Em Adespoton

Since we’re discussing Windows privacy here…

What I’d really like is something that creates a situation like VeraCrypt plausible deniability, but where the base image gets updated regularly so that the timestamps and temporary file usage also look plausible for a computer used today.

Then instead of running an app like this, you just log out, and when you log in with the wrong password, it presents a plausible if mostly empty userland that overwrites the real encrypted data as new files are written to disk.

And in recent years, VPN abuse by malicious actors has gone WAY up. Well, either that or the ability for InfoSec practitioners to trace the threat actor back to the VPN has gone up. Or a combination.

This is important. Learning involves change based on a balance of positive and negative feedback. Be comfortable making mistakes and learning not to repeat them in other contexts. Also learn how to use mistakes to improve on methods that didn’t seem like mistakes at the time.

“Oh yes, officer! This is my washer and dryer from home… I just felt like they needed a bit of fresh air!”

Well, you could argue that China already has the structure being described here. How does it work out there?

I was assuming a union system similar to what is currently used in the US. If it’s not democratic, you’re going to have other issues.

Of course, ranked choice could mitigate some of the issues, but you can’t get away from the power imbalance problem.

Yup.

Those unions would have elected union reps. They’d gain an immense amount of power, and anyone on the edge of society not in a union would lose their voice — stay at home parents, small business owners, etc.

Eventually the unions would gravitate to a party system, those parties would become bipolar, and world governments would become figureheads. Unions would begin to clash, eventually forming new political bodies along union lines. Union members would question why non-union members don’t have to pay dues, and a requirement would come about that when old enough to work, it would be mandatory for everyone to pick a union.

You can see where this is going.

The only reason unions work is that they pit the power of production against the power of military strength and control. Give the unions too much power, and their leadership becomes the thing they’ve fought to resist.

On Reddit I have thousands of comments, over 240,000 karma, and I haven’t logged in in around two years.

But then, like with Lemmy, I picked my subreddits carefully and left when it seemed like they were being overrun with bots.

Foxes in places where they’re the alpha scavenger; raccoons where they are. What other top scavengers are there globally?

Yet.

So… Zoom went down because GoDaddy mistakenly started resolving the domain to 0.0.0.0? That’s what it sounds like….

In some cases, it’s people who’ve done the research and written the paper who then use an LLM to give it a final polish. Often, it’s people who are writing in a non-native language.

Doesn’t make it good or right, but adds some context.

The money they get from the government to run it has a small portion tagged as COVID money for disaster response. Which somehow has resulted in the entire funding being tagged COVID. Which means, unlikely to be renewed tomorrow.

Interesting story.

I started using Objective C in 1994 on NeXTcubes, and later NeXTstations.

For simpler, one-off projects, it was great; also great for its ability to make any existing C library or function (or even block of asm) an object that played nicely with all the rest. And every API was just another set of objects! Discovery was easy.

It wasn’t until it came to maintenance of complex codebases that it became a problem. There’s a reason things like NSurlHandler stuck around right into modern macOS — replacing objects like THAT had implications all up and down the dependency chain. Essentially, it became Apple’s equivalent of DLL Hell.

It was also the last language that I thought could be almost all things to all people; after that, I realized that specialized languages that performed really well in a single context were a much better way to go.

Of course it might. And the percentages are all subject to variation depending on who wants to buy and sell stock at the time.

In India, they’re still useful; just make sure you use the horn too.

I’ve only been driving for 33 years, but I try to signal every turn.

Because the signals are for those situations where you don’t see something you should have AND those situations where someone else didn’t see something they should have.

Takes a flick of the pinky to do something that could save you thousands of dollars and wasted time, or even save someone’s life. So why not do it?

Except delivery people are registered and tracked. Someone would notice the first time someone died… or possibly even the first time someone got sick.

Unless it was a toxic buildup over time.

More likely to be the person bagging the delivery, because anyone on shift could do it there.

Just to note, it could also be other people’s lives.

Could be soon in the EU….