I was not aware that the concorde flew for about 25 years? That’s honestly pretty amazing.

Overall unnecessary though. Unless they demonstrate that it’s somehow more efficient, by flying higher and faster and the trip being shorter? I doubt it though.

First of all,

I don’t understand where the restrictions are going to lie

Yes. That’s exactly the question.

The point of the… excitement around this is exactly the uncertainty. We simply don’t know what the EU or national governments of the EU will do with this.

The first problem is that the “hardware bound attestation” isn’t just hardware bound, it’s specifically Apple and Android’s attestation and NOT the more open standard. That means the device that can do this thing, whatever it’s going to be “necessary” for, MUST always be an Apple or Google device, with that bit intact. Tbh, I don’t really know how much rooting affects this, but I would be surprised if it didn’t.

The second problem is that once the infrastructure for blocking access to something and requiring this sort of authentication is in place, it’s just a list of targets. It’s very easy to add another platform, website, app or anything else behind it.

And the reason for this excitement happening now is that the specification that was given for all this to happen previously only said it should be “secure” somehow, but not detailing the “how”. They think they can do it as an implementation detail and pretend it’s not a big deal. So it’s very clearly something those bastards have tried to be sneaky about.

Can you use rooted phones

No, whatever the point of their efforts is, they will make sure to not leave obvious loopholes like that open.

The only interesting thing about the numbers is that eventually, people outside the tech bubble will pick up on it and think about seeing what the fuss is about and if it’s a solution for them and then maybe also switching.

In that sense: I “heard” that the number is 20% actually. Windows is so over. It’s true. Pass it on.

copilot should just be prompting the user for permission if it ever edits a file other than the one that is open. Im surprised that isnt already the case…?

That can’t be done or they would be burying the “agentic AI” thing that has been the goal and marketing thing for the last years.

Independent actions by copilot on behalf of the user without the users knowledge is the entire point.

I love that as a meme, well done!

Read my comment again. 😜

I mean… yeah. Duh. They say so openly on the website, that’s the point.

They observed wrongdoing, were fired for opposing it and now they are trying to highlight that and make it public.

Whether the whole thing is TRUE is the question. I don’t know that. I guess it’s a reminder that ultimately everything online could be fake and false and manipulation. We would need more sources with similar stories. But if everyone didn’t publish because they would be the first, we would never get multiple sources.

So, just read it as a biased perspective and leave it unsolved whether it’s true or false…

This suggestion was made by the year-day-month dateformat gang.

I only use python and I don’t understand why someone might think that. The order in python’s type hints is wrong too.

See, humans are smart. Praying and blessing things yourself? By hand, so to speak? Boooo! Pedestrian! Ain’t nobody got time fo dat!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_flag

the Tibetans believe the prayers and mantras will be blown by the wind to spread the good will and compassion into all pervading space. Therefore, prayer flags are thought to bring benefit to all.

By hanging flags in high places the Lung ta will carry the blessings depicted on the flags to all beings. As wind passes over the surface of the flags, which are sensitive to the slightest movement of the wind, the air is purified and sanctified by the mantras.

I choose to believe that the prayer app is just a hip, new and with it innovation in prayer spreading.

My ideal solution would be a parent controlled OS based “child account” that has a white list for allowed apps and websites and parents who then use that feature.

I would like to avoid any solution where the website learns anything about the users. Including what facebook has proposed and done in the US, making the age API request thing a law. They’re doing that to make their ad targeting more precise, not to protect anyone.

Sure, but they still do exist.

No, because it’s a 3 way information exchange.

When you visit a site, you, the site and the government know that you went there.

In cases where the company can exploit that information because it can 100% verify you are a real person that’s bad.

But when the people in government can identify that their political opposition did “bad things” online and exploit that against them, that’s also bad. Also, the people in charge can always fake that if they want to, and if the system exists, because there is little oversight over the currently planned systems.

