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> do we know how effective our campaigning and emails to MPs were?

Campaigning to your MP is and always has been a waste of time.

In addition, the "safer" their seat, the more of a waste of space the MP is because they know their constituents would vote for a pig if the right coloured rosette pinned to it.

Most of the time they don't bother replying, and then if they do reply, you get a two-page party political broadcast, followed by a generic paragraph about "how they understand your concern blah blah blah" but never addressing the point at hand.
What I like are the models that are subscription for update.
My coworkers regularly spend one and half hour chatting during lunch.

That's definitely worth your commute to the office and better than working from home, right?
When I look around at all the "buy once" junk in my house, it's really "buy every two or three years" because most of this stuff isn't built to last.
I'm glad I'm no longer on the side of managing Microsoft 365 stuff for a company. I've seen this happen too many times, and of course the user takes it out on you for it. Was so much simpler and reliable in the past just having a NAS and mapping it to a drive. Even my current company still uses NAS for mission critical stuff.
as far as I can tell, the only non-bug mistake here was allowing coredumps to leave production ever. if this is your attacker, you are pretty fucked no matter how good you are.
Well, purpose of Tada list was to act as a funnel to Basecamp: they took part of the functionality and when you needed more you check the Basecamp. I think they are going to with this strategy again: limited subset of Basecamp and when you need, say, mobile app or more features you know where to go.
It's also generally against FCC regulations. Airdrop is not a regulated standard; it is entirely up to the implementing party to anticipate and mitigate abuse. The problems you're conflating are not the same, this Flipper Zero attack is entirely enabled by bad design. The explicit issue listed in the article is not inherent to the technology, it is inherent to Apple's vision for the Airdrop user story.
Might be referring to this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35851822
Florida man arrested after trying to cross Atlantic in hamster wheel vessel
A lot of internal threat teams generate these kinds of reports, usually scoped on the organization(s) they support. Making these publicly available is a tricky proposition as a lot of companies sources are secret sauce kind of deals and they're most valuable when scoped explicitly on the software being used by the organization.
I haven't been following webassembly, but as the former 'cure' for JS, why has it taken so long to get the basics?
That’s what I wrote on my farewell email - just a little more corporate-speaky :)
> The problem is keeping the government backdoor key safe.

Not a problem. Just change the locks every week. [tapping head]
Sorry I'll have to sit this one out. I used to like deep political satire but so many bad ideas are masquerading as good ideas these days, the funny is just not funny anymore. I have kids now.

For example, I used to love the movie Brazil, until it started to resemble the European Union.
> I think there's also some ARM Mac machines running on AMD GPUs.

I don't believe any non-Intel Macs, including the new Mac Pro, support external GPUs: https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/06/05/apple-silicon-mac...
> In the early 2000s, we were among the early pioneers leading the industry into the SaaS revolution. Now, 20 years later, we intend to help lead the way out. The post–SaaS era is just around the corner.

Perhaps I am wrong but was SaaS really a revolution? Perhaps for us mortals but in enterprise wasn't a common model during the mainframe era?

I share this feeling that our industry is constantly rehashing the same concepts over and over...but kudos to people that can monetize on that.
So they’re announcing that they plan to announce software with old school licenses. I guess that’s neat, but why bother with the meta-announcement?
I realized recently that I used to buy iOS apps a lot, but then they started moving to a subscription model and I stopped buying them. It has been years since I last purchased an app on my phone. I am willing to pay once forever for an app, I am not willing to enter into an recurring payment model (whether monthly, yearly, or anything else).
> People with complicated ideas tend to get upset when you do that.

Presumably because they don't actually understand their 'ideas' themselves and not so much because they are complicated (I don't agree that most complicated ideas are nonsense it's just that it's rarely possible to discuss them without splitting them up/narrowing down to specific aspects. So chances are that a person who proposes one is incapable of doing either of those things so we end up with nonsense). But yeah that's a definitely a good approach
> What can we normal non security people do?

Hire security people that understand CVEs and if they apply to your environment or not.

Unfortunately it's a complicated system and even with valid CVEs out there they don't always make sense for what your application does.

I work in code security and implementation of this software in 'secure' environments and we always have customers complain that scanners find CVEs in our software. Then we have to send links to documentation explaining what the CVE means and that very particular implementation details are involved that make the CVE dangerous that are not met by our application. Then the clients want to do the 'well the app found it, you fix it' crap.
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I KNEW you were talking about Sketch from the moment I read your first sentence. I have a hypothesis that Figma never would've become so big had they not screwed up so badly with their licensing and lack of seamless collaboration features.
When you have a subscription to music, it's not about your collection as much as it is about discovery. You hear about a new artist and you want to sample their stuff. You don't have to hunt it down - you know where to find and listen to their entire discography in exactly two clicks (not counting having to type in the name of the band). If you decide you like it, nothing is stopping you from buying an album for your collection if that's your thing. Also, instead of your budget of one $10-$15 purchase per month, you can do this process multiple times a day.
Is the "80% regret" number misleading?

