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Interestingly enough I’m actually posting from an iOS app :)

I am talking about a true desktop app, not a web app.

Are desktop apps dead?

Are there any canonical resources for learning qt with common language bindings? I know pyqt exists, but there’s a lot of info out there and it’s hard to know what’s good and what’s not. I’ve also found that generally any guides are either kitchen sink level or not much more than hello world.

Where should I look? I’m willing to put in the work!

I think it’s fair to say that, generally speaking, individuals conflate value and compensation, especially when it’s related to a job being done.

That feeling of performing uncompensated work is what OP is claiming MLMs are taking advantage of.

I think what they mean is their threat model is more drive by random attacks rather than concerted efforts by intelligence agencies.

For the former a piece of tape is enough.

I think one aspect missing from the discussion of whether or not Sweden has done the right thing is just how much power a government has over its citizens.

In many cases I think the consensus in Sweden is that the government doesn’t have the right to keep people at home or force people to wear masks. The current government had to push to get legislation passed that allowed them to shut down primary schools and preschools, if needed.

When this is all said and done a lot of countries are going to have evaluate what all of this has meant for their democracies.

Context based advertising doesn’t require cookies or storing/transmitting personal information. Advertising would be just fine.

Facebook netted $18 billion in 2019, there’s a long ways to go before they aren’t making money.

I don’t think it’s at all pedantic, the library doesn’t accept a path and by extension is one step of abstraction away from a file.

I’ve used the CSV library many times with an in memory TextIO object (like an http response). It’s an important distinction.

Maybe I’m way off, but aren’t all of those things required for k8s? Ingress controllers, etcd cluster, terraform modules, storage configuration, etc...

I guess if you pay for a hosted service a lot of the control plane is taken care of.

I’ve used k8s in orgs where it’s a great fit and really fills a need, but it is considerably more complex than running a web service balanced across a couple of machines, and it definitely requires a lot more upfront complexity (as in, you have to solve problems before you have they are actually problems).

I think the point is more that the complexity of a cluster of VMs that manage the lifecycle of containers is often overkill for a service that would work with nginx installed on Ubuntu, and that often times the former is sold as reducing complexity and the latter as increasing it.

That’s not my argument. All I’m saying is that a bank has good reason to be concerned about a phone being jail broken/rooted.

I absolute agree that a user, as the owner of the phone, should be able to do this, especially in a safe and official manner. Right now it’s an all or nothing and that is a problem.

Jail breaking is a deliberate and involved process, in some cases something that the manufacturer even allows for.

It’s not really the same as a random piece of JavaScript on a webpage jail breaking your phone. I think having a rootable device doesn’t inherently mean your device is insecure.

General purpose PCs have a security model that takes into account that the end user has root access to the machine. OSes typically have methods to detect/mitigate exploits.

A jail broken/rooted device may not have the same protections since jail breaking is typically circumventing that sort of threat protection.

I am totally convinced that we will essentially invent telepathy within the next few decades.

We’ve already made strides with interacting with a computer via brain signals, if we can build simple text interfaces (like this) that interface directly with the brain we have all the pieces needed to silently send text messages using only thought.

Beyond what others have mentioned, bulbs give more flexibility. For example floor lamps or ceiling fixtures with multiple lights that can be dimmed/turned off independently.

I also think, in terms of cost, an IKEA Trådfri bulb is a compelling alternative to dimmer pucks in the switch.

There is a distinct difference between asking to be called something, and asking to not be called something.

I don’t think anyone is arguing that it’s right or correct to continue using a pronoun or name that someone has specifically objected to.

These concerns all apply to existing jail breaking methods. An official image would be much easier to make obvious that it’s not the same as the non-rooted image.

In order for any of those threats to work it would require physical access and access to passwords and accounts (for example reconnecting to cloud services, restoring backups or even just unlocking the phone to perform a flash). At that point I don’t think it’s having or not having root access that is the issue.

I don’t think anyone is suggesting something similar to “This app would like to access your camera” but for unmitigated root access.

It could even be as involved as getting an official image from apple/google that allows root access. I don’t think a “mom” would accidentally download an image and flash their telephones.