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> Adoption

This is a chicken and egg argument.

> Security
> Prerequisites

Both of these arguments rest on the assumption that RCS replaces iMessage. That's not the point. The data is already unencrypted. You already need a paid phone number. The benefit is that two large groups of users' devices that interact poorly today interact better with RCS. Google isn't asking Whatsapp or Signal to implement RCS, it doesn't make sense that they'd expect Apple to shut down their proprietary service to use a less-featurefull option instead.
That's not true, unlimited SMS have been a thing for at least 15 years in Europe, well before WhatsApp became popular. In my experience, people switched to WhatsApp because of group chats and images (MMS were expensive).
I always thought it was a Joke/Meme. I saw it come up years ago on 4chan, but now it's everywhere.
That is an common misunderstanding. You can't interchange one nuclear fuel for an other. Fuel rods are designed and built explicitly for the kind of plant that will use it, which mean that the fuel mostly used will be for the plant that is mostly built. Guess who holds the patents to the fuel rods design for a specific nuclear power plant design.

Uranium mining however is pretty diversified. about 1/4 come from Canada, 1/4 from Australia, 1/4 from Russia and 1/4 from Africa. It then get processed into a powder, and then shipped to a fuel construction facility. One of the larger site of fuel rod construction is actually Sweden, which has also recently started to expand construction for fuel to Rosatom reactors.

Creating fuel rods from Uranium refined powder is however not the biggest problem that the world has.
I get that, but it is still ironic. And it makes me sad looking at the utter wastage of money and human effort.
> in a scenario where all companies are reduced in size

What does all companies mean, are you proposing the entire world follow this approach or just the US. If its just the US then other refineries would just offer cheaper oil and US consumers would buy it from overseas while the US refining goes bankrupt.
I have worked in California, Virginia, and Germany, and I've seen racist contexts in all these locations. East vs West Germany: Yes, perhaps the east is somewhat more opposed to outsiders, but only in the country side - cities like Dresden, Berlin, Leipzig are similarly diverse as are West German cities. And if you go to a rural area in Bavaria, you'll find (former) Pegida as well. It is just not as simple as the generalizations made by you and others.
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Ah cool, I’ve replaced so many of these in the past!! If I recall, RetroKit and a few other stores sell more reliable modern PSUs.
Make sure you get the correct meaning of the 90%. This article isn't talking about a 10% false positive rate, which would mean that 10% of OK pictures are falsely flagged as bad. That would be awful. The article is actually talking about 90% precision, AKA 10% false discovery rate, which means that 10% of the pictures flagged as bad are actually OK. That's a fairly good precision - however it is only half the picture, as the false positive rate definitely needs to be specified (and be very low).
The other is that for things like cars and furniture there's a resale factor.

That's shifting the 'why' question to: why do people care more about resale value now than they did 20 years ago. I'd guess the reason would be the state of the economy? However a search for 'car color linked to economy' reveals other theories, like paint used: https://slate.com/culture/2011/10/car-paint-colors-why-are-s...
I really hope that interoperability between (some of) these platforms, mandated by EU, will actually come true. Thing is, SMS is ancient technology, but it does work everywhere, on any kind of device, even on the dumbest one. All the other 3-rd party apps are (a) requiring an Internet connection to work, which most people have, but some don't, having limited data plans or prepaid accounts where data is way too expensive to use, and (b) they can only communicate with their own users, exactly like iMessage.
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Apparently teens in the US judge each other by the colour of their message bubbles [0].

I don't know if this is merely immaturity, or sheer vapidness.

[0]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-apples-imessage-is-winning-... (paywalled)
It is for 80% of people. I am already mid 30s, but I assume the only people who care are young people who use it as an in group vs out group signifier. Which, if not green and blue chats, would be something else.

Everyone else simply uses WhatsApp if everyone does not have iMessage.
Your statement does not disagree with my statement. Green’s rights do not create a duty on GitHub.

You’re struggling with basic concepts. Constitutional rights in general do not compel private actions; they restrict government powers.
"Rationally/ethically X sounds dangerous and bad, but I haven't seen any widespread disaster resulting from X, therefore X is fine/good enough, so I just try to not think about the ways X is bad and unethical"
Nice and clear explanation, thanks!
or RHEL 6
As an old guy with an incurable disease, nothing is more frightening than people who want me to die before I'm ready to go.
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you may not have seen them, but they are out there (raises hand)
and what if you disable search-suggestions?
Law enforcement acknowledging the fact that he did nothing wrong won't fix the fact that he lost a lot of time and probably braincells because of the stress induced by something completely retarded that should've never happened.