From the Fortune article:

> A whopping 80% of bosses reported that they regret their initial return-to-office decisions, according to new research from Envoy, which interviewed more than 1,000 U.S. company executives and workplace managers who work in person at least one day per week.

But it's not clear if 80% of the executives...

(a) regretted reducing WFH at all, or

(b) regretted certain details of how they tweaked the policy, e.g. how they communicated it, the number of in-office days required, etc., or

(c) were unhappy about their data's availability, quality, or freshness.

Unfortunately the report from Envoy [0] isn't much clearer:

> 80% of executives say they would have approached their
company’s return-to-office strategy differently if
they had access to workplace data to inform their decision-making.

This is one case where seeing the original questionnaire would be helpful, but I'm not finding a link to it. So it's really hard to decide if Envoy's conclusions are justified.

[0] https://envoy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Workplace_Data_...
> Add up your SaaS subscriptions last year. You should own that shit by now.

I know a lot of companies are adopting a more irreverent marketing approach, using words that 20 years ago would have been bleeped out.

The swear word itself does not offend me. But to me its use here suggests a lack of restraint, and that makes me form a negative opinion about how the business is managed, especially when the words are coming straight from the CEO.

Purchasing the domain Once.com alone was likely a large investment, and so I would expect this announcement to be more polished. Yet this copy reads more like a blogger's grumpy manifesto.
This is what Binary Ninja (Reverse Eng. tool) does, and why its a community favorite. https://binary.ninja/faq/#subscription. However it seems they don't keep download links public, but my old license/dl link from my email still seems to work.
Will this software come with perpetual maintenance updates? For how long? Do I get any new features for free? If not, is it really pay "once"?

Software is never "done". Developers need to be actively involved throughout the lifecycle of a software product. Which, to me, makes this sort of model unsustainable. I'd rather know that software I rely on won't be abandoned once the base of new customers drys up. And I don't mind paying for that.
There is no objective cost to things, the amounts you need to offer to entice individuals to do that work isn't a solved problem.

If the person is tired today and wont work unless you pay him a thousand dollars, then it costs a thousand dollars today. If the person is already fully booked, then you have to pay more than the previous customers plus pay those customers for the inconvenience you cause by taking their spot in that system, to be fair, so now it got very expensive.

How do you avoid this in your system? Do you enslave people and force them to work? Soviet did that, you weren't allowed to not work, you had to work, nobody was free.
You can’t reorder society to benefit the “lowest wrung[sic]” without planning at least some extent of the economy through directed means. Yes yes, there’s a bunch of variations of this but they’re just window dressing for the underlying ideology, usually to make it more palatable for the less bureaucratically natured among us.
I used to own a lot of albums and CDs. Worked in a music store, and would get new albums often. Even after that, music was... a big part of life. As I got older, I got fewer albums, as other things took precedence.

I subscribed to Spotify about 7 years ago, and... I'm spending about what I might otherwise spend on 'albums' now (maybe one per month) and I get a lot more - back catalogs, for one. But discovery and sampling are the biggest 'wins' for me. Might switch to apple music at some point, but probably 95% of what I want is now streaming, and the utility/affordability balance is fine for me.

Was cleaning out a room last night and found a couple boxes of old CDs and tapes. In that box of 50+cds, there were 3 I know aren't on any streaming service, as they were special 'bonus' things in specific box sets from the 90s. And I still have them, just nothing outside my car to listen to them on. And given that I haven't opened that box in 15 years... my life has been OK without using those specific CDs.

I really enjoy being able to find other versions of the same song, exploring some new genres that I would never have bothered to spend $12-$15 on otherwise, and finding some new artists (found Real Estate, which then led to all the 'related' artists, and they're all now part of my music life). Family or friends recommend some new band, I can take a listen in a few seconds, add it to a list if I want, and usually find something I like about many artists.
Probably timed this announcement with a new book coming out on the topic
Is that bad? SFO isn’t known for being a well run city. A dose of bitter medicine might be exactly what it needs for long term health. Seattle is the same. We spend absurd amounts of money and get very meager results. This is what happens when your only tax revenue is property tax. If they taxed income they’d be incentivized to increase wages and employment. Instead they’re incentivized to drive up property values and barely keep the working class alive.
How much of that is just "contrarian as a marketing tactic"?
sounds like perfect place for a middle man, who will buy, host and charge subscription to the end user :)
It's because Salt Man doesn't believe it. He knows it's not the end of anything, it's the start of an insanely lucrative market.

