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distortedsignal··on Apple ordered by EU antitrust regulators to open up to rivals
Thanks!
distortedsignal··on Apple ordered by EU antitrust regulators to open up to rivals
Is there a location for the actual order? The linked article doesn't have a link to the order (SHAME Reuters) and the details on the actual order are sparse.
distortedsignal··on "When you upload or input information through Firefox, you grant us a license"
> what limits exactly does this place on Mozilla?

Mozilla is bound to only use the content to help the use navigate, experience and interact with online content as the user has indicated.

> One thing they could do with your financial data is show it to you (least harm).

Yes - this is what the user indicated.

> Another thing is to aggregate it with other's data (medium harm).

And the user has not indicated that this would be a permitted use of the data - thereby revoking the license of the first clause. If the data is used outside of the final clause of the license, that is unlicensed use of data. This would be a material breach of the contract by the corporation. This could open them up to massive legal penalties.

distortedsignal··on IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp
If you used SameTime with Pidgin, SameTime didn't suck. But maybe that's because Pidgin is awesome, and not because of SameTime.
distortedsignal··on Did Reddit just close old.reddit.com?
Looks like it's back. False alarm. Sorry.
distortedsignal··on Did Reddit just close old.reddit.com?
Looks like it's back. False alarm, everybody.
distortedsignal··on Did Reddit just close old.reddit.com?
Saw that after posting this. I feel like a dumb.
distortedsignal··on Are PC hardware companies driving technology into restricted closed ecosystems?
When you say “made to order” - you’re talking about desktops, ya? Not laptops? If there are made to order laptops, I need to see that.

I’m planning on using Central for a PC build in a month or so - definitely going to try to stretch my dollars.

distortedsignal··on Human drivers are to blame for most serious Waymo collisions
I have family in Virginia, and yearly inspections take into account frame damage, brake wear, and other critical components.

California (where I live) has every-other-year emissions tests, and that's it.

EDIT: There's a pretty comprehensive list on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_inspection_in_the_Unit...

EDIT 2: A summary:

Passenger vehicle inspection timeframe:

Annually: Delaware, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Vermont, Virginia

Biennially: Missouri, Rhode Island, West Virginia

On transfer (sale or import from other jurisdiction): Kentucky, Maryland, Nebraska

distortedsignal··on The Harmless Pi-Hole Bug
I don't know that this CVE would be trivial to knock out.

My CVSS score for this is as follows:

CVSSv3.1:AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L (I said "Low" integrity issues, and "Low" availability issues, since I don't know if the DOS issue is real)

That reads out to a "Medium" CVE.

I have, in the past, worked with some banks, and they want all 4+ CVSSv3 CVEs enumerated and either remediated or for a plan to be in place to remediate them.

Maybe you're significantly better than I am at this, but I am hesitant to look at any CVE and say it's not a problem with how I have configured my software. Unless I have really deeply looked into the issue, I get really nervous saying a CVE is not going to affect my software.

distortedsignal··on Puppeteer Support for Firefox
I don't think they're criticizing - I think it's observation.

It makes a lot of sense, and we're early-ish to the tech cycle. Reading the Manual/Google/ChatGPT are all just tools in the toolbelt. If you (an expert) is giving this advice, it should become mainstream soon-ish.

distortedsignal··on It's lights out at a cosmic restaurant
Fermi is a treat for the architecture alone.
distortedsignal··on United States discloses nuclear warhead numbers; restores nuclear transparency
I guess my issue with your statement is that it seems almost impossible to disprove short of someone doing the unthinkable. We have history to suggest (note: not prove) that MAD works.

It’s kinda like economics. We can’t really prove anything in economics works the way we think it does, but we have a bunch of REALLY GOOD suggestions to support our hypotheses.

MAD isn’t a natural law - it’s a social construct, very much like economics.

distortedsignal··on United States discloses nuclear warhead numbers; restores nuclear transparency
It kept war out of central Europe from 1945 until 2022 (I'm not 100% sure we shouldn't count Georgia/Bosnia/Chechnia/Kosovo, so I'll say "central Europe").

I don't think two nuclear armed powers have ever declared war on each other - despite two nuclear armed powers currently being in active conflict (India and China) and another few being incredibly geopolitically unfriendly (India/Pakistan and Israel/Iran).

The whole idea behind MAD initially was that if Russia decided to get ideas in Europe, the Western powers would stop them with a nuclear curtain. That's why France has a "warning shot" nuclear doctrine, and the US hasn't ruled out Nuclear First Strike.

IMO, for what it was trying to stop, it worked. Ask people in China and India - it seems to be working for them as well.

EDIT: as an amendment to this: would Russia have been so bold as to invade Ukraine if the 1994 surrender of Ukraine's nuclear arsenal hadn't happened?

distortedsignal··on A Gentle Introduction to SAML
Ping ID is "SAML" - they actually don't comply with the spec. If you remove the Bearer element from the SAMLRequest, you should be on your way. Ask me how I know.
distortedsignal··on A Gentle Introduction to SAML
I'm curious - what is the issue with XMLDSig? I think XML is kind of a mess with the whole "billion laughs" attack, but other than that, are there problems with DSig that I don't know about?
distortedsignal··on Why Triplebyte Failed
I'm another TripleByte placement.