Now go ahead and send a SWAT team to my house, because I have a real photo of a naked baby in an album in one of my coffers, lets ignore for a moment that it was taken by my mother when I was a baby, and I guess by your standards, it's called "CSAM" or something equally retarded.
Yeah that's tech for you! E4X was a ES standard, but Mozilla dropped it in 2014, then FB pick it and made JSX and now that is the defacto "Front-End" development.
We've been hearing about homomorphic encryption for years, but I haven't seen it applied in a very practical way.
they can't use it unless authorized and no, there is no single evidence that EU is engaged in massive surveillance on their citizens.

Also because, for those who don't know, EU cannot do it by itself.

It depends from the legislation of every single member.

So I'm sure in Poland and Hungary they are trying to do it against political opposition, but I'm also sure that in my Country it is not happening (I know people working for that department, it's mostly because incompetence and laser focus on other threats like terrorism and organized crime, which we are pretty good at preventing)

And most of all as European I support the idea that EU should protect interests of EU, where 450 million people live.

It's bad enough we have to witness and pay the consequences of a war at our borders because Americans did nothing to prevent it, that we have to allow them to have their military bases on our soil, that they are now sending more troops to said bases, let's at least have our own regulations created by, let's remember this fact too, elected representatives of the European population.
This may have caused WhatsApp to get big in much of the EU, but by now many European countries also have unlimited text, so it's not the case any longer.
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Cue AWA, which is where GHACV is stored (IIUC on film, not aluminium though)

> For greater data density and integrity, most data was stored QR-encoded, and compressed. A human-readable index and guide found on every reel explains how to recover the data.The 02/02/2020 snapshot, consisting of 21TB of data, was archived to 186 reels of film by our archive partners Piql and then transported to the Arctic Code Vault, where it resides today.

https://archiveprogram.github.com/arctic-vault/

https://arcticworldarchive.org/
There seem to be quite a lot of people who really need to believe that luck plays at best a minor role in (their) success for their sense of identity to remain intact, and who get incredibly defensive when this notion is challenged.

I guess in daily life it's a useful self-delusion. A mostly harmless belief that gets them through the day while being obviously false: if you're born in the middle class in a developed economy in the modern day, you're likely to be vastly more lucky than, say, 99% of all people who have ever existed so far.
I keep being surprised how utterly selfish can brand fans be when it comes to their electronics toys. This doesn't affect pure Apple fanboys at all and yet they still want to mess it up.
-- I've always (since the 90s) used the rule of thumb treat everything on the internet as if it's compromised - I employ low personal security - however i also employ low trust - wouldn't go so far as to blame the users or the platforms - i'd blame both equally - user education is low - false sense of security is high - as the years have gone by - adjustments have been made on my side: comments sections are probably misinformation - emails from people I know may or may not be real - emails from people I don't know are probably not real - use pen and paper for things that need to stay relatively confidential - this is how I was taught to use the internet in the early days - still use it this way today --
The fragmentation of these third party apps gets frustrating very fast though.

I'm in the UK and my work uses Slack and also wants me to use WhatsApp for OOH contact. My friends are mostly on Discord. My family is mostly only available via iMessage. A few of the more privacy conscious use Telegram or Signal. A few of the more OSS conscious use Matrix. Some chat is still on IRC (actually I like that...).

Users relying on third party apps over the top has strong network effects for keeping people using services from Facebook et al, and I'm not too fond of that.

I'm vaguely optimistic about the EU's idea of forcing these apps to be able to federate in at least a basic sense, but we'll see.
Youtube will at the very least fallback to HTTP over TCP for watching (no idea about live streaming).

I did a lot of funky things to get around the "drop all UDP" firewall at my first student dorm :)
RCS improves SMS, it doesn't replace iMessage.
Nitpick - iMessage is also Internet-based. The phone number is only checked once when you first install the phone (by Apple sending an SMS that the OS intercepts) and is then registered with Apple so that other Apple phones with iMessage enabled know that this number can receive iMessage. The carrier is no longer involved beyond the initial verification step.

You can also use iMessage with an Apple ID, including to contact those who only have a phone number (and the reverse also works). This works on non-cellular devices as well such as iPod/iPad/Mac.
> iMessages are tied to Apple serial numbers, making spamming a lot harder.

Except that you can already get spam "in iMessage" because the iMessage app is also the (default) SMS app on iPhones, and so anyone can send an SMS to your phone number and you'll receive it.

