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lukeman··on Constitution.congress.gov/constitution 6/8/25 –> 8/4/25 Diff
Library of Congress ack’d and is saying this was a “coding error” and will be fixed soon.

https://x.com/librarycongress/status/1953109733633597634?s=4...

lukeman··on Plex Arcade
Steam has been the only thing I've tried LAN (other than some early PS4 remote play years ago), so that may be the issue. Geforce Now is probably the best I've tried of the bunch, so I'll give their tools a shot locally next time.
lukeman··on Plex Arcade
My assumption based the note that Linux Plex servers won't work with Parsec is that the emulation & streaming is done on your local network.

Either way, I've yet to have a suitably positive experience streaming anything interactive on either LAN or WAN. I see the improvements that have been made and many friends swear by it, but it may just be that I'm too sensitive to input lag and even the rarest encode/decode hiccup.

lukeman··on Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow?
I can only imagine how many battery cycles I've lost to the BigQuery web console, especially the jobs detail views. Safari tends to be pretty great with battery life, but it's no match for that thing.
lukeman··on AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits
I saw the headline and immediately realized I've noticed similar oddness in the Atlanta area recently. Glad to hear I'm not alone. So far I've been blaming it on weirdness from my devices roaming between mesh router nodes, but now I'm going to run the test script overnight and see if anything turns up.
lukeman··on Safari is the new IE
The first example seems to work fine in iOS 11, but congrats on the clickbait title.
lukeman··on ISIS Drone Dropping Bomblet on Abrams Tank Is a Sign of What’s to Come
I question the author of this article. The propaganda video is honest in using obvious computer effects and perfectly framed shots. I believe that they produced these films, but this article is garbage.
lukeman··on ISIS Drone Dropping Bomblet on Abrams Tank Is a Sign of What’s to Come
They're known to have captured many of them from the Iraqis. Here's one such report: http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/05/20/isis-captures-...
lukeman··on ISIS Drone Dropping Bomblet on Abrams Tank Is a Sign of What’s to Come
These videos are presented as real but look completely fake and staged.

First we see a winged glider being launched, but then we somehow switch to quadcopters dropping bombs with remarkable accuracy. I mean, they've even gone to the trouble of adding video game overlays at various points.

Please use as much skepticism with ISIS propaganda videos as you would with the next leaked video from Magic Leap.

lukeman··on A Month Without Sugar
After five-ish years of mostly sticking to Paleo I have a similar reaction (heart palpitations + general awful feeling) when I eat something like pizza or drink a beer. Not an issue when I eat fries or other simple carb cheats, but it's enough to remind me why I gave up this stuff in the first place.
lukeman··on Google is banning Flash from its display ads
Couldn't you use inline scripts and styles with images specified as data uris?
lukeman··on Sublime Text 3 Build 3080
For registered users it has been active again for the past two months—this is just the first stable release from that work. There was a noticeable silence from October through January, but lots of activity ever since. Hopefully it continues.

I tried Atom during the lull and it's gotten really great, but ultimately went back to the plugins/snippets I know and love.

lukeman··on Development of Doom
Here's a great video recorded at id Software in November of 1993 by Dan Linton, a visiting BBS operator: https://vimeo.com/4022128

Around a month later, the first public version of Doom was uploaded to the BBS that Dan Linton ran.

lukeman··on Sway: A new presentation application from Microsoft
Ad seems a tad optimistic given the examples you can view are kind of awful. I get that not everything is going to be professional and polished when it hits the real world, but this can't be one of your three "sways we love" at product launch: https://sway.com/red_panda
lukeman··on iPhone 6 TouchID hack
I haven't tried resetting mine, but allegedly with iOS 8 they're no longer defaulting to the 4-digit simple PIN.
lukeman··on iPhone 6 TouchID hack
> "Sadly there has been little in the way of measurable improvement in the sensor between these two devices."

Oh, gosh. That stinks.

> "Another sign that the sensor may have improved is the fact that slightly “dodgy” fake fingerprints that fooled the iPhone 5S did not fool the iPhone 6. To fool the iPhone 6 you need to make sure your fingerprint clone is clear, correctly proportioned, correctly positioned, and thick enough to prevent your real fingerprint coming through to confuse it. None of these are challenging details for a researcher in the lab, but are likely to make it a little bit harder for a criminal to just “lift your fingerprint” from the phone’s glossy surface and unlock the device."

