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I am big fan of this comment:

"@mariaghiondea , do you have any updates on restoring the extension reviews? The PlatformIO IDE extension is important even for Microsoft itself. See Microsoft leverages PlatformIO for its course "IoT for Beginners"

We have many friends at Microsoft - should we attract them to solve your team's mistakes quickly?"

At the moment the extension is available again for install. So far the history on comments, ratings and versions seem to be lost.

I get this as a hobby but I fail to find any "attack scenarios" where this is relevant. Public keys are the most public thing I can think of. Without a public key you cannot check if a signature is valid. I cannot see any scenario where a person might use its private key to sign something and not wish everybody else to have the corresponding public key to verify it. I wish the author had made some examples when this gets relevant and when I have to design my protocols accordingly.

I think I would love the article but the presentation makes it necessary hard to enjoy.

I would be interested in such a service, but find the website unclear. Especially the points "What do I get exactly?" and "What type of generative models can I use?" leave me with more questions than answers. What service are you offering? Is it the computation power needed for image creation or is google colab used for this? Or is it the work to integrate different generative models into your system? You claim that I can use any model I want and integrate it into your system (from every source). This combined with easy use and no coding skill required seems a too bold claim to deliver on it. Can you elaborate what I am getting?

I use this app and are very happy. For me the selling point was the possibility to backup my profile and therefore all the configured keys.

This is my feeling two. Many times the author tries to say the same thing 20 different times to fill a book. Many ot those books could have been a great 30 minute presentation.

You mean running the same request multiple times should always give you the same results but does not?

At least in some android phones the term factory reset is misleading. If you "only" factory reset, you will need to have access to the original Google account to use the phone afterwards. If you want to sell your phone you need to first disconnect it from your account and then factory reset it.

This is done to prevent selling of stolen phones but due to the bad naming it can be a hassle for legitimate sellers. The website seems not to mention this. At least in the phones I checked.

I had the fist generation Dell XPS developer laptop with Linux. It was a pain in the ass.

One big problem was the resolution. I don't exactly remember why, but I had to take the version with a 4k display to get something else I wanted to have. The installed system came with a wide variety of X hacks and customisation to have a reasonable scaling of the GUI. Using another OS was a nightmare as wead upgrading the system. Every chance in X would destroy some kind of customisation leaving you with hours of research until you found some other unhappy customer that has already fixed this issue. Additionally there were problems with the drivers for the multimedia keys on the keyboard and stuff I don't remember. At least the first generation was a nice piece of hardware with a horrible hack of an OS.

Are those kinds of problems now fixed? The author does not mention that there is (was) a big problem with software support from Dell. So I am not sure if I can trust his review.

The topic on how hard or easy it is to replicate seems to be as fast changing as other information. The first time I read about it, it was deemed to be super easy as all you needed are the two base materials and a vacuum furnace. But with all the drama involved I would not be surprised if the process is actually very complicated.

Is this a regional thing to buy without DRM? I just checked some books from my reading list and many have DRM. Just some examples if you could double check: Double Star Project Hail Marry Children of Time A Memory Called Empire This is How You Lose the Time War

While I know/assume that it will be easy to remove the DRM, I do not want to install Adobe Digital Editions to download the books.

I wish developers would stop with the one or two letter names for their products. In most cases there is already another product with the same name and you just cannot do a websearch for it without a hassle.

Of course there is still trust involved. Every time you cooperate with somebody else booth of you have some assumption what the other will do. You trust that a webshop will send you your product after you have bought it, etc. To give a foundation for this trust we have laws. It would be illegal to sell you a product and just keep the money without giving you the product.

This is the same with data protection and GDPR. They could just say that they deleted it and keep a copy on their own. BUT using such systems or asking them (in a documented way) to delete your data is a really strong signal from your side what your assumptions are. This will make the fines much higher if a data protection authority would find out that a company kept the data when you have already shown your strong request to delete it. So in a way these mechanism should make it easier for you to trust the other side to do their part because the fines will just get bigger.

Well, the link is broken but I assume OP meant to link to: https://blog.tjcx.me/p/google-terrible-health-information

Funny how there can be a discussion about the content when the link is invalid. That together with the "SEO is destroying the internet" article lets me think of karma whoring...

This article ends with what seems one of the worst cases of green washings I have seen in a long time.

"Diversey, a leading provider of hotel hygiene products, has repurposed 25m bars of soap since 2013"

The article claims that in a single day 3.3 million bars of soap are partially used in the US. So in nearly 10 years Diversey has repurposed the equivalent of roughly one week. I don't want to bash Diversey, if they are a startup or small company I would find this a great achievement. But if they are a major player, lets say with a market cap of 20%, the sold 2.4 billion bars of soap in the same time.

Some elements of the law are part of the GDPR, but I would say that the Chinese law has an much more broad and ambitious scope. GDPR regulates that a human is not subject to an automatic decision that has a (negative) legal effect on him or her. The Chinese law additionally prohibits elements that built addiction, prevent bots from registering accounts, not generate synthetic false information, etc.

I would assume that enforcing such a law is extremely hard. The cynical part of me assumes that the unclear regulations will be used to silence companies and individuals that do not match the governments ideology. But I still think that many countries would be well adviced to include something similar in their legislation.

While I think that you are right, but the right level of abstraction is super important. Here teachers should try to look at the business relevant applications. In university we had one course on databases. This was introduced by means of formal relational databases and relational algebra. Most of the students explained the stuff to each other by working with the more concrete translation in SQL. So if you had problems understanding what the restriction operation (σ) did, somebody told you that it maps to a SELECT in SQL.

