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Some reports suggested that two missiles were launched. It's possible that the person noticed the first one or was otherwise made aware of the launch, and therefore started filming.

But yeah, if anything out of the ordinary happens today, it's very likely that it's being captured.

No; after letting them down the following day, the one on the driver's side just wouldn't go back up again or would even go down by itself once the car was started.

My first car (bought used) had a weird bug: When it had been parked overnight on a steep slope facing downwards, the driver's electric window sometimes wouldn't go back up. Rain would increase the chance of the bug occurring.

All other windows were fine and the problem would go away after a few hours of driving. The bug never occurred if the car was parked on a flat surface.

The mechanics were clueless. I've found that there's a so-called "convenience comfort module" located under a front seat. This electronic module was responsible for controlling the electric windows (amongst other things) and was insufficiently sealed. Water could enter and disrupt certain functions. My dealer wouldn't even believe me that this module exists. :)

Turns out other people had the water problem, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9z7iEbg3qY

I'm too paranoid to even connect the air monitor to the internet, so letting it talk to other appliances is out of the question for now. :) But it's good to know that HEPA filters are so effective against fine particles. I'll have to check that out. Thanks!

There are now affordable devices available to monitor air quality at home. I've recently bought one [1] that measures PM2.5, CO2 and tVOC amongst other things. It's quite interesting to see spikes in particulate matter after crop harvesting or in certain weather conditions and determine if there's an apparent relation to difficulty of breathing.

[1] https://cleargrass.com/air_monitor/overview (Website in Chinese only, unfortunately. The device can be set to english though.)

Release Notes: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode_release_note...

It's now available on the Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/xcode/id497799835?mt=12

The second link actually states the opposite: "A new analysis now claims that altered US temperature patterns during the three flight-free days can be explained by natural variations in cloud cover, rather than the absence of planes."

You might want to ask your ISP to participate in the Netflix Open Connect program [1], which provides service providers with free caching servers. My ISP (Init7) does that and the performance for Netflix is absolutely fantastic (instant playback in highest quality).

[1] https://openconnect.netflix.com/

I've recently tried to watch the Netflix production "I am Mother", but it isn't available on Netflix in Switzerland – nor on any other streaming service or Blu-Ray.

It's probably cheaper for production companies to ignore piracy to a certain extent than to fix the distribution/rights issues, but that's definitely not good service.

Apple can (and does) spend lots of millions of dollars to find security vulnerabilities in their products, but it probably won't be the same ones that some malicious actor finds. All our devices are riddled with (hard to find) holes and that's not going to change anytime soon.

I totally agree, but I don't have any good ideas on how to implement that. I'm not even sure if such a barrier should be technological or legal.

I think Apple's approach is the only reasonable one for the general population. The technological complexity of any smartphone is far beyond comprehension for most people. I write iOS software for a living, and even with complete access to the source code, I couldn't reasonably evaluate my iPhone's software - let alone the hardware.

The idea that ROMs from questionable sources make your device safer sounds very strange to me.

Basically every electronic device has countless security issues. Some of them are found of which some are published of which most are eventually fixed (by rather large teams of professionals). In that regard, Apple could and should do better.

But the burden of making such a complex device secure simply can't be put on the end user.

While I would welcome deeper access for technically inclined people, I'm not sure that option can really be given by Apple/Google without the risk of becoming a disadvantage for many users.

There's also an animated GIF (Turn_it_to_11.gif) that weighs 6.7MB and is not even visible until you click "Show related articles" at the bottom. And even if you do that, it's only displayed in 164x82px instead of the original 2880x1200px.

Looks like Google's CDN works so well that creating resized versions to save bandwidth is not worth it. :)

That probably depends on the training and the frequency of false alarms.

If air-raid sirens (which we do have here in Switzerland) would start sounding, nobody would seek shelter, because everyone would consider an attack too unlikely.

Of course, in retrospect, it would have been better to call the firefighters first. But to make such consequential decisions three days into a new job requires proper training and clearly defined procedures.

Firefox stores passwords in its own "password manager" (basically an encrypted file). All remembered passwords can be shown in plain text by simply clicking a button in the options – unless a Master Password is defined.

So by default, Firefox allows anyone with access to your computer to view all your stored passwords. How this can be considered "secure enough" is beyond me.

I've worked with quite a few people (regular end users) that use Firefox. None of them knew that their stored passwords are accessible this easily. None of them used a master password.

Why doesn't Firefox use the macOS keychain? If not that, why doesn't Firefox at least prompt for the login password of the current user before showing all stored passwords? If not that, why doesn't Firefox at least show a giant red banner, informing the user that their passwords are at risk unless they set a master password?

