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HotHotLava··on Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance with French legislation
The first two have two buttons of the same size, color and prominence at the bottom of the site allowing you to accept or refuse cookies. These are not cookie popups, and they don't promote one option over the other unlike what Facebook and Google were fined for here. So I'm not sure where you see a problem with these sites?
HotHotLava··on Clever uses of pass, the Unix password manager
Yes, every time I want to set it up on a new device I have to import and trust all public keys that it should encode to; and if that device gets its own gpg key then that key also has to be distributed to and trusted at all prior sites. Which isn't very often, but still somewhat regularly (ie. new laptop, new yubikey, formatted hard drive, etc.)

I think it would be a great addition if pass could actually automate this by storing all relevant public keys internally.

HotHotLava··on Clever uses of pass, the Unix password manager
As a user, I also often feel like `gpg` brings a lot of annoying accidental complexity to `pass`, (like the need to "ultimately trust" keys before they become usable) but on the other hand it enables integration with hardware tokens like Yubikeys and in extension mobile devices (via openkeychain) that as far as I know wouldn't be possible with a more modern age-based backend.
HotHotLava··on The growth of command line options, 1979-Present (2020)
> The latest year in the table is 2017 because I wrote the first draft for this post in 2017 and didn't get around to cleaning it up until 2020.
HotHotLava··on SoME1 results
I don't envy the judges, the shortlist is full of absurdly high-quality videos that didn't make it into the top 5.

My personal favorite was this one about the topology of rotation groups and spin 1/2 particles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACZC_XEyg9U&list=PLnQX-jgAF5...

HotHotLava··on Grand mosaic of the Milky Way is now larger than ever
The largest option in his shop is actually 5m x 75cm, divided into 5 panels. But that also comes at a price of 7.5k EUR, or 12.5k EUR for a glicee print.
HotHotLava··on Strict Id Laws Don’t Stop Voters: Evidence from a U.S. Nationwide Panel
In Germany the ID card costs 37 EUR and is valid for 10 years, reduced to 22.80 EUR and 6 years of validity if you're under 24. A passport is even more expensive. No other forms of identification are accepted, but it's also not really necessary since you're required to get an ID card anyways.
HotHotLava··on A Twitter user insulted a German politician, then police raided his house
A while ago a Berlin court decided that online posts saying "Drecksfotze"/"Schlampe"/"Knatter sie doch mal einer so richtig durch, bis sie wieder normal wird." (filthy cunt/bitch/someone fuck her hard until she becomes normal again) are still below the threshold that top politicians have to endure before they can sue for insult, so the ability to "unload" on top politicians doesn't seem to be in any danger in Germany.

Although this ruling was widely criticized, because there is some societal understanding that politicians are also humans who need some level of protection, and that unrestricted hate speech always has the potential to transform into physical violence sooner or later.

HotHotLava··on A Twitter user insulted a German politician, then police raided his house
It is never proactively enforced, it always requires a "Strafantrag" of the insulted party.
HotHotLava··on UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy
Which is, realistically, a pretty small price to pay for free high-quality content. Most of the higher-end channels also have the option to get an ad-free and nudge-free version if you're willing to pay.

Honestly, I'd much prefer that model for books over the forced Adobe DRM or vendor-specific stores that the industry seems to be trending towards.

HotHotLava··on UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy
Back in the 90s in Germany, Heyne Verlag was infamously inserting ads for Maggi Instant Soup [1] into the text of many of its Sci-Fi and Fantasy novels.

[1]: https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/terry-pratchett-and...

HotHotLava··on UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy
Even in that strawman version of the argument, competing publishers would not be able to "steal" all the profit because they also could only sell the books more or less at cost. The price floor for physical books in such a world would, I imagine, be set by some chinese on-demand printing factories. Business models for authors would shift towards patreon supporters, subscription fees for periodical releases, signed collectors editions of books, live book tours, etc. etc.

Some people also manage to extract millions of profit from Youtube and Instagram channels, despite all of the content being free. Books are not that different from any other medium.

HotHotLava··on New exotic matter particle, a tetraquark, discovered at CERN
Tbf, from the way they were described it should have been fairly easy to defeat the Sophons even without any science-fiction technology; just build e.g. 10-20 particle accelerators distributed over the world and take measurements close enough in time to each other that you cannot be at multiple sites without exceeding the speed of light. Then at most 3 of them could be corrupted for any given run, and these can be thrown out as statistical noise.
HotHotLava··on Migrating Our Codebase to C++20 – A Field Report
A `std::tuple` is not a container in the STL sense (it also doesn't provide iterators and you can't add or delete elements from it), so there is no issue in that regard. For example, `std::tie()` is a function in the standard library that returns a tuple of references.
HotHotLava··on The Goals of XML at 25: and the one change that XML now needs
Since someone linked both standards elsewhere in the thread, this is the first valid, self-contained example XML document appearing in the XML spec:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
    <!DOCTYPE greeting [
      <!ELEMENT greeting (#PCDATA)>
    ]>
    <greeting>Hello, world!</greeting>
The first example of a complete, self-contained yaml document in the yaml spec looks like this:

    # Ranking of 1998 home runs
    ---
    - Mark McGwire
    - Sammy Sosa
    - Ken Griffey
    # Team ranking
    ---
    - Chicago Cubs
    - St Louis Cardinals
I think that is quite representative of the user experience as a whole: Yes, there are a ton of dark corners in Yaml that only a tiny fraction of people truly understand, but the default user experience feels just like writing a slightly more convenient JSON, whereas XML by default is a garbled mess.
HotHotLava··on How many real numbers exist? New proof moves closer to an answer
The illustration in the article doesn't start with the whole set of all real numbers, but with just "a" set containing an uncountable number of reals, so there is no contradiction in that sense.

