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The GNU/linux distros (in contrast to android) available for mobile phones are so far from usable, it is not funny. Android is a viable choice, but only if it doesn’t come with all the shit from the vendo/Google, which gives you effectively.. a pixel phone with GrapheneOS? Not too much of a choice, especially if you would like to filter based on hardware as well (where apple is just laughably ahead, iphones are ~2 generations ahead in raw performance)
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Thanks for sharing this. Please take care of yourself. There's something uniquely painful about losing someone who you look up to as a mentor.
You seem to miss that you're switching the golden handcuffs for rusty uncomfortable handcuffs with the spikes facing inward.

"It's a free market because I have the choice between two brutal masters!"
Except that running "ls" doesn't show you the directory content size, and "ncdu" requires the user to make a tea first. The above poster is right in saying that having this built-in to the filesystem metrics would be a huge win.
but everyone disagrees.

a sketchy CA should not be given the benefit of the doubt. and customers of sketchy CA should suffer for not doing their homework and should rightly scramble to secure certs from other providers to resume their business.

the only sin of kernel/distro maintainers is not dropping those CAs faster.

what browsers did is the ultimate sin of sacrificing users to not be blamed by something they are fixing under the guise of backward compatibility.
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https://www.wired.com/story/apple-photo-scanning-csam-commun...

"Apple Kills Its Plan to Scan Your Photos for CSAM. Here’s What’s Next"

That's dead enough for me.
> My main issue with Dex is the perennity of the system. Is Samsung going to keep pushing this, or will a native android version takeover? Or maybe at some point they'll say "well that didn't work out" and abandon it completely?

Agreed, this is also a worry of mine. In fact they did exactly this with Linux on DeX.

> Every year I get closer to being able to do my work completely off a phone. I also think 8GB of RAM is plenty.

Remember that Android devices don't do swap. What I see with DeX is a LOT of tab refreshing when it starts running out of memory. Which is really annoying when you're trying to do actual work (e.g. going to an Excel sheet to look up something, but then going back to the browser to continue filling in a form, but in the mean time this has reset due to a forced page reload).
To me the best filter questions have these features:

1) Obvious: If the question is failed, even a non-technical hiring manager understands how bad this is.

2) Fast: Quick to ask, quick to answer. Everyone agrees in advance that if it's failed, we can shorten the rest of the interview.

3) True negatives: Some bad candidates might pass the test. But no good candidate will fail.

4) Real: Write real code live in any programming language. Emphasize that perfect syntax is not important.

I've helped interview candidates for student positions, programming teacher positions, junior and intermediate programmer positions. It is shocking to some how often people fail filters like this. My current favourite:

In any programming language, write a program that prints the numbers 1 to 100, except if the number is divisible by 3, then print "turtle" instead. Example:

1

2

turtle

4

5

turtle

7

...

100
Agree. This has nothing to do with online vs offline. The distinction here works just as well between sharing two offline events. Some people care about some things, but not others, with seemingly no reason other than because some things are more culturally accepted as being important.
Surely the actual conduct of community always is the same as stated code of conduct, especially outside of one :^)

Also a nice jump to conclusion (and an ad hominem attack), you already know which ideological line you are pushing, regardless if it runs contrary to what takes place in actuality.
I don't think they were necessarily being literal, I think they meant more, "with the mindset of an anthropologist". You don't have to be an anthropologist or submit work to a journal to approach a situation with an open mind and the goal of understanding without passing judgement. But if you're looking to understand what makes a culture tick, they're probably the people to look to for techniques and inspiration.
People sharing images that an authoritarian government considers banned might still be exposed by such a scheme, given they are likely to be exactly the same data. There are, after all, no new photos of tank man being photographed, any that are shared would be identical to someone elses, unless every recipient opened them up and modified them, and even then I'm not sure that actually modifies the data if done on an iOS device, as modifications done to images can be undone suggesting to me they are only a layer on top of the unchanged image, which would still return the same hash.

Unfortunately, I think the privacy problems surrounding iCloud Photos remain to an extent.
there's a big section of the article that talks about that (at a high level). Essentially all in the second half of the article with the title "From radio waves to laser light"
Seems weird that you specifically mention Stripe, when they just laid off 1,000 people. I agree with your meta point though.
Well, I’m going to burn some karma by agreeing with you.

Running an exit node is a bit like operating a no questions asked gun shop in downtown (some deprived city).

Sure, there’s perfectly legitimate reasons to own and therefore sell a gun to someone, but that particular shop will be in the business of facilitating crime - and that’s a bad thing and therefore not a moral occupation.
> the quantum process they are describing really did physically occur on the quantum processor

Yes. But...

> It is truly a real observation of a real quantum experiment, which demonstrates that the system they setup really exhibits properties of wormhole physics that had previously only been predicted theoretically.

