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eastbound··on Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel
This is why you need a library for additions. At least CVEs can be tracked appropriately, rather than the developer rolling out their NIH solution.
eastbound··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
For me (France), it's not October 7, it's the 9 previous months. From January 1st, French TV was showing about 1,000 rockets per month sent onto residential Israeli quarters. Sure beautiful pictures of the counter-missiles destroying them in flight, but I remember thinking:

"How long can Israel counter 30 rockets a day? What's the cost?"

"How is not each of them (7,000 in total) a war crime by Palestinians?"

"Sure it's not Palestinians it's Hamas, but the last time there was an election, they've elected Hamas, so what do you do?"

"Seriously, how is this not 7,000 counts of war crimes? Why is Israel not reacting? Why is Israel militiae into Gaza to catch the authors?"

Turns out the limit is 7,001 attacks.

eastbound··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
Also fitness. The Covid "sheltered" population is also the Instagram generation, it's easier to get inspired, feel pressure from social media, or find information about how to become muscular. It's at odds with drinking.
eastbound··on US jury says Apple owes record $5.7B in haptic technology patent case
Before patents, scientists wouldn't share their findings. Patents are an excellent way of making things public domain 20 years later.

We should have the same with software.

eastbound··on Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell
The other aspects is the new generation doesn't understand it. During interviews in marketing but also for a medical field expert, I often ask "make a small budget so you'll see how your bonus will work", and even the PhD, which is the top academic level, couldn't use a basic formula. How do they deal with data during a PhD? "In Prism", she said.

Same for marketing students and, although it's a lower academic level, they still need Excel for prospect lists.

eastbound··on Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS
Buying US helicopters when they've been developing one with France. But Germany has no choice: It has been literally occupied by the US forces and it's only recently that it has regained the right to have an army, but there are still 200k US troops in Germany (among other means of influence).
eastbound··on Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac
I think a large part of our ecosystem is:

1. Lose the user, make him struggle to find items in the Start menu (Windows), struggle to type words on the keyboard (iOS), or struggle to manage find their subscription (Atlassian),

2. ???

3. Profit

If it's a dark pattern, I'd like to know what step 2 is. Who knows, maybe the goal is to overwhelm the user and it's a spy operation from the KGB.

eastbound··on AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran
I'm going to reword my Terms of Service this second to add "any military operation" next to "acts of war". But I'm sure we'll then have to demonstrate whether paramilitary are assimilated to the military.
eastbound··on AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran
Yes. It's super hard to answer interviews or customer demos. Every sentence you say should include all preconditions that were said in previous answers, within the same context, because you may be quoted. You should think in live about all possible contexts in which your app might be used, and your speech should be as detailed as a contract.

Obviously here, he should have mentionned that they can recover a hit on a single data center, provided the customer chose multi-AZ hosting. That's probably why companies run their ads on "This watch is a legacy for your children" rather than any material claim.

eastbound··on Salesforce Global Outage
What do you think of Atlassian?
eastbound··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
I've deactivated every single type of data in Spotlight except Applications. It goes out of its way to still suggest files like C system files or header files, like "system_library.c". It didn't wait for AI to turn against us.
eastbound··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
Don't they perform user testing?

- Do "normies" perform better with this behavior?

- Or is the goal to disturb the user and make something impractical like in Google, so that people click on ads? Software has turned into a curse. The machines have risen.

eastbound··on Ex-FTC boss Khan: break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent
It's transformative. Not aimed at exact reproduction, so not in the scope of copyright law.
eastbound··on Retrospectively Reverse-Engineering Apple's Neural Engine
I'm all for compassion, but engineers knew the NE was empty when it sat idle for 10 years on our computers.

- when you're given no usecase for your engineering piece, apart from "detour characters in pictures". It's an exageration but AI's contributions in iOS aren't visible; Meanwhile Google has features that people actually notice like removing tourists from your holidays photos — worse: it's mostly a simple collage feature working on the main CPU, and it has the same social effect as green bubbles in iMessage ("ah. Tourists on your photos. iPhone user?")

- and you tout it as "16 Neural Engine cores" during the sales, with no associated software, no listed material feature, just hand-waving,

- Siri maxxes out at "There is no contact named 'What's the weather today' in your agenda",

Then can't really claim that Apple engineers' problem was really the bad luck that ML wasn't the determining part of the future. It's more like misreading the room for 5 to 10 years straight.

