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Yeah duh no real jail involved. That misses my point. Its called jailbreaking for a reason. Out the box its metaphorically in jail. Its restricted and limited in a bunch of ways that you have to break it out of.

You paid to own it, Apple puts in rules as if you're renting it. It doesn't matter that you can hack it. You shouldn't have to hack your own hardware.
If you don’t trust facebook without Apple’s help, maybe don’t use it?

You have a point but without Apple’s restrictions, someone can build tracking free Facebook client too, if that’s something people want.
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Sure, but "only technical people will understand what the problem is" is infinitely better than "literally nobody will understand what the problem is".
The only thing he has done that I am aware of is become Farmer Gates in the retirement years.
IANAScientist, but I believe I read that fusion requires a steady input of energy to continue the reaction. So much, much safer than fission, which is a chain reaction that can go out of control at any time, fusion, you just turn off the power and it stops.

IIRC
Not yet. Would be happy to try - can you point me to a project to use?

Do you have a repo you could try us out with?

We have tried a couple Unity projects (41% smaller due to republication) but not much from Unreal projects yet.
PayPal owed him money, so they paid it. They don't owe him an indefinite business partnership.

We don't know if they deemed him a scam, but it certainly looks scummy to me, so I can't blame them on that one. If people knew it was a ~$100 phone from a company in China that virtually nobody has ever heard of being sold for $500, they probably wouldn't buy it.
Only when the deal flew under the radar. The prosecutors even kept his victims in the dark in order to get away with such a soft deal.

Once Epstein and his crimes were splashed all over the news he was looking at a much worse outcome.
Apple in fact uses and sells your data for the same purposes it is "protecting you" from when other developers do it.

You can yell about Zucks adtech empire all you like, but Apple launched their competitor at the same time they denied other apps.

Google is now moving the same direction as well.

Your phone OS vendor controlling which software distribution platform is mandatory is not meaningfully, "security".
Tattooed on themselves?

Wow...uh....that's kinda daft
I know a dev who is married to a lawyer. He knows enough not to offer an opinion.
Apple's control over the device risks governments making Apple their police

Even with sideloading, neither Apple nor the government will give up that much control. Apple will almost certainly retain the ability to delete "malware" apps even if they're sideloaded and governments can then lean on that mechanism. Even Google can probably do a lot through Play Services.
> There are so many people who have obtained fortunes and not become drunk on that.

Both my perception and my experience from knowing several extremely wealthy 'self-made' people is that the vast majority are fairly quiet, prudent, bright and hard-working people who've managed to make (mostly) good long-term decisions and continue doing so consistently over time. I suspect the "crazy, playboy billionaire" stereotype is based more on high-visibility outliers rather than the majority. Outlandish, eccentric and/or entitled behavior makes for good stories and click fodder while typical long-term value-building behaviors are pretty boring.
I'm going to predict that all the stores will fail. The only one that might succeed would be a Steam store but I don't suspect Valve has any interest in being a store for free to $0.99 games. But hey, it would be nice if bought some game on Steam that meant I got access to Mac/Linux/Windows/Androidn/iOS versions
Hey, I'm sorry. I acknowledge the positive effects of your post, your good intentions, and the fact that you could have been a lot less tactful.

I was writing from a place of general irritation and even defensiveness. I wasn't thinking about your point of view or how you would feel reading my general putdowns of this type of post. If I were in your position, I'd be pissed off too.

Even after doing this for a long time, I still find myself making unhelpful assumptions. All I can tell you is that I'll continue to work on it.
As much as necessary, sure. Oil it turns out is pretty useful in many different industries and contributes to higher standards of living for the vast majority of the world. It isn't some inherently evil technology or resource. Still, it's going to take decades to transition to electric regardless of any breakthroughs in the meantime.
Fair point, but as of now I think it's a valid statement.
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And prefab has had it's own evolution. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNv13fY_3jY
Swaying public perception in an optimistic direction is enough of an effect to justify the cost and effort of this achievement.
Golly, I'd never have thought of that.
"Elegance" can mean many things, some irrelevant, some very important. But the speed at which C programmers can navigate some non-C code is absolutely irrelevant.

