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I believe it is well understood by now that users tend to ignore security warnings; anyone serious about computer security will not accept this as a solution. We don't even apply security-critical patches reliably.

I frequently travel to the EU and the amount of cookie banners is decidedly higher.

A reasonable concern here is that power is transfered from subject matter experts to technocrats with a poor track record of making technical decisions. Some recent examples of EU tech debacles include Quaero, Galileo, Gaia-X, Ariane 6.

I was under the impression they had their chips manufactured by SMIC.

> Why are all of these examples of successful government tech investment so old?

There are indeed newer examples such as GPS, RF-CMOS, Lidar, Siri, mRNA vaccines that DARPA invested in one way or another. Not saying they are as spectacular as the internet.

This is a logic error whereas Rust delivers a way to drive down memory errors (assuming parent comment isn't mocking Rust advocates).

Lots or reporting requirements only take effect once a firm reaches a certain size. This makes a lot of sense given that tiny firms (say less than 10 employees) may not have formalized wage scales, in-house administrative staff, and have a harder time amortizing compliance costs. So yes, there are disadvantages to consider.

I'm not aware that C# has security or reliability advantages over Rust. It may be better integrated into the Microsoft ecosystem but from the point of view of a driver developer who has to support more than one OS, Rust would seem to be a good tradeoff between security, performance, and reliability vs. C/C++.

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> Unlike in a strongly typed language, the python type annotations aren’t enforced.

Python is a strongly typed language but type checks happen at runtime rather than ahead of time [0]. The author is correct that the type annotations aren't enforced.

[0] https://wiki.python.org/moin/Why%20is%20Python%20a%20dynamic...

Filament is a real-time renderer, appleseed is an offline renderer.

... which is still a net win given that logic errors, AFAIK, take more effort to locate and exploit. (If someone has hard data that prove or disprove this, please share.)

> The date at the bottom of the article is 2022-06-13

The date was wrong; sorry, my mistake. The article reflects progress as of early January 2023. We're actively working on the lifting feature and will post a follow-up post once the tooling are sufficiently mature to be tested by the community.

Can confirm that the output of c2rust currently suffer because the refactoring tool needs to be revived. We will get to it eventually but we don't have a firm date :/

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Can confirm; couldn’t have said it better myself!

To be fair, they predict that transistors will be everywhere including places where they (mostly) aren't found today such as in our bodies and close to our food.

According to Jim Keller, yes, there is. If my memory serves, he said so in a recent Lex Friedman interview.

Edit: here is the clip https://youtu.be/c01BlUDIlK4

We'll have increasingly more incentive if birthrates (and thus the size of the workforce) continues to shrink. Moreover, robots of all sorts will probably have come down in price which is one of the stumbling blocks mentioned in the article.

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Can confirm it is broken. With a little luck, it should be back up and running early next week.

> Standing on the Necks of Giants

Put a smile on my face (from the sqlraytracer README)

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The whole idea of forming a business entity is to limit the liability of its principals. This is an important incentive to make people go into business without risking their home and whatnot. Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater.

Thanks for you summary! I, for one, needed it. Can you comment on why the BSB found that anonymized IP addresses are personal data (3rd point). Is it because the anonymization is too weak?

Edit: seems GA only masks the last octet of an IP4 address.

> Is there any other industry where the client is responsible for making sure the service or product is legal and not the producer?

Let's remember, for context, that the EU is saying that the US is an "unsafe" third party country. While this is certainly true under a given definition of safe/unsafe, I doubt (m)any European citizens can point to harm as a direct result of their data being subpoenaed under the US CLOUD act. I am not saying there isn't a real problem but as I mentioned in another comment, the US and EU have agreed "in principle" on a third privacy shield to satisfy concerns on both sides and we are now waiting for it to be codified and tested in courts.

I'm not sure this is correct. The EU and US agreed "in principle" on a new privacy shield in the spring of this year [0]. Maybe third time is the charm? (I think this is the third attempt.)

[0] https://www.politico.eu/article/privacy-shield-data-deal-joe...

I don't see any mention of Quaero, the EU search engine that was supposed to compete with Google [0, 1]. How is this time different?

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

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/germany-pulls-away-from-quaero-search-...

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