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Thank you so much for posting this. I have been paying the annual 10$ (which went up by 2$ this year), but now it looks like I have to pay a whopping 30$ a year (a 3x increase, with no increase in features or value at all).

The cherry on the shit cake is that they did not give me any heads up at all. Quite sad. Bitwarden has been consistently one of the best pieces of softwares I have ever used. Simple, just does what it does and gets out of the way.

Sad really ...

The most impressive thing is that if they stopped putting out new features, and solely delivered security and optimization patches for Windows, it would unironically be the best no-frills platform. You could just keep milking steady upgrade fees.

But no, they have to go out of their way to accelerate the enshittification of Windows.

So let me get this straight: The US government directly buying stakes in Intel is A-OK, but any involvement from the CCP in any form in any company is Not Good ?

If the only issue at hand was indeed security vulnerabilities, then I can see many ways that can constructively address that (e.g. Since a large number of SKUs deployed in the US are managed by the Telcos, then force them to finance the support for continued firmware updates).

The US will probably be collecting the reciprocity of their actions, and they won't like it ... It's a very childish game they're playing and it will hurt them in 15 years time ...

While I agree with the general idea, I think the sales pitch is less "a bunch of ARM Cortex cores" and more "a bunch of RDNA2 cores stuck to the same Cortex cores you're used to".

For things like the automotive industry or industrial applications, it could have some sense. Most are high-margin industries ready to commit to specific architectures.

Funnily enough, I got into trouble in Korea (Jeju to be specific) because of this. I had just stopped at a red light (huge intersection), and I saw a police car get behind me, they had their lights on and put on the sirens.

In my home country (France), lights mean emergency, sound means "MOVE ITS URGENT" (and they generally ONLY use sirens when it is REALLY urgent). So when they started the siren, I put my warning lights on and moved slowly through the red light and to the outside of the road (I did not continue moving).

The guy ripped me a new one in Korean, but then I explained that I thought it was urgent because we were all stopped and they put the sound on so I moved out of the way in the safest way I could and even stopped. He calmed down eventually.

Apparently, it's normal in Korea for police cars to 1) always have the lights on and 2) just randomly blast the sirens going about their day.

What this tells is the following:

1. You have absolutely no clue how the BitTorrent protocol works. 2. You have never maintained a widely used app as a single developer. 3. The extent of your use of LLMs is either academic / hobby or very narrowly focused and not integrated into a global product.

Just these points make your "suggestion" about using "LLMs to detect stuff is extremely easy" laughable at best.

The reason why people want to install their own software is to have freedom over their devices. The copyrighted content removal has a mechanism for it, called DMCA. And this is not how it works. The application does not have any content or means to circumvent any measures.

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Assuming this does happen, I would genuienly like to read what a plausible follow-up would look like, for peace in Gaza.

Would they extend Israel to Gaza and give everyone there a special status ? Or if they choose to setup a state, who will handle the "legal violence" part of the social contract ? Israel ? Folks from Gaza ?

And what about currency and international trade ? Would Gaza be allowed access to international waters ?

Have you actually read the article ? He explains everything in sufficient detail. He didn't "hijack" the DNS records, he bought the ones that were expired and available.

The only thing he doesn't explain (for obvious reasons) is the how he found the shells online (because as he puts it, they fell off the back of a truck).

That is a very bold claim. A message queue can have many different requirements: Some message queues tolerate lost messages, others don't. Some require a notification mechanism (i.e. a push model instead of a polling model). Other require precise management of dead letters.

All this to say that, yes, you theoretically CAN use SQLite as a message queue. But atomic operations are usually WAY lower on the "must have" list for a message queue than other parameters.

The easiest way you could verify this is by looking at the guarantees provided by some of the most known MsgQueues.

I don't understand how you can characterize this as dictatorship. If anything, it's the very normal realization of the representational democracy: The people have voted for representatives, that themselves voted on laws to force everyone to serve, or go to jail.

If the people wish to repeal that law, then they should vote for representatives that will repeal this.

It's akin to asking the following:

What does a car do that you can't trivially do with something else ? Like a boat or an airplane ?

You simply cannot compare an in-memory Key-Value store, to a RDBS. And that's on a conceptual level. If you then consider performance, network latency and the guarantees, we're absolutely comparing airplanes to donkeys: You wouldn't use an airplane to climb up a rough mountain, and you certainly wouldn't prefer a donkey to travel to the other side of the world.

That is my point. Any order regarding flight restrictions will be immediately disseminated by the local ATC, and I do understand that the ATC does not coordinate the rescue effort over the area, my point is he DID get the permission and actively attempted and successfully coordinated and complied withe the DR team who set up a landing zone for him.

My point being this is a clear failure of the IC (the fire chief in this case)

A lot of folks in the comments are acting like this was one of what they refer to as "cowboys".

Yet the guy went through each and every hoop to cooperate and coordinate properly with the ATC (which should dispell all the "100 planes in the air" worries) and the local IC (that set up a landing zone for the guy and gave him the frequencies to coordinate).

I understand that there may be some vigilantes that would ignore the rules and procedures but this guy with his previous expertise in fire and rescure went through all the stages to help.

The local fire chief was either on a power trip, or had a knee-jerk reaction to out of org help (which IMO disqualifies him from being an effective IC capable of using the available resources to prioritize human life). It is very clear that the guy was absolutely ready to cooperate according to the rules that the chief would set, but ordering him to not go back for his son is ABSOLUTELY a power trip.

Either someone is stupid enough to make this argument which I don't think is the case (The NT teams are crazy good), or they just want to use this opportunity to divert the blame, which is pathetic at best.

UAC, virtualization, hybrid kernel/user-space shenanigans, all were not in the OS at some point, and research and development, listening to other parties and taking inspiration from other OSes brought these advancements in security.

If Microsoft thinks offering kernel drivers for security (antivirus or otherwise) is a bad thing for the 3rd party companies, then by extension it is bad for any antiviral product they offer and they should absolutely find a new paradigm to securely implement them (eBPF like as some other folks suggested).

But saying "but apple does it !" is not a reasonable demande when your software runs respirators and nuclear facilities. (Apple are still cunts for having everything locked down but that's another conversation)