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The "real" developer keynote is "Platforms State of the Union" which will surely cover a lot more of it. The morning keynote is for the press and executives to highlight latest releases with some dev stuff thrown in.

I have no idea how tightly those things are sealed. Given some of the watch tests in this thread (the olive oil one), it surely can withstand the positive pressure but I'm not certain it could withstand negative pressure. If oil got in there, that oscillator would never keep the correct frequency again.

Hopefully someone does some tests.

>You could pull vacuum...

Unfortunately, that would also destroy the LCD and quite possibly the crystal oscillator (not sure how strong the metal can enclosure of those things are). Battery wouldn't survive it either but you could easily take it out and insert it after the vacuuming.

Hi dang! Problem with Bloomberg is that it's paywalled. Yahoo News is not.

Long time ago, I read somewhere that SEGA, the company, has very little source code and hardware development artifacts saved from their Dreamcast days (and even earlier than that). They either lost or just junked majority of it as time went on.

Do other companies care so little about their own history? If I was running one of these companies, I'd save a copy of every game, console, HW development platform and source codes of every game in a vault somewhere.

Packages were probably getting a free "upgrade". The same upgrade that cost Cisco billions in revenue over the past 5 years.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa...

>There are also strict social codes that should be followed when crossing paths with others down there.

I'm intrigued... what are they?

>When you write articles on Medium keep in mind you're writing on someone else's website and they don't give a damn about you. You are subject to their opinions about what is appropriate and what isn't.

Same can be said about other platforms like YouTube etc. When you produce content for all these mega-platforms, you're nothing more than a sharecropper... a digital one. [0]

You really have no rights and you're at the whim of the 'feudal lord' who doesn't care about you and can take all your work away in an instant. Since there's thousand others that will take your place, they really don't care about what your losses are. They hold all the power and you have absolutely no chance of remedy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharecropping

I was a Dropbox subscriber for over 6 years. However, I stopped paying once they stopped supporting Btrfs and XFS... the two FS I use on most of my machines. I still have a basic account on a Mac and iOS but I don't use it much and I have moved my most important data somewhere else.

I know there are hacks to make it work with other FS but I can't trust hacks with my data.

As a sidenote, anyone else noticed the heavy amount of browser fingerprinting on Bloomberg sites? I have a few extensions that block browser fingerprinting and whenever I go on Bloomberg sites, I get a bunch of warnings about canvas, fonts etc fingerprinting. Then, I'm immediately redirected to a page where I have to enter a recaptcha to view the page [0]. That page also states that they've "detected unusual activity from your network" winch is a total lie because if I disable those, I don't get a warning and get a paywall instead.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/EEIcwK2.jpg

>What other browser can you use if you are interested in some sort of privacy?

Waterfox, Safari. Some others too but they're a pain to use (ungoogled-chromium for example). Chrome itself has a bunch of binary blobs so I would stay away from that.

Huawei phones send info to China.

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3685669

I tried Cloudflare's DNS for a week or so and noticed lots of sites that were blocked. I ended up creating my own DNS server that I run on a VPS.

This is purely anecdotal but I think it could be how most people will experience language study.

On my last flight from Japan, I sat next to a 20-something couple who spent a week in Japan. They told me they had a great time but they had problems trying to communicate. While most Japanese know a bit of English, they wanted to converse in Japanese and had incredibly hard time. Both of them spent 5 months studying Japanese on Duolingo on their phones and thought they had a decent grasp if language so they were surprised when they couldn't understand Japanese native speakers and couldn't speak it well enough for natives to understand them.

I never even heard of Duolingo before this experience and after trying ti myself for an hour, I can think of a half-a-dozen better ways to spend 5 months studying Japanese than to do work for Duolingo.

It's all about how they're farmed. Japanese take health and sanitation of chickens very seriously and they constantly do tests. Much more often than you'd see at US farms. US farmers depend on anti-bacterial washings of eggs and antibiotics in chicken feed as the primary defense against salmonella and other bacteria.

Since dishes made with raw eggs are so popular in Japan, they take all these precautions to the max. When I travel to Japan, I have zero worries when I crack a raw egg on top of my ramen, for example. Also, their omelettes are a lot runnier and taste different. I would never do that with US eggs. Also, their yolks are also much more orange/red in color. US eggs are mainly yellow in color.