Mozilla doesn't seem to view the current behavior as problematic, as this 18 year old ticket has been closed as WONTFIX a few months ago...

In my opinion, yes, we do want 400 SSO providers – providing the same, standardized mechanism to sign in. Maybe something along the lines of ID4me [1].

In the long run, there will probably be government-provided digital identities for everyone.

But right now, Apple is probably one of very few institutions that are both willing and able to provide a SSO system with great usability, privacy and market penetration.

[1] https://id4me.org

I agree in principle.

However, design is always about compromises. The G5 had more beautiful handles, but they had sharp edges and weren't nearly as ergonomical as the new ones. And I wouldn't be surprised if the weird holes in the new Mac Pro allow for twice the airflow. Both are tradeoffs that I, personally, welcome.

It's what people asked for – a work horse, designed to be fast, reliable and reasonably quiet. They've tried the "beauty first" approach on the 2013 version and it was a disaster.

What good, do you think, would come from having this website hacked? I can't imagine it leading to social change, which is what's required.

I think you are confusing them with "Blackwater". The article doesn't mention "Black Cube".

- Swiss Post, the provider of one of Switzerland's two e-voting systems, allows you to legally attack their dedicated PIT e-voting system from February 25th 2019 to March 24th 2019

- They have committed to compensate participants for accepted findings (up to CHF 50.000)

- Participants are allowed to publish their findings

- Participants need to respect the conditions defined in the code of conduct [1]

[1] https://www.onlinevote-pit.ch/conduct/

In this case, Constantinople is short for "Patriarchate of Constantinople", which is still called that.

From the article: "The F-22s left behind could not fly for either mechanical or safety reasons, said a spokeswoman, who also said all the hangars on base were damaged."

SwiftTLS is non-blocking (using Dispatch). Yes, many libraries will have to be updated when async/await arrives, but I'd say that's business as usual for Swift developers (who have to do some refactoring every year anyway).

Also, SwiftTLS is not meant to be used in a production environment at this point. The disclaimer states: "It is not ready, has certainly a lot of bugs and received virtually no real world testing yet."

"Kaleidoscope" [1] needs to be mentioned here as well. A brilliant shareware to apply a "scheme" (graphical theme) to classic MacOS. Wanted your UI to look like Windows, Copland [2] or BeOS? Kaleidoscope allowed you to do that.

Here's a link to previews of some popular schemes (from the Internet Archive): https://web.archive.org/web/20060925184709fw_/http://www.kal...

Sadly, modern OS will probably never allow this level of customizability...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaleidoscope_(software) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copland_(operating_system)

The bots do hurt Twitter's reputation though.

A more likely explanation: "The French IRSN has put forth the hypothesis in Jan-2018 that a possible reason for the release of Ru-106 radioactivity at Mayak-PA might be an unsuccessful attempt to extract the short-lived reactor-generated-isotope cerium-144 for the European/Italian nuetrino-detecton-project Borexino. Mayak-PA had agreed to deliver cerium-144 in early 2018, but canceled the contract in December 2017. Mayak PA was the only facility contractually-willing to attempt the extraction of cerium-144 from "fresh" spent nuclear fuel, 2–3 years old." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_radioactivity_increas...

And in Switzerland [1] (text in german). Blood samples from newborn screenings are stored for 30 years. For the screening to take place, the parents' oral consent is required. Opting out of the screening or blood archival is VERY rare. Though personal information is destroyed after analysis, attribution is still possible using LIMS (an electronic laboratory database).

As far as I understand, access to this data is generally restricted [2].

"If illnesses occur later, which can be clarified via tests on this sam­ple, the responsible physician can request it from [Children's Hospital Zurich]. Part of the remaining material may also be used by the screening labora­tory during quality control measures and for the development of new research methods. In this case, the samples will be anonymous, having undergone a procedure to make them unidentifiable." [3]

[1] https://www.zh.ch/bin/ktzh/rrb/beschluss.pdf?rrbNr=1053&name... [2] https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classified-compilation/20011087/... [3] http://www.neoscreening.ch/display.cfm/id/100489/disp_type/d...

Not using nanobots, but some municipal waste incineration plants are already recovering valuable metals. A more recent development is using dry discharge of bottom ash to recover >95% of all metals [1].

From 100 000 metric tons of clinker, ZAV Recycling AG in Hinwil (Switzerland) is extracting 60kg of gold, 1500kg of silver and 800 metric tons of copper each year.

[1] http://www.hz-inova.com/cms/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/04b_R...