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testtesttest··on The Parents Are Not All Right
Article is spot on. After a few weeks we broke quarenteen and flew to stay with the grandparents. We are lucky the grandparents are youngish and able to help.
testtesttest··on Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Apple made them impossible
Open source is not the same as open. You can't run Firefox on an iPhone.
testtesttest··on Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible
slack --inspect=4444 //will let ya connect to main electron process via chrome remote debug

Then run this

require('electron').BrowserWindow.getAllWindows()[0].webContents.executeJavaScript(` javascript:(_ => { const redux = slackDebug[slackDebug.activeTeamId].redux; const {wysiwyg_composer, wysiwyg_composer_ios, wysiwyg_composer_webapp, ...payload} = redux.getState().experiments; redux.dispatch({ type: '[19] Bulk add experiment assignments to redux', payload }); })(); `)

to disable rich text editor. Going to hack together a node launch script for slack here in a little bit :P

testtesttest··on Plasma Antenna
Another article [0] (2007) featuring the image.

[0] http://www.nbcnews.com/id/22113395/ns/technology_and_science...

EDIT: Presentation from Igor Alexeff and Theodore Anderson (University of Tennessee):

https://www.ysc.org.ua/2011/data/i.alexeff_presentation.pdf

testtesttest··on KDE Frameworks 5.60.0 Released
>Downgrade KDEWebKit from Tier 3 to Porting Aids

>Summary: QtWebKit is dead, even the "revived" version has no changes since more than a year.

https://phabricator.kde.org/D21400

testtesttest··on NPM secures funding until 2020
The organization is not exactly efficient and has had a lot of drama: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/04/npm_cj_silverio_jav...

It really doesn't matter too much though. As you mentioned, what they do is not that difficult and there are good alternatives (exp yarn).

testtesttest··on Electric cars are already cheaper to own and run, says study
If the maintenance costs are low enough. Replacing battery packs is not going to be cheap. It costs about $3000 USD to replace the battery pack in a Prius (I assume all electric cars will cost more). Generally the pack has to be replaced between 5 and 10 years depending on use.
testtesttest··on Ask HN: Who is Firing?
Lots of big tech companies.

AT&T - 102 - San Ramon

Atmel Corporation - 45 - San Jose

Atmel Corporation - 14 - San Jose

Atmel Corporation - 9 - San Jose

Broadcom - 64 - San Diego

Broadcom and Avago - 771 - Irvine

Broadcom and Avago - 435 - Santa Clara

Broadcom and Avago - 48 - San Jose

Cisco Systems, Inc. - 899 - San Jose

Cisco Systems, Inc. - 42 - San Jose

Cisco Systems, Inc. - 25 - San Jose

DreamWorks Animation and - 226 - Glendale

DreamWorks Animation and - 170 - Glendale

Ericsson Inc. - 435 - San Jose

FireEye, Inc. - 80 - Milpitas

GoPro, Inc. - 138 - San Mateo

Google - 104 - Mountain View

Google Inc. - 94 - Mountain View

Hewlett Packard Enterprise - 258 - Palo Alto

Hewlett Packard Enterprise - 208 - Sunnyvale

Hewlett Packard Enterprise - 143 - Citrus Heights

Intel Corporation - 84 - Santa Clara

Intel Corporation - 54 - Santa Clara

Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. - 139 - Santa Clara

Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. - 20 - Aliso Viejo

Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. - 12 - Folsom

Motorola Mobility LLC - 58 - Sunnyvale

Motorola Mobility LLC - 9 - Santa Clara

Oracle America, Inc. - 441 - Santa Clara

Ricoh Electronics, Inc. - 147 - Tustin

Seagate US LLC - 70

Sony Computer Entertainment America - 40 - San Diego

Symantec Corporation - 84 - Mountain View

Symantec Corporation - 77

Symantec Corporation - 23 - Mountain View

Symantec Corporation - 3 - Mountain View

Synaptics Incorporated - 77 - San Jose

Twitter, Inc. - 67 - San Francisco

Western Digital Technologies, Inc. - 59 - Milpitas

Xerox Business Services - 19 - Irvine

Xerox Business Services, LLC - 11 - Irvine

Also Verizon, VISA and others...

testtesttest··on VeraCrypt to be audited
Nowadays facts don't matter. Everybody follows whatever they already believe, including myself.

If we look at the TrueCrypt audit report: https://opencryptoaudit.org/reports/TrueCrypt_Phase_II_NCC_O...

It says they found 2 high severity issues, 1 low severity issue, 1 undermined severity issue. All in the cryptography category.

There were additional issues found by the Project Zero: http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.de/2015/10/windows-drivers...

Even when faced with this clear evidence, people consider TrueCrypt as being safe.

VeryCrypt is under active development, so the situation is much better since the issues can be fixed in the future releases. However, people might blindly follow whatever is reported and consider VeraCrypt bulletproof regardless of the previous experience with other crypto projects.

testtesttest··on Exploring and exploiting Lenovo firmware secrets
If you have a problem viewing the page (due to Dropbox bandwidth limits), here's an archived page (incl. pictures):

http://archive.is/1LKwZ

testtesttest··on From Leading the Egyptian Revolution to Making Minimum Wage in San Francisco
The Telegraph - Egypt protests: America's secret backing for rebel leaders behind uprising (9:23PM GMT 28 Jan 2011)

> On his return to Cairo in December 2008, the activist told US diplomats that an alliance of opposition groups had drawn up a plan to overthrow President Hosni Mubarak and install a democratic government in 2011.

> The US government has previously been a supporter of Mr Mubarak’s regime. But the leaked documents show the extent to which America was offering support to pro-democracy activists in Egypt while publicly praising Mr Mubarak as an important ally in the Middle East.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianoce...

> (C) Summary and comment: On December 23, April 6 activist xxxxxxxxxxxx expressed satisfaction with his participation in the December 3-5 "Alliance of Youth Movements Summit," and with his subsequent meetings with USG officials, on Capitol Hill, and with think tanks. He described how State Security (SSIS) detained him at the Cairo airport upon his return and confiscated his notes for his summit presentation calling for democratic change in Egypt, and his schedule for his Congressional meetings.

> xxxxxxxxxxxx contended that the GOE will never undertake significant reform, and therefore, Egyptians need to replace the current regime with a parliamentary democracy. He alleged that several opposition parties and movements have accepted an unwritten plan for democratic transition by 2011; we are doubtful of this claim.*

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianoce...

EDIT: Reformatted on request.