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Null-Seton Unpacking Google’s Web Environment Integrity specification

This would complete the transformation of the user-agent into the vendor-agent.

It sounds like you embrace the frequentist interpretation of probability, but the bayesian aka subjectivist interpretation of probability says you can make predictions on the likelihood of single events based on your knowledge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_interpretations

Null-Seton A student’s desire to get out of a exam led to a compression algorithm

How do these cache boxes work? Does the server send them its half of the ephemeral key or something? I can't imagine each isp has a box with a copy of netflix's private key.

Null-Seton 460-foot “battery tanker” set to ship electrons by 2026

You can put matter on grid powered trains instead of battery powered self propelled vehicles.

Null-Seton Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British accents?

Do british students study chem or chemy? The american word math is an abbreviation of mathematics, why would it be a contraction?

Null-Seton My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted (2022)

The implication being that after 2 years the immediate risk of death the insurance company wants to protect itself against did not come to pass, so the policy holder should not have the risk of losing their policy to a post mortem determination of fraud from the insurer despite believing they were insured.

Taken back to the fraud in interviews, you could make the same argument that after some time working on the job and not gettimg fired, the risk of getting someone not actually qualified did not come to pass, so its more useful to look at the employees current performance than their original fraudulent interview.

Null-Seton The Last Breaking Change

I know the maintainer of the JSON spec, his main job is to make sure no one changes it to add these.

Null-Seton Jack Dorsey has set a 10 btc bounty for Nostr based alternative to GitHub

Do I get 10 btc if I tell him that git-ssb exists? https://github.com/hackergrrl/git-ssb-intro

Null-Seton End-to-end encrypted messages need more than libsignal

How is twitter intending to use libsignal? I doubt it would be via the primary AGPL license[1], forcing them to publish the source code of their backend service. Does signal sell private licenses?

[1] https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal/blob/main/LICENSE

Null-Seton Show HN: I finished my site for daily dogbunny puzzles, as I promised on HN

I believe you can apply an svg clip-path to the element with css to change the region you get events from. https://css-tricks.com/the-many-ways-to-link-up-shapes-and-i...

Null-Seton Oxford University Press’s new logo is unfathomably bad

As far as I know it was real, but Lemon Demon's take on it is some classic parody. https://youtu.be/fu3ETgAvQrw

Null-Seton The Onion files Supreme Court amicus brief defending the right to parody

The brief itself is a good read. https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-293/242292/2022...

Null-Seton Optimizing images with the HTML <picture> tag

The title lost the essential "picture" tag part of it, probably to html sanitization

Null-Seton How the clipboard works

This design could have an interesting security twist to it. The copy side could maybe infer who the paste side is and change the output, similar to the problems of piping curl into bash.

Null-Seton Authors’ names have ‘astonishing’ influence on peer reviewers: study

In this case it looks like his good reputation was falsified from the start? They were unable to prove misconduct in his dissertation only because the data had been destroyed. So consistently missing his misconduct would be more to blame here than riding on a reputation.

Null-Seton Ask HN: How to build a website that will last 30 years?

As many others have said, static html and css are your best bet for having your site continue to function.

As for having it continue to be hosted, I suggest IPFS. https://docs.ipfs.tech/how-to/websites-on-ipfs/single-page-w... So long as your site continues to be interesting, people can continue to pin replicas of your site. The domain will lokely lapse without maintenance, but the content will still be out there.

Null-Seton ShotSpotter requests to be held in contempt rather than disclose its methodology

This would work to give some evidence for the accuracy levels of the automated parts of the system, at least for true positives vs false negatives, but doesnt test for how the system generates false positives.

A bigger problem is that this doesnt approach any of the process problems with the human moderated parts of the system. For that you would need cooperation from the law enforcement customer. The customer would need to make a request like "are you sure you didnt find any gun shots around this time and place?" and see how the company responds.

Null-Seton Lisp in an “impossible” language, the most complex Malbolge program to date

Git will compress the objects it stores, so checking in compressed objects is usually redundant.

Null-Seton Against Meme Activism

This seems like an unnecessary new name for slacktivism.

Null-Seton Let’s Talk About Hot Tub Streams

It does pay the bills when it comes in the form of bits donations and subscriptions.

Null-Seton Preview of Microsoft Build of OpenJDK

The distinction from other builds:

> Microsoft Build of OpenJDK 11 binaries may contain backported fixes and enhancements we deem important to our customers and our internal users. Some of these may have not yet been formally backported upstream and are clearly signposted in our release notes. This allows us to expedite improvements and fixes much faster while we proceed to upstream those changes in parallel. Updates will be free and available to every Java developer to deploy anywhere.

Null-Seton Judge in Google case disturbed that 'incognito' users are tracked

chrome the program could not make network requests to known tracking domains

Null-Seton I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit

Why are these people not part of the decison making process?

Null-Seton Enter Sandbox: Google is building an internet without cookies

Cross site scripting can exfiltrate an auth token stored in local storage. An HttpOnly cookie cannot be stolen this way, and with SameSite=strict, CSRF is not an issue.

Null-Seton GCC Rust: GCC Front-End for Rust

I don't see why a wasm blob would be any more palatable to maintainers than an executable.

Null-Seton Are you a “harbinger of failure”? (2015)

There is, of course, an xkcd on this topic. https://xkcd.com/2270/

Null-Seton Debian votes for Proposal B, “Systemd but we support exploring alternatives”

Logging, login, network configuration, and more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd#Ancillary_components

Null-Seton The Simulation Argument and the Simulation Barrier

Computation does not need to be digital. An analog computer could represent positions down to arbitrary precision, though accuracy would still be limited by the information input.