No, it demonstrates that the system they set up has properties that some people have hypothesized are related to wormhole physics. Those hypotheses are still pure speculation. This experiment does not provide any evidence for them.
Would appear so according to their news room post.
It's interesting how pale skinned they are compared to current Egyptians. It's like a whole history was lost.
Can you show us this exponential curve?
Ah, thanks for the clarification, seems I was off on some of that.

> My main concern was that normalizing and making possible client-side scanning would lead to other things being scanned. e.g. China adding images of Winnie the Pooh to scan list, and then sending every Chinese suspect to dissident-ville in the sky.

Right, but that hardly mattered as long as it applied only to iCloud-uploaded files, since those were and are already being scanned so all those scenarios were already in play (well, not now, I suppose, if you enable encryption... maybe. But at the time they announced the scanning, certainly)
I mean, if you can’t trust the very OS that handles your encrypted data, then you are lost either way, so that argument doesn’t make sense. It is similar security LARPing then hardware kill switches.
It's currently opt-in, because a significant percentage of the user base is not running an OS version that can support the E2EE features.

When that percentage is high enough (a few years), I don't see why Apple wouldn't make it opt-out. (Default it to encrypted, you need to specifically disable it if you don't want it).
Android is not really optimised for desktop usage, this is the problem. It doesn't have swap and it forces apps to reload instead, which is really annoying when doing work in multiple windows. Like I said below, go to an excel sheet to look something up, come back to the browser and it will refresh due to low memory. It's something that can be fixed but it's really inherent to Android's underlying design as a one-app-at-a-time OS.
Proof? Their keynote or their press release?
It hasn't been released yet, but I can see two scenarios -

A. Apple could create a tunnel from your browser to your devices, they could have key exchange via the web after you scan a QR code shown on your web browser with your iPhone, with some sort of "verify these words are the same" scheme.

B. Apple does the typical OTP/2fa scheme where you enter a x-digit code from your device, and in doing so your Device furnishes a key to Apple to be temporarily used to access your files from the web.

But in both of these scenarios, Apple compromising you via malicious javascript is ever-present, so you're right in that you'd be trusting Apple even more to not store your temporary key for too long or at the request of a NSL.
This has nothing to do with online vs offline, it's entirely down to what the audience values.

"I kicked a ball against a wall 10 times in a row yesterday".

Nobody cares.
I would expect L1-to-earth communication to be problematic because you'd have to distinguish the signal from the background radiation of the sun.

It'd be interesting to know what the technical limits are in terms of output power and aim/focus. Generally, doubling distance means the signal power drops to 1/4th, and maximum data capacity of a communication link is proportional to the signal/noise ratio. So that would mean a 100 Gbps link might drop to 25 Gbps. You might be able to bring the signal/noise ratio back up by using a better detector or a more powerful laser, or aiming better. Or maybe the 100 Gbps data rate is limited by the transceiver, and there's actually plenty of S/N ratio margin that can be traded for range without affecting data rate at all.
Let's be clear about what we're discussing. France prevented a law that would have allowed burkinis to circumvent existing public pool rules that require a swim cap and forbid baggy clothes and certain sun protection suits. People forced to wear certain clothes by others in their religion do not get special exceptions. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna34833
I don't

I hated Android devices because they were deprecated pretty quickly (android 2.3 lasted for a while. After that, Android phones basically became burners with poor app support beyond 2 years)
But I didn't own Apple devices because I didn't like Apple

Now if they want you to choose between scanning your data offline and sending it unencrypted to the cloud, I still don't like Apple
(I can backup some data on Android with a USB cord, on my PC, and that's ok)
Anyway, they said they were axing the plan to scan your data (so far)

Nowadays I'm happy with phones that run derivatives of LineageOS. They do the best of both worlds (long term support and trust)
When I've been in that place, other people's kindness can feel like evidence that I'm hurting them -- that I'm drawing energy from them, that I'm a hole in the world that needs to be repaired but can't, that kind of thing. (That isn't to say that such displays of appreciation and love can't also be helpful and welcomed.)
I think you are a bit confused.

A global address is an address that is routable over the internet. You can reach it from anywhere as long as your firewall permits so.

A link-local address is never routed. It is only valid on a single network segment.
You can use it if your uplink is down and you don't have multiple networks at home. It is usually derived from the MAC address of your NIC.

There are some special link-local multicast groups, ff02::1 is the 'all nodes' address. If you send something there it will be received by all hosts on the link.

ff02::2 is 'all routers' - this will be received by all routers on the link. There are more [0].

If you have multiple internal networks and want to reach hosts without an uplink, you can use the unique local address range fc00::/7

This functions just like 10.0.0.0/8 on IPv4 and is only routed within your site.

