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Even better, London doesn’t need NFC smartphones: if you have a chip bank card with a chip for tap payments, just tap that. For those of us with smart watches, they do the metro fast pay thing as well, so I literally just tap my watch without having to press anything or get anything out of my pocket. If my watch battery is dead, I can just a bank card.

The only advantage to having Oyster is if you’re travelling enough to justify a monthly pass (daily and weekly caps are respected on bank card taps), or longer.

I travel a lot across North America and EMEA, always glad to get home and deal with London’s transport network: it’s the only one that is really designed around, built for and feels invested in the passenger experience.
Marketing campaigns also often reference culture, which differs heavily across the EU.
Apple ID shouldn't be required for that (unless you're downloading it from the Apple Developer site instead of installing through macOS directly?).
Why would a QR code require Internet, or an app? You could just print it on paper and track the corresponding balance on the server side. To my understanding this is what most transit networks do anyways, to prevent an enterprising user from modifying their balance on the card itself.

(The optical scanning argument makes sense, however.)
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These are called kaomoji. More generally, emoticons.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons
It is very easy for these companies to shift money around their books to look like none of it came from a certain country.
So we want:

1. free/gratis Linux distribution

2. long support (~ 10 years)

3. not needing to contribute (as a community)

It seems that we can only pick two from this list (even a distribution with short support cycle needs community).
Open source != owning a mac

I agree that the hardware requirement is bullshit and mostly unnecessary.
The only real advantage of this seems to be the ability to disable the chime during quiet hours. Otherwise it seems like a much more failure-prone doorbell (more components means more things to break).

Why not go the other way entirely? Disable the chime, install a door knocker, and never worry about replacing outdated tech, dried capacitors, shorts or anything else for the rest of one’s life.
Sabotage activity by Russian agents has been spotted in many areas of Europe. It could spread to South Korea, too.
Some of the moves they've been making recently look like an attempt to start rolling back "the last supper"

And I doubt that Boeing will ever be given a cost-plus contract ever again.
This was similar when the Bell Telephone company was running things, but at some point the regulator said no and other telephone operators were allowed on the same network.
On 386 or anything newer, using it was _slower_ than implementing it in software

...and thus it didn't get used, meaning Intel didn't make it faster, and so the vicious cycle continued.

Hardware task switching could've made software simpler and more forward-compatible.

Of course they eventually reinvented most of it with the virtualisation extensions anyway.
Congress cares about votes more than payoff from Boeing. So long as voters don't care about how many Boeing kills congress wants the Boeing payoff. As soon as congress thinks voters care about Boeing congress will turn on Boeing.

Do you care about "Elevance Health" - they larger than Boeing according to the fortune 500 list (20 vs 52 in 2024) - but I hadn't even heard of them until I looked up the list just now. I have no clue what the company is up to (health informs my guess, but it is a guess). Companies like them can continue to do whatever and voters won't care.
If you don't want to outright block all JavaScript you can just block 3rd party scripts, it usually lets you see if the website uses some fuckery or not.
Watch this anti-EV propaganda instead then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUfwb7yj7wA
Science itself would have been considered a form of intellectual misconduct at one point. It would be important to be very careful here with definitions and scope, Eg, limiting it to fake data
I'm curious about what "quiche eater" means in this context. I have not run into that before.
Something like this is really important considering the future of all of our live is digital whether we like it or not.

Have those discussions, educate them on choices, and it will make their lives much safer going forward.
>absolutely no commitment behind it?

I think commitment to your baby (your project) is far more morally superior than commitment to just making your stakeholders happy...no?

BTW: I buy Github DVDs, I don't load it from the "Internet".
If this is real, this is an incredible target to choose. I mean, you might not make it trial if they catch you, if you know what I mean. Makes me wonder what level of affiliation or perceived safety would make anyone this confident.
It's most likely near real time.

TfL likely need that mechanism primarily to synchronize the list of blocked open-loop bank cards with unpaid balances to all readers. Faster Oyster transaction list updates and any-station remote top-ups are probably just a side effect of that.

Clipper doesn't (yet) support open-loop bank cards yet, so for them, it's probably enough to update more remote readers every time the bus goes back to the depot, for example.
Well, these "plane falling out of the sky" fuckups have already happened[1] and the culture there still has obviously not changed. Maybe it's going to take a "plane full of Americans falling out of the sky" fuckup event.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX_groundings
Have somebody used a shelly 1 or so for this? I wonder how complicated this is because I look for a simple (maybe more expensive) but open and hackable solution
The benefit of using ESPHome is that the chime would still ring if your bridge/server is down.
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Placing a bet this was a Windows system, just as all of the other recent major "hacks" were.
most scrutinized and insulated are diametrically opposed concepts.
What data does the Fed actually deal with? The article mentions "Americans' banking secrets" as if the risk is to individuals but ... to oversee banks, does it need the particulars of individual account holders? Or is this information about banks and their overnight borrowing (i.e. should be "American banks' secrets")? Or is this like, pending drafts of various policy reports and granular data from which summaries would eventually be published?
ah yes reader mode, undoing "loved" features since 2010!
Which is what this clown Glapiński did for PiS in Poland.