> RCS would bring the spam protection to sms levels, i.e. absolutely non-existant

You already have no protection against SMS on your iMessage app, so not having protection against RCS spam is no worse than the current situation in that regard, but at least RCS has extra things like group chat which would be nice for cross-platform interoperability.
The reason is that SMS is dying and being replaced by better encrypted clients.

There is no point moving to RCS which just prolongs this death and makes the current situation worse since Google has their own proprietary version of RCS.
> Even the cheapest prepaid plan.

My 3.99€/month plan includes 100 SMS. Not that I ever use all of those, all of my 100 minutes, or all of my 1 GB of data.
> You can't do that with 3rd-party proprietary siloed communication platforms

I agree, and this is unfortunate. However, they're not going away at all, and the free alternatives (IRC?) are relegated to niche developer groups. For work communications, we have Slack, Discord, Teams, Zoom; for normal messaging, the apps I mentioned above (and more; Instagram/TikTok/etc have their own DM platforms).

It will take real concerted effort to fix this, and somehow I don't see it happening.
Mypy is very useful on big projects, and does catch bugs regularly in my code.

The ergonomics improved a lot and it's now usable, so the cost ratio/benefit is worth it today.

But barely.

Even assuming you use the latest Python version (lots of project can't), you still have to import tons of things you use all the time like Iterable, Self, Callable and so on.

Then you have to deal with with the poor Protocol solution for duck typing, aggressive defaults, mypy slowness (before 9.13 it's terrible, after it's just bad and mypyd is quickly mandatory) and a surprisingly high number of bugs (such frustrating time wasters). Add on that false positives, low support from some popular libs and incompatible type checker implementations, and you get a very much meh experience. Very far from the awesomeness on Python.

If you are unlucky and have to use anaconda, mypy dependencies make it extra fun to include.

Still, I'm glad it exists. It's still very useful. But thank god hints are optional.
> To use iMessage, all you need is an Apple ID, which you can create for free. To use RCS, you need to have a phone number, which means that you need to have an account with a carrier. You also need to have a phone to use RCS: you can't use it on a tablet alone without LTE.

I’m under the impression you need Apple hardware to use iMessage, and that even third-party solutions rely upon proxying via real Apple hardware which has to be turned on (I get the impression some basically offer the hardware as a paid service, and others require you to own the hardware?). This tips the balance completely the other direction, as a lot more people have phone numbers than can use iMessage without further expenditure.
Yes, he'd be okay with it, he has nothing to hide after all, not even the fact that his phone got stolen and was used to send bomb threats to 30 nearest hospitals, then destroyed, in the area where he lives with court ruling that he's guilty + getting extra time for destroying all evidence. Literally NOONE would ever do such a thing, it's not like criminals already communicate using stolen devices and even buy things using stolen credit cards. There's simply NO WAY.
I am no a fan of apple and their digital golden jail, but I see that move as a way to prepare to jump to risc-v which does not have toxic IP tied to it, once wi have performant risc-v cpus ofc.

This is a little drop of good in a ocean of bad.
>cannot generate coherent dialog (and even then it's mostly bad dialog) spanning more than a minute or two

I think that was pretty clear and that posted dialog is a perfect illustration.

You cannot generate the entire movie script coherently without significant human input and that's not going to change in the next several years. So, your initial claim that dialogue is "solved" is indeed false.
Because privacy is important and the elimination of it has been a huge part of most totalitarian regimes. Why wouldn’t you die on the hill?
> > Encryption is not only important to protect private communication, but would also help perpetrators/criminals

> No.

Without going into whatever context the original quote has: doch — encryption does both. There is no technology so pure it only helps the "good guys", from fire to firearms[0] there are things we can't possibly survive without, and yet criminals can use them for crimes.

I don't know the best way to handle this with crypto, mainly because the problem is much deeper than the crypto itself: even if absolutely everyone without exception or equivocation agrees everyone gets unbreakable cryptography, it is getting ever easier to just spy directly — laser microphones on drones, using software to repurpose a WiFi antenna as a wall-penetrating radar, IR cameras, using AI for gaze detection and 3D scene reconstruction to figure out who (or what) you were looking at when you blushed — that's all coming to a blackmailer near you. (Caveat: fake images and potentially at some point 3D bioprinted fake bodies will make the evidence invalid in courts of law, but that's a whole different discussion).

The only thing I can even think to suggest is a radical liberalisation of almost every law and punishment such that we can as a society survive when everyone's crimes, misdemeanours, and administrative infractions/regulatory offences are cataloged and dealt with in real time.

The only thing I am sure of is that the future can't look anything like the examples from history — while it might be much better or much worse, it won't be even close to the same.