[0] https://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-multicast-addresses/ip...
I understand, it will also put up a barrier to spammers registering hundreds of accounts.

What I don't understand though is, why they don't just ask for money directly instead of using the fake number as a roundabout way.
I had a single page reference card (plastic) for the 6502 that had everything you needed to know on it -- it was awesome! It was used many times while hacking around on the Apple ][+ computers we had in grade school. I miss the days when computers could be completely understood by a single person.

Looks like there is a scan of it online: http://www.atarimania.com/documents/6502%20(65xx)%20Micropro...
I wonder what the average "no humans involved at all" lifespan between burns of a forest is.

If we knew that, we could calculate backwards from 360 million acres to work out how many acres "should" burn a year.

Of course, there are different kinds of "forest fires" - quick ground ones in forest without much brush and slow hot ones that eat everything, including the biggest trees in clogged forests.
Firefox still exists and is still great. So far rumors of its death are greatly exaggerated.
Big evil Comcast gives out a /60 to residential customers if you ask for it (via setting a DHCP option). That allows for 16 networks to work with.
Ask HN: When/where can we get an offline GPT3 type chatbot?
With the new OpenAI's ChatGPT, it's super neat and all. But there were lots of issues I had with it, sometimes I felt like I was running into arbitrary guard rails because they are concerned about bad PR or something.

Also the fact that you have no control on weights or other modifications to help steer it into certain areas.

After having been majorly spoiled by StableDiffusion and being offline and all the community mods/changes that have been contributed to it. I now what an offline chatbot model.

I think I read there are some older GPT2 that is available offline but also that most of them are still considered 'inefficient'. What does this mean? Is it the compute to use it, or the physical size of the model? Would it be at all possible to split it into groups or stuff (e.g. I only care about English and programming languages and not about other cultural languages).

I am sorry if this is common knowledge to those in the know, but could someone help share some details if what I am asking is silly(like asking for an offline version of a search engine) or I am asking the wrong questions?
Acceptable security afforded today - through usability - is better than superior security, that could've theoretically been gained, but wasn't, because it was too difficult to set things up.

In particular, reviewing open source code has been repeatedly proven to be way harder of a task, than the proponents of this strategy are painting it to be. If you want an auditable codebase, you pretty much have to throw Linux, Chromium/Firefox, Gnome/KDE all out the window - there's just way too much code.

Auditable code is naturally always preferable to non-auditable, but you need to choose your trade-offs - or at least stop pretending you can read a hundred million lines in your life time.

On top of that - do you know a single non-tech person who knows how to set up a VPS, or knows what Veracrypt is? OTOH I can just show my wife: click here to enable backups.

Let me reframe the problem: What is your threat model? How much effort are you willing to commit to mitigate the dangers?
I am opposed to the aims of this action, but going to court to say "you don't own me" doesn't de-facto imply you believe they do actually own you: The court could say "yes, we agree" and the people who would be bound would be everyone else, who sought defence from the court system from the states corrupt processes.

As to the '2nd order effects' you are right: The defence of the gerrymander in some cases will undoubtedly depend on courts based actions to backfill the bogus designs given that no rational process can justify them, except to deliberately distort the intention of voting overall.
> Got "1234" as a passcode on a long-forgotten family iPad or test iPhone? Better go change it to something secure...

according to the article, I don't think this will be possible because you won't even be able to turn on Advanced Data Protection in this scenario.

"You must also update all your Apple devices to a software version that supports this feature."

Just to get the feature enabled you're going to have to go and "touch" all of the devices you're signed into and either update their OS (and also update their passcode if you're smart) or sign out of them.
Most of it, but there are some corners. For example, high temperature superconductivity was discovered in 1986 [1]. The process is not so complicated, and can be done at home. Well, at least in a very good personal lab, for example see this video by Applied Science. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLFaa6RPJIU

I think the original team made like 100 samples using different metals and different oxygen proportion. Discovering the first one requires some brute force that needs a small team, and is too much for a single person. Anyway, it doesn't look too far away from something a single person can discover.

[1] That's 36 year ago. I'm feeling old...
I understand putting a physical cost on an account in terms of spam prevention. This is actually a really good idea because spam thrives mainly due to it costing so little.

However why the fake number? Why not ask for money directly?

The codebase is a good point, hopefully this will be fixed in the future.
The sandbaggers was /fantastic/.

For those who don't know, it's basically accountancy with violence.
As someone who has recently discovered my neurodivergence, the first few paragraphs strike me as being very cruel towards people who are different. The internet, and niche social spaces, have given those who can't fit in a means to build community.
Every growth function looks exponential until it's not. Most things in science and technology aren't exponential, though. Computers have been (through force of will by many physicists and engineers), and if we think they are the model for everything, I give you the airplane and the car as counterexamples.