And by clown I don't exaggerate. All his off-topic rambling and "bon mots" became a meme ("jak rośnie to spada, jak spada to rośnie", "nie ma co się kopać z koniem")

This really shows how difficult it is to maintain quality of unelected officials who are supposed to be independent and can't even be dismissed.
This tech will definitely find some good use here in Ukraine.
Right. These gatekeeper laws are literally being created to combat "not-a-monopoly"-entities dominant positions in the market.
And I wonder if they meant 187.5% (this is better) or 87.5% (this is worse).
Yes - they have more legs. But what they are not is a homogenised mass, all as equally guilty or innocent of issues as the other. If 3 executives do something bad, those 3 executives are to blame. And not some nothing-to-do-with-people corporation.
I never understand this argument.

iPhones can still come with Safari installed and used by default, no changes to anyones experience at all. But if I want to go to the app store, install a different browser engine, and set it as default, how does that affect any users that are just using the default device as supplied to them?

There is no reason at all to hinder this choice. It does not affect 1st party apps, or how the device works by default. It just allows choice for those who want to explore it.
Sincere question: are those examples real, or hyperbole?
That it's significantly cheaper to deal with the failures than it is to prevent them.
Why not just use Win10 LTSC ?
Wouldn't it be easier to just submerge some big heat exchanger?
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You are right, that is not remotely "relatively quickly", it should have been prevented.

My point was generally that the system (and specifically the current flavour of capitalism) is not fundamentally broken, it has the right shape of components and they are working roughly how they are supposed to, to balance each other. If it was broken, things would be way worse, as we have seen throughout history. But there's so much to improve.

I guess I am looking at it from a too wide lens. Sure things are working much better than they used to a century ago, such disasters were largely accepted as a normal cost of being productive, there was no system to correct them. But that's no excuse, I do agree with you, this Boeing mess was not acceptable, the system needs to do better.
How many of those leaders are steeped in the old ways of airlines, back in the 70s/80s/90s when 1000+ deaths a year was the norm? I wonder how many of them believe air travel has become too safe, that there is profit to be made by backing off the recent improvements.

https://asn.flightsafety.org/statistics/period/stats.php
Thanks for this resource! And the advice! Thanks parent comment for your advice too!
I would expect price and practicability of physical intervention
> Some of them are very QANGO like

What does this mean?

> The Smithsonian is funded from british money, vested through the surviving childless American resident, and grows by accretion of other indepently funded bodies (the Hirshhorn, the Freer which in turn relates to the Sackler but we don't talk about that...)

The Smithsonian is and always has been a quasi-public entity. It was founded by an act of Congress and is subsidized directly from the federal budget. I would compare to something like the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
I'm going to circulate this among the technical writing communities I frequent. Some of these microfeatures seem like great features to add to docs sites.
The EU parliament has a quite limited role. That's not the center of EU power.
>> I would use redbean, from the same author, and use HTML.

Wait... Could we build Solvespace web version and bundle it into that and have a completely portable CAD program that runs locally but in the browser?
Sports is really just the traditional name of the category.

They are more casual watches. They will have a seconds hand and glow in the dark hands and markers. They will be able to tolerate getting wet (ie no leather).
You can know if someone rings your doorbell when you aren't there is one tangible advantage. Or you can add a remote bell if you're often working in a basement, shed etc. If you don't want to deal with maintenance then don't, but some people like to play with stuff like this. The author of this article is one of the maintainers of ESPhome and one of the biggest contributors to Home Assistant, so he definitely is the tinkering sort of person.

I have a [local only, no cloud] doorbell with a camera that does person detection. It's one of my favorite devices and well worth it to me, especially since my delivery person basically never bothers to actually ring the doorbell.
Ok, well Apple can keep their model, but they must allow alternate app stores onto iPhones.

If consumers want to pay for Apple's premium services, they can just stick to the default.

If they want stuff cheaper, they can try an app store willing to only make a 10% margin instead of Apple's 40%.
I have built drones before so I can answer.

The short answer is yes. It would be about a billion times better than anything you can buy RTF but also a lot more expensive.

Some (if not most) of the open source hardware would probably be built in China but this hardware can be flashed with Open Source software like betaflight.

If you doubt, just look at companies that sell drone parts/kits like https://www.getfpv.com/fpv.html check out their goggles section, they are all high end.