Specifically about Ruby, with it's infinite levels of metaprograming and "you can even redefine the meaning of blank space" philosophy, it's not 'unless' that will stop anybody.
Yes, there's a distinction, but we obviously see non-human animals as being more similar to humans in terms our moral obligations than we do non-living matter, and generally the closer to being a human-like, the more we care about how we treat it. A baby chicken can literally bond to humans, follow us around, and interact with us in various ways. If that isn't enough to grant it as being deserving of ethical/humane treatment, I don't know what is.
They let them grow up into meat for humans to eat before they kill them
Dump trillions of dollars into fusion energy today and it will still be decades before the first fusion power plant is connected to the grid. You'd be better off funding the construction of fission power plants. Those are very expensive and take years to build, but they're still a hell of a lot cheaper and faster than funding fusion to the degree you're suggesting.
I already assume all mail I receive is spam, Gmail or no.
I still don't understand why we waste time and money with fusion. Fision so much easier. Should focus on it. Fusion is ok, but 100 years into the future when we are bored.
Ignoring monopoly positions, censorship concerns, security research, industry innovation and many other important considerations that go into these kinds of ideas, I'd like to present another angle; I think even just the eWaste concern alone is enough to suggest that Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo should also have to provide the end user the ability to load their own code with relatively few restrictions. I actually don't see why game consoles are special and I don't really care about current industry norms or razor thin margins. The industry we have now doesn't need to remain financially sustainable as-is; that is not a condition that is set in stone. In fact, I'd argue that often times making progress literally requires this kind of disruption sometimes.

Nobody ever sat down and decided that what Nintendo did with 10NES was a good idea; it was just legally viable and nobody stopped it. It became normal without any concerted decision that it should be, just the lack of any strong enough force opposing it. I don't think that means that everything must continue this way forever. It is possible to realize that the implications are bad.

Even that said, hackers like to think in absolute and concrete terms and theory. In practice, phones are extremely important, telling people to vote for their wallet doesn't work, and there are basically no phones that offer a good set of trade-offs today because the market is not incentivized to produce it. Consumers pay $1000 for a phone and can't install a web browser. It is disturbing that people who are on a website with "Hacker" in the name can see this as a good thing. (Not that you are necessarily. But still, I see it too often.)
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at least in the uk running things through limited companies cost less money, not more. Again some contracts have notice periods - this goes for both sides. But yeah you dont get much protection so there is that disadvantage. I would say the biggest downside is that you dont get paid holiday (but you can simply add this to your rate) and it is harder to get mortgage.
On ‘War’s Unwomanly Face’, may I recommend the translation ‘The Unwomanly Face of War’?

It’s a much more recent translation and reportedly — I haven’t read the version you refer to — the older one was heavily edited or censored to focus on war as victory, as positive, rather than the real history and personal impact she wrote about. This Guardian review mentions the original vs the newer translation briefly towards the end: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/02/unwomanly-face...

Also — and I know this is a weird thing to say about such a horrific topic — I find the translation of the newer title, ‘The Unwomanly Face of War’, much more poetic or fluid phrasing than ‘War’s Unwomanly Face’. It’s English language as beauty rather than the slight awkwardness present in the 1980s translation’s title. It reminds me of ‘A Remembrance of Things Past’, which has a certain je ne sais quoi compared to the newer translated title ‘In Search of Lost Time’ (not that that’s a bad title, it just sounds a bit like the title of a 1930s boy’s adventure novel compared to the nostalgic beauty of Remembrance.)
Another for your list...all DJI drone software requires sideloading on android.
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The exact same nag screens (or worse) will still apply; they'll be implemented at the OS level not the app store.
I'm reminded of[1] Twigg puzzles, which have non-standard shaped puzzle pieces cut from plywood.

[1] https://twiggpuzzles.com.au/
It may work for a few lines, but you can't really pipe a GB of logs into it, which is what we typically deal with.

It works for simple explanations though.
If you XOR them together, you get back to the original conversation.
Coach potatoes spend approximately the same amount of calories as modern-day hunter-gatherers. The current thinking is that a body has an energy budget to spend. If one does not move, that energy is spent on other things like hormone synthesis. Conversely walking or even running for 5 miles each day will not decrease the weight.

So been overweight is really about eating too much. This does not mean that one should not move. That has a lot of benefits, it is just loosing wright is not one of them.
Oooof, looks like the primary way of creating it is through... fission reactors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium#Production

And there's not much of it:

> According to a 1996 report from Institute for Energy and Environmental Research on the US Department of Energy, only 225 kg (496 lb) of tritium had been produced in the United States from 1955 to 1996.[a] Since it continually decays into helium-3, the total amount remaining was about 75 kg (165 lb) at the time of the report.
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It isn't easy to build a thermally efficient building with balloon framing. That's because you have solid wood between the inner and outer skin in hundreds of places. And wood has a thermal conductivity of 0.2 W/mK, which is pretty bad compared to say PIR foam insulation at 0.02 W/mK.

Anywhere with high energy prices, hot/cold climates, or environmentally conscious buyers, thats a no-go!
Low hanging fruit: donate old but still usable tech to local programs that pass such out. Volunteering at local organizations that do such work is another possibility.

