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Then you don't have control or visibility over Apple or third-party apps sending analytics likely without your approval.

LuLu has a fatal flaw: it drops or closes TCP connections randomly resulting in dropped SSH sessions. No amount of TCP keepalives on the client- or server-side will resolve this. This makes it a non-starter for anyone doing anything real.

Also good:

- BlockBlock - disk access application "firewalling" on top of macOS'es privacy & security settings is very good

- RansomWhere? - ransomware process mass file change interception

- ReiKey - input interception monitor

- ProcessMonitor, DNSMonitor, FileMonitor, TaskExplorer, KextViewer, NetIQuette, Dylib Hijack Scanner, KnockKnock

- Oversight - webcam and audio hijack monitor (although I use ancient EOL Growl + Hardware Growl just to catch hardware events too)

- No longer useful or usable: Do Not Disturb, LuLu

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Small business owners on Etsy give me hope for humanity through:

- Funding civilians in war-torn areas like legit Kyiv Ukrainian addresses

- 3D-printed vintage car parts

- Handmade confrontational ceramics spicing up mundane objects like coffee mugs

- Ultra-niche items corporate retailers refuse to carry due to the ruthless tyranny of SKU profit maximization

- And, of course, anti-establishment bumper stickers suitable for the petite et moyenne bourgeoisie

Yes, and never forget Tesla refuses to sell repair parts when people have cash in hand, partially arbitrarily and otherwise deliberately. Also, their CEO performs Sieg Heil, and don't let anyone tell you it's a "Roman salute" because this is merely a cinema factoid. This is likely unavoidable when such a weirdo is placed on a pedestal like Henry Ford or William Randolph Hearst.

Field (no pun intended) testing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzxcB_-C-E4

Siri, the app Apple acquired from a promising Palo Alto startup once upon a time, for close-ended, fixed phrase commands hasn't changed that much for accomplishing Apple-specific tasks. However, yes, going out to the interwebs or answering open-ended questions is more problematic now than it used to be.

Amazon's Echo has also enshitified such that many skills don't work and command phrases that used to work no longer give the same results. I used to be able to ask Echo "What's the IMDB rating for [movie name]?" but it invariably gives an unrelated or a wrong answer or does a HAL-9000.

It seems like an obvious category killer app to have an AI personal assistant able to perform free-form queries and operate on allowed services with a degree of trust and care so that it can't email everyone you've ever known a photo without a high level of interactive confirmation.

1/3 the energy density of diesel and way more dangerous to lives and property.

Even if this were a serious bill rather than ostensible fodder, the possibility of Fahrenheit 451 turning from an indexed satire into a documentary as it was ground into swarf and burned is doing anything but decreasing.

Sorry, but you got lawyer nerd-sniped.

https://youtu.be/d9JJrjvWvT0

An iffy 3d-printed gun using crappy materials can technically work for a few hundred rounds doesn't mean much in a country full of lots of legal guns of all sorts. And while I don't want TdA mass-producing RPGs, but that's not a problem solvable by regulating milling machines.

The problem is some people want total, invasive, inconsistent control over what other people can do, make, and be for ideological reasons rather than rational ones.

I'm glad the reporters did the due-diligence to uncover that they had a prior beef with him. My reading is it appears "evidence" was made-up to get him kicked out a second time. Now the matter is in state court, so it seems like he has a strong case to prove to a disinterested judge or a jury with a functional brain that ChatGPT doesn't leave any form of signature and there's no deterministic method to distinguish human-generated text from that created by an LLM.

First, it would be worker-owned co-op with very little turnover and intense competition for the few roles that get filled.

34.88 and 42.55 THz (Mid-wavelength IR)

Potential terahertz therapeutic strategy for the prevention or mitigation of Alzheimer’s disease pathology

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41377-023-01289-x

There's the possibility of damaging side-effects in humans using energy levels high enough to replicate the mouse model.

You're absolutely mistaken. These are obviously designed exclusively to bypass Taiwanese coastal defenses to move masses of extremely heavy vehicles rapidly a great distance over the coastal barriers. Ordinary transport ships that would move large quantities of heavy vehicles would be designed in a different manner that would load and unload slower, and wouldn't need absurdly-long, self-contained ramps.

