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I’ve been getting this message on international flights for the last two months already - no using power banks at any time on the plane.

At some point lithium ion battery packs are going to be completely excluded from luggage and it’ll be chaos


> so the comments are wasted bytes

Is there any modern compiler where the output code has anything to do with the comments in the source?


> Atlassian, tho, has nothing for the regular every-day consumer, they make SaaS for business. So what's the deal?

sometimes you just find a big enterprise sucker who's desperate to stay relevant.


Funny that this also describes these cult rationalist groups very well.


Chinese continuity is overstated for the purposes of modern nation-building. The Qing and Ming are as different from each other and modern CCP China as the kingdom of Prussia is from modern Germany.


That past is always a different country, but actually I'm kind of disappointed that Qing and Ming are not more different than Prussia is from modern Germany.


but they still chinnese???? "but sorry you are wrong, its is mongolian goverment" nerd noise

Yeah but the empire is still in fact china, like you cant change that

1. does they identified some sort of "chinnese" ???: Yeah

2. does they still speak some form of "chinnese language": Yeah

"buttt it iss different eeeerrr" before you talking about whats different, BRO ITS 2000 YEARS, what do you expect ???? like do you expecting people not changing anything for two millenia????? like cmon bruh, use your critical thinking

"china proper" as whole is always referring to "whole region" not just this empire or dynasty or anything


Please do us all a favour and learn to communicate properly.


sorry that you aren't get it if you are not fluent native

but you can ignore the satirical part and focus at bullet point

also: https://web.archive.org/web/20250102025407/https://nces.ed.g...


They’re very common in video game programming and visual effects and uncommon elsewhere. I enjoyed this article, though it’s still about using ECS in a simulation / computer graphics context.

https://adventures.michaelfbryan.com/posts/ecs-outside-of-ga...


Bootlegging was massive in Malaysia. Whole floors of some of the high-rise malls in Johor Bahru were VCD shops.


Rainbow Centre in Karachi was a highlight of my childhood.


And people complain about Apple being paternalistic.

If you’re already saving passwords in an app, you’re being more secure than most users. A forced move to passkeys seems nuts when not all systems support them yet.

I’m also still concerned that passkeys seems more likely to fail the average user when they break or lose a device, compared to a decent password.


They used to complain about that 10 years ago, but apple was just ahead of it's time. Microsoft saw the light and is racing down that path. Soon enough, no computer without user-defeating secret logic and remote ownership will be allowed to interact with important networked applications. Linux users will either need a tainted linux variant or not have access to banking, streaming (already a problem), games, and so on.


And still, the entire bank account is still vulnerable to a $15 silent borrowing of your phone number for a day, bypassing all normal protections. The system is only harder to access for the rightful owner.


Or if you get your line cancelled for some reason and have no access to your phone number and you are abroad. You’ll have trouble with banks and many other things that use phone number for verification.

Really wish they worked on removing phone number verification before doing any other security/password thing.


This is only true in some countries, and tbh. having this as the state of the art, sounds a bit dystopian. I've been using my BankID, which is a Norwegian electronic identity solution, to log into banks and such, for decades now. With these type of solutions, there is no way that taking control over phone numbers make any difference when trying to get access to a bank account.

Btw. this type of electronic identity solution are not Norway specific, I know all the other Nordic countries have them, and they are, as far as I know fairly popular in the rest of Europe as well.


How would that attack work?


SIM Swap attacks are what they are referring to, I think.


Or SS7 attack to intercept SMS messages, no SIM swap required.


Doesn’t this require physical access to a compromised mobile network?


Requires that someone has physical access, that they can then sell digital access to.


Do banks really use SMS as an auth method these days?


It is already required to buy an approved terminal to participate in society. This may seem a bit of joke in some countries but in many places it is absolutely real.

The next step in progress is to bake in functionality that can guarantee interested parties that it is you operating the terminal at all times.


You're probably right. We'll have enforced boot chains and attestation for devices if we want to take part in large parts of our economic system in the future. A ton of important systems like banking, safe and secure sex worker and entertainment sites for users and performers, government services like online taxes and car licensing and drivers testing* and children-safe sites.

Over twenty years ago, many of us warned about the dangers of increased and unaccountable intelligence service power. We saw what the Patriot Act would create.

