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there is, sort of, but it's got one or two extra steps (and most folks probably don't know it exists).

1. Press Cmd+Option+Escape to bring up the Force Quit menu

2. Press Cmd+A to select all running apps

3. Click the "Force Quit" Button to force quit all apps

Malcom Gladwell's book "Outliers" is an interesting look into this idea of how successful people come to be successful. I highly suggest it to anyone intrigued by this idea, it's a very interesting read.

The opening portion of the book focuses on Bill Gates and all the unique things in his life from early childhood and beyond that all fell into place (along with his intelligence and drive of course) to make him extremely well-equipped to be successful as a tech industry leader. namely very good timing in the tech landscape at the time and a lot of access to computer programming experience very early on which, at the time, was incredibly rare.

Still true. Apple makes money off adversting just like anyone else. they also get paid obsurd amounts of money to from Google to make them the default search engine in Safari.

just FYI, old.reddit.com still works (for now) and gives you the original site design including less bloat. you can use the "old" subdomain or enable it automatically in your preferences by un-checking the "enable new site design" setting.

visiting a particular page on the new reddit.com yeilded 27 blocked requests

visiting the same page on old.reddit.com with the same uBO set up yielded only 4 blocked requests

Yes, uBO in it's current state can do everything uMatrix can do. I don't think this was true "from the beginning" but it is true now.

I mean, this has always been this case with alcohol hasn't it? it's legal to consume but not while at work or operating vehicles. if you do so and injuries/death result, you are held liable.

what should be done if you end up being on this list (which supposedly includes SS#'s)

>iMessages are already E2E encrypted, but you are correct, iCloud backups are decryptable with a warrant (and that was reportedly added at the FBI's request).

Not to be nit-picky but IIRC, this isn't exactly how it went down. icloud backups have always been decryptable and Apple had announced they were planning on changing this and making them fully encrypted but when pressured by the FBI, they scraped those plans and left them the way they are.

"1) Google doesn't release devices without unlockable bootloaders. They have always been transparent in allowing people to unlock their Nexus and Pixels. Nexus was for developers, Pixels are geared towards the end user. Nothing changed with regards to the bootloaders."

This is not accurate. Pixels that come from Verizon have bootloaders that cannot be fully unlocked.

There's Ubuntu Touch as well foor another take on things.

https://ubuntu-touch.io/

Not alone at all. My main reason for not moving from Catalina to Big Sur is because they've done this height/margin increase across the board to controls in Big Sur (toolbars in Finder, menubar icons, etc). I spend 100% of my time on macOS using a 13 inch laptop monitor. I need all the space I can get for actual content.

according the same thread, they also had a sole jalepeno supplier all the way up until 2017 when "the partners had a falling out. Huy Fong now sources from 3 suppliers."

One of the articles[1] linked to in this article has scans of the Tucson PD's report which does state explicitly that there was no video evidence[2]

[1] https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/41223/tucson-mystery-d...

[2] https://www.thedrive.com/content-b/message-editor%2F16243890...

This is one thing I'm grateful for as a Firefox user, I can disallow websites from overriding built-in shortcuts both globally or on a site-by-site basis. I don't believe Safari offers this unfortunately.

more than that, she has direct experience within the FTC and related government bodies [1]:

- 2018, worked as a Legal Fellow at the FTC in the office of Commissioner Rohit Chopra

- 2019, began serving as counsel to the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law

- Lead the Democrat's congressional investigation into digital markets and lead the investigation into digital markets.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Khan

for now.

given this trend of removing little usability and customization abilities here and there, one can only assume the custom CSS will be removed as well. especially seeing as its label has "legacy" right in it's name: toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets

they'll give some reason like "only 1% of users use it" or, "it'll take too much time to make it work with our new, annual UI redesign/overhaul"

that being said, I'm sure someone (either on github or on reddit in /r/FirefoxCSS) will have the necessary custom CSS written to reproduce as soon as the version removing it hits the stable release

> it's a commonly held misconception spanning decades that cops must identify themselves if asked. I wonder where it originated.