After my (virtual) TB interview (which I barely passed), I had onsites at 5 places. After the five on-site interviews, I had 2 job offers, one of which was a company I wanted to work for since graduating college. I took the other offer.

This was preceded by a four or five month job search. I had received two offers in that time, but nothing seemed great.

I think TB's process kinda worked, but I understand your skepticism.

distortedsignal··on Preliminary NTSB Report on Dali Collision with the Francis Scott Key Bridge [pdf]
I think these sentences sum up most of the article:

> The [...] blackout [the day before the bridge collision] was caused by the mechanical blocking of the online generator’s exhaust gas stack. The second blackout in port [the day before the collision] was related to insufficient fuel pressure for the online generator.

So it sounds like there was an inexperienced crew and some mechanical issues.

I heard that there was some speculation around poor fuel quality, but this paragraph seems to argue against that:

> Fuel-sample analysis results indicated that the [...] fuel [...] complied with international standards and regulations. The test results did not identify any concerns related to the quality of the fuel.

distortedsignal··on Preliminary NTSB Report on Dali Collision with the Francis Scott Key Bridge [pdf]
Editorialization on the why of the title I chose:

This is reported as a preliminary report in other locations (here: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/DCA24MM031.aspx)

NTSB is the source, which I feel is appropriate to put in the title. It gives more weight to the report.

The initial title of the article is "Contact of Containership Dali with the Francis Scott Key Bridge and Subsequent Bridge Collapse" which is too long for HN. I felt that the outcome (collapse) was not important to include in the title, and the rest was just shortening in order to make the title more approachable.

distortedsignal··on Meta Horizon OS
My point is that there is more to "VR Headset Market" than just "low end" - low end is one part of the market, but (right now) Facebook has that part locked up.

It may be that there are more places to compete in the VR Headset Market that people on HN don't know about.

Like you said, this is probably something like an Android play. Everyone was talking about the Apple Vision Pro as the VR Market's "iPhone moment" when it came out - maybe Meta Vision OS (or whatever they're calling it) is Facebook's Android moment.

And yeah, Facebook would probably be ok with others taking the low end of the market if they do it well. Right now, Facebook is the only company willing to take a loss on their own platform. So they do.

distortedsignal··on Meta Horizon OS
Someone teach this man how to spell "Gabbana".
distortedsignal··on Meta Horizon OS
The low end of the market is taken - but (from an outsider perspective) the high end appears free.

The people who want to buy a Honda aren't the same people who want to buy an Acura, even though it's (essentially) the same parts.

Let's say that, tomorrow, Gucci or Dolce and Gabanna (or however you spell that) want to make a VR headset (why? who knows?). They don't have the tech acumen to compete with Facebook on experience, but they have the brand to compete on "people who want to be seen in Gucci."

Is there a market for that? I don't know. But this opens Facebook up to the possibility of making that deal.

distortedsignal··on Yagi–Uda Antenna
I think I miscommunicated here.

I was trying to say “this is an area I’m also interested in, and I’ve been looking into this recently, and I’m surprised to see it pop up here, because I thought it was niche.”

If you’ve got other stuff in the Yagi-antenna area of interest, I’d actually really like to see it!

distortedsignal··on Don't Use Iperf3 on Windows
After reading the article, it sounds like iPerf3 on Windows is going through an emulation layer (Cygwin) which - I kinda get why it's going slower if that's the case. Isn't syscall translation always going to add overhead?
distortedsignal··on Yagi–Uda Antenna
Hey, if you could stay out of my browser history, that'd be great.

j/k, Yagi antenna are super neat, and I like seeing them.

distortedsignal··on Show HN: Darwin – Automate Your GitHub Project with AI
If you're going for wizard names, there are a few under-known (not unknown, but not widely known) wizards in Middle earth:

* Radagast (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radagast)

* Valinorian: Alatar, Middle Earth: Morinehtar (Saruman, ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizards_in_Middle-earth#Names)

* Valinorian: Pallando, Middle Earth: Rómestámo (Gandalf, ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizards_in_Middle-earth#Names)

This link appears to have a few well-known wizards in the DnD lore: https://old.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/16qr5pz/ingame_famous_...

distortedsignal··on Show HN: CPU Prices on eBay
https://www.cpuscout.com/?Brand=AMD

Got a 4xx or 5xx error on this (probably important?) URL. Told me to contact support.

distortedsignal··on Show HN: Atopile – Design circuit boards with code
I'm curious if you have component checking - does the circuit overload the regulator? am I going to overvolt this capacitor? what is this LED's lifetime? - or if that's somewhere on the roadmap?

I'm also curious if you're able to use an autorouter to minimize board layers. Seems like it should be pretty straightforward to apply some graph theory to this and state the minimal number of layers for a given board, but this also might be NP-hard? I haven't kept up with the theory here.

distortedsignal··on Launch HN: Diversion (YC S22) – Cloud-Native Git Alternative
Honestly yeah. Might have to give this another go.
distortedsignal··on Launch HN: Diversion (YC S22) – Cloud-Native Git Alternative
I was thinking about trying this out, but there are some reasons why I don't think it's feasible.

Where are your comments stored?

What happens when you need to run out in the middle of a fire and you don't have time to make your code compile-able? How do you commit "un-compile-able" changes?

I think there are some really compelling reasons to try AST-checkin - all your loops can now be changed to functional, dialect changes like you mention, etc. - but there are some pretty significant downsides as well.

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