We joined the EFF and the ACLU, or renewed our memberships. Organizations at the time that focused more on actual deep philosophical issues and how they relate to our political world.

Obviously the Patriot Act has saved lives. Terrorist events and neglected victims are tragic and VERY emotional.

But today, immigrants and others are spending their own lives protesting the actions of ICE. Their own very limited time on this planet.

I'm not here to judge Immigration and Customs Enforcement. I'll take flak for that among liberals. Again, I'm not judging ICE. In many cases they've been falsely accused where there was clear evidence they weren't at fault.

No, what bothers me is immigrants, who already have difficult lives, and Generation Z, who have less economic security themselves, are the ones marching in the streets.

Twenty years from now, who will be working extra unaccountable and unbillable hours protesting in the streets because the DRM and secure computing systems being pushed through today are abused?

Even if most of that abuse is a show, meant to divide citizens and law enforcement. There are people out there working for free for that show.

Who will work more in the future?

And like not judging ICE, I'm not judging the countries racing and battling to deploy secure computing environments. Knox and TrustZone and TPM and whatever new things await us in the future. There are reasons both for safety and economic security I dont judge.

And there are dark patterns around software supply chain weaknesses and online safety and incentives to accelerate those issues to push through security architectures.

Other countries are doing it. I hate the fucking game theory solutions that it encourages.

But what I'm worried is that in twenty years who will be working for free because our secure computing environments are found unfair?

And unfair can be many things. Governments push values, even when it's not explicit. When I'm using my integrated cyberdeck or implants or just ambient room device, what am I missing? What is being pushed into or out of my vision or awareness?

That's twenty years in the future, what's forty years in the future? I won't be here, but you bet your ass I'm worried. Because the people who I fucking care about now working their asses off for free are being blinded about the upcoming digital wreck, like they were in 2001.

* I believe myself here, that's key.


Also next to impossible to write down to give to someone else.

This (or by phone) is how I've transferred: all family accounts, all small community accounts, some business accounts, many friend-shared accounts, and it's also how some people ensure accounts can be accessed if they die. It's not a small problem.


Yeah, I think people will lose their passkeys a lot. I think companies are happy to provide another service ("passkey syncing") that you will pay for for life. Back In The Day you could be a freeloader by remembering your passwords like a nerd. No longer. The loophole is closed!

That said, passwords are actually so bad that anything would be an improvement over them. While a stealable passkey vault sync'd to your malware-infested Windows laptop is not ideal for security, it's sure better than typing your bank password into your favorite forum because you don't understand that website administrators can see your password when you type it on their site. (Not to mention phishing.)


Apple, Google, and Microsoft already do passkey sync for free. They don't do exports, though. However, there are various third party solutions for synching passkeys that aren't tied to your computer manufacturer.

I don't think passkeys are going to replace passwords any time soon, and I don't think freeloaders are even part of the equation here. You can share a passkey through Bitwarden just as easily as you can share a password.

Freeloaders already need to jump through hoops to share passwords and even then they're getting off easy; if streaming companies actually cared about catching freeloaders, they could stop the practice all together. What they're doing now is just signalling them that you're not supposed to and adding very minor annoyances to the mix.


Only in their own ecosystem, though, right? I use Windows and an iPhone; nothing syncs. I use 1password instead.


Would iCloud for Windows help sync things for you?

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/icloud-windows/icw2bab...

After you set up iCloud for Windows, you can use iCloud Passwords to access your passwords in Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge using a browser extension. You can also manage your passwords in the iCloud Passwords app.


Until recovery and multi-device support are seamless across ecosystems, forcing this kind of shift just adds friction


Both are technofeudal corporations and hostile to users' rights.

Microsoft is just rapidly getting even worse lately.


Why do so many examples break down to “send better spam faster”?


lol, that was literally their example wasn't it? Troll linkedin looking for people and spam them with "personalized" emails.


That's what's so funny about this.

Spamming is not only obnoxious, but a very weak example. Spamming is so error tolerant that if 30% of the output is totally wrong, the sender won't notice. Response rates are usually very low. This is a singularly un-demanding problem.

You don't even need "AI" for this. Just score LinkedIn profiles based on keywords, and if the score is high enough, send a spam. Draft a few form letters, and send the one most appropriate for the keywords. Probably would have about the same reply rate.


What is a wheel without its grease?


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