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Linosaurus··on MacBooks from 2020 Are Being Sold for Scrap Because of Activation Lock
Presumably a car is valuable enough that even a large company would be willing to spend several minutes unlocking each to get the full second hand value.

While computers have more confidential data. The article implies that the big company sold them to be destroyed.

Linosaurus··on The IAB loves tracking users but hates users tracking them
> What justifies "But it hates users tracking them."?

Nothing, I think, since there’s no indication the normalized email will be used to send email.

The normalization is for connecting together identities against the wish of the user, which is a different issue.

Linosaurus··on I am not a supplier
> The 90% case for me, when I bring up this term in a software security discussion, is that I’m trying to impress upon an engineering manager that if they choose to use software that they didn’t write, that THEY own it from a security perspective.

Using the terms software supply chain security to point out that no supplier exist to work with or blame, seems fair enough.

Linosaurus··on Why “OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” Is Not in Amazon’s Kindle Store
For sure it’s an intentional strategy to keep books cheap. And indirectly also to prevent any competitors from selling the same books at a higher price.
Linosaurus··on NY Sabotages Right to Repair Bill [video]
> 3.) Accept the governor's revisions and move the bill forward

Nice write up, but leaves me wondering how this works formally.

My main guesses:

1.) There will be a vote to formally accept the new changes, but it’s treated as a done deal.

2.) The governor can formally edit the text to say anything she wants, and it’s up to the legislature to protest afterwards.

Linosaurus··on Tesla FSD data is getting worse, according to beta tester self-reports
They are also trying to convince regulators that they, not you, are legally responsible for any incidents. As long as you are ready to take over with a ten second warning.
Linosaurus··on Why HTML is a strategic dead end for business transactions and e-commerce (1999)
Could work for the traditional image check, but not at all for the user behavior analysis magic they do. Which seems to take over.
Linosaurus··on Always use [closed, open) intervals
Yeah, when talking to humans about dates, [closed, closed] is useful.

Once you swap to a higher precision format for an actual database search, you get all the messiness from the article.

Linosaurus··on Moderation is different from censorship
> So with the proposal you make a post about how much you love Coke, notice that the post is deleted, then choose to ignore moderation and see all the other posts by other Coke users of the sub that have had a similar journey. You continue to discuss things with many of the people on the sub like you did before.

That’s a nice outcome, but also leave you vulnerable to outsiders deciding to ruin your sub by flooding it with discussions of table tennis or racism or arguing about moderation.

But you make a good point if the differences between the OP and Reddit.

Linosaurus··on Global Encryption Day: Demand End-to-End Encryption in DMs
The analogy breaks down a little here.

We don’t want the dealership to keep the key, but we do want them to give us a new one if we lose it.

So afaik we trust the manufacturer to keep the info, and to keep sufficient logs that anyone that abuses it to steal cars can be caught.

I don’t think the way this is works can be extended to communications apps though.

Linosaurus··on Thanks to the Israeli accessibility law, I have to delete my websites
> different people and a US vs EU thing?

Both.

The EU people are large companies that can afford the legal costs, and capable of either changing charger or not.

The US people are small business that can often not afford the legal costs (ie settle wether guilty or not), and completely following the law is almost impossible if a manual mistake on a single video opens liability.

Linosaurus··on Thanks to the Israeli accessibility law, I have to delete my websites
Article from 2019, I wonder what came of it.

Seems trial date is January 2023. He’s still doing it, but possibly some pushback from the legal system regarding standing (do you really intend to come back there)

https://www.sanjoseinside.com/news/__trashed/

Linosaurus··on It's been a little over 3 weeks since Google randomly sent me $249,999
If the money from the loan is actually paid out to you, then it’s not too surprising that you need to give it back.
Linosaurus··on Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch
The factory size where your game slows to a crawl will obviously be much smaller, but it’s still probably be more than enough to finish the game.
Linosaurus··on GeForce Now: A Review
Could be that the service provider doesn't want to delete the game files when you log out, then reinstall the game from steam on a different computer in their network when you sign on next time. In fact, doing so would probably ruin the experience.
Linosaurus··on Tough times on the road to Starcraft (2012)
> Now if the game is deterministic and multiplayer works by only sending user inputs around, why the save / continue feature wasn't implemented that way?

