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> Many companies underestimate threats until something like this happens

Speaking from my experience, many don't understand the threats even after an incident. The reaction is often to add 'more security' under any name. More restrictive policies, more scanning, more layers of MFA - just blindly layering on things because it's seen as 'more secure' without properly understanding how it affects risk is an awful approach to managing security.
There’s no real desire within the German civil service to make anything more efficient, partially because it would inevitably result in redundancies, partially because of a general malaise and sense of apathy.
Both roads and railroads are built based on current and future demand. By planning authorities.
If you don't have any analytics, then how do you know your audience size? Is it 10 people per month? 1000 people? 1,000,000 people?

No offense but I can't accept "it doesn't matter."
At the end of the day. We need cryptography that is understandable. There is absolutely zero need for the complexity in this field that exists today.

And we need something better than just private keys.
less than a year ago I was able to find male to male power cables on amazon lol
This is great (although I haven't tried it yet). And it would in theory be more deterministic and less brittle than Derek Sivers' instructions.
To my understanding, despite variance from state to state, a general "rule of thumb" for the statute of limitations outside of "the big R" and "the big M" is ten years. This squares with the generic declassification timetable. I can't think of anything I'm genuinely upset about from more than a decade ago. I feel that I am an almost completely different person than I was a decade ago. If I found out someone robbed a bank ten years ago I'd be more inclined to think "That's wild, how did that go?" than I am "Oh no this guy is going to rob me".
I think you misread the article slightly. The 26% of zombie papers are inside the 44% of papers that contained at least some flawed data. Look at the figure just below this quote where the blue bar, indicating papers he thought were ok, covers more than 50%.
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If you haven't read anything else by Orwell except Animal Farm and 1984, I'd suggest starting with Homage to Catalonia.

It's a pretty amazing story (non-fiction), and also quite apropos to our current political reality with people calling for civil war. I think that's just crazy right-wing rhetoric, but still. Orwell writes about how the military becomes split into factions and civilians become divided, with cities either becoming strongholds or splitting into fighting neighborhoods with escalating violence. Definitely a must read.
Why would you ever want to do that? It's a weird GNU extension, I've personally never seen it used in real code. I'm really curious.
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Canada has also been doing this since the 1970s. They haven’t been able to naturally replenish their population since 1972.

The problem is that now even countries in the EU realize that they can’t maintain their populations and their entitlement programs without immigration despite the backlash from the native population. What makes things worse is that nearly every country is suffering from declining birthrates now, even developing countries with the exception of Central Africa so it’s unlikely to be a long term solution anymore.

In the coming decades, countries will likely start to compete for younger immigrants
In fact, car-hostility drives up the value of real estate, because it's harder to live outside and drive in. If you want to enjoy the lifestyle, you need to pay for a place in it.
Thanks for sharing this. I'm thinking this might be useful to run on a VPS and tie to a reverse proxy container. So I could expose services externally without opening up port on my wan side.
For my no-code website package I built a simple non-tracking analytics tool (I'd rather call it 'visitor stats') and I definitely like to see what language my visitors use on their machine (guesswork for where they might come from), what screen size they have (on all my sites it's steadily more mobile than desktop, which is to be expected nowadays but was an eye-opener for me when I got back as a webdev a couple of years ago), what referring sites they come from and which pages are most visited.

For me personally, the visitor stats of my own websites are a little bit as 'likes' on social media (nice to have for a general idea about my content being liked), but then without big tech in between.
I really can suggest the Atari 2600 CleanComp. It is a PCB directly soldered at the pins of the TIA chip. No internal wiring needed! You get composite AND s-video from it and the video quality is just superb.
I am not related to the Atari 2600 CleanComp guys. Just a happy user. :)
I think the point is that an unsuspecting buyer of, e.g. a screen replacement, could end up going to a shady repair shop that uses stolen parts, sees the message once, clicks "OK", and moves on. The reasoning being that this scenario would cause some demand for black market parts.

The suggestion from OP whereby the seller of a used phone logs in and "unpairs" the parts could avoid this, unless a robber forces you to do it under duress.
I am open to studies as rigorous as you demand indicating Autopilot/FSD is more dangerous than human drivers. But until those are produced, total miles and total accidents seem to be pretty objective, and easily tracked, numbers. There's really no magic there. And on that count, Tesla makes very safe machines.
I remember applying for a job at Twitter in 2021 (or was it 2020?). I did really well on the interviews, except for one due to a dumb mistake. I was rejected, and I was really bummed out because of it. It felt like a great opportunity had just slipped through my fingers.

Fast-forward a couple months, I got a better offer from a better company, and I can't help but think that I dodged a huge bullet there. I can't imagine being stuck at Xitter during these times when the job market is so bad. My sympathies to the people who are working there now.
So whats bad about it?