You can read more here: http://jlec-pr.jp/egg

It's funny that if you tried to sell US eggs in the UK, they'd be illegal, and the UK eggs would be illegal in the US.

But Japan has the best eggs and you can eat them raw or half-cooked without any fear of salmonella.

Last time I visited my parents I noticed that my mom had Gwyneth Paltrow's cookbook on her shelf. She mentioned how pretentious and crazy it was. I flipped through it and I couldn't identify most of the ingredients.

Yahoo News calculated it would cost you $300/day to feed your family from her cookbook:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130719034903/http://shine.yaho...

And speaking of Dorsey, this is another crazy article about him:

>Why are Silicon Valley billionaires starving themselves?

>Dorsey recently appeared on the Ben Greenfield Fitness podcast to explain his monkish lifestyle in more detail than the 240 character blasts he's known for sending out to the less biologically enlightened universe. He says he eats only one meal a day in the week and doesn't let any foodstuff pass his lips at the weekend. He also starts every day with an ice bath. "Nothing has given me more mental confidence than being able to go straight from room temperature into the cold," he says.

https://theweek.com/articles/835226/why-are-silicon-valley-b...

Wasn't there a website that would send you diffs of a webpage too? I remember using something like this to keep tracks of updates to a blog without RSS...

That's the one! Thank so much Real_S! Everyone needs to watch this before you spit into that sample bottle and send it away to some giant corporation.

About a year ago I saw a link here on HN from an Intel(?) guy in which he listed ways that DNA info can be abused. I tried to find the talk but have been unable to. Does anyone remember the talk and has a link?

Unfortunately that story was sinkholed by mods and this one too seems to be experiencing the same fate (it's dropping way faster than normal).

It's unfortunate that mods decided sink this story. Any explanation as to why?

A related story that hasn't received much traction on HN:

>US wants to use facial recognition on air travelers leaving the country

https://qz.com/1598148/us-wants-to-use-facial-recognition-on...

So you don't use any Electron-based apps right now. Why not? You will then answer your own question.

>The USA does not have jurisdiction over the entire world.

Maybe not the whole world but the US has the hegemony over countries where the US military bases reside. All of those countries have signed their sovereignty away through various extradition and trade treaties which give the US DoJ a massive reach over the citizens of those countries.

In 2019, if you were to try to escape the long arm of US law, your options are extremely limited. I can't think of a country that would not hand you over to the US because of a massive pressure that the US State Department would put on the host country. Just look at Ecuador which sold Assange for billions in aid.

From that page:

>Does not require batteries, can be be used an unlimited number of times.

So how does it work? How can it recharge all those capacitors?

>surveillance capabilities that are possible as a result of this level of data collection are absolutely terrifying.

... and they share this data with the police and then some innocent people get entangled in this mess.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/13/us/google-loc...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/13/technology/google-sensorv...

A whole neighborhood run by Google? That's even more dystonian than many Black Mirror episodes.

Well, if you look at the study [0] you can see that you can get rid of the most of the tracking by disabling App Background Refresh, removing the Google apps and by running a content blocker. If you do all those steps, Big Google won't be getting much identifiable data about you.

>Both Android and Chrome send data to Google even in the absence of any user interaction. Our experiments show that a dormant, stationary Android phone (with Chrome active in the background) communicated location information to Google 340 times during a 24-hour period, or at an average of 14 data communications per hour. In fact, location information constituted 35% of all the data samples sent to Google. In contrast, a similar experiment showed that on an iOS Apple device with Safari (where neither Android nor Chrome were used), Google could not collect any appreciable data (location or otherwise) in the absence of a user interaction with the device.

>While using an iOS device, if a user decides to forgo the use of any Google product (i.e. no Android, no Chrome, no Google applications), and visits only non-Google webpages, the number of times data is communicated to Google servers still remains surprisingly high. This communication is driven purely by advertiser/publisher services. The number of times such Google services are called from an iOS device is similar to an Android device. In this experiment, the total magnitude of data communicated to Google servers from an iOS device is found to be approximately half of that from the Android device.

[0] https://digitalcontentnext.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/DC...

Thank you! That was helpful.