doomrobo

reader of the chaplain's statement

> MIT’s leadership apparently took umbrage at his statement of these simple facts: that George Floyd “had not lived a virtuous life” (based on his multiple criminal convictions)

Surely the authors know that "statement of facts" has the ability to completely alter the interpretation of the rest of the content. Key questions are: why is this fact relevant in this context, what is the author conveying by bringing this in? Etc. To take a radical example, if one reads an article about a recent mass shooting followed by "statements of fact" about the declining population of whites in America, then one would reasonably conclude that the author is a white supremacist who implicitly supports the shooter. Non-white supremacists don't talk about the great replacement.

So the question is why would someone bring up the criminal record of an unarmed Black man who was extrajudicially killed by an officer of the state? What does this fact do for the reader? It's not hard to imagine what many would conclude. Editorial narrative is something I learned about in middle school, why are the authors feigning ignorance about its existence?

fwiw keys.pub has not had a commit to any of their GitHub repos since July 9 of this year

This might have valid critiques but it's overall unhinged

For anyone who wants to stream music from a server they run, I strongly recommend my setup. I run Navidrome [0] on my media machine, and then connect to it via Jamstash [1] on my desktop browser or play:Sub [2] on my iPhone. Lots of features, few bugs, pretty easy.

[0] https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome

[1] https://jamstash.com

[2] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/play-sub-music-streamer/id9553...

NYC mayoral elections are ranked-choice

Really? I was under the impression that public political speech which is critical against of supervisor (ie the entire executive branch of the govt) while on active duty can be considered insubordination. Is that wrong?

For anyone looking, you can already use a chorded keyboard on your iPhone. It has Braille input available through accessibility settings

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210066

FB Messenger and WhatsApp are end-to-end encrypted by default

Abstract: We describe some cryptographically relevant discrete logarithm problems (DLPs) and present some of the key ideas and constructions behind the most efficient algorithms known that solve them. Since the topic encompasses such a large volume of literature, for the finite field DLP we limit ourselves to a selection of results reflecting recent advances in fixed characteristic finite fields.

One piece of evidence for the above claim: https://www.icij.org/inside-icij/2021/03/u-s-sanctions-ukrai...

Unfortunately that's not a likely explanation. If you do even the simplest possible measurement, which is just recording user agent strings and IPs, you won't end up undercounting Firefox clients

China jams radio too

https://www.sigidwiki.com/wiki/Chinese_Firedrake_Jammer

Looks very cool! I'm surprised Apple hasn't done this yet. I predict this will either be shut down or bought.

Thank you for making something like this! I'm working on a project that requires TTS and I had essentially exhausted every reasonable seeming option. Everything either sounds terrible or has obvious bugs in it. Can't wait to try this out

Part of this research was inducing specific mutations in their samples and testing infectivity. Is that what people mean by Gain of Function research?

This is a fantastic amount of misleading data. To the point that I would call it malicious.

Why doesn't it mention for example that rising temperatures will likely kill thousands and create millions of climate refugees? And how specifically a country like the Maldives will prevent itself from disappearing underwater (hint: "just do what the Netherlands did" is not an answer). Why doesn't it address the fact that we all have microplastics in our bodies and have no idea what the long term effects are? Or that ocean temperatures are making aquatic species go extinct at a rate never before seen?

Big fan of Mosh for what it does. But the fact that it can't render Unicode properly makes it really hard to work with some files remotely. IIRC there's a PR that fixes and has never been merged

Would WASM solve the performance issue? One can imagine writing a webview GUI in a compiled language in order to get the speed and size benefits.

Pasting the rebuttal to that point from the comments of the linked paper:

Those are all-cause death. The number of covid-related deaths were 2 in the placebo and 1 in the vaccine arms. There simply weren't many covid deaths during this part of the trial (probably because most of the participants were <55 years old).

Yes I've had a large number of issues around annotations in Preview. I use PDFExpert for annotations now

Standard replacements:

For signing: signify/minisign

For encryption: age

For file transfer: magic wormhole

For encrypted messaging: Signal (or your choice of e2e encrypted messaging platform)

> having Cloudflare as the sole judge of the trusted key set

The article doesn't say so, but the approved vendor list is actually not determined by Cloudflare. They defer to the FIDO Alliance's Metadata Service [0], which maintains a list of certified suppliers.

[0] https://fidoalliance.org/metadata/

Short answer: yes. I don't think they intend to support U2F hardware that lends itself to automation. I doubt any reputable manufacturer even makes these, since it defeats the purpose to begin with.

Interestingly enough, IPA actually does have a way of distinguishing these sounds. The Spanish t is always unaspirated [t]. But the English t can sometimes be unaspirated [t] as in "stamp" or aspirated [tʰ] as in "too"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspiration_(phonetics)

There's lots of systemically horrible things that can happen if you're not careful about what you allow. If you're interested why these ethical principles exist in the United States, I suggest you at least skim the Belmont Report

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belmont_Report

TSA agents are informed that there are tests as part of their job. See this comment for another example of informed consent in security testing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26929797

> Consent is only relevant when there is some risk to the subject

Says who? I don't think that's true according to IRB standards in the US. Nor is it true for websites who A/B test according to the GDPR

They performed an experiment on human subjects without informed consent.