Perhaps it comes from some of the loose laws that require police to make some attempt to announce themselves and their purpose in specific situations (i.e. when executing a search warrant where they don't have reason to believe announcing themselves would pose a risk to their well being)

Apparently not very much. The author has since deleted the post saying:

"I just noticed that someone linked my previous tweet on HN. Sorry I have to delete it in case something come after me"

https://twitter.com/CodeColorist/status/1350798973431283712?...

> These don't sound like things that the Russian government or any nation state would be saying.

I mean this could just be an attempt to make it _seem_ like it's not a nation state.

One way to essentially guarntee that it _was_ a nation state is for the stolen data to never turn up for sale to the public/back to the owners as we would naturally assume whoever the actor was was happy just keeping everything to themselves, something only a nation state would ever really do. a non-nation state's only real motivation would be financial and so if no evidence of that ever came about, the only real alternative would be to assume it was a nation state.

from what i undersand, minification just involves removing line breaks and tabs and can be un-minified fairly easily with tools such as https://beautifier.io/. obfuscation involves techniques such as changing function/variable names from human-readable to human-unreadable, changing certain strings to concated variations of themselves, base64 encoded, or other similar transformations.

e.g. original code:

function NewObject()

{

var mainApiUrl="https://google.com";

}

minified code:

function NewObject(){var mainApiUrl="https://google.com";}

obfuscated code:

var _0x8275=["\x68\x74\x74\x70\x73\x3A\x2F\x2F\x67\x6F\x6F\x67\x6C\x65\x2E\x63\x6F\x6D"];function ahyt56(){var _0xb40bx2=_0x8275[0]}

That's part of the issue here--they aren't breaking the law (at least in the U.S.)

Thanks to protections enacted by "Section 230" of the 1996 Communications Descent Act [1]:

    Section 230(c)(1) provides immunity from liability for providers and users of an "interactive computer service" who publish information provided by third-party users:

    No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...

that's how understood it as well:

"youtube-dl stands in place of a Web browser and performs a similar function with respect to user-uploaded videos. Importantly, youtube-dl does not decrypt video streams that are encrypted with commercial DRM technologies, such as Widevine, that are used by subscription video sites, such as Netflix."

"We presume that this “signature” code is what RIAA refers to as a “rolling cipher,” although YouTube’s JavaScript code does not contain this phrase. Regardless of what this mechanism is called, youtube-dl does not “circumvent” it as that term is defined in Section 1201(a) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, because YouTube provides the means of accessing these video streams to anyone who requests them. As federal appeals court recently ruled, one does not “circumvent” an access control by using a publicly available password. Circumvention is limited to actions that “descramble, decrypt, avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate or impair a technological measure,” without the authority of the copyright owner."

According to tha article, they won't be fined at all:

>"Today, the Federal Trade Commission has voted to propose a settlement with Zoom that follows an unfortunate FTC formula," FTC Democratic Commissioner Rohit Chopra said. "The settlement provides no help for affected users. It does nothing for small businesses that relied on Zoom's data protection claims. And it does not require Zoom to pay a dime. The Commission must change course."

Under the settlement, "Zoom is not required to offer redress, refunds, or even notice to its customers that material claims regarding the security of its services were false," Democratic Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter said. "This failure of the proposed settlement does a disservice to Zoom's customers, and substantially limits the deterrence value of the case."

Just curious, was there any sort of poll taken of your user base prior to implementing the API to determine a rough idea of how much desire there was for it?

> I interpret this news as "it's not coming back".

No need for interpretation, they state it flat out:

"In the intervening period [since the temporary shutdown], as we weighed the cost of our overall portfolio and strategic focus, we've made the decision not to relaunch the service."

if this were in fact true, wouldn't Spotify have been banned long ago for competing with Apple Music? Google Maps vs Apple Maps, etc?

not to mention the ~70 employees laid off in January which brings that percentage of lay offs in 2020 to just under a third of the total workforce they started the year with.

Hardwired or not, it doesn't mean the LED can't be disabled by malware:

https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/36569

> All he had to do was visit one website. Any website.

The author directly contradicts the headline used here:

> The website must use “clear text” which means the URL starts with “http” not “https.”

the latest version of Firefox has an "import Passwords from another browser" feature. just go to "about:logins" and click the menu in the top right hand corner.