FateOfNations

It looks like SigNoz is an open-source APM platform, so I doubt that it formed the basis of this. As someone else said, it might be just the docs...

If they knew the payment was for a contract killing, they should be picking up the phone and calling law enforcement.

This isn’t even about individual transactions. The situation here is more like them saying, “your business has characteristics in common with the kind of a business that might facilitate a contract killing and we’re lazy so we just aren’t going to do any business with you at all”.

The issue is more with ERISA, which came about in the 70s. It requires all employment-connected retirement plans to act “solely in the interest of participants and beneficiaries” for the “exclusive purpose of providing benefits” to them. In that context, the fiduciaries do have an obligation to maximize risk-adjusted returns for the benefit of the plan participants as a whole. While the fiduciaries have latitude in selecting investments, intentionally investing in something they know won't maximize returns to the plan participants would not be allowed. The "benefit" of a below-market-rate affordable housing project doesn't count because those benefits would go to the housing occupants and not all plan participants.

At least with the company featured in the story, it's your house to keep regardless of your employment status. The company does say it's keeping an option/first right of refusal to buy it back from you for the first three years at the same price you paid (to prevent flipping). Once that period is over, you are free to sell it on the open market.

It also said something about a lottery, so I suspect there are enough buyers for them. "Immediately" likely meant that they had their down payment and everything else all ready to go. Others likely needed to make arrangements to sell their existing homes and other things before committing.

The explanation I see as relevant: the relevant portions of the DSA are about online platforms, which it defines as:

> ‘online platform’ means a provider of hosting service which, at the request of a recipient of the service, stores and disseminates to the public information."

For some content, particularly music, video, and some ebooks, Apple is the merchant of record. They are not acting as a platform for that content but as a traditional retailer. Compare this with the App Store, where Apple instead acts as a platform, intermediating the dissemination of information between non-Apple content providers and the public.

A service like Amazon would have this distinction as well. Some interactions are direct retail transactions between an Amazon entity and the public. At the same time, its Amazon Marketplace service provides a platform for non-Amazon sellers to disseminate information to the public.

The Microsoft comparison would be more like the Microsoft Store on Windows (the PC client version) vs. Xbox.

You think of fiber being primarily something you use for its increased bandwidth and speed, so it's wild seeing fiber run to the desk just to be plugged into a thin/zero client. Also... the concept of "bend radius" is foreign and, accordingly, is prohibited from entering. Apparently, those fiber cables aren't actually as fragile as one is led to believe in the commercial world.

At least with respect to US federal money laundering laws (18 USC 1956, et seq.), there needs to be “specified unlawful activity”, as defined, involved for it to be money laundering.

Running a legal porn site isn’t illegal.

Much of the stuff purchased in the past few years will support this. Smaller retailers will have the most trouble with this since they are more likely to defer periodic technology refreshes.

It’s a shame that our immigration system necessitates that a site like this exist.

The Xfinity ones show up only after you install a profile from the Xfinity app or website, and manually enable it in Settings.

The Xfinity hotspot service typically has two SSIDs going: "xfinitywifi", which is unencrypted and has a captive portal to log in, and the "XFINITY" network, which the installing the profile enables access to and which is encrypted with 802.1X authentication.

For everyone except apparently the carriers, Apple is very strict about the opt in nature of managed WiFi networks.

Apparently they don't normally respond to them directly but they do look at/analyze them. Once in a blue moon you'll hear about someone getting contacted by an Apple engineer for more information.

Yeah, as an iPhone Signal user, the concept that you'd ever use want to use it for anything other than explicitly encrypted messaging never even occurred to me. I learned about this feature that the Android version had when they announced it would be discontinued. I would even consider the "graceful" fall back to SMS to be potentially an anti-feature/security flaw, as it opens you up to downgrade attacks.

"Reportedly" plead guilty? Guilty pleas are made in open court and are a matter of public record. It either happened, or it didn't.

While WoW didn't do this, one could avoid disclosing user data to third parties by encrypting the watermark payload.

> Space: + Brew. Both waste it with their poor package repository architecture, but with Brew you can at least delete the repo after the first install and use their API to download updates.

BTW, with this release the Homebrew uses the API by default and doesn't clone the repos unless necessary.

The only interface the computer normally has to the cable is the single control pin on in the middle of the MagSafe connector, so they are likely having to do something more sophisticated than UART.

(Apple could have had you plug the other end that has the USB-C connector into the computer to do the firmware update, but that isn't particularly intuitive or user friendly).

It's also just breaking, past 10pm on the west coast of the US, when we all should be in bed.

Lines up with the narrative that the fraud was mostly a desperate attempt to get out of a financial mismanagement situation, rather than to simply steal money from people.

Not sure if they LinkedIn offers something like this or not, but one strategy some outbound lead gen places use is to actually get the phone call connected, rather than just giving out lists of phone numbers (those are valuable after all).

Also, Google your number and see where else it shows up.

Whenever I see headlines like this, I always want to know how the CEO's compensation compares with that of CEOs at similar organizations. Is there a problem that is unique here? Or are we just talking about the economy wide executive vs worker pay ratio...

That stock award is one big wildfire away from being worthless...

> how to crew it legally

the rules for this are insanely complicated and practically require automation to keep track of if you have more than a small handful of crew members.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-G...

> This is a specific person who is a lawyer for a firm which is actively working against MSG

Has there been allegations that the firm or its partners/employees have acted maliciously with respect to MSG, or are they just representing a client within the standard scope of practice for the legal profession?

Yeah, I'm having trouble coming up with something that ChatGPT could emit that would be illegal, at least in the United States. Even the whole "bomb making instructions" thing is questionable, given the lack of intent, and the incredibly high standard for restricting speech under Brandenburg.

Hopefully so. All I see here is increased attack surfaces for malware. I like the fact that Apple must sign everything running on my phone. I don't want everyone's security thrown away in the name of some idealized perfectly competitive market.

The App Store Guidelines really have two separate groups of restrictions: platform security/privacy, verses use cases/content that Apple doesn't want to be commercially associated with.

My "perfect world" would be Apple retaining strong security/privacy/integrity related controls (on a non-discriminatory basis) at the platform level, potentially through something that looks like the existing Apple Developer Program, while allowing for third party distribution, marketing, and retail. Ideally Apple's own user facing apps would be meeting the same platform level controls as third-party apps.

It's a safety thing the government and railroads had been begging the navigation apps to implement for years.

https://9to5google.com/2020/08/12/waze-railroad-alerts-app-u...

> And why are they only consolidating their offerings now?

Pressure to reduce costs.

Well on the technology side, if you use Waze, "some day" is today. There's a big fat "report" button in the lower right hand corner of the CarPlay display, and then you hit the little police dude icon, and off goes your report.