What he really wants is to capture as much of this pie as he possibly can.

In order to do that, he needs a monopoly or olygopoly. To achieve it, he needs the state to regulate the market, I mean, "to save humanity".

That's why he's meeting with heads of state. And preaching the end of the world, so that the populace will support politicians' stupid regulatory proposals, carefully curated by Salt Man himself.
I get pretty annoyed paying $4 to rent a movie that was released 40 years ago. It used to be that I could pay $4 to own a copy of that movie I picked up out of the bargain bin.

I still pay it though because I prefer to support companies that at least make their media available.
For their use case it sounds like they wanted to index the heck out of it for near instant lookups and similar too. So probably need to double the data size (rough guess) to include the indexes. And it may need some dedicated server nodes just for processing/ingestion/indexing, etc.
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> When asked for data to support the move, Jassy lacked a good answer. He said that he spoke to “60 to 80 CEOs of other companies over the last 18 months,” and “virtually all of them” preferred in-office work.

Are they colluding to suppress wages/working conditions?

These tech companies already colluded in the past to suppress wages.
Exactly.

If you used to need to use software for a weeklong project, you'd have to pirate it because there was no way to justify the cost.

Now you just sign up for a month and then cancel.

It's a huge improvement in flexibility and paying for what you use. Not to mention the software is always updated, so you don't need to worry about whether your image editor you purchased 7 years ago supports the RAW format of the camera that came out 2 years ago.
David Davis is somewhat unusual - he actually resigned as MP to protest against an erosion of civil liberties (and stood on a civil liberty platform)

Westminster will be a worse place when he goes, which I assume will be in next year’s election.
It seems they are launching their own products with once-off pricing. On seeing the title I had an image of a company that allowed you to purchase any service for a once-off payment. I am thinking something like, you pay an amount up front, that amount is used to purchase an annuity, the income from the annuity funds the ongoing subscription amount. Kind of like how pensions work. Once-off-pricing-as-a-service.
Base64 is far from being efficient for this use case
Definitely. It is why I like to say that when it comes to the upper two quarters of income/wealth, there is way way way more upwards economic mobility in the US than in Europe.

Here in Germany it is very easy to go from broke to middle class if you are talented. But going from talented to rich is impossible. There is no access to capital so people fight over the few good paying corporate positions and even there you mostly get the position through nepotism.
"A Wealth of Information produces a Poverty of Attention" The real need is an efficient allocation of Attention. That has not been solved. And is far away from being solved if you pay attention to the kind of things people pay attention too today.

What is apparent is OpenAI is run by totally clueless mindlessly ambitious one dimensional buffoons.
> They designed it to look like a differential backup model

> Eventually, if no more changes were made to an item, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 will remove all versions of an item except the latest one.

I added the emphasis. I read that to mean I can expect the current point-in-time (aka right now) to be identical to my live data. I'm only trying to reconcile the most recent set of data, so that retention policy shouldn't make any difference, right?
Have you ever looked at Affinity (https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/)? I bought their universal license a year or so ago and would definitely recommend it over Adobe for anybody who doesn't necessarily need to use Adobe, it's a lifetime license and the product is pretty comparable to Photoshop/Illustrator for whatever a hobbyist could need. I would strongly recommend giving them a look if you haven't already.
> Every generation needs to re-learn the financial mistakes of the previous one I guess

why is that accepted as inevitable law of nature?

every generation does not need to learn the ravages of war. or the risk of snake oil salesmen in domains such as food, or medicine or any mass consumption good or service

yet in the financial domain "a fool is born every minute" is somehow ok.

there is definitely the thrill of gambling but I suspect fewer people would succumb to it if before every finfluencer inspired transaction they had to click on button that said:

"I confirm that I am an idiot and the money I am about to lose is not essential either for myself or anybody that depends on me"
I have been to salon-inspired dinners where a large group of invited guests enjoy dinner, followed by a short talk from one or two out of town acedemics or experts (flown in at the expense of the host), followed by frank discussion between guests on a particular topic.

They were very enjoyable but required a host with a very large house (0.1% or less of homes in my city would be suitable) and a big budget.
Damn! So sad to hear this. She was a force of nature.
Except with Spotify the songs can go away, so it's not necessarily equivalent - you don't get access to the same music as long as you're subscribed, you get access to whatever Spotify is currently serving up.

I was an early Spotify user and that annoyed me enough to stop and go back to buying music instead.

BTW, albums usually have more than 5 songs.
Meh. Dumb "my feelings or the highway" angles as usual.
For now. The quality of competitors has been improving considerably when we look at our own in-house analysis for various use cases we have.

It looks like GPT4 has approached an asymptote in quality (at least within a compute time window where they remain even marginally cost effective). Others are just catching up to that goalpost.