I'm assuming there's some unmentioned technical condition on which sets you are allowed to choose in order for the procedure to work, otherwise the argument would indeed seem to lead to a contradiction when choosing the set of all real numbers.

HotHotLava··on Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” XVI: What Is the “Dark Forest” Hypothesis?
Wouldn't the counterpoint be that those civilizations like us that do not obscure their location are quickly eradicated by others in the forest? So the forest also acts like a filter for those that are not careful enough.
HotHotLava··on WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted
There are comments in this thread from people who read about this in the news, checked their own device, and found it was wiped as well. This seems like it would be very unlikely to happen if this were just happening in isolated cases.
HotHotLava··on WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted
That CVE only shows how to factory-reset a single MyBook to which you can connect and send HTTP requests. There's still something missing to explain how it could happen to seemingly all MyBook's at once, including those behind a NAT.
HotHotLava··on Patent Trolling’s twin: Copyright trolling
> That is, say there is a plan on their site for a 2BD/2BA house, the floor plan is very simple and a builder that is unaware of this company ends up copying the floor plan for no other reason that it happens to be a very common floorplan. Could this company still pursue damages?

No. The ruling in this case actually covers this in detail: Proving copyright infringement is a two-step process, first you must prove that something was actually copied and then that the copied portion was substantial enough to constitute infringement. But the first part is a necessary precondition, without copying there's no infringement. They give the example of two comic book authors inventing a character called "Dennis the Menace" independently on the same day.

HotHotLava··on Universities have formed a company that looks a lot like a patent troll
Do computer science grad students in the US commonly apply for patents on top of writing papers, etc.?

I'm just wondering where the patents in this pool are coming from, I assume the administrators are not going through the research papers and file new patents on the researchers' behalf?

HotHotLava··on Stripe rescinded my signed offer due to changing company priorities
I'm confused, what do get instead in the US when you're employed? I didn't know that contracts are not universal, over here I've never heard of anyone not having a contract.
HotHotLava··on Stripe rescinded my signed offer due to changing company priorities
Can you really rescind an offer after it has been signed? Wouldn't they have to have terminated the contract instead? (Not that it makes a difference in practice unless there's a mandatory termination period)
HotHotLava··on Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project
Amjad is not writing these mails as a private person but in his capacity as the CEO of repl.it (as evidenced by his threat to employ company resources to shut this site down), so this is not personal but professional conversation. The name and picture of the CEO is also made publicly available by the company itself (https://replit.com/site/about), so this email thread is not revealing any unknown personal details.
HotHotLava··on Daniel Ellsberg: The 90-year-old whistleblower tempting prosecution
Dr. Strangelove ends in a total nuclear war with humanity retreating to underground bunkers, so surely some of it must have been fictional.
HotHotLava··on The Matrix Space Beta
The comment you linked says:

> As should be pretty clear from #11655 (comment), we're going to fix this, and yes, imo, autoupdates need an opt-in.

The comment #11655 says:

> Auto-updating for default Riot distributions will continue as before to ensure security fixes are delivered quickly

So at this point already it becomes unclear to the reader which of these has precedence.

So, assuming you're asking in good faith, if you wanted to be clearer you should have written something like:

"*Despite* what's written #11655 (comment), I disagree with the product teams assessment and think autoupdates need an opt-in, therefore I will make sure this is implemented."

(not sure if the content is 100% what you wanted to express in the comment, but you get the idea)

HotHotLava··on The Matrix Space Beta
Did you maybe post the wrong link?

The comment you're linking to says that there are no current plans to change the default request to matrix.org from the login page, and that you explicitly plan to keep the current auto-updating behavior.

(also, of course "we will fix that" implies that it is currently still broken, which is what the original commenter was pointing out)

HotHotLava··on A teenager's guide to avoiding actual work
The byte apparently was not part of the file contents but part of a file header that was interpreted by the editor; probably encoding some kind of "file type" that was displayed differently when opened.

However, technically, switching an 'E' for an 'F' is flipping *two* bits :/

HotHotLava··on 1Password for Linux
I do as well, but I have to admit that a browser-based solution has a real security advantage when it comes to phishing protection, since it has access to the URL and can compare it to the one stored for the password.

It would be cool if there was some open password management API that browsers/password managers could implement to solve this without extensions.

HotHotLava··on ‘Disaster Girl’ has sold her popular meme as an NFT for $500k
I wonder how this compares to "limited edition" prints of classic artworks, which are also far more expensive than a "normal" print in exchange for being uniquely identifiable.
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