Wait, so that isn't a measurable improvement?

iOS 8 still requires your passcode after a reboot, so you can certainly force a temporary timeout if you'd like.

I think some advanced timeout stuff could be useful, but I wish we could try and have a bit more optimism that regular people now are excited about having an encrypted phone. The rest of us carrying state secrets and nude selfies can certainly still trade off that convenience for potentially more secure phone.

lukeman··on Hidden message in Google Maps?
Flags made up from geo shapes. The blue areas are lakes, yellow is beach. If you go into Google Map Maker you can do stuff like this, but that it got past some type of approval from a mod seems like a real cock up.

This deep-link shows the "East" object, which is a lake: http://goo.gl/zRoZqS

edit: Upon further digging, there is either a group of people or some automation involved, as they've not only submitted these new features, but managed to gather enough upvotes that they seem to have snuck through the system as I can't imagine this getting by any standard human review.

I've reported the shapes as spam, but when it's this easy to get something silly through in the middle of San Francisco, you have to wonder what else has been changed over the years.

edit2: Do yourself a favor and check out how many of this user's edits have been approved & published: http://www.google.com/mapmaker?gw=66&ptab=1&uid=209018779364...

lukeman··on Building 3D with Ikea
You can use the IKEA catalog iOS app to see show items in your home using augmented reality. It uses the physical catalog as a reference in the camera view to determine size and viewing angle (there was an option if you don't have the catalog, but I didn't try it to see the alternatives).

Works decently well, enough so that I used it to pick out a TV stand.

lukeman··on EFF Statement on Passage of Massie-Lofgren Amendment Regarding NSA Backdoors
Massie has a strong ally in Rand Paul, so he and Wyden on the Democrat side will be champions of this against the usual GOP hawks and Democrat Senate leadership.

We have enough liberty-minded Senators to get this done if public opinion is behind them. I'm pleased with the strength of the support so far, but the old guard will fight this tooth and nail.

lukeman··on United States of Secrets (Part Two)
Same here. There's an encoding issue with the video around 3 minutes in and the audio is off badly for the remainder of the video. I had to load the stream in VLC and offset the audio to somewhere around 2500ms using the keyboard shortcut (just keep hitting G until it matches up).
lukeman··on Thirty Years of Mac [video]
Loved my CrackBook. The black matte finish was pretty great. Used it for years—everything from doing .net dev in a VM, getting into Django, to shipping an iPhone game in the early days.
lukeman··on Study linking GM maize to rat tumours is retracted
Maaize… ohhhh.
lukeman··on The American Who Designed the PlayStation 4 and Remade Sony
The boring nature of the architecture is notable as it puts the focus back on software, which is what people care about. That devs this generation can just make shit without discovering the complexities of custom hardware is a good thing.
lukeman··on Microsoft reports record first-quarter revenue of $18.53 billion
"The iOS system is based on the same technologies used by Mac OS X, namely the Mach kernel and BSD interfaces. Thus, iOS apps run in a UNIX-based system and have full support for threads, sockets, and many of the other technologies typically available at that level."[1]

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/iphone...

lukeman··on USDA is down
Somehow Heaven's Gate still manages to keep its site going fifteen years after its members committed suicide.
lukeman··on Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S
Going at your premise and skipping over the fingerprint conversation: we have no evidence that the iPhone is backdoored. The NSA documents referred to scripts that were used on compromised computers that the phones were synced to, which indicates to me that they target unencrypted backup files.
lukeman··on I got access to all of BitTorrent Inc's source code and sensitive documents
The hope is more that the protocol will be published once it's stable and then FLOSS implementations can spring up. The protocol is clearly still in flux, as some versions of the client have had backwards-incompatible changes.
lukeman··on I got access to all of BitTorrent Inc's source code and sensitive documents
You got my hopes up that we'd finally be able to audit Bittorent Sync.
lukeman··on Ubuntu forums breached - all passwords compromised
It would be nice if they'd allow you to test whether your email was in the data. As-is I'm left wondering if I ever had an account.
lukeman··on SublimeText UI proposal with Chrome tabs
What makes those chrome tabs? The extra wasted space?

You may be able to do that in Sublime Text 2 with a theme (not positive, but I use themes that modify the tab appearance now).

edit: Here's a theme that has what looks like "Chrome tabs" to me: http://devthemez.com/themes/zenburn

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