainly isn't one of them.
The EU is rich but it’s not due to excellence in consumer tech. If anything TikTok is a great example since Shorts is catching up (albeit very slowly).

What are the areas in consumer tech where Europe enjoys the worldwide advantage in sales and mindshare?
"Salesforce employees could not access this benefit"

I think Salesforce does not have the same definition of the words "can not" than I do, since I'm pretty sure there is no God that told Salesforce they can't give all employees that same perk, or whatever they want.

That said, who could possibly be surprised that when a company is sold to another company, the sold has to adopt the policies of the buyer? The moment the sale was announced, everything about the purchaced company is out the window, or could be at any time, you now work for the other company, and it doesn't matter how longstanding or beloved your traditions were. Your bosses sold you to other bosses with other ways.
In their investor's report, they explain the decision: They were strapped for cash.
In middle age I've just started to appreciate poetry. Really enjoyed this article!
Again, you are not acknowledging the progress traps.

Our solution has always been to migrate to the next place that has resources. But soon there will be no such place.
It looks like an ebook that is free, is there a epub to download somewhere?
To be fair at that point in time people didn’t understand radiation fall out. It was just a really big bomb.
> the small companies who think avoiding vendor lock-in is a thing that matters at their scale

This. If AWS ever were to even consider dramatically increasing their prices, there are players whose AWS bills are two or three or more orders of magnitude more expensive than yours who will howl and gnash their teeth and whose potential departure from AWS does far more to protect you than you could ever do to protect yourself.

Similar stupidity includes spending engineering time on such issues like how to deal with an S3 outage. If S3 is down, your competitors are down too. Nobody cares.
I shared a flat in London with two other geeks in the 90s and we wired up vt100 terminals in each of our rooms so we could talk to each other without leaving our rooms.

They didn't last long, they were quickly replaced by PCs on a lan so we could play Doom.
this is a superb collection of laws which transfer across domains. Favourite one is

"Benford’s law of controversy (astrophysics): Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available. When given the opportunity to fill information gaps with rumor, theory, and imagination, people cling to what they want to be true, which tends to be something they are passionate about. The real world is often very boring"

Astrophyics but applicable to ideological committments
There are other things in life and business than consumer tech and consumer tech is not only photo sharing.
Just my observations: Following the usual boom and bust cycle, we should expect the next two years to be a recession, which will lead to a significant number of people going to the polls to elect the next president, which regardless of who it is, will likely see a rebound of the economy in 2025.
you're really painting it.

in America, as a website, you're still perfectly allowed to use marketing cookies without permission, or just not provide the option of saying no. taking away that privilege is "government overreach"?

gdpr is also much bigger than just cookies. it's also a wide-ranging law forcing companies to more careful with your data and delete it if you ask

the EU politicians rightly do not represent the companies affected
We tried transparency and ended up with the FISA court.
I know this is going to initially bother a lot of software engineers the wrong way but here me out: make a gantt chart and assign resources to each of the tasks. You can add "future hires" to see how much of a work load reduction you get.

Now depending on your work environment you can do one of two things:

- Work environment is still "healthy": Show your gantt chart to your boss as a justification for the resource count addition but highly stress that the dates are not accurate or even valid estimates. That is what a dedicated planning session is for.

- Work environment is not "healthy"/a bureaucracy: Come up with whatever justification you can that validates the number you came up with in a gantt chart (aka parallel construction) but don't show the gantt chart. They will take those numbers as gospel no matter what you say.
> Digital technology is ephemeral, all built on software.

I agree with your take but I think you're underestimating network effects in this. Once a platform takes hold and grips people not through being the best product but the one with most reach it's very hard for a competitor to break that. Even more when competitors are simply bought and swallowed into the big corps.
Give people a strong leader who is wise, does the right things for the vast majority, improves lifes in a tangible way, brings a utopia as a vision so people can have a dream again and who is democratic.

You dont have those leaders? Then you have to deal with populists who pretend to be.

It is simple. Democracy will not go down because of some idiots shoot down innocent people or because a fat old racist man is in office one more time. It will go down bacause the legitimation of democracy is disappearing: PROSPERITY.

Let us have the energy crisis here in Yurop .. you will see how quickly people will revolt and blame the democratic structures. No prosperity = no democracy.
Thanks for sharing the link!