Your only interpreter for the data is the entire game engine. By design it's going to use most of the power of the target hardware, so cannot run faster. Ie, 30 minute load time if you had played 30 min.

Linosaurus··on Twitter confirms zero-day used to expose data of 5.4M accounts
> System rules can, and often are configured to prevent password reuse well before 2FA.

That does not at all help people who reuse passwords from one site on another.

Linosaurus··on Having, a less understood SQL clause
> Can anyone explain why the query without having needs 14 separate queries? That seemed insane to me.

Yeah, four queries for the four requirements seems the most straightforward, and easier to maintain than the final version.

But still a very nice illustrating of group by cube.

Linosaurus··on Having, a less understood SQL clause
This should work, right? Just a bit more unnecessary text.

SELECT year, sales, income FROM ( SELECT year, COUNT(*) sales, SUM(price) income FROM sales ) AS innerquery WHERE sales > 10 AND income < 1000;

Linosaurus··on FOMO is disastrous for company strategies
Meta recently announced a $100 price increase. So they are able to increase prices without lowered supply. It's not entirely clear why but fits the pattern of popular -> price goes up.
Linosaurus··on I've been targeted with a vicious corporate counterattack (2021)
They refused to remove a text article describing the video. From your link:

"A lawful order from a circuit court judge is a serious thing. While we vehemently disagree with Campbell's order with respect to the video itself, we have chosen to take it down pending our appeal.

But the portion of the order compelling us to remove the entirety of Daulerio's post—his words, his speech—is grossly unconstitutional. We won't take it down"

Linosaurus··on Laser fusion facility heads back to drawing board
I thought it was always 20 years away, but it seems both have been common.
Linosaurus··on How did REST come to mean the opposite of REST?
> It is probably more profitable to talk about RESTful systems rather than RESTful APIs, since people think API == machines talking.

If it's your stance that an interface designed to be interpreted by a program cannot be RESTful, then you could just shorten your rant to 'REST APIs cannot exist by definition'. It would save time. It's fair enough to be annoyed by words changing meaning I suppose.

It also seems like your RESTful system definition would include any server serving up straight html without client side scripting.

Linosaurus··on How to fuck up an airport
18 Feb 2018, for ep1, according to Spotify.
Linosaurus··on “Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, rendering them useless
You mean, push bing's entire list of malicious websites to every client? I doubt they want to or can do that.

And also use the local client to scan unknown links? They probably dont want outsiders to have access to this code.

Linosaurus··on Mosquito swatter gamer mod with kill counter, sound and rechargeable battery
There had been correctly functioning vertical videos on YouTube for a 3-4 years. That I can watch in full screen on my phone.

So it's possible, but don't know how easy it is for the uploader.

Linosaurus··on The strange business of hole-in-one insurance
> Why does insurance as a business feel like legalized gambling?

The mathematics are similar from the ensurer/casino side. However:

1. The happiness impact of losing 5x your net worth (house burnt down, eternal debt) is likely much bigger than gaining it.

2. It's harder to repeat sell insurance to someone until they are broke, compared to a slot machine.

Linosaurus··on Null Island, the most real of fictional places [pdf]
There was a widespread story about it summarised here. Apparently the lawsuit was settled.

https://www.cracked.com/article_31344_the-maddening-story-of...

(Edited for premature send)

Linosaurus··on James Webb telescope's coldest instrument reaches operating temperature
I believe that everything in figure nine moves together vertically except the yellow/orange ball screw nut and pink horizontal thingie, these are fixed to the satellite.

The sensor and stabilizer on the right side are flexible.

Linosaurus··on Human genes renamed to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates (2020)
> Any change to Excel's 'open a worksheet' logic would break so many workflows it's just not funny anymore.

My preferred work flow would be to open the csv, change some formatting, then reinterpret the original data.

It would require keeping two sets of data for each cell, but that seems to already be the case since F2-enter on each cell would accomplish exactly that. Last I tried.

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