I wrote a piece called So You Want to do a Website to Help the Homeless that might interest you: https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2020/05/so-you-want...

The local police department does -- or did at one time -- pass out flyers I made listing online resources for the homeless and there is an edited version of those flyers here: http://www.eclogiselle.com/2020/10/free-and-custom-flyers-as...

I tried to establish some kind of homeless smartphone project. It never went anywhere. If you want to read what little I did as food for thought for what you might do, you can start here:
https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2018/04/project-hom...

If tech is your thing, coolios. Run with that. Better to do something than to do nothing.

But if you really want to make a dent in homelessness, my research suggests that this is mostly a housing supply/housing affordability issue. We aren't building enough new housing and what we do build tends to be too big and tends to require a car to make life work, which is an additional big expense and -- at least for some people -- a logistical issue even if they had the money. Some handicapped people simply don't drive. Some seniors simply don't drive anymore. Etc.

So if you really want to work on homelessness, I would encourage you to educate yourself about housing issues in your neck of the woods and try to get involved. I write about my ideas about what I would like to see for the US here if you want to look that over: https://projectsro.blogspot.com/
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Deflation is good for those who prudently saved. Deflation makes saving work better, rather than push everyone into speculation to outpace loss of purchasing power (inflation).
The EU is mandating sideloading, it's not mandating Apple do it for free. Until now, developers have been licensing Apple's intellectual property in a bundle through the Developer Program License Agreement. For anyone that goes through the sideloading route, they can expect to enter into a different contractual agreement with Apple to license their technology.

Otherwise they're building a web app, which they've always been able to do!
I visited Binance's main page on BUSD [1] and it suggests you go look at their proof-of-reserves page [2], which lists the exact number of each token on Ethereum (5,334,500,000), BNB (5,315,999,056), Avalanche (11,500,000) and Polygon (6,000,000), each with links to block explorers. Note that if everything adds up, this total leaves 1,000,944 tokens on Ethereum, but at least that's positive.

Edit: I spent some time thinking the Ethereum number was the total number of BUSD, but apparently it is Binance's holdings which can be found in a wallet nicknamed "Binance: Binance-Peg Tokens" on Etherscan [3]. Since this number is greater than the total number of pegged tokens, I guess everything adds up. (Of course, since the "cross-chain peg" here is implemented in a centralized way by Binance, it could de-peg at any point they want it to.)

[1] https://www.binance.com/en/blog/ecosystem/understanding-busd...
[2] https://www.binance.com/en/collateral-btokens
[3] https://etherscan.io/address/0x47ac0fb4f2d84898e4d9e7b4dab3c...
It's simple enough to be useful and applied. If you continue to reduce your calorie intake, you will lose weight. This is a fact. Build a model to explain weight gain/loss and calorie intake will always be the most influential variable full stop
Actually just a rhetorical question. We are so irational that fusion makes perfect sense.
I'm not from London myself but I've never heard a Londoner [or southerner] use Pony in that sense. I've often heard it used for an amount of money. £20 I think.

When I read your opening 'I wonder if there's somewhere that people can propose a name for things and people can tell them why they might want to use something else...' I thought you were going to go on to make a point about not using everyday words [or single letters] as the name for your new programming language, as they'll be unsearchable. And everyone will end up tagging -lang' onto the end of the name, to discriminate.

EDIT: I was a fiver out. A 'pony' is apparently £25:

https://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/subjects/money
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I’m free to not work for a company whose ethics or contract I dislike. But only because I got a skill which made me a desirable employee elsewhere.

I’m free to resolve my cancelled flight by either waiting a week for the free alternative or buying a combination of rail and ferry tickets to get me from Stansted to Berlin, but only because I have an understanding boss, enough money, and an app which can get me arbitrary hotels on route because that’s more than a day’s journey unless I plan to sleep in a train station.

I’m free to not remain in a country whose politics or laws I dislike. But only because I got lucky with a few things.

I’m free to not download any app which forces me to sideload. But only because they don’t exist yet on iOS (except for the ways that apparently never counted according to all the people demanding this) — there’s too many ways a theoretical “optional” can become an “actually mandatory”, from laws to employers to defacto monopolies, and those are just the ones I’ve seen examples of in other contexts.
It's doubtful that an Open Source F-Droid style repository would fail. Apple is already setting things up to be as unprofitable as possible, but stores that don't concern themselves with turning a profit will probably work just fine.
There is a trade-off here. Yes, some apps might not be available in the main store. Not all of the rules that are applied to app submissions are in the best interests of every user. Even some of the rules that do protect some users, also eliminate whole classes of apps that other users would like to use.