In high school I had a chemistry teacher that came from the industry. His examples and test questions were motivated by his real world experience. While this was very interesting at the same time it brought another level of complexity. One example was that we were learning about elements by mmol of substance and had to calculate how much of the input substances we needed to end up with the needed amount of end product. (My explanation might be of because this is some time ago!) Here we were not asked how many liters or kg of stuff we needed but always worked in metric tons or cubic meters. These uncommon volumes made it harder to develop an intuition about the results to quickly understand if a result was reasonable. So many of the surrounding elements that came from the real world made it harder to concentrate on the problem core.

I stumbled upon this paper and my first reaction was to make fun of it on hacker news for being yet another stupid NFT claim.

But, if you look at the authors, they seem to be smart people. They come from places like Baylor College of Medicine, Harvard Medical School or Centre for Advanced Studies in Biomedical Innovation Law. If you read their paper (sorry I did not find a version without paywall and the version I read is linked to my employer) they make some valid claims how a blockchain or NFT-like system could alter health information systems in a good way. Reading the full paper is not necessary for my point of the discussion. I argue and would like to discuss it here, that we increasingly see that buzzwords are used to hide well understood problems.

The authors know that giving data access to the right people and keeping the wrong people from accessing it, is hard. Additionally they know, that giving patients control on who has access to their data is even harder. Getting patient data out of proprietary systems and enable true interoperable data exchange in the medical domain is super hard. Yet, still they claim that NFT-like systems could fix all these problems. So they fall for the trap that the problems were "hidden" by yet another buzzword. A smart contract will allow us to regulate who has access, the blockchain will offer transparency and control, storing the data in distributed system will increase availability. These problems are still hard problems, some might even argue that solving them in the "blockchain" way might even be harder than solving them with "conventional" technology.

Am I to pessimistic or is this trend something you think about, too?

Actually I do not use vertical trees because it forces me to select and close tabs once the get to small to have and text displayed on them.

I think you describe the real problem here. For me I just skip the bookmarking part. If I want to come back to something later, I just leave the tab open. This was a good solution because 2-3 years ago there came an inevitable browser crash and all the open tabs were lost. If you could not remember them, they most likely are not that important.

Unfortunately these hard resets do not occur any more. So I have to close the tabs that I find not that interesting after some days. But closing tabs is much easier than deleting old bookmarks. I assume this is, because you have not commited yourself that much.

Thanks for your input. I was thinking about getting a nice notebook and write letters into it. This method seemed a bit exclusive. I would like to invite grandparents, uncle, aunts etc. to add to the collection and would not want everybody to read the letters intended for the child. This would mean multiple notebooks and more management. While it would make the individual entry more meaningful (I assume you will think more before writing in a paper notebook) it might prevent me to add to it because my input does not seem meaningful enough.

So maybe "simple" mails that are stored by me or by a trusted third party are the best option. This again allows for contribution by third parties.

The article links to the Billy disassembly instructions (https://rabbitholeprodorch001.blob.core.windows.net/plugins/...)

I thought this a great idea until I have seen step 5. This step is exactly the reason why I opened the document as every other step is straight forward. "Just magically remove the 18 nails that you hammered into the back." If you have ever tried to do that you have noticed that this is hard to do without damaging yourself or your furniture. On the same level the instructions could tell me to remove the glue or unweld a seam.

The disassembly instructions are not more than the assembly in descending order.

I understand your point but I find it reasonable to expect google to do some of this stuff on its own by now. I assume that only a small portion of its users know how to use "advanced" searches such as using quotes or ~ etc. In the same way that google uses search completion, they could try to group important parts together.

But I agree with you that the example search strings seems somewhat fabricated or at least especially selected to produce bad results. In my experience the best way to get good results is to use as little relevant search strings as possible. "databricks series b" has the right answer at position 1.

The article or the ProtonDB website says that 80% of the top 100 games from Steam are at least Gold++. For his group Gold++ consists of 51% Games with Gold+, meaning that the run as good as on windows and additional 29% that run native on the platform. So your performance should be as good as on Windows.

IIRC quite some games did run faster on WINE (if running at all) than an Windows. I would be interesting to know if the same is true for Proton.

It took me two reads and some additional thinking before I was able to unravel what is shown here. So I try to summarize what is displayed in this chart.

Looking at the Top 100: Here we have Unrated:0 Borked:10% Bronze+:61% Silver+:58% Gold+:51% Platinum:6% Native:29%

Some, but not all of these categories include the ones below. (Not even the rating definition will explain this) So every game that is considered Platinum is additionally counted as Gold+, Silver+, Bronce+, but not as Borked, Unrated or Native. So you have 51% of games that are Gold+ and additionally 29% with Native support, summing up to 80% Gold++.

I feel they guys at /r/dataisbeautifull might be able to create a better visualization of this.

While I try to do that as much as possible it does not work with my country's version of overdrive. I have to use my e-reader and its awful browser to search for books I want to read. As the website is not even optimized for mobile devices the whole process is rather painful. But this is not the fault of the e-reader.

I find it irritating that the BBC fails to mention how bad the new UK legislation on the right to repair is. Neither this article nor the one linked in it mention that the UK law excludes smartphones and laptops (https://interestingengineering.com/uk-right-to-repair-law-le...). Two of the main offenders when looking at if from a consumer viewpoint.

While I understand your argument, there is only one timezone in Finnland and in my understanding he was calling land lines. So all the numbers should end in Finnland. Of course it can happen that a number is forwarded but then I see no blame with the author.