Screamers anyone? Bladerunner? Natural City? Alien Resurrection?

I take them all!

Why the downvote. To which of the artificial ladies would you say no?
That does sound like a pretty good solution, if it can be done for a broken phone. The major issue I see is that refurbish companies are already complaining about "bricked" MacBooks, because nobody actually cared enough to ensure that those laptops where reset before being sold. I don't see the same industry being capable of guiding users through resetting permissions for spare parts.

A better solutions is to take the direction FairPhone has chosen and make the things that break user-serviceable and offer the parts for sale on Apples own website. If the issue is that phones are being stolen and sold for parts, just flood the market with cheap parts. The new iPhones are absolutely massive, so I'm not buying that you can't make them a bit thicker and allow a user to take them apart. How many people use their phone without a cover anyway?

If Apple is serious about being more environmentally friendly, then make a user serviceable phone. Not replacing your phone because fixing it is either impossible or impossibly expensive is going to have a much bigger impact than buying carbon credits for people who charge their watch. My best guess is that Apple is so obsessed with just-in-time production and so hostile to the idea of stocking parts, that they can even see the potential benefits.
Now I become curious how many types of converter plugs between type A-O do actually exist!
A stack of old laptops since they are too good to throw away since I buy good stuff and am a Linux user, so even my 10 year old machines are actually still great. So I use them for vacation to take a clean wiped machine, for things like attaching to a 3d printer or being a part of my electronics workbench or out in the garage. Old android tablets and phones which get used about the same way, vacation, device interface. Not to mention, a smaller but similar collection belonging to my wife. These are just the things I might search in a web browser on.

There are actually browsers also built in to 4 TVs, also in the rokus and google TVs attached to those same TVs, also in the Xbox and ps3. But I won't even count any of those. I have actually used them, but I'll give you those for free since I don't actually use those browsers very much.

Also that just reminded me that all of the old devices are fairly regularly getting reinstalled with some new version of a linux or bsd distro fresh every time I pick one back up, so, no configured profiles.

The windows partition on my main machine is frequently reinstalled since I experiment with trying to use either a partition or Frameworks custom usbc module or a regular usbc external drive, or just a partition on a bigger faster external drive. That's one physical device but a few different OS's, and most of those OS's besides my main daily driver get moved around and reinstalled a lot so they are always new and unconfigured., yet, I still need to use them, and that means I use a browser to search from within them.

My kobo, and 3 or so other eink readers. Which, again, occasionally gets reinstalled, so even the one device needs to be set up more than once.

The only reason I don't have to set up a new phone every 6 months is because I value a headphone jack more than most everyone else. So if you would say my usage pattern is an outlier, I would say, 1 so what? Outliers exist and could even be argued to outnumber the center peak of the bell curve, and 2 some of my outlier usage pattern goes the opposite way, like using the same phone for 5 years.

And then of course I use many machines which are not mine. And this is not even counting that my work used to involve some amount of user it support where I would use a users desk or a hot desk at a customer site, I just mean my own personal normal activity is on many other machines besides my own, including relatives, friends, & public machines.

I had to type "google" (back when I used google primarily, and it wasn't already everyone's default) countless times, even though it was the home page on my own main machine.

This question didn't really even deserve the dignity of any answer it is so obtuse.
Yup. This 24-year-old game was so culturally significant in the Eastern Bloc that there was a piano concert in Warsaw dedicated to it last month: https://gmfest.com/2023/06/19/paul-anthony-romero-heroes-pia...
More robots.

A likely vision of the future is an increasing robot population and a decreasing human population. By 2100, the robots are more or less in charge.
I'm under the impression that religion is highly correlated with having children. As a non-religious person, I haven't come up with any good reason to have them.
Cars. And they have a massive OEM and aftermarket parts supply chain.

https://www.thestreet.com/personal-finance/cars-most-likely-...
i've always assumed they were the least secure of all my networking hardware
3.5GW is almost 4 levels worth of loadshedding...ok sure it won't have 100% efficiency but South Africa is one of the best countries in the world for solar.

If solar keeps getting installed at this rate, loadshedding will be just about completely averted within 2 years, for the entire population - whether you have solar or not. Poor people are benefitting from solar already from lower loadshedding levels, and by having more reliable power at work (since many businesses are now running on solar out of necessity...and generators of course)

SA still has a mostly functioning grid, just an ancient fleet of coal power stations and badly built new ones that don't give the power needed.

So while many homeowners wouldn't have installed solar if they weren't forced to, they (myself included) are also discovering that unlimited free power when the sun shines is awesome, and with a decent Lithium PO4 battery it's not hard to be fully off grid for much of the year. "Green loan" schemes from many banks are covering installation costs and it's easy to save more than half on you electricity bill since most of SA is really sunny.

