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I would be super interested to see what the command and control channel would actually try to do (in a virtual network/honey pot of course).

Isn't it strange how Microsoft GitHub is now finding itself party to source code licensing lawsuits after its 'association' with the SCO Unix cases of yesterday.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/fact-and-fiction-in-...

Yeah, this is really what I'm talking about. The comment was about why everyone doesn't do backup. I contend it's because most people aren't using Macs, because if they were, there is one obvious, almost foolproof option that covers 95% of end-user requirements, and that you don't need to think about.

I mean the system restore process is embarrassingly good (or was when I left the ecosystem): replace dead HDD, boot off installation media, attach the TM drive and say "yes please" when it asks you if you want to restore everything. The options you list are aimed at the "power user" and burdens them accordingly.

The media is dirt cheap, but doing the backup is fraught. I think only Time Machine actually "solved" that usability problem and frankly kept me on Apple products longer than I would otherwise have endured. I still don't know the right way to backup a Windows 10 machine that doesn't involve hours of research, testing, tradeoffs and probably $$$.

What I personally don't understand is why everyone is still trying to draw moral conclusions about how this man's words align with his actions. It's a complete waste of time.

Here's a question for someone who understands cross-site cookies (which isn't me): Why does www.google.com/maps 's site permissions show https://www.openstreetmap.org/ as one of the sites 'that can use cross-site cookies and site data'?

I can't judge the rate because I never precisely knew how much people actually tweeted, only how much Twitter wanted to show me.

As for not deleting accounts, did people actually delete their MySpace accounts? Or just slowly start using them less over time?

(FWIW I have just unfollowed everyone I was following and will keep an account purely to reduce login nagging when following a Twitter link.)

Females learn early that broadcasting your feminity comes with risks, largely from males. I think some trans people don't have that qualm, and on the contrary find clear use of female correlating names affirming. I also think I.T. has a larger proportion of the sort of neuro-divergence that correlates strongly with gender identity transition. I don't know why that is, and finding out why seems to have been made taboo, and don't expect any different on HN.

Exactly this. CA curation. These sort of trade-offs are probably beyond a single entity to assess (arguments about fundamental PKI limitations aside), but I'm certain if there was an API, even just some simplified file format, "the web" could come up with a way to crowd-source better intel on what CAs should and shouldn't be in the list, all the way down to explicitly using only ones you want. A bit like bittorrent blocklists, ye olde spam list, etc.

That reflective data transmission technique has been discussed around the barely-possible-but-plausible Venus surface rover demonstrators, but using radar. I really like seeing seeing projects like these that clash hypothetical technologies against real-world constraints, if only to better map out where to look next.

So, basically "Ow My Balls!" from Idiocracy, but with more money changing hands.

> End-to-end encryption means that your messages are encrypted to protect against us

So, they say the protection is there once the encryption has been applied. They say nothing about what happens to the content before or after that on the end user's devices. That handling is however covered by other legitimate use clauses in the privacy statement. This covers keyword scanning for targetted ads (so a defence lawyer will say at some point.)

WhatsApp make no specific claims about who this encryption is keeping you safe from. And they also require you to agree that they can use your information and interactions for their legitimate business needs. I mean, WhatsApp is standing right there when you stuff the message into the box regardless of how safe the package is in transit once it's left your phone. And consider basically every 'enchancement' to security or privacy around Facebook was done under duress for years. Pre-acquisition WhatsApp is a different story, but that story is ancient history.

I didn't agree to the recent WhatApp nor Facebook's TOS so no longer have their product on my devices. I suggest you do the same, or just sit back and enjoy the specialised, relevant, targeted ads, but think twice before each send.

The PIO is magic adjacent given the unit cost. A relative of mine is using it to bit-bang a proprietary ethernet-like protocol to fix some expensive-to-replace surveillance camera networks. He's a 10x (at least) engineer and he's impressed by the capabilities. "And then it's just some C-code, which is of course trivial."

This is an idiologist's moral choice, not a choice of the most convenient technology, though, right? That's his "whole thing."

I confess I hope this programme is quietly shelved. From everything I've read it is at best refining decades old tech, not really pushing to whole new areas. This launch is literally re-using Shuttle engines. And I can't seem to find a good, non-hand-wavey explanation as to why we should be going to the Moon at all. I'd personally trade this whole thing for an autonomous rover on Venus that lasts a month.

From the diff, perhaps stale but:

> Carbon Emitted (Power consumption x Time x Carbon produced based on location of power grid): 11250 kg CO2 eq.

That's ... Sobering.

The first I recall seeing was the art/science project "Immaculate Telegraphy". This was the first time I saw, or perhaps felt, that memory and knowledge is also imparted into the tools themselves -- knowing what to do is not enough, there's a bunch of subtle boot-strapping steps that need to bake progress into actual artifacts too. And also how much of this extra-cranial knowledge is taken for granted now.

https://immaculatetelegraphy.tumblr.com/

I'm not sure this is a very strong defence of how the Government has managed the NHS since then, though is it?

Or should I read this as a veiled appeal for Corbyn to return as the leader of the Opposition for another try? (In which case I'll take my leave.)

The word "funding" does not appear in this article. The NHS has been systematically underfunded since the Conservative entered power more than a decade ago. The crisis is real, but it is a political choice.

Weird. I have a single "Bookmarks" menu item. Opening that shows them. I can tap to open, or "X" to delete. Long-press to select (multiple) which reveals a share icon and a triple-dot with open, open in private or delete. That's it. There is no edit or move operation.

(I noticed adding to a folder appends, and for a while was carefully shuffling between folders to sort, then realized they'd given up on bookmarks so I should too.)

Firefox on Android seems to have just given up on bookmarks.

You can't even EDIT THEM (seriously) let alone order them in folders or pin them etc. Open, edit or share, that's it, and the last of which I think perhaps three people have ever done, and only by accident.

I think they're non-binary.

CEO making the super-yacht dash perhaps.

Ouch. Details?

I recall some site called olpcnews or similar that was run by a pretty brazen shill that posted nothing but fud regarding the project and news of deals and projects from Intel and Microsoft around the Windows offering. Where or not there were fatal flaws in the OLPC model there was NO WAY the incumbents were going to let edu fall to it.

Nitpick here, but this should really be titled "Using groff to render markdown to PDF faster".

Clearly, the war on drugs has been a failure.

My guess would be the actual heating element controller will be a black box talking on some sort of bus that authenticates against the car's controller and maybe even the keyfob as is sometimes the case for mileage. So you might be able to turn it on, but only to like 100% and never get it to be controllable by the dash or voice or whatever.

Why on Earth should I drive around carrying an inert device that's held to ransom? I would pivot on my heel and walk out of the showroom laughing if I was told this by a salesman.