I have some difficulty figuring out how that service works. I would like to create a second Google account, which requires a phone number to receive security codes. If you have a minute, could you please explain how to go about it and how much it would cost me, say, per year?
Interesting why, the name Hacker News implies being able to hack around even (or espacially, this is basically a supercomputer most of us carry around all the time) with your phone.
> hope it has spillover effects into the US

Probably not, and for good reason. If Europe is moving first, it makes sense to wait and see how their approach fairs. We’ve learned a lot about what works and more about what doesn’t with GDPR, a bit more from v2 in California.
Nope. As someone who administered a VAX with 50 simultaneous users, it's not a problem. It only affect that process and that user during that session. A logout resets everything. A more interesting problem was trying to read or write to a serial port that was hardwired to use a different baud rate.

You could type "stty 9600 /dev/tty4"; cat file >/dev/tty4" and it wouldn't work because when stty exited, the system would reset the terminal baud rate.

The proper way to do this (assuming you weren't the sysadmin and couldn't modify the default per-terminal baud rate), was to type the following

(stty 9600; cat file)>/dev/tty4
Owning land that you rent to others is unproductive too, but somehow it is socially acceptable and brings food on the table??
Of course it is. Why? Because both parties operate at the behest of the capital-owning class. The only bills that pass are performative, extend police power domestically (eg [1]) or extend military power internationally (which typically means a massive giveaway to the military-industrial complex anyway).

Nothing curtails corporate power. It's also why the focus of politics is on being divisive on social issues. This is to distract the voters and prevent class solidarity of the working class.

[1]: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/14/politics/house-vote-supre...
Same as before Google. Books, text files, and collected code snippets. During school, the SWAG collection for Pascal was eagerly downloaded from BBSs when new editions came out.

http://www.retroarchive.org/swag/index.html
> And then you have a possibly confusing situation where you have two programs that do essentially the same thing

My point is, I'd never thought of using yes for this purpose. So in this case, you could make a command called 'outputsomethingfast' and you could make a command called yes, that internally calls 'outputsomethingfast --output=yes' or something like that.

To me this is way more logical, and more in line with the Linux philosophy, right?
I never claimed consumer tech is only photo sharing? You’re the one who even brought up Tiktok to begin with, lol.

Sad how it’s so hard to give examples of the EUs excellence in mainstream consumer tech, I guess.

There’s nothing wrong with the EU legislating since they can’t win the market share through traditional means. It’s a valid strategy. Let’s just not pretend, please. The restrictions that will be put in place may be what Europe needs to compete, but let’s just act like Europe is already in a strong competitive position.
> They would need to demonstrate they had a strict license counting system in place where libraries put in what they had and the system counted how much it borrowed

They already do have such a system. If they "have" multiple copies of a book edition, then the "borrow" period is 14 days. If they have only one copy, then it's only one hour, so that the book remains more available to others.

This means that they are aware of how many "licences" they hold and reference count the accesses to each edition against that figure.

Whether they indeed bypassed that system for the NEL and provably allowed excessive accesses being their holdings, well, that's for the court to hear.
Encrypting Strings at Compile Time
Yup! The change order strategy or nickel and dime strategy tho autocorrect suggested “buckle and dime” and that would also work.

Unfortunately as much as engineers and owners reps complain about this way of doing business it’s quite accepted since people generally want to keep their reputations. No one wants to be known as “difficult to work with”. So only very excessive transgressions get punished.
Why is this getting downvote? Minecraft could have been so much, particularly regarding educational content.
I don't like the Roblox experience partly due to some pervert indie creators I've heard about. Minecraft could really be extended, not on its main version but through community-reviewed mods probably.
The purpose of a game console is to run software and allow the user to directly interact with that running software, the software itself being the purpose and not cooking or transportation.

It's not the CPU that makes something a computer, it's the function. Regardless how the task is achieved, the purpose of my toaster isn't to run software, it's to provide measured doses of radiant heat. It's the same as the grandparent who observed that the purpose of a Tesla is as form of transport, not to be a general purpose computer. (Though I'd argue it's a rather blurry line when using the centre console for entertainment while at a supercharger.)
Interesting how people see thistle as a problem to be understood and solved instead of a design choice.

The answer here is so much simple than that.

Pay more and you get more external displays, pay less and you get less external displays.
Why are you booing him; he's right.

While the article immediately addresses the acceptance of both awful and fantastic changes, it doesn't address our effect on the other species of the planet - which has been rather unambiguously horrific. On a scale that's basically impossible to comprehend without lifetimes of study across diverse fields.

This needs to be addressed more. Every hour of every day, until we have accountability for the people responsible and genuine changes.