+ the environment is a big winner...the more power plants worth of power that can be installed in solar & wind, the more old coal plants can be shut down forever.
Is increasing birth rates just an unsolvable problem somehow? I think the importance of at least stabilizing the population is widely recognised, so I don't think it's the case that politicians are asleep at the wheel or something, but somehow that doesn't translate into efficient action.

I could imagine that authoritarian states would try what Romania did back in the day and outlaw contraception (which seemed effective, if very inhumane), but this is of course unrealistic in more liberal societies.
So does America. It's called "The American Dream."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_a_Salesman
If all emergency services were working neither would I do so (I say that as someone who used to own an AR callsign for some decades).

Trouble is that in big natural disasters most infrastructure is down and frankly even if you find an AR operator he/she's likely without power so won't be much help. Nevertheless, there are many historical instances where AR has been of considerable help in emergencies. In those instances functioning stations, which are often on the periphery of disasters act as relay stations and conduits to official help.
It's a big world. Haven't you seen videos of phones getting stolen out of peoples hands from thieves on scooters in places like Brazil? Or the millions of tourists in Spain and Italy whose cell phones would become major targets.
Yeah, and you only need one check if you can restrict the allocation pointer to be at least max alignment away from SIZE_MAX, which is very easy to do in practice. Max alignment needed is usually no more than 64 bytes, but even 4kB isn't especially burdensome. On Linux/amd64, you don't even need to do anything special -- the high virtual address space is likely reserved for the kernel anyway.
I have worked in that front 5 years ago. Schoolsec, that was our name. Our target niche was elementary schools in southeast Brazil. It didn't work. Most of the schools we spoke to didn't even understand what we were talking about, so they couldn't assess the risk and, finally, realize the value of our work.

Of course, as years pass, the need for more "digital self-defense" increases at all levels. Maybe one day we'll hear of someone who had pulled it off by presenting a great value prop for this kind of service.
Right now the costs to have children remain incredibly high.

Canada is just beginning to roll out $10/day daycare, which should reign in a lot of these costs and make it more affordable to have a family. It'll be interesting to see where Canada's growth rate is at 10, 20 years from now once that is common.

Of course other costs elsewhere (ie. housing!) have spiked so much that will further discourage household growth, so more work needs to be done.
It’s an important conversation to have. My mums phone got stolen with Find My active. The police refused to do anything about it, they tried to phish her details, failed and I followed it to Shenzen.

I’m not saying these changes would prevent occurrences, but if they couldn’t even strip parts from a phone, it makes it a less enticing target for thieves.

I do think that a version of the iPhone without these restrictions should be available for purchase for customers who know that’s exactly what they want, not this convoluted system.
I don't know, maybe at worst it'll be good practice. Awkward guys can interact with someone friendly in a no-consequence way, and maybe gain some comfort.

In any case, with the exception of a few weirdos, I don't think most people are going to be confused about whether AI girlfriends are real, just as almost no one thinks a sex doll is real.
If you were taking about theft in general, then I don't even know what point you were trying to make.

And yes, other companies selling fewer official parts (although I've never been unable to get screens, batteries, or replacement charging parts for my non-apple phones) is bad, and I already criticize companies that fail to make parts available. When they start doing part pairing, I will criticize them for it to. The fact that this behavior is bad has nothing to do with it being Apple. Not making parts easy to get: bad. Making replacement parts not viable without input from manufacturer: also bad.
Play stupid games (Canadian government bill C-18 [1]), win stupid prizes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_News_Act
> Japan’s steps to bolster the birthrate haven’t been successful, while authorities have been hesitant to accept large numbers of migrant workers to make up the shortfall.

It's hard to imagine how Japan can keep on the current path. But it's also hard to imagine how they'd adapt to normalized immigration. Seems like an adapt-or-die situation.
If your employer gives you 2 weeks notice of employment termination, did you lose your job?

After all, it only applies to future payroll periods.
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Can you afford to pay the legal fees to prove that it's illegal, even as Unity continues to drag out the fight with procedural motions, appeals, etc?

Can you afford to bet on winning?