This dynamic is already at play on Android. The lack of Fortnite availability on the Play Store is probably to the detriment of users. However, the existence of fdroid has allowed quite a few apps that users want but that fundementally don't work within the Play Store rules.

So when you ask "What does this do for me as a user", the answer is: it creates the opportunity for you to have access to a more diverse set of apps that are currently prohibited (such as anything with adult content).

Edit: A hopeful secondary effect is that Apple will be incentivized to improve the App Store to compete with third party stores. Maybe Apple will add free trials for one-time purchase apps. Maybe Apple will create an adult content section. Maybe Apple will provide better transparency around rejections. Maybe a store will emerge that does a much more stringent security review that catches the bad actors that do get their apps through Apple's screening. Most likely, none of this will happen and 3rd party stores will see minimal use, predominantly by technical users who want apps that fundamentally violate the store rules, like has happened on Android.
Defining what business models are legal and illegal, based on profit margins, is not a road we should go down in my opinion. Plus, some game consoles (like the Nintendo Switch) are profitable even if nobody buys a game because Nintendo prioritized that, and other game consoles become profitable in-and-of-themselves later in their lifecycle.

This leads to all sorts of perverse incentives. If I'm Nintendo, I could sell my game console for $299 with some profit on Day 1 (like now), but then I would be forced to have an open store. Or, I could sell it for $269, take a initial loss, and have a closed store. It would simply made "game consoles shall be sold at a loss" the law, not opened things up. I think that would be atrocious. So... either game consoles can remain locked, or we simply declare game consoles cannot be sold locked.
Can all the people who claimed SBF would never be arrested because of the corruption of media, establishment and Democrats please ask themselves how many other false things they believe because of their tribe's ideology?
Excuse me? Reread the post your commenting on, I said absolutely nothing about the person seeking therapy, I was solely was talking about other's reactions to the person.
> Sadly, the "let's turn everything into JSON so I don't have to learn what bytes are" crowd won

DoH uses raw bytes for DNS answers and not json: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8484#section-6
>> I've been looking into dynamic DNS services a bit

That will still expose your IP address, at least NOIP did when I was using it. NOIP was a good service but after 5 years I noticed that my IP never changed (yeah! took me a while to catch on! ;>).

The main driver for me was not showing my home IP on lookup and the yearly cost between a cheap VPS and NOIP subscription was roughly the same ~$60/year so nothing was lost there.
"Whistleblower awards can range from 10 to 30 percent of the money collected when the monetary sanctions exceed $1 million."

That's a big sanction.
> Remember that “declines” in this context just means that prices are going up slightly slower than they were before.

Also remember that this is a 12-month trailing figure that’s been falling for several months because monthly inflation has been low since Jul (it was actually 0.0 in July, with seasonable adjustments, and below 0.4% [4.9% annualized] every month since, with the November figure 0.1% [1.2% anuualized.])

> It doesn’t mean anything’s getting any cheaper.

Actually, it is a result of lots of things getting cheaper: energy (all the major components, both commodities and services), used cars and trucks, transportation, and medical care services.
read the post :)

flickr is the company and the product, flickr foundation is about preserving flickr "Creative Commons"[1] images forever.

[1] https://creativecommons.org/
Ha, probably ethics reasons. Plus prisons aren't representative of general population.
Nobody is stopping you from escaping the walled garden; you can absolutely go buy an Android device which is equivalent to an iPhone but without these sorts of restrictions.

The trouble is that the walled garden approach only works if the wall goes all the way around. If Facebook, Google, or the other big ad companies are allowed to access the iOS ecosystem without consumer protections, then they absolutely will and will force users to go along with it. This is about developer freedom, not user freedom.
To the extent that you've made verifiable statements, involving actual concrete numbers or claims that can be sourced, they have all been incorrect so I'm not sure what there is to misunderstand.

It's very unpleasant for me too when someone just makes uninformed statements and then places the entire burden of researching and fact checking those statements on me, as if I'm the one who's supposed to verify your claims instead of you.

There's a sort of Internet principle known as Brandolini's Law [1] that states that one reason there is so much bullshit on the Internet is that it's significantly harder for someone to refute bullshit than it is for someone to spread bullshit. That's basically how I feel about this conversation, and I am tempted to continue discussing it not because I care specifically about you, but because esports is a subject I am personally involved in and care about and so I have a vested interest in putting in the effort to avoid others from being misinformed by the bullshit you seem to continue to spread unapologitically.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
Can someone independently verify the decryption claim here?

Should I interpret this to mean that either bitcoin signatures can be attacked via hash collisions, or that they're not actually cryptographically secure, given enough time and computing resources? Either seems bad.
I have to imagine the 3 letter orgs are already scraping tiktok.