game-of-throws

3 years ago Google killed off Android Things[1] and told everyone to migrate to IoT Core. Now IoT Core is dead. But don't worry about all that, just connect with your Google Cloud account manager! They'll tell you exactly which Google platform you should migrate to next.

[1]: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/02/an-update-...

Is it possible those heuristics could accidentally trigger for browsers other than Chrome? I had an old account where I normally used the android app, then one day I logged in with Firefox on desktop (with adblocker) and my account was banned about a minute later.

At a business level, can you share why the ToS forbids third party clients at all? We all know that "trusting the client" is not a viable security plan, so why does it matter what client people use?

You cut out a key word:

> Linux is really hurt here by the total lack of any unit testing or UI scripting standards.

> standards

I've been very impressed reading how the Rust developers handle this. They have a tool called crater[1], which runs regression tests for the compiler against all Rust code ever released on crates.io or GitHub. Every front-facing change that is even slightly risky must pass a crater run.

https://github.com/rust-lang/crater

Surely Microsoft has internal tools for Windows that do the same thing: run a battery of tests across popular apps and make sure changes in the OS don't break any user apps.

Where's the similar test harness for Linux you can run that tests hundreds of popular apps across Wayland/X11 and Gnome/KDE/XFCE and makes sure everything still works?

Another similar site is https://www.rtings.com/. They do very scientific, thorough quality tests. I've only used them to buy monitors so far, but it looks like they're starting to branch out from tech -- they have new categories for blenders and vacuums.

Seems to have collapsed, but archive.org has a snapshot.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220811232234/https://reactos.a...

This is an extremely personal question. The business that excites me would bore 99% of the world, and same goes for you. If you don't already have an idea what you're excited about, just put the money in VTSAX.

> why does nobody have the decency to simply accept Bitcoin in their local farm as payment

Farmers do not accept payment in any currency on their farm. They sell futures on the commodity market before the growing season begins to lock in a price and hedge against volatility.

> you need to download a 400GB blockchain on your device

You can use light wallets such as Electrum without trusting a third party, and with no loss of security (though it potentially sacrifices privacy).

Even if that weren't true, a 512GB drive costs $10 these days. That shouldn't be a barrier for anyone.

> This means you will need a custodial solution like lightning

Lightning is not custodial. You do not need to trust any counterparty.

etc.

This entire comment is very misinformed.

And tech support scammers use Apple gift cards, so obviously Apple is just a giant scam too

The world is being destroyed, but at least for a few beautiful moments our nonstick pans were a few cents cheaper

These days I would bet all internal/debugging features are gated behind asymmetric crypto-based challenge/response. And it's probably physically impossible to decap a <10nm chip and inspect visually. I don't see a way around it other than hoping for implementation bugs. It might be the end of the road for the hackers :(

I can't wait until the Indian government tries to ban debian.org

https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/vlc

This attack sounds very similar to how the Super Game Boy boot ROM was dumped. https://gbdev.gg8.se/wiki/articles/Gameboy_Bootstrap_ROM

Some things never change.

The 90s called, they want their OS fanboy flamebait back

I agree they usually withhold details of the case. But I don't think they would flat-out lie about the charges being brought.

Why are we not targeting the hackers instead of privacy advocates?

Should we arrest the Tor developers because North Koreans use Tor?

That toggle is supposed to say REVERT.

I trust Shut Up 10 with my life. I'm curious if there's anything on this site not covered by it.

Which sentence is more offensive?

- Privacy is sexy

- Don't let Microsoft kill privacy

The answer probably depends where you live. Stereotypically, Americans are afraid of sex, and Europeans are afraid of violence - for example many video games released in Germany were modified to have green blood.

My take: both sides of the pond need to lighten up

If that were true, it would be so easy for them to swing public opinion in their favor by saying so.

Headline: Arrest of developer with suspected ties to North Korean money laundering

Body: He has also previously contributed to Tornado Cash.

But all we know is what they decided to tell us... he's a developer of privacy tech. If the facts change, I'll change my mind.

The US has a population of 329.5 million. Average household size is 2.51 people. So we need to house 131 million families - but the US already has 142 million housing units. The surplus is 3x the headline. What am I missing?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/183648/average-size-of-h...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/240267/number-of-housing...

I can't wait until engineers go back to working on tracking and ads, just as nature intended.

In PoW, mining has real-world ongoing costs (electricity, hardware) and so miners need to continually liquidate their earnings to stay afloat. This counterbalances the effect of wealth centralization. If you try to remove real-world costs from that equation, you lose the counterbalancing effect.

Imagine being the poor soul who had to implement Windows's "3D Objects" directory.

The Garden of Eden was transitory.

C was used because it existed 30 years ago, and is full of ambiguities (undefined behavior), and Rust curtails UB quite a bit by defining many semantics that are left unspecified in C.

You don't need a "locked down" language to build an OS. In fact Linux just upgraded the version of C they use to C11. Time always marches forward, my friend.

  let numbers = [0, 1, 2];
  let doubled = numbers.map(|x| x * 2);

You wouldn't want to have to explicitly type out the length of the second array.

It might make more sense to think of editions as optional changes to the surface syntax, and nothing more. They are not nearly as important as the name makes them sound.

I think that's more a function of the newness of the language than anything else. Golang is (I say this as a Rust developer) more popular, has been around longer, yet still has the same dearth of GUI libs.

Editions are orthogonal to compiler versions. It is perfectly fine if code builds with a new compiler but not an old one. Another example of this: you can write code in a 2015 edition crate that calls the new `std::thread::scope` function.

Literally every single thing in the post is generalizing a feature that already exists. Don't you think removing these special cases makes the language simpler and easier to use?

You might have a point though in a few releases when GATs are stabilized. I'll keep an eye out for your username complaining about that release ;)