It really shouldn't be this way, and I hope that we will see a time when "that's illegal" means that a company like Unity wouldn't even consider doing it. But as things stand, something like this is often only illegal in practice when it's done by people without the resources to fight lengthy legal battles.
> I find that the main downside to shorteners is that the domain itself looks like something that would hack your computer

Then send the entire link?
> This is compounded when I see someone else's success on a similar project

Comparison is the thief of joy. Like for every time you compare and get jealous, you could have leveled up, for YOU personally. The only person you need to be in competition with is YOU.
Cars being stolen to chop shops is a thing, I am extremely skeptical that it's the primary reason cars are stolen.\

-edit- Yeah even according to your source, a pretty tiny minority appear to be stolen for parts. Probably because, as you point out, parts are so easy and relatively cheap to get, except for inherently valuable parts like catalytic converters. And guess what? If people start stealing iPhones to harvest the gold/rare metals, parts pairing is not going to fix that.
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Where did you get that 0.4% number? Is this a well-established statistic?
The right-to-repair crowd are the ones trying to use guns to prevent me from buying the devices I want to buy.
Thank you very much for this explanation, I was confused by TFA (I skimmed through it, its my fault). Like I thought then, it's not a brexit thing at all.
I’ve heard that take many times, but is there any actual data to back this claim? I mean think about it - your average thief is not the kind of person that will know what part setialization is or how to tell iPhone models apart to know which ones to steal. They steal your purse, bag or just anything and sight and only then deal with the loot, discarding what’s useless. I would be very surprised if serializing the battery or screen is putting any significant dent in the number of stolen iPhones worldwide.

Apple has already created a pretty good deterrent to prevent iPhone theft - the Find My iPhone system. It’s better because it’s actually useful to the user and works even if you turn the phone off. The way I see it there’s absolutely no need to serialize the parts as an additional measure to prevent theft (given also what I said in the first paragraph)
You should search what happens when these phones are stolen with Apple's lock on them.

It's almost always the same play book:

- moves to some US address nearby

- turns off for days

- shows up in Shenzhen or Guangzhou

Usually from there are a few attempts to phish the owner with fake iCloud alerts (and sometimes outright threats) before they strip it for parts.

To be clear it's not like the phone theft itself is part of some concerted effort by Chinese actors: there are only so many places where the tools and skills to strip down, repackage, and resell something as specific as an iPhone speaker unit are so common
Crypto matters for exactly this reason. All my internet traffic passes through unsafe middle-boxes, it is TLS and DH that make sure I can pass through untrusted middlemen without them knowing what is going on.
> maybe at worst it'll be good practice

That's the worst you can imagine? :-)
I'd be surprised if we aren't well past that threshold nowadays with modern automation.

In the agricultural sector at least, one person driving a combine harvester does the work of a dozen.

The trick is to make sure the resources they harvest get distributed instead of them just being twelve times more wealthy than their ancestors.
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Weird population demographics are a problem. Here's why.
When people stop working, they stop contributing to society but they don't stop taking from it.

For as long as human society has formed, the solution was either the working population being productive enough for everyone else or the non working dying off soon after the fact.

When fertility rates are in the shitter for a long time, you guarantee that at some point, the working population will be far far lower than what is necessary to support the rest.

A demographic and societal collapse will ensue. Many benefits and safety nets for many people including the working will cease to exist simply because it can no longer be sustained.

Japan's national pension scheme is "pay as you go", meaning that benefits for retirees today are paid out of the contributions going into the scheme today.

Japan has already reached the point of having less than two workers per retiree. By 2050, that number is projected to be more like 1.5.

Paying some taxes to social security / medicare / etc works out OK when those go to cover 0.5 to 1 dependent per worker. When that 1 workers income needs to support 1.5 .. 2+ things will get ugly fast.

Once this hits in full force, it will last decades. It's that simple.

And it has nothing absolutely nothing to do with capitalism or socialism or communism or whatever -ism you might want to scapegoat. For as long as humans need to work to survive this will be a problem.

The problems Japan is having, South Korea is looking to speedrun. It's so bad that it's too late to forestall a collapse. Even if the country magically started having replenishing birth rates immediately, in at most a few decades, we'll be seeing a collapse that would last at least 20 years. This is the best case scenario. It's straight up apocalyptic.

This is what a population table looks like for a country that had a fertility rate of 6 at year 0 and then an extinction level rate of 1 for decades (SK is actually decidedly worse at 0.78 now).

(148) Year 0: 4 sixties, 11 forties, 33 twenties, 100 newborns,

(194) Year 20: 11 sixties, 33 forties, 100 twenties, 50 newborns

(208) Year 40: 33 sixties, 100 forties, 50 twenties, 25 newborns

(187) Year 60: 100 sixties, 50 forties, 25 twenties, 12 newborns

(93) Year 80: 50 sixties, 25 forties, 12 twenties, 6 newborns

(46) Year 100: 25 sixties, 12 forties, 6 twenties, 3 newborns

(23) Year 120: 12 sixties, 6 forties, 3 twenties, 1 newborn

It's like climate change. You go decades with everything looking normal at first glance. By the time, everything doesn't look so normal it's to late to do anything other than save your population from extinction. (Assuming you can even do that. A lot of people seem to miss the fact that not one country that has suffered declining fertility rates has managed to reverse the trend despite trying for decades. Not one)
The straightforward answer is: don't tolerate ridiculous alignments.