Taiwan must immediately build littoral landing craft denial barriers in the regions just outside of the surf zone. They have a little time to mobilize and make these landing craft obsolete. Japan must also continue to prepare and coordinate joint exercises as they've been doing.

There's a word for it: anthropocentrism. Also a common fallacy/myth: the noble savage.

An engineer should learn first principles and master the tool rather than dancing around it or reach immediately for replacing it with something else. This is why the "replacement" tool "just" is fundamentally terrible because it doesn't do dependency checking and optimizes for the wrong things. Instant loss of efficiency throwing away the power and simplicity of makefiles (GNU extensions often needed).

Instead, (GNU or vanilla) makefiles are ideals for very simple, portable projects. Make is everywhere.

For anything complicated, a proper build system that doesn't use autotools like cmake or bazel.

Exactly. It's a SPoF. Depending on ego and whims of a malicious tyrant is stupidity or insanity.

I suspect MAANG + OpenAI will simply pay lobbyists to make it legal. They have huge piles of money and money makes the law in America.

He was successful at marketing extreme FUD books in the late 60's and early 70's, kind of reminds me of "the impending catastrophe" doomer like Thom Hartmann. Heck, even Jim Morrison had an opinion on the subject.

The reality (WRT to bulk metals) is that we get some "free passes" due to mining technological advancements, and that increased scarcity -> increased costs -> curtails wastes, encourages recycling, and drives substitutes.

More generally, peak production isn't a problem itself, per se. There is concern when there are risks for sudden shocks or collapse. If we suddenly ran out of phosphorous, that would be bad.

I think there is still a lot of waste that could be captured with cleverer engineering, especially ag runoff, in industrial process, and failure to capture material going into landfills. Perhaps in 100 years, we will be mining old landfills for rare earth metals.

A slow start. Apple uses N3* but TSMC won't be able to deploy that until 4 years from now when it's obsolete. It's possible they could make Samsung/Qualcomm SoCs on N4P, maybe.

This venture has an appearance of malicious compliance to take advantage of American taxpayers. It would've been better if an American company built things in America because then the interests of such a company would be aligned. Instead, it's still entirely dependent on TSMC in Taiwan where China is planning to invade this year or next given the rapid construction of landing craft and other preparation signals.

I just watched the gate replacement video with my mom 2 days ago. She's from SA. It's neat that they thought to turn it into a tourist thing rather than fill it in. Sometimes, the most expedient choice isn't the best one.

If you're ever downtown, checkout the Chihuly installations in the main library. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/fiesta-tower

Always carry a patch kit. Puncturevine is everywhere. I got so tired of fixing flats that I bought kevlar-lined tires, installed kevlar armor under that, and used pre-slimed innertubes. The added rolling resistance on a heavy steel-framed Miyata was a workout, but flats went to zero. It's the bike I also used at UC Davis.

The population of San Jose in 1895 was around 20k. I'm imagining bicycling on deep-rutted wagon road passes along the foothills, but full of puncturevine. Good luck going 1 mile without getting a flat.

The different between the two is the size of the CFC lobby (a single product category for diversified chemical companies) vs. the oil lobby (a sprawling industry): the oil lobby has corrupted many governments and politicians around the world to deny, delay, and prevent action because money. With ethical leadership, it is achievable, but this is rare and not enough action will ever be taken until it is far too late. Humanity has chosen to allow the greedy rich to risk omnicide and ecosystem collapse.

Such a misleading, black-and-white thinking headline. Lack of preparedness meets the enhanced effects due to anthropogenic CC... seems like it requires a share of the blame rather than either-or.

Memetic contagion meets cargo cult when someone or a group is trying to:

a. "lead" and hide attribution of a nefarious or unpopular thoughtspace or particular idea.

b. control other people through coercion with arbitrary rules like a literal cult.

Define "continuous use". The ones used daily sit around about half the time in major airports' temporary parking areas away from the ramp.

Yup. It's an all too common tendency for rich people to presume that they're better than everyone else and so don't have to follow any particular legal or ethical code.

Isn't it a subset of the problem of "excessive, continuous profit maximization is a virus", and advertising is just one obvious manifestation of it? Maybe we need social ventures along the entire stack of hardware, software, and cloud platforms? And then group buys for licenses to and streaming of media?