As far as quantum computing goes, IBM and Google were promising us exponential growth in quantum chip size, but what we have actually seen so far is exponentially faster decoherence that comes with size.
it just came out?
Please be realistic. At some point, that's like saying "I don't care if a pilot for my airline knows what flaps are, they can learn".

You want a network administrator to know what a routing table does, a C engineer to know basic pointer arithmetic, a web developer to understand URLs, and so on. Yes, those are all things that can be (and have been) learned, but if someone applies to an aforementioned position without that knowledge already, massive red flags should go off for all kinds of reasons.

I've listed very basic knowledge, but the same goes for more deep knowledge in a particular field. The question here is about finding the line that is still useful. Categorically saying that no such line can be found because no question is basic enough to serve as an early filter is not useful to anyone, including the candidate.

I do care if someone cannot solve FizzBuzz, because it's so bloodily excruciatingly simple that if a candidate cannot solve this, please take some time to learn the basics of your craft before wasting your own time with interviews.
What parts of ipv6 used in consumer grade equipment are not understandable or “consumer grade”? Ipv6 in some areas is actually simpler than ipv4.

I gave the example of mobile networks because it’s one of the few places consumer facing networks are growing rapidly and in some cases build entirely greenfield networks. And they have overwhelmingly chosen to build using ipv6 to do so.
As a teenager, Chris (or Kit as some of his family knew him) wrote a computer programme, in his bedroom in Chandlers Ford, he called Password Safe. RIP Kit
"In September, the Tesla factory's fire brigade was unable to put out a large cardboard fire itself and called in help from local firefighters. It then emerged that Tesla had no working fire alarms."
Too much unrealistic computer graphics in US movies. Also melodramatic story-lines. I no longer watch them.

British movies, on the other hand probably can't afford too much CGI and have more realistic story-lines as well. I've watched several of those in the last few years.

But overall, movies are just no longer on my 'to-do' list.
off topic, but the title made me think of my dad with the Weber charcoal grill, instead of last decades of microwave for most everything
tuc instead of cut (cut text better than `cut`, or lines like head/tails - eg cut first and last line at once) (but I'm biased, I'm the author)

https://github.com/riquito/tuc/
>The abandoned plan was perceptual hashing, which should return the same hash for very similar photos . . .

Is there any proof they actually abandoned this? NeuralHash seems alive and well in iOS 16[1]. Supposedly the rest of the machinery around comparing these hashes to a blind database, encrypting those matches, and sending them to Apple et al. to be reviewed has all been axed. However that's not exactly trivial to verify since Photos is closed source.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/find-and-delete-dupli...
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaws

> Lots of people seem to enjoy those "ugly mouse statue things".

Sorry, they're still crap. Seriously, taking the MTV VMA statue and robotically slapping his characters head on it? I recently watched the Nathan For You episode "Dumb Starbucks" and those statutes remind me the lazy, deliberately terrible parodies he displayed at an art gallery to establish his bona fides as a "parody artist."

I can't find the YouTube clip of it, but here are some screenshots:

https://www.vulture.com/2015/11/test-your-logos-with-nathan-...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3844774/mediaviewer/rm341341388...

And here's him singing some equally-terrible parody songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I71IJOym2ic.
As someone storing important stuff on ZoL on my desktop, this is concerning to read. OTOH I'm 4+ years in, I've never had an issue, and I have backups (outside of the zfs volume itself).
Burden of proof lies with the one who claims something happened. Not with the one who says it doesn't exist.
Well you are clearly not a relativist. What else should we do to change their culture? Look at all the recent changes that have been imposed upon the Middle East by the West. How on earth can a Westerner claim moral superiority in that context? We kill innocent civilians in drone strikes, but at least we don't freeze the accounts of people who don't wear head coverings, right?
I owned a 2012 rMBP (the 15 with the proper quad core) and it was an absolutely excellent laptop. I had it as a secondary machine for design/music work but used it quite a lot, and sold it to a mate of mine who used it every day until it died around 2019 I think.

Is your tablet the one with the 400nit outdoor screen?
Similarly, I use it to train my internal neural net to better answer Cloudflare CAPTCHAs.
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Android, by virtue of giving more control to the user, has far fewer privacy violations than iOS for those who care about privacy.
Similar model that Amazon uses.

You pretty much have to be on their store to sell something, which means you give them access to your sales and customers. Which is a concept that is absolutely wild in any normal healthy competitive landscape.

Then they'll monitor and if you manage to actually be successful, 3 months later there's an Amazon Basics version of your product.

It's so incredible to me how these practices get no push-back. There used to be a time where in the case of Windows, people were wondering if its fair that they ship it with a calculator program. Now you can just use your massive platform and extend in every possible direction, seize secondary markets, nobody seems to care.