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Admin privileges aren't the same thing as a kernel-mode driver. Steam does require admin to be installed, but it does not install a kernel-mode driver.

Steam does not have any kernel-mode components.

This would be true if the only alternative to piracy is not using said content or software. If paying is a valid alternative to a nonzero fraction of pirate users if piracy was not an option, then the piracy does affect the creators economically.

> a few years ago there was no way to unlink iMessage

Deregistration[1] has been supported since November 2014.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203042

> Doesn't work for me in the Netherlands. Down since this morning.

Same for me. It is accessible from my home network (AS206238) and from public transport wifi (AS202189), but not from any other network I can currently access (AS201975, AS50266).

> With timezones:

> * I want to call my friend in Germany. What time is it for her? I guess I'm UTC-7 and she's UTC+1, so she's 8 hours ahead of me. I know that everybody around the world typically wakes up between 6 and 9 AM and goes to sleep between 8 PM and midnight, and she's an early bird, so she should be awake.

> Without timezones:

> * I want to call my friend in Germany. It's the same time here as there. It rises at 13:00 here, but she's a quarter of the way way around the world. I have to look up their typical waking hours. She's an early bird, so is she on the early side of that, likely. What time does the sun rise there? How much does that change over the seasons?

This is actually the same thing. In both cases you have to know or look up that there's an 8 hour difference between the two of you.

The bits about the seasons and being an early bird apply equally to both cases, so it's not really relevant to the comparison.

As described in the CVE[0]:

> In PHP 8.0.X before 8.0.28, 8.1.X before 8.1.16 and 8.2.X before 8.2.3, password_verify() function may accept some invalid Blowfish hashes as valid. If such invalid hash ever ends up in the password database, it may lead to an application allowing any password for this entry as valid.

[0] https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-0567

There isn't enough renewable energy yet to cover all consumption. Which means that you paying extra is only an administrative move. You're just swapping places with the party that would otherwise have consumed the renewable energy.

In my experience it's quite the opposite. We use Flask for a large-scale webapp in production quite successfully and it's enabled us to reduce application complexity significantly.

> Where else are people meant to store money?

Money isn't stored in other assets. It's transferred from the buyer of an asset to the seller. It doesn't cease to exist simply because you traded it for stocks (or gold or anything else). Now the seller has to deal with the consequences of holding the money you previously held. A rational trader factors in the costs of money when they price assets, therefore one doesn't avoid those costs by trading money for other assets.

The domain is different. bbc.com versus bbc.co.uk.

Except that playing Fortnite isn't the thing that's being disallowed. It just happened to contain an in-app purchase system that did not use the Apple-approved method, and Fortnite's developers refused to remove that.

Apple has always clearly stated that this is perfectly fine on websites, just not in apps.

Why would HFT even consider using it? They are located as close as possible to the exchange they operate on, not across states or halfway across the world.

Interactive Brokers offers such a debit card to US clients, albeit not by selling assets automatically, but by using the cash balance or a margin loan backed by the assets. You can then decide which assets to sell (and when to sell them) to cover for the payments made.

No problem, I'll just remove software that requires me to disable notarization.

The key could be encrypted using the account password.

Bluetooth audio lag does depend on the buffer size of the audio device. My car also has a two second lag when playing through Bluetooth, but my Bluetooth headphones have nearly no perceptible lag at all.

What makes you think so? Nothing in the FTP protocol makes it faster than, say, HTTP, yet FTP requires more network round-trips to initiate each file transfer.

No, it's just PostgreSQL and MySQL. Neither has "Server" in its name.

VOO is not synthetic. Quoting the overview page[1]:

> Employs a passively managed, full-replication strategy.

[1]: https://advisors.vanguard.com/VGApp/iip/site/advisor/investm...

I was under the impression that a lot (if not all) of Vanguard's ETFs are physical, not synthetic. Can you name one of these synthetic ETFs?

That's probably because the response to this particular https URL is larger; http on this server simply redirects to https and is therefore a smaller response.

Not that this matters here; the top level comment measured requests per second, not bytes per second. If anything, the smaller response for http would give http an advantage in this comparison.

wrk[1] does appear to reuse a connection for each request.

[1] https://github.com/wg/wrk

How did you measure this?

When measuring on one of my servers that exposes both HTTP and HTTPS, there doesn't appear to be any significant difference.

HTTP:

  % wrk http://hostname
  Running 10s test @ http://hostname
    2 threads and 10 connections
    Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
      Latency     5.11ms    5.42ms  62.85ms   96.08%
      Req/Sec     1.10k   224.03     1.31k    87.04%
    17703 requests in 10.01s, 6.89MB read
  Requests/sec:   1768.57
  Transfer/sec:    704.58KB

HTTPS:

  % wrk https://hostname
  Running 10s test @ https://hostname
    2 threads and 10 connections
    Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
      Latency     4.75ms    4.09ms  50.37ms   96.48%
      Req/Sec     1.10k   228.86     1.34k    79.35%
    17014 requests in 10.01s, 8.39MB read
  Requests/sec:   1700.32
  Transfer/sec:    858.38KB

"Europe" here refers to the continent, which the lands of the UK clearly are not a part of. It does not refer to the European Union.

Yes, but it would not apply to other users.

No, the ability is not blocked. The app is no longer distributed by the developer in response to a request by Apple.

No, it has not. The ability is still there. Apple only asked the developer to stop distributing the app, which they did.

Diagram renders fine in Safari; here's a screenshot of the diagram: http://i.imgur.com/GoytjRf.png

Their point was that the ability is going to be removed if it gets used at all. That just doesn't make any sense given the fact I outlined in my response.