We’re not talking about “normal and legal behavior”, it needs to be tamper proof and safe against malicious actors inside the system. That’s nearly impossible to do, so the safe option is to not create that system.

But seriously, boss—I’m tired. Are our attempts to preserve internet freedom futile?

Nah, we’re fine. It’s just that serious secrecy is a lot more effort and I’d rather not need that. But we do have all the tools.

That’s 80% of the frustration for me. They have already lost that fight for control when they legalized encryption. Now the cat is out of the bag.

For example, encrypting things and hiding them in normal pictures and posts. Using code words in normal online interactions, woven into sentences where there is nothing to decrypt and the message only makes sense to people looking for a message.

Properly executed encryption isn’t just indistinguishable from regular white noise, if it’s mixed into a channel already carrying a message, an observer not looking for something will never see the difference.

Maybe you didn’t find the genre that clicks with you.

1984 is an objectively depressing story and not really interesting for the love story or other things. It’s political.

Reading is great when you have hours to kill and want just more dense information or description. You also sort of need to enjoy using your imagination I guess.

Maybe you’re interested in a biography of a musician or movie director, maybe you’re into history, maybe you like crime and horror stuff.

But also, there are SO MANY bad books out there. Don’t worry about it. I haven’t read a book in years, because I am not really interesting in topics at that level at the moment and I don’t think many authors really capture things well. You need a real good book recommendation.

And also, maybe you just don’t like reading books.

Also, translated books can be a lot worse, read in native language if possible. Authors can put a lot of… style and taste into their language and that’s lost in translation sometimes.

Not really.

For practical purposes, all files “binary”, ones and zeros. And with those ones and zeros, you can encode stuff for example text and for example with ascii https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII But you can also encode programs that can be executed, or what you named, visual, audio, or whatever you want. The differences are the “encodings”.

Sometimes, things work a bit like one of those Russian Matryoshka dolls, for example a PDF can contain a JPG or a PNG but also TXT.

It’s really not that simple as there being “4” types.

I’m not sure that answers your question though.

Psychological tricks with external help.

Specifically reserve time for them, plan them out in advance, do something every day if you can and set reminders. There are even apps that try to support you with habit forming.

So if for example 6pm to 7:30pm is hobby time, every day, and you treat it like an appointment you have to go to (with yourself).

Plan your projects in advance. This can be done during that hobby time, but be sure to write down which tools and material you need, so you can just pick it up. Also, it helps if things are organized, if you just need to grab a box and it has everything in it, that’s easier to pick up and put down than searching and collecting all your tools every time you need them.

Imagine there’s a huge fuel station that’s so big they essentially set rules towards suppliers that they can’t offer their gas to other stations at a cheaper price otherwise they can’t sell it in their station with 95% market share.

That is specifically not what is happening.

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys

“Steam Key Rules and Guidelines”

“You should use Steam Keys to sell your game on other stores in a similar way to how you sell your game on Steam. It is important that you don’t give Steam customers a worse deal than Steam Key purchasers.”

Valve does not “dictate” prices in any way.

Ubi and WB are free to sell their games for as cheap as they want. But if and ONLY IF they offer a steam key with the purchase, they can’t undercut steam.

Edit: the original comment left it unclear if the price rule only applies to copies sold that include a steam key, or if copies that work completely without steam can be arbitrarily priced. If the latter is the case, it’s obviously fine. If it includes any game version, it isn’t OK.

Ok. The rule is, actually let me link it…

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys

“Steam Key Rules and Guidelines”

“You should use Steam Keys to sell your game on other stores in a similar way to how you sell your game on Steam.** It is important that you don’t give Steam customers a worse deal than Steam Key purchasers.”**

Just read that paragraph. It should be pretty clear what the whole thing is about.

True, but this deal is that companies stick to the terms and in turn they get access to steams shop, implicitly the community.

They don’t have some unalienable right to access another company’s customers.

You don’t have a “right” to go into a BurgerKing and advertise and sell your burgers there.