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Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life(eff.org)
2260 points by bbatsell 5y ago|824 comments
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by bbatsell 5y ago
Far be it from me to defend Comcast, but it's not equivalent in the slightest. Comcast creates a separate network, with a separate IP, using their cable modem and the DOCSIS bandwidth available on their network. Its third-party usage d
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by bbatsell 5y ago
Here are screenshots of the “service fees”: https://twitter.com/TheSofaaa/status/1399070201925312512?s=2...
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Uber charges driver for completing a 13-mile fare(twitter.com)
178 points by bbatsell 5y ago|132 comments
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by bbatsell 5y ago
Immediately after that post, SpaceX began encrypting the streams from both Falcon 9 and Starship. The SpaceX engineer who implemented the encryption apologized on Twitter: https://twitter.com/skiboysteve/status/137
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by bbatsell 5y ago
Bezos made a bet that if he assembled an unholy conglomeration of defense contractors with dozens of senators on their payroll and named it "The National Team", NASA couldn't dare not give it to him. That limited Blue's
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by bbatsell 6y ago
Berger is very smart, and he literally just published a (good) book about SpaceX. A layperson reading the article without background knowledge would have those questions. So he, as a journalist, posed them, and then answered them (fairly, w
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by bbatsell 6y ago
https://www.jta.org/2019/09/25/culture/what-does-jew-down-me...
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by bbatsell 6y ago
It is entirely due to Prop 22.
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by bbatsell 6y ago
As a bit of context, this post is entirely false — Apple has made no changes to the federal alert system — but it does serve to put a nice techie "just asking questions" gloss on a conspiracy theory promoted by L. Lin Wood that ha
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by bbatsell 6y ago
Spotify announced last month that the "music industry" can start paying to put specific songs into people's recommendations. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/nov/03/spotify-a...
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by bbatsell 6y ago
You are thinking of ULA’s Vulcan rocket, and there are indications that their engine reuse plan has been entirely abandoned. Aerojet has modified the Shuttle’s RS-25 engine design to make it explicitly non-reusable (in the hopes of reducing
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Surveillance Startup Verkada Used Own Cameras to Harass Coworkers(vice.com)
10 points by bbatsell 6y ago|1 comments
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by bbatsell 6y ago
They mean if you get it in the real world, they will be working with your doctors because they will want to run tests to determine why the vaccine didn't prevent the infection. As a side benefit, you might get slightly more attention a
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by bbatsell 6y ago
I have to use containers with nvidia-docker because NVIDIA so consistently and relentlessly breaks things without so much as a glance at backward compatibility.
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Facebook says the good outweighs the bad. How many likes make up for the hate?(theguardian.com)
3 points by bbatsell 6y ago|0 comments
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by bbatsell 6y ago
No, he announced that anyone wishing to be released from an NDA could contact the company “and they’ll be given a release”. He very explicitly did not give a blanket release, and we have no way of knowing whether anyone requested but was no
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by bbatsell 6y ago
And this is exactly how this tactic works. The campaign can send dog whistles that neo-Nazis the world over will immediately recognize and appreciate, and useful idiots can come along and argue that all these blatantly obvious things are ju
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Six eBay executives and employees charged over alleged cyberstalking campaign(boston.cbslocal.com)
638 points by bbatsell 6y ago|207 comments
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by bbatsell 6y ago
LAPD underwent unprecedented reform in the wake of the riots. It’s certainly not a perfect department, but it is exponentially better than it was in 1992. You are making the opposite point you think you are. The riots and DoJ consent decree
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by bbatsell 6y ago
For anyone who doesn't want to read the above article, GrubHub took 64% of the gross, which wasn't enough to break even on just food costs. Anyone claiming that GrubHub is only taking a 30% delivery fee and ignoring all of the oth
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by bbatsell 6y ago
There is a federal law called the Administrative Procedure Act, which requires executive agencies to follow a process while engaging in rulemaking. Part of the process is a public comment period, and agencies are required to substantively a
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Viral Facebook Post Shows Just How Little Restaurants Make from Grubhub Orders(eater.com)
2 points by bbatsell 6y ago|0 comments
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California Attorney General delays .org sale(domainnamewire.com)
543 points by bbatsell 7y ago|40 comments
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by bbatsell 7y ago
This lines up with my experience. About a year and some change ago, it was undeniable to me that Apple Maps had become markedly superior at directions than Google Maps or Waze. GM/W would routinely just be very off and give me the aler
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Amazon Chose Speed over Safety in Building Its Delivery Network(propublica.org)
4 points by bbatsell 7y ago|0 comments
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Unraveling the Secret Supply Chain Behind an AmazonBasics Battery(onezero.medium.com)
2 points by bbatsell 7y ago|0 comments
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Days Ahead of Climate Strike, MSFT Partners with Chevron to Speed Oil Extraction(gizmodo.com)
15 points by bbatsell 7y ago|0 comments
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by bbatsell 7y ago
This is incorrect. Manning’s commutation is just as immutable as a full pardon. Her current incarceration is over supposed contempt of court by refusing to testify in an ongoing grand jury investigation. A pardon for her past conviction wou
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by bbatsell 7y ago
Up to three now: https://twitter.com/taylordotbiz/status/1172260257613123608?...

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