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by mshroyer 5y ago
I'm not at all conflicted about this. Obviously CSAM is bad and should be stopped, but it is inevitable this new feature will become a means for governments to attack material of far more debatable 'harm'.
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by mshroyer 5y ago
This author is almost as skilled as the staff at my local AMC Theatre, where I was a bystander to a woman getting denied a beer on account of her Washington, D.C. driver's license not being a "state-issued ID".
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by mshroyer 5y ago
I would much prefer Twitter to ignore the Indian government. American companies should never cave to authoritarians.
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by mshroyer 5y ago
"problem" complying with "regulations"
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by mshroyer 5y ago
The Washington Post's reporting seems to back you up: > Kilsheimer said he didn’t believe the damage highlighted in the 2018 report could have led to the collapse of the building. “Nothing in it raised a red flag,” he said. https:&
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by mshroyer 5y ago
> I thought white-collar crime was usually a person scamming a company. That's not my understanding of the term "white-collar crime", nor is it the definition used here, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by mshroyer 5y ago
Weird... I've had two generations of iPads with cellular, and Signal has worked for me, in linked mode, on both devices (both with and without a SIM present). Maybe this is a bug that only affects certain models or something?
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by mshroyer 5y ago
Differences from MicroPython, for those familiar with the latter: https://circuitpython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/README.html#d...
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by mshroyer 5y ago
This is really cool. So it looks like the Winterbloom module is taking a "pitch CV" input in the range of 0-6V... what would typically generate this input in this type of setup? And what do all those other modules on the rack do?
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by mshroyer 5y ago
I agree we need humans in the loop for things like the administration of justice. But this is a case where humans _were_ in the loop yet acted like automatons themselves. They failed to apply the baseline level of judgment that would have s
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by mshroyer 5y ago
And here's a good article explaining why waiving vaccine intellectual property rights is a misguided area of focus: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/03/15/vaccine-co...
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by mshroyer 6y ago
At least SLS puts its solid rocket boosters well below the crew capsule, though. So compared with the Shuttle, there's some nonzero possibility of safe abort in the event of an SRB explosion.
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by mshroyer 6y ago
But it's sufficient for my next TV to report fingerprints of my viewing habits back to HQ, even when I intentionally leave the TV disconnected from my LAN. Yay. It was inevitable we'd reach this point—if not because of mesh networ
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by mshroyer 6y ago
AFAIK this is actually true for any California public library (including mine in Sunnyvale). The re-registration process is annoying, but hey, it's free...
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by mshroyer 6y ago
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/logistics > I'm saving the Substack mailing list regularly to my hard drive, and if I go somewhere else I'll let you all know. So this is possible on Substack at least
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by mshroyer 6y ago
There's nothing wrong with it if, and only if, people understand that's the choice they're making. Here we have an exodus driven by *privacy* concerns surrounding the new policy. Users fled from WhatsApp to other services wit
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by mshroyer 6y ago
It looks like mostly blocking code... I wonder if that's hampering their ability to scale.
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by mshroyer 6y ago
Do any other launch service providers, like United Launch Alliance, make these specifications publicly available (without needing to sign an NDA or whatever)?
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by mshroyer 6y ago
> I’ve been staying on iOS 13 to avoid the contact tracing Huh? You know it's an opt-in feature, right?
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by mshroyer 6y ago
In contrast with the built-in iOS calculator? RPN and unit conversions, primarily, but also occasionally other functions like exponentiation, etc.
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by mshroyer 6y ago
No, I don't think so, not exactly. It depends on the specifics, of course. If a specific country directly attacked the US, of course I'd expect (and even demand) a military response. But these days, I wouldn't expect a non-st
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by mshroyer 6y ago
Free42 is my favorite calculator on Windows, especially since I've long used HP's physical calculators. (Droid48 is also great if you're on Android.) But I still prefer PCalc on the Mac, because it's rather cumbersome to
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by mshroyer 6y ago
PCalc is a work of art. I can't personally speak to the developer's philosophy here, but it feels like they sat down and asked themselves how they could make the best possible app in this very specific domain, then doubled back an
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by mshroyer 6y ago
> Also everyone knows that the US is both highly militaristic and highly jingoistic. That was certainly true up through the early 2000s, but this stereotype is by now out of date. On the left, America is self-loathing, and on the right i
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by mshroyer 6y ago
I personally think the information is a big nothingburger. But that's quite a different thing from saying it's misinformation.
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by mshroyer 6y ago
I'd be with you if the Biden campaign denied the material's legitimacy. So far, at least as far as I'm aware, they haven't.
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by mshroyer 6y ago
> because it's pretty obviously intentionally planted misinformation disguised as news "misinformation" implies it's false. What's the evidence for this? I'm as skeptical as anyone about the actual provenanc
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by mshroyer 6y ago
Regarding the ransomware attack, my point is that Garmin's security design was weak enough to allow it to happen. We were all, apparently, simply lucky that the variant of ransomware used didn't happen to exfiltrate all our health
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by mshroyer 6y ago
The Apple Watch Series 6 is rated for 7 hours of battery usage while recording an activity with GPS. That's right at the edge of some hikes I've done, and it would leave a multi-day hike out of the question. Compare to Garmin: The
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by mshroyer 6y ago
I may be, and some of the smart watch features do appeal to me. (And if a standalone Signal app were available for the Apple Watch with LTE, that might push me over the edge to switching.) But for now, Apple lags far behind Garmin in terms

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