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could probably do a hardware swap in 30 mins, people have definitely been detained longer than that

Oh absolutely, but if I were targeting Zuckerberg this would now be a camera he carries with him and almost always has an available network connection (If I were a billionaire I'd be switching devices near constantly to stave off attacks). You could be carrying around the bug for at least a year if not more.

Your average blackmailer would be better off with the separate camera route (and likely wouldn't be sophisticated enough otherwise) but a state-sponsored attack could probably pull it off.

Same for Twitter. You can disable the account and when you re-enable it 2FA is disabled.

The police don't address gang violence, they react to it after it happens. Gang violence has been declining in the US despite no change in policing.

This has been the case for quite some time (10 years or so). I've torn apart two Macbooks to specifically test this and the LED is enabled when the camera receives power. It's impossible to disable with software.

You can modify the Macbook of course, which is why the paranoid type will still use tape.

Some attacks I've seen will take a photo with the camera as fast as possible so you might not notice, but the light will always turn on.

because they're all competing with each other by burning through VC money to monopolize the market

It's outrageous how these companies have taken charge over individual businesses.

Some restaurants don't even know that they're listed on these delivery services and get their search results more or less hijacked by internet savvy delivery startups with infinite money.

In other cases they feel as though they have no choice due to the popularity of the online ordering services, and they get into contracts they don't really understand and have their already razor-thin margins eaten into.

Incredibly telling that the police still pull this type of thing despite how laser-focused everyone is on their behavior right now.

It's almost as if they've been institutionalized to think they're better than everyone else.

Defund the police and use the money for mental health and human services.

Local police service data should be randomly audited by the feds and independent third parties.

It's not the phrase "America First" on its own, but its history of use.

"While the America First Committee had a variety of supporters in the United States, 'the movement was marred by anti-Semitic and pro-fascist rhetoric.'"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_(policy)

And again, this is another example where they could have literally picked anything else... but they didn't. When pressed about its history Trump literally backed up the phrase's use by stating "I like the expression."

It's isolationist, nationalistic, xenophobic nonsense with a tinge of antisemitism. It's been denounced by multiple jewish scholars and the Anti-defamation league.

Isn't this ultimately asking me to imagine "what if the bad things were good things" - their endgame isn't going to convince me that the site isn't incredibly frustrating.

It's easy to hijack a consistent username too. If you're "foobar123" on a dozen sites I could register "foobar123" elsewhere and do damage to your "personal brand" pretty easily.

I wouldn't just blame ads, the implementation of the new design is awful. Browsing the site as an anon is a complete tire fire (especially mobile), constantly losing scroll position and often not loading content at all... comments are gated by weird expanding areas that load a separate page into history, and again more scroll position issues.

Helped me stop using the site impulsively anyway.

You picked a single example that's also referenced in a stackexchange answer that did a fair amount of work exploring the usage of the symbol.

"It can be found in that context. But it is surely not the most recognisable symbol for Antifa in the US."

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/47917/have-anti...

So ok, maybe we can give the benefit of the doubt. By why not use the actual symbol that's very predominantly used in Antifacist protests? It's very easy to find and much more familiar and relevant. Honestly it would have made for a better ad.

And in isolation this is a single mistake, but the administration has been repeatedly criticized for using fascist symbolism and language, including "America First." At what point do these things stop being coincidental?

I see this come up a lot and it seems silly, let's summarize:

• The ad was about a political stance they disagree with (Antifa)

• The upside-down red triangle was specifically used to mark groups of prisoners who participated in anti-nazi political speech

So what's the alternative? That the Trump campaign chose an upside-down red triangle in an ad at random because... it's uh... a shape?

Do they also have ads with blue circles? pink rectangles? hmm, no.

Have they also "accidentally" used gold 6-pointed stars? yes.

Kinder than it's ever been (at least for the short term)!

We can (and do) archive this stuff in a way that doesn't go up in smoke from a single library fire. It's searchable too.

Sorry, I misread.

The annoying aspect to me isn't the change in dimensions, but the inaccurate baselines. If we could reliably align text based on its baseline it wouldn't be an issue. "align-items: baseline" would be brilliant if it actually worked cross-browser.

It's pretty telling that Github doesn't even bother to solve the issue in their redesign, they've seemed to write off Firefox text alignment idiosyncrasies.

Yes different fonts have different dimensions, but I'm talking about the same font across different browsers. The issue is that Firefox and Webkit render the baseline of some fonts with a 1-2px difference.

It's impossible to vertically align Helvetica consistently in Firefox and Chrome without some browser-specific adjustments, but Arial works fine.

These rendering differences also impact vertical alignment with specific fonts, which will absolutely drive you mad if you're trying to troubleshoot.

Take a look at Github's redesign in Firefox. Button and icon alignment are generally off by 1-2px everywhere because of it. Guessing they're just living with it because Firefox is down in the single-digit percentages of browsershare these days.

All these large companies seem to be fighting each other to create the internet

Every day is someone's first day

Even better, it actually saps productivity.

I imagine there are certain times where you end up redesigning the tube instead!

I suspect this is an issue of retailers not caring enough to spend the money to fix the issues? Being scammed is a bad experience, but it's not the retailer's fault. Plus it generates a significant amount of revenue.

This seems like something the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau could collect data on and put some sane regulations in place? The gift card industry is poorly regulated in general.

I've watched a lot of congressional debates and I don't think it's very enlightening at all.

I think a problem with this is that if you're at all familiar with how someone speaks or writes you can figure out who they are rather easily.

So there's another weird problem (probably not so hard though): translating conversation within the same language in a way that doesn't lose meaning but obscures identifying patterns.

> less likely to question you because they don't want to be seen applying a bias

Many people aren't immediately conscious of their biases. This isn't the same situation, but I thought this article about being a black CEO was illuminating. I've seen the similar bias-exposing mistakes happen to women.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/16/for-black-ceos-in-sil...

They're easy mistakes to make (I made an similar mistake by assuming a young woman was a nurse and not a doctor), but the most important bit is to learn and be aware.

Or if you're attending without a badge, which is what Nathan was doing. As someone who's done the same thing... they definitely check at a lot of conferences.

One of the few times I was caught was at a psychoanalysis conference where I stood out for being roughly 20 years younger than most attendees. I wish I had a badge in that case because I was very obviously called out due to my age alone.

Do you think it's factual that it's easier to blend in if you look like everyone else?

It's outrageously easier to fly under the radar if you're white. If you want to look at it in a ridiculously objective way just consider being a black rock on a white sand beach. Even without the concept of racial bias, which is absolutely at play in these situations, you'll be subject to more scrutiny just by not being the norm.

Wow, what a thoughtful way to respond. That level of character is something you certainly can't get with a degree.