Apple engineering's excellence on vertical integration and supply chain control gave them absolute power over our world (with merit), it just failed at that particular project. Which occupies 40% of our CPUs.

eastbound··on Who People Talk to When They're Struggling
How many upvotes do you have? I'll assume that will be representative of the prevalence of your case.

Sorry for you situation and stay strong.

eastbound··on iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
Don't. Large iPhones are the deadweight of a ball and chain, and fits in no pockets. Next one will be the SE, and even if I buy an external battery, it's still lighter than the ingot Pro Max. Also you can buy one every 1.5 years.
eastbound··on iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
— "Start my chronometer"

— "There is no contact named 'Chronometer'"

Maybe if we mock the iPhone enough, they'll stop autocorrecting words with other words that are on the opposite side of the keyboard. Or mistype letters with the letters just next to them.

iPhone is laughing stock. A neverending comedy of "There is no track named 'Call Mom' in your Apple Music library."

eastbound··on Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit
To protect their future reputation. There's a civil rejection brewing about YC, and it will affect both Flock and Sam Altman.
eastbound··on Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit
Flock will be a big curriculum that tarnishes YC. Already under YC videos, comments are related to the Flock scandal. Denizen will want to make it a pain for YC until they fix their ethical problem.
eastbound··on Doomscrolling ourselves to death
Coffee is also a temporary antidepressant, so I personally couldn't cut that.
eastbound··on The car industry A/B tested selling a car with and without CarPlay
And are the buyers told whether there is carplay. Because you generally assume a car can't not include it, until you step in and realize.
eastbound··on The Real Luxuries In Life
This (very common) approach causes the loop of people's insolation.

Why it's bad: I haven't performed my deed, precisely because it's so evil, but you have.

eastbound··on Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
It's sad that open source / open-internet projects always have a clunky design. Here, the main screenshot, at the top, uses a monospaced System font. You might as well display a terminal and it's a wrap. To appeal to broader audiences:

- You both need to trigger the potential OSS contributors, with references to Debian, Ubuntu maybe, and appeal to big donors, which is another topic entirely,

- And ALSO have a design that triggers the broader audiences and therefore, very "turnkey", very packaged, very "Comment like and subscribe", one-click install on your NAS, etc. Privacy is then a characteristic but services are the real features.

eastbound··on Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America?
Yes.

Also to note, why was the US trusted before? I think it's a heritage from the Marshall plan: The US saved us twice from Germany, therefore we owe them our nations and storing our gold there won't change much. A century later, it does.

I'd rephrase the question as: Would you trust your parents? In childhood years probably, because you owe them your education anyway.

eastbound··on Hackers had a live feed of every ID verification company scanned for over a year
You can fix companies by voting a government too. In fact, governments are quicker at fixing companies than themselves.
eastbound··on Why do so many tools have JSON config files?
Let me guess... if they're a form of Lisp, did someone add jndi support, then made it possible to print to the console while the string gets read and finally made it executable because who wouldn't want a LISP for-loop in an Oracle connection string? On to the next RCE...
eastbound··on Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat
That's my memory of Sydney to. In Europe we sold every land parcel, reduced their habitat (forests) to 100m blocks, then 50m, then a public park with scientific studies used to justify that they'll be better off in the park... then they die. Turns out all scientific studies are paid out by promoters and everyone has a price.
eastbound··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
Up to the governments to require the split-up of companies which become too large. Up to the governments to avoid corruption.

"The bribe was too seducing" is not a valid defense for citizens. The fact the gouvernements have an armed branch to enforce hegemony makes it more required, not more forgivable.

eastbound··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
Did the person above you say that the DSA suggests that the states should run public grocery stores, and did you gloss over it, parodying him?

Wouldn't you recognize that bad faith characterizes the DSA lines?

eastbound··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
CHAZ was an idealistic symptom of applying John Lennon's Imagine to a neighborhood of Seattle, and it wasn't the only city tempted by this endeavor (if only it didn't finish with an arms dealer taking leadership of the locality);

"Defund the police" was a campaign slogan at last election.

I'm looking from Europe and I'm often impressed how extreme american leftists are. If it's not socialism, it sure shares the same conclusions. And yet "The most extreme left in the US is the most extreme right wing for Europe" is a common belief.

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