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That's good to know. Given that, I don't understand the suspicion of Google Play (App Store, sure).

Would byte for byte build reproducibility address this?

How did you find out? (If you're able to share)

Children of Men was a documentary.

You should at least mention what city you lived in. Your initial comment is hardly credible. Lots of people have ridden buses for more than 18 months in their entire life and appreciate it.

I've had an interesting time transitioning our project from OpenCensus to OpenTelemetry now that the former is EOL'd. We use the otel stackdriver output. Anyone have a refernce comparison between GCP cloud metrics vs. a prometheus monitoring stack?

I'm surprised there's such little hardware (just a small PCB) in the Nest. Appreciate that source tweet puts "jailbreak" in quotes, it's a board replacement in the shell of Google Nest peripherals.

Are there other smart assistants that we can now get for cheap, that have usable and rootable hardware on them to run custom LLMs?

It may also be that poor people have their services (drivers license renewal, K-12 school, apartment maintenance requests, welfare, job interviews) "improved" by AI while the affluent get to talk to a human

TikTok is being singled out for having uniquely bad data practices, which is true, but banning a single app won't solve the larger problem. This 1-off is a distraction from Congress's inability to pass real data protection legislation, and will only serve to benefit Reels and Shorts (not smaller competitiors, nor consumers).

Imagine if an intersection was shut down for 3 weeks, or maybe 3 decades. Every night, it threw the best party you’ve ever attended in your life. Instead of being a place where you commute every morning and think about how cool it would be to quit, that intersection becomes the place you meet your best friends, or make the happiest memories of your life.

Cars and roads don’t just kill and maim us. Their psychic operation on us makes it impossible for us to dream.

By painting car shows as gang activity and by emphasizing the angry neighbors, the article has painted this entire genre of social gathering and an entire circle of enthusiasts as antisocial, and in need of policing.

Instead of thrilling mass gatherings that push the limits of our car infrastructure and actually do something new and innovative with it (for once), cities will be hollowed out, denuded of their culture, so that sleepy suburbanites can move in and lodge noise complaints. Urban revival will only mean basic bitch breweries and putt putt, instead of mass gatherings of poor workers, with rowdy music and sizzling fajitas.

https://illwill.com/sideshows-and-wayward-lives

How does this tool go from a vuln. in a library to -> a set of affected functions/control paths? My understanding was that the CVE format is unustructed which makes an analysis like this difficult

This is a good question and made me think. I have come up with: "Jupyter notebooks can be thought of as Code and an IDE layout"

PDFs only get names once I'm finished reading them. I click "Save As" and sit for 30 seconds and try to figure out what search terms I would use in the future to look for this document. Sometimes a title, sometimes a summary, sometimes a topic, author, year, journal, etc. Everything is built into the filename. It doesn't matter if it's long. Computers can handle it. This also has the side effect of ensuring I know what I just read and putting it into a mental filesystem as well as an electronic one.

Once I name it, I move it from the Downloads or temp folder to a Documents folder (though it should really be called 'Library') and I sync it to the cloud with the Google Drive app. In it, there's a Reading-List folder, with a _done folder. I have a few category folders - usually for reading groups. If I read the same document in multiple reading groups, I store it in the folder of the first reading group I read it in. This way feels nostalgic to me. I will also put jpeg screenshots, txt files for notes, etc. This way feels nice, like when I used to go to the public library and see the DVDs and audiobooks next to the books.

The main query interface is MacOS spotlight, though Google Drive also works, and so would something like fzf, or any other finder. I like not having to download or use software. For annotations, I usually save a xyz.pdf and a xyz-Annotated.pdf. For news articles, I just Right Click > Print to PDF and save to the subfolder for a particular topic. You never know when something will get taken down from the Internet. If I search for something and find duplicates, I try to prune then and there.

I don't have to download any apps except for Google Drive, which I already use for e-mail, etc. I can at any point port this entire system to Dropbox, Box, self-hosted FUSE solution, or a flash drive, and keep all its functionality with no software on a computer except for a filesystem and a document viewer.

Names are hyphenated - e.g. Intro-to-Civil-War.pdf. This way feels readable with my eyes, and also most filesystem search utilities seem to tokenize well on hyphens. Tokenizing on spaces would mostly work, except you have to escape spaces on the command line.

Lectures from a course I took (CS 674 at UNR) can be found online here, along with class exercises and names of textbooks: https://www.cse.unr.edu/~bebis/CS474/

Would highly recommend it! We went over pretty much everything in this article, plus more :)

Seemingly admitting the lack of internal capability, discipline and experience, Foley is looking to outsiders for answers

Hiring McKinsey is a clear declaration of failure

Astroturf? Which powerful interest in the world right now wants people to work less?

I recently reset my password; providing the old password any time you remember it allows you to decrypt old emails (in the case of Proton, your password is the AES decryption password for your PGP RSA key [0]).

[0] https://protonmail.com/docs/business-whitepaper.pdf

On this note, it would be nice for mobile OS's to have their own OTP generator, to prevent the need for a single app just to store the password manager OTP. Google has Authenticator, but I don't know if there's a built-in to iOS, which could have keyboard-based convenience pasting too.

To add a bit of color:

* One of my friends went to live with her parents after her OPT expired. She was supposed to enroll in an M.S. in August, but due to COVID, the embassies in her country were shut down. While her university is hybrid, she chose to stay in her home country to take the online-only courses, which are (fortunately) discounted.

* My sister, who is trying to renew her F-1 and has no other status options, is hoping that her school doesn't go online.

* My mom, an immunocompromised professor, is asking the university for an exemption to their in-person requirement. The university said no. The word around is that a financial analyst explained to administration that if people don't have the "campus experience" and therefore stop paying for housing/dining halls, the university would face insolvency within 2 semesters.

All in all, it seems like a way to pressure universities to open. They cannot reasonably close and lose like 5-10% more of their revenue by losing all international students, especially if they haven't figured out online course delivery to recoup some fees from F-1s.

I think so, too. I imagine it's the same with opting-out of "Location History" - you opt-out of seeing the log, not out of locations actually being logged.

It would be cool if there were a way for Google to prove (maybe cryptographically?) the absence of some data on their servers, so that I could verify that my location data has actually been deleted.

The process is to employ/pay human moderators, similar to Facebook [1]. They also pay for some content creation [2].

[1] https://help.quora.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001069906-How-do...

[2] https://help.quora.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000673263-Partne...

I believe trailscraper (https://github.com/flosell/trailscraper) does this. See `trailscraper generate`.