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There are people who put out books for money, and I can see you are not one of them. I've really enjoyed the passion illustrated in your continually updated series.

(Bravo)

I think I agree. It's better to not be proactive, especially since port scanning is a natural way to perform diagnostics. I would wait for others tell me there's a problem, I wouldn't put money toward sniffing out problems as an ISP.

It may not be how it works, but that's how it was presented to us.

Passports are printed similar to currency. There are many features in them that are hard to replicate. It can be done but not easily, so it does fit the bill of "something you have" to authenticate. Not nearly as secure as a yubikey or an rsa token, but oh well.

Not in favor of Google deciding yet again how I want to browse/view the web. I've been extricating myself from Google services slowly, and I think it's time for Firefox again. Kind of arrogant to decide something like this for more than a billion users, and a step backward for those of us in IT who have a hard time getting the user to understand a visual difference in the address bar.

Something like devdocs.io as an RSS reader.

I am not OP but I'm imagining data-oriented design. So like, things are structured and then serialized - and at some other end deserialized in place ready to read cache-coherently?

You've never experienced inconsiderate coworkers? Like coworkers who talk loudly on the phone in a nearby work area, coworkers with hygiene issues, coworkers who don't carry their weight or respond well to training?

The thing that concerns me is it's easy to wrap a JS API or unreference it if I know it's abused for ads/tracking. I don't know of good ways to go about tracking based on pointer events or scrolling.

I'd put more research into generating fake events or limiting them for an untrusted site, so mouse behavior can't be used for "where are they looking" analysis.

I think Microsoft was right to push for Secure Boot / bootloader signing. The way they pushed for it was/is anti-competitive.

I don't think UEFI was the right horse to put money behind. It's a complicated hot mess and the most visible innovation has been to use UEFI identifiers for DRM within web browsers. Yay.

Not to sound obtuse, but I subscribed to their service to watch shows/movies and not be A/B-tested. I know I agreed to it in the skimmed ToS, but the main appeal was to not have ads of any kind. Oh well ->cancel();

Could you define the 'cypherpunk vision of a sovereign Internet'? I am genuinely curious. Is it just a decentralized internet? I grew up watching anime like Serial Experiments Lain and reading Neuromancer so I think I have some idea of what you're talking about.

I am probably very unaware of a Chrome or Firefox extension that allows this:

I wish I could Browse to... and set scripts to run before a page is navigated to. I know you can do this from the Dev Tools console just by hooking into events, but i wish there were something more user-friendly so it'd be easy to pass around scripts to average users. Simply to unreference or wrap JS APIs that allow things like this. You'd still need to be impossibly aware of what new API Google is introducing in Chrome every week. I wish they defined subsets of JS, like how there's a C++ embedded standard and such. I know in JS land you go by feature detection not profile selection (like OpenGL?).

We're just learning more ways to sandbox I suppose.

PS: I want the ability to easily re-order the scripts that run before/after an event fires.

I dislike this too. It's like someone licensed your IP and gave it away freely to ancestry.com. The metaphor doesn't really fit if you are the derivative child, but yeah... the insurance companies would already be able to make predictions about me.

Silver lining: We're united against those other people, lol. By politicians encouraging a divided, polarized atmosphere they've created a largely 2-party system (instead of a many-party system).

I don't want to sound like an ass because I wholeheartedly agree with you. The experience is hollow.

But you can't invest in things you can't quantify. You can't make money off of good vibes and authenticity without metrics. Snapchat and the like have thrown enormous money at understanding humans and have the best people in their fields to get this right.

I think what worked 10 years ago no longer flies now. How we socialize on the web has changed, and we're turned off by the traditional mechanics to keep us viewing. There are many alternatives to the service Facebook offers, but I'd like to people aren't 'showing off' as much anymore and are having more 1-to-1 or small friend-group experiences. The larger community is almost always toxic.

Look at cord-cutting: For the longest time we just ignored commercials, until we didn't.

I'm with you. Google writes it like they're trying to exploit the user. Apple writes it like they're working to help the user. They're both working toward the same goal, but it definitely speaks to how they're designing Android (for the app ecosystem, not the user).

Well I have healthcare but my job keeps me out of area/network pretty consistently. The airport is the only reliable way to get a physical.

I wonder if Google could pivot to offering legal services for establishing municipal broadband. There has to be some way they can recoup the costs by acting as the legal 'spear' for cities that are unaware of how to offer greater competition and allow smaller ISPs in (if not acting as their own).

I've recently started rocking a mustache and beard because razors are expensive and I can't be arsed. I think it has to do with how easy it is for people to "read" us. With facial hair it's harder to tell if I'm smiling or generally in a good mood. People fear the unknown? It's hard to empathize with a poker face, and trust in that face.

This situation sucks.

On one hand, it might lead to higher wages being offered if you can't sell "free food" as a perk of employment. On the other hand, this makes me feel very libertarian and enraged that a local gov is trying to limit where I can get food. Currently I work in IT, and my employer has occasionally made food available with enough regularity that I stay onsite. I don't like having to hike back to my rental car, navigate to the venue, wait to order and pick up food, and suffer in what is usually a dirty public area while eating it. I acknowledge the insulation and welcome it. Often there isn't enough time to eat, so the whole experience is stress away from the stress of customer support. Sometimes I just don't eat if it means going outside. My work has me travelling a lot and it's difficult to r/mealprepsunday from a hotel mini fridge.

There has to be a better way to attract people with access to free food to local restaurants, and it's not this. If local venues are saying they're missing out on patrons that should be available then they should adapt to offering a corporate experience? Starbucks became much more successful when they became a spot for people with Macbooks to vegetate all day in.

You could have the company give an allowance to their employees to go out and spend it on local food, and then give the company a tax break for encouraging investment in said local venues (based on how much was spent). (maybe?)

Wasn't there some famous short story about a planet whose inhabitants jammed all frequencies as the final evolution of warfare? If quantum entanglement is the answer, others will work to just make communication impossible (if it can't be observed).

This is something obvious I had not considered. Good point!

As I understand it, ME is used to remotely control the processor like in a datacenter. If a datacenter is buying hundreds of thousands of these it makes sense to have it on by default so their people don't have to go in and turn anything on. As much as I recognize it as a vulnerability (to the extreme), it doesn't make sense to have it off by default. They should certainly support a way to _permanently_ disable it. I wish there were easy tools to verify ME is "not accessible" since I don't work in a datacenter and I wouldn't know how to test that it's off.

Things that come with great benefit to risk for abuse:

- Intel ME

- Computrace

- Device Guard

He tried to have 5 people professionally executed. He broke the law and facilitated others breaking the law because he felt laws took away his personal liberties. He is incompatible with this society and he's dangerous..

I'm trying to get my insurance discounted on my car. I should slap a "written in Rust" sticker on it. Safe driver discount?

This seems like parallel construction. The dude sounds dirty, but it doesn't matter.

1) Why was there a cop watching him leave his driveway? This sounds like the easiest made-up charge where there is no evidence to prove it DIDN'T happen.

2) Why did they want to search his car for failing to yield? Maybe it's SOP.

3) Why was the canine unit called BEFORE he was stopped? Big red flag.

110% effort to have it thrown out on appeal. They were targeting him.

Exactly as this fine person illustrated. :-)

I had not considered that planning cities like this was meant to be community-hostile, but I can easily see how this is meant to breed a dependence on corporate solutions.

This has the taste of conspiracy, but I do believe you're right. There's a lot of money to be made this way.