[0] I don't mean in the American 2nd amendment sense though, I mean an army with no firearms will loose to one that has them.
> but some don't

The proportion of people with phone-only plans is very small and getting smaller by the year.

Let's just have an interoperability standard that is data based, encrypted and independent of carriers.
> Which means it's pretty much unconstitutional.

In the USA, I guess. But this is an EU proposal; the EU doesn't have a constitution.
"RCS embraces the flaws of GSM, and Apple using it would be a step backwards."

Nope. As RCS is better than SMS, adopting it would be a step forward. The whole article can be summed up to "RCS is not perfect, so it should not be used". Which is of course silly as RCS is better than the current option it replaces, SMS.
I couldn't enumerate for you all the things isolated to a container; I am no expert. However, I believe first-party isolation only concerns itself with cookies.
I am under the impression teens should be expected to be immature and vapid…because they are teens.
node.js dependency hell that often makes java's transitive dependencies on bigger projects look like hello world? Exception handling? Performance? No real multithreading afaik?

I have no skin in the game (anymore), but boy the feeling repeated gazillion times left and right in past decade about javascript crawling to be used in places it shouldn't be strongly resonated with me back then (not particularly for this project, rant in general).
You're being disingenuous. And given on your follow-up you're actually misrepresenting what I say, which is wilfully malicious behaviour in a discussion. German politicians have repeatedly called for a reform of article 16a of the GG. The paragraph is about the right of asylum. And yes, during what they call the "migration crisis" article 16a clearly supported the case for mass migration to Germany.

https://www.merkur.de/politik/asylrecht-oettinger-will-grund...
Or enough other people were fooled and listen to the "fake" Fanny, creating a listener correlation between the real and fake Fannys.
It's immaturity, if you will. Wanting to set oneself aside as a bit better than others, and the harsh group mechanics of building constellations with a select few through exclusions of others, is a social behavior of growing up. Almost every kid and teenager will partake in it or at the least experience it.

I don't know child psychology, but if I were to guess it's a manifestation of "survival of the fittest".
> The type system could just "look" for those mutations

That's a very big "just". Typescript and mypy don't look through function call boundaries, doing so would open a lot of problems, I believe.

> or the language could add mutability to the type system.

I agree there, the core issue is that the call to `foo` leaks a an object where the member is rebindable through assignment, but the "flow typing" assumes that doesn't happen. Ideally such a call should be a barrier for flow typing, unless there was a way to specify functions that don't modify their parameter this way (readonly parameters?).

A similar problem but with a global instead:

https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?#code/DYUwLgBAlhBcEDsCuB...

This should be handled differently. Every function should be assumed to modify globals, unless they can be marked to be pure.
Why can't you maintain and report an average uptime across all service usage? So if you have an outage that affects 1% of traffic it moves your figure 1/10th as one on 10% of traffic?

That's what I'd expect a reported number to be, since that's what a client experiences on average.
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That is surprisingly close to some plot points of the Mistborn Trilogy from Brandon Sanderson: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistborn
I can't believe this story ended with a bunch of slogans fit for big corp motivational posters.

This was a story of depravity, desperation, starvation and the horrible choices one has to make when they feel that the only choices left all lead to likely death.

To draw career or enterpreneurship inspiration from it just seems... wrong...
Yep it's the people's own fault that they died while waiting in the emergency room. The politicians are sacrosanct and must not be criticized under any circumstances. So, you see, all these excess deaths are really suicides.
I hate being asked to hand over my phone number for 2FA or similar protections. Or facing the choice between deleting all my DMs or risking them being compromised on account no E2E support. Then again, even if you delete something, there's no knowing what their data retention handling is.
The parent comment wasn’t expression frustration at that, He was expression frustration at people thinking running OS X on arm way back when was some kind of feat.

At the time, it was.
> It's not like the CIA that breaks your SSL certs and wiretaps on your communications without asking anyone if they can or cannot.

It's absolutely hilarious that you believe America is the only country that does this.
The likelihood is that bad actors do.

It's one of the reasons I disliked Twitter forcing the use of mobile numbers for 2FA, they're just not sufficiently trustworthy. And I have an account under my real name! If I were a political dissident etc that just feels like an insane idea.
> the primary channel for discourse

Primary for whom? If you polled 50 people on the streets of NYC, I bet fewer than 3 would say they actively use twitter. Now do the same for Des Moines, IA and you maybe get 1?
The article states he has had no contact with Musk and that the whistleblowing started before Musk attempted his takeover of Twitter ..
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RCS is a step backward.

At least SMS is a standard where as Google has their own proprietary version.
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