TFA is a github page, friend. If you truly care about compromise as stated, just build the add-on from source. No reason to point to nonexistent future threat vectors.
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Overall "betterness" is subjective, but speaking as someone who uses a computer as a tool I can honestly say I'd prefer it to function pragmatically than look pretty, if the prettiness requires sacrificing of pragmatism in some way.
I don't have a link to the paper handy (sorry!) but IIRC I found a white paper on ArXiv called "Dolphin Attack" or similar that demonstrated this. It was a fun read.
That is, it's no longer nifty and fashionable to listen to this type of "Brostep", but people who liked it without regard to its social status may continue listening to new material as though nothing changed, while others may have grown tired of the sound or the social clout it may have brought them to be "in the know" or part of some zeitgeist and simply kept up with "today's hits".
The same is true of lots of genres IMHO.
Haven't bought one yet, but the PineTime watch from Pine64 seems nice. There's apparently already a FOSS os/firmware or two as well.
That's how I set up multiple passwords for FDE on a recent hackintosh build, but I don't have an M1 and this wasn't Big Sur, so maybe I'm missing something obvious that has changed lately and I'm way off-base.
It had to manually be done in that order though, otherwise it defaulted to the user account password for FDE.
Why wouldn't you, though? That seems like a pretty big oversight. Lazy at best, negligent at worst. Not everyone in the world has constant internet access, and it seems ridiculous to design an _operating system_ with that assumption. I like to take an eBook reader to the park, for example. Prior to owning that device, I took a laptop when learning a new programming language. If that laptop had been running BigSur, I'd see all these same issues based on Apple's un-thought-out "design decisions".
Seems like they might be trying to spin this "Challenge" as a sort of AES-style competition, but merely requesting comments en masse seems like it will go the way of the Net Neutrality comments on the FCC site - lots of spam drowning out legitimate input, leading to powerful entities feeling justified in ignoring all submissions.
From the "High Level Overview" doc (not the readme) :
> The Theseus kernel is composed of many small entities, each contained within a single Rust crate, and built all together as a cargo virtual workspace.
I was just thinking about this little device the other day but the name eluded me. What fanciful amalgam of search terms must one employ to locate such a thing via search engine? Stymying!
Thanks for dropping that gem here. Brilliant.
Not necessarily in a "received 4 counts of xyz" situation, but maybe increasing punishment nonlinearly in situations like "received a 4th count of xyz in the past 10 years". Chronologically/temporally separate incident #4 should carry more weight than #1, since the offender probably should've learned their lesson after #2.
Incidentally, I've also once been told by a Hiring Manager family member of mine that for minor charges it might be best *not* to seal them, since that would leave a potential employer guessing and likely assuming that it was something serious as opposed to something small or common, e.g. a marijuana-related misdemeanor.
IANAL, obviously.
I don't have an actual refutation here (and certainly don't want to start some kind of Apple flame war) but something about this doesn't seem quite right.
Depends on the timezone you're in, though one could theoretically cite a disparity between physical and mental/emotional/temporal time zones...
Is that still the case, or are there free/libre reimplementations of these consoles' BIOS images out there now?
Seems like they offload the responsibility of ROMs to the user (good) but no mention of the BIOS part.
Not ethical, but also not exactly uncommon.
Recordings of interrogations that feature them also show that they tend to come along with other appeals to ethos ("this is doctor so-and-so...") and hand-wavey forms of intimidation like touting their "seriousness" or "efficacy".
Anything that requires a person to "interpret" its output is likely not very deterministic, and so likely not very reliable for establishing... anything. This is akin to palm reading or graphology.
Unfortunately, revealing to the police in such a situation exactly how foolish they look by getting behind such a device isn't exactly advisable either!
I'm absolutely NOT advocating for its use at all, but it seems like that might be a good source for well-tagged, organized data for what is turning out to be a very problematic (though apparently allowed) use case.
From a photography standpoint, it seems to follow that identical lighting in the same room where they're taking everyone's mugshots could produce different levels of contrast for facial features across different skin tones, simply as an artifact of cheap lenses and a lack of white-balancing or overall care, really. If persons A and B have different skin tones, then the routine, careless, terrible, one-size-fits-all black-and-white photo by an underpaid government office worker may not accurately capture the contrast in the shadows of both of their facial features to the same degree, no futile human bias required.
This lack of definition may then further help promote any existing biases in ML training, enforcement, etc. towards people whose features aren't as well contrasted in the resultant, awful photos. Perhaps training on such a grainy, washed-out dataset would at least help the ML distinguish smaller variances in contrast to a finer degree, if nothing else. Us humans can do it, after all.
uncannily ? The images aren't exactly high-res, but that's definitely two different guys. The first two photos (color one at the top and b/w mugshot pair) are the same guy, but it should hopefully be obvious that the guy in the drivers license photo is someone else. Especially to the police, since we're comparing low-res scans while the feds may have had a larger copy potentially in-hand when looking at the guy they arrested.
You may just be looking at the wrong photos from the article - in which case yes, that guy looks uncannily like himself!
The subtleties of the human face that change from person to person are things like cheekbone position, jawline, head shape, eye shape/size/placement, etc. They're what enable someone to "recognize" you in a human-to-human context, sometimes even with a facemask on. They're part of how you distinguish yourself in the mirror from other humans also.
However, if a significant portion of one race is indistinguishable for a given observer, they haven't done enough observation. Certainly not enough to arrest someone based on their "observations". A relative inability to identify facial subtleties in member of other races is a known phenomenon and has been studied - incidentally making it the perfect candidate for law enforcement training. Seems that wasn't the case here in TFA, unfortunately.
For reference, I am a different race from these guys, and my SO is a different one still, but I don't think it takes a particularly keen observer to distinguish between the two mens' faces.
Completely agree about forcing them to do or avoid strategies, though governing bodies may disagree!
Jokes aside, it seems that despite occasional marketing/rhetoric from Apple, their platform represents the minimum bound of "openness". It's only open enough to allow further business - e.g. allowing 3rd parties to develop apps in the store (from which they take a cut of proceeds) - rather than being open for the spirit of it, if that makes any sense.
They are a business so that's not exactly something one could fault them for, though.
Ouch. It's exactly this mentality that enables malicious actors - "it could be worse". It could always be worse, but that doesn't make it sufficient justification.
Functional equivalent: "It could always be even more anticompetitive. Let's be happy with what we got."