Even GPT4 suffers from the same problems intrinsic to all LLMs-- in real world use, hallucinations become a problem, they have a very difficult time with temporal relevance (i.e identifying when something is out of date), and they are horrifically bad at any kind of qualitative judgement.
My dad was a pipeline welder for a long time. He smoked as well (which definitely hasn't helped his lungs) but I read a couple of years back about how pipeline companies will reuse pipes, including pipes that carried radioactive waste water from wells. Welding a radioactive contaminated pipe sounds like a bad time.

My dad learned he had lung cancer because the tumor migrated to the base of his skull and started damaging his vision until he had a car accident. Then the scans revealed his lung cancer and the migrated tumor. Welding and metalwork for so many years probably played a part in his cancer. They removed 1/3rd of his right lung and now he has a metal plate in his head from getting that tumor removed.

He was 63 when diagnosed, and is a stubborn old Texas Marine who is still around about 5 years later. Overall, I think he spent more time doing other work than welding, but I remember him always talking about any time he welded it always gave him black boogers.
Of course its to throw them at animals and/or each other. Only academics would say "attempted to achieve the Platonic ideal of a sphere.", ha.
They want monopoly. Or, worse case, olygopoly. Which leads to an unrivaled, long-term money making machine and power.
Which would be the reverse of what you want, it would push the propellant away from the engines.
You have never seen hours long discussions of Game of Thrones, Bachelor, sports, etc? Professional water cooler jockeys who transit from conversation to conversation to eat up the majority of work hours?

I once read a claim that all work is done by the square root of the total company head count. Honestly, that does not feel too far off from reality.
Such as kids with genetic diseases? Doctors encourage eugenic abortions all the time.
here's a zip of all the pdf's so we can give their servers a break: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OxfkYR09dTtIBkVkRuB47oBH5fH...
> Riding with Altman, I can almost hear the ringing, ambiguous chord that opens “A Hard Day’s Night”—introducing the future. Last November, when OpenAI let loose its monster hit, ChatGPT, it triggered a tech explosion not seen since the internet burst into our lives. Suddenly the Turing test was history, search engines were endangered species, and no college essay could ever be trusted. No job was safe. No scientific problem was immutable.

ChatGPT craze has wore off for me, because of constant hallucinations when you ask for something slightly more esoterical. And I can't justify paying 20$ for GPT-4 to have more convincing hallucinations
Yeah the one exception is OneDrive/iCloud storage, it's fine to search that, even if it only pretends to be local. But those are 'my' files, not general web search results.
College has become mostly just that, a means to a career. It's even begun to wear that out and at higher levels become a means to a career in Academia. That's ultimately the beginnings of a massive ponzi scheme, it is now considerably detached from pure pursuits of knowledge, it's now become cannibalized for pursuits of funding.
I, for one, am very grateful for Adobe's shitty subscription model, as it has allowed companies like Serif to launch fantastic products with perpetual licenses.
I almost said something along those lines too, how the skyrocketing prices have come alongside increasingly homogeneous boring phones with fewer features, but absolutely. I was recently going through my old HTC EVO 3D, and I would give my left nut to get that 3-D technology back in a new phone, the pictures and videos put you back in the moment in ways 2-D can't. Incidentally, I also just upgraded last week from my old Sony Xperia 5 II to a Sony Xperia 5 III. Which hopefully lasts a long time, because Sony is also removing features; the 5 III added a second zoom lens, but the 5 IV regressed to a single smaller one, and the just-announced 5 V removes the telephoto lens completely.
A model I would like to see is a variation of "buy once, and you own that software". Any and all fixes would be included. Extensions and features added on subsequent releases are also a "buy once" deal, and the price is calculated based on "distance" to what you own.

This incentivizes development of features a user might want, but also avoids the "lock in" and other predatory practices so many companies deliberately abuse.

Still possible to include other options such as SaaS models. Anyways, one can dream. Oh, wait, if I'm dreaming, societies by and large acknowledge the value of FOSS and fund this on a large scale. The cost of a small road bridge in a small country is enough to fund high level development of software used by the whole world for its whole lifetime.
Important to note here: "The Nobel prize of Economics" is not actually a real Nobel prize. It is another third party "prize" setup to emulate the nobel system, so it's much more like the "Nobel peace prize".

It's another example of economics pretending to be more rigorous and functional as a science than it actually is.
> Ergo, this is technically dead, which is the best form of dead.

It's an older reference, sir, but it checks out.
Opinions like this are largely from new cold war propaganda, but also projection. The US spys on everyone everywhere. PRISM for example. Pegasus being another.
Also worth noting that after experimenting with RSCs in Hydrogen, Shopify acquired Remix and is now building Hydrogen using Remix.