I want our future to be one that respects the biosphere and all species, not just one. It's not just altruistic either - we've lost so much already, and people don't even know.
This sounds like a scheduler bug?
And here is the problem. Now we have 2 programs that do essentially the same thing.
I believe that you believe me, so I'll rest there, since I don't want to speak actual products and timescales and business sizes and buusiness types required to make the claim more solid.
I don't remember exactly, but probably about a year or two ago, I flirted with the idea of starting a self-hosted blog and your solution fit the what I was looking for.

Personally, I think a Disqus replacement is/was a good idea. I just would have preferred that the license were of a more permissive kind such as BSD or MIT.
this is interesting, seeing a PE firm acquire a public firm.
seems the PE firm knows more than the public markets can account for.
and sees opportunities to trim fat hard, given that they're paying a 34% premium.
if I was a zendesk employee I would be worried
It does seem like there should be an opportunity to fund promising content that costs more than $0 (YouTube has that covered) and less than hundreds of millions. Almost like a YC model. What happens if you find someone with a decent premise and give them a bit of money and loaner equipment to make a pilot? They could even make it into an “American Idol” style competition to get funding for more episodes/a full series.
Well I guess they will rebrand themselves any moment now. Can't be an unicorn candidate with a sensible name like that.

I really wish there was a modern open source automation toolkit för Windows that combined the programming flexibility of AutoHotKey with the visual capabilities of UI Path and powerful crawling functionality.
I definitely meant Excel, we use office365 - easily as shareable as Google sheets these days. Agree anaplan and friends also have downsides, but for me the complexity you end up in as you change things through the year and need to explain the impact of the change becomes too complex in Excel. We manage a team of about 220 people, when I had a team half the size it was more manageable.
And this is why you need grafana dashboards of your storage!
Cheers to all that and may you experience it all many more times!
not sure on this one, on my keyboard there is a halftone to get D from C
so I believe it's more C# = D ?
The issue here is that not only was the large impact a statistical outlier, but so were the other dozen smaller impacts.

So unless the team can optimize the orientation of the craft (which they are attempting) to reduce risk (and reduce observation targets), the telescope will likely not meet its projected lifetime.

We're all hoping for the best, but the models of micrometeor density at L2 were likely optimistically inaccurate.
Yup, it is essentially exploiting the subsystem firewalls like iptables use under the hood, you can't mess with that remotely.
If someone is not a good fit it’s their managers job to fix the issue. Professionally and without impugning someone’s abilities.

Telling someone that they aren’t good enough to work at a company is a level of unprofessional that puts the whole company in question. If they put someone that bad in a position of responsibility the most likely scenario is the company is a clown car.

If you think you can tell someone that you are most likely a clown.
If you replace the abbreviation "GDPR" with the words "food safety", you'll understand how silly such arguments sound.

An example: "The issue with food safety style regulations with huge penalties is that it makes it harder for new entrants to the market to operate without fear of violating the law by accident. Big food has no such fear due to huge legal departments."
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> The tilde key is the shortcut to get monospace fonts or code blocks, and it feels like I roll the die everytime I try to convert text to a code block.

Backticks are used for formatting code in Teams, not tildes. Surround in-line text in single backticks, or place three backticks on a new line to start a code block.
The amount of market power Apple has left even after such extensive regulation still far surpasses what a small company can hope to get by building even the most restricted walled garden.

So, if there were any medium companies just below the regulation threshold, the discontinuity argument would make sense. But there isn't, and there won't be, precisely because of anti-competitive behavior of the giants, they can sustain walled gardens precisely because they are giants.
> use your browser

Yeah, but I can't I can use only Safari engine, and I would like to use Firefox one.
As in, paying for that engineer was a mistake all along?
> I expect it to prevent attack vectors used by these APTs

It does, it just doesn't close all attack vectors used by APTs.

They say[0]:

> Turning on Lockdown Mode [...] further hardens device defenses and strictly limits certain functionalities, sharply reducing the attack surface that potentially could be exploited by highly targeted mercenary spyware.

They don't say "turn this on and you'll be unhackable". They go on to say:

> Apple will continue to strengthen Lockdown Mode and add new protections to it over time.

So what they released in the current beta is just the start.
They decided that releasing Lockdown mode with only some additional protections would be worthwhile to at-risk users and I personally agree.
It's both true that Lockdown likely helps at-risk users (see reply by _kbh_) and still has lots of room for improvement.

[0]: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/07/apple-expands-commitm...
Aha, thanks for that key point, that does change it a lot. I missed that this was in CA and for whatever reason assumed it was all going through the NZ courts.

I am sure there is some form of cross-border agreement between NZ and the US, but I don't know any details about it.
20 years ago I was amazed by US and wondered if I could ever move there.

In the last 5-10 years my mind did a 180° flip and now I'm more happy than ever being in EU.