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I have the beta on an iPad and no sign of extensions. Another pain point for me is that the system password manager doesn't work as well as it does with Safari (and sometimes not at all), and that does not seem to have improved either.
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My undergrad econ class used Mankiw's Macroeconomics, which did not use the two quarters definition, just "a period of declining real incomes and rising unemployment" less severe than a depression and referred to NBER as &quo
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I don't think I disagree with you, was just trying to provide additional context on the arbitration decision and why it doesn't necessarily prove the Ecuador verdicts were fraudulent. From what I've read, some of the people d
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>If there were historically any other way of defining it, it would be totally reasonable to cite that now. Well, there has. For US recessions, Wikipedia has historically relied on NBER research to decide when recessions begin and end. Do
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Yes, there’s definitely a lot more to the story than what is described in the article, or indeed most of the articles that are based primarily on interviews with Donziger. It’s hard to find a single element of the case that hasn’t been the
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By "this tool" do you just mean the Pluton system in general or some specific thing? The attestation stuff is a software feature that would be disabled by booting another OS that doesn't support it. It needs the Pluton hardwa
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They could, but not with the new Pluton stuff. That would be enforced with secure boot, which has been around for a while already. Again, the capabilities already exist. The barrier for a would-be censor is political not technological.
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Wider E2EE adoption was the only hope for clawing back some privacy for users who do everything on cloud services. If the EU bans E2EE and starts mandating all kinds of scanning of data stored on third party servers, it would be a massive l
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If you want to use the OS to ban a book or program or whatever, you don't need fancy hardware features, just a database of hashes pushed down via a software update. Apple wanted to do a version of this for CSAM images, it only didn&#x2
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Microsoft doesn't need an "untamperable" kernel to force spying on users. Windows 10/11 has horrible invasive telemetry that can't be disabled, but no one has figured out how to modify the OS and strip it out, all t
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The worry with secure boot would be manufacturers taking away the ability to manage/disable it on consumer devices. This rule doesn't seem to get any closer to that scenario, it's a change in the default configuration of &quo
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Well, in the US there's currently a lot of effort going into attempts to tackle "ghost guns". Restricting ammunition may be better from a practical perspective (I don't know for sure) but it's harder from a 2A persp
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In the article Doctorow talks about both surveillance and regulatory concerns, like vehicle safety and the ability to create weapons with 3D printers. If there was a law requiring surveillance backdoors in operating systems (as he speculate
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Clearly an attack on general purpose computing materialized, but it came about in a very different way from what was predicted here. If I had to summarize the overall thesis of the article it would be this: sectors of the economy other than
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Telecoms trying to use their political clout to get cash from third parties is quite bold even for them. Of course Brendan Carr is involved. Is there any sort of precedent for this? I don’t remember electric utilities getting to shake down
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The abuse of this system is only going to get worse as high profile cases like Bungie's [1] highlight how exploitable it is, even against big companies. It seems to me, as an outsider to YouTube's systems, that the system of &quot
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It was often referred to in decisions about whether mental patients can refuse treatment, see Rogers v. Okin for one example.
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According to Instagram that is a manual review process, not facial recognition: https://twitter.com/InstagramComms/status/146078561073870438...
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For the biometrics part, yes: Instagram never used biometrics, or at least they didn’t until this week when they started using it for an age verification process, but even then there’s no collection of biometrics in regular usage. Facebook
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I suspect one reason the browsing and search experience is so slow and horrible on these services is that they don't want to present straightforward lists that would allow people to scrape their catalogs and put them head to head. Main
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I like the FT's color cues: opinion pieces are marked with blue quotation marks on the homepages, the author's name in blue for shorter links (contrasting with the dark red category label used for regular articles), and a blue hea
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Maybe Bing's reputation would be better if its privacy practices were even up to par with Google. Bing gives you a deceptive toggle on the search history page that hides new searches from that page, but they still get logged to your Mi
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Yes, and also I was thinking more of how executives think about it rather than audiences. Sometimes the reason for popular Japanese films not making it to the West (or not making it until many years later) is because the Japanese rightshold
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I doubt it's crashed forever, I think a lot of what we're seeing right now is because of the long overdue reckoning for the "stablecoins" that people have been treating as if they're worth $1 despite knowing it was
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I think the attitude that Japanese popular culture should ideally be completely rewritten for overseas release (a la Godzilla) is still common within Japan itself, but thankfully US publishers and film distributors have mostly realized audi
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>Northern Lights -> The Golden Compass According to Pullman that one wasn't really about an attempt at cultural adaptation, the title had been in flux and the US publisher had taken an early name for the upcoming series, "Th
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A fairly short piece that makes the same points that have been made a million times about the ACLU’s apparent changes, using the typical examples of the group defending the freedom of assembly rights of neo-nazis during the 1970s (other art
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Actually it’s not just browsers, HEVC can’t be hardware decoded out of the box on Windows applications that rely on Media Foundation, you have to open the Microsoft store and pay $0.99 for the privilege of using those codecs.
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There can be underlying anxiety issues that make going out like that quite a stressful event, especially at first, and even traumatic if something bad does end up happening. Or sensory processing issues associated with autism spectrum disor
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Definitely hands off my quote searches, but one might hope that if you took out the quotation marks it would be able to pick up the correct quote. In fact it can if you change around certain words in the first sentence (Stories set in the C

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