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I mean, temporary alleviation of symptoms can be extremely valuable.

Think of how many people are on SSRIs that have mixed effectiveness, side-effects, and have to be taken daily. Then compare that with a treatment that you do once a month and whose main side-effect is a heightened sense of empathy. Even if it doesn't permanently get rid of depression and anxiety, and solve all of your underlying problems it's still a big step forward relative to the current state-of-the-art treatments.

I can speak to how nice it is to just feel fine for a while and get some respite from a constant feeling of fear and anxiety at everything. It's a world of difference, and could easily be the difference between someone not even being able to get out of bed, and actually taking a crack at doing things.

This might actually be a great direction to go.

I don't think there's any particular reason that WASM has to be more obfuscated than JS. You can already throw a WASM file into a bytecode-to-text translator which is about as useful as deobfuscating a minified JS file, and I assume decompiling/debugging tools will only get better in the future.

For a long time now, I've been thinking of a future where your OS properly isolates all the programs that run on it and even gives us the ability to have direct control over how programs interact with the rest of the system. OS's seem too mired in backwards-compatibility requirements to make big changes like that any time soon, but that's basically the way our browsers already work. Download some code, and execute it (relatively) safely because it's sandboxed from the rest of the system. Our browsers are basically the new OS, and this time around we can do it right using what we learned from OS's (and hopefully backport these browser features into the next generation of OS's).

For example, an app asks for a filesystem handle. You can hand it one that refers to a real location on your OS fs, or you can hand it a completely virtual fs that won't affect anything else on the system.

Whenever an app asks for a resource, being able to hand it a virtual or sandboxed one instead is a huge gain for user-control.

There's also a more subtle version of this, where the seller leaves the listing the same, but once enough positive reviews have accumulated they move production to a cheaper factory and use cheaper materials.

So you might see older reviews for a pair of boots that say they're made from sturdy materials with good stitching, followed by later reviews saying that they didn't match the advertised sizing and pictures, or that they just fell apart after a couple weeks of use.

"Something that is periodic in space"

I could swear we have a name for that. I think it started with a W?

I think you've almost got it...

Literally anything that can affect someone's life is political.

Giving someone public recognition also gives recognition to anything that person might say. If they are known for believing that killing certain groups of people is okay, then giving them recognition is inherently political.

Don't pretend like the US government has a good justification for this. It's purely another attempt to destabilize the country even more.

The entire purpose of these sort of sanctions is to hurt the public enough that they start putting pressure on their government to make a change that the sanctioning government wants. In this case the US wants Venezuela's government to be replaced with one who would be more friendly to US oil companies taking all of their oil and paying a small portion of it's value to the politicians who allowed them in.

The main reason Venezuela has been solvent up til now is that they have a lot of oil, which the government sells and uses to pay for social programs. But since the price of oil went down they've been having some money trouble. Combine that with the fact that Maduro knows as much about monetary policy as Trump knows about tariffs and you've got a deflating economy that's only made worse by sanctions, which again, is their entire purpose. They are specifically trying to ensure that Venezuela's government collapses so that US companies can move in and rob the region of it's resources.

Don't get me wrong, the best thing Venezuelans could do is probably throw Maduro out on his ass, but replacing him with some US-friendly bootlicker is worse than no solution.

Yeah, but for legal purposes it doesn't matter if "everyone knows" about the real reasons.

The company gets to have it both ways. Send a message that unionization isn't tolerated, while saying in court that unionization had nothing to do with the firings.

At least the GDPR turned out to have one good use...

What the hell was the uni doing trying to suppress activists to begin with? That's kind of a hostile school/student relationship.

Good

I'm not entirely convinced about some of the other stuff, but you should probably call the power company about the microwave leakage from that transformer. They're not supposed to do that.

We're always going to need to see URLs. They're not going away. They're just talking about a better default view to show the user relevant information about where they are, which would be a good thing.

Being generous, maybe half of users can look at a URL and immediately identify the domain they are on. That's terrible, and goes a long way to explaining why phishing attacks are so prevalent.

I'm actually pretty excited to see what they come up with. If it's even marginally better than what we have now I'd be all for it. I'm guessing they'll end up showing some combination of the domain and page title by default (which might incentivize more sites to FIX THEIR GODDAM TITLE SCHEMES!).

You can still click and see the whole URL. This is just making it easier for the average user to see the most important thing to them, which is the domain name.

It's not like they're just changing stuff randomly. The TLS padlock change has been going on for a while now, and not without reason. As we get to a point where almost everything is served over TLS it doesn't make sense to tell the user every time. It makes more sense to only notify them of the exceptional situation where we're on an insecure connection.

The certificate authority system is terrible, but it's what we have for now. There's been some advances to help make it better though. CT for example, ensures that if anyone starts making fake certs we can all see it at least.

I suspect (and hope) that browsers will slowly transition to using trusted spotters to verify certificates in addition to (and eventually instead of) authorities. If you remember a few years back when moxie marlinspike made that promising, but underspecified cert verification system that relied on the user supplying a list of trusted verifiers and the browser basically goes to each of them asking "I see cert 88:A4:etc" for domain "google.com", do you see the same thing? The idea was to make it really hard to MITM someone since you'd also have to MITM every verifier the browser asked. Not impossible, but probably harder than getting a fake cert under our current system.

This seems fine.

I'm assuming you can always click to expand and show the full URL.

For a lot of people (devs especially) it would be nice to be able to change an option to see the whole URL at a glance, but for most people it's just a confusing mess they have to look through for the domain name.

Is there any difference in places where the camera footage is publicly available vs where it's not?

Basically there's a bunch of different vulnerabilities in various chipsets and operating systems that can, in some cases, allow remote code execution.

The most common fault seems to allow a remote attacker to pretend to be an internet connection for a bluetooth enabled device and perform man in the middle attacks.

Wait for your OS vendor to push out updates and make sure websites you visit are using HTTPS.

Can you clarify?

I use Chrome most of the time. It's devtools just can't be beat at the moment.

I'm excited to hear Mozilla is getting back on modernizing Firefox though. It'll be nice to have options again.

I would imagine that LEDs will work fine as-is. They generally come mounted on something much sturdier than a thin tungsten wire.

I don't understand. They just made a fake job post on craigslist? What was that supposed to do?

Switch to a Russian hosting provider and you should be fine.

Link seems broken.

Don't be so nosy.

I'm curious, are you allowed flavored drinks like coffee or soda, or just water?

What about things like pills and medications (the ones you don't have to take with food)?

They'll probably coexist. Bitcoin in meant to be a currency. Ethereum can be used as a currency, but it's main purpose is to be a giant public computer.

Haskell. The type system eliminates a huge segment of errors that you only discover later in more dynamic langauges.

And with a 301. Into the future kicking and screaming.

Uh huh

I think the recommended way is to use the --network parameter instead of --link now.