You ask about video re cording/signal. How can you possibly beat being able to hand-pick your VTX/VRX chip, or your camera? How can any pre-built commercial drone possibly compete with that?

Same with control. You can buy the best motors, the best ESCs, the best carbon fiber frame, the best parts to build and secure all the above. You just cant compete.

But some people lack the time, skills or patience to learn how to build one, and learn the software.
Nautilus and Aquanaut are what I think of as Patek ‘sport’ watches.
The proposal trims a lot of historical baggage

All of that is a tiny amount of die area relative to the whole CPU. After all, a 386 has only 275k transistors.

X86S is Stupid. Intel apparently forgot what made them worth choosing over competitors like ARM and now RISC-V. Non-compatible x86 makes little sense.

...and if they want to include the virtualisation extension, they still need to include that backwards-compatible functionality.
The end of the dream – Phoebe (1998)
I'm looking at replacing my MacBook, but it's from 2015. I think 2-5 years is a bit of an overstatement. PC laptops I've owned in the past have fared much worse over the same time period.
The problem is that the EPA report doesn't say what she says it does.

1. Apple doesn't do chip fab at Scott Blvd. They did R&D for Titan and microLED screens and were part of the layoffs in April.

2. The EPA says that they didn't have permits WITH THE EPA, but were permitted with California and Santa Clara County/City.

3. She says the carbon filters weren't changed, not the EPA.

4. She says Apple said materials weren't hazardous waste, but the report says they were labeled "California Waste", meaning they weren't properly reporting the materials to the EPA, but were to the state of California.

5. How is it this woman was nearly killed, while the employees who WORK in the building are perfectly healthy, the next door businesses have no sick employees, and the other thousands of residents in the apartment building are also not sick?

6. Why isn't the news covering this? Why aren't they shut down?

None of this makes any sense and looking at her lawsuit, she seems like she needs to serious mental help.
Parent is right, banners are not required by GDPR. These websites do not reflect the people in the organisations they represent, they are made by developers like the rest of us who are following the crowd like sheep.
Not to mention the obvious aesthetic issue of a wire running down your wall. This is big part of wireless everything.
Not that old: fonts from 1990 and email from 1998. I would have older but there was the Personal Great Backup Not Working Calamity of 1999.
macOS is completely usable without an Apple ID. All you lose is iCloud, iMessage, FaceTime, iTunes/Apple Music/Apple TV, and the Mac App Store (but most apps are distributed outside of it anyway). And you can sign into the Mac App Store separately from iCloud as well. So not really comparable to Microsoft's push for signing in with a Microsoft account.
"Insulated from political pressure" is not diametrically opposed to "scrutinized".
> a secure enclave for the keys doesn't even provide any additional security since they key is transmitted to the card anyway

I'd assume that the keys (more accurately passwords, since a key would never be transmitted to the card over an unencrypted interface) are diversified by card serial number though? In that case, it would still be useful to have an SAM to hold that diversification key. You could further store some MAC authentication tag on the password-protected tag that the SAM needs to see before revealing the password over the radio.

I'm not saying that this is how every transit system practically does use MIFARE Ultralight, but based on the design, it's definitely possible.
>Boeing has already lost some of this trust with the issues in the consumer aviation sector, but the space and defense side of Boeing is still going strong.

Going so strong that:

* The USAF really hates Boeing for pulling some Serious Legal Assfuckery(tm) to drop Airbus for the tanker program, only to then fail to provide tankers that can pump gas.

* They've failed to secure all but one fighter program sale, and that was only because Lockheed Martin (F-35) succeeded so hard they couldn't succeed any harder.

* They were laughed out of the bomber program, especially after the tanker failures.

* They keep crashing V-21 Ospreys, their most recent episode resulting in nationwide groundings in the US and Japan that were only recently cleared.

* The Starliner is increasingly looking unfit for human occupation.

The only reason Boeing is relevant in space and defense anymore is sheer inertia.
This seems like the kind of data banks would hand over for FDIC insurance since it's on a per-account basis. I don't know if that makes its way to the federal reserve.
They did R&D for Titan and microLED screens and were part of the layoffs in April.
I don't think the federal reserve has that many deep dark secrets. The main risk is going to be stuff like knowing that a bank is in trouble before it's public knowledge.
You can't hear a door knocker everywhere in the house, I'd guess.
Steam is one of the many app stores I can use.

Not the only one.

Meanwhile Apple forces their app store down their customers throat. And charges for the forced privilege.

Consoles are not general purpose devices. But I wouldn't mind if EU went after them as well
oooh. It was after reading Gwern that I added footnotes and table-of-contents to all of my blog posts. And RSS.

All headings have anchor links. https://josh.works/jaywalking or https://josh.works/full-copy-of-1922-atlanta-zone-plan
It's bound to kill something that nothing else will kill.
> Best at what exactly? I can’t think of a single thing you would pick C# for instead of Java/Go, C/C++/Rust/Zig, Python or JavaScript/Typescript.

C# was the first to get async/await, generics, LINQ, PLINQ etc - the path-breaking features that shoot up not only productivity but the ability to do certain things in a much better way.

Just because kids have caught up, it doesn't mean we are going to abandon the daddy.
But voters care about a multitude of issues. People care much more about things like abortion, immigration, healthcare, gun rights (or control), and yet none of those are seeing any movement or chance of causing meaningful threat to their voter base.

It'll take much much worse than a couple more crashes for the Boeing issue to eclipse all those things to become an issue people actually change their voting over.
At the end of the day, you're still wasting heat whereas you could heat a whole district with it.
> "drastically cut rates right before the election to protect the incumbent".

They're not immune to political pressure. They really should be raising rates again (housing prices going up, stock market at all time highs, inflation still not under control) and aren't for exactly that reason.
They get really upset if you disclose things like that :)
Maybe I'm wrong? It's been a couple of years. I think I recall there were alternatives, but using my Apple ID was easiest?
It is always ethical to pirate Microsoft software.
The unethical thing is giving them more money for this slop.
"We got fined for getting off the train at the wrong stop" is not much of a travel story though.
But that is exactly the issue with React imo.
In React needless complexity isn't hidden away, its front and center.
Frameworks like Svelte do a far better job hiding and managing actual complexity.
Proton is the only stable and maintained runtime you can target for Linux and it comes with no performance penalty.

Few games actually get more fps than on Windows. What alternative runtime would you suggest and more to the point what problem would it actually solve.

If the game studio actually so much as tests on Proton (or more realistically Steam Deck) that’s great gold medal and as much targeting Linux as you can get.

Demanding anything more is not realistic given current market share, but also again what would you even gain.

The actual threat to gaming on Linux is any form of DRM.
I use Bookmark OS. Works great for me: https://BookmarkOS.com
What is the real-world problem you’re concerned about?

Cheap tools may not crimp as well as the official tools (I have no doubt the differences in finished crimp geometry are real), but especially for low voltage connections like these, I have a hard time believing the end result is dangerous, or even particularly unreliable.
It depends which way you look at it.

You seem to be saying 'Look at all this infrastructure Apple gives you for free, of course you should pay them their cut'.

You could look at it the other way and say 'They made all this infrastructure in order to lock in vendors and monopolise the app market, thereby forcing you to pay them their cut'.

If posts on HN are anything to go by, it seems this perspective is decided simply by whether you like Apple or not!
The plot showing cost/performance has it increasing; so it's more expensive per unit of performance as time progresses. Surely that's backwards.
No need for a license. Just activate it with one of the many activation scripts around.
Transactions above $10k get reported. Reported to who? Is it the Fed? If that data got stolen, that would be enormous.

If it's technical analysis data ("In October 1957, Idaho produced X tons of potatoes..."), then it's less interesting.
Good question. Unfortunately it’s real.
Agreed. Apple is by no means perfect (far from it), and neither is macOS. But anything user-hostile in macOS is relatively minor in comparison to Windows.

And for anyone who hasn't used macOS, it's not a locked-down walled-garden like iOS is.
Why not just change the battery?
The lower end of the spectrum is for phones, going through daily charge/discharge cycles.

While they do a lot of things very well, desiging batteries, storage, and keyboards to be practically non-replaceable and denying any upgradeability (to upsell ludicrously overpriced storage at the initial purchase) is setting an upper limit on how long the device will remain useful for.
> This choice was designed to spread the pain equally among all
operating systems of the day; each has to translate to and from the CR
LF convention when text was transferred across the network.

This compromise might have made sense from a political or goodwill standpoint at the time. But it meant that everyone using these protocols would have to store, convert, or transmit the extra character forever.
Fuzzing is good, robust sandboxing is better, I'd argue. There's just a much smaller surface area to cover for the latter.

> Is there scientific proof of above claim such as "WASM sandboxing is pretty good!" ?

I'm not aware of quantitative studies, but just from a design perspective, the surface that a WASM runtime presents seems intrinsically easier to defend than that of, say, the full Unix userspace that ffmpeg instances usually run in.

Anecdotally, many high-profile iOS and Android vulnerabilities originated in some more or less obscure codec implementation.
That's not very clear to me. How would it affect anything?
Proton DB says that 89% of the top 1000 games, 89% of the top 100 and 6 of the top 10 games on steam are rated Silver or above (a 7th is rated Bronze and 3 are broken).

AreWeAntiCheat yet says:

161 games are Supported (42%)

46 games are Running (12%)

3 are planning to support Linux (1%)

147 are currently Broken (38%)

28 (only) are explicitly Denied (7%)

So, many don't but, also, many do. Not everything, not nothing.