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by dodobirdlord 3y ago
> If you have an internal chat app that never logs messages -- say, the sender looks up the recipient's IP address on the VPN and connects to them directly -- then a court can't order you to write new code to enable logging. No
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by dodobirdlord 3y ago
> Companies could set up internal chat solutions where conversations aren't logged. No, transient storage of chat records has specifically been categorized as unacceptable in exactly these ongoing Google litigations.
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
This is a process for refining iron ore, as opposed to using a blast furnace, or using the same process with decomposed natural gas instead of just hydrogen. In steel production it would be subsequently smelted.
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
Many jurisdictions around the world have laws that allow police to compel you to decrypt data, particularly at border crossings.
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
Most of the worst issues with C++ can't actually be fixed without backwards incompatible changes that would break large amounts of existing code. Google spent several years advocating for the approach that you're suggesting, but w
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
Memory unsafety makes securing large codebases difficult because even minor errors in unimportant parts of a codebase have the potential to compromise an entire binary if an attacker can figure out how to get execution to reach the unsafe c
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
Unnecessary use of unsafe blocks is stylistically discouraged in Rust, so there's a lot less code that has the potential to harbor a memory safety bug, which makes bugs both less likely to exist and easier to spot when doing a code aud
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
Yes, but Minecraft isn’t real life, it’s a fake world made for kids.
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
If it’s entirely self-hosted servers on the user’s own hardware, then how could Microsoft ban them? What would that even mean? Microsoft’s systems must somehow be involved for a ban to have any meaning.
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
The main reason is that you can’t, because only a work produced by a human is eligible for copyright. For example, it has previously been litigated that nobody has IP ownership of an image taken with a camera by an animal.
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
There are a lot of goofs out there running goofy binaries for which they have lost the goofy source code. These people are unfortunately also the committee’s problem.
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
Citizens of middle eastern countries that are hostile to Israel would care the most, but other international travelers also benefit from avoiding the Israel passport stamp to avoid unnecessary difficulties if they need to visit those middle
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
The US values many things in its foreign policy, and some of those things are spreading democracy and self-determination. That doesn’t mean the US values them to the exclusion of other interests like trade partnerships, energy security, reg
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
Yes, local communities across the United States have demonstrated that they cannot be trusted with control over local zoning, so the power should be moved to a regional political body. Voters will of course vote in their own best interest,
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
Maybe not even then? GDP dropping while employment, spending, and demand increase indicates an economic expansion coinciding with a decrease in labor productivity, which is extremely weird and not at all like a conventional recession where
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
I think you may have slightly misread. I think what’s being said is that a single logical AZ may actually be multiple physical datacenters in close proximity.
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
Squash your commits once you've finished prior to sending them for review? Code review of individual commits generally stems from a workflow that expects that each individual commit will contain a change that is complete in and of itse
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
The main motivation to not reprocess fuel was nuclear nonproliferation, because it frees up the plutonium for nuclear weapons. But on the off chance that governments ever want to build a giant pile of nuclear weapons it’s sensible to not ge
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
Many people also hate renewable energy for ideological reasons. People can be persuaded, or, in a democracy, simply outvoted by a critical mass of supporters. Nuclear power has been losing the propaganda war for decades in the United State
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
The long term plan is to reprocess it, which is why we need to keep it around in the meantime. If we just wanted to get rid of it that would be trivially easy. But we don’t want that because we know in future we’re going to want to get it b
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
Facebook tried successfully to do this in 2019 by misusing their internal corporate app certificate, and only stopped because Apple noticed and revoked their certificate. So we already have proof that in the absence of Apple’s ability to pu
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
I want to continue using Apple’s App Store, but most people are less aware of things like location harvesting, and are less privacy-sensitive than I am. Today, Apple can set policies that benefit users without those users having to be awa
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
Step 1 of that process violates the law, if it adds new “core messaging capability”. Perhaps the EU considers “core messaging capability” to refer exclusively to functionality that already exists today, and it could not even in principle re
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
Security needs to be a default though. It will be a serious problem if this law ends up being interpreted as requiring encrypted messaging systems to accept insecure messages by default.
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
It doesn’t, it’s been carefully boundary-set so that it only impacts a small handful of large US tech companies. They probably would have just come out and written their names in explicitly into the law (like Australia did a while back), ex
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
The EU has other industries.
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
If I am using, say, Signal, I do not want it to be possible to send me an unencrypted message at all. That philosophy of security sounds likely to run afoul of this legislation.
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
Ah, so now nobody can ever launch any new messaging features without reaching a consensus in a standardization body. Progress!
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
Well, I wouldn’t, and people who wanted the former could already go buy an Android phone. Why does the iPhone need to be the same?
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
If push comes to shove, I imagine Google